Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in Middle East in May 2026

Principal at Awz Ventures | Advancing Israel’s Economic & Technological Resilience Investing in deep-tech innovations across AI, cybersecurity, photonics, biotech, and quantum technologies to strengthen Israel’s economy and defense capabilities. Veteran Staff Sergeant in the Israeli Air Force Intelligence division, Horizon. MSc BusinessAnalytics & BA Financial Economics, Psychology & Business Management; Columbia University Magna Cum Laude.• Former President and Founder of Democratize Value (VC) • Former President and Founder of The Iftach Consulting Group (Management Consulting)My recent accomplishments include: • Raising $8 million from angel investors and due diligence/investing in 27 ventures in PropTech, E-commerce, Marcom, Healthcare, and FinTech sectors • Providing fundraising, due diligence, marketing, and operational advice to 23 PropTech, FinTech, and other Israeli start-ups • Underwriting, modeling, sourcing capital, negotiating, and closing 100+ commercial real estate transactions in the US, Israel, and EuropeOn the personal side, I: • Created a documentary called “Survival In The Forest, Isidore Karten & The Partisans”. • Served in the Israeli Air Force (SSG in Business Intelligence Division) • Volunteer as a Board Member with Yad Va Shem and the Israeli American CouncilSkills Global Early-Stage Startups | Venture Capital| Business Valuation | Account Management | Arabic | Business Strategy | Data Analysis | Financial Reporting | Foreign Relations| Hebrew | Management Consulting | Public Speaking | Social Media | Statistical Data Analysis | Strategic Communications | Team Leadership | Arab-Israel Conflict | Business Valuation | Client-Focused | Customer Relationship Management (CRM) | Commercial Real Estate Acquisition | Commercial Real Estate Analysis | Commercial Real Estate Development | Competitive Analysis | Corporate Finance | Corporate Venture Capital| Creative Entrepreneurship | Early-Stage Investment | Early-Stage Ventures| Debt & Equity Capital Raising| Debt & Equity Financing | Entrepreneurship Development| Financial Analysis | Financial Modeling | Fintech| Fundraising | Global Cross Functional Team Leadership | International Business Development | International Trade Relations | Investment Communications | Management Due Diligence| Market Research | New Business Development |Operational Due Diligence| Private Equity Firms | Proptech | Real Estate Private Equity | Residential Real Estate Sales | Startup Development | Start-Ups | Valuation Modeling

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Marketing
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

MyQuest — myQuest enables you to engage customers and employees anywhere, anytime. Easily train and interact with learners using AI, micro-learning, and gamification.
Immagnify Ltd. — Immagnify provides business teams with accurate B2B contact information based on advanced technographic segmentation and customer analysis.
DayDream Ventures — DayDream Ventures is a venture fund investing in founders building with community-led growth in mind in.

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Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Deplike — Everyone can make music!
UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!

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Micha Kaufman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Fiverr, the world's largest and fastest growing marketplace for digital services. He is an angel investor, partner at Cerca VC, a startup mentor, and a contributor at WIRED and Forbes.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Apps
Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Foraged — 13K Followers, 701 Following, 195 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Foraged Market (@foraged.market)
Weavy — Weavy is a company focused on enhancing team collaboration by providing developers with pre-built, seamlessly integrated collaboration features for web applications. Their platform offers components such as chat, messaging, file sharing, AI tools, and cloud integrations designed to save developers from repetitive coding tasks, enabling them tobuild smarter and faster without reinventing the wheel. Weavy's tools emphasize developer-friendliness, intuitive user experience, and cost-effectiveness, aiming to empower developers across skill levels to embed collaboration and AI-driven capabilities into internal apps efficiently.
Unlimited Robotics — Unlimited Robotics empowers developers to build apps on Gary, the perfect robot for your business or office, and make any robot into a multipurpose one with Ra-Ya.

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Angel Investor. Investing in Turkey (member of Sharks & Partners) & Switzerland (member of Business Angels Switzerland).

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.
Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.

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Giora Yaron - Founding Investor & Chairman of the Board @ Itamar Medical

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Computer
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Equalum — Equalum's real-time data integration & data streaming platform leverages advanced change data capture (CDC) to move your data to the cloud seamlessly.
Affogata — Affogata optimizes the digital customer journey by analyzing customer interactions and identifying customer needs in real-time.
vEyE Security — vEyE provides secure and isolated container execution.

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Bedii Can Yucaoglu - Advisor @ Hesapkurdu

Investment focus

Marketplace, Mobile, Big Data
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Tapu.com — Tapu.com has built the first managed real estate marketplace in Turkey and started selling from its first week of launch in 2015. Tapu.com is the first online real estate auction platform for the Turkish market, bringing many sellers like financial institutions, companies and individuals together with qualified buyers. Tapu.com has launched aneasy-to use platform that leverages the competitive bidding process on verified properties with a mission to make transactions easier and more transparent. Tapu.com has completed 4 major investment rounds from Earlybird Venture Capital and prominent Turkish angel investors.
Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.
Vivense Home & Living — Vivense is a Turkish online furniture store that connects customers with furniture manufacturers. It offers a wide variety of furniture items such as sofas, chairs, tables, beds, dining tables, and more. Vivense allows clients to order their preferred furniture items online, and offers free delivery for certain products.

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Yuval Tal has made quite a difference in the world of business online thanks to the creation of various e-commerce companies, many of which have successfully developed through his co-creation or his additional expertise. He has over 20 years of experience in technological startups, prepaid card applications, and security technology. CurrentWork Experience: Yuval Tal is the president of the NYC-based Payoneer, the private company he founded in 2005 an served as CEO during 2005-2010. Payoneer establishes viable solutions for payments in prepaid MasterCard® credit cards through the Internet via their prepaid Payoneer credit card. Instead of using typical banking services, Payoneer allows its members (including many online businesses) to sell products, but pay for their own supplies through an online service. Their technology system is secure, but assures privacy for its customers. The company is composed of over100 technology and finance expert employees. While based in NY, it also has research and development locations in Israel.Tal also provides consultation to Payments-r-us, a company started by four e-commerce experts who provide payment processing, merchandising and assorted payment solutions to their customers. The company helps their members find appropriate and free payments solutions.Past Work Experience: Before the creation of Payoneer, Tal was a co-founder for E4X Inc., technology and e-commerce payments provider worldwide. The company was established in 1999 but later changed its name to FiftyOne as it became a global market and e-commerce leader. The company allows its businesses to develop their online sales, marketing, delivery, stock, and transaction capabilities. Its current value is upwards of $500 million. Tal was the acting vice president as part of the business and development sector. FiftyOne is an innovative e-commerce solution because it's one of the pioneers of the e-commerce movement, allowing online retailers from the US to promote, market, and sell their merchandise using the monetary means of their native country. This is still significant today in terms of global money orders, payment processes and the international flow of goods from one point to the other. It's no wonder that market retailers like the Anthropologie clothing store, luxury and electronic gift store Brookstone, and Overstock.com have worked with the company. The company is based in New York, with its research and development operations unit in Israel.Tal also shined in leadership positions for companies such as R-U-Sure, where he was the chief executive officer, and vice president of business development at Radware, a publically traded company on NASDAQ.Summits and Conferences:Yuval Tal has participated in a plethora of affiliate, marketing, and digital-related conferences connected to his kind of work. At many of the conferences, he was featured as a speaker. The most recent conference was the impressive "Apps World," which was held in London in October 2012. The conference is noted to be the leading venue for those involved in the apps industry where they network and collaborate on international projects. He was a guest speaker at the conference and he explained the concept of Payoneer to the participants detailing how it fits into the newest e-wallet technologies. Through Payoneer, companies distribute branded cards that enable them to send direct payments into the recipient's account. He also shared his thoughts on the shape of the future mobile industry and responded to a series of general questions regarding the e-commerce industry.When he was invited to participate in a panel discussion at Israel's Afeka College, he had the opportunity to address many issues that were unclear to the attendees. Among others, the subjects ranged from discussions on the topic of Israel as a “hotbed” in the area of financial innovation, how web based financial start-ups differs from the more traditional start-ups on the web, as in social and media networks, and how the mobile will shape the future. He also dealt head-on with such questions as to the leaders in fintech space, the coming big trends that will take place in the financial tech space, how government and foreign regulations affect business and how to manage the pace of change without being snowed under. Since Tal works with clients at online affiliate networks as part of Payoneer, it's no surprise that the hi-tech head shared his knowledge and experience at both the 2009 and 2012 Affiliate Summit conferences. The Affiliate Summit established by Affiliate marketing experts is recognized as the most important event in affiliate marketing. The 2012 Affiliate Summit West Conference event was held last January in Las Vegas. The 2009 Affiliate Summit East Conference was held in New York. At that conference Tal spoke about his affiliate experience working with affiliate agents, heightening Payoneer's prowess in e-commerce, and establishing various payment methods through the company. Tal was a keynote speaker at two important e-commerce conferences in Israel. First, he spoke at the one-day Take Charge 2011 Digital Commerce Summit in September 2011, which offers innovative ecommerce concepts for digital companies, vendors and affiliates. He also spoke at the Track N' Pay Summit in Tel Aviv, which was hosted by Payoneer. This one-day conference is based on concepts in Internet and mobile affiliate tracking and payment services. For both conferences, Tal spoke on behalf of his veteran online, selling, affiliate marketing, and e-commerce work at Payoneer as related to the concepts of each conference. Personal Experience: Yuval Tal was born in August 1965 in Israel and still resides there in his home country in a suburb called Ramat HaSharon, located about 20 minutes from the country's central city Tel Aviv. It was in Tel Aviv where he received university education after serving in an elite unit in the Israeli Defense Forces. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Tel Aviv University in 1992. He went on to earn his Masters at Tel Aviv University where he studied biomedical engineering, minor in business administration.Tal has many hobbies outside the business and e-commerce realm. He likes photography and took five courses in it at the New School for General Studies and the Parsons School of Design, both in New York City. He has also been active in the Tel Aviv Nike Run, a 10 kilometer marathon throughout the city and has participated in a triathlon, which included running, biking, and swimming.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Humanz — We help brands & creators build long-lasting, rewarding relationships backed by cutting-edge technology & expertise. Sign up with Humanz
Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
ReturnGO — Easy-to-use self-service return management portal that allows customers to return and exchange products increases revenue and customer retention.

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Moshe Lichtman is an angel investor. Moshe Lichtman has spent 29 years creating software products for global markets. He's freshly retired from Microsoft where he was Corporate VP responsible for several of its consumer businesses including its MSN business in the late 90s, its TV business in the mid-2000s and most recently its IsraelR&D center, which he built into one of the 3 largest centers outside the U.S. Mr. Lichtman was also one of the leaders of the Windows 95 team and president of Softimage, a leader in media creation software. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Lichtman held software development and management positions in several high-tech startups. He is the co-author of the best-selling book "The complete guide to the C language" and holds a BSc Cum Laude in Computer Engineering from the Technion and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School. Mr. Lichtman is currently an active angel investor in Israeli startups. and is in the process of forming a private equity fund focused on growth and public tech companies in Israel

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Panorays — Panorays automates, accelerates and scales your third-party security evaluation and management process so you can easily manage and remediate risk.
Semperis — Semperis is the industry's most comprehensive Active Directory security and recovery platform, protecting hybrid AD environments from identity-based attacks.
Superwise — Superwise gives ML practitioners fully automated, enterprise-grade model observability in a self-service SaaS platform. Start monitoring ML in production in under 5 minutes.

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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.

Investment focus

Retail, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

Onfleet — Onfleet is a B2B software company that specializes in last-mile delivery logistics. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every month for thousands of businesses around the world. Onfleet's customers range from food and beverage delivery services to laundry and dry cleaning, pharmaceutical, retail and e-commerce delivery businesses. Thecompany's product includes a web-based dispatch dashboard for routing, tracking, dispatching, and analytics, intuitive iOS and Android apps for drivers, automated customer notifications and real-time driver tracking, and a robust RESTful API.Onfleet was founded in 2012 by a team of engineers at Stanford University.
Shippify — Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014.
Matternet — Matternet is a technology platform for urban aerial delivery. In March 2017, Matternet became the first company in the world to be authorized for urban drone delivery operations in Switzerland. In May 2018, the company was selected to participate in the FAA's Drone Integration Pilot Program for operations in North Carolina and San Diego. InMarch 2019, Matternet and UPS announced a partnership to implement drone delivery services at US hospitals and launched the first ongoing revenue drone delivery operation in US history at Wakemed in North Carolina.Founded in 2011, Matternet is headquartered in Mountain View, California

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Ajay Shah founded Shah Capital Partners in 2004 and joined the Silver Lake team in 2007 as the Managing Partner to found and develop the firm's middle market strategy, Silver Lake Sumeru. Prior to founding Shah Capital, Mr. Shah founded and managed the Technology Solutions Business of Solectron, a $2 billion business. Mr. Shah was the CEO ofSmart Modular Technologies, a company that he co-founded in 1989 and led through its public offering in 1995. He managed its growth to over $1 billion in revenues and directed its acquisition by Solectron Corp. in 1999 for over $2 billion. Mr. Shah serves on the board of directors of Flextronics, TES, CMAC, Ingenient, Magellan, Mobile Messenger, AVI-SPL, Inc., Power-One, Inc., and is chairman of the board of SMART Modular. He is a senior fellow of the American Leadership Forum and also serves on the boards of Northern California Public Broadcasting and The Indian School of Business, India and is a Trustee of the American India Foundation. He has a B.S. in Engineering from University of Baroda and an M.S. in Engineering Management from Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Big Data
Seed, Series A, Post-IPO Equity
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Deeplite — Deeplite provides an AI-Driven Optimizer to make Deep Neural Networks faster, smaller, energy-efficient from cloud to edge computing.
Kloudless — Kloudless is a Taiwan startup that offered a SaaS API integration platform. The company was recently acquired by Netskope.
Galileo — Galileo's AI observability and evaluation platform empowers AI teams to evaluate, monitor, and protect GenAI applications and agents at enterprise scale.

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Rafi Gidron is the Founder and Chairman of Israel Brain Technologies. He previously worked at Lucent as a VP of Optical networks. Rafi Gidron attended Columbia University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
Dig — dig is a social listening platform using AI to analyze social video. Track brand mentions and sentiment analysis with our real-time media monitoring tool.
The Digital Pets Company — pay77 situs gacor yang memberikan akses lengkap dengan fitur apk mobile dapat lebih mudah menemukan dan bermain di situs pay77, ayo install aplikasunya dan manfaatkan semua fitur yang tersedia di kami

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Ran Tuttnauer

Investment focus

Health Care, Big Data, Internet
Seed, Series A
Israel, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Innovopro — InnovoPro is committed to bringing unique plant-based protein ingredients to the global food market in order to create nutritious, tasty, safe, and sustainable food products. With an excellent nutritional profile, free from properties and wide usability in the food industry, InnovoPro’s chickpea protein is the best choice for the growingplant-based protein market.InnovoPro was founded on 2013 by Dr. Ascher Shmulewitz an experienced inventor and investor, and has made considerable progress in developing chickpea proteins and other chickpea ingredients.InnovoPro has been recognized as an innovator of disruptive technology in the food industry.
Solidify — The Marketplayz platform helps you find the perfect creators to promote your products. It utilizes AI-powered technology to enable advertisers and creators to connect through a one-stop, self-service marketplace.
Geneyx — Geneyx offers a superior NGS data analysis and interpretation platform, Harnessing genetic data to guide digital insights for rare and germline disorders.

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Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communicationtechnology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company's sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces' elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Era — An AI-based fertility copilot that optimizes time, cost, and the overall experience for both fertility providers and parents on their path to parenthood
nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.
CustoMED — CustoMed transforms surgical planning and execution. It does this by converting medical imaging into 3D visualizations, planning procedures, and producing customized 3D-printed surgical solutions at scale in a matter of minutes, all while streamlining the process and providing surgical excellence.

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Eddy Shalev is an angel investor. Eddy is one of the best-known figures in the Israeli business community. Since the beginning of Israel's venture capital industry, Eddy has focused on private-equity investments in the high-tech sector, and has played a key role in several high-profile success stories, including Fundtech, ParadigmGeophysical and Orbot Instruments. Eddy is currently on the board of Aternity, Profitect and Sensible Medical.Eddy has been an active private equity investor in Israel since 1992, when he began a private equity investment program that invested in early-stage Israeli high-tech companies. Beginning in 1985, Eddy led the Israeli affiliates of Oscar Gruss and Sons Inc., and then later CIBC-Oppenheimer, where he directed the firm’s corporate banking, sales and trading, and equity research for Israeli companies traded on NASDAQ.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series B, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

TripleW Group NV — Making Waste History. TripleW upcycles food waste into high-value bioplastic
QEDIT — Augment your data tools with advanced encryption, by world leaders in zero-knowledge proofs, homomorphic encryption, multi-party computation
REACH — Document collaboration, e-signature, web conferencing and ID verification, all in one single platform.

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Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
Turkey, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.

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Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

ToolBelt — The only platform built specifically for licensed pros in residential construction looking for work or finding labor.
Scaler — Scaler empowers real estate managers to protect investments, reduce operational costs, and meet reporting obligations. Our best-in-class tech delivers faster decisions, smarter strategies, and audit-ready documentation across your entire real estate portfolio
OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.

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Gur Shomron is an angel investor. Gur is an entrepreneur and investor, and has over 35 years of experience in building and financing high-tech companies, both in Israel and the US. Gur took his first company, Quality Computers, public in Israel.He later ran Foraz R&D fund and invested in companies such as Retalix (RTLX), Optisystems, WizTecand others. Gur is also the Chairman of Fidelis Diagnostics Inc., which he co-founded in 2004 and a Director in several other hi-tech companies.Gur was an early investor in successful companies such as Riptech, Objet, Sentigo and others.

Investment focus

Mobile, Big Data, Marketing
Seed, Funding Round
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bigabid — Busy? Let’s stick to the questions.What? Elite Programmatic User Acquisition and Retargeting DSP for Mobile AppsWho? Bigabid is a technology company led by data scientists and engineers devoted to your app’s success. Our robust, sophisticated machine learning platforms are a culmination of that devotion. How? Bigabid’s proprietary Gen 2 DSPoptimizes performance by intelligently analyzing data in real-time to target audiences at the onset of peak potential to ensure the highest possible LTV. With enhanced contextual data, our deep categories technology is the only platform that delineates 1000+ app categories, versus the few dozen other platforms use, to eliminate unfit audiences and precisely target maximum value users now and post-IDFA.Why? Beyond our technologies, Bigabid ensures our partners achieve their growth goals by offering full transparency every step of the way. Besides a great ROAS, we understand scalable growth demands constant enhancements across your ecosystem. From a deep understanding of in-app to cross-app audience behavior, Bigabid offers actionable insights and solutions throughout our partnership to help increase engagement and enrich your products.
Exceed.ai — Enhance lead conversion with Conversational AI. Automate revenue interactions, engage at scale, and interact via Email, Chat, SMS.

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Sami ElShafai

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Analytics
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Crowd Analyzer — The 1st media and digital crowd monitoring, analytics and activation by which brands and agencies can understand people's opinions on social, analyze their content, ask them questions, and incentive them to do digital actions.

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Ronen Shilo is an Israeli entrepreneur and software technologist. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Conduit, an online platform that allows web publishers to create custom toolbars, web apps, and mobile apps at no cost. As of April 2012, the company is valued at $1.3 billion

Investment focus

Big Data, Analytics, Open Source
Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Affogata — Affogata optimizes the digital customer journey by analyzing customer interactions and identifying customer needs in real-time.
Scenaric —

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Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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!
Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
Onlayer — Our powerful solutions suite streamlines onboarding, compliance, monitoring and insights to mitigate risk and secure growth at every stage of the digital business lifecycle.

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Steve Barsh is a managing partner at Dreamit Ventures. He attended the University of Michigan from 1983 to 1987.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Yosi Health — Yosi Health helps healthcare organizations streamline the patient check-in process, minimize in-person contact, and maximize practice revenue.
Wellth — Improve quality scores, reduce high cost utilization, address health equity, and improve member satisfaction by using the right incentive at the right time to create life-changing healthy habits through Wellth.
MedAware — Our AI-powered medication safety monitoring platform identifies preventable medication-related risks at all stages of the patient journey.

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Boaz Hecht - Co-Founder & CEO @ NewCo

Investment focus

Software, B2B, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Demostack — Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.
ReturnGO — Easy-to-use self-service return management portal that allows customers to return and exchange products increases revenue and customer retention.
Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.

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Akın İDİL is a Co-Founder at Veacon.

Investment focus

Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

ELYT — ELYT specialises in NFTs and metaverse exchange platform enabling NFT to produce value, and participate in the ecosystem.

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Bilge Algul - Co-Founder @ Veacon

Investment focus

Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

ELYT — ELYT specialises in NFTs and metaverse exchange platform enabling NFT to produce value, and participate in the ecosystem.

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Ariel has been leading technology innovation and entrepreneurship for over 30 years, leading teams, founding companies and mentoring entrepreneurs. He is an active angel investor in startups, and supports technology education as a philanthropist. Ariel is a graduate of the prestigious Talpiot program, and holds a BSc from the Hebrew University ofJerusalem in Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science (Cum Laude) and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

GeoX — GeoX is an Aerial Imagery AI analytics company. We produce geospatial Property Data which is used for Underwriting & Claims in the US and European insurance industries. GeoX unique proposition is in 3-dimensional extraction technology which provides rich information about every property. GeoX also produces 3D building datasets from aerialimagery for complete geographies using automated processes. 3D building models are digital representations of the properties, and in conjunction with aerial imagery allows every staff member in any insurance discipline to see the property visualization, and get a good understanding of the structure, its dimensions and characteristics without visiting in the site. GeoX uses propriatetary and Patented technology for the 3D extraction.domains: Insurtech, Smart cities
Parter — Parter operates as an AI-native platform built for the real-world needs of electronics producers across across R&D, engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing.
BeWith.io (Superc AI) — Connect residents and foster engagement with a centralized community calendar that brings all city events into one easy-to-access platform

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Yuda Doron is a Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Partners.Yuda Doron was appointed in 2010 to serve as a Senior Advisor focused on the firm's middle market strategy, Silver Lake Sumeru. He is the Senior Advisor for Israel. Mr. Doron has over 20 years of experience working with technology companies, helping to guide them from their inceptionthrough each stage of development, including capital raising, operations, competitive strategy, and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Doron was an angel investor and strategy consultant who helped facilitate the sale of Bristol Technology to HP, as well as the sale of Appilog to Mercury Interactive. He also developed and implemented an operational plan to stabilize costs at Enterasys Networks. Previously, he managed the domestic sales channel at Computer Associates and held senior positions at Cheyenne Software, Cheyenne Communications, and Texas Instruments. Mr. Doron is also the founder of Texel, a software and integration company which was sold to Elco International. He is a veteran Israeli Navy commander and received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Tel Aviv.

Investment focus

Big Data, Data Center, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Reali — Looking to buy or sell a home in California? Look no further than Reali - your trusted partner in California real estate. Find your dream home today!
Crosswise — Crosswise provides the world’s most authoritative consumer device map to ad tech vendors, consumer brands and premium publishers. Combining data science, Big Data and machine learning, Crosswise identifies which PCs, phones, tablets, digital TVs and other connected devices are being used by individual consumers. When leveraged for cross-devicetargeted advertising, content personalization and analytics, this data represents a huge source of untapped business potential.
Planck — Revolutionizing commercial insurance underwriting with GenAI - Planck gives underwriters the advantage to confidently navigate big data, classify businesses, and detect vital risk.

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Saar Wilf is a serial entrepreneur and investor.Over his career, he has founded several technology ventures, his first back in 1997. Most notably, he founded Fraud Sciences (acquired by PayPal/eBay for $169m), where he served as CEO and Chief Scientist. He also co-founded ClarityRay (acquired by Yahoo), Trivnet (acquired by Gemalto),Pointgrab, Deep Optics, Creditstacks, Bzigo, Rootclaim, Immersix, Initiative Q, and wikiwand.com, which serves over 10M users monthly. He was the first investor in Moon Active, Supersonic (merged with Iron Source), Crosswise (acquired by Oracle), Redhill Biopharma, and CallApp.Mr. Wilf also funded the Brain Preservation Prize, which sparked the first technique that can completely preserve an entire human brain for long-term storage.

Investment focus

Advertising, Machine Learning, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Angel
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Deep Optics — DEEPOPTICS proprietary technology dynamically corrects vision impairment using pixelated liquid crystal (LC) adaptive lenses. The lenses perform like the human eye, allowing the wearer to see what they want when they want.
Black Label — Jasper, formerly CreditStacks, is a financial service company that offers a credit card designed for professionals. Jasper uses technology to assess applicants holistically, so applicants may qualify for a premium Jasper Mastercard, issued by WebBank, even if they are just starting their credit journey.The company was founded in 2015 and isheadquartered in New York City, New York.
PointGrab — PointGrab Ltd. develops machine learning technology installed in optical IoT sensors for commercial Real Estate. The sensors enables Companies to better manage their real estate, increase efficiency and cut Real Estate costs, while keeping Employees' privacy and welfare.PointGrab is considered marker leader in providing occupancy and smartbuilding features in commercial Real Estate.

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Robledo Ribeiro is General Manager of HostGator Brazil, Endurance International Group’s Brazilian subsidiary. Originally from Brazil, Rob found himself working in Florida, laying the groundwork for the HostGator brand. As the fledgling startup grew, Rob proposed that HostGator look deeper into international operations, and more specificallyBrazil.Rob officially began operations in Brazil in 2008, and has since HostGator Brazil into one of the largest hosting companies in Brazil. Rob likes to be seen as the quintessential global citizen. While working for HostGator, Rob has lived in the US, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Brazil. Each one of these experiences enabled him to develop keen insights into the online service needs of small businesses in these countries.

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, Internet
Pre-Seed, Angel
Brazil, Israel

Portfolio highlights

bud — The world is changing faster than ever, so is work and life. However, management, company practices, and workplaces are falling behind. We believe that people can design and build a better experience and organizations for themselves. They just need space, data, and the right tools. That's why we are putting all our experience and energy totransform the work experience, together.
Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI

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Cem Tüfekçi

Investment focus

Analytics, Machine Learning, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Reengen — Dedicated software to help you manage your carbon, ESG and energy data
Lifemote — Detect home wi-fi issues with AI-powered Lifemote cloud analytics. Proactively solve wireless network performance problems before your customers complain.
incir.com — Incir is a Turkish internet marketing tech infrastructure provider that develops e-commerce systems and related services such as domain name registration, operations support, stock payment infrastructure, free marketing training, virtual POS, and more. Incir was founded in July 2012.

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Hillel Kobrinsky is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Construction
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

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.

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Goverment Confidential

Investment focus

B2B, Big Data, Military
Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Acropolis — Acropolis redefines the way organizations are overcoming the challenges of information governance and integrity in every space of decision . With graph modeling, machine learning, and computer vision, the solution automatically scores , labels, and categorizes every piece of unstructured data within the framework of open source information . Thesolution locates necessary data insights ,appropriately assessing , qualifing them by relevance and objective, providing instant feedback -allowing clarity and precision ,in every context of assessment , choice. Data integrity ,clarity ,precision are significantly enhanced, vulnerability and overheads are minimized while the diligent tasking effort of decision is optimised

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Andrea T. Orlando is the Managing Partner in Italy at Startup Wise Guys.

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy, Turkey, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Poleepo — Poleepo ti permette di vendere su tutti i marketplace, comparatori e social contemporaneamente. Ottimizza il tuo e-commerce!
Soundtracktor — Soundtracktor is a music licensing ecosystem. Artists - build a custom webstore to sell your tracks. Brands - find high-quality music to tell your story.
Agrovisio — Agrovisio Official provides accurate, up-to-date and customized data and accurate forecasts to the agricultural sector's stakeholders.

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Can Yucaoglu

Investment focus

Mobile, Big Data, Automotive
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.

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Jeffrey Schoenfeld is a angel investor.

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Construction
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

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.

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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, Artificial Intelligence
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, South Korea, 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.
SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
Adversa AI — Autonomous AI red teaming platform that continuously tests AI agents, LLMs, and GenAI apps. 300+ attack techniques. OWASP & NIST mapped. Trusted by Fortune 500

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Faruk Eczacıbaşı - Deputy Vice President of Eczacıbaşı @ KWORKS Koç University Entrepreneurship Research Center

Investment focus

iOS, SaaS, Music
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Deplike — Everyone can make music!
Cerebrum Tech — An initiative that rises from turkey with the aim of being one of the leading tech companies at global scale
Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.

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Dan Isenberg (@danisen) is founding executive director of the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project, Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School. From 1981-7 and 2005-9 Dan was a professor at the Harvard Business School, and in the interim (1987-2005) was an entrepreneur and venturecapitalist in Israel. Dan authored Worthless Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value(Harvard Business Review Press 2013), published over 30 online and print articles on entrepreneurship in the Harvard Business Review, and has been featured in the Economist, Forbes, NPR, Bloomberg, Quartz, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, etc. Dan has been a pioneer in the concept and development of entrepreneurship ecosystems, and he launched and directs Manizales-Mas and Scale Up Milwaukee. Between 2009-2013 Dan was active in the World Economic Forum and conducted Forum events in Davos, Africa, Europe, and China. In 2012 Mikhail Gorbachev awarded Dan the Pio Manzu Award for "Innovations in Economic Development." At Babson Executive Education, Dan created and directs the 3-day program, Driving Economic Growth Through Entrepreneurship Ecosystems. He holds the Ph.D. degree in social psychology from Harvard University, received under the mentorship of Robert Freed Bales. He lives in Boston and in his home town of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and has 4 grown children. Dan enjoys salsa dancing (On2), jazz, collecting wine, and not-catching-fish (at which he excels); nevertheless, he is most excited about spending time with his kids (one of whom is an entrepreneur) and his granddaughter, helping his angel investments grow, and being continually surprised by what entrepreneurs around the world can accomplish. Dan is currently publishing two books of children's stories.

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Retail
Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
Sunbit — Hear the stories of customers and merchants Sunbit has helped with its pay-over-time technology for everyday needs.
Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI

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Ron Zuckerman is the Co-Founder and Director of TV Time.

Investment focus

Internet, Video, Apps
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Israel, United States, China

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.

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Melih Murat Yucaoglu

Investment focus

Mobile, Big Data, Automotive
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.

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Ilker Sozdinler is the Founder, CEO of United Payment.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

ELYT — ELYT specialises in NFTs and metaverse exchange platform enabling NFT to produce value, and participate in the ecosystem.
EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.

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Ronen Peled is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Construction
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

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.

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Eytan M. Stibbe, the Founding Director of Vital Capital Fund, has been involved in investment in Africa for the past 26 years. Mr. Stibbe studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Bar Ilan University and completed his Masters in Business Administration at the European University in Belgium.Among his many professional accomplishments, Mr. Stibbehas worked extensively in initiating business and financing ventures worldwide, primarily in developing countries, including many countries in Africa. His vision and leadership have led to the initiation, implementation and successful completion of high-profile projects throughout this region, with a consistent focus on aligning humanitarian objectives with financial and business interests.Mr. Stibbe’s successes in this regard have become a hallmark of his involvement in any project or investment and have resulted in tangible improvements in the quality of life for tens of thousands of people.Mr. Stibbe is a founder and board member of the Centre for African Studies at Ben-Gurion University.On April 8, 2022, Stibbe became the second Israeli to travel to space, joining the crew of the Axiom Mission (Ax-1), the first commercial mission to the International Space Station (ISS). This mission was undertaken in collaboration with the Ramon Foundation and the Israel Space Agency, engaging numerous scientists, educators, students, and artists. The Rakia Mission on Ax-1 presented a distinctive opportunity for Israeli investors, researchers, and entrepreneurs to participate in various scientific and cultural aspects of space exploration.

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

InfiniGrow — With InfiniGrow, marketers can talk to their data and explore it in real time. Ditch static dashboards. Get real insights on what works, and why.
Pangea Therapeutics Ltd. — We are on a mission to redefine cancer care by combining disruptive molecular biology technology with state of the art bioinformatics and machine learning.

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Rami Lipman is an angel investor.

Investment focus

SaaS, Social, Software
Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Matics Manufacturing Analytics Ltd. — Matics real-time manufacturing analytics provides a digital toolbox for factories' production floor management and dramatically increases the production efficiency.
Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...

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Gil Hirsch is an angel investor. Gil has over ten years of experience in software architecture, product and general management in computer technology. Before co-founding face.com, Gil held multiple R&D, Product and Sales executive roles at Amdocs, Xacct Technologies and Telrad Networks. Gil is also the co-founder of the garage geeks communityin Israel to drive non-commercial innovation activities.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

InfiniGrow — With InfiniGrow, marketers can talk to their data and explore it in real time. Ditch static dashboards. Get real insights on what works, and why.
Oshi — Alternative Protein - Stealth Mode
Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!

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Igor Ryabenkiy is the Managing Partner at AltaIR Capital. Igor is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with over twenty years of successful executive and investment experience including Internet startups and IT companies. He has funded, developed, and exited a significant number of investment projects worldwide.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Sceenic — Sceenic offers solutions to power interactive viewing experiences. Through its "Watch Together" technology, media companies create watch together experiences for their audiences, offering friends and family a deeper, more engaging and interactive group viewing experience.
Cast Plus — CastPlus podcast advertising platform allows podcasters and advertisers to seamlessly work and collaborate together.
Superfly — Superfly is the global leader in alternative data solutionsbased on real-time, real-life online trasaction by our global consumers panel

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Dayioglu holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering and holds CISSP, CSSLP, CRISC, CIPT certificates with a strong technology background. He is an active angel investor.

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Analytics
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Audit Now — AuditNow is a software platform to modernize how internal audit teams collaborate and deliver results faster and more efficiently.
heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
Onlayer — Our powerful solutions suite streamlines onboarding, compliance, monitoring and insights to mitigate risk and secure growth at every stage of the digital business lifecycle.

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Cihan Demir is the Founder & CEO of Finartz. He previously worked at mypat as a Co-Founder. Cihan Demir attended Maltepe University.

Investment focus

Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

ELYT — ELYT specialises in NFTs and metaverse exchange platform enabling NFT to produce value, and participate in the ecosystem.

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Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen grew up across Africa, from Angola and Guinea-Bissau to Tanzania and Libya, after his family fled the Angolan Civil War as refugees. Those early experiences instilled in him a belief that education, technology, and social innovation can transform lives and continue to anchor his career and philanthropic activities to this day.Today, Lars is a General Partner at Owl Ventures ($2.2 billion AUM), the world’s leading venture capital firm focused exclusively on education technology. He leads Owl’s expansion across Europe, Africa, and global markets, backing founders who harness AI and breakthrough technologies to make learning more accessible and impactful.Before joining Owl, Lars co-founded 2xN, an early-stage fund at the frontier of deeptech and quantum innovation, with standout investments including Quantinuum (valued above $10 billion), Oxford Ionics (acquired by IonQ in a $1 billion deal), QSimulate, and Sparrow Quantum. Prior to that, he was a General Partner at Balderton Capital in London during which time the firm led the Seed and Series A rounds in Revolut. His investments also span education (Labster, uLesson, StudySmarter, Kukua), mobility (Yassir, Voi, Monta, NoTraffic), and mobile and frontier tech (Hiya, Monarch Money, Rahko, Pocket, Colossal, Celus, Octant Bio, Vivino, OpenSea, Blue Bottle Coffee).Lars previously spent a decade in Silicon Valley, shaping some of tech’s most iconic growth stories. At Uber, he joined when it operated in fewer than 20 cities and, as Vice President, forged global alliances with Verizon and América Móvil that fueled its international expansion. Before Uber, as Head of Mobile at Dropbox, he was among the first 25 employees and helped the company reach its first 100 million users through partnerships with Samsung and other OEMs.Despite his career in technology and venture capital, Africa has never left Lars’s journey. After his father’s passing, he returned to Angola to trace his family’s history, discovering that his sister had died of malaria as a child. That revelation transformed a personal loss into a mission. A technologist turned humanitarian innovator, Lars filed a patent for genetically modified mosquitoes that light up when carrying malaria and began funding malaria-research projects in Angola through partnerships with global nonprofits. In 2024, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for malaria research, following earlier campaigns such as climbing the Matterhorn and crossing the Sahara by motorbike.A Danish-Portuguese national who served with the Royal Danish Guards, Lars holds an MBA from London Business School, where he was a member of the Board of Governors and Chairman of the Endowment Fund, an MSc from Oxford University (Keble College), and a BSc from King’s College London. Across every chapter, from refugee to technologist to investor, his purpose endures: advancing education, health, and innovation as catalysts for social change.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
StudySmarter — StudySmarter is an EdTech company that develops an intelligent and content-agnostic platform for lifelong learning. It was first published in 2018 and is used by millions of learners worldwide. StudySmarter has been voted the best EdTech start-up in Germany and Europe by university representatives and education experts.
Empirical — Culinary & scientific innovations applied in flavor to spirits and cans. From premium spirits to ready to drink cans, Empirical has an exciting selection. Order today!

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A. Engin Utkan is Senior Salesforce Consultant | Flow Automation Expert | Application Architect

Investment focus

Art, AgTech, Farming
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
Tarfin — Using its cloud-based platform and smart algorithms, Tarfin provides underbanked farmers with high-quality farm inputs and competitive point-of-sale financing. Tarfin is the winner of EFSE's 2016 Financial Inclusion Challenge.
Makswin Real Estate Technologies, Inc. — Cutting-edge technological solutions aimed at data inconsistency and inefficiencies in the real estate industry.

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