Corporate Advisory & Consulting

• VE

  Velex Advisory Limited

  Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  Velex Advisory Limited is a strategic, financial, and legal advisory firm focused on high‑growth ventures across the Middle East and Africa (MEA). It operates as one of the core divisions of Velex Group, a privately held technology investment advisory and management consortium established in 2014. The firm brings together professionals with backgrounds in finance, law, consulting, and technology, offering end‑to‑end support for startups, scale‑ups, and established enterprises seeking to enter or expand within emerging markets. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, Velex Advisory maintains regional offices in Nairobi, Lagos, Kinshasa, Kampala, Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Abidjan, and Lusaka. The firm delivers a three‑pillar service model comprising Business Advisory (strategy, operations, market entry), Legal Advisory (licensing, compliance, governance, IP, data protection), and Financial Advisory (planning, risk management, investment guidance). Its client base spans fintech, mobility, e‑commerce, logistics, edtech, proptech, lifestyle and entertainment, and other technology‑driven sectors. Velex Advisory also offers credit scoring and decisioning solutions for lenders in Africa, and provides specialised compliance and licensing support for the gaming and gambling industry, leveraging deep regulatory knowledge across multiple African jurisdictions. The firm claims over a decade of impact (effectively since the mid‑2010s) and a team of 50+ professionals, with roots tracing back to the Velex Group’s founding in Kenya in 1996 (the group itself was formally established as a consortium in 2014).