What this organization guide is for
Your firm launches a PPP infrastructure technology thesis, or a dedicated fund sleeve, to back startups building AI, robotics and tokenization for infrastructure, with Jordan’s $86 billion and Aqaba’s $46 billion of public-private partnership (PPP) projects as their first customers.
The case
Venture capital + infrastructure funds = the PPP innovation engine
Venture capital is about to become one of infrastructure’s most important investors. The $50 trillion of intelligence inside the rebuild will be built by companies that look like every company a venture firm already backs, with small teams, new technology and fast iteration. This guide invites venture capital firms in Jordan to back the founders building that future, starting with the projects at home.
The guide
Back founders in the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity
Your firm adopts a PPP infrastructure technology thesis, or carves a dedicated sleeve out of its fund, to back startups building artificial intelligence, robotics and tokenization for PPP infrastructure, starting with Jordan’s $86 billion of projects and the $46 billion anchored in Aqaba.
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A PPP infrastructure thesis
The firm adds infrastructure technology to its thesis, or raises a dedicated sleeve beside its main fund, for founders building AI, robotics and tokenization products for energy, water, transport, logistics, tourism, urban development, mining, health and agriculture projects.
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A portfolio built on pilots
Infrastructure technology proves itself in small, repeatable pilots before it reaches a large concession, so the firm writes early tickets across a wide set of companies and reserves capital to follow on in the ones whose pilots work.
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Jordan’s projects as first customers
Each portfolio company is matched with a live project, contracting authority or consortium in Jordan’s pipeline, so its product is built against a real requirement and its first revenue comes from a real asset.
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A legal route to pilots
Jordan’s PPP Law No. 19 of 2023 accepts direct private proposals under Article 15, and PPP Regulation No. 9 of 2024 defines small-scale PPPs below $14.1 million, which can be bundled into one feasibility report and one tender. Portfolio companies and their partners can take a pilot to government without waiting for a tender to be called.
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Infrastructure funds as co-investors
Companies that prove a technology on a pilot are introduced to infrastructure funds, developers and banks for later rounds and project finance. The firm keeps financing the technology while infrastructure capital finances the assets that carry it.
Why venture capital firms
Venture capital + infrastructure funds = the PPP innovation engine
Many technology breakthroughs come from startups, which have strong reasons to experiment and iterate fast. Venture capital firms fund that experimentation, and infrastructure funds carry the proven technology into large projects that run for decades.
The gap where infrastructure innovation dies
A startup proves its technology on a test site, then needs $200 million to build its first real asset. Venture capital hesitates because the money goes into concrete, and infrastructure funds hesitate because their mandates require proven technology and contracted cash flows, so the technology can wait a decade for its first customer. Small, repeatable projects close that gap, because a venture round can fund the pilot and an infrastructure fund can finance the assets that follow.
Venture capital already backs infrastructure
Most of these companies grow through small, repeatable projects replicated across many sites, which is what makes them fundable by venture capital. India has now opened highway PPP bidding to venture capital funds. Founders can grow their own versions of these companies on Jordan’s projects, and venture firms can back them from the first pilot.
Why a thesis, and why now
A firm that meets infrastructure startups one deal at a time has to learn procurement, concession terms and project finance on every investment. A thesis gives the firm a pipeline of pilots, diligence built for PPPs and infrastructure co-investors who already know its companies. Jordan’s pipeline is large and early, and the firms that back its first technology companies will hold the earliest stakes in the ones that go on to sell across the region.
Futureproofing
Futureproof Venture Capital Firms in Jordan for the infrastructure singularity
This free 18-page guide shows how, with small PPPs in parallel, PPP research labs, artificial intelligence, robotics, tokenization and six first steps.
Jordan and Aqaba
An $86 billion customer base for your portfolio
Every one of them will buy software, sensors and machines. A Jordanian portfolio company that wins one project at home can sell to the next one across the region.
- $86B
- of PPP and infrastructure projects in development in Jordan
- $46B
- of them anchored in Aqaba
Small PPPs and research labs
Small PPPs turn infrastructure into the kind of market venture capital already knows, with many small bets, fast iteration and follow-on in the ones that work. A firm that backs startups running pilots in the labs sees which technologies earn revenue on real assets, and can raise a shared fund with infrastructure investors to scale them.
Unsolicited proposals
A direct proposal gives a portfolio company a way to sell to government on its own initiative, with the pilot sized as a small-scale PPP. A firm that helps its founders prepare proposals turns Jordan’s public authorities into a sales channel for the whole portfolio.
The program
How the program could work
The program can run on the firm’s existing model, from sourcing and diligence to seed and follow-on rounds, with a PPP infrastructure thesis and real projects added to it.
- Thesis
- AI, robotics and tokenization for PPP infrastructure, held as a thesis inside the main fund or as a dedicated sleeve beside it.
- Sourcing
- Founders already building in energy, water, climate, logistics and digital assets, engineers inside the firms delivering the projects, and spinouts from universities and accelerators.
- Diligence
- A PPP lens on every deal: which projects will buy the product, who signs the contract, how procurement works and how the revenue holds up over the life of a concession.
- Investment
- Seed and early-stage tickets across a wide set of companies, with reserves for follow-on rounds in the ones whose pilots work.
- Pilots
- Each company is paired with a project sponsor, contracting authority or consortium for a first pilot, sized as a small-scale PPP below $14.1 million or brought as a direct proposal under Article 15.
- Co-investment
- Infrastructure funds, developers, contractors and pension and sovereign investors who join later rounds and finance the assets that carry the technology.
- Exits
- Strategic sales to developers, contractors, operators and engineering firms, later rounds led by infrastructure capital, and tokenized stakes in the PPP companies the portfolio helps build.
What the firm gains
The firm gains a thesis in the largest market on Earth. Infrastructure is where the next wave of AI, robotics and tokenization will be deployed, and very few venture firms have a strategy built for it, so the first to commit becomes the firm that founders, project sponsors and infrastructure investors call first.
Its portfolio gains paying customers from the first pilot. Contracting authorities, developers and operators have budgets and contracts that run for decades, so a company that wins a pilot can grow into revenue that lasts the life of a concession, and the firm gains infrastructure funds as co-investors and as buyers of its companies.
Next steps
How a venture capital firm can start
Any venture capital firm in Jordan can take this guide forward. The first steps use the partners, portfolio and investors the firm already has.
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Mandate
Partner approval for a PPP infrastructure technology thesis or fund sleeve, with its sectors, its ticket sizes and its first-year goals.
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Team
A named thesis lead, with investment, platform and legal people drawn from the firm’s existing teams.
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Pipeline
A map of Jordan’s $86 billion of projects by sector and stage, matched to the problems startups can solve.
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Sourcing
Founders and teams building AI, robotics and tokenization for infrastructure in Jordan and the region.
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Partners
Infrastructure funds, project sponsors and contracting authorities that will host pilots and co-invest.
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Pilot
A first investment in a startup running a lab pilot or a small-scale PPP.
Jordan has the projects, the engineers and a law that lets a pilot go straight to government. A PPP program at your firm gives founders the capital to build the superintelligent infrastructure future and gives your fund the first look at the ones that succeed.
The full document
Inside this guide
Eighteen pages and fourteen chapters, from the case for a PPP program to the first steps, written for venture capital firms in Jordan.
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01Introduction
Why a century of infrastructure needs rebuilding, and the $500 trillion it will take.
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02The guide
Back founders in the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity
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03Jordan and Aqaba
An $86 billion customer base for your portfolio
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04Sector guides
The sectors closest to venture capital firms, each with its own guide.
Page 7 of 18
05Artificial intelligence
How AI designs, structures and runs PPP projects, and what it means for venture capital firms.
Page 8 of 18
06Robotics
How robots build infrastructure and keep it running, and what that means for venture capital firms.
Page 9 of 18
07Tokenization
How tokenization funds projects from their own revenue, and the role it opens for venture capital firms.
Page 10 of 18
08Small PPPs in parallel
Why many small PPPs teach a country faster than a few large ones.
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09PPP research labs
A lab in each sector, running ten small PPP projects a year.
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10Unsolicited proposals
How Jordan’s PPP law accepts direct proposals from private companies.
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11Why venture capital firms
Venture capital + infrastructure funds = the PPP innovation engine
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12The program
The program can run on the firm’s existing model, from sourcing and diligence to seed and follow-on rounds, with a PPP infrastructure thesis and real projects added to it.
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13About
About Jordan PPP and what it offers.
Page 16 of 18
14Next steps
How a venture capital firm can start: six first steps.
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Questions
Questions about the organization guide for Venture Capital Firms in Jordan
- What does the organization guide for Venture Capital Firms in Jordan propose?
- Your firm launches a PPP infrastructure technology thesis, or a dedicated fund sleeve, to back startups building AI, robotics and tokenization for infrastructure, with Jordan’s $86 billion and Aqaba’s $46 billion of public-private partnership (PPP) projects as their first customers.
- Why should venture capital firms in Jordan launch a PPP program?
- Venture capital and infrastructure funds together make up the PPP innovation engine. Many technology breakthroughs come from startups, which have strong reasons to experiment and iterate fast. Venture capital firms fund that experimentation, and infrastructure funds carry the proven technology into large projects that run for decades.
- Which PPP projects can venture capital firms in Jordan take part in?
- Jordan has about $86 billion of PPP and infrastructure projects in development, $46 billion of them anchored in Aqaba. Every one of them will buy software, sensors and machines. A Jordanian portfolio company that wins one project at home can sell to the next one across the region.
- How can venture capital firms in Jordan start a PPP program?
- Any venture capital firm in Jordan can take this guide forward. The first steps use the partners, portfolio and investors the firm already has. The organization guide sets out six first steps: mandate, team, pipeline, sourcing, partners and pilot.
- What does a PPP program give venture capital firms in Jordan?
- The firm gains a thesis in the largest market on Earth. Infrastructure is where the next wave of AI, robotics and tokenization will be deployed, and very few venture firms have a strategy built for it, so the first to commit becomes the firm that founders, project sponsors and infrastructure investors call first.
- Is the organization guide for Venture Capital Firms in Jordan free?
- Yes. It is free to read on this page and free to download as an 18-page PDF, with the case for a PPP program, Jordan’s pipeline, the role of AI, robotics and tokenization, the program and six first steps.
Sector guides
The sectors closest to venture capital firms
Jordan’s $86 billion is spread across 23 sectors. Each sector guide lists every project in it and shows how to take part.
Digital and AI$243mE-commerce/retail (20% of funding), fintech and enterprise software lead Jordan VC deals 2018-202219 projects
Education and Skills$7mEdTech is the second most funded sector ($38m, 16%); Jordan is MENA’s #2 EdTech deal market12 projects
Health$986mHealthcare raised $37m (15%), incl. the largest deal ($26m Series B, 2021)20 projects
Creative Industries$47mMedia and entertainment $29m (12%) plus a gaming $11m Series B among the top deals14 projects
Agriculture and Food$400mJordan’s largest seed fund tags AgriTech and FoodTech startups in its portfolio28 projects
Solar Power$326mInnovative Startups and SMEs Fund invested $150,000 in Jordan’s NEXT Renewable Energy, a solar thermal and photovoltaic provider18 projects
Ports and Logistics$3.6bnIbtikar Fund and Flat6Labs Mashreq backed Ramallah and Amman-based Olivery, a logistics software startup23 projects
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