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Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Middle East in September 2025

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Community startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Community companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Middle East in September 2025

Investor Community Middle East investments
Omer Erkmen 5
Ahu Serter 5
Münteha Adalı 4
Joachim Behrendt 4
Eilon Tirosh 4
Deniz Alexandra Duygu 3
Rami Lipman 3
Varol Civil 3
Sina Afra 3
Umur Özal 3
Nevzat Aydın 2
Erinç Özada 2
Ata Uzunhasan 2
Eric Chen 2
Ibrahim Ulukaya 2
Huseyin Karayagiz 2
Volkan Bicer 2
Kaan Boyner 2
Eric Chen 2
Carman Chan 2
Alon Sahar 2
Uri Levine 2
Kushal Shah 2
Mehmet Onarcan 2
Deniz Güvenen 2
Doruk Pala 2
Safa Rashtchy 2
Kivilcim Cayli 2
Aryeh Mergi 1
Ivanka Trump 1
Abdo Achkar 1
İzzet Zakuto 1
Aviv Raiz 1
Jose Marin 1
Berkay Mollamustafaoglu 1
Özgür Ülkü 1
Sefi Visiger 1
Sarper Tanli 1
Ahmet Bilgen 1
Moshe Gaon 1
Semih Hakyemez 1
Caglar Erol 1
Ihsan Elgin 1
İlker Diker 1
Sharon Tal 1
Yair Goldfinger 1
Gamze Cizreli 1
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan 1
Priya Oberoi 1
Yanki Margalit 1
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Omer Erkmen Angel
Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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.
  • WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
  • 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.
Ahu Serter Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Transportation, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, Greece, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Jobtogo — Jobtogo is a freelancer platform that offers solutions to the problems experienced by companies in the supply of talent.
  • Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.
  • Tripy Mobility — Tripy Mobility strives to promote the adoption of electric vehicles while reducing carbon emissions in transportation by increasing the charging station network.
Münteha Adalı Angel
Münteha Adalı is an angel investor.
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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.
Joachim Behrendt Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Scorp — "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views.
  • Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
  • Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
Eilon Tirosh Angel
Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, FinTech, Digital Entertainment
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • zooz — Manage and optimize multiple payment providers through a single platform.
  • Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
  • Thumzap — Thumzap reconnects people in the digital world by making the process of paying for someone else's purchases simple, fun and safe.Sometimes we need or just want someone else to pay for our purchases, either because we don't have a credit card or enough money, or because we're just not that tech-savvy and need some help.Thumzapmakes it easy to send friends and family a request to pay for us. All they have to do is approve the payment and they can pay with their own credit card or paypal account, in just one click. Not only does that make it completely safe and secure, but also familiar. No one has to share a password, set up a digital wallet, or input their credit card information, it’s a simple way to help fulfill a digital request.
Deniz Alexandra Duygu Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Deniz Alexandra Duygu
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Investment focus
  • Baby, Children, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
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Rami Lipman Angel
Rami Lipman is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
  • 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...
Varol Civil Angel
Varol Civil - General Manager @ Türk Ekonomi Bankası
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Investment focus
  • Baby, Cloud Storage, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Dusyeri — Dusyeri is an edutainment platform that focuses on children.
  • KolayBi — KolayBi' is a new generation cloud based bookkeeping and financial application platform with online bank account aggregation for SMEs. People can manage accounting processes, register data, and generate reports by recording its financial records . People can also add bank accounts to the system and convert their payments into a one-clickinvoice. KolayBi' was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Istanbul.
  • Usersdot — Usersdot uses data science and AI solutions to improve customer experience, increase operational efficiency and maximize sales performance
Sina Afra Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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.
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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.
Umur Özal Angel
Umur Özal is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Baby, Rental, Retail
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Kiralarsın — Kiralarsın is a rental service to rent electronic devices.
  • Mutlubiev — A leading online cleaning services platform. It thrives on providing high-quality cleaning solutions and satisfying clients' personal needs.
Nevzat Aydın Angel
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
  • Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
  • A.M.A Selections — Exclusive luxury holiday villa rentals in Europe, Africa & The Caribbean with A.M.A Selections. Some of the best & most luxurious villas to rent in Europe & across The World.
Erinç Özada Angel
Erinç Özada is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Baby, Gaming
  • Seed
  • Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • WeWALK — WeWALK is on a mission to enhance our visually impaired community's safety, independence, and social inclusion through mobility tech.
  • Fomo Games — We are a fast growing mobile game developer based in Istanbul. Our team comprises experienced gaming designers, marketing, data and technology experts as well as successful business builders.
  • Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.
Ata Uzunhasan Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Ata Uzunhasan - Managing Director @ Galata Business Angels
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Baby
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, Italy, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • Juphy — Juphy offers communication platform.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Replenit — Boost retention with smart replenishment & AI-driven repurchases. Automate repeat purchases and grow your store with Replenit.
Eric Chen Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
Eric Chen is a Co-Founder and Partner at OVO Fund. Eric previously worked at Uj Ventures as a Founder. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.Eric Chen is an experienced technology investor focusing on early stage Internet and enterprise IT opportunities in the US and China. Eric started Uj Ventures,an angel fund based in Palo Alto formed to incubate and fund seed stage opportunities. Uj Ventures has made 25 investments in technology startups including Palantir, RoboteX, Kiwi Crate, Context Logic and other promising startups. As a partner with venture capital firm WI Harper for five years, Eric led investments in technology companies that spanned both China and the US including ooma, Laszlo, PMC, and EditGrid. He is currently a Venture Partner with WI Harper and an advisor to Matrix Partners China.Eric has a wide-ranging background and is an entrepreneur in his own right. He co-founded an Internet startup, worked as an executive at a high growth technology company, incubated and launched a double bottom line investment fund in DC and pulled all-nighters on Wall Street as an investment banker.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • t1 (aka t1 protocol) — t1 protocol cross-chain applications and scalability are facilitated by real-time proofs and immediate settlement.
  • BrightCrowd — BrightCrowd digital books help schools, companies, and organizations keep their people connected
  • Cloudastructure — Cloudastructure is the first cloud-based video surveillance platform with AI and computer vision analytics. Learn more about Cloudastructure today!
Ibrahim Ulukaya Angel
Ibrahim Ulukaya
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Gaming, Farming
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Octo — Octo Networks build app for connecting the communities.
  • Wide Game Studio — Wide Game Studio aims to provide people with innovative virtual reality gaming and application experiences that are unmatched. With great enthusiasm and excitement. Wide Game Studio strives to be an innovator in the virtual reality industry by pushing the frontiers of imagination.
Huseyin Karayagiz Angel · Yeniköy, Istanbul, Turkey
Huseyin Karayagiz
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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 Bicer Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Volkan Biçer is the co-founder of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network.Bicer’e employment history includes his time as product manager of Turkcell’s mobile marketing and advertising department, and community manager at Yahoo, Turkey.Bicer holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Boğaziçi University and an MBAfrom Galatasaray University.
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Investment focus
  • Online Games, iOS, Mobile
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, Singapore, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Kidly — Kidly is an online broadcasting application that publishes illustrated and narrated books for kids and young children in the vicinity.
  • 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!
  • Evolution Group — Evolution Group is an operator of mobile advertising services.
Kaan Boyner Angel
Kaan Boyner is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Baby, Children, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Minoto
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Eric Chen Angel · Los Altos, California, United States
Eric Chen is a Co-Founder and Partner at OVO Fund. Eric previously worked at Uj Ventures as a Founder. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.Eric Chen is an experienced technology investor focusing on early stage Internet and enterprise IT opportunities in the US and China. Eric started Uj Ventures,an angel fund based in Palo Alto formed to incubate and fund seed stage opportunities. Uj Ventures has made 25 investments in technology startups including Palantir, RoboteX, Kiwi Crate, Context Logic and other promising startups. As a partner with venture capital firm WI Harper for five years, Eric led investments in technology companies that spanned both China and the US including ooma, Laszlo, PMC, and EditGrid. He is currently a Venture Partner with WI Harper and an advisor to Matrix Partners China.Eric has a wide-ranging background and is an entrepreneur in his own right. He co-founded an Internet startup, worked as an executive at a high growth technology company, incubated and launched a double bottom line investment fund in DC and pulled all-nighters on Wall Street as an investment banker.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • t1 (aka t1 protocol) — t1 protocol cross-chain applications and scalability are facilitated by real-time proofs and immediate settlement.
  • BrightCrowd — BrightCrowd digital books help schools, companies, and organizations keep their people connected
  • Cloudastructure — Cloudastructure is the first cloud-based video surveillance platform with AI and computer vision analytics. Learn more about Cloudastructure today!
Carman Chan Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Carman Chan is one of the top 5 Women to watch in Asia Tech (Nikkei Asian Review). She is a veteran in the technology industry with decades of experience as an entrepreneur with multiple exits, a tech columnist and a globally recognized venture capitalist.Carman is the founder of Click Ventures, a global early stage venture capital firm. ClickVentures has grown into a leading investment manager, and two of its funds are featured as Top 5 Seed Fund (Vintage 2003-2015) in the world and Top 4 Funds to Watch by Preqin respectively. Click Ventures' investments include Spotify (ipo), Docusign(ipo), Palantir, Memebox and Youappi.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Hong Kong, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Oddup — Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks,venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies seeking detailed information and greater clarity in the fragmented and foggy startup sector, the ICO landscape, or the cryptocurrency investment market.Oddup provides comprehensive data and analyses, and exhaustive deep dives of varied ecosystems, sectors, and regions of the world.They also delve into the profiles of thousands of startups to give investors a curated view on their health and potential success in a single score. Additionally, they also provide curated, in-depth analysis of all past, ongoing, and upcoming ICOs, and analysis of active cryptocurrencies.They track and explore hundreds of ICOs and cryptocurrencies to give investors a curated list that simplifies this increasingly preferred fundraising method.
  • EventX — The EventX Virtual Event Platform is a comprehensive platform for hosting virtual events, meetings, conferences, and webinars that help you attract leads and audiences.
  • FutureLeague — FutureLeague is an ed-tech company that teaches kids ages 6-12 engineering and programming with a focus on teamwork, creativity, and design thinking. It specializes in the fields of ed-tech, internet, and education. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Alon Sahar Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Alon Sahar - Partner @ Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Software, Lifestyle
  • Angel, Series A
  • Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Bugatone — Bugatone adds software-only sensors to any earphone
Uri Levine Angel
Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Mobile, Travel
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Engie — Buy Twitch Followers and Buy Twitch Viewers from EngieApp to grow an organic following. Our Twitch followers, viewers are immensely real and authentic. Try Now!
  • SeeTree — SeeTree offers you complete transparency into the health and production of each of your trees by leveraging the most powerful innovations available.
  • WeSki — WeSki allows you to compare endless ski holiday combinations, find the best deals and build your perfect ski holiday package, in just few clicks.
Kushal Shah Angel
Kushal Shah is a Senior Partner at Roland Berger's Dubai office and a Managing Partner for the Middle East. Prior to joining Roland Berger, he spent 12 years with a leading consultancy in London and Dubai. He studied Economics at Cambridge in the UK and he is a certified Chartered Accountant.
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Investment focus
  • eSports, Video, Gaming
  • Seed, Series B
  • Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
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  • YaLLa esports — YaLLa Esports was born out of a passion for gaming shared by friends, which ignited a mission to build a community of gamers with an organized structure in the MENA region, championing the gaming culture and building the perfect environment for professional gamers to flourish. We aim to position ourselves as a supportive hub for gamers of alllevels with a future vision of constructing and managing the very best teams in the region, competing on a global scale and showcasing the Middle Eastern & African talent in the international gaming stratosphere.
Mehmet Onarcan Angel
Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Internet, Social Network
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
  • Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
  • Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
Deniz Güvenen Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey
Deniz Güvenen
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Investment focus
  • Wedding, Events, Big Data
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Bounce Watch — Bounce Watch offers an AI-powered platform that provides actionable insights on startup performance and helps investors optimize scouting process and deal flow management
  • Weddingbouquet.com — DüğünBuketi is a web and special event organization portal that brings wedding firms together to get price quotes. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Izmir, Turkey.
  • KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.
Doruk Pala Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey
Doruk Pala
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Investment focus
  • Wedding, Events, Big Data
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Weddingbouquet.com — DüğünBuketi is a web and special event organization portal that brings wedding firms together to get price quotes. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Izmir, Turkey.
  • KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.
Safa Rashtchy Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
Safa Rashtchy is the founding Managing Partner of Think + Ventures and a a Silicon Valley investor, advisor, and trendspotter. Safa and sits on the boards of several start-ups and global organizations. Safa has been an Investor/Advisor in AppliedBoard, Angellist, Bina Technologies (acq. by Roche) , Uber, OpenGov, Payjoy, Nimble VR (acq. byFacebook), Signifyd, CleverSense (acq. by Google) and many other investments. Overall, Safa has invested in 30 start-ups, with six exists all to public companies. Safa has pioneered the concept of "Consumer Value Proposition" and the Four-Stage Investment Research Model.From 1997 to 2007, Safa was a Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst focused on Internet media and marketing, and the Lead China analyst at Piper Jaffray and Company. He led the firm’s expansion efforts in the Internet industry and its expansion to China, as well as active involvements with leading Web 2.0 companies. Safa’s current investment portfolio consists of companies focused on Digital Health, consumer, media, and technology innovations, with deep attention to the the value proposition for the users.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
  • Snapwire — Snapwire is a platform where talented creators shoot custom visual content for brands and businesses around the world. Simply post a creative brief and top performing creators respond by submitting their best shots. Buyers get unique content that matches their vision, and the creators get paid fairly. Our mission is to enable people with apassion for creativity to thrive doing what they love.
  • Tubi — Tubi is the world’s largest ad-supported video on demand service with over 12,000 movies and television shows from nearly every major Hollywood studio. The service gives fans of films and television programs an easy way to discover new content which is available completely free. Currently available in the US and Canada, Tubi can be accessed througha large number of devices and apps including Samsung televisions, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Comcast’s X1, iOS, and Android.
Kivilcim Cayli Angel
Cayli began his career in 2000 and held various positions for Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, and Turev. Founded and led two healthcare companies (Idea and Invivo) and two consultancy companies (Kanvas and Biovenka).He holds a BSc and an MBA, both from Middle East Technical University (aka ODTU).As a seasoned investor, he has 8personal investments including British, Irish, American, Swedish, and Turkish companies, and serves on the Board of some. He also consults startups on behalf of TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific & Technological Research Council). He is a member of BIC Angels and GAIN Global.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Property Management, Leisure
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Yourkeys — 'Yourkeys is a real-time transactional and data platform for house builders and estate agents selling properties. The platform significantly accelerates the property sales process whilst giving all stakeholders visibility of the transaction in real-time.'
  • Adalethanim — Adalethanim is a legal platform working with AI that analyzes, understands, interprets, and produces results to help with legal research, allowing the person working on the case to save time and access more information about a case. The company's vision is to make justice fast, cheap and accessible to everyone.Adalethanim was founded in 2018and is headquartered in Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Turkey.
  • UnderTheDoormat — UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation.
Aryeh Mergi Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Aryeh Mergi is an and entrepreneur and an angel investor. In his background Aryeh was a co-founder of M-Systems, XtremIO and several other companies Aryeh received a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (with honors) from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel in 1988.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A
  • Israel, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • IO River — A unified layer of security, traffic control & serverless compute services on top of Edge platforms to improve the reliability, performance & cost of online services.
  • Plannie — Mobile first scheduling platform for small businesses
  • FalkorDB — An ultra-low latency Graph Database that perfects the Knowledge Graph for GraphRAG. Effectively overcoming the existing limitations of RAG for Large Language Models (LLM).
Ivanka Trump Angel · New York, New York, United States
Ivanka Trump
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Investment focus
  • Education, Farming, CleanTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Twigtale — Twigtale is the first company to provide parents with personalized, high-quality, accessible expert advice for every major transition a child undergoes, such as welcoming a new baby, moving, even experiencing death or cancer. The personalized stories are scripted by child development experts, then personalized by parents. The books are engaging forkids and a powerful playbooks for parents. Customers are parents, groups, partners & sponsors.
  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
  • University of The Community/ Indigenous Cultural Arts Museum — UNIVERSITY FOR SELF LEARNING
Abdo Achkar Angel · Stanford, California, United States
Abdo Achkar is the Founder & CEO at Sowlutions.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Lebanon, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • GoBEBA — GoBEBA is an on-demand e-commerce logistics platform operating in emerging Africa markets. We bring together local merchants, consumers and logistics service providers to enable efficient discovery and ordering of frequently purchased products and services in one platform. This combination delivers an asset-light convenient, multi-categoryon-demand ordering service for everyday essentials. We do this by aggregating demand for merchants through a curated digital marketplace which connects merchants directly to consumers and logistics service providers in an on-demand basis . GoBeba is an ‘everything’ app’ for a wide range of services including grocery shopping, food delivery, cargo, and many other on-demand services.
  • uPaint — Discover uPaint, premium paint by numbers kits for all ages. We craft all components in-house, ensuring top quality. Customize any image to create your own masterpiece. It's the perfect, thoughtful gift idea that's stress-free and easy for everyone. Experience a relaxing and joyful activity with stunning results.
  • Ur My Type — Ur My Type is an app that uses personality types to make dating and finding friends online more meaningful.
İzzet Zakuto Angel
İzzet Zakuto
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Mobile Apps, Personal Health
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
Aviv Raiz Angel
Aviv Raiz is Member of the Board of Directors at MyHeritage.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Family, Internet
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • MyHeritage — MyHeritage is the global destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history. Our platform and DNA kits make it easy for anyone, anywhere to embark on a meaningful journey into their past and treasure their family stories for generations to come. Our powerful technology does the searching for you, revealing fascinating new detailsabout your family history — effortlessly.The company was founded in 2003 by our CEO – entrepreneur and family historian Gilad Japhet. From a humble garage startup, MyHeritage has grown into a global company with 90 million users across 196 countries.Our 370 employees work out of bright, spacious offices in Israel, North America, and Europe to deliver an exceptional user experience in 42 languages. Guided by our core values of innovation, compassion and diversity, our team undertakes many voluntary community initiatives, using our expertise and technology to reunite families. We are delighted to go the extra mile for our users, offering 24/7 support and striving to create a true sense of community in the world of family history.In October 2013 MyHeritage was named the most promising Israeli start-up for 2013-14 by "Globes" magazine.
Jose Marin Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Brazil, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
  • Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
  • Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.
Berkay Mollamustafaoglu Angel · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
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.
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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.
Özgür Ülkü Angel
Özgür Ülkü
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Farming, Software
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
  • FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
  • 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.
Sefi Visiger Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Sefi Visiger - Founder @ Mirabilis Medical
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Video, Content
  • Series A
  • Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • KnockaTV — "The People Have Taken Over", KnockaTV's slogan, suggests the new and stealthy video company offers a community based video service, possibly a mix between social media site messenger clients, ICQ. It claims it will be a "hyper-interactive" as well as social center for video, with user generated content. Currently, KnockaTV is looking for producers to fill its site with original content. Once full of content, KnockaTV will allow its users will be able to decided what gets played and when.Companies such as
Sarper Tanli Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Sarper brings over 28 years of experience in medical and healthcare management, planning, and development, and operations. He holds a Medical Doctor and a Masters in Healthcare Administration degree from Istanbul University as well as a Ph.D. degree in Healthcare Management from Marmara University. He worked in International divisions of HoustonMethodist Hospital Global and Harvard Medical International in the region during the last 15 years. Dr. Sarper started the first home health and disease management company in Turkey in early 2002. He has held key positions in the development of Dubai Healthcare City.
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Investment focus
  • Women's, mHealth, Health Care
  • Seed
  • United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Nabta Health — Nabta Health provides personalised healthcare to women. Accessible from home, at work, and in a clinic. Holistic and hybrid.
Ahmet Bilgen Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Ahmet Bilgen Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur and angele investor. He lives in Famagusta-North Cyprus. He finished primary school and high School in Famagusta. He has been a very active person all throughout his life, he received a Black Belt II. Dan in TaeKwon-do, played in the local soccer team while studying at Canbulat high school. Ahmet was alsohelping his family with their farming business by selling the produce to shops, making some money in the meanwhile which he used to buy his first bicycle, first ball or his first pair of sneakers. Ahmet graduated with Bsc in Applied Marth and Computer Science from Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 he got his Masters degree in Computer Science. Right after he started his PhD degree in Computer Science but decided to quit academia after his first semester. During his masters and PhD degrees, he took part in developing intelligent user interfaces and inmemory data concepts for mobile devices. After leaving academic life, Ahmet worked in various IT companies for about 2 years and then joined SAP where he had his first professional work experience. Ahmet joined SAP Turkey as the Technology Consultant, and therefore took part in the implementation of more than 100 SAP projects with companies like Yaşar, Koç, Sabancı, Havelsan, Arena etc. as these were the first implementers of SAP ERP in Turkey. During his tenure at SAP, he worked in various roles such as technical consultant, business analyst, project and team manager and architect. Ahmet, after working at SAP for 2 years and getting enough project experience and honing on his technical skils, he decided to set up FIT “Future Information Technology” Solutions together with 3 of his friends in 1999. By the end of 1999 FIT had already made its first million USD revenue. FIT has integrated Turkey’s most important e-commerce platform named “Arena Computer Supplier Portal” with SAP. This was featuted as an international success story by SAP Inside magazine in 2001. FIT Solutions(lately became Foriba) has a lot of experience from completing many software integration projects. Working with the top 250 companies also gives the company the advantage to have a more extensible, scalable, sustainable and supportable product. These experiences and know-how attained over the years put the company in an advantageous position to achieve end-to-end e-invoicing solutions. in 2019 Ahmet Bilgen exited from Foriba. Foriba did: - Series A With Revo Capital - Series B With Revo, IFC, Endeavor Catalyst - Exit
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Investment focus
  • Education, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Topi — Topi is an B2B e-commerce platform for wholesale market.
  • admarket.co — Outdoor,Billboard,Taxi,Bus,Print,sms Advertising,book ad spaces in The USA-admarket
  • Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
Moshe Gaon Angel
Business entrepreneur and investor in startups. For the past 20 years developer of new initiatives and ideas. CEO, Chairman of companies, political strategist and advertising expert. Lead public opinion campaigns for people and issues from breast cancer, to national elections to the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Founding Partner atmybulb.vcOwner of the Gaon Holding Group; Executive Director in the group's companies, focusing on development and marketing products and services for the global Water Smart Grid. Member of the AquaAgro Fund Investment committee, a 50 Million dollar Israeli Venture Capital Fund, focused only on developing innovative water and agriculture technologies, as well as other innovative clean technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Advertising, Association, Social Media Marketing
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Apester — Supercharge your marketing and funnel with interactive content experiences that generate more leads, engage and convert users, and boost retention
  • Yoocan — Yoocan is a global community for people with disabilities and their families, discover empowering stories, find support, and connect with a world that understands you.
  • IndieFlow — IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. The platform provides a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage creative projects, distribute to streaming platforms, collect roylaties, register music with royaltycollection societies, promote music, book gigs, receive payments and more.
Semih Hakyemez Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Enabling to democratize the education with bringing the miracles of technology, I am helping the sponsors of tomorrow to utilize their knowledge on their way to become more innovative and entrepreneurial than ever before. Also, I am a firm believer of equal opportunity principle in regards to education and since the very first days of DopingTechnology my work has proven to create opportunities for the next generations.
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Investment focus
  • Toys, PC Games, Online Games
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Gamester — Gamester is a social gaming company located in Istanbul, Turkey. It develops and markets social games focusing on social interaction, playability and entertainment.Founded in 2009, Gamester provides users with free-to-play accessibility across a variety of social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google + and more. Hordemaster, Baldety,Oynaturka and Townster are some of the games developed by Gamester.Onur Karci, TurhanYigitbasi and Volkan Taban are the co-founders of Gamester.
  • Tiny Minies — Tiny Minies is an educational software that creates educational and learning games for preschoolers and children aged two to six.
  • Gamester Kids — Gamester's goal is to assist parents in giving their kids access to safe and instructive media so they can get the most out of their screen time. Their products are designed for families to play together every day to create, connect, and develop.
Caglar Erol Angel
Caglar Erol is the co-founder of cember.net, a Turkish online business networking platform acquired by XING AG in January 2008.Erol is an angel investor and serial entrepreneur in Turkey. His first investment after cember.net was doktorsitesi.com, a health site in Turkey. He also invested in Tasit.com, Gelirortaklari affiliate network, andCivicSolar.Erol currently serves as the co-founder and CEO of Enuygun.com, a service comparison site on bank loans, insurance, flight tickets, ADSL, and mobile phone tariffs.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Travel, Fashion
  • Seed, Angel
  • Jordan, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • MarkaVIP — Markavıp is an exclusive, invitation-only online shopping community focused on the Middle Eastern market. The website specializes in offering flash sales to its customers.Markavıp was founded by Ahmed Alkhatib, who previously spent 12 years in Silicon Valley working in the e-commerce industry. The website enjoys memberships from over 3 millionexclusive members across eight Arabic speaking countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Oman.
  • Wingie Enuygun Group — Wingie Enuygun Group is a technology company helping modern consumers save time and money, mostly in travel, but in insurance and financial products too. Located in Istanbul and Berlin, WEG currently serves customers in 6 languages, 10 countries.
Ihsan Elgin Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Ihsan Elgin is the Co-Founder of Startups.Watch. He was a Co-Founder and Executive VP, EMEA at ClimateMinder. He attended Koç University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
  • 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!
  • Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
İlker Diker Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
İlker Diker - Co-Founder - CPO @ Papara
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Investment focus
  • Art
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
  • Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
Sharon Tal Angel
Sharon Tal
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Investment focus
  • Pet, Apps, Gamification
  • Seed
  • Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Treat — Play and send them real items, know once they find a home
Yair Goldfinger Angel
Yair Goldfinger is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AppCard. He was an Investor / Advisor to Board at Volicon. He attended Tel Aviv University.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Mobile, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Israel, Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
  • ZELF — Zelf is a neobank targeting Gen Z to bring financial services to where they live – in messengers. This is the lightest bank with the easiest onboarding process taking up to 60 sec to issue a card, receive and send money without leaving the messenger. We are uniquely offering AI-powered voice control over the most of financial operations, whichmakes us first voice-enabled banking for Gen Z who prefers voice interactions with their devices.
  • Joyned — Joyned is a SaaS platform empowering retailers to provide social shopping experiences directly to their consumers rather than through third-party social platforms. It was created to disrupt the online shopping world and give retailers unparalleled control over their users’ social experiences. This kind of collaborative shopping enables corporateretailers to both optimize their websites’ conversion rates and provide better user experiences.Joyned’s plug-in not only optimizes websites’ conversion rates, but also attracts high quality traffic and increases AOV by giving users the option to invite their peers to edit and comment on their wish lists without having to abandon their online shopping carts. Joyned can be deployed to any platform or website with ease. For retailers, Joyned’s technology is easy to use and does not alter the code and site UX. Joyned is GDPR compliant and doesn’t hold any personally identifiable information.
  • Velvet AutoInvest — The AutoInvest platform that even beginners can use to automatically invest – just like a hedge fund or bank. Velvet offers access to powerful trading algorithms based on artificial intelligence at institutional level on one platform. As an individual, you can now invest automatically!
Gamze Cizreli Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Gamze Cizreli is the Founder & CEO at BigChefs.
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Investment focus
  • Q&A, Internet, Social Media
  • Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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
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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.
Priya Oberoi Angel
Priya Oberoi Founding Partner at Oberoi Capital Partners, Entrepreneur and Angel Investor.
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Investment focus
  • Women's, mHealth, Software
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Anya — NHS-trusted healthcare support with 24/7 expert guidance, innovative tools, employee benefits, and trusted healthcare partnerships worldwide.
  • Nabta Health — Nabta Health provides personalised healthcare to women. Accessible from home, at work, and in a clinic. Holistic and hybrid.
Yanki Margalit Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Yanki Margalit is an Israeli entrepreneur, investor, and speaker best known for starting the Internet security company Aladdin Knowledge Systems, which was sold in 2009. He is a partner in the seed investment fund Innodo Ventures and a chairman of several technology startup companies, including SpaceIL. SpaceIL is a non-profit space technologyorganization that plans to land an unmanned spaceship on the moon by 2015 and is currently competing for the Google Lunar X Prize.Yanki is also engaged with several non-profit organizations, including Idealist.org, Latet, College4all.org, Meet.mit.edu, Adama.org.il, and SpaceIL.com He has appeared as a professional speaker on technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, and human evolution, while studying and working in his more recent interests of biotechnology, clean energy, and space exploration.Described as the Israeli Singularity prophet, Yanki took a key role in introducing Singularity University in Israel. He lectures on such topics as Israel as a startup nation, the future of silicon and carbon, the maker movement, entrepreneurship and innovation, and SpaceIL’s goal to land a spaceship on the moon.
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Investment focus
  • B2B, iOS, Apps
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • iAngels — iAngels is a VC and angel investment platform that leverages due diligence and analytics to enable accredited investors around the world the ability to invest in early-stage technology deals in Israel.
  • Drippler — Drippler is a personalized tech assistant, helping people make the most of their technology
  • Digital Layers Inc.
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