GrowthGate Capital Corporation (“GrowthGate”) is a specialist buyout firm engaged in direct equity investments focusing on mid- sized companies in the GCC and other select markets of the wider MENA region. GrowthGate was incorporated as a closed joint stock company in the Kingdom of Bahrain in 2007.

The founding shareholders of GrowthGate include State-owned banks, public pension funds, investment companies, single-family offices and a group of prominent corporate leaders from the Middle East region.

Keystone Equity Partners ("Keystone") a dedicated professional firm, manages the business of GrowthGate. Keystone’s team counts amongst its members seasoned corporate financiers and dealmakers with extensive transactional experience and a track record including some of the landmark deals in the Middle East in multiple of sectors.


GrowthGate’s competitive advantages are the transactional depth and strategic breadth of its management team, and the extensive market knowledge and active support of its founding shareholders and Board of Directors.

GrowthGate’s advantages repose on its distinct ‘buy and build’ strategy, its focus on mid-sized platform/target companies, and its corporate vs. fund-like structure that enhances shareholders’ rights and heightens management’s accountability.

Acting on behalf of GrowthGate, Keystone is entrusted with deals generation, conducting bolt-on acquisitions, working closely with owners-managers of portfolio companies, to enhance operations and accelrate growth, providing access to new markets,and fostering strategic ventures, all with the single objective of generating superior returns to shareholders from the realization of investments through exit sales.

GrowthGate’s relationship with its portfolio companies is premised on a long-term approach. Keystone’s professionals, along with industry savvy shareholders, act as proactive members on the Boards of the various portfolio companies, while being fully cognizant that corporate executives need a healthy margin of operational autonomy. We want the managers of our portfolio companies to implement and own the results of their well-informed decisions.

Platform companies in which GrowthGate invests, assume prudent levels of debt that enable them to fund further growth and safely weather economic downturns. They grow their businesses organically where warranted, and more often, via bolt-on acquisitions to add new business lines or add-on purchases to expand footprint and gain market share on a regional scale.

To cover the wide scope of its exclusive mandate for GrowthGate, Keystone operates from multiple offices in Dubai and Beirut, performing as a single team from several locations. GrowthGate and Keystone share common principles and same values, and have fostered an environment that is premised on accountability, performance-based culture, and mutual trust.