Mubadala Investment Company
Mubadala holds the deepest Gulf sovereign exposure to the Israeli economy — primarily through commitments to Israeli-managed venture funds, with selective direct stakes in Israeli-founded technology companies. The 2021 attempt to acquire 22% of the Tamar gas field for up to $1.1 billion marked the practical ceiling of direct sovereign acquisition under the current bilateral framework.
| Type | Sovereign wealth fund |
| Founded | 2017 (merger of three Abu Dhabi state vehicles) |
| Headquarters | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
| Owner | Government of Abu Dhabi |
| Chair | Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
| CEO | Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak |
| Assets under management | ~$330 billion (2024 disclosure) |
| Portfolio mix | ~40% private equity · ~23% public markets · ~17% infrastructure and real estate · remainder credit and other |
Mubadala is the principal active sovereign-investment platform of the Government of Abu Dhabi, formed in 2017 through the merger of Mubadala Development Company, the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council into a unified institution with global mandate and roughly $330 billion in assets.
The institution runs a long-horizon return mandate across private equity, public markets, infrastructure, real estate, and credit. Geographic and sectoral concentration spans the United States, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and Latin America, with substantial activity in technology, life sciences, energy transition, semiconductors, aerospace, and financial services.
For Israel, Mubadala works primarily through commitments to Israeli-managed venture funds — disclosed positions include Pitango, Aleph, Viola Ventures, and Entrée Capital — supplemented by direct stakes in selected Israeli-founded companies. The 2021 Tamar attempt did not close; it remains the disclosed ceiling of direct Israeli strategic-asset acquisition.
Mubadala Capital, the asset-management subsidiary, manages roughly AED 110 billion (~$30 billion), two-thirds on behalf of third-party institutional investors. In 2025, TWG Global — led by Mark Walter and Thomas Tull — committed $2.5 billion as a minority stake in Mubadala Capital, aligning a major US private platform with the Mubadala investment-management capability.
MGX, founded in 2024 by Mubadala and G42 under the Abu Dhabi AI and Advanced Technology Council, runs as a parallel AI-infrastructure-focused vehicle. MGX co-led a roughly $30 billion AI-infrastructure partnership in its first year alongside Microsoft, BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, and Nvidia.
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Sources
Mubadala Investment Company annual disclosures; Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute; The National (UAE); Bloomberg; Times of Israel; published research. Data current as of Q2 2026.