Top 50 Consumer Angel Investors in Middle East (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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8 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $100k–$2.7M |
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Sina Afra
Angel
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5 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet | $100k–$11M |
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
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5 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Analytics, E-Commerce | $29k–$1.9M |
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Danny Leshem
Angel
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4 | Israel, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, B2B, Artificial Intelligence | $570k–$27M |
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Nuri Sahin
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Angel, Pre-Seed | Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games | $403k–$486k |
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Emre Can
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Angel, Pre-Seed | Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games | $403k–$486k |
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Yoav Amit
Angel
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3 | Israel, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, B2C | $50k–$27M |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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3 | United States, India, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $10k–$5M |
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Bashar Hamood
Angel
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3 | United States, India, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $6k–$5M |
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Murat Balcı
Angel
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3 | Germany, Turkey | Seed | Apps, Fitness, mHealth | $637k–$2.5M |
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Ofer Ben Noon
Angel
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3 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $6M–$75M |
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Onur Topac
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | Software, Apps, SaaS | $350k–$637k |
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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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Gigi Levy Weiss
Angel
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3 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $120k–$36M |
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Joachim Behrendt
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Software, Social Media | $11k–$1.9M |
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Zohar Gilon
Angel
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3 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Health Care | $1.5M–$15M |
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Mickey Boodaei
Angel
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3 | United States, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | Network Security, Cyber Security, Security | $2M–$60M |
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Tencho Shivkov
Angel
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2 | Israel, The Netherlands | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Altay Tinar
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | CRM, Apps, Software | |
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Reuven Aronashvili
Angel
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2 | Israel | Seed, Series A | Computer, Network Security, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Gülsüm Çıracı
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $500k–$850k |
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Melih Odemis
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $135k–$1.9M |
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Basem Alsallom
Angel
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2 | Saudi Arabia | Pre-Seed | Apps, Delivery, Laundry and Dry-cleaning | |
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Semih Hakyemez
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Toys, Gaming, PC Games | |
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Umur Özal
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Electronics, Baby, Rental | $63k–$1.5M |
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Fabrice Grinda
Angel
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2 | United States, France, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace | $685k–$55M |
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Yasmin Lukatz
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Software | $7.5M–$100M |
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Abdulaziz Alyabis
Angel
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2 | Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Electronics | |
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Danny Hadar
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series B, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $65k–$11M |
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Eyal Gruner
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A | Cyber Security, Computer, Security | $3.5M–$6.4M |
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Nimrod Cohen
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1M–$28M |
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Rakesh K. Loonkar
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Cyber Security, Network Security, Security | $2M–$250M |
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Karyn Schoenbart
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Apps | |
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Jonathan Cornelissen
Angel
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2 | United States, Belgium, Israel | Pre-Seed | Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology | $35k–$1.4M |
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Burak Divanlioglu
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Pet | $500k–$879k |
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Ariel Maislos
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States, Uruguay | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$19M |
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Oren Zeev
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel, Canada | Series B, Series A, Seed | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $800k–$85M |
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Oren Dobronsky
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Angel | FinTech, E-Commerce, Consumer | $1M–$17M |
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Ofir Ehrlich
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.8M–$80M |
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Marius Nacht
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Health Care | $3M–$120M |
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Ali Karakuş
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Toys, Gaming, PC Games | |
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Ahu Serter
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, Greece | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Transportation, Internet | $87k–$1.5M |
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Firat Isbecer
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $20k–$3.8M |
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Tod Johnson
Angel
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2 | Israel | Series B, Private Equity | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | |
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Yaron Samid
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security | $2M–$47M |
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Muzaffer Akpınar
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Convertible Note | 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Consumer Electronics | |
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Romain Afflelou
Angel
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2 | France, United States, Israel | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, FinTech | $400k–$48M |
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Maty Siman
Angel
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2 | Israel | Seed | Computer, Network Security, Cloud Security | $8M–$9M |
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Ömer Aras
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Retail, Biopharma, Marketing | $280k–$4M |
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Ahmed Faruk Karslı
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | E-Commerce, Art, Retail | $461k–$4M |
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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.
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.
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.
INT3 (Managing Partner); Kidaro (co-founder, acq. MSFT); OpenRest (co-founder, acq. WIX); angel investor.
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- Industry: SaaS, B2B, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $3.1M–$23M; Pre-Seed $570k–$2M; Series A $17M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Draftt — The official account of Draftt
- Reindeer AI — Turn your operations into your AI strategy
- Wonderful — AI for the Bold Enterprise
Nuri Şahin is a Turkish football player.
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- Industry: Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Angel $403k–$486k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mythos Cards — Mythos Cards is the leading collectible card company of Turkey. The company holds licenses to top Turkish Super league clubs and entertainments properties. Innovation lays at the centre of Mythos Cards.
Emre Can
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- Industry: Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Angel $403k–$486k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mythos Cards — Mythos Cards is the leading collectible card company of Turkey. The company holds licenses to top Turkish Super league clubs and entertainments properties. Innovation lays at the centre of Mythos Cards.
Yoav Amit is an angel investor. Attended Tel Aviv University.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, B2C
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $3.1M–$23M; Pre-Seed $50k–$8.6M; Series A $17M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sentra — Sign up for our newsletter to stay ahead of the news.
- Finaloop — Hands-off, real-time accounting tailored-fit for your ecommerce.
- relate — Relate is the first truly collaborative web design platform.
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.
Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 622
- Round size: Seed $11k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $6k–$413k; Series A $33k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
- Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
- ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
Murat Balci is an angel investor.
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- Industry: Apps, Fitness, mHealth
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $637k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.
- Thread In Motion — Looking for wearables to digitize your operations? Hands-free and ergonomic new generation smart gloves are here to help you reduce cost and risks.
- Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.
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Browse database — It's Free!Ofer Ben Noon is the Co-founder & CEO of Talon Cyber Security. He previously worked at Continental as a Senior Executive Manager. Ofer Ben Noon attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).
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- Industry: Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $6M–$9M; Series A $20M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neo Security — Agentic Software Control for the AI Era
- NewCore — Legacy solutions weren't built for the agentic era. NewCore is the secure-first identity platform that governs every human and agentic identity.
- Aryon Security — Aryon prevents multi-cloud security risks, without changing the definition, management, or operation of your cloud.
Onur Topac was born in 1990 in Istanbul. He graduated from Istanbul’s Austrian High School in 2009 and went on to receive a Bachelor’s degree from Koç University, Department of Industrial Engineering in 2013. Currently, he is pursuing a Master’s degree in Financial Engineering at Ozyegin University. Mr. Topac started his career in finance in 2008as a web site specialist at Gedik Investment; subsequently, he interned at FXCM in London in 2012. The following year, he participated in the establishment of the Investment Banking Department at Gedik Investment, leading the way in the Department’s technological transformation. Since April 2015, he has served as CEO at Gedik Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Ortaklıgı A.S (Gedik Venture Capital Investment Partnership). Onur Topac started to provide support to technology investments and ventures as an individual investor before obtaining the necessary certification to operate as an angel investor in 2015.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $350k–$637k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Poltio — We help the world's top brands access, engage with and learn from their users with interactive content and declared data.
- Yancep — Yancep is a web-based application. The company offers portfolios that can be modeled according to the investment goals and risk preferences of users. Investors can become anyone with this platform.
- Thread In Motion — Looking for wearables to digitize your operations? Hands-free and ergonomic new generation smart gloves are here to help you reduce cost and risks.
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.
Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 181
- Round size: Seed $350k–$9.8M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$36M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Faireez — Optimizing tenants' lifestyle and convenience through enabling them with a hotel-like home cleaning service
- BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
- Accumulator — Accumulator is a U.S. private equity firm regulated by the SEC, operating as an index-like fund covering a wide range of privately held, growth-stage tech companies.
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.
Mr. Zohar Gilon is a Managing Partner at Tamar Technology Ventures. He has personally invested in over 45 start-ups and has achieved 13 exits. Mr. Gilon has also served as the Transaction Manager for some of Israel's most highly recognized exits and has managed each deal from inception through completion, including pricing and distributions.He has extensive investment experience including activity as an angel investor and an Investment Advisor to the Gilon Group. Mr. Gilon is a private investor in numerous high-technology companies, including affiliates of Radcom Ltd. in Israel. From 1974 to 1993, Mr. Gilon served as the President of various companies representing major U.S. aerospace and electronics corporations. From November 1993 to August 1995, he served as the President of W.S.P. Capital Holdings Ltd. Previously he served, as the Managing Director of Shaked Technologies Ltd. He serves as a Director of HCL CleanTech Ltd., RIT, AVT Ltd., Oberon Media, Inc., Edge Medical, Exlibris, OrSense Ltd., and WisAir Ltd. He served as a Director of RAD Ventures. Mr. Gilon served as a Director of RiT Technologies Ltd. since 1995, Ceragon Networks Ltd. since June 1999, Radware Ltd. from October 2006 to July 2009 and Radcom Ltd. since June 1995. He served as Member of the Supervisory Board of Advanced Vision Technology (AVT) Limited. He served as an Outside Director of Silicom Ltd. since 1994.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.3M; Series A $1.6M–$11M; Series B $4.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
- Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
- Annabella — The Electric Breast Pump that mimics a baby's tongue. This technology encourages the release of oxytocin and prolactin hormones, leading to a 50% increase in average milk production.
Founder and CEO of Transmit Security.Previously Founder of Trusteer (now IBM Security) and Imperva. Early stage investor in cyber security startups including Armis, RiskRecon (now Master Card), and FireGlass (now Symantec).
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- Industry: Network Security, Cyber Security, Security
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $2M–$51M; Series A $8M–$20M; Series B $13M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
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- PointFive — PointFive provides a cloud and AI efficiency platform that helps organizations identify, monitor, and remediate inefficiencies across cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and AI environments. Its technology uses deep detection capabilities to uncover optimization opportunities that may be overlooked by traditional cloud cost management tools,while providing context and remediation workflows for engineering teams. The platform integrates with existing cloud environments and productivity tools, enabling teams to manage efficiency within their regular operational processes. PointFive supports multi-cloud environments and offers visibility into cloud usage, resource allocation, infrastructure performance, and AI-related spending across major cloud providers. By combining continuous monitoring, cost analysis, and automated remediation capabilities, the company helps organizations improve operational efficiency and manage cloud and AI expenditures more effectively.
- Ocean — Ocean's agentic email security platform investigates every email with AI before threats land. Stop targeted phishing and AI-powered attacks that surface-level tools miss.
- Linx Security — The AI-native platform for identity security, visibility, and governance.
Tencho Shivkov
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ANGARA GLOBAL — We empower your journey towards Net Zero Emissions target, uplift your processing margin through the reduced fossil energy use by boosting your heat-exchanging equipment performance.
- PolyN Technology — POLYN is a fabless semiconductor company developing application-specific Tiny AI chips for sensor data pre-processing
Altay Tinar - Co-Founder & CEO @ Yuvako
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- Industry: CRM, Apps, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
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- Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
CEO @ CYE
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- Industry: Computer, Network Security, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aryon Security — Aryon prevents multi-cloud security risks, without changing the definition, management, or operation of your cloud.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $500k–$850k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- JETRACT — E-Auction: Digital Transformation For Your Auction Process Meet with your suppliers in cloud. Create competitive e-auctions with different auction types and high savings.E-Procurement: All of the procurement in the cloud. JETRACT enables you to complete your request for purchase, request for proposal, procurement approval and purchase orderprocesses on a digital platform. From beginning to end, all of the procurement process is optimised by a cloud based software.
- TDSmaker — TDSmaker is the world’s most simple to use software for creating and editing professional data sheets. It is much easier to use than the desktop design software that businesses currently use to create data sheets, such as Microsoft Office, Quark, and Adobe Framemaker. Because TDSmaker is so easy to use, there is essentially zero learning curve forlearning how to use it. This saves businesses a tremendous amount of time and money in training costs.TDSmaker provides cloud-based professional data sheet design templates that make it fast and easy for a writer to create professional data sheets without needing to hire a graphic designer to perform the design elements of creating the data sheet. This makes data sheet creation much faster and far less expensive because a graphic designer is not needed.TDSmaker has a lower price point than competing products, making it a more affordable solution for businesses.It is 100% cloud based so you do not need to install or maintain any software, and you always have access to the latest version of the software.
- iyisahne.com — Founded in March of 2015 and based in Beyoğlu, İstanbul, iyisahne is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book performance professionals for any kind of special events around Turkey online. With most preferred and experienced performers, iyisahne.com offers an easy way to book local entertainment and services for anytype of event. Whether a wedding orchestra or photographer for a wedding, a clown or magician for a birthday, or trio, quartet and DJ for a corporate event, iyisahne connects people to the performers for unique experiences in their special events, at any price point, with more than 300 music professionals for the first time in Turkey.
Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $170k–$1.9M; Angel $135k–$1.4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$510k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LIOM — Pioneering in non-invasive glucose monitoring technology, seamlessly integrated with health metrics for a revolutionary wearable experience.
- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
Web 2.0 Entrepreneur from Saudi Arabia, He owns and run web startups in Arabic and english, recently acquired scr.im a web 2.0 spam protection service.
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- Industry: Apps, Delivery, Laundry and Dry-cleaning
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Saboonah — Saboonah is a laundry app that offers clothes picking, washing, and home-delivering services.
- Saboonah — Saboonah is a laundry app that offers clothes picking, washing, and home-delivering services.
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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- Industry: Toys, Gaming, PC Games
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Gamester — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!
- Tiny Minies — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!
- Gamester Kids — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!
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.
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 190
- Round size: Seed $685k–$7M; Series A $2.3M–$15M; Series B $3.7M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
- OTPless — OTPless is a software company that develops SaaS products which enables users to log into various platforms using WhatsApp. They have officially partnered with WhatsApp to make their product safe, reliable and efficient. They are a young and dynamic company looking to revolutionize logging in as we know it. OTPless is headquartered in Delhi,India and was founded in 2021.
- Accumulator — Accumulator is a U.S. private equity firm regulated by the SEC, operating as an index-like fund covering a wide range of privately held, growth-stage tech companies.
Yasmin Lukatz is based out of Palo Alto, California, and is the ICON - Israel Collaboration Network of Founder and Executive Director Yasmin previously worked at Evoz as a COO. Yasmin Lukatz attended Tel Aviv University.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $7.5M–$30M; Series A $20M–$100M; Series B $31M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Encore AI — Autonomously running customer interactions.
- Hemispheric — Hemispheric develops fundamental AI technologies aimed at deciphering brain activity for innovative applications.
- Aryon Security — Aryon prevents multi-cloud security risks, without changing the definition, management, or operation of your cloud.
Abdulaziz Alyabis
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Electronics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rewaa | رواء — Rewaa was founded to make penetrating through the e-commerce industry easier for retailers with minimal operational and marketing costs by solving two main aspects:Marketing aspect: Make in-store products available online. By using Rewaa Cashier System, any product in the physical store will be automatically listed in the online marketplaces andthe merchant's online store. Operational aspects: The integration between physical, online store and marketplace, eliminate the need of independent inventory for online store operations, and that will help to reduce employment cost, therefore, the physical store will be the shipping center, so whenever an order received by online store will be transferred automatically for the nearest branch from the customer. And eventually, the inventory will be automatically updated across all channels.
For the last 10 years, I have been active within the Israeli and US startup ecosystems where I completed 20+ seed investments in companies such as Geoforce (acquired by LLR), Bonobo (acquired by Salesforce), Optitex (acquired by Efi), Keeprz (acquired by Como), Drippler (acquired by Soluto), Snyk (Unicorn) and few others. I am passionate for seedinvestments, creative ideas, risk taking and supporting entrepreneurs.Prior to that, I founded 2 companies, Blue Sky (Energy) and Sinusafe (Medical) after working as a software engineer for 7 years.I grew up in Israel, and lived in the US for 5 years while completing my MBA from Duke. I love all kinds of extreme sports, and particularly kite surfing and snowboarding.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $65k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Laxis — Learn how UX designers, product managers, market research, consultants, and attorneys use conversation Intelligence to supercharge their business and increase revenue. Learn more.
- Deci AI — Deci enables deep learning to live up to its true potential by using AI to build better AI. With the company’s end-to-end deep learning acceleration platform, AI developers can build, optimize, and deploy faster and more accurate models for any environment, including cloud, edge or mobile. With Deci’s platform, developers can increase deeplearning model inference performance by 3x-15x, on any hardware, while still preserving accuracy. This translates directly into new use cases on limited hardware, substantially shorter development cycles, and reduced compute costs by up to 80%. The platform is powered by Deci’s Automated Neural Architecture Construction (AutoNAC) technology, an algorithmic optimization engine that squeezes maximum utilization out of any hardware. The AutoNAC engine contains a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) component that redesigns a given trained model’s architecture to optimally improve its inference performance (throughput, latency, memory, etc.) for specific target hardware while preserving its baseline accuracy. Deci achieved a record-breaking 11.8x accelerated inference speedup on Intel CPUs at MLPerf Industry Benchmark and has been named to the CBInsights top 100 AI companies. Led by a team of world-class deep learning experts, Deci lets AI developers focus on what they do best - creating innovative AI-based solutions for our world’s most complex problems.
- Velocity — Accelerate the way you build and deliver products. Spin up fully isolated, production-like environments in seconds. Work with your existing dev toolbox.
Eyal Gruner is the co-founder and CEO of Cynet. He is also co-founder of BugSec. Member of Cyberstarts.
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- Industry: Cyber Security, Computer, Security
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$6.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Cycode — Cycode is the industry’s first source code control, detection, and response platform. Its Source Path Intelligence engine seamlessly delivers comprehensive visibility into all of your code and automatically detects and responds to anomalies in its access, movement, and usage. With Cycode, organizations are “Secured to The Source”; its solutionempowers security teams to rapidly and dramatically reduce the risk of source code loss without impacting developer access or productivity.
- build.security — We're the creators of the Elastic (ELK) Stack -- Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. Securely and reliably search, analyze, and visualize your data in the cloud or on-prem.
- Cyclops Security — Cyclops enables SecOps professionals to prioritize risk around vulnerability, assets, and identities, support mitigation efforts, and track the overall security risk posture. Cyclops Cyber Security Mesh (CSMA) platform provides a contextual AI-driven security data fabric that users can easily query using natural language, making security data easily accessible and enabling cybersecurity teams to work more effectively and efficiently.
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Browse database — It's Free!Nimrod Cohen is based out of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv and is the Founder and Managing Partner of TAU Ventures. Nimrod previously worked at PLUS VENTURES as a Partner. Nimrod Cohen attended the Reichman University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M; Series A $3.7M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swimm — Silos can sneak in to even the most agile of teams and create needless delays on essential projects. Chasing down information keeps teams out of sync. But onboarding, outdated documents, or project switching should never slow a project down. Swimm is a SaaS company built to make the development process fast and smooth with smart docs and continuousdocumentation. Teams use Swimm to create focused and engaging tutorials that help them share knowledge on the codebase. Thanks to Swimm's unique auto-sync technology, tutorials remain fresh and up-to-date even if the code changes.
- Cyabra — We break down social media so you can understand narratives, detect authenticity and reach true audiences.
- XTEND — Explore cutting-edge military-grade tactical drones powered by AI, designed to enhance strategic capabilities and mission success in complex environments.
Rakesh is the President and Co-Founder of Transmit Security. Rakesh earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
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- Industry: Cyber Security, Network Security, Security
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $2M–$16M; Series A $8M–$38M; Series B $25M–$250M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Entro Security — Entro is the first platform to unify security for AI agents, NHIs, and secrets - delivering full visibility, ownership attribution, and real-time detection of anomalies.
- Ocean — Ocean's agentic email security platform investigates every email with AI before threats land. Stop targeted phishing and AI-powered attacks that surface-level tools miss.
- Linx Security — The AI-native platform for identity security, visibility, and governance.
Karyn Schoenbart is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Duo Partners and board Member of Tenetic. She previously worked at Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) as a Member Board of Directors. Karyn Schoenbart attended Harvard Business School Executive Education.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Revuze — Revuze unifies consumer feedback, social signals, product, care, and sales data into AI market intelligence mapped from category to SKU. Know what to do next.
- MyAvana — A personalized hair care service delivering products, services, and content for every woman's hair journey
- Tastewise — Tastewise fuels product, sales, and marketing innovation by helping you predict how consumers cook, order, and eat. No guesswork, no outdated reports - Tastewise AI equips exceptional food and beverage brands with real-time insights. (Customers: Nestle, Coca-Cola, Campbell's, Dole, General Mills, and dozens more!)Product: Design productsthat delight your customers and meet their specific needs Marketing: Build marketing campaigns that speak to the right audiences Sales: Identify restaurants that need your products and supplies, and build first-mover advantage
Jonathan Cornelissen is New York, New York and is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of DataCamp. He graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven.
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Belgium, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Pre-Seed $35k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- NannyML — Open Source Library for post deployment data science
- Audyo — Create audio like writing a doc. Edit words not waveforms, switch speakers and tweak pronunciations with phonetics.
- Segments.ai — Label your point cloud and image data in a single task. For machine learning teams labeling robotics data at scale. Start your free trial now.
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
Ariel has been leading technology innovation and entrepreneurship for over 30 years, leading teams, founding companies and mentoring entrepreneurs. He is an active angel investor in startups, and supports technology education as a philanthropist. Ariel is a graduate of the prestigious Talpiot program, and holds a BSc from the Hebrew University ofJerusalem in Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science (Cum Laude) and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$3M; Series A $5M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GeoX — GeoX is an Aerial Imagery AI analytics company. We produce geospatial Property Data which is used for Underwriting & Claims in the US and European insurance industries. GeoX unique proposition is in 3-dimensional extraction technology which provides rich information about every property. GeoX also produces 3D building datasets from aerialimagery for complete geographies using automated processes. 3D building models are digital representations of the properties, and in conjunction with aerial imagery allows every staff member in any insurance discipline to see the property visualization, and get a good understanding of the structure, its dimensions and characteristics without visiting in the site. GeoX uses propriatetary and Patented technology for the 3D extraction.domains: Insurtech, Smart cities
- Parter — Where engineering, sourcing, and AI work as one. Parter keeps every BOM cost-optimized, disruption-free and fully sourced, from design to production.
- BeWith.io (Superc AI) — Connect residents and foster engagement with a centralized community calendar that brings all city events into one easy-to-access platform
Oren Zeev is the Founder of and one of the two main early backers respectively, a former board member of Zeev lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 121
- Round size: Seed $800k–$23M; Series A $2M–$35M; Series B $6M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
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- Linguana — Linguana builds and monetizes your fully localized YouTube channels in new languages to reach new audiences across the globe and monetize them.
- Venn — Venn creates a new way of urban neighboring by managing homes, creating shared spaces, supporting hyperlocal business initiatives and services, programs events, and facilitating community engagement – all on a neighborhood-wide level. Operating by the motto, “If they build it, they will stay,” venn’s platform encourages urbanites to become activecreators and participants in the development of their community and enables developing neighborhoods to become as vibrant and desirable as the downtown core. Founded in 2016 by people raised in the Big City and in cooperative communities, venn is a new movement of neighboring that impacts tens of thousands of people in three cities (Tel Aviv, Brooklyn, and Berlin) with +75 employees
- Novee Security — Novee delivers AI penetration testing to find vulnerabilities faster, validate defenses, and reduce cyber risk.
Entrepreneur at heart. Angel investor in past two decades. I had the privilege to invest in the following startups, mostly at seed level: Houzz(Unicorn), TripActions(Unicorn), Hippo(Unicorn), HomeLight, Domestika, Loop Commerce, RedKix, Duda, YouNow, OwnerListens... But mostly, I am known as Oren from Oren's Hummus :)
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Consumer
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1M–$17M; Series A $2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Linguana — Linguana builds and monetizes your fully localized YouTube channels in new languages to reach new audiences across the globe and monetize them.
- Openbase — Find and compare the best open-source packages in hundreds of categories - withpowerful metrics and user reviews
- Annabella — The Electric Breast Pump that mimics a baby's tongue. This technology encourages the release of oxytocin and prolactin hormones, leading to a 50% increase in average milk production.
Ofir Ehrlich is the VP of Research & Development at CloudEndure. An exceptional technologist, Ofir has a proven record in the software industry, including companies such as Digicash, AcceloWeb, and Limelight Networks. He also served with distinction in an elite unit of the Israeli Intelligence Corps. This is the third company in which Ofir is aCo-Founder.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $4.5M–$40M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$2M; Series A $13M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Euno — Euno is a frictionless data model governance platform that provides a revolutionary approach to dynamic data that enables data teams to design, regulate, and grow data models alongside the company.
- AIR Security — AIR Security provides an AI security platform that secures AI agents and their add-ons, including skills, plugins, MCPs, and subagents. Its platform discovers, vets, governs, and monitors AI add-ons throughout their lifecycle. AIR Security includes tools for agent governance, add-on filtering, runtime protection, and a marketplace of pre-vettedadd-ons. It also identifies risks such as prompt injection, hidden behavior, excessive permissions, data exfiltration, and supply chain attacks.
- Harmony — AI agents that resolve IT and HR requests inside Slack and Teams
Marius Nacht, one of Check Point’s founders, has served as Chairman of our board of directors since 2015. Nacht has also served as one of our directors since we were incorporated in 1993. From 1999 through 2005, Nacht held Senior Vice President roles at Check Point. Nacht earned a B.S. (cum laude) in Physics and Mathematics from the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem in 1983, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Communication Systems from Tel Aviv University in 1987.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $3M–$120M; Series A $5M–$23M; Series B $8M–$83M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
- Wisdo Health — Wisdo is an AI-powered Social Health platform harnessing the power of data and meaningful connections to improve health.
- WaveBL — WAVE BL lets you digitally issue, transfer, sign, endorse and surrender trade documents while cutting costs and eliminating fraud.
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- Industry: Toys, Gaming, PC Games
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gamester — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!
- Tiny Minies — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!
- Gamester Kids — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!
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.
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.8M; Angel $20k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$450k
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- Paket Mutfak — Paket Mutfak develops delivery-focused food brands and operates them from its ghost kitchens. They create restaurant brands for takeaway and serve good food all over the city with their cloud kitchens. The company allows consumers to use online digital channels to reinvent the local meal delivery experience.
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Tod Johnson has been Chairman of The NPD Group and its predecessors since 1971, and served as Chief Executive Officer until 2017. Considered an expert in his field for more than 40 years, Tod is a frequent speaker at marketing research and management conferences and has been widely published in research publications. His research expertise is inthe areas of brand loyalty and brand equity.He has been a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, and Director of the Advertising Research Foundation, and he was a Founding Chairman and Director of the Council for Marketing and Opinion Research. He was elected to the Market Research Council Hall of Fame in 2011.Tod is the Chairman of CivicScience, an NPD-backed new survey technology startup, the Vice-Chairman of the Carnegie Mellon University Board of Trustees, his alma mater, and the Vice President of the Metropolitan Opera Board. He was CEO and Founder of Media Metrix from 1995 to 2001, and is a past member of the JPMorgan Chase Regional Advisory Board.
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- Industry: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series B, Private Equity
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revuze — Revuze unifies consumer feedback, social signals, product, care, and sales data into AI market intelligence mapped from category to SKU. Know what to do next.
- Tastewise — Tastewise fuels product, sales, and marketing innovation by helping you predict how consumers cook, order, and eat. No guesswork, no outdated reports - Tastewise AI equips exceptional food and beverage brands with real-time insights. (Customers: Nestle, Coca-Cola, Campbell's, Dole, General Mills, and dozens more!)Product: Design productsthat delight your customers and meet their specific needs Marketing: Build marketing campaigns that speak to the right audiences Sales: Identify restaurants that need your products and supplies, and build first-mover advantage
Yaron Samid is an Israeli-American technology entrepreneur, investor, and startup community builder. Yaron is the founder of TechAviv, the 3K-member global Israeli startup founders club, and is the managing partner of TechAviv Founder Partners, a pre-seed venture fund, backed and powered by over 100 of the world’s most successful company builders.Previously, Yaron was the founder and CEO at BillGuard (Acq. by Prosper), founder & CPO at Pando (Acq. by Microsoft), and a founding board director at CloudLock (Acq. by Cisco) and Pond5.Yaron lives in Tel Aviv with his family and is a regular guest lecturer at Stanford and Columbia Business School. He attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $4M–$20M; Pre-Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $7M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Emedgene — Applying machine learning to genomics. Accelerate NGS data analysis and automate variant classification with evidence curated from the literature. From sample to report.
- Lumen — Lumen is a device and app that measures your metabolism in a single breath and provides daily personalized nutrition based on your metabolic data. Through the device and app, you can achieve your fitness goals whether they be weight loss, performance optimization, or simply improving your metabolic health.As a company, we are a team ofscientists, researchers, engineers, and designers, aimed at improving the way people understand their metabolism. We believe that a healthy metabolism is a key to better health and that everyone can attain it with a little help from Lumen.At Lumen, we are all about teamwork, friendship, and family. Curious about joining? We are always looking for creative people who share our passion for health and fitness to join our team.
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Mehmet Muzaffer Akpinar is a businessperson who is associated with organisations like Penta Tekstil, MV Holding, Kvk Teknoloji Urunleri Ve Ticaret AS, Penta Textile, etc. He is an alumni of Bogazici University.
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- Industry: 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zaxe — Discover the Unique FDM 3D Printing Experience. Zaxe 3D Printers Provides Easy to Use with xDestop Slicer Software. Get Advantage in Additive Manufacturing with Zaxe Filaments
Romain Afflelou is based out of London, England and is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of YADAY. Romain previously worked at Virtuo as a Private Investor. Romain Afflelouv attended Ecole active bilingue.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.1M; Series A $5.8M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cashbee — Cashbee is a mobile application to helps save money with budget analysis tools based on artificial intelligence. They wish to help the French to save better and more, and to provide the technological means to do this in the simplest possible way, without having to change banks. The Cashbee App allows you to put money aside with a simple swipe onyour smartphone. They alert you every time when they think you can put some more cash aside.
- Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
- Kubo Labs — Kubo Labs provides a suite of products to simplify your experience with Kubernetes.
Founder & CTO @ Checkmarx
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- Industry: Computer, Network Security, Cloud Security
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $8M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Huskeys — Stop settling for broken WAF. Huskeys unifies multi-WAF control, eliminates false positives, and protects revenue with automated edge security management.
- Aryon Security — Aryon prevents multi-cloud security risks, without changing the definition, management, or operation of your cloud.
Ömer Aras
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- Industry: Retail, Biopharma, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $280k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LIVAD Technologies — LIVAD develops cutting-edge live stream monetization products connecting brands with streamers. Our technology enables brands to reach their target audience authentically at scale while allowing streamers of all sizes to monetize their content consistently.
- 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.
- 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.
Ahmed Karslı is the chairman of the board at Papara.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Art, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $461k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
- Getmobil — 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.
- Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
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