Long-term capital,
carefully placed.
A private investment firm in Abu Dhabi. Acquisitions and strategic investments in artificial intelligence, Web3 infrastructure, and enterprise automation — built on lasting partnerships.
Approach
We do fewer things, more deliberately. The firm works directly with founders, shareholders, and advisers to identify technology businesses with proprietary intellectual property, scalable software platforms, and long-term international growth potential.
This posture is structural, not stylistic. We are not a fund on a fixed cycle; we are never forced to buy, and never forced to sell. The portfolio is concentrated, because conviction does not divide evenly by a hundred — and every position is underwritten as a partnership, not a trade.
Our role does not end at the closing. We back ambitious technology companies through their next stage of growth.
Strategies
Artificial intelligence
Acquisitions and strategic stakes in applied AI businesses with proprietary models, defensible data, and revenue that survives the demo. We look for products that compound quietly inside industries, not headlines.
Web3 infrastructure
The picks and shovels of decentralised systems — custody, settlement, identity, and developer tooling. We invest where the protocol noise ends and durable, fee-generating infrastructure begins.
Enterprise automation
Scalable software platforms that remove real cost from large organisations. Recurring revenue, high switching costs, and management teams we would hire twice — held through their international expansion.
The firm
Established in Abu Dhabi in 2026, Takeo invests its principals' capital in technology businesses built to matter for decades.
The firm publishes no league tables and pursues no headlines. We work directly with founders, shareholders, and advisers, and our reputation travels by reference — which is how we prefer it.
- Established
- 2026
- Headquarters
- Abu Dhabi
- Focus
- AI · Web3 · Automation
- Mandate
- Acquisitions & strategic investments
Leadership
Alwaar Bebac
Founder & Principal
Alwaar Bebac is the Founder and Principal of Takeo Investments, an Abu Dhabi-based private investment firm established in 2026. He leads the firm's investment strategy, focusing on acquisitions and strategic investments across artificial intelligence, Web3 infrastructure, and enterprise automation.
Working directly with founders, shareholders, and advisers, Alwaar oversees the identification and evaluation of technology businesses with proprietary intellectual property, scalable software platforms, and long-term international growth potential. His approach is centred on building lasting partnerships with ambitious technology companies and supporting their next stage of growth.
Candice Benikkle
Adviser · APAC
Candy joined Takeo Investments in 2026, where she advises on transaction strategy, cross-border acquisitions, and commercial due diligence across the Asia-Pacific region. She works closely with founders, shareholders, and management teams throughout the investment process, supporting strategic evaluations, transaction structuring, and post-acquisition planning.
Before joining Takeo Investments, Candy built her career advising clients on mergers and acquisitions within the energy sector across Australia, developing extensive experience in complex transactions and stakeholder management. She graduated from the University of Ohio with a degree in Photography and Interior Design.
At Takeo, Candy's focus is on identifying opportunities across artificial intelligence, Web3 infrastructure, and enterprise automation, with particular responsibility for opportunities throughout the APAC market.
Principles
Concentration over diversification
We would rather own twelve businesses we understand than a hundred we do not. Diversification protects against ignorance; we prefer to reduce the ignorance.
Price is the discipline
Every asset is a sound investment at one price and a poor one at another. Most of our work is establishing which is which — and then waiting.
Alignment is structural
Fee structures reveal intent. Ours are simple, and the partners' own capital sits in the same vehicles, on the same terms, in every strategy.
Permanence compounds
The rarest advantage in markets is the ability to do nothing. The firm was built — in its structure, its clients, and its temperament — to have it.
Enquiries
We work with a limited number of clients and add few each year. If our approach resonates, we would be glad to have a conversation.