Top 10 Android Angel Investors in Middle East in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Android startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Android companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Android Angel Investors in Middle East in November 2024

Investor	Android Middle East investments
Shlomo Kramer	2
Rakesh K. Loonkar	2
Mickey Boodaei	2
Paul Maritz	1
Aviram Jenik	1
Auren Hoffman	1
Bill Tai	1
Joe Greenstein	1
Lior Prosor	1
Volkan Bicer	1

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Shlomo is co-founder and CEO of Cato Networks. He is a network security expert and a serial entrepreneur. Shlomo has co-founded Check Point Software, who created the first commercial Firewall, and Imperva, the innovator of the Web Application Firewall. Shlomo has made early investments in successful cybersecurity companies including Palo AltoNetworks, Trusteer, and numerous others. He was named CEO of the Year by SC Magazine in 2008, one of “20 luminaries who changed the network industry” by Network World in 2006, and was inducted into the InfoSec Hall of Fame in April 2013.Shlomo holds a master’s degree in computer science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University.

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Security
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Nagomi Security — Nagomi is changing the way security teams balance risk and defense, empowering customers to focus on what matters now. By mapping customers’ existing security tools to the threats that matter and providing prescriptive remediation plans, the Nagomi Proactive Defense Platform finally makes it possible to optimize, measure, and maximize the ROI ofsecurity investments. By taking a threat-centered, data-driven, and actionable approach to risk and cybersecurity, customers are able to provide high-level cybersecurity maturity metrics to executives while simultaneously showing security practitioners exactly what to do to reduce risk, fix misconfigurations, and make strategic decisions with business context. Learn more at nagomi.security.
Token Security — Token is the new approach designed for the identity boom era. Introducing Machine-First Identity Security.
Clutch Security — Clutch is a Universal Non-Human Identity Security Platform that offers complete security and control over NHIs across the entire enterprise.

Rakesh is the President and Co-Founder of Transmit Security. Rakesh earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

Investment focus

Network Security, Cyber Security, Security
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PointFive — PointFive provides ongoing cloud cost savings by providing deeper detection and collaborative repair solutions that fit smoothly into teams' normal operations.
Entro — Entro is an enhanced solution for keys and secrets security management, with total control over all lifetime cycles and entitlements.
Linx Security — The Linx Identity Security platform enables identity, security, and IT ops teams to finally control the whole identity lifecycle. A radical departure from legacy identity security solutions, Linx untangles the complex, ever-evolving web of identity security. Integrating smoothly with your IAM stack, Linx pulls together all your organization’sidentity data—organizing it neatly to reveal the hidden links between your employees, their digital identities, and the apps, software, platforms, and programs they have access to. Enabling you to continuously reduce your identity attack surface and swiftly close gaps in compliance.

Founder and CEO of Transmit Security.Previously Founder of Trusteer (now IBM Security) and Imperva. Early stage investor in cyber security startups including Armis, RiskRecon (now Master Card), and FireGlass (now Symantec).

Investment focus

Network Security, Cyber Security, Security
Series A, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

PointFive — PointFive provides ongoing cloud cost savings by providing deeper detection and collaborative repair solutions that fit smoothly into teams' normal operations.
Entro — Entro is an enhanced solution for keys and secrets security management, with total control over all lifetime cycles and entitlements.
Linx Security — The Linx Identity Security platform enables identity, security, and IT ops teams to finally control the whole identity lifecycle. A radical departure from legacy identity security solutions, Linx untangles the complex, ever-evolving web of identity security. Integrating smoothly with your IAM stack, Linx pulls together all your organization’sidentity data—organizing it neatly to reveal the hidden links between your employees, their digital identities, and the apps, software, platforms, and programs they have access to. Enabling you to continuously reduce your identity attack surface and swiftly close gaps in compliance.

Paul Maritz is Chief Strategist of EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMCaccelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.As Chief Strategist, Maritz drives EMC's technology strategy with a particular focus on Big Data and the next generation of cloud-oriented applications. He is also responsible for M&A, strategic investments and emerging technologies.Maritz joined EMC in 2012 from VMware, where he was CEO. During his four year tenure as CEO, VMware transformed from a technology leader in virtualization to a category leader in cloud computing. Maritz remains a member of VMware’s board of directors.Prior to joining VMware, Maritz was President of the Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division at EMC after the company’s February 2008 acquisition of Pi, where he was the Founder and CEO. Before founding Pi, Maritz spent 14 years working at Microsoft, where he served as a member of the five-person Executive Committee that managed the overall company, with his responsibility being the product development and marketing of the Windows Client and Server product lines. Prior to Microsoft, he spent five years working at Intel.Born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and educated in South Africa.He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town. Maritz also serves on the Board of the Grameen Foundation, and has an interest in the use of technology in the developing world.

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, PaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Tignis — Tignis is an information technology company that enables hardware and software vendors to continually monitor performance data while their products are in use. Using real-time edge computing, machine learning, and customer-specific controls, vendors can quickly identify and proactively remedy performance issues and predict problems before theyoccur.The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Washington, United States.
True — True is a social app designed for private group conversations. It is free, private and easier to share engaging content than messaging.
QuEra Computing — QuEra Computing is the leading provider of quantum computers based on neutral-atoms. Our mission is to build the most scalable quantum computers to date to tackle useful but classically intractable problems.

Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
Kooply — Kooply is a team of proven entrepreneurs building a nextgen gaming platform.
illustria — Illuminating blind spots and minimizing the exposed surface area to mitigate potential malicious activities

Auren Hoffman is the CEO and Chief Historian of SafeGraph and he was the CEO of Rapleaf. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ex Parte — Ex Parte uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to give customers the information they need to make better decisions and achieve a competitive advantage. Consider it Moneyball for a market that is >20 times the size of Major League Baseball.
Calypso AI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.

Bill Tai is a Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder, and Founding Investor of Treasure Data and he was a Chairman of the Board and Co-founder of IP Infusion. He attended Harvard Business School, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Curtin University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MicroTau — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
Fathom — Records, transcribes & highlights the top moments from your calls. Sends automatically generated call notes to your CRM.

Joe Greenstein is the Co-Founder and Assistant Zookeeper at Innerspace. He attended the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Topknot — Learn about yourself, make plans, take action.
Gently — Find secondhand clothing, effortlessly. Wearloom sends you the best new listings from sites like Poshmark, Depop, eBay, ThredUp, and Vestiaire Collective.
Reveri — Hypnotize yourself to relieve pain and stress, improve your sleep, and build better habits.

Lior Prosor is the Founding Partner of Hanaco Venture Capital. He previously worked at Elevator as a Partner. Lior Prosor attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

Investment focus

Information Technology, Machine Learning, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Via — Via is a re-engineering public transit company that develops and provides on-demand public mobility solutions for commuters. The company transforms public transit, from a regulated system of rigid routes and schedules to a fully dynamic, on-demand network. Via's mobile app connects passengers who are headed the same way, allowing riders toseamlessly share a premium vehicle. The platform operates in the United States and in Europe through its joint venture with Mercedes-Benz Vans, ViaVan. Via's technology is deployed worldwide through partner projects with public transportation agencies, private transit operators, taxi fleets, private companies, and universities, integrating with public transit infrastructure to power cutting-edge on-demand mobility.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, United States.
VNN — The high school sports website and marketing platform that helps athletic directors do more with less. All-in-one athletics deparment management, fundraising and social media.
Yokee™ Music LTD — Yokee Music LTD is the creator of Yokee, the most successful global karaoke mobile app in the AppStore/Google Play. Launched in 2013 and already drove ~90M downloads. Yokee allows end user to sing and record their favorite hits and share it with their friends. Yokee was founded in 2013 by Gil Selka and Ariel Yaloz, previously served inexecutives position in the Israeli Mobile/Internet consumer industry.

Volkan Biçer is the co-founder of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network.Bicer’e employment history includes his time as product manager of Turkcell’s mobile marketing and advertising department, and community manager at Yahoo, Turkey.Bicer holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Boğaziçi University and an MBAfrom Galatasaray University.