Top 50 Biotech Angel Investors in Middle East in January 2026

Investor	Biotech Middle East investments
Candan Karabagli	4
M. Cengiz Aydın	3
Yossi Ackerman	3
Danny Hadar	2
Ömer Aras	2
Howard Morgan	2
Shimon Eckhouse	2
Ahmed Abdelhamid	2
Okan Erol	2
Hale Umul	2
Naci Topçuoğlu	2
Nalan Uysal	1
Temel Güzeloğlu	1
Yehuda Zisapel	1
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	1
Zohar Zisapel	1
Arie Abecassis	1
Moshe Yanai	1
Ebru Dorman	1
Dov Moran	1
Sena Nomak	1
Henry Soesanto	1
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	1
Marius Nacht	1
Amnon Shashua	1
Bradley M. Bloom	1
Ole T. Jensen	1
Ahmet Ramiz	1
Judith Richter	1
Ali Emre	1
Emine Erdem	1
Ron Sabar	1
Erman Turan	1
Jeffrey Berman	1
Ariel Yaar	1
Ozlem Petek Hun	1
Berkay Mollamustafaoglu	1
Eren N. Sarıkaya	1
Shmuel Cabilly	1
Münteha Adalı	1
Huseyin Karayagiz	1
Volkan Öngüç	1
Mehmet Sacit Sungu	1
Kaan Akın	1
Demir Karaaslan	1
Yalin Karadogan	1
Yasemin Mistikoglu	1
Ozlem Tumer Eke	1
Kobi Richter	1
Sedat Eryilmaz	1

Candan Karabagli - Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, CHAIRMAN @ GS Yuasa

Investment focus

Retail, Analytics, Biopharma
Seed, Angel, Series A
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Biolive — Biolive
Vispera — Drive your retail execution to perfection with Vispera image recognition technologies and intelligent retail solutions.
PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech pioneers the integration of DNA & RNA sequencing data with AI for rare disease diagnostics. We offer the first RNA-based diagnostic support tool.

M. Cengiz Aydın

Investment focus

Biopharma, Biotechnology
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech pioneers the integration of DNA & RNA sequencing data with AI for rare disease diagnostics. We offer the first RNA-based diagnostic support tool.

Joseph Ackerman, also known as Yossi, served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Elbit Systems Ltd., the holding company of Elbit Security Systems Ltd. and Harpia Sistemas S.A. from 1996 to March 31, 2013. From 1994 to 1996, Joseph Ackerman served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Elbit Ltd.'s Defense Systems Division(EDS.). He joined Elbit Ltd. in 1982 and held various management positions, including General Manager of EFW, Senior Vice President of Operations Group, Vice President of Operations and Vice President of Advanced Battlefield Systems. He serves as the Chairman of MediGuide Ltd. He served as the Chairman of Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT - Elisra Ltd. and Elbit Systems Ltd. He served as the Chairman of Tadiran Communications Ltd. since August 2005. He served as the Chairman of Elbit Systems Ltd. from 1996 to 2004. He served as the Vice Chairman of Elbit Systems Ltd. from April 1, 2013 to November 19, 2013. He serves as a Director of Imagesat International N.v. He served as a Director of Elbit Systems Ltd., the holding company of Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT - Elisra Ltd. from 1996 to 2004. Joseph Ackerman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology (the Technion).

Investment focus

Apps, Local, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Phytolon — Phytolon revolutionizes the way food colors are produce, by Leveraging a novel and sustainable technology for production of healthy food colors in high quality at low costs. Phytolon's mission is to exploit scientific advancement promote human health and environmental sustainability
Musketeer — Help anywhere, anytime. Musketeer enables personal safety, alerting people close by and emergency services that someone needs help. In addition, it builds real life communities and promotes proactive safety by allowing people to ask for assistance, such as having someone walk them to their car because it's night and they don't want to bealone. All for free.Musketeer is the first social network dedicated to personal safety. By leveraging 21st century technology (crowdsourcing, cloud, and mobile) Musketeer enables users to seek assistance from people around them in case of distress. The system also provides safety related information in real-time and in aggregate for smarter Region/City management.

For the last 10 years, I have been active within the Israeli and US startup ecosystems where I completed 20+ seed investments in companies such as Geoforce (acquired by LLR), Bonobo (acquired by Salesforce), Optitex (acquired by Efi), Keeprz (acquired by Como), Drippler (acquired by Soluto), Snyk (Unicorn) and few others. I am passionate for seedinvestments, creative ideas, risk taking and supporting entrepreneurs.Prior to that, I founded 2 companies, Blue Sky (Energy) and Sinusafe (Medical) after working as a software engineer for 7 years.I grew up in Israel, and lived in the US for 5 years while completing my MBA from Duke. I love all kinds of extreme sports, and particularly kite surfing and snowboarding.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Laxis — Learn how UX designers, product managers, market research, consultants, and attorneys use conversation Intelligence to supercharge their business and increase revenue. Learn more.
Deci AI — Deci enables deep learning to live up to its true potential by using AI to build better AI. With the company’s end-to-end deep learning acceleration platform, AI developers can build, optimize, and deploy faster and more accurate models for any environment, including cloud, edge or mobile. With Deci’s platform, developers can increase deeplearning model inference performance by 3x-15x, on any hardware, while still preserving accuracy. This translates directly into new use cases on limited hardware, substantially shorter development cycles, and reduced compute costs by up to 80%. The platform is powered by Deci’s Automated Neural Architecture Construction (AutoNAC) technology, an algorithmic optimization engine that squeezes maximum utilization out of any hardware. The AutoNAC engine contains a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) component that redesigns a given trained model’s architecture to optimally improve its inference performance (throughput, latency, memory, etc.) for specific target hardware while preserving its baseline accuracy. Deci achieved a record-breaking 11.8x accelerated inference speedup on Intel CPUs at MLPerf Industry Benchmark and has been named to the CBInsights top 100 AI companies. Led by a team of world-class deep learning experts, Deci lets AI developers focus on what they do best - creating innovative AI-based solutions for our world’s most complex problems.
Velocity — Accelerate the way you build and deliver products. Spin up fully isolated, production-like environments in seconds. Work with your existing dev toolbox.

Ömer Aras

Investment focus

Retail, Biopharma, Marketing
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

LIVAD Technologies — LIVAD develops cutting edge Livestream Advertising products connecting brands with streamers. Our technology enables brands to serve smart, elegant, and non-intrusive ads while allowing streamers of all sizes to monetize their content consistently.
Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech pioneers the integration of DNA & RNA sequencing data with AI for rare disease diagnostics. We offer the first RNA-based diagnostic support tool.

Howard Morgan is currently the Chairman of B Capital. He co-founded First Round Capital with Josh Kopelman as the first professional Seed Stage Fund, where he remains Senior Advisor. Prior to First Round, Howard helped found Idealab with Bill Gross, and served as President of Renaissance Technologies, which he co-founded with Jim Simons. Prior tohis move into the business of technology, Howard served as a professor at the Wharton School and the Moore School, both at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as at Cornell University. He is also an Executive Fellow at UC Berkeley. Howard’s research on user interface technology and the optimization of computer networks was critical to bringing the ARPAnet to Philadelphia in the 1970s. Through this early internet participation, he helped corporate and government agencies use technology to improve the efficiency of both large and small organizations. He also has deep experience with very large databases, and served as the first Editor of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems Journal. Throughout his career, Howard has sought out great people and nurtured them so that they could realize their dreams. His mentees have included both PhD students researching a key topic, and early stage entrepreneurs building companies and taking them from seed stage through initial public offerings. He currently serves as a Director of Idealab, and he is on the board of several non-profits including Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories and Math For America. He has also served on a number of public company Boards, including Franklin Electronic Publishers and Internet Brands, Inc. He was CEO of Kentek and Franklin during various turnover or transitional periods and in 1997 he was named Delaware Valley Entrepreneur of the Year. Howard is a respected author and a frequent speaker at major industry conferences. Howard received a PhD in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1968, and a BS in Physics from City College of the City University of New York in 1965.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

Aktivate — Aktivate provides a SaaS based tecnology platform for K-12 schools to manage and fund scholastic sports. The system features administration and engagement tools to bring together student-athletes, their families, schools, and valued partners.
NeuroKaire — Genetika+ is revolutionzing depression treatment. Using biological, medical and genetic data, GenetikaPlus develops personalized solution for every patient to help them recover better, faster.
HATCH — HATCH is the first of its kind Giving Intelligence Platform. An AI-powered portal for Fundraisers, Marketers and Volunteers to streamline and Maximize their impact. A new home for a new world of giving!

Shimon Eckhouse

Investment focus

Medical, Biotechnology, Fitness
Seed, Funding Round
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Theranica — Theranica is a medical device company that has combined neuromodulation therapy with modern wireless technology to develop proprietary wearable solutions that address various medical conditions and disease states. The noninvasive and therapeutic 'smart' patches are controlled by a smartphone app to allow for personalized, portable, andaffordable care. The patch consists of a proprietary 'smart' chip that delivers electrical pulses to neuro-modulate the sensory nerves under the skin. The first application of the technology is for treatment of migraine headaches.
Epitomee Medical — Epitomee develops paradigm-shifting ingestibledevices that deploy targeted therapies along the GI tract

Ahmed Abdelhamid is Partner at Endure Capital. He attended Vlerick Business School.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Biopharma, Life Science
Seed, Convertible Note
Egypt, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing R&D services to the region's scientific sectors.
Wright Electric — Wright Electric, Inc. is building technologies for large commercial airplanes. The company is currently developing their flagship Airplane, the Wright 1, which will be a 186-seat single aisle airliner with an 800 mile range. The company hopes to achieve entry to service for the Wright 1 by 2030 and is working with commercial airlines includingeasyJet and VivaAerobus. In addition to the newly announced U.S. DOE’s ARPA-E funding, the company is funded by Y Combinator, the Clean Energy Trust and venture funds.

Okan co-founded Wordego and as CEO leads the company’s strategic, executive and managerial efforts. His executive management experience includes working as a Business Development Manager for French Chamber of Commerce, CEO for Imerys Minerals, CEO for Esen Minerals, and CEO for Steno Energy. Okan holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering fromGalatasaray University, an MBA from Sorbonne University and a PhD degree in Finance & Banking from Kadir Has University.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, AgTech, Ad Exchange
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.
MD Research & Development — MD Research & Development are into research and development of innovative products and methods needed in the field of radiation oncology.

Hale Umul

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Local, AgTech
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

LOKI — LOKI is a cloud-based secure network platform that can be managed without any technical knowledge.The company enables companies to manage and secure their networks by changing how they interact with cybersecurity products. LOKI platform offers a cloud-based secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that automatically scansand protects all network traffic from threats.
Bak-Tek — Bak-Tek is a technology company that produces bioguy, biosea, bioguy enzyme plus, bioguy tabs, and refresher. They stand for sustainable, unique environmental solutions using the trademarked biological technologies to decrease the stress factors caused by increasing population and industrialization. The company creates bioengineered goods andsolutions for the sustainable use of natural resources.
Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.

Naci Topçuoğlu is a Chairman of Istcapital. He previously worked as Vice President at Kasmir Hali.

Investment focus

Retail, Analytics, Biopharma
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Vispera — Drive your retail execution to perfection with Vispera image recognition technologies and intelligent retail solutions.
TeaTechs — Web & mobile based 'Smart Solutions' specific to each sector.
PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech pioneers the integration of DNA & RNA sequencing data with AI for rare disease diagnostics. We offer the first RNA-based diagnostic support tool.

Nalan Uysal

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Biotechnology
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
Diici — Diici is a digital entrepreneurship ecosystem guide.
MD Research & Development — MD Research & Development are into research and development of innovative products and methods needed in the field of radiation oncology.

Temel Güzeloğlu

Investment focus

Biopharma, Biotechnology
Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech pioneers the integration of DNA & RNA sequencing data with AI for rare disease diagnostics. We offer the first RNA-based diagnostic support tool.

Mr. Yehuda Zisapel (EE,MSc, MBA, DHC) is the founder and president of the RAD-Bynet Group, a leading pioneering association of Israeli companies active in the development, production and marketing of innovative solutions for the data communications industry, and Chairman of RAD. The RAD-Bynet Group grew out of Bynet Data Communications, whichMr. Zisapel founded in 1975 as a small private company that marketed data communications products. Bynet represented major international vendors and was the first to introduce cutting-edge technologies into the Israeli market. Today, the Bynet Group is comprised of eight companies active in both the Israeli and Eastern European markets in such fields as systems integration, cabling, testing, outsourcing, and software development. Following the arrival of Mr. Zisapel’s brother, Zohar, who joined him in 1981, a wide range of industrial activity was spawned from within the newly established RAD, the first of the RAD Group companies. In the years following its successful launch, twenty-four additional independent hi-tech companies were opened to develop, produce and market a wide variety of advanced data communications products.

Investment focus

Medical Device, Medical, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Carteav — Autonomous Low Speed Vehicle
Rewire — Secure financial services designed to help migrants make cross-border money transfers. Rewire offers great rates, fast delivery, multilingual customer support
Laminate Medical — Laminate Medical Technologies is developing a new, external support device for AV fistulas, to be implanted during the fistula creation surgical procedure. The VasQ Device alleviates wall tension and regulates fistula geometry where an undesired narrowing of the vein and/or frequent blockages of the blood vessels may occur during the firstyear. Use of Laminate Medical Technology’s novel device aims to drive a change in the hemodialysis vascular access treatment paradigm and bring about a significant reduction in the annual fistula failure rate, thereby reducing kidney-failure related complications, re-interventions, and the cost burden of vascular access complications.

I am a business professional since 2008 and a financial investor since 2015, having strategic positions in several scale-up tech companies/startups and real-estate assets. I continue to invest in the tech domain with a focus on SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C markets, and real estate options in developing markets with ROI targets.Grow inEMEA, the company I started in 2015, focuses on East Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East markets mostly for tech and real estate options and portfolio management. Also, my team provides market access services to Baltics, Turkey, and UAE / Saudi and gives investment advisory services.Prior to the investment focus, I worked in Linkedin EMEA Headquarter where I hold Director of Turkish Speaking Territory in Dublin, Ireland. Before, I have been with SAP AG and IBM in Turkey. I also give speeches at local and global investment events. I gave keynotes on ARAB NET in Lebanon, IT Arena in Ukraine, Rise Up Summit in Egypt, and NEXT in Germany. I also spoke at several closed corporate events of Roche, VESTEL, SAP AG, DenizBank, Turkish Economy Ministry, Turkish Exporters Assembly, Bakioğlu Holding, and AGT.Now, I am living in Tallinn, Estonia.Email: alib@growinemea.com Web: https://alibabaoglan.com Photos: https://gie.investments/my-photos

Investment focus

TV, CRM, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

Zohar Zisapel

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Information Technology, Security
Series A, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cylus — Cylus, the global leader in rail cybersecurity, helps rail, freight and metro companies avoid service disruption and safety incidents by detecting cyber-attacks in their signaling and control networks, wayside and onboard, before harm happens.
Nucleix — OUR TESTS AIM TO DETECT CANCER EARLIER - WHEN TREATMENT CAN BE MOST EFFECTIVE FOR PATIENTS OUR PRODUCTS
Hailo — Hailo have developed the best performing AI processors for edge devices. Our AI accelerator chips are used for Smart City & Homes, machine learning, automotive AI, retail AI and smart factory Industry 4.0 solutions.

Arie Abecassis is the Co-Founder at ICONYC labs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Balloon — Enabling insights to move freely.
Myndlift — Myndlift offers a therapist-guided home neurofeedback solution for mental health, using mobile and wearable technology. Home users enjoy accessible and affordable training while neuro-therapists can grow their practices with remote supervision.
Seamless.AI — The #1 rated sales tool for B2B direct dials, mobile numbers, and emails. Over 300,000+ Sales Execs Use Seamless.AI To Generate Their Sales Leads.

Moshe Yanai has been instrumental in the development of some of the most advanced and successful storage technologies in the history of the industry. Mr. Yanai began his career in the 1970s, building IBM-compatible mainframe storage based on minicomputer disks. He went on to develop high-end storage systems for Nixdorf, and in the late 1980s,joined EMC, leading the team that developed Symmetrix (today’s “DMX series”). As Vice President of EMC’s Symmetrix group, Mr. Yanai was responsible for design and development of all hardware and software products for EMC’s industry-leading enterprise storage systems. Based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, EMC’s Symmetrix group grew from only one employee in 1987 to more than 3500 under his leadership. Mr. Yanai graduated in 1975 from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology with a Bsc in Electrical Engineering. He holds over 40 patents for various innovative storage hardware and software-related technologies.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Data Storage, Medical
Seed, Series B, Series D
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Infinidat — Infinidat's enterprise storage solutions offer the performance, flexibility and reliability necessary to support today's data intensive enterprises.
Sight Diagnostics — Combining AI and breakthrough hardware to bring lab-quality CBC results to the doctor's office.
Quris — Quris Technologies is an artificial intelligence (AI) innovator disrupting the pharmaceutical arena.

Ebru Dorman

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Fitness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
Turkey, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Teleporter — California and Istanbul based VR gaming company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of VR medium and creating high-quality experiences that redefine social interaction and gaming.
Genz Biotech — Genz is a biotech research & development company, developing novel diagnostic solutions for complex diseases, like cancer, coronavirus pandemic. Genz provides solutions for medical centers and/or end-users in cooperation with genetic disease and diagnostic centers. To date, Genz received 4 R&D grants and approval by Turkish Ministryof Health for 3 genetic tests.
Thread In Motion — Looking for wearables to digitize your operations? Hands-free and ergonomic new generation smart gloves are here to help you reduce cost and risks.

Dov Moran is the Managing Partner of Grove Ventures. He previously worked at modu as the Founder, Chairman, and CEO. Dov Moran attended Technion.

Investment focus

Semiconductor, Hardware, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rapid — RapidAPI is an API Hub that enables over 3 million developers to find, manage, and connect to APIs. RapidAPI lets developers manage all API integrations from one place and gives real-time performance metrics. RapidAPI was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Triple Jump Medical — Triple Jump Medical is a developer of an insulin pump intended to treat diabetic patients.
Sensible Medical Innovations — Sensible Medical Innovation Ltd. is introducing a breakthrough sensing and monitoring technology providing actionable and accurate data for guiding the management and treatment of several chronic medical conditions representing today’s biggest burden on US and worldwide healthcare budgets.

Sena Nomak is the Co-Founder and COO at RS Research.

Investment focus

Biopharma, Biotechnology
Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech pioneers the integration of DNA & RNA sequencing data with AI for rare disease diagnostics. We offer the first RNA-based diagnostic support tool.

Henry Soesanto serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Monde Nissin Corporation.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic Food
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Singapore, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Haofood — The popularity of plant-based meat is rapidly growing in China; in 2020, 39% of the population were attempting to reduce their meat consumption, and 65% of them were willing to try plant-based meat to help them in this. However, many are dissatisfied with the plant-based meat options in China; Haofood’s founders discovered that this was because ofthe tofu-like quality of products currently available in the market. On top of that, often flexitarians and vegetarians struggle with craving comfort foods. Being the most consumed meat in the world, chicken products, such as fried chicken, are a comfort food to and missed by countless first-time vegetarians.Haofood offers a solution to these problems with its realistically textured and healthy plant-based chicken. They are the first company in the world to use peanut protein as their base, taking advantage of its potential for a strong and elastic texture. Led by a founding team of senior professionals from the food industry, who, together, hold a well-rounded skill set ranging from entrepreneurship to food technology, Haofood uses its own proprietary extrusion technology and formulation to create affordable, delicious plant-based chicken made from sustainable, non-GMO peanuts.
WTH Foods — WTH Foods is a plant-based alternative protein company based in Manila, Philippines. Using local and sustainable ingredients, we create plant-based versions of processed meat products that Southeast Asian love
Shiok Meats — Delicious, healthy & cell-based seafood from Shiok Meats. Get variety of cultivated meat, cultivated seafood, cell cultured meat & Lab Meats in Singapore.

I am a business professional since 2008 and a financial investor since 2015, having strategic positions in several scale-up tech companies/startups and real-estate assets. I continue to invest in the tech domain with a focus on SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C markets, and real estate options in developing markets with ROI targets.Grow inEMEA, the company I started in 2015, focuses on East Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East markets mostly for tech and real estate options and portfolio management. Also, my team provides market access services to Baltics, Turkey, and UAE / Saudi and gives investment advisory services.Prior to the investment focus, I worked in Linkedin EMEA Headquarter where I hold Director of Turkish Speaking Territory in Dublin, Ireland. Before, I have been with SAP AG and IBM in Turkey. I also give speeches at local and global investment events. I gave keynotes on ARAB NET in Lebanon, IT Arena in Ukraine, Rise Up Summit in Egypt, and NEXT in Germany. I also spoke at several closed corporate events of Roche, VESTEL, SAP AG, DenizBank, Turkish Economy Ministry, Turkish Exporters Assembly, Bakioğlu Holding, and AGT.Now, I am living in Tallinn, Estonia.Email: alib@growinemea.com Web: https://alibabaoglan.com Photos: https://gie.investments/my-photos

Investment focus

TV, CRM, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

Marius Nacht, one of Check Point’s founders, has served as Chairman of our board of directors since 2015. Nacht has also served as one of our directors since we were incorporated in 1993. From 1999 through 2005, Nacht held Senior Vice President roles at Check Point. Nacht earned a B.S. (cum laude) in Physics and Mathematics from the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem in 1983, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Communication Systems from Tel Aviv University in 1987.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Health Care
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Israel, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
Wisdo Health — Wisdo is an AI-powered Social Health platform harnessing the power of data and meaningful connections to improve health.
WaveBL — WAVE BL lets you digitally issue, transfer, sign, endorse and surrender trade documents while cutting costs and eliminating fraud.

Amnon Shashua is the Chairman and Co Founder of Mentee Robotics. He previously worked at Intel Corporation as a Senior Vice President. Amnon Shashua attended Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Natural Language Processing
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

AI21 Labs — AI21 Labs is an AI lab & product company whose mission is to reimagine the way we read and write by making the machine a thought partner to humans.
Zeekr — Explore the premium, intelligent, pure electric vehicles brand, Zeekr. Check out the Zeekr electric vehicles with cutting-edge design and world-leading technology.
ONE ZERO — FDB is Israel's first digital bank to incorporate artificial intelligence.

Bradley M. Bloom is the Managing Director at Berkshire Partners.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage, Sports
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Perch — Perch brings velocity based training into the 21st century. No strings. No wearables. Learn more about how Perch enables VBT and weight room technology!
Diagnostic Robotics — Diagnostic Robotic develops a signal-agnostic artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. It allows to build powerful predictive analytics models that will solve a world-wide challenge, strained health budgets, and workforces. Diagnostic Robotic was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
AUI (Augmented Intelligence) — Apollo is a groundbreaking language model that combines the best of generative and rule-based AI to create agents that can be tailored to any business.

Ole T. Jensen

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical Device
Funding Round
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Nobio — NobioTM developed game-changing technology with the goal to prevent medical device contamination indefinitely, as the first and only fully-integrated anti-biofilm solution. The technology core consists of extremely potent particles which are covered with a high concentration of highly-active anti-microbial structures that kill bacteria uponcontact. The NobioTM particles can be permanently embedded in many products and materials to inhibit formation of biofilm, indefinitely.

Ahmet Ramiz

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Biotechnology
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Cellestetix — Cellestetix is a biotech company that specializes in developing and commercializing plant-based exosome formulas for regenerating skin, hair, and wellness.

Judith Richter

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Virtual Reality
Seed, Series C
Israel

Portfolio highlights

RealView Imaging — RealView Imaging is pioneering the field of interactive live holography, creating a new dimension for Augmented Reality applications.
Quris — Quris Technologies is an artificial intelligence (AI) innovator disrupting the pharmaceutical arena.

Ali Emre, Arthur Andersen Turkey and NCR PDR Group founded in 1989, after working in Turkey. Initially tmı of Turkey's leading training and consulting firm founded by then Ali Emre group as its licensors, and is positioned as a first in its field.PDR Group, as organic and strategic partnerships, Turkey buying in and out and / orinorganic mergers road widened, and after some changes and additions, each continues to operate as a synergistic companies that carry out training and consultancy activities in their area.Ali Emre; He works on the advisory boards of different companies, and in his studies with stakeholders who aim to grow their business and take them to the next level, focusing on growth, increasing efficiency and competitive advantage, advises institutions on achieving results.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical Device
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

MD Research & Development — MD Research & Development are into research and development of innovative products and methods needed in the field of radiation oncology.

Emine Erdem

Investment focus

Biopharma, Biotechnology
Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech pioneers the integration of DNA & RNA sequencing data with AI for rare disease diagnostics. We offer the first RNA-based diagnostic support tool.

Dr. Ron Sabar, founder and CMO of Sabar Health.

Investment focus

Health Care, Bioinformatics, Personal Health
Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Identifai-genetics — Revolutionizing prenatal diagnosis

Erman Turan is an investor at Ekmob.

Investment focus

CRM, Apps, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
Vagustim — Enhance your well-being with Vagustim, a smart, data-driven, and customized vagus nerve stimulator designed for non-invasive auricular stimulation. Bluetooth-compatible and paired with iOS/Android, it adapts to your needs for optimized results. Experience personalized health innovation at Vagustim Health.
Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.

Jeffrey Berman is a General Partner at Camber Creek.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Mobile, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

AlphaFlow — AlphaFlow is a tech-driven investment company providing professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors. They work with the residential real estate lenders around the country and underwrite their loans across 50+ factors. AlphaFlow invests in the best deals, splitting our clients’ portfolios across 75-100 loansinto15+ states to create AlphaFlow Optimized Portfolios. They took the best practices of investment management, like diversification, rebalancing, and institutional-quality data analytics, and automated them so that investors could receive these benefits without the high fees and high minimums of traditional real estate investing. It is ultimately a simpler, more intelligent way to invest in real estate.AlphaFlow was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Grability — Grability envisions a world where shopping is easy, fun, and on-the-go. With our uniquely intuitive design, Grability provides the tools for retailers to embrace and monetize mobile. Grability partners with leading retailers around the world to create mobile stores that provide value in the form of dramatic increase in sales and new revenuestreams in the form of non-obtrusive, high quality mobile advertisement.
LoftSmart — LoftSmart helps young people discover and lease local rentals with transparency, ease, and simplicity.

Ariel Yaar - VP Research and Development @ Readz

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, CRM
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GearEye — Gear Eye: the ultimate tracking solution for your gear. Manage and locate your equipment tagged with battery-free RFID tags and stickers. Never lose your items.
DermaDetect — DermaDetect was co-founded a year ago by four experienced entrepreneurs and is clinically led by Prof. Arieh Ingber, former head of department of dermatology in Hadassa Medical Center in Israel, a world-renowned dermatologist.We've developed a diagnostics & treatment tool/app (Apple, Android, Web), which enables healthcareprofessionals and patients to self-triage & manage skin disorders. The underlying technology is based on the combination of two approaches: dermatological rule base inference & image analysis using machine learning.We’re in a progress of a pilot-study to validate the effectiveness of our technology within the Israeli Health system, which is world’s best sandbox for such a study.Funded by two angel investors, eHealth Ventures [and their partners: Maccabi Healthcare Services in Israel (second biggest HMO in Israel), the Cleveland Clinic (the second largest healthcare provider in the US), Amgen], and supported by the Israel Innovation Authority.
BioChange Ltd. — BioChange has developed a breakthrough technology for tissue regeneration.

Ozlem Petek Hun

Investment focus

Film, Software, Biotechnology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
Materix — Materix is a nanotechnology company collaborating with industry and academia to develop commercializable materials. The company uses thin films for surface properties, providing hydrophobic, photocatalytic, protection, and antibacterial functions.
Octo — Octo Networks build app for connecting the communities.

Berkay Mollamustafaoglu is the Co-Founder & CEO at OpsGenie. Prior to OpsGenie, Berkay was the CEO of iFountain, and held roles at several technology and consulting companies including Netuitive, Smarts, Ernst & Young, and Predictive Systems. Berkay holds a degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from METU.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Baby
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Invidyo — Invidyo is a baby tech company that combines hardware, software, and deep data analysis to help parents track a child’s development.
Vanemar — Explore Vanemar's advanced boat monitoring system: easy-to-install wireless sensors, real-time GPS tracking, and reliable high water and intrusion alarms for ultimate boat security, anytime, anywhere.
KuartisMED — KuartisMED is a biomedical company developing innovative products for healthcare and the well-being of newborns and preterms.

Eren N. Sarıkaya

Investment focus

Medical, Robotics, Biotechnology
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Vexnor Technology — Biomimetic Actuators, Wearable Robotics, Exoskeleton Technology, Artificial Muscles, Human-Machine Integration, Assistive Robotics, Industrial Ergonomics, Electromechanical Systems, HealthTech, DeepTech, Biomechanics, Robotics R&D, MedTech

Dr. Cabilly is a highly regarded scientist, an investor and an experienced Board Member of several companies. He is currently a Board Member of Medasense Biometrics Ltd. He previously worked for several companies including as the Co-Founder and a Chief Scientist of Ethrog Biotechnology which was sold to Invitrogen. Dr. Cabilly graduated fromthe Hebrew University (Ph.D., Immunology), and was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the City of Hope Research Institute heading a joint City of Hope/Genentech project where he developed a new technology for recombinant antibody production. This invention was patented in world patents “The old Cabilly” and “The New Cabilly patent”. Today there are already 20 drugs in the market based on this technology among which are Herceptin, Rituxan, Traceba, Raptiva, Xolair and more.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Treato — Treato automatically collects the massive amount of patient-written health experiences from blogs and forums and, with advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP), extracts relevant information, connects the dots and creates the big picture of what people say about their medications and conditions.Treato's big data analytics are availablein a consumer site and as an in-depth service for pharmaceutical marketers.Treato's Consumer site (
DiA Imaging Analysis — DiA is the leading provider of FDA cleared and CE marked ultrasound AI solutions that make the use and analysis of ultrasound images smarter, faster and accessible to all. Our solutions address the main challenges ultrasound users face - manually capturing and visually analyzing ultrasound images.
Raziel Health — Raziel Health’s mission is to bring world-class, disruptively less expensive healthcare to everyone, in the comfort of their home. Its unique, integrated system combines easy-to-use technologies that support positive patient experience, enable timely clinical intervention, and meet individual patient goals while using data analytics to supportwellness and disease management.

Münteha Adalı is an angel investor.

Investment focus

AgTech, Baby, Farming
Seed, Grant
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Ingosa — Power your customer experience and boost your sales with intelligent virtual assistants and conversational display ads with Ingosa!
Vahaa — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.

Huseyin Karayagiz

Investment focus

Software, AgTech, Battery
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
Vahaa — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
Batron Energy — Batron is an Energy Electronics Company that offers services in the field of smart Energy Management and Li-Ion Storage Systems.

Volkan Onguc co-founded TRAngels Angel Investment Network. He is Omni-Channel Sales Strategy Director at PepsiCo, Turkey. During 15 years of corporate experience, he has successfully managed teams in Trade Marketing, Insight, Revenue Management, and Business development at FMCG and cosmetics companies like PepsiCo & L'Oreal.

Investment focus

Apps, Delivery Service, Food and Beverage
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
Bak-Tek — Bak-Tek is a technology company that produces bioguy, biosea, bioguy enzyme plus, bioguy tabs, and refresher. They stand for sustainable, unique environmental solutions using the trademarked biological technologies to decrease the stress factors caused by increasing population and industrialization. The company creates bioengineered goods andsolutions for the sustainable use of natural resources.

Mehmet Sacit Sungu

Investment focus

Information Technology, Apps, Local
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
Diici — Diici is a digital entrepreneurship ecosystem guide.
eTasin — https://etasin.com

Tech investor, startup mentor and founder of Hackquarters Startup Accelerator. He is involved with corporate accelerator programs.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

Bak-Tek — Bak-Tek is a technology company that produces bioguy, biosea, bioguy enzyme plus, bioguy tabs, and refresher. They stand for sustainable, unique environmental solutions using the trademarked biological technologies to decrease the stress factors caused by increasing population and industrialization. The company creates bioengineered goods andsolutions for the sustainable use of natural resources.

Demir Karaaslan is a private investor.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Sustainability, Natural Resources
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Bak-Tek — Bak-Tek is a technology company that produces bioguy, biosea, bioguy enzyme plus, bioguy tabs, and refresher. They stand for sustainable, unique environmental solutions using the trademarked biological technologies to decrease the stress factors caused by increasing population and industrialization. The company creates bioengineered goods andsolutions for the sustainable use of natural resources.
Dusyeri — Dusyeri is an edutainment platform that focuses on children.

Yalin is a member of the Investor Relations and Fundraising team, responsible for Cinven's Limited Partners in EMEA. At Cinven, he has also worked on a number of transactions, including Allegro and Pronet. Prior to joining Cinven, Yalin spent eight years with J.P. Morgan Partners, in New York and London, completing a number of buyout, growthequity, and venture capital investments in a variety of sectors across Western and Eastern Europe. Previously, he was with Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.

Investment focus

Software, AgTech, Energy
Seed
Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Werover — Wind Turbine Blade Health Monitoring System | Werover
ForFarming — Smart Agriculture for a Healthy Future
Plastic Move — Plastic Move engages in the production of bio-based and bio-degradable bioplastics made of waste bread.

Yasemin Mistikoglu

Investment focus

AgTech, Life Science, Biotechnology
Grant
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.

Ozlem Tumer Eke is an angel Investor.

Investment focus

AgTech, Life Science, Biotechnology
Grant
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.

Kobi Richter

Investment focus

Energy, Power Grid, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series C
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Nostromo — Nostromo energy provides ice-based energy storage systems to commercial and industrial buildings, reducing emissions and energy costs and increasing resilience
RealView Imaging — RealView Imaging is pioneering the field of interactive live holography, creating a new dimension for Augmented Reality applications.
Quris — Quris Technologies is an artificial intelligence (AI) innovator disrupting the pharmaceutical arena.

Sedat Eryilmaz is an angel investor based in Turkey.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Daxe Games —
Wastespresso — Companies that generate coffee waste (headquarters, hotels, cafes, offices, restaurants, etc.) regularly perform micro coffee waste management and upcycle these coffee wastes with its sustainable technological infrastructure. After this upcycling, coffee wastes and disposable/reusable cups, straws, flower pots, spoons, etc. various materials such as; both home appliances, white goods, automotive etc. parts for sectors; It also produces bio raw materials for the packaging and plastics industries.