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MP Oliveira
Head of Venture Investments
NeoVentures by Mashreq
MP Oliveira is a venture capital investor with a distinctive combination of corporate leadership, founder experience and investment expertise.
As Head of Venture Investing at NeoVentures, Mashreq’s corporate venture capital fund, she set up the investment function and leads investments from sourcing through closing and portfolio value creation. The growing portfolio comprises eight fintech companies across MENA, the UK and Singapore.
As a corporate leader, with 20+ years of experience across Mastercard, EY and Experian, she has led strategy, investment, M&A and innovation management. Her responsibilities have included launching products, winning major multi-year client relationships, establishing innovation hubs, and contributing to strategic transactions with a combined value exceeding $1 billion.
As an entrepreneur, she co-founded two Silicon Valley startups, leading business development and contributing to product development and fundraising. She completed accelerator programs at 500 Startups and Plug and Play.
Her experience spans financial services, payments technology and professional services, with work across Latin America, the United States, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe.
What drives her is backing ambitious founders with scalable businesses and creating lasting value for portfolio companies and their investors.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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1:30–2:00pmFri 20 NovFutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
Others
The Napkin Pitch Is Dead. What Gets an Emerging-Market Fintech Funded?
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Saemin AhnManaging PartnerRakuten Capital
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Mohammed Al-EmadiExecutive Director of Incubation & VC InvestmentQatar Development Bank
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Hon. Sunil SabharwalStrategic Investments, Summit Partners & Member of the Board, Securitize.ioSummit Partners / Securitize
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MP OliveiraHead of Venture InvestmentsNeoVentures by Mashreq
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Nishtha AsthanaContent Strategist & EditorialGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
About this session
Capital hasn't left emerging-market fintech. It has just stopped funding the napkin. In the first half of 2026, Southeast Asian fintechs raised US$682 million and MENA fintechs raised US$617 million. In both regions a single round took a third or more of the total, and the number of deals fell sharply. Investors now want real revenue and a short road to profitability before they commit. Investors from the Gulf and North Asia sit alongside two Southeast Asian fintechs to compare what each market rewards, which metrics get a term sheet signed and what founders should ask of the investors they bring onto their cap table.
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