Top 5 Angel Investors in Lebanon in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in startups based in Lebanon. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Lebanon. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Angel Investors in Lebanon in January 2025

Investor	Lebanon investments
Hala Fadel	2
Abdo Achkar	2
Walid Hanna	1
Fadi Ghandour	1
Dalia Al Sulaiman	1

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Hala is a partner at leap ventures, a late-stage venture capital firm based in Beirut and Dubai, and the founder and chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum of the pan-Arab region, an organization that promotes entrepreneurship and organizes among other things the MIT Arab startup competition. She is also an Angel investor in start-up companies inthe Middle East and Europe, and has launched a co-working space in Beirut called Coworking+961. She recently founded MIT Technology review Arabic, the Arabic edition of the MIT Technology review Magazine, that covers science and innovation in the Arab region.Hala was previously for 12 years a portfolio manager for European Equities at Comgest, a euro Equity 20bn fund. She graduated from HEC in France in 1997 with a Masters in Financial Economics and attended the Berkeley Haas School of Business, she holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. While at MIT she participated and won part of the MIT 50K business plan competition with Booleo, a telecom software business, later acquired as an internal solution by a client.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Social Media
Seed, Angel
Lebanon, United States

Portfolio highlights

eTobb — eTobb is the Quora for Health & Medicine. It was founded in 2012, eTobb is the first premium, online, medical Q&A platform connecting patients and doctors in the Arab World. Their mission is to improve access to healthcare. They are building the largest network of top doctors in the region and making it accessible to the public.
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Abdo Achkar is the Founder & CEO at Sowlutions.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
United States, Lebanon, Japan

Portfolio highlights

GoBEBA — GoBEBA is an on-demand e-commerce logistics platform operating in emerging Africa markets. We bring together local merchants, consumers and logistics service providers to enable efficient discovery and ordering of frequently purchased products and services in one platform. This combination delivers an asset-light convenient, multi-categoryon-demand ordering service for everyday essentials. We do this by aggregating demand for merchants through a curated digital marketplace which connects merchants directly to consumers and logistics service providers in an on-demand basis . GoBeba is an ‘everything’ app’ for a wide range of services including grocery shopping, food delivery, cargo, and many other on-demand services.
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Walid Hanna is Founder and CEO at Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)

Investment focus

Search Engine, Billing, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
Lebanon, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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Fadi Ali Ghandour is the Founder, Managing Partner, and Executive Chairman of Wamda Capital. He previously worked at Aramex as a Chief Executive Officer. Fadi Ali Ghandour attended The Wharton School.