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The Fund of Funds programme launched in February 2024 as QIA's vehicle to attract international venture capital managers to set up a presence in Qatar, in exchange for capital commitments from QIA into their funds. The 2026 expansion roughly triples the programme's committed capital (USD 1bn to USD 3bn) and doubles the roster of participating managers (7 to 12), signalling an acceleration of Qatar's push to build a domestic VC/startup ecosystem as part of its economic-diversification agenda away from hydrocarbon revenue.
2024-01-10-qatar-nds3-third-national-development-strategy-2024-2030 and 2025-12-09-qatar-qai-brookfield-ai-infrastructure-jv) of QIA using sovereign capital to seed non-hydrocarbon, tech-sector industrial capacity.
funds (see 2025-11-19-uae-national-investment-fund) in the regional race to anchor global VC/AI capital.
new managers as the programme deploys capital.