Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Middle East (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
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6 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Analytics, E-Commerce | $29k–$1.9M |
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Joachim Behrendt
Angel
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5 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Software, Social Media | $11k–$1.9M |
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Eilon Tirosh
Angel
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4 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Series C | Apps, FinTech, Payments | $750k–$4M |
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
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4 | Turkey, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Travel, Leisure, Internet | $18k–$1.3M |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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4 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $100k–$2.7M |
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Volkan Bicer
Angel
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3 | Turkey, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Online Games, Mobile | $130k–$2.7M |
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Münteha Adalı
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | AgTech, Biotechnology, Baby | $63k–$1.1M |
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Umur Özal
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Electronics, Baby, Rental | $63k–$1.5M |
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Varol Civil
Angel
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3 | Turkey, Poland | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Baby | $63k–$1.2M |
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Uri Levine
Angel
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3 | Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$12M |
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Sina Afra
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet | $100k–$11M |
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Deniz Güvenen
Angel
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3 | Turkey, The Netherlands | Pre-Seed, Seed | Wedding, Events, Big Data | |
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Deniz Alexandra Duygu
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Seed | Baby, Children, E-Commerce | $110k–$200k |
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Burak Divanlioglu
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Pet | $500k–$879k |
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Ahu Serter
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States, Greece | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Transportation, Internet | $87k–$1.5M |
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Ata Uzunhasan
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, Italy | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $63k–$1.5M |
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Rami Lipman
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, Machine Learning | $750k–$8M |
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Huseyin Karayagiz
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, AgTech, Battery | |
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Ibrahim Ulukaya
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, AgTech, Gaming | $31k–$700k |
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Kushal Shah
Angel
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2 | United States, Egypt, Singapore | Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed | eSports, Software, Telecommunications | $100k–$60M |
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Kaan Boyner
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Poland, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $11k–$110k |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $10k–$5M |
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Doruk Pala
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Wedding, Events, Big Data | |
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Altay Tinar
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | CRM, Mobile Apps, Apps | $514k–$3M |
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Serkan Borancılı
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Series A, Seed, Angel | Internet, E-Commerce, Location Based Services | $350k–$2M |
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Dan Adika
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | SaaS, Software, B2B | $1M–$7M |
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Eric Chen
Angel
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2 | United States, Turkey, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Mobile, Software, Information Technology | $500k–$3M |
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Serkan Omerbeyoglu
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States | Convertible Note, Seed, Pre-Seed | Pet, E-Commerce, Animal Feed | $184k–$301k |
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Yanki Margalit
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Mobile, B2B, iOS | $100k–$2.3M |
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Carman Chan
Angel
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2 | United States, Hong Kong, China | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Mobile, E-Commerce | $100k–$3M |
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Safa Rashtchy
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Turkey | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Health Care, Software | $350k–$24M |
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Germany, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Social Media, Apps, Mobile | |
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Erinç Özada
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Apps, Baby | $11k–$4.5M |
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Abdo Achkar
Angel
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2 | United States, Lebanon, Japan | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, B2B, SaaS | $150k–$3M |
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Engin Utkan
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Art, AgTech, Farming | $15k–$1.3M |
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Alon Sahar
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Audio, Lifestyle | |
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Paul Sherry
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed | Social, Software, Mental Health | |
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İzzet Zakuto
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Mobile Apps, Personal Health | |
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Sefi Visiger
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | Apps, Video, Content | |
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Sarper Tanli
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | Women's, mHealth, Health Care | |
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Caglar Erol
Angel
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1 | Jordan, Turkey | Seed, Angel | Retail, Travel, Fashion | |
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Ihsan Elgin
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | |
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İlker Diker
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Art | |
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Ali Rıza Babaoğlan
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | TV, CRM, Apps | |
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Jochen Engert
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Rental, Travel | $1.5M–$30M |
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Nenad Marovac
Angel
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Series C | E-Commerce, Apps, Internet | $4.5M–$108M |
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Barış Conger
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | FinTech, Finance, Education | |
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Riccardo Zacconi
Angel
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1 | United States, Sweden, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Apps, Mobile | $700k–$30M |
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Maya Liquornik
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | Audio, Software, Lifestyle | |
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Mustafa Sandal
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | FinTech, Finance, Education | |
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Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $110k–$1.9M; Angel $44k–$250k; Pre-Seed $29k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Blaze Labs — Blaze is real-time video infrastructure with wallet-native subscriptions and tips with instant payouts, delivering low-latency live streaming at global scale.
- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
- 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.
Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $11k–$1.9M; Angel $77k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
- 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 is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.
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- Industry: Apps, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $750k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Kıvılcım Çaylı is the author of "Startup Investor's Handbook", a technology company investor with 18 investments in 5 countries, management consultant, and private equity professional.He holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration), CPEP™ (Chartered Private Equity Professional), and FMVA® (Financial Modeling & ValuationAnalyst) degrees and a Capital Markets Activities License Level 3. After many years of corporate business experience in global companies and entrepreneurial experience in the companies he founded, he has contributed to the growth journey of nearly a hundred companies in his management consultancy career.He is the CEO of Kanvas Management Consultancy Company and Kılıç Çaylı & Partners Law Office and Private Equity & Venture Capital (PE & VC) Director & Partner at Financial Axis A.Ş. | GGI. He makes his personal investments under the Pareto Ventures brand.
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- Industry: Travel, Leisure, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $18k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fonbulucu — fonbulucu is a crowding funding platform that provide innovative financing and investment system benefit to entrepreneurs and investors.
- 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.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $233k–$2.7M; Angel $100k–$800k
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
- Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
- ya da multicosmetics — ya da multicosmetics is a cosmetics brand and aims to accelerate its R&D efforts, support its growth.
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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- Industry: Software, Online Games, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $130k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paydas — Paydas is a prop-fintech startup enabling individuals to invest digitally in income and appreciation of selected global real estate.
- Sentez — An autonomous product studio. Self-operating apps and Qualia, the company brain & AI employee.
- Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
Münteha Adalı is an angel investor.
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- Industry: AgTech, Biotechnology, Baby
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $63k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ingosa — Power your customer experience and boost your sales with intelligent virtual assistants and conversational display ads with Ingosa!
- UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
- 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.
Umur Özal is an angel investor.
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- Industry: Electronics, Baby, Rental
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $63k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
- 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.
Varol Civil - General Manager @ Türk Ekonomi Bankası
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Baby
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $63k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
- Usersdot — Usersdot uses data science and AI solutions to improve customer experience, increase operational efficiency and maximize sales performance
Uri Levine is the Founder, Chairman and Board member of Waze. He previously worked at HERE Technologies as a Board Member. Uri Levine attended Tel Aviv University.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Engie — Connecting Cars with service providers- Engie's technology provides remote diagnostics and predictive maintenance information in a simple way, to make car repairs easy and efficient
- SeeTree — SeeTree is an "Intelligence Platform for Trees" providing per-tree intelligence to growers to track their trees’ health and productivity. Using rich sources of information such as drones, satellites, IoT sensors, weather information and more, we can scan and analyze hundreds of millions of trees!
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Sina Afra is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting technology-driven companies.He is best known as the founder of Markafoni, one of Turkey’s first large-scale digital commerce companies and a defining success of the country’s early internet economy. In 2011, Naspers Groupacquired a majority stake in Markafoni in one of the landmark transactions of the Turkish internet sector.Over the course of his career, Sina has founded more than 20 companies, completed 12 exits, and angel-invested in over 60 early-stage startups across Europe, Africa, and the United States.He is a Founding Partner at Founder One, an impact venture capital fund, and the Founder and Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Foundation (Girişimcilik Vakfı), which focuses on developing entrepreneurial talent and strengthening the long-term infrastructure of the startup ecosystem in Turkey.Earlier in his career, Sina worked at KPMG and held leadership roles at eBay, where he gained first-hand experience in operating and scaling global internet platforms.His work has been recognized with more than 20 international awards and honors, including being named Internet Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Angel of the Year, and Forbes’ Brightest Minds Alive in Turkey, with features in Wired and Forbes.Sina holds a degree from the University of Münster and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages and is actively engaged in the European and Turkish technology and venture ecosystems.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $150k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Odeal — Oedeal is a developer of an app designed for companies to take payments via mobile. With the help of the company's platform, shops can do away with cash registers and accept payments from customers using tablets, smartphones, or point-of-sale devices, allowing them to finish their purchases right away. Making it simpler for all entrepreneursto access financial services is central to their mission of boosting the competitiveness of both enterprises and the nation.
- Faturalab — Faturalab is a mobile app that provides supply chain financing, payments, financial benefits, and capital management services.
- MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
Deniz Güvenen
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- Industry: Wedding, Events, Big Data
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Turkey, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Deniz Alexandra Duygu
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- Industry: Baby, Children, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $110k–$200k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
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Burak Divanlıoglu is the Founder of UZMANTV and he was a Founder at GittiGidiyor. He attended Istanbul Technical University.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Pet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $500k–$879k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kito — Kito provides natural, fresh, and healthy food for both cats and dogs.
- Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
- denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
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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- Industry: Software, Transportation, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Greece
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $104k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $87k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
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 — Are you ready for the future of mobility? Download the Tripy app and start your journey with our shared electric vehicles.
Ata Uzunhasan - Managing Director @ Galata Business Angels
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $63k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Juphy — Business that are highly active on social media can manage all social media DM’s, comments, ad comments, public reviews and so much more in a shared, unified inbox on Juphy. Easily turn all social media conversations into customer support tickets that can be categorized and prioritized based on product, department, urgency, and tone. Gathermarketing and agency team members in a single dashboard and accelerate team productivity by collaborating on incoming social media messages. Improve social customer service performance with actionable reports based on engagement volume and team performance.
- Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
- Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
Rami Lipman is an angel investor.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $750k–$8M; Series A $2.5M–$5.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Exaware —
- NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
Huseyin Karayagiz
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- Industry: Software, AgTech, Battery
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
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.
Ibrahim Ulukaya
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- Industry: Software, AgTech, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $31k–$700k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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.
- artlabs — Fast and Scalable 3D Generation with AI | 3D Asset Interoperability | Hyper-Realistic Augmented Reality and Virtual Try-On Experiences
- Octo — Build your no-code branded community app with Octo.
Kushal Shah is a Co-Founder of Dubai Angel Investors. He was a Board Member at Airalo. He studied at the University of Cambridge.
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- Industry: eSports, Software, Telecommunications
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Egypt, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series B $20M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Derq — Derq built an award-winning platform powered by AI and predictive analytics helping eliminate crashes, save lives, and create safer and smarter roadways. Our real-time analytics platform feeds a live dashboard available to road owners and operators and sends alerts to connected vehicles and infrast
- 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).
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Kaan Boyner is an angel investor.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Poland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $11k–$110k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Minoto — Otomobil Arama Motoru. Minimum Efor, Maksimum Oto!
- Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
- Atlantic — The future of AI arrives with Atlantic.
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1158
- Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Groccery store — Groccery store is a local Groccery store based in Hlotse, Leribe, Lesotho, designed to address a key challenge in the community
- Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
- Mercy Community School — Mercy Community School is a community-driven education initiative based in Linda Compound, Lusaka, Zambia.
Doruk Pala
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- Industry: Wedding, Events, Big Data
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Altay Tinar - Co-Founder & CEO @ Yuvako
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- Industry: CRM, Mobile Apps, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $514k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- BlindID — BlindID is a unique social media platform which allows users to make one hundred percent anonymous voice calls with random people for a limited time. BlindID does not use information such as user name, phone number, profile photo, and gender. Enjoyable time with BlindID spending is only left to communication ability and creativity.
- ORTHERO — Orthero is an orthodontic treatment method as an alternative to metal braces, offers to orthodontics patients a simple treatment by personalized custom-made aligner. Orthero aligners can be easily removed and placed back by patients. Under control of the dentist, regular use of Orthero will align your teeth to their ideal position according to thetreatment plan.
Serkan Borançılı is the founding partner of GittiGidiyor, Turkey's leading consumer-to-consumer marketplace, which was acquired by eBay in 2011 for $220 million dollars. Born in 1971 in Ankara, Borançılı graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a degree in Architecture. After working as a freelance architect, he founded ARKInformation Technologies with Burak Divanlıoğlu in 1999. Up to 2004 GittiGidiyor was administered by ARK. Borançılı is also the co-founder of UzmanTV, a video website specializing in curated content by experts, and Istanbul.net, Turkey's largest online dating platform. Borançılı is also the first investor in BiTaksi, Turkey's leading taxi-hailing app. Since, he has also invested in Modacruz, a marketplace for secondhand luxury fashion.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Location Based Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $500k–$879k; Series A $350k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BiTaksi — BiTaksi is a mobile application that enables its users to book taxis. It enables its users to locate a taxi through its online map and provides traffic data and turn-by-turn directions for drivers. BiTaksi is available for iOS and Android operating systems.
- Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
- denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
Dan Adika Before co-founding WalkMe, Dan was a software engineer at HP. Prior to that, Dan completed with honors a 6 year tenure in the Army’s elite computing unit.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $4M–$7M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enso — Go-to-market with enso in places only agents can find demand. We deploy AI agents across the channels your buyers use to growth hack your way to customers.
- CareBestie —
- Quack — Get your team the power to resolve user issues right away.
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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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- t1 (aka t1 protocol) — Undercollateralized credit for DeFi. Powering @useamplifi and @juicedexchange. Backed by @a16z CSX.
- 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!
M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu is the CEO at DgPays. M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu attended Alliant International University.
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- Industry: Pet, E-Commerce, Animal Feed
- Stage:Convertible Note, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $184k–$301k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kito — Kito provides natural, fresh, and healthy food for both cats and dogs.
- Chooch — Chooch is a hospital inventory management system that uses Vision AI to keep supply rooms accurate in real time. No scanning, no counting, replenishment on autopilot.
Yanki Margalit, an Israeli entrepreneur, investor, and speaker, founded Aladdin Knowledge Systems in 1985, leading it to a successful NASDAQ IPO in 1993 and guiding the company until 2009. Since then, he has invested in and mentored numerous startups through Innodo Ventures and served as chairman of several technology companies, including SpaceIL,the non-profit competing in the Google Lunar X Prize. In 2025, he launched Caura.ai, a startup pioneering memory and emotion in AI.
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- Industry: Mobile, B2B, iOS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 — Enter parola - music people's open music world and join the #musicpeople community!
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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- Industry: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Hong Kong, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Oddup — Trade on real-world outcomes with our unique Yes/No/Maybe model. Crypto, FX, indices, commodities, and more.
- 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.
- Testlio — Tackle the most demanding software testing challenges with Testlio in any location, on any device, in any language, or on any payment system.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: SaaS, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $350k–$13M; Series A $500k–$24M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- 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.
- Qventus — Qventus optimizes operational decisions in hospitals in real time. They use machine learning and optimization algorithms to help hospitals reduce costs, improve quality and experience of the healthcare they deliver.Qventus is a YCombinator and StartX company working with some of the top health institutions in the country to change how healthcareis run.
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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- Industry: Social Media, Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Letz — Letz is a mobile app that lets you find available people for all activities to hang out with.
- Missafir — Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
- Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
Erinç Özada is an angel investor.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Baby
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $11k–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- madlen — Thanks to Madlen's AI-powered educational platform, create assignments in seconds and assign them to your students, while tracking their progress in real-time throughout the term.
- Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.
Abdo Achkar is the Founder & CEO at Sowlutions.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, B2B, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Lebanon, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Pre-Seed $150k–$700k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
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.
A. Engin Utkan is Senior Salesforce Consultant | Flow Automation Expert | Application Architect
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- Industry: Art, AgTech, Farming
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $15k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
- Tarfin — Using its cloud-based platform and smart algorithms, Tarfin provides underbanked farmers with high-quality farm inputs and competitive point-of-sale financing. Tarfin is the winner of EFSE's 2016 Financial Inclusion Challenge.
- Makswin Real Estate Technologies, Inc. — Cutting-edge technological solutions aimed at data inconsistency and inefficiencies in the real estate industry.
Alon Sahar - Partner @ Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal
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- Industry: Software, Audio, Lifestyle
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bugatone — Bugatone adds software-only sensors to any earphone
- CLIPr — CLIPr uses Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to create searchable recorded meeting recaps and actionable insights enabling you to search, skim and find what you need to learn better and drive desired outcomes in a fraction of the time.
Paul Sherry
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- Industry: Social, Software, Mental Health
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- EaseUp — EaseUp makes building social confidence easy and fun. Our app turns exposure therapy into a gamified experience, rooted in science - accessible to all.
İzzet Zakuto
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile Apps, Personal Health
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Sefi Visiger - Founder @ Mirabilis Medical
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- Industry: Apps, Video, Content
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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 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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- Industry: Women's, mHealth, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Nabta Health — Nabta Health provides personalised healthcare to women. Accessible from home, at work, and in a clinic. Holistic and hybrid.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Retail, Travel, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Jordan, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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 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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
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 - Co-Founder - CPO @ Papara
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- Industry: Art
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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!
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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- Industry: TV, CRM, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus
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- Industry: Software, Rental, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$6M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gixel — Creating breakthrough AR display technology for AI glasses and spatial computing.
- Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
- BLOCKS — BLOCKS deploys an AI agent to monitor cloud usage patterns continuously. The agent identifies wasteful resource allocations and applies real-time optimizations autonomously. It differs from dashboards by taking direct action instead of just alerting users.
Nenad Joseph Marovac is based out of London, England and is the Founder, Managing Partner of DN Capital. Nenad previously worked at AUTO1 as a Board Member. Nenad Joseph Marovac attended the Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Series A $4.5M–$25M; Series B $6M–$28M; Series C $18M–$108M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Reedsy — Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators.
- Ben — Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money.
- Annelutfen.com — Annelutfen is a full price online shop for baby products (0-12) in Turkey. Annelutfen offers the widest selection (18.000 SKUs), fast delivery (1-3 days), and best in class user experience.
Barış Conger - Advisor @ manibux
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Riccardo Zacconi is based out of London, England and is the Board Member of Layer AI. Riccardo previously worked at King.com as Co-Founder and Chairman. Riccardo Zacconi attended Luiss Guido Carli University.
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- Industry: Gaming, Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Sweden, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $700k–$10M; Pre-Seed $3.3M–$4M; Series A $1.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lexroom — Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs.
- Fika Jobs — Stand out from the crowd. Find your perfect job.
- Cypher Games — Cypher Games is a mobile gaming company founded by passionate gamers with a dream of building a global success story. We aim to shape the future of mobile gaming together with our colleagues, investors and thought partners.
Maya Liquornik - Senior Partner @ Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal
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- Industry: Audio, Software, Lifestyle
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bugatone — Bugatone adds software-only sensors to any earphone
Mustafa Sandal - Advisor @ manibux
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
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