Mo Ghani
Founder & Managing Partner
ITQAN Investment Fund
Precision capitalfor strategictechnology.
Mastery · Precision · Excellence
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The Fund
Technical depth on one side. Market access on the other.
ITQAN invests where American technical depth meets demand for capability in the UAE and MENA. The thesis is narrow on purpose: ten strategic technology areas, companies with a commercial buyer, founders who can operate across markets, and a specific reason the corridor makes the company stronger.
ITQAN is early in its journey, but highly capable, strategically connected and focused on exceptional opportunities.
إتقان
The name
Itqan — Arabic for mastery, precision and excellence: doing a thing properly, and completely.
The Corridor
Technology from one side. Capital and deployment from the other.
The corridor is the center of the fund's strategy. US innovation brings the technology and the companies building it. The UAE and MENA bring capital, customers and government relationships, and a market in which to deploy that technology and expand across the region. ITQAN works where those flows meet.
- Innovation
- Technology
- Companies
- Institutions
- Capital
- Customers
- Government relationships
- Deployment
- Regional expansion
Beyond Capital
A check is the start of the relationship, not the whole of it.
Portfolio companies have access to ITQAN's network, partners and operating resources on both sides of the corridor. An introduction is made against a gap the team has named, so work it cannot do in-house costs less time, and less of the round.
Cross-border market entry
US and UAE entity formation
Tax and legal structuring
Government and institutional introductions
Technical and commercial diligence
Strategic hiring and technical build-out
Go-to-market and regional expansion
Follow-on capital and exit support
Screening
One process, being built, applied to every company.
In development
ITQAN is building a single screening process so that every company is read the same way and reaches a decision with its questions already surfaced. AI does the first reading and the comparison; experts do the diligence; the investment committee decides. It is under construction, and the last stage will always belong to people.
AI-led
Introductory audit
A structured first read of the deck and the initial information, run the same way for every company.
AI-led
Portfolio review
The company set against the others assessed the same way, so claims are compared on equal terms.
Expert review
Deep due diligence
Experts examine the technology, the numbers and the team, starting from the questions the first two stages raised.
People decide
Investment committee
A human investment committee weighs the diligence and makes the final decision.
Partners
The partners, and the people around them.
Mo Ghani and Michael Zajas lead ITQAN Investment Fund, working between Dubai and Scottsdale, Arizona. Around them, the fund draws on an investment committee, advisors and venture partners.
Michael Zajas
Partner
For Founders
Building something that belongs in both markets?
Send us the company. The application goes straight to the investment team. Founders who are not yet a fit receive structured feedback on gaps and next steps.
Submitting does not create a confidential relationship. An NDA is signed before deep-dive diligence begins.
Philanthropy
Built into the structure, not added to it.
A portion of the management team's carried interest — the managers' share of investment gains — is donated to the foundation. The commitment is written into how the fund is structured, not attached to it once the fund is running.
Service
Education
Legacy
Innovation