What Is Sophonos Investments? Inside a $500M+ Private Investment Platform
Founded in Dubai in 2018 by Navneet Mandhani. $500M+ in assets under management. 26+ portfolio companies across PropTech, AI, FinTech, DeepTech and EdTech. One publicly confirmed exit: Yourkeys, acquired by Zoopla in April 2021. Here is everything that is publicly known about the platform — and the philosophy behind it. When people ask me about […]
PropTech Venture Capital 2026: Where the Smart Money Is Going
$3.30 billion deployed in Q1 2026 alone. A 64% year-on-year surge. But the headline number conceals a more important story, one about concentration, discipline, and which specific categories are commanding institutional-scale capital. Here is what the data actually shows. I have spent the better part of the last decade allocating PropTech Venture capital across real […]