Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Middle East in May 2026
Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Middle East in May 2026
| Investor | EdTech Middle East investments |
|---|---|
| Bashar Hamood | 3 |
| Hesham Zreik | 3 |
| Rami Lipman | 2 |
| Eilon Tirosh | 2 |
| Shaula Alexander Yemini | 2 |
| Guy Gamzu | 2 |
| Ugur Ethem AYDIN | 2 |
| Zohar Gilon | 2 |
| Yossi Matias | 1 |
| Mazen Al Jubeir | 1 |
| Koray Gultekin Bahar | 1 |
| Mekan Yusupov | 1 |
| Hemra Ashyrov | 1 |
| Dr. Lama | 1 |
| Dalia Al Sulaiman | 1 |
| Abdulrahman ALJadhee | 1 |
| Dan Shapiro | 1 |
| Adam Doppelt | 1 |
| Eli Manning | 1 |
| Ethan Lowry | 1 |
| Hande Enes | 1 |
| Andrey Belozerov | 1 |
| Mustafa Sandal | 1 |
| Chris DeVore | 1 |
| Barış Conger | 1 |
| Nilüfer Günhan | 1 |
| Joe Heitzeberg | 1 |
| David Milch | 1 |
| Abdullah Alzabin | 1 |
| Gil Hirsch | 1 |
| Kelly Smith | 1 |
| Hadi Partovi | 1 |
| Shai Rephaeli | 1 |
| Patrick O'Donnell | 1 |
| Jeff Swartz | 1 |
| Mehmet Murat İsen | 1 |
| Kivilcim Cayli | 1 |
| Scott Banister | 1 |
| Ayla Cönger | 1 |
| Rıza Kaya | 1 |
| Murat Tayhan | 1 |
| Ramit Harisinghani | 1 |
| Musaab Hakami | 1 |
| Erdal Asim Durukan | 1 |
| ONUR BAYINDIR | 1 |
| Arya Bolurfrushan | 1 |
| Lamya Mahmood | 1 |
| Nezih Sipahioğlu | 1 |
| Ivanka Trump | 1 |
| Burak Günsev | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!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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- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
- TravelTales — TravelTales is a platform that connects travelers with local guides who offer personalized.
- Mancano And Associates — Domain name Mancano.com exudes a sense of mystery and intrigue, with a versatile appeal that can cater to a wide range of startups. The names brevity, with only 7 letters, makes it easy to remember and type, ideal for establishing a strong
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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- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Credit Cooperatif Africain — Crédit Coopératif Africain is a Rwandan microfinance institution established as a private limited company and subsidiary of SCIAC Ltd.
- Primelocation care givers foundation — Primelocation care givers foundation is the promoter and sponsor of an 80-bed secondary..
- Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity — Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity is a faith-based non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated.
Rami Lipman is an angel investor.
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- SaaS, Social, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
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...
Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.
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- Apps, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Israel, United States
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.
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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- iOS, Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, Israel
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.
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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- Software, Mobile, Advertising
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Zoog — Be part of their story
- 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
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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- iOS, Software, macOS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey
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.
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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- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
- Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
- Annabella — The Electric Breast Pump that mimics a baby's tongue. This technology encourages the release of oxytocin and prolactin hormones, leading to a 50% increase in average milk production.
Yossi Matias is Vice President, Engineering, at Google and the Head of Google's R&D Center in Israel which he established. He leads global efforts in Search, AI, and Crisis Response (some highlights here), and is the founding executive lead of Google’s Campus Tel Aviv, the birthplace of Launchpad and other global entrepreneurship programs.In addition to his executive and entrepreneurial experience, Yossi has been on the Computer Science faculty at Tel Aviv University, and previously a Research Scientist at Bell Labs and visiting professor at Stanford. He published extensively, has dozens of patents on his name, and pioneered some of the early technologies for the effective analysis of big data, internet privacy, and contextual search. He is a recipient of the Godel Prize and is an ACM Fellow.Yossi was on the board of IATI - Israel Advanced Technology industries - and is co-chair of IATI’s Multi National Companies Forum.
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- Music, Social, Content
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel
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.
- Enso — Build or buy AI agents to automate your business.
- 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.
Mazen Al Jubeir - Board Member @ Careem
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- Apps, EdTech, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Ocurate — Predicting customer LTV at the individual level at 90%+ accuracy informs marketing investments, forecasting, and general business health.
- Soum — Soum is reimagining recommence in the MENA region and beyond by building the most convenient, trustworthy, and transparent recommence marketplace, starting with consumer electronics in Saudi Arabia.
- Noon Academy — Why Study Alone Again? Start study groups with your friends and access the best teachers on demand!
Koray Gultekin Bahar is a Co-Founder & CEO at Figopara.Koray attended Eastern Mediterranean University.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Sharing Economy
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, Estonia
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.
- Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
- 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!
Mekan Yusupov
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- Tutoring, Education, Online Portals
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Dersimix — Dersimix is a platform that connects private tutors with students via online or face-to-face sessions.
Hemra Ashyrov
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- Tutoring, Education, Online Portals
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Dersimix — Dersimix is a platform that connects private tutors with students via online or face-to-face sessions.
Dr. Lama
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- Education, Mobile Apps, Peer to Peer
- Seed
- Lebanon
Portfolio highlights
- Ostaz — Ostaz is a mobile and peer-to-peer educational platform connecting students seeking help in a specific course to qualified private tutors.
Dalia Al Sulaiman
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- Education, Mobile Apps, Peer to Peer
- Seed
- Lebanon
Portfolio highlights
- Ostaz — Ostaz is a mobile and peer-to-peer educational platform connecting students seeking help in a specific course to qualified private tutors.
Abdulrahman ALJadhee
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- EdTech, Internet, Tutoring
- Series A, Series B
- Saudi Arabia
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!
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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- Internet, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series B
- United States, Israel
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.
Entrepreneuer/hacker/investor.
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- SaaS, Software, Computer
- Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- United States, Israel
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.
Eli Manning was chosen first overall in the 2004 NFL draft out of Ole Miss by the San Diego Chargers. He was immediately traded to the New York Giants and went on to lead the team to Super Bowl victory in the 2007 season, and into Super Bowl XLVI in the 2011 season.College Football CareerEli Manning was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in1981. In 2000, he enrolled at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), where both his father and brother Cooper went to college. He played quarterback for the Rebels for four years while at Ole Miss, and put up outstanding numbers, including 10,119 passing yards (fifth on the SEC career list), 81 touchdown passes (third on the SEC career list), and a passer rating of 137.7 (tied for sixth on the SEC career list). During his senior year he won several awards, including the Maxwell Award as the nation's best all-around player and the SEC Player of the Year award.
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- Sports, Ediscovery, EdTech
- Series B, Seed, Series E
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Spren — Spren powers digital health, wellness, and fitness experiences with unique, heart rate variability based biomarker insights.
- ZOE — ZOE analyzes your unique gut, blood fat and blood sugar responses. So you can take back control of your health & weight
- 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.
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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- Computer, Internet, Software
- Angel
- Israel, United States
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.
Hande Enes
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- Software, E-Commerce, Social Media
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
- Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
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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- Apps, EdTech, FinTech
- Seed
- Russian Federation
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.
Mustafa Sandal - Advisor @ manibux
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- FinTech, Finance, Education
- Angel
- Turkey
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.
Chris DeVore has been an investor, operator and executive at both public and private companies.Prior to Founders Co-op, Chris co-founded of Judy's Book and served as the company's COO and member of the board of directors. Previously Chris was a Vice President at Sapient Corporation (NASDAQ: SAPE), where he built and led thecompany's strategy consulting practice and was also a core member of the M&A and corporate venturing teams. Chris arrived at Sapient via the 1999 acquisition of Adjacency, an e-Commerce consultancy he and his partners bootstrapped into a profitable, 50-person, $15MM revenues firm serving clients like Apple, Nordstrom, Virgin, Land Rover and Steelcase. Prior to Adjacency, Chris served as Patagonia's Director of eCommerce, building that outdoor retailer's first online retail presence, and also led and managed six of the company's product lines. Pre-Internet, Chris held senior product management and strategic planning roles at McCaw Cellular (acquired by AT&T) and at AT&T (NYSE: T).Chris is currently an investor and board / advisory board member for: Appature, AppStoreHQ, Bonanzle, Colligent, Cooler Planet, Frugal Mechanic, Nearlyweds!, LookStat and Urban Airship.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- SPARQ — Founded in 2010, SPARQ turns mobile users into customers by making it easier to buy, share, and consume products, services and content wherever the user is.. any device, any app, anywhere.Through its resulting in reduced friction, lower abandonment, and delighted customers.
- Shippable — The only platform for DevOps automation that covers the complete pipeline, end-to-end, JFrog, now also with Shippable inside.
- Habit Labs — Contagion Health (Jen McCabe) and Healthmonth (Buster Benson) merge to form Habit Labs.
Barış Conger - Advisor @ manibux
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- FinTech, Finance, Education
- Angel
- Turkey
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.
Nilüfer Günhan
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- Gaming, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
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.
- 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.
Joe Heitzeberg previously founded In 1998 he incubated and sold a hosted ecommerce startup, JoeMart, to Infoseek.comthat subsequently became the basis for GO.com's Auctions and Stores services. Between 2001 and founding SnapVine, Heitzeberg has worked at a leading mobile software company, Openwave Systems, as principal product manager of client software. Heitzeberg holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Software, Education, Email Marketing
- Seed, Angel
- Israel, United States
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.
- Glue — Engage and retain employees with deep insights and data-backed morale strategy.
David Milch
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- PaaS, EdTech, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Quonder — Introducing the interactive teaching assistant that will help you save time and focus on what's important!
Abdullah Alzabin
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- Education
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- CODED — CODED is the Middle East's First Coding Bootcamp. Learn everything you need to become a professional programmer.
Gil Hirsch is an angel investor. Gil has over ten years of experience in software architecture, product and general management in computer technology. Before co-founding face.com, Gil held multiple R&D, Product and Sales executive roles at Amdocs, Xacct Technologies and Telrad Networks. Gil is also the co-founder of the garage geeks communityin Israel to drive non-commercial innovation activities.
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- SaaS, Software, Marketing
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- InfiniGrow — With InfiniGrow, marketers can talk to their data and explore it in real time. Ditch static dashboards. Get real insights on what works, and why.
- Oshi — Alternative Protein - Stealth Mode
- Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!
Kelly is a "Designer Founder" of several start-ups and is the founder of Curious Office, a Seattle seed stage incubator and investment firm. As a designer and product development expert, Kelly takes an active interest optimizing around the development/design intersection. He is aTechStars mentor, a co-founder of a YCombinatorcompany and an occasional speaker on the subjects of design, start-ups and company building. He is most recently the founder of Zapd, which is venture backed by Madrona Venture Partners and Second Avenue Partners. Zapd was twice Apple's App of the Week, was an Editor Staff Pick and was a top 10 lifestyle app in several countries. He co-founded MadRaces which was sold to BetaWorks and also Scoutzie which was accepted as a 2012 YCombinator company. He was also the founder and designer of Inkd.com and Imagekind, which is the largest market for buying and selling art (acquired by CafePress in 2007). In 2000 he founded an online video company called RocketVox which was acquired by thePlatform (a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast). Previously, Kelly served as VP Product Marketing for Myrio (Siemens Nokia IPTV division) and worked at RealNetworks from 1994-1999 in various marketing and business development roles. Curious Office has invested in SEOmoz, Bonanza, Sparkbuy, Buuteeq, ooBible, Imagekind, Wishpot, CoolSpotters, Shelfari (acquired by Amazon) and FeedDigest. He is a board member or advisor for PressPlane, NetConcepts, SEOmoz and Rouxbe.
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- Software, Advertising, SEO
- Series A, Angel
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Inkd.com — Inkd (formerly Pressplane) has two main products: Inkd, a true "buy & sell" community (rather like CafePress, Zazzle, Etsy and even stock image companies) wherein designers upload print creative and businesses can download and use the content as a cost effective alternative to hiring a designer, and Zapd, an app that allows users tocreate instant, themed websites straight from their iPhones.
- 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.
- Fanzter — Fanzter Inc. is an American software company that designs and develops consumer-focused mobile and web products. Fanzter's best-known products include Coolspotters.com and the popular iOS applications CoolPapers, Streaks, and Summizer. Fanzter's corporate headquarters are located in Unionville, Connecticut.
Hadi Partovi is an entrepreneur and investor, and CEO of the education non-profit Code.org. In 2013 Hadi and his twin brother Ali launched the education nonprofit Code.org which Hadi continues to lead full-time as CEO. Code.org has established computer science classes in 15% of US classrooms, created the most popular curriculum platform for K-12computer science, and launched the global Hour of Code movement that has reached over 100 million students.A computer science graduate of Harvard University, Hadi began his career during the browser wars in the 1990s, when he was Microsoft’s Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer. In a second stint at Microsoft, he was General Manager of the MSN portal, delivering its first year of profit. As an entrepreneur, Hadi was on the founding teams of Tellme Networks and iLike, which were acquired by Microsoft and MySpace, respectively. Hadi has served as an early advisor to numerous startups including Facebook and Dropbox, and as a tech investor his portfolio also includes airbnb, Uber, Zappos, IndieGogo, Change.org, and others. Aside from his investments, Hadi also serves as a Director on the boards of TASER International and Convoy.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Israel, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Statsig — Statsig is your modern product development platform, with an integrated toolkit for experimentation, feature management, product analytics, session replays, and much more. Trusted by thousands of companies, from OpenAI to series A startups.
- Clearbrief — Do Justice to the Facts. Select any sentence in your Word doc, and our AI instantly finds the best evidence you have to support your argument. 1-Click TOA.
- Saturn Technologies — The best way to share time with friends
Shai Rephaeli - Co-Founder and CEO @ Tutoria Digital
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- Software, EdTech, Medical
- Seed
- Israel
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- Myndlift — Myndlift offers a therapist-guided home neurofeedback solution for mental health, using mobile and wearable technology. Home users enjoy accessible and affordable training while neuro-therapists can grow their practices with remote supervision.
- 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
Patrick O'Donnell is a Co-founder at Spare5.He is founder of Urbanspoon. He holds Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science from University of California, Santa Cruz.
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- Computer, Internet, Software
- Angel
- Israel, United States
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- 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.
Jeff Swartz
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- Software, Recruiting, Social Impact
- Seed
- Israel
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- 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.
Mehmet Murat İsen
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- Training, Service Industry
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
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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- Travel, Property Management, Leisure
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden
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- 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.
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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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
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- Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
- Valid — Validated tests product ideas against real users before you launch. We measure the feasibility of your product idea rank value propositions and test messaging.
Ayla Cönger
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- FinTech, Finance, Education
- Seed
- Turkey
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- 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.
Rıza Kaya
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- E-Learning
- Angel
- Turkey
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- Voltran — Voltran is a subscription-based digital platform for high school students.
Murat Tayhan
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- Training, Service Industry
- Angel
- Turkey
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- Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
Ramit Harisinghani - General Manager, MENA @ b8ta
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- EdTech
- Convertible Note
- United Arab Emirates
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- 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.
Founder, Ex-GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
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- 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.
Erdal Asim Durukan
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- EdTech, Education, E-Learning
- Seed
- Turkey
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- 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.
ONUR BAYINDIR
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- Software, Marketing, Consulting
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey, Germany
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- 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!
Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Education
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Lamya Mahmood
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- Tutoring, Education
- Seed, Funding Round
- Oman, United Arab Emirates
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- 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.
Nezih Sipahioğlu
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- Marketing, E-Learning, Crowdfunding
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
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- 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.
Ivanka Trump
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- Education, Farming, CleanTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Arab Emirates
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- 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
Burak Günsev - Advisor @ manibux
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- FinTech, Finance, Education
- Angel
- Turkey
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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