Enabling Future

Enabling Future

Enabling Future operates out of the UAE with a license from Abu Dhabi Global Markets. The firm describes itself as family-office-backed, though it does not disclose the specific source of the wealth. Founding partner Hubertus Thonhauser helped build Switzerland’s regulated casino sector before co-founding the mobile games publisher Babil Games, which Stillfront Group acquired in 2018. His co-founder, Saad Umerani, runs the M&A practice at ValuStrat in parallel and has a track record launching consumer-packaged-goods brands and two fintech software companies in the Middle East. The firm deliberately diversifies over three distinct theme buckets to reduce sector-specific and geographic risk. It targets early-stage and seed-stage companies in web3, climate technology, and healthy foods. Thonhauser’s personal focus sits with blockchain gaming, while Umerani concentrates on consumer goods and consumer technology. Enabling Future has not yet disclosed a full portfolio list, a total deployed-capital number, or specific fund structures, leaving the exact shape of its direct-versus-fund investment split unknown. Enabling Future is registered through Enabling Future SPV Ltd. in Abu Dhabi Global Markets, with Thonhauser listed as director. The firm’s website suggests a structure that uses special purpose vehicles for at least part of its deployment. The principals combine their operating backgrounds in gaming, consumer goods, and regional investment banking to source deals in the Gulf and beyond, though no specific international office locations have been published. Enabling Future’s most distinct feature is the pairing of a Swiss gaming entrepreneur with a Middle East CPG and fintech operator under a single, multi-theme mandate. That split — one partner focused on digital assets and blockchain gaming, the other on consumer goods and technology — creates a rare dual-operator structure inside a small firm, with each principal targeting fundamentally different end markets from the same balance sheet.