Top 30 Art Startup Investors in Middle East (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Magma Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, Mexico | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software | $800k–$25M |
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.4M–$55M |
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Firstime Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $500k–$21M |
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PICO Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Cyber Security | $600k–$54M |
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Inimiti
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, iOS, Apps | $500k–$105M |
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Ahmed Faruk Karslı
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Art, Retail | $461k–$4M |
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İlker Diker
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Art | |
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Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed | Art, Blockchain, Marketplace | |
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Raz Group
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Convertible Note | Events, Advertising, Media and Entertainment | |
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Raza Beig
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed | Art, Apps, Blockchain | |
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Tristan Jehan
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | Art, Music, Machine Learning | |
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Ahmet Salih Palamut
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Art | |
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L Catterton
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, United Kingdom | Private Equity, Series B | E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage | $18M–$2.8B |
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Gokhan Demir
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Art | |
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Falak Startups
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps | $6k–$1.2M |
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Bulent Tekmen
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Estonia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note | E-Commerce, Art, Video | $200k–$4M |
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Polygon
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, India | Seed, Grant, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $5k–$65M |
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Saga Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel | Series A, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS | $3.5M–$30M |
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Morningstar Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $1.4M–$25M |
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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $750k–$33M |
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $1.6M–$40M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $14k–$1.5M |
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Emre Kenci
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Art, Retail, Internet | |
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Jets Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Switzerland | Seed, Private Equity | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology | $2M–$12M |
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Aviram Jenik
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea, Israel | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence | $250k–$18M |
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Pitango VC
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $4M–$100M |
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Ron Zuckerman
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, China | Series A, Seed | Internet, Video, Apps | $500k–$8M |
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Shalom Meckenzie
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed, Series A | Art, SaaS, Video | $3M–$3M |
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PipelBiz.com
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Equity Crowdfunding, Seed | Software, Health Care, Manufacturing | $152k–$1M |
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Udi Mokady
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Art | $650k–$51M |
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Magma is Israel's leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in communication, semiconductors, internet and media. They seek bright ideas, infuse them with experience and foresight, and facilitate their rise as industry leaders that redefine the global communications sector. They use their experience and sectorspecialization in cooperating with entrepreneurs, industry experts, and other investors to define the future of the communication, semiconductors, internet and media arenas. Their goal is to foster and enable the flow of innovation from an idea's early stages and through a company's emergence as a leader within its dynamic market. They understand the local market and help to influence the global one.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $800k–$6M; Series A $1.9M–$12M; Series B $6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Aidoc — Aidoc is an Israel-based startup providing artificial intelligence tools for radiologists. Their products help detect and pinpoint critical anomalies for radiologists through deep learning and AI algorithms that analyze medical images and patient data. Aidoc eases up the work list and frees up time and attention to what matters. The startupdeidentifies these and sends them onto Aidoc’s cloud, where algorithms identify and highlight abnormalities before returning the images to radiology workstations for reidentification.Aidoc's s solutions aid radiologists in reducing turnaround time and increasing quality and efficiency by flagging acute anomalies in real-time. It also offers tests for intracranial hemorrhages and spinal fractures, plus several chest exams for pulmonary embolisms, pneumothorax, rib fractures, and lung nodules.Aidoc was founded by Guy Reiner, Elad Walach, and Michael Braginsky in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- PayKey — The PayKey social banking and mobile P2P payment solution: A patent-pending mobile payment keyboard that seamlessly integrates with your banking application and lets users complete a transaction without leaving their social application.
- Magisto — Magisto online video editor is a fast & powerful video maker. Turn your photos and video clips into video stories with Magisto movie editor. Start free!
We are a team of former serial founders managing $1.5Bn across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York. We back the next generation of category-defining companies with conviction of founders who have built companies themselves.We back founders with a partnership built on trust, fairness and real operating experience. Westand with founders through every challenge, and help them grow with clarity, resilience and purpose.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 248
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$13M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $14M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- re:cap — re:cap enables companies in the subscription economy to trade future revenues for on-demand, non-dilutive capital. Fast, transparent and easy.
- Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
- Packfleet — We serve millions of Londoners, combining a top-notch delivery service with advanced technology to offer a carbon-neutral delivery experience like no other.
Firstime Ventures is investing in companies who are building a sustainable & accessible future for all.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6M; Series A $500k–$10M; Series B $12M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Baibys — Baibys is a medical automated platform that provides AI and robotics-based autonomous sperm selection solutions for IVF.
- Securithings — Bringing IT Standards to the IoT Space.
- STAX Engineering, Inc. — The STAX mission is to help 1 billion people significantly through new technologies that promote health, sustainability, reduced environmental toxins, and reduced global warming.
Pico Venture Partners invests in visionary Israeli entrepreneurs building future-defining technologies. We seek the leaders who are relentless in their quest to disrupt existing markets, industries, business processes, and consumer experiences.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Cyber Security
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $600k–$8M; Series A $4M–$20M; Series B $11M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Tastewise — Tastewise is a consumer intelligence platform transforming food insights with AI. Discover trends, predict preferences, and drive innovation
- Sepio — Sepio Zero Trust Hardware Security enhances network security by seeing, assessing, and mitigating risk across all known and shadow IT assets.
- Salvador Technologies — Salvador Technologies provides the world's fastest recovery from cyber-attacks and software/hardware malfunctions. Our innovative solution ensures the continuous operation of critical workstations and servers, eliminating downtime. Back to work in 30 seconds based on offline air-gapped sotrage.
Inimiti makes seed-stage New Media investments. They bring extensive experience in fund and company management from being entrepreneurs, CEOs and investors. Their focus is Software platforms and services in the New Media space (Internet, Mobile and anything in between).Its Name Inimiti, is a derivative of “inimitable” which means “somethingthat is beyond imitation, something surpassingly excellent, unrivaled and exceptional.” We like to feel that way but more important, it keeps us on edge and reminds us every day about the high level of performance we are expected to deliver.The company is at the beginning of a revolution in the way people communicate, consume content, shop, do business and manage their lives. The usage of Internet and mobile today, and their connectivity presents a tremendous opportunity to create successful companies that bring new platforms and services to the space. Combine that with today’s rapid development and deployment technologies and our start-up companies are getting to the market faster with less capital, and grow quickly into profitable businesses.
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- Industry: Software, iOS, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.5M; Series A $750k–$105M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
- IGNITE IMPULSE, INC. — As a digital agricultural enhancing service, Ignite impulse offers a variety of services, some of which include the following: agricultural software and equipment rentals, sales, maintenance, and leasing solutions; self-regulated farm shells with pre-installed vertical farming solutions; machined irrigation consulting and installations; artificialintelligence (AI) powered farming solutions; hydroponics farming consultation- partnership and installations; supply chain and logistics partnership; and more.Ignite Impulse also offers hydroponics solutions, as well as controlled farming assistance and consulting, to corporate, government, and educational organizations as part of our cooperation with these entities.
- 3D VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC — 3D technology consulting and implementation services, specializing in the application of 3D printing and 3D science to all spheres of human interaction. For instance, in the field of aquaculture, 3D farms not only cultivate seaweed and shellfish for the purpose of harvesting, but they also rehabilitate ecosystems that were damaged by commercialfishing in the past. Commercial fishing is destructive in addition to being harvesting.
Ahmed Karslı is the chairman of the board at Papara.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Art, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $461k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
İlker Diker - Co-Founder - CPO @ Papara
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- Industry: Art
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
- Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
- Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi, family of Sharjah
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- Industry: Art, Blockchain, Marketplace
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artfi — Decentralised Infrastructure for Global Art Market!
Raz Group empowers entrepreneurs and helps them transform their passions into value-adding companies.
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- Industry: Events, Advertising, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cargoz — Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage.
- Autobia — Autobia is a B2B marketplace leveraging the data to solve the infrastructure and after-sales challenges in the automotive industry. The company bridges the gap between wholesalers and resellers by offering in-between digital, operational and logistical integrated solutions. It was founded in 2021 and is located in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
- Dnaneer — Dnaneer is a FinTech platform that connects online businesses with investors through crowdfunding of enterprises.
Raza Beig is the CEO of Splash and Iconic and Director at Landmark Group.
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- Industry: Art, Apps, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artfi — Decentralised Infrastructure for Global Art Market!
- Nuqi Wealth — Nuqi Wealth provides ethical investment advisory App for stocks, mutual Funds and ETFs.
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- Industry: Art, Music, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MyPart — MyPart is an AI-powered song search and matching platform with products that serve both songwriters and creative industry executives.
Ahmet Salih Palamut
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- Industry: Art
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
L Catterton provides capital to companies to support acquisitions, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and turnarounds. They consider investments across many targeted industry verticals within the consumer industry: food and beverage, retail and restaurants, consumer products and services, and media and marketing services.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 176
- Round size: Series B $18M–$106M; Private Equity $30M–$2.8B
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $800M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
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- Persona — Persona (formerly Vitamin Packs), the next generation personalized nutrition program, helps consumers take the guesswork out of the dietary supplement aisle by using researched science to deliver personalized nutrition safely and conveniently. Persona uses thousands of personalized inputs to recommend supplements that meet individual needs andlifestyle habits. As a proud supporter of Vitamin Angels®, every Persona order provides two children who are malnourished a full year of vitamins. To learn more about Persona, please visit www.personanutrition.com.
- PetLove — PetLove operates as an online store offering a wide range of pet products. PetLove is formerly known as PetSuperMarket and began to sell pet products over the Internet in 1999 when the Internet began in Brazil.After 12 years as PetSuperMarket changed the brand and website for PetLove to reaffirm its commitment to the relationship between itsclients and their pet.PetLove's clients are entitled to receive a discount on over 10,000 pet products since their first purchase registering automatically to the loyalty program.
Gokhan Demir
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- Industry: Art
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
Falak Startups is a start-up accelerator designed to support and empower the next generation of Egyptian entrepreneurs and contribute to the development of the start-up ecosystem in Egypt.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $31k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $6k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
- Tafatifi — Tafatifi is an online music platform that provides information regarding music events in Egypt. It is also a music based social media.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
Bulent Tekmen is a co-founder of ininal, a payment system for the unbanked population in Turkey.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Art, Video
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
- Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
- Swipeline Media — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Grant $5k–$3M; Series A $8.3M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Guild — Guild is a decentralized platform leveraging AI to augment creation, ownership, distribution and monetization of content and digital goods. AI plays a pivotal role in automating tasks, providing data-driven insights, and offering strategic guidance to creators. Whether it's managing marketing campaigns, optimizing release schedules, oridentifying new opportunities, the AI in Guild serves as an invaluable tool for artists, producers, and songwriters. The platform's blockchain integration ensures that all music assets are securely owned and transparently managed, giving creators full control over their work. By combining the practical benefits of AI—like process automation and data analysis—with the security of blockchain, Guild empowers creators to focus on their craft while effectively managing their careers.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a permissionless DeFi lending platform where users can lend and borrow crypto across chains, access loans, and manage digital assets in one unified liquidity protocol.
- Symbiotic — Symbiotic is a generalized shared security system enabling decentralized networks to bootstrap powerful, fully sovereign ecosystems.
Saga VC is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$11M; Series A $13M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Monaco — Monaco functions as a unified system of record, building total addressable market data, running outbound campaigns, capturing interactions, and managing pipeline activity within a single environment. It includes account databases, intent and signal tracking, sequencing tools, pipeline management, and call recording to support demand generationthrough conversion. Monaco automates account discovery, enrichment, and scoring to keep target markets current. Its onboarding process establishes TAM, configures sequences, overlays signals, and imports existing pipeline data from day one.
- Luminal — Luminal provides a machine learning compiler and serverless cloud platform that automates PyTorch model optimization and deployment.
- Profound — FatherSonMatchingShirts store offers a wide variety of apparel such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, tank tops, and mugs. We're trying our best to bring customers. You are welcome to FatherSonMatchingShirts. We're trying our best to bring customers the shirts are made of high quality materials for maximum comfort in whatever you do.
We are a proprietary investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology, primarily focused on the Elrond Ecosystem.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $1.4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aark — Trade crypto perpetuals with up to 1000x leverage, zero gas fees, and an industry-low 0.01% trading fee. Earn payback on losses with VIP rewards. RWA & altcoin perps on Arbitrum. Backed by OKX Ventures.
- Ta-da — We collect, annotate, and label audio, image, video, and text data to power your AI training. From voice and facial recognition to biometrics and object detection, we build tailored datasets for your needs.
- Itheum — As we enter the web3 and metaverse era; Itheum unlocks data silos and generates new value for your data.
Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 164
- Round size: Seed $750k–$11M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Corgea — Corgea finds, triages, and fixes vulnerabilities across code, packages, infrastructure, and containers.
- Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
- Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 386
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Series A $5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
- DNABLOCK — We enable Web3 creator communities to design and mint NFT collections of truly custom photorealistic 3D avatars, environments and cinema-quality animated content with no code or animation knowledge.
- Ignite Tournaments — Ready to take your mobile games to the next level? Join Ignite Tournaments and compete in real money esports tournaments. Download our app now and win big!
F6 Ventures is a leading seed stage venture capital firm operating across emerging markets. We back exceptional founders from idea-stage all the way to Series A, combining early capital with strategic support and a commitment to long-term partnership. With deep ties across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond, we empower innovative startups to scalewith purpose and impact. We manage over $90M in AUM across more than 300 investments in seven countries. By investing early in Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A rounds, we help founders cover initial costs, develop their product, and take it to market. This early capital acts as a launchpad, enabling startups to hit key milestones like securing first customers, attracting follow-on funding, and making significant strides forward.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 187
- Round size: Seed $14k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $32k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Emonovo — Best Study Abroad Partner in MENA to Find programs and universities around the world Emo was the 1st international student, now it is your turn to study abroad. Emonovo used to be named Marj3 which was highest reach scholarship portal in the MENA region.
- Brimore — Brimore is a social commerce platform connecting emerging brand owners with a network of resellers who market and sell their products using social media.
- Let'sGrant — Let’sGrant is a point of sale lending platform, partnering with lenders and consumer goods stores to make the lending process fast, simple and flexible for everyone. With a vision to be internationally recognized as a driving force in personal and consumer loans in the MENA region, Let’sGrant will soon be launching the first online peer to peerlending platform for personal loans in the MENA region which connects individual investors directly to potential borrowers in search of funding through debt.
Emre Kenci
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- Industry: Art, Retail, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- fucimo — Fucimo is a technology-driven two-way marketplace in media & advertising that aims to democratize the industry and make it accessible to all. Our journey is fueled by our commitment to provide innovative solutions that leverage technology to make marketers and media owners more accessible and empower them to partner more effectively. We areworking towards creating a world where the media advertising industry is truly inclusive and accessible to all, and where marketers and publishers have the necessary tools and support they need to succeed in an efficient and effective manner.At fucimo, we believe that technology can help build meaningful relationships and nurture a supportive community through trust, kindness, and care. We take ownership of our work, holding ourselves accountable for the success of fucimo and our users, and we strive to make a positive impact on the industry as a whole.Join us in our mission to shape the future of media advertising, using the power of technology to build a better, more inclusive industry for everyone.
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Jets.Capital - Crypto investment fund
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ritual — Ritual is building the infrastructure autonomous intelligence needs: native compute, privacy, verification, coordination, and markets for long-lived agents.
- Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.
- Gasp — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.
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
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- Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $494k–$18M; Angel $250k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
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.
- Apolyta — Threat simulators use playbooks and checklists. Adversaries don't. Prepare for the real threats of tomorrow with adaptive attack emulation.
Pitango VC is a venture capital firm focused on health-tech (Pitango Health-tech) and growth (Pitango Growth) investments in startups around the world in domains such as vertical SaaS, digital health, deep tech, fintech and insurance technology, devops, generative AI, Web3, and food tech.With two offices in Israel, Pitango currently managesseveral venture funds totaling over $2.8 billion in committed capital. It has invested in more than 250 companies.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Israel, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 277
- Round size: Series A $4M–$47M; Series B $7.5M–$44M; Series C $8.2M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $175M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Nexite — Nexite develops a platform that provides item tracking, inventory transparency and business intelligence from manufacturing to the customer's home. Its miniature NanoBT batteryless tag can be read by any smartphone, costs a fraction of the cost of similar tags, and is small enough to embed into the item. The company was founded in 2017 andis headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Sayata — Sayata delivers rapid growth to brokers and carriers that place commercial risk.The Sayata platform streamlines the quote-bind-issue process allowing insurance professionals to seamlessly place commercial risk in a fraction of the time.Sayata provides an end-to-end technological solution along with educational tools, giving our partners theability to grow their book quickly and efficiently.To date, over 1,000 users across 75 brokerages and carriers partner with Sayata to grow their commercial book.
- Topspin Medical — TopSpin Medical developed an innovative and unique technology for high-resolution MRI using an IntraVascular MRI (IVMRI) catheter for the coronary arteries, without the need for an expensive and bulky external MRI setup. The catheter contains those components, which are usually found in a conventional MRI scanner, only that they are miniaturizedto less than 2 millimeters in size.
Ron Zuckerman is the Co-Founder and Director of TV Time.
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- Industry: Internet, Video, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Series A $3M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cymbio — Connect to hundreds of digital sales channels via Cymbio's automated multi channel e-commerce platform to increase sales & elevate revenue.
- Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
- Safeguard Applied Innovation — Safeguard Applied Innovation provides a mobile performance management platform for construction enterprises. It designs its solution to enable decision-making for successful project planning and execution, delivering effective control regardless of project complexity or national regulations.
Shalom Meckenzie is the Founder of SBTech.
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- Industry: Art, SaaS, Video
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $3M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Niio — One comprehensive video art platform & pro tools for artists, galleries and collection owners to manage, display and securely distribute moving image & digital artworks, 4K to VR
- CoinScan — Fastest trading history in the industry for any ETH token along with seeing pending transactions. One-of-a-kind Airdrops and Holders distribution for quick analysis and much more.
- MonkeyBall — MonkeyBall is a Solana-based play-to-earn soccer game – a kind of FIFA Street and Final Fantasy rolled into one fun monkey-themed game.
PipelBiz enables companies to raise capital from an unlimited number of investors without the need of a prospectus
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Equity Crowdfunding $152k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vootto — Vootto is raising the bar in air purifier technology, engineered to clear the air in your car of 99.9% of airborne contaminants and germs in under 10 minutes. The best part is that you get to pick from a selection of quality scents and choose how to refresh your space. Vootto circulates the air through the scent capsule and actively freshens,unlike passive fresheners that just sit there.Vootto performs better than any other brand because of its innovative air routing system and its unique set of blades that provide the fastest rate of filtration. Not only that, Vootto’s exclusive Active Shield technology traps and destroys bacteria and viruses without releasing harmful byproducts, such as ozone or negative ions. Simply put, Vootto is in a league of its own.
- Omnistream — Omnistream offers high-quality and user friendly app that produces professional video and production suit from your smartphone Omnistream empowers content creators, enabling anyone to produce high-quality and real-time video at an affordable and easy to use way
- NeuroSense Therapeutics — NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd., is a clinical-stage biotechnology company, dedicated to the discovery and development of treatments for debilitating neurodegenerative diseases. Its lead product, PrimeC, is a novel oral therapy for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The company's preclinical pipeline includes: (1) StabiliC forthe treatment of Parkinson's disease and (2) CogniC for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.
Udi Mokady is the Chairman and CEO of CyberArk, and a pioneer in establishing the Privileged Access Management software market. Since co-founding the company in 1999, Mokady has entrenched CyberArk as the market leader. During his tenure at CyberArk, Mokady has also served as CyberArk’s chief strategist and visionary, overseeing global expansion,management, execution and corporate development.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Art
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $650k–$51M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bagel AI — Bagel AI is a product intelligence platform that automates product management, helping product teams turn data into insights, streamline GTM, and drive growth
- Minimus — Gutsy is a security process fabric that unifies vulnerability intelligence from across your tech stacks, leverages AI to improve risk prioritization, and applies process mining to accelerate remediation and drive accountability.
- Clarity — Secure your digital media from Deepfakes and defend from AI-based attacks. Any media from phone and video calls to user-generated content. Built by global AI and cyber experts.
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