Enabling entrepreneurs to build companies of the future.

We are a family office backed investment firm diversified over game-changing trend sectors including web3, climate tech and healthy foods. Enabling Future is diversified over different industries and geographies, thereby hedging sector specific and regional risks. All our portfolio entities and fund-investments share one common goal, which is to render the world we live in more livable, transparent and efficient.

SELL WITH CONFIDENCE. BUY WITH CONVICTION.

We provide mid-market M&A advisory to buyers and sellers across the UAE and GCC, on deals ranging from USD 10 million to USD 150 million. Enabling Future Advisory is the M&A arm of Enabling Future, a family-office-backed investment platform with a global portfolio and realized exits including Babil Games (acquired by Stillfront), Tezos, Trifacta, and Thrive Market. We think like principals, because we are.

Advisory

Live Deals

Our current mandates, listed on a no-name basis. Full details shared under NDA. Have a business to sell?

Live

Sell-Side · Agriculture Business in Italy

Confidential mandate
Details under NDA
USD 10M

Live

Sell-Side · Finance Business in UAE

Confidential mandate
Details under NDA
USD 20M

Live

Buy-Side Mandate · Acquirer seeking F&B targets in Thailand

On behalf of an active acquirer
EV up to USD 50M

Closed

Transport Business in France

Successfully closed
Undisclosed

Services

We enable mid-market transactions end to end, from the first valuation conversation to a signed, defensible deal.

Buy / Sell-Side M&A Advisory

We manage the full exit: valuation, information memorandum, buyer identification and outreach, negotiation, and close. We prepare your business to withstand a buyer's diligence before it begins, and run a process that protects both your price and your confidentiality.

Business Valuation & IM

We value businesses the way investors actually price them: grounded in market comparables, cash-flow reality, and the value drivers of your sector. Our information memorandums are investor grade, the same materials we'd want to receive on the other side of the table.

Due Diligence

We go past the reported numbers to the quality of earnings underneath them: revenue recognition, working capital, normalized EBITDA, and hidden liabilities. Sellers get prepared for the questions buyers will ask. Buyers get certainty the business performs the way the data room claims.

Debt Advisory

Does the growth story hold up? We test the market, competitive position, customer economics, and the assumptions behind the projections. This is where deals are won or repriced, and where our operator and investor experience gives you an edge.

Sectors

We advise businesses across technology, food, packaging, construction, and industrial sectors.

Technology

Software, fintech, digital platforms, and consumer technology, backed by an investment portfolio spanning web3, big data, and financial infrastructure.

Food

FMCG, healthy foods, and consumer brands, drawing on more than a decade of hands-on experience building CPG and DTC businesses in the region and globally.

Packaging

The manufacturers and supply chains behind consumer products, where operational insight and asset understanding decide the deal.

Construction & Industrial

Asset-heavy, engineering-led businesses, where valuation demands technical fluency as much as financial rigor.

Team

Meet the investors and operators behind Enabling Future.

Hubertus Thonhauser

Hubertus Thonhauser

Founding Partner

Hubertus is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor and board member with background in the gaming, venture capital and digital assets spaces. He played a leading role in building the regulated casino industry in Switzerland between 2001 and 2010, and subsequently co-founded Babil Games, which became the world’s no. 1 mobile-games publisher with Arabic content, acquired by Stillfront Group in 2018.

Focus:

  • Blockchain
  • Gaming
Hubertus is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor and board member with background in the gaming, venture capital and digital assets spaces. He played a leading role in building the regulated casino industry in Switzerland between 2001 and 2010, and subsequently co-founded Babil Games, which became the world’s no. 1 mobile-games publisher with Arabic content, acquired by Stillfront Group in 2018.
Saad Umerani

Saad Umerani

Founding Partner

Saad Umerani leads ValuStrat's M&A practice, bringing extensive experience as both an entrepreneur and investor. With a background in building successful CPG brands in the Middle East, he has over a decade of hands-on involvement in global DTC brands. Additionally, he has founded two fintech software companies specializing in credit ratings and valuations. Previously, he worked in investment banking in Abu Dhabi and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Focus:

  • Consumer Goods
  • Consumer Technology
Saad Umerani leads ValuStrat's M&A practice, bringing extensive experience as both an entrepreneur and investor. With a background in building successful CPG brands in the Middle East, he has over a decade of hands-on involvement in global DTC brands. Additionally, he has founded two fintech software companies specializing in credit ratings and valuations. Previously, he worked in investment banking in Abu Dhabi and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Contact

Whether you're selling your business, looking to acquire, or need a valuation or due diligence, it starts with an email.