Top 10 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in Middle East (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Samih Toukan
Angel
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2 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Jordan | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $500k–$7.1M |
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Steven Blumgart
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital | |
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Yahya Acun
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel, Pre-Seed | Medical, Marketing, Health Care | |
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Jamal Fayoumi
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services | |
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Efe Duran Sarikaya
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel | Fitness, Apps, Shipping | $600k–$4.5M |
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Ertan Aksu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services | |
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Robert Citron
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital | |
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Mishaal Alireza
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates, United States | Series A, Seed | iOS, Apps, Video | $1M–$2M |
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Nezih Sipahioğlu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Software, Marketing, E-Learning | |
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Rafi Gidron
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services | $100k–$8M |
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In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Series A $1.5M–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kitchenful — Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits.
- Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
- Jusoor Labs — Jusoor Labs is an edtech startup that provides interactive simulations and virtual labs for students and educational institutions.
Steven Blumgart is an investor in, and board member of, a number of privately-held businesses. Until January 2012, Mr. Blumgart was Co-director of the aluminum division at Glencore International plc, one of the largest commodity trading firms in the world, valued at $40bn. Mr. Blumgart joined Swiss based Glencore in October 1998, where he served inthe coal commodity department, responsible for its industrial assets, before moving to the aluminum division. Prior to joining Glencore, Mr. Blumgart worked for three years at Grant Thornton in Johannesburg. Mr. Blumgart completed his Bachelor of Commerce (Tax Honours) degree from the University of Witwatersrand, and is a South African Chartered Accountant. In addition, Mr. Blumgart holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
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- Industry: FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OurCrowd — Invest in exclusive and pre-vetted startups, late-stage companies, and top tier funds - private market access made simple, transparent, and institutional-grade.
Yahya Acun
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- Industry: Medical, Marketing, Health Care
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
- Selfweller — Selfweller is an artificial intelligence-based self-therapy application that prepares tailored "voice self-therapy" sessions and interactive exercises for the resolution of psychological and emotional difficulties and intends to enable users to experience self-help.
Jamal Fayoumi is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Fixalign.
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- Industry: Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
Efe Duran Sarikaya
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- Industry: Fitness, Apps, Shipping
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $715k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- NoExit Games — We create mobile hyper-casual games, you don't want to exit :)
Ertan Aksu
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- Industry: Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
Robbie Citron brings to OurCrowd over 25 years of experience in financial management, including over a decade of working with start-ups through his role as Partner and CFO of Jerusalem Global Ventures, a leading Israeli venture capital fund. He also serves as consulting CFO for several independent Israeli biotech and medical start-ups, mostrecently with Izun Pharmaceuticals and Molecular Detection, Inc. Earlier in his career, Robbie was Financial Controller and Company Secretary of the Israeli branch of Hanson PLC and worked as a public accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Israel and BDO Stoy Hayward in London. He is a Certified Public Accountant in Israel and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounts in England & Wales. Robbie received an honors degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science and sets aside part of his spare time to work with several Jerusalem-based charitable institutions.
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- Industry: FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OurCrowd — Invest in exclusive and pre-vetted startups, late-stage companies, and top tier funds - private market access made simple, transparent, and institutional-grade.
Mishaal Alireza - Board Member @ DokkanAfkar
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- Industry: iOS, Apps, Video
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $1M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hang w/ — We leverage our 13 years of experience and innovative design practices to help our top-tier clients achieve success.
- Clip the Deal — Save money on grocery brands in UAE with Clip the Deal. Find discount deals, reviews of grocery items of top brands. Download the free app and start saving.
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Nezih Sipahioğlu
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- Industry: Software, Marketing, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ideasoft — IdeaSoft is a Turkish software company founded on March 23, 2005. It provides businesses and individuals with web-based software solutions, software design, desktop software solutions, e-commerce solutions, and more.IdeaSoft's clients include MODA, Puma, TRT, Turk Hava Yollari, FEM, LOYA, Nelson, ENplus, Essenso, Bellona, Soley, BunDesign, Fonex, and more.
- Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
- Edurey Eğitim, Danışmanlık, Bilişim ve Yazılım Hizmetleri A.Ş — A Learning Experience Platform where you can include users' experience and participation in processes while offering a social learning environment with different features. You can include the learner experience in all your training processes with EDUREY LXP. Or You can choose Edurey LMS which is The training management system, where you canmake your training management processes in the corporate or academic field, offers a unique experience to the users.
Rafi Gidron is the Founder and Chairman of Israel Brain Technologies. He previously worked at Lucent as a VP of Optical networks. Rafi Gidron attended Columbia University.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
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