Ahmed Al-Darwish

Ahmed Al-Darwish is the Managing Partner at Noa Capital Partners, a next-generation multi-family office deploying capital into emerging technology opportunities, while supporting portfolio companies expanding across Gulf markets and advising clients on diversified, future-focused portfolio strategies. The firm maintains a strong presence in Riyadh and London.Since the founding of the firm in 2019, Noa has deployed capital across Funds, GP stakes, co-investment and directs globally in technology and supported commercial partnerships for its portfolio with leading corporates across the Middle-East. Prior to this, Ahmed worked for New Amsterdam Group where he was supporting emerging fund manager clients in their strategy to launch their businesses and as he was covering EMEA Investors where he was advising family offices, sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors deploying capital in emerging alternative managers across asset classes.Since 2012, Ahmed has been an active angel investor and advisor to funds and companies who are seeking to scale in the MENA region. Ahmed is a special advisor to the British Venture Capital Association and a board member at the Saudi British Joint Business Council and has been selected as a judge at ‘Allocate’ Europe’s leading Tech VC conference.He holds an BA in International Relations from King's College, London and an Msc in Financial Strategy from Oxford University.