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Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Middle East (July 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Middle East EdTech startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East EdTech startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
5 Turkey Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A iOS, Software, macOS
Bashar Hamood
Angel
3 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $7k–$5M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
3 United States, Nigeria, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $20k–$5M
Zohar Gilon
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Health Care $1.5M–$15M
Guy Gamzu
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Advertising $300k–$30M
Rami Lipman
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed, Series A SaaS, Social, Software $750k–$8M
Nir Zohar
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Publishing, B2B $2M–$14M
Shaula Alexander Yemini
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Angel iOS, Apps, EdTech
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Internet, Software, E-Commerce $100k–$3.7M
Eilon Tirosh
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series C Apps, FinTech, Payments $750k–$4M
Koray Gultekin Bahar
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Convertible Note, Angel Software, FinTech, Financial Services $140k–$1M
Scott Banister
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, Mobile $500k–$45M
Udi Netzer
Angel
1 Israel Seed EdTech, Software, Education
Craig Sherman
Angel
1 United States, Israel Series C, Series D, Seed Software, Health Care, Medical $1.3M–$635M
Mr. Tarek Jallad
Angel
1 Lebanon Series A Internet, Education
Abdulrahman ALJadhee
Angel
1 Saudi Arabia Series A, Series B, Series C EdTech, Internet, Tutoring $19M–$19M
Burak Günsev
Angel
1 Turkey Angel FinTech, Finance, Education
Eran Shir
Angel
1 Israel Seed Music, EdTech, Software
Dan Shapiro
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Angel, Series B Internet, Software, SaaS $425k–$1.4M
Adam Doppelt
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Angel, Convertible Note SaaS, Software, Computer $425k–$3.3M
Ethan Lowry
Angel
1 Israel, United States Angel Computer, Internet, Software $425k–$1.3M
Hemra Ashyrov
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Tutoring, Education, Online Portals
Mustafa Sandal
Angel
1 Turkey Angel FinTech, Finance, Education
Kaustubh Wagle
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Convertible Note EdTech
Andrey Belozerov
Angel
1 Russian Federation Seed Apps, EdTech, FinTech
David Milch
Angel
1 Israel Pre-Seed PaaS, EdTech, Software
Abdulaziz Al Loughani
Angel
1 United States, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Apps, Music $300k–$3M
Yossi Matias
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Music, Social $750k–$8M
Jeff Swartz
Angel
1 Israel Seed Software, Recruiting, Social Impact
Mehmet Murat İsen
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Training, Service Industry
Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden Seed, Angel Travel, Property Management, Leisure
Ayla Cönger
Angel
1 Turkey Seed FinTech, Finance, Education
Rıza Kaya
Angel
1 Turkey Angel E-Learning
Murat Tayhan
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Training, Service Industry
Ramit Harisinghani
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Convertible Note EdTech
Musaab Hakami
Angel
1 United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Erdal Asim Durukan
Angel
1 Turkey Seed EdTech, Education, E-Learning
ONUR BAYINDIR
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel Software, Marketing, Consulting
Arya Bolurfrushan
Angel
1 United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Education
Lamya Mahmood
Angel
1 Oman, United Arab Emirates Seed Tutoring, Education
Nezih Sipahioğlu
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel Marketing, E-Learning, Crowdfunding
Ivanka Trump
Angel
1 United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Education, Farming, CleanTech
Amit Gilon
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Developer Platform
Josh Sutton
Angel
1 Israel Pre-Seed SaaS, Sports, E-Learning
Othman AlOthman
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Seed Content, Language Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Gal Gadot
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Series A Financial Services, EdTech, FinTech
Ben Weiss
Angel
1 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Analytics
Ahmet Bilgen
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Education
Paul Volosov
Angel
1 Israel Seed EdTech, Children, Education
Abdulla Elyas
Angel
1 Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Debt Financing SaaS, Credit, EdTech
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel · 5 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

I am the Art and Code Director at Metromedya Digital Ad Agency. In addition to my role as director, I am also a skilled programmer, designer, and musician. I have expertise in iOS and MacOS development and enjoy snowboarding in my free time. As a self-proclaimed geek, I am always seeking to learn and grow in my field. I am passionate about creatinginnovative and visually appealing designs and using my coding skills to bring them to life.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Software, macOS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
  • Notes.io — A free note-taking app. Online Notes on everywhere.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 3 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 387
  • Round size: Seed $14k–$2M; Pre-Seed $7k–$500k; Series A $33k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 752
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $20k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FellowMe — FellowMe is a social media platform that allows users to meet new people with a search experience, segmented by interests and location.
  • Exnus Protocol — Exnus Protocol is a next-generation decentralized ecosystem built on the Solana blockchain.
  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
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Zohar Gilon
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
  • Hoopo — Hoopo assists companies to boost their logistics operations with cost and power-efficient, LPWA tracking solutions
  • Body Vision Medical — Bronchoscopy, reimagined. Using Artificial Intelligence, the Body Vision Platform delivers real-time imaging without the use of electromagnetic sensors.
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Guy Gamzu
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Guy Gamzu currently works as an Entrepreneur for Guy Gamzu. He previously worked at Yeloha as a Director & co-founder. Guy Gamzu attended City University London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.6M; Series A $1.4M–$5M; Series B $6.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Motion AI — Visually build, train, & deploy chatbots to do just about anything. We have joined the HubSpot family!
  • Generaytor — Generators Solar Power and Alternative Energy Solutions
  • Atlas Invest — A platform for institutional investors to invest in real estate backed bridge loans at scale with reduced risk.
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Rami Lipman
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Rami Lipman is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Social, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$8M; Series A $2.5M–$5.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Matics Manufacturing Analytics Ltd. — Matics real-time manufacturing analytics provides a digital toolbox for factories' production floor management and dramatically increases the production efficiency.
  • Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
  • NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
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Nir Zohar
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Nir Zohar is the COO and President of Wix.com. Attended at Tel Aviv University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Publishing, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Series A $13M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
  • Willow — The AI basecamp for the enterprise.Willow (formerly Webrix) connects any AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to your internal systems with the visibility security needs and the enablement teams want. SSO, RBAC, audit trail, and runtime guards, built in.You'll find: - Technical deep dives on MCP, agents, and AI governance - Enterprise AIadoption playbooks (not hype) - Real implementation walkthroughs from production deployments - Conversations with CISOs, platform leaders, and AI adoption ownersBuilt for: CISOs, VPs of Engineering, platform leads, and CTOs rolling out AI at scale.
  • Safe School Analytics — Safe School Analytics is a software solution for K–12 schools. They produce content to support social and emotional learning and the internet safety of kids and teenagers. With the intention of assisting schools, the organization works in teams composed of subject matter specialists, teaching personnel, educational psychologists, consultants, andsocial workers.
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Shaula Alexander Yemini
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Dr. Shaula Alexander Yemini is a startup mentor, board member and advisor to several technology companies. She is also an angel investor. Until 2007, Shaula was a Vice President at EMC. She joined EMC in 2005 with the acquisition of SMARTS (System Management Arts), a developer of network and system management software that she founded and led asCEO from inception. SMARTS counted among its customers the leading global telecoms, global banks, and multi-national enterprises, as well as thousands of others. Shaula was named as 1 of 10 “Leaders Among Leaders” in Information Technology by Information Week Magazine, and selected as an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Her company SMARTS was an INC 500 company, a Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 company, and won other prestigious awards.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
  • Canvs AI — Canvs AI is an emotion and behavior insights platform that understands how consumers feel, why they feel that way, and the business impact those feelings and behaviors create for brands. Through identifying a massive number of expressions and analyzing more than 10 billion conversations, Canvs’ patented AI and machine learning platform and APIsquickly turn open-ended text from unstructured data, social media comments, marketing campaigns and customer surveys into powerful insights that can improve product and brand experiences. Brands like Disney and AMC, and research companies like Triangulum Insights and Luma Research use Canvs to create research efficiencies, unlock marketing opportunities and increase revenue with the power of emotion and behavior insights. Canvs was recently named to the Inc 5000 list for a second year straight. Canvs' TV solution is powered by Talkwalker’s Social Content Ratings Twitter data. The company is also an official Facebook Media Solutions partner. Start understanding your customers better at canvs.ai.
  • Semperis — Semperis is the industry's most comprehensive Active Directory security and recovery platform, protecting hybrid AD environments from identity-based attacks.
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • each::labs — AI marketplace for developers.
  • 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 — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
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Eilon Tirosh
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • zooz — Manage and optimize multiple payment providers through a single platform.
  • Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
  • Thumzap — Premium domains add authority to your site. Transparent pricing. 1 year WHOIS privacy included. 30-day money back guarantee.
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Koray Gultekin Bahar
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Koray Gultekin Bahar is a Co-Founder & CEO at Figopara.Koray attended Eastern Mediterranean University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$1M; Angel $140k–$200k; Convertible Note $250k–$730k
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
  • Yancep — Yancep is a micro saving, and micro investment application.
  • HrPanda — Streamline your hiring process with HRPanda's advanced applicant tracking system. Manage job postings, track candidates, and simplify recruitment all in one intuitive platform. Transform your hiring with HRPanda!
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Scott Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Seed $660k–$5.8M; Angel $500k–$1.3M; Series A $1.4M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Barndoor AI — Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce.
  • Artemis — Powered by AI, Mona Lee is the fastest, most efficient way for homeowners to go solar. Through a direct-to-consumer approach, Mona Lee’s AI-powered self-serve platform transforms the solar buying experience by eliminating non-stop solicitation calls, lengthy design and evaluation processes, and back-and-forth price negotiations that can take up toweeks. With Mona Lee, customers go from quote to scheduling their installation in minutes. Feel free to visit our website to read customer testimonials and Mona Lee solar reviews.Mona Lee was founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs with decades of experience in clean energy. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA and is proud to serve homeowners nationwide.
  • Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
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Udi Netzer
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Udi Netzer is the Private Investor at Joonko.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Software, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lingua.ly — Founded by Cambridge and Stanford graduates Dr. Jan Ihmels and Dr. Orly Fuhrman, Lingua.ly is a brand new way to learn a language. Collect new words from across the web with Lingua.ly's smart dictionary. Use your new vocab as you read real articles you choose. Immersion is the ultimate way to learn a language, and Lingua.ly’s free, onlinelearning platform uses “digital immersion” to give you all the same benefits no matter where you learn. Do you like to read about science and technology in your spare time? Prefer French recipes or travel magazines? Perhaps following business updates from the Middle East is key to your company’s success? Our patent pending algorithm understands your vocabulary to fill your feed with real articles from the web to suit both your level and interests. Better still, we let you practice your new words through fun games and quizzes. So, give your vocabulary a boost, create some colorful flashcards, keep your mind engaged and explore the web in a new language with Lingua.ly! Learn English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, German and Russian. Lingua.ly’s blended learning solution can be used as a stand-alone product or to complement language classes and self-study course-ware. It is cloud synced and operable via desktop or mobile and supports 18+ dictionary languages. Website: http://lingua.ly App Store: http://bit.ly/1pyL1bb Google Play: http://bit.ly/1s04YuK
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Craig Sherman
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Craig Sherman is a Partner and Managing Director at Meritech since 2011. Craig focuses primarily on digital media and consumer services. Craig has led the firm's investments in Evernote, Zulily, Lynda.com and Ariosa Diagnostics. Prior to Meritech, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Gaia Interactive, which he grew from a 1/2 millionto over a 20 million monthly visitor pioneer in social games and online communities. Prior to joining Gaia, Craig served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. Previously, Craig was Chief Operating Officer of Ancestry.com (ACOM), where he helped lead the company’s pivot from a free family social network to a family history subscription service and grew the company from under $10 million to $150 million in sales and from tens of millions in losses to tens of millions in profits. Before Ancestry.com, Craig held senior positions at AIG: he was Head of Marketing and Internet for all of AIG's Japanese and Korean divisions totaling over $5 billion in sales; and the General Manager of AIG's property management software subsidiary, a $90 million sales company whose growth rate quadrupled during Craig's tenure. Previous to AIG, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Cendant Japan, a joint venture startup he founded with Cendant and Mitsubishi Corporation that he helped grow from inception to over $20 million in sales and profitability. Before that, Craig worked in product, marketing, finance and operations roles at Cendant during its growth from less than a $1 billion to over a $40 billion public company. Craig has personally invested in over a dozen startups including Ancestry, SurveyMonkey, Zillow and Zipcar. In addition, Craig has held independent board and advisory roles with Homestead (prior to its sale to Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Logoworks (Hewlett Packard), Netquote (BankRate), and Photobucket (Fox). Craig graduated magna cum laude with A.B. degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University. Craig spends his 'free' time with his son and daughter - hiking, playing soccer, doing puzzles and even some musical theater. After they go to sleep, he loves to meditate and read classic (AKA “old”) novels.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series C, Series D, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4M; Series C $22M–$200M; Series D $10M–$635M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Glystn — Glystn is a reliable platform for creator analytics and insights of any scale. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in SAN FRANCISCO, California.
  • Scribd, Inc. — Scribd is the unlimited reading subscription that offers access to the best books, audiobooks, news and magazine articles, documents and more. Scribd's e-book subscription service is available on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as well as the Kindle Fire, Nook, and personal computers. Scribd brings together the best books, audiobooks,and journalism to help readers become their best selves. The company offers unlimited access to the best books, audiobooks, articles, documents, and more, all in one app.
  • Toya Pioneering Women — Toya is developing multilayer games for girls on a Minecraft platform. The playful learning experience enables girls to become the heroes while revealing the life stories of exceptional women.
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Mr. Tarek Jallad
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Mr. Tarek Jallad

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Education
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Lebanon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kamkalima — Arabic e-Learning platform that provides high-tech & interactive educational content in line with the modern academic systems.
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Abdulrahman ALJadhee
Angel · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Abdulrahman ALJadhee

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Internet, Tutoring
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series B $19M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
  • Noon Academy — Why Study Alone Again? Start study groups with your friends and access the best teachers on demand!
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Burak Günsev
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Burak Günsev - Advisor @ manibux

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
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Eran Shir
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Eran is the CEO and co-founder of Nexar. Prior to Nexar, he was an entrepreneur in residence at Tel Aviv venture fund, Aleph and ran the global Creative Innovation Center for Yahoo!. Eran received his bachelor’s and master’s in physics from Technion-Machon Technlogi Le’ Israel and his PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from TelAviv University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, EdTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Simply — Feel the joy of playing piano and guitar, or discovering your singing voice, with Simply. The best apps for learning musical instruments.
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Dan Shapiro
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Dan Shapiro is the CEO and primary turtle wrangler at Robot Turtles, a company created when he accidentally launched the bestselling board game in Kickstarter. He has previously spent time leading a Google subsidiary that operates comparison shopping products. Dan Shapiro joined Google when they bought his previous company, Sparkbuy, a comparisonshopping website, where he was founder and CEO.Before Sparkbuy, Dan Shapiro was founder and CEO of Ontela, a pioneering mobile imaging company, where he was named CEO of the Year by MobileBeat. Ontela was frequently recognized including the Dow Jones Top 10 in Wireless list, the CTIA award for Best Social Networking Application, and Breakthrough Startup of the Year by the WTIA.Prior to founding Ontela, Dan Shapiro managed development of the RealArcade service at RealNetworks, enabling thousands of end-users to play classic games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, and Rollercoaster Tycoon on their desktops. He arrived at RealNetworks by way of Wildseed, where he managed software development for the Identity Cellular Phone. Dan Shapiro started his career at Microsoft working on Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.Dan Shapiro's articles have been published in the Washington Post, Wireless Week, and the Seattle PI, and he is a frequent speaker at conferences and events. He serves on the board of the non-profit Washington Technology Industry Association. He is a mentor for the Founder's Institute, 500 Startups, and Techstars. Dan Shapiro has been awarded eleven U.S. patents, and received his B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.4M; Angel $425k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Skilljar — Skilljar is a customer training platform for enterprises to accelerate product adoption and improve customer retention. Their cloud learning management system (LMS) makes it easy to create courses, distribute to web and mobile devices, and track results. It helps to accelerate product adoption, automate onboarding workflows, reduce support costs,and increase long-term customer satisfaction.Skilljar solution allows users to offer courses from their own domain or from the solution’s content management system. The solution includes the option for the users to sell their course via a built-in e-commerce module, which enables direct deposit into the user’s account and corporate invoicing for customers wishing to send payment through a company. It also offers customizable course pages that include user’s branding. Courses include video, audio, live training, and instructor-led training.Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.
  • SparkToro — Our mission is to make it easy to discover the websites, blogs, podcasts, social accounts, and publications that reach your audience.
  • Apptentive — Measure shifts in customer emotion and gather actionable feedback across your mobile customer journey.
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Adam Doppelt
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Entrepreneuer/hacker/investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3.3M; Angel $425k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SparkToro — Our mission is to make it easy to discover the websites, blogs, podcasts, social accounts, and publications that reach your audience.
  • Mediarails — Streamlined Partnership Management Mediarails empowers you to transform concepts into success stories. We offer cutting-edge tools and a commitment to boosting your partnership potential, guiding you to remarkable achievements. Discover More 3500+ Advanced Insights Boost Your Growth with Smart Partnerships Mediarails is committed to empowering businesses by optimizing partnerships. Our mission focuses on innovation and
  • VendorHawk — ServiceNow Software Asset Management runs on a single-architecture platform, enabling faster outcomes to reduce spending and license compliance risks.
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Ethan Lowry
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Ethan Lowry is co-founder of the award-winning restaurant guide Prior to Urbanspoon Ethan helped start a number successful web companies. Most recently he was the VP of Product for Jobster, a recruiting site. Before that he ledthe design team at the mobile start-up Avogadro which was later acquired by mobile-web pioneer Openwave. He also helped start Drugstore.com.Ethan has a bachelor’s degree in Product Design from Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Computer, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Angel $425k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Smore — Cut through the noise and communicate effectively with Smore. Create interactive newsletters that parents and staff actually read. Get started with free school newsletter templates.
  • SparkToro — Our mission is to make it easy to discover the websites, blogs, podcasts, social accounts, and publications that reach your audience.
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Hemra Ashyrov
Angel · Ashgabat, Ahal, Turkmenistan · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Hemra Ashyrov

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tutoring, Education, Online Portals
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dersimix — Dersimix is a platform that connects private tutors with students via online or face-to-face sessions.
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Mustafa Sandal
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Mustafa Sandal - Advisor @ manibux

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
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Kaustubh Wagle
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Kaustubh Wagle

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech
  • Stage:Convertible Note
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • SecureMyScholarship — SecureMyScholarship is the world's number one Scholarship Finder Search Engine. With over 400 university partners and 40,000 course options, our Scholarship Portal assists with finding scholarships for undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate international students. SecureMyScholarship is 100% free for students who receive opportunities to secure their guaranteed scholarship to study abroad. Save money on your higher education by filling in the required information and secure your guaranteed scholarship to study abroad, which is available for your secondary and higher educational students. SecureMyScholarship is sometimes also referred to as SMS or Secure My Scholarship.
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Andrey Belozerov
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Andrey Belozerov is an entrepreneur and investor. Expert in the field of digital technologies and digital transformation, co-founder Digital Disrupt investment club, United Nations Development Program expert.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, EdTech, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Digital Disrupt — Using our experience, networking and expertise, we help projects grow so that they change life around the world to the best.
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David Milch
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

David Milch

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Investment focus

  • Industry: PaaS, EdTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Quonder — Introducing the interactive teaching assistant that will help you save time and focus on what's important!
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Abdulaziz Al Loughani
Angel · Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Abdulaziz is co-founder & CEO of Floward, a full-fledged flowers & gifts ecommerce solution servicing the largest customer base in the MENA region. Abdulaziz is also co-founder & Managing Partner at Faith Capital, a venture capital practice that is focused on the MENA region. Previously, Abdulaziz was the founding Executive ViceChairman of the Kuwait National Fund for SMEs Development, a USD7bn independent public institution responsible for developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Kuwait (2013-2017). Prior to this role, he was a co-founder and Managing Partner of Talabat.com<http://Talabat.com> until 2010, and has since then been investing in technology startups and involved in a number of local and regional entrepreneurial initiatives. Abdulaziz has also previously served as Director at Global Capital Management, the alternative investments arm of Global Investment House “Global” where he has played a major role in managing key investments within the Private Equity Group of Global by handling various assignments on corporate restructuring, business planning, deal structuring, due diligence and managing portfolio companies' to exit. Abdulaziz has served as an executive and member of board on a number of companies within the MENA region in the technology, banking, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer finance, food & beverage and real estate sectors.Abdulaziz holds a Bachelor's degree - double major in Information Systems and E-Commerce from University of Toledo, and an MBA degree from London Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ghinwa — A mobile app for anonymous self-broadcasting and Karaoke.
  • Fakespot — Fakespot spots, analyzes and identifies fake reviews and counterfeits - helping you out when buying stuff online.
  • Yougotagift.com — Buy UAE's most popular gift cards and gift vouchers online! Personalize and digitally send them via email or SMS! Starting at 20 AED. Choose from 200+ Top Brands.
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Yossi Matias
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Yossi Matias is Vice President, Google, and the Head of Google Research. Under Yossi’s leadership, world-class global teams are leading breakthrough research on Foundational Machine Learning & Algorithms, Computing Systems & Quantum Computing, Science, AI for Societal Impact in Health, Climate, Education and Socio-technical research, andfoundational advancements in Generative AI - shaping the future of technology and driving and accelerating the magic cycle between research and real-world impact.Recent research breakthroughs include speculative decoding, generative UI, genAI factuality, AI Co-Scientist, Earth AI, Quantum Echo algorithm, DeepSomatic, MedGemma, Flood Forecasting, FireSat, LearnLM.Yossi was previously on Google Search leadership for over a decade, driving strategic features and technologies, and pioneered Conversational AI innovations to help transform the phone experience and help remove barriers of modality and languages. He was also the founding lead of Google center in Israel and supported other global sites. During his tenure at Google Yossi founded and spearheaded initiatives such as Google's AI for Social Good, Crisis Resilience, Google for Startups Accelerator, social and cultural initiatives seeding Google Arts & Culture, and programs fostering startups, sustainability, and AI literacy for youth.Prior to Google Yossi was on the Computer Science faculty at Tel Aviv University, a visiting professor at Stanford, and a Research Scientist at Bell Labs. He’s published over 200 papers and is the inventor of over 80 patents. He pioneered some of the early technologies for internet privacy, contextual search, and the effective analysis of Big Data. He is a recipient of the Gödel Prize, an ACM Fellow, and a recipient of the ACM Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for seminal work on streaming algorithms, data sketches, and large-scale data analyticsYossi has a track record of impact-driven breakthrough research and innovation, and extensive product leadership, transforming products and advancing AI to help address global challenges.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Music, Social
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sensi AI — Clanz Technologies offers an audio-based system designed to support security in human interactions. The system works by connecting to devices that record audio. It analyzes audio data to find unusual sounds or patterns that may indicate incidents. When an anomaly is detected, the system sends alerts in real time. The service also providesinformation about conditions that can affect care quality, such as stress levels or lack of training. It can be used in places where monitoring human interaction is important for safety. The company offers a demo for organizations that want to use the system.
  • Leo AI — Leo™ is the world's first engineering design copilot, empowering engineers and designers to turn ideas into products in seconds. Leo's generative AI platform transforms text, sketches, specs, and CAD constraints into DFMA-optimized, full-assembly 3D CAD models, saving companies up to 70% of their engineering time and cost. Leading AIresearchers and mechanical engineers from MIT, Technion, Microsoft, and Elbit Systems founded Leo in 2023.
  • Terra Security — Don't lose sleep over pen testing; our expert testers will ensure your systems are secure during the test while focusing their time on the most important assets.
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Jeff Swartz
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Jeff Swartz

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Recruiting, Social Impact
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
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Mehmet Murat İsen
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Mehmet Murat İsen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Training, Service Industry
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Cayli began his career in 2000 and held various positions for Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, and Turev. Founded and led two healthcare companies (Idea and Invivo) and two consultancy companies (Kanvas and Biovenka).He holds a BSc and an MBA, both from Middle East Technical University (aka ODTU).As a seasoned investor, he has 8personal investments including British, Irish, American, Swedish, and Turkish companies, and serves on the Board of some. He also consults startups on behalf of TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific & Technological Research Council). He is a member of BIC Angels and GAIN Global.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Property Management, Leisure
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Yourkeys — 'Yourkeys is a real-time transactional and data platform for house builders and estate agents selling properties. The platform significantly accelerates the property sales process whilst giving all stakeholders visibility of the transaction in real-time.'
  • Adalethanim — Adalethanim is a legal platform working with AI that analyzes, understands, interprets, and produces results to help with legal research, allowing the person working on the case to save time and access more information about a case. The company's vision is to make justice fast, cheap and accessible to everyone.Adalethanim was founded in 2018and is headquartered in Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Turkey.
  • 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.
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Ayla Cönger
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Ayla Cönger

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
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Rıza Kaya
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Rıza Kaya

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Voltran — Voltran is a subscription-based digital platform for high school students.
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Murat Tayhan
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Murat Tayhan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Training, Service Industry
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
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Ramit Harisinghani
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Ramit Harisinghani - General Manager, MENA @ b8ta

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech
  • Stage:Convertible Note
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • SecureMyScholarship — SecureMyScholarship is the world's number one Scholarship Finder Search Engine. With over 400 university partners and 40,000 course options, our Scholarship Portal assists with finding scholarships for undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate international students. SecureMyScholarship is 100% free for students who receive opportunities to secure their guaranteed scholarship to study abroad. Save money on your higher education by filling in the required information and secure your guaranteed scholarship to study abroad, which is available for your secondary and higher educational students. SecureMyScholarship is sometimes also referred to as SMS or Secure My Scholarship.
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Musaab Hakami
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Founder, Ex-GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lisan — Lisan is an AI writing platform offering state-of-the-art proofreading and grammar checking to help individuals who write in Arabic to maximize their productivity, create exceptional content using cutting-edge generative AI models, and automate tasks with AI accelerators.
  • Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs with worldwide investors for sharia-compliant investments with 15% yearly income through small business debt crowdfunding.
  • Groundfloor — Groundfloor Club: A neighborhood workspace where productivity, connection & community come together.
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Erdal Asim Durukan
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Erdal Asim Durukan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Education, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Octovan — Octovan is an online leading platform that combines reliable movers with users who need moving.
  • 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.
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ONUR BAYINDIR
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

ONUR BAYINDIR

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketing, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Babiot — Babiot develops electronics online tools to access control and tracking systems. It offers indoor navigation, wireless technologies, and location-based services to safely track people. Babiot is based in Essen, Germany.
  • PlusDisc — PlusDisc provides tools for Candidate Assessment and Personality Tests.
  • Volans Video Agency — Volans Video Agency is full-service creative video agency for brands and agencies. Explainer Videos, 3D Videos, Promotion Videos, Testimonial Videos!
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Arya Bolurfrushan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Oliv — Oliv.com is a career marketplace based in Dubai, made for the youth of the Middle East. We connect students and graduates to employers for internships, part-time & graduate jobs. Launched in 2013, we set out to tackle a huge problem - a 30% youth unemployment rate in the MENA region. Oliv helps university students and graduates launch theircareers. And we're pretty good at it.Today, Oliv is home to thousands of students and graduates where their ambitions are aligned to opportunity. More than 1,000 businesses from startups to Fortune 500s use Oliv to hire top emerging talent to maintain a healthy talent pipeline and grow their business for the future.Our goal is to make launching careers simple, personal and rewarding. That's Oliv.
  • The Applied AI Company (AAICO) — AAICO is a leading AI technology company with a team of renowned Silicon Valley-based engineers, applied AI experts, and seasoned entrepreneurs.
  • Jingle Pay — Join now and get your ZERO fees, forever FREE account.
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Lamya Mahmood
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Lamya Mahmood

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Tutoring, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Oman, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pottoin — NUnit is the most popular unit test framework for .NET.
  • Thiqa Tutoring — Thiqa Tutoring (TT) is Tutors Providers, by customers, for educational and teaching services. International educational and teaching methodologies and standards.
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Nezih Sipahioğlu
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Nezih Sipahioğlu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, E-Learning, Crowdfunding
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Ivanka Trump
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Ivanka Trump

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Farming, CleanTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Twigtale — Twigtale is the first company to provide parents with personalized, high-quality, accessible expert advice for every major transition a child undergoes, such as welcoming a new baby, moving, even experiencing death or cancer. The personalized stories are scripted by child development experts, then personalized by parents. The books are engaging forkids and a powerful playbooks for parents. Customers are parents, groups, partners & sponsors.
  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
  • University of The Community/ Indigenous Cultural Arts Museum — UNIVERSITY FOR SELF LEARNING
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Amit Gilon
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Amit Gilon is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Developer Platform
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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!
  • daily.dev — daily.dev is the fastest growing online community for developers to stay updated on the best developer news. Together we supercharge developers' knowledge and empower better software.
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Josh Sutton
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Josh Sutton is the Founder and CEO of USIL Capital is a parent company to several startups and brands. Real Estate, healthcare, Tech and Fashion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Sports, E-Learning
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Skillset — Skillset is a game-based sports e-learning platform that offers young athletes and sports fans the opportunity to learn from leading professional athletes. Through its app, Skillset offers courses that break down techniques and tactics used by some of the world's top football players into easy-to-follow lessons. The app is designed to behighly engaging, with social and gamification elements that encourage continued viewing and sharing.
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Othman AlOthman
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Othman AlOthman

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Language Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lisan — Lisan is an AI writing platform offering state-of-the-art proofreading and grammar checking to help individuals who write in Arabic to maximize their productivity, create exceptional content using cutting-edge generative AI models, and automate tasks with AI accelerators.
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Gal Gadot
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Gal Gadot-Varsano is an Israeli actress and model. She is famous for portraying Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe, starting with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and then the solo film Wonder Woman and the ensemble Justice League.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, EdTech, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • AdaSwap — The next-gen DEX based on Cardano! Swap, bridge & trade between Cardano-based tokens, NFTs and stablecoins within seconds.
  • MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
  • Safe School Analytics — Safe School Analytics is a software solution for K–12 schools. They produce content to support social and emotional learning and the internet safety of kids and teenagers. With the intention of assisting schools, the organization works in teams composed of subject matter specialists, teaching personnel, educational psychologists, consultants, andsocial workers.
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Ben Weiss
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Has 20 years experience working globally in investment banking, asset management, private equity and corporate law. Through a diverse range of roles in Asia, including with Salomon Smith Barney, Macquarie Bank, Shinsei Bank, AXA, CLSA and Baker and McKenzie, Ben brings to both funds a broad set of analytical skills with a focus on investment duediligence and strategic business development. Ben has a BCom and LL.B from the University of NSW, is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and graduate of Sydney College of Law. Ben is a Member of the CFA Institute, and the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts and is an Associate Member of the Law Society of NSW.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Analytics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

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  • DiA Imaging Analysis — DiA is the leading provider of FDA cleared and CE marked ultrasound AI solutions that make the use and analysis of ultrasound images smarter, faster and accessible to all. Our solutions address the main challenges ultrasound users face - manually capturing and visually analyzing ultrasound images.
  • Panoply — Easily sync, store, and access all your business data with a cloud data platform designed for analysts.
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Ahmet Bilgen
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Ahmet Bilgen Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur and angele investor. He lives in Famagusta-North Cyprus. He finished primary school and high School in Famagusta. He has been a very active person all throughout his life, he received a Black Belt II. Dan in TaeKwon-do, played in the local soccer team while studying at Canbulat high school. Ahmet was alsohelping his family with their farming business by selling the produce to shops, making some money in the meanwhile which he used to buy his first bicycle, first ball or his first pair of sneakers. Ahmet graduated with Bsc in Applied Marth and Computer Science from Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 he got his Masters degree in Computer Science. Right after he started his PhD degree in Computer Science but decided to quit academia after his first semester. During his masters and PhD degrees, he took part in developing intelligent user interfaces and inmemory data concepts for mobile devices. After leaving academic life, Ahmet worked in various IT companies for about 2 years and then joined SAP where he had his first professional work experience. Ahmet joined SAP Turkey as the Technology Consultant, and therefore took part in the implementation of more than 100 SAP projects with companies like Yaşar, Koç, Sabancı, Havelsan, Arena etc. as these were the first implementers of SAP ERP in Turkey. During his tenure at SAP, he worked in various roles such as technical consultant, business analyst, project and team manager and architect. Ahmet, after working at SAP for 2 years and getting enough project experience and honing on his technical skils, he decided to set up FIT “Future Information Technology” Solutions together with 3 of his friends in 1999. By the end of 1999 FIT had already made its first million USD revenue. FIT has integrated Turkey’s most important e-commerce platform named “Arena Computer Supplier Portal” with SAP. This was featuted as an international success story by SAP Inside magazine in 2001. FIT Solutions(lately became Foriba) has a lot of experience from completing many software integration projects. Working with the top 250 companies also gives the company the advantage to have a more extensible, scalable, sustainable and supportable product. These experiences and know-how attained over the years put the company in an advantageous position to achieve end-to-end e-invoicing solutions. in 2019 Ahmet Bilgen exited from Foriba. Foriba did: - Series A With Revo Capital - Series B With Revo, IFC, Endeavor Catalyst - Exit

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • FlexyWatt — FlexyWatt's smart energy management technology allows consumers to optimize energy use and cut electricity expenditures.
  • Topi — Topi is an B2B e-commerce platform for wholesale market.
  • admarket.co — Admarket is a trailblazing AdTech startup that's reshaping the advertising landscape. By offering a streamlined and secure platform for reserving, purchasing, and selling ad spaces, it connects advertisers and media owners like never before. With just one click, advertisers can book various types of ad spaces - including TV, radio, digitalscreen, outdoor, in-store, and in-flight - from anywhere in the world.Admarket simplifies the process of securing ad spaces from preferred media owners and agencies, while its payment service provider, Stripe, ensures top-notch security for customer credit card information. Media owners benefit by gaining access to a global customer base and boosting their revenue.Designed for ease of use, Admarket allows advertisers to view ad spaces on a map, similar to hotel booking sites. Its innovative AdsChange feature enables media owners to swap ad spaces with one another, like exchanging billboard space for radio ads. Plus, advertisers can swiftly broadcast urgent announcements via TV or radio.Looking ahead, Admarket aims to leverage AI technology for identifying sector-specific advertising needs, planning, and design. It will also incorporate automatic bid strategies for outdoor media, TV, and radio ad spaces. Advertisers will be able to view cost-effective advertising options on various timeframes through chart data, akin to flight ticket pricing. Moreover, the AdBroker feature will enable media owners to earn additional income through Admarket's profit-sharing program.In a nutshell, Admarket is a groundbreaking AdTech startup that's revolutionizing the advertising industry by streamlining ad space booking for advertisers and expanding the customer base for media owners. With plans to introduce even more cutting-edge features, Admarket will continue to drive innovation for both advertisers and media owners.
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Paul Volosov
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Paul Volosov

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Children, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Jotit — Jotit is a cutting-edge educational technology startup that uses handwriting tools to help kids, instructors, and parents stay organized.
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Abdulla Elyas
Angel · Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in Middle East EdTech startups

Abdulla Elyas is the Co-Founder of Careem. He previously worked at enwani (Acquired by Careem) as a Co-Founder. Abdulla Elyas attended RWTH Aachen University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Credit, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pemo — Pemo is an all-in-one spend management solution that empowers your business by packing every company invoice, expense, approval and spending decision into one powerful platform.Our offering includes smart corporate cards, invoice payment systems and expense tracking functions. These are supported by automated approval flows, direct accountingintegration and real-time reporting - features that allow business owners to save time, save money, automate admin and every expense so you can get on with what you do best - building great businesses.
  • Buildnow — BuildNow is MENAP's first "Build Now Pay Later" solution. We fund the raw materials construction & manufacturing SMEs need, while providing credit terms tailored to optimize their cash flow and supercharge their growth.
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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