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 5 million to USD 50 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

Deals

Live

High-Growth Digital Commerce Platform

Buys, scales and resells online brands, with about 80 brands acquired and exited.

USD 25M
UAE
E-Commerce

Live

Largest Online Luxury Eyewear Retailer

Fast-growing UK platform with 1.8M customers and 30%+ annual growth.

USD 40M
UK
E-Commerce

Live

Freehold Luxury Villa Estate in Uluwatu

21 freehold luxury villas in one of Bali’s most sought-after coastal areas.

USD 30M
Indonesia
Real Estate

LIVE

Licensed Premium Ice Cream Operator

UK company that runs a global ice cream brand licence across Europe.

USD 24M
UK
Food & Beverage

Services

PROTECT

Sell-Side M&A Advisory

We run the full exit, from valuation and buyer outreach to negotiation and close. As founders who have sold businesses ourselves, we know how to protect your price and confidentiality.

PREPARE

Business Valuation & IM

We value businesses the way investors price them, and build the information memorandum that tells the story. We built software that does exactly this.

SCRUTINIZE

Due Diligence

We test earnings quality, working capital, and hidden liabilities before a buyer does. We’ve run this process on our own investments many times.

FINANCE

Debt Advisory

We raise debt for growth, acquisitions, and refinancing, and run the process with banks and private credit funds. We invest in lending platforms ourselves, so we know how lenders think.

Sectors

001

Technology

We advise software, fintech, and digital platform businesses on sales, valuations, and capital raises. As investors in the sector, we know how buyers price technology.

002

Food & Beverage

We advise food producers, FMCG brands, and the packaging businesses behind them. Our operating experience in the sector helps us read margins and supply chains the way buyers do.

003

Consumer

We advise consumer and direct-to-consumer brands on exits and growth capital. We know which customer metrics drive value and how to present them to buyers.

004

Real Estate Ecosystem

We advise developers, contractors, and the businesses that serve real estate on sales and financing. Our engineering background helps us value the assets as well as the earnings.

Team

Hubertus Thonhauser

Hubertus Thonhauser

Founding Partner

Focus

  • Blockchain
  • Gaming
Hubertus is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor and board member with a 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.

Hubertus Thonhauser

Founding Partner

Hubertus is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor and board member with a 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
Saad Umerani

Saad Umerani

Founding Partner

Focus

  • Consumer Goods
  • Consumer Technology
Saad Umerani is a founding partner of Enabling Future and leads its M&A advisory. He founded Melange, Protein Bakeshop, and MIVA, and brings over a decade of hands-on experience in consumer and D2C brands. He also founded two fintech companies in credit ratings and valuations, previously worked in investment banking in Abu Dhabi, and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Saad Umerani

Founding Partner

Saad Umerani is a founding partner of Enabling Future and leads its M&A advisory. He founded Melange, Protein Bakeshop, and MIVA, and brings over a decade of hands-on experience in consumer and D2C brands. He also founded two fintech companies in credit ratings and valuations, previously worked in investment banking in Abu Dhabi, and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Focus

  • Consumer Goods
  • Consumer Technology

Contact

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