Top 15 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in Middle East (September 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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Paul Gozzo
Angel
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed | Real Estate, Residential, FinTech | $4M–$4.6M |
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Yigal Tamir
Angel
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1 | Israel | Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, Communities, Crowdfunding | |
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Hana RADO
Angel
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1 | Israel | Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, Communities, Crowdfunding | |
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Elan Zivotofsky
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Apps, Automotive, Image Recognition | |
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Yahya Acun
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel, Pre-Seed | Medical, Marketing, Health Care | |
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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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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Travel, Leisure, Internet | $18k–$1.3M |
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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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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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Atakan Atalar
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Rental, Software | $100k–$100k |
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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.
Paul Gozzo has over 20 years of experience investing in residential real estate with the past decade dedicted to working with institutional investors of single-family rentals (SFR).Paul Gozzo is also an early- stage investor and advisor to founders and emerging managers of Real Estate companies including Bridge Tower, SFR3, Origin, HometeamVentures, PadSplit, Stake.Rent, and True Home.Previously, Paul served in various capacities at RESICAP developing business as their EVP of Business Development working with what are now the most established SFR Funds & REITs that exist today.Paul's specialty is in working with institutional Single Family Residential (SFR) investors including new entrants and emerging cohorts such as Build-To-Rent (BTR), Co-Living, HPA, Sale-Leaseback and others.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Residential, FinTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $4M–$4.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PadSplit — PadSplit offers clean, modern furnished rooms for rent to community members at an affordable weekly fee, including utilities, WiFi, laundry access, 24/7 telemedicine service and more. See available homes today.
- True Home — True Home is a home concierge service providing a dedicated point of contact for home improvement and maintenance. Using the True Home platform, homeowners can schedule all routine maintenance from lawn care to carpet cleaning or house painting. Homeowners also use the dedicated concierge for larger home projects which range from refinishing floorsto re-landscaping a yard or remodeling a house. True Home's platform provides a trusted and transparent way to interact with contractors, document change orders and issue payments once the work is complete. Since homeowners contract directly with True Home which in turn subcontracts the work to the chosen contractor, True Home provides a dedicated point of contact for the entire home improvement journey to ensure that the homeowner is delighted with the work and services being completed.The True Home concierge service is available on a subscription basis for homeowners and real estate investors which may own more than one home at a rate of $99 per month for the first home and $49 per month for each additional home managed by the user. True Home also provides a free tier available to all homeowners who can enter the information about their current home and get reminders when it is time for regular maintenance items
- Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
Yigal Tamir
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- Industry: Internet, Communities, Crowdfunding
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Innovesta — Padangtoto merupakan sumber rejeki bagi para pencari uang instan dengan proses cepat dan aman.
Hana Rado is the Founder at Spring Valley. Hana Rado attended Tel Aviv University.
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- Industry: Internet, Communities, Crowdfunding
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Innovesta — Padangtoto merupakan sumber rejeki bagi para pencari uang instan dengan proses cepat dan aman.
Elan Zivotofsky has over 15 years of extensive, on-the-ground experience, focused on researching, raising capital for, and investing in Israeli companies. Elan has deep knowledge of the Israeli investment landscape, startup scene and the overall Israeli capital markets. Until recently, Elan was the Managing Partner of the Prelude Israel Fund, whichwas a hedge fund focused on Israeli companies. Elan was a Senior Vice President and the Head of Technology investment banking at Lehman Brothers in Israel from 2005-2008. Prior to that position, Elan was a portfolio manager at a global $1.5 billion hedge fund with a focus on long/short, catalyst driven and special situation investing. Between 1997-2002, Elan was a top-ranked Israeli technology research analyst at Goldman Sachs. Elan started his career as a technology research analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York (1994-1997). Elan received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania (magna cum laude).
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- Industry: Apps, Automotive, Image Recognition
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nexar — Nexar dash cams record in up to 4K with LTE connectivity, automatic cloud backup, and live parking alerts. Shop the Beam2, Beam2 Mini, and Nexar One.
- OurCrowd — Invest in exclusive and pre-vetted startups, late-stage companies, and top tier funds - private market access made simple, transparent, and institutional-grade.
- Scopio Labs — Scopio Labs is a provider of Full Field Morphology dedicated to unlocking the potential of imaging and AI in hematology. Uncovering actionable insights from vast amounts of data readily available in the average blood sample and bone marrow aspirate, Scopio's solutions will aim to showcase thousands of cells at scale in high resolution, toenable new hematology diagnostic methods.
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.
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.
Kıvılcım Çaylı is the author of "Startup Investor's Handbook", a technology company investor with 18 investments in 5 countries, management consultant, and private equity professional.He holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration), CPEP™ (Chartered Private Equity Professional), and FMVA® (Financial Modeling & ValuationAnalyst) degrees and a Capital Markets Activities License Level 3. After many years of corporate business experience in global companies and entrepreneurial experience in the companies he founded, he has contributed to the growth journey of nearly a hundred companies in his management consultancy career.He is the CEO of Kanvas Management Consultancy Company and Kılıç Çaylı & Partners Law Office and Private Equity & Venture Capital (PE & VC) Director & Partner at Financial Axis A.Ş. | GGI. He makes his personal investments under the Pareto Ventures brand.
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- Industry: Travel, Leisure, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $18k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fonbulucu — fonbulucu is a crowding funding platform that provide innovative financing and investment system benefit to entrepreneurs and investors.
- Teleporter — California and Istanbul based VR gaming company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of VR medium and creating high-quality experiences that redefine social interaction and gaming.
- UnderTheDoormat — UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation.
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.
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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 :)
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.
- Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
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 — Discover Acme, your go-to destination for innovative solutions and exceptional service. Explore our wide range of products and services designed to meet your unique needs.
Atakan Atalar is the Founder of Atanova Ventures. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com (acquired by Gusto) as an Investor. Atakan Atalar attended Istanbul Kultur University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Rental, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $100k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Roombadi — Roombadi is a rental apartment platform that enables users can find a roommate or a house whenever they want by posting free ads.
- TRANGELS — Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
- StartupFon — StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.
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.
- Dig — dig is a social listening platform using AI to analyze social video. Track brand mentions and sentiment analysis with our real-time media monitoring tool.
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