# Top 50 Consumer Angel Investors in Middle East in June 2026

## Sina Afra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet

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

## Nevzat Aydın
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

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.

## Omer Hayrı Erkmen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Analytics, E-Commerce

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

## Danny Leshem
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, B2B, Cyber Security

INT3 (Managing Partner); Kidaro (co-founder, acq. MSFT); OpenRest (co-founder, acq. WIX); angel investor.

## Joachim Behrendt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Social Media

Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.

## Mickey Boodaei
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Network Security, Cyber Security, Security

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).

## Bashar Hamood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

## Uri Levine
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Travel

Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit

## Yoav Amit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Herseliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, B2C

Yoav Amit is an angel investor. Attended Tel Aviv University.

## Gigi Levy Weiss
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps

Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.

## Zohar Gilon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

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.

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

## Bedii Can Yucaoglu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Mobile, Big Data

Bedii Can Yucaoglu - Advisor @ Hesapkurdu

## Semih Hakyemez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Toys, PC Games, Online Games

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.

## Emre Can
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games

Emre Can

## Ofer Ben Noon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv-yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Cyber Security, SaaS

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).

## Ariel Maislos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## N.Mert Kalkavan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Toys, PC Games, Online Games

N.Mert Kalkavan is a CEO @ Doping Hafıza.

## Oren Zeev
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, FinTech

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.

## Maty Siman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Computer, Network Security, Cloud Security

Founder & CTO @ Checkmarx


## Nuri Şahin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games

Nuri Şahin

## Yaron Samid
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ramat Hasharon, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS

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.

## Onur Topac
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Hardware

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.

## Oren Dobronsky
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Software

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 :)

## Abdulaziz Alyabis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Electronics

Abdulaziz Alyabis

## Marius Nacht
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv-yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Machine Learning

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.

## Altay Tinar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: CRM, Apps, Software

Altay Tinar - Co-Founder & CEO @ Yuvako

## Ofir Ehrlich
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Software

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.

## Ali Karakuş
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Toys, PC Games, Online Games

Ali Karakuş is a Co-Founder at Doping Hafıza.

## Rakesh K. Loonkar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Cyber Security, Network Security, Security

Rakesh is the President and Co-Founder of Transmit Security.

Rakesh earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

## Aaron Applbaum
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv-yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Cyber Security

Aaron Applbaum - Partner @ MizMaa Ventures

## Tencho Shivkov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Tencho Shivkov

## Murat Balcı
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, mHealth

Murat Balci is an angel investor.

## Oskar Hartmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive

Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP.  He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

## Danny Hadar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

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.

## Fabrice Grinda
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet

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.

## Eyal Gruner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cyber Security, Computer, Security

Eyal Gruner is the co-founder and CEO of Cynet.

He is also co-founder of BugSec. Member of Cyberstarts.

## Shlomo Kramer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Security

Shlomo is co-founder and CEO of Cato Networks. He is a network security expert and a serial entrepreneur. Shlomo has co-founded Check Point Software, who created the first commercial Firewall, and Imperva, the innovator of the Web Application Firewall. Shlomo has made early investments in successful cybersecurity companies including Palo AltoNetworks, Trusteer, and numerous others. He was named CEO of the Year by SC Magazine in 2008, one of “20 luminaries who changed the network industry” by Network World in 2006, and was inducted into the InfoSec Hall of Fame in April 2013.Shlomo holds a master’s degree in computer science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University.
@office.ceohq@gmail.com

## George Gogolev
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

George Gogolev - General Manager Severstal Ventures @ Severstal North America

## Nasser Chourbagi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fashion, E-Commerce, Sustainability

Nasser Chourbagi is the owner of Consolidated Casuals.

## Tod Johnson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Port Washington, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Private Equity
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, SaaS

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.

## Dilek Dayinlarli
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, iOS, Transportation

Dilek was actively investing as an angel and being an active chairwomen since 2017. She has been an angel investor in companies like Picus Security, DataRow (acquired by AWS), Genomize, and Genialis, having a board seat on multiple of them.Previously she was an investor at 212, an early-stage technology venture capital in İstanbul. She investedin companies like IyziCo, the biggest Fintech company in the region and Insider, global marketing automation software, funded by Sequoia Capital and so on.Prior to 212, Dilek worked at Groupon as Director of Strategy and Analysis, Management Consultant at Accenture and Business Developer at Koc Group. She started her career in the USA, where she held different project management positions and also started her own startup.Dilek received a BA honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Yildiz Technical University and MBA from Johnson & Wales University, both with honor degrees. Dilek is also one of the first Kauffman Fellows, chosen from Turkey and distinguished by scholarship. She is also a founding member and leader of Arya Women Investment Platform. She is a guest lecturer at Stanford University and a judge at European Commission. Dilek was awarded as One of the Most Successful Women Leaders in Turkey, thanks to her contributions and impact on tech industry.Outside the office, Dilek loves to experience authenticity in new destinations. She is a competitive basketball player, a serious artwork collector, and an avid reader of books. She puts deliberate effort to spend quality time with her loving family and friends; informative pastry cooking sessions with her daughter, sophisticated board games while drinking coffee with relatives and friends, or book clubs to foster intellectual curiosity between friends and colleagues. She also jumps every morning to find the leaders of future who will be able to create big impact and help them at their journey. It is fascinating to witness how her life outside the office enriches her work as an investor.

## Avishai Abrahami
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Social Media

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

## Eyal Gura
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence

Eyal Gura is the Board Member of Imagene AI. He previously worked at Zebra Medical Vision Ltd as a Co-Founder, President and Chairman of the Board. Eyal Gura attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

## Andreas Wuchner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Computer, Security

Andreas is an experienced and recognized Cyber & Risk expert, business owner, board advisor and investor who has experience in operating within complex global business environments. Someone who lived in several international business hubs including London, New York, Frankfurt, Sydney and Zurich. Andreas has more than 25 years of experience andknowledge in his area of expertise.

## Ahmet Ramiz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Wellness, Biotechnology

Ahmet Ramiz

## Joey Low
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Information Technology

Joey is the Founder of Star Farm Ventures, an early stage investing incubator bringing Israeli startups to the US market. Joey studied and lived in Israel, and developed a program for bringing Israeli students to the U.S. on advocacy missions. Among other things, Joey is the founder of the Israel at Heart Fellowship Program.

## Volkan Bicer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Online Games, iOS, Mobile

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.

## Fady Hannah-Shmouni, MD FRCPC
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Blockchain, FinTech

Fady Hannah-Shmouni, MD ABIM FRCPC is an Iraqi-Canadian physician-entrepreneur who specializes in endocrinology, hypertension and genetics. He is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia, and an early-stage investor and advisor with over 10 years of clinical and business experience. He has conducted extensive researchin the field of hormones and genetics at America’s research hospital, the National Institutes of Health, and co-founded and financed several startup companies in the fintech, blockchain and healthcare sectors. Business:Fady is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of FHS Capital (fhscapital.io), a privately held early-stage investment fund focusing on real estate, express car wash services, wellness and digital assets. He serves as a strategic advisor and consultant on several healthTech and blockchain companies, focusing on strategic planning, operational skills, business support, and financing. He led several seed financing rounds, including; Ovenue Inc. (ovenue.com), a no-code AI and blockchain Platform-as-a-Service for real-world asset valuation and tokenization; Flyby (flyby.global), a technology platform connecting last mile delivery with digital out of home advertising; and Fluus (fluus.com), a web3 ramping solution. Medicine:Fady completed clinical training in internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine; adult endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the National Institutes of Health; and clinical biochemical genetics at the University of Toronto. He is board-certified in internal medicine and endocrinology by the American Board of Internal Medicine and Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada; and in clinical hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension. He is an active staff physician and adjunct professor at Vancouver General Hospital (UBC), and Trillium Health Partners (UofT), and a fellow with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Research: Fady served the NIH (2015-2021) as a physician-scientist in endocrinology/genetics, Head of Graduate Medical Education and Associate Program Director of endocrinology fellowship program. His research interests remain on adrenal disorders including primary aldosteronism, a common cause of hypertension that is potentially reversible with early detection and treatment. He has authored over 100 original articles, book chapters and reviews on endocrine-genetic conditions (h-index 20, i10-index 42), and was the founding member and first Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal Endocrine and Metabolic Science (Elsevier).

## James Packer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: iOS, Music, Android

James Packer