Feras Jalbout
A former Barclays and Standard Chartered banker betting first-time Gulf investors will start with commission-free fractional US stocks, a thesis that drew Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures into its first Middle East deal.
2021 · Launched app with Y Combinator backing and a $4M seed round
2022 · Closed $20M Series A led by Valar Ventures, the firm's first regional investment
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August 9, 2026
Correction: baraka's total venture funding is $25M, not $24M
Correction of the raised line only: total moves from $24M to $25M per both pinned sources, and the unsourced seed year is dropped from the parenthetical (the $4M amount and the $20M Series A 2022 are unchanged and sourced).
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