Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Middle East (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
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5 | Turkey | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | iOS, Software, macOS | |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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4 | United States, Nigeria, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $12k–$5M |
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Bashar Hamood
Angel
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3 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $7k–$5M |
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Murat Tayhan
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Angel | Training, Service Industry | $50k–$50k |
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Koray Gultekin Bahar
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Estonia, United States | Seed, Angel, Convertible Note | Software, FinTech, Education | $140k–$1M |
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Nir Zohar
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, Publishing, B2B | $2M–$14M |
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Mustafa Kemal Sözkesen
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Angel | Training, Service Industry | |
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Guy Gamzu
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Advertising | $300k–$30M |
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Rami Lipman
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Social, Software | $750k–$8M |
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Shaula Alexander Yemini
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed, Angel | iOS, Apps, EdTech | |
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Travel, Leisure, Internet | $18k–$1.3M |
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Zohar Gilon
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Health Care | $1.5M–$15M |
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Nrupaditya Singhdeo
Angel
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2 | United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed | Education, Guides, Finance | $500k–$500k |
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Satish Gopinathan
Angel
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2 | United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed | Education, Guides, Finance | $500k–$500k |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $100k–$3M |
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Mehmet Murat İsen
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Angel | Training, Service Industry | |
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Eilon Tirosh
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Series C | Apps, FinTech, Payments | $750k–$4M |
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Ivanka Trump
Angel
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, Farming, CleanTech | |
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Amit Gilon
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Developer Platform | |
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Gal Gadot
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, EdTech, FinTech | |
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Othman AlOthman
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | Content, Language Learning, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Paul Volosov
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | EdTech, Children, Education | |
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Civan Sözkesen
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | EdTech, Psychology | |
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Amal bint Abdulaziz Al-Ajlan
Angel
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1 | Egypt | Pre-Seed | EdTech, Primary Education | |
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Michael Eisenberg
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Australia | Seed, Series C, Series A | Software, Financial Services, B2B | |
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Alex Zubillaga
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Series B, Series A | E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile Apps | $745k–$100M |
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Hande Enes
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $29k–$4.1M |
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Mekan Yusupov
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Tutoring, Education, Online Portals | |
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Joe Heitzeberg
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, Education, Email Marketing | |
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Lamiaa Abdelmonem
Angel
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1 | Egypt | Series A | Education, Health Care, Real Estate | |
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Dana Messina
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | Music, EdTech, Software | |
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Noam Hachmon
Angel
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1 | Israel | Pre-Seed | SaaS, Sports, E-Learning | |
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Faissal Abdallah
Angel
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1 | Lebanon | Pre-Seed | EdTech | |
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Shai Rephaeli
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | Software, EdTech, Medical | $880k–$1M |
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Ayberk Kuday
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | FinTech, Finance, Education | |
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Ayla Cönger
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | FinTech, Finance, Education | |
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Eli Manning
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Series B, Seed, Series E | Wellness, Sports, Personal Health | $4M–$50M |
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Ali Partovi
Angel
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1 | United States, Spain, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $770k–$105M |
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Scott Banister
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Mobile, Internet | $500k–$45M |
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Udi Netzer
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | EdTech, Software, Education | |
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Dan Shapiro
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Angel, Series B | Internet, Software, SaaS | $425k–$1.4M |
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Adam Doppelt
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Angel, Convertible Note | SaaS, Software, Computer | $425k–$3.3M |
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David Milch
Angel
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1 | Israel | Pre-Seed | PaaS, EdTech, Software | |
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Yossi Matias
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Generative AI, Music | $750k–$8M |
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Roy Rodenstein
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Music | $70k–$2.1M |
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Chris DeVore
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Analytics, E-Commerce, SaaS | $320k–$8M |
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Khalid AlHadlaq
Angel
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed | Software, Apps, Video | |
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Boris Wertz
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence | $717k–$20M |
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Mazen Al Jubeir
Angel
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1 | Saudi Arabia, United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | Apps, EdTech, Delivery | $1.7M–$4M |
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Gil Hirsch
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $1.1M–$12M |
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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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 888
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $12k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Book Your Own — Book Your Own is building an integrated travel ecosystem designed to unify India’s fragmented travel market.
- UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
- Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 477
- Round size: Seed $15k–$2M; Pre-Seed $7k–$500k; Series A $33k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% 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.
Murat Tayhan
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- Industry: Training, Service Industry
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Angel $50k–$50k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skilled Hub — Skilled Hub creates jobs in the technology industry and offers services in the areas of human resources and education.
- Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
Koray Gultekin Bahar is a Co-Founder & CEO at Figopara.Koray attended Eastern Mediterranean University.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, Estonia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1M; Angel $140k–$346k; Convertible Note $250k–$730k
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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 web-based application. The company offers portfolios that can be modeled according to the investment goals and risk preferences of users. Investors can become anyone with this platform.
- 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!
Nir Zohar is the COO and President of Wix.com. Attended at Tel Aviv University.
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- 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.
Mustafa Kemal Sözkesen
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- Industry: Training, Service Industry
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skilled Hub — Skilled Hub creates jobs in the technology industry and offers services in the areas of human resources and education.
- Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
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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- 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
- Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
- Generaytor — Generators Solar Power and Alternative Energy Solutions
- Atlas Invest — Commercial real estate bridge loans up to $20M with same-day term sheets and funding in as few as 7 days. Institutional private credit for investors.
Rami Lipman is an angel investor.
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- 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...
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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- 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 the easiest, fastest, and most accurate insights platform for analyzing open-ended text from virtually any source, including surveys, customer reviews and social media. Canvs is used by some of the world’s most admired brands, research agencies, and media & entertainment companies to accelerate time-to-insights, reduce cost, anddeepen the understanding of consumers. For more information or to request a customized demo, please visit https://canvs.ai/ or email sales@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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Browse database — It's Free!Kıvılcım Çaylı is the author of "Startup Investor's Handbook", a technology company investor with 18 investments in 5 countries, management consultant, and private equity professional.He holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration), CPEP™ (Chartered Private Equity Professional), and FMVA® (Financial Modeling & ValuationAnalyst) degrees and a Capital Markets Activities License Level 3. After many years of corporate business experience in global companies and entrepreneurial experience in the companies he founded, he has contributed to the growth journey of nearly a hundred companies in his management consultancy career.He is the CEO of Kanvas Management Consultancy Company and Kılıç Çaylı & Partners Law Office and Private Equity & Venture Capital (PE & VC) Director & Partner at Financial Axis A.Ş. | GGI. He makes his personal investments under the Pareto Ventures brand.
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- Industry: Travel, Leisure, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $18k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CEOtudent — Founded in May 2015, CEOtudent.com is a content-based website that focuses on providing a rich vision and lifestyle to university and young professionals with content focused on success.On our internet site, we offer numerous contents from personal development to marketing, from career to events, from entrepreneurship to current news.AtCEOtudent.com, we share every piece of information we think that we can provide benefits and inspiration, and we are constantly trying to learn something new.
- Fonbulucu — fonbulucu is a crowding funding platform that provide innovative financing and investment system benefit to entrepreneurs and investors.
- Teleporter — California and Istanbul based VR gaming company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of VR medium and creating high-quality experiences that redefine social interaction and gaming.
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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- 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
- Hoopo — Hoopo assists companies to boost their logistics operations with cost and power-efficient, LPWA tracking solutions
- 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.
- Body Vision Medical — Bronchoscopy, reimagined. Using Artificial Intelligence, the Body Vision Platform delivers real-time imaging without the use of electromagnetic sensors.
Nrupaditya Singhdeo
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- Industry: Education, Guides, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $500k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Newage Learning — NewAge Learning official website is a Dubai-based professional training and corporate learning platform focused on executive education, compliance training, and skill development programs. The company mainly provides KHDA-approved certification courses for professionals and businesses.
- SD Centre for Entrepreneurship Excellence — AT SDCEE, We believe that entrepreneurship is the primary driving force for innovation and sustainable economic growth. To this end—in collaboration with Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Campus (Dtec), and Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) —we have launched the SD Centre for Entrepreneurship Excellence (SDCEE).Located inDubai, United Arab Emirates, SDCEE is the premier centre for individuals looking to build and develop their entrepreneurial skills to create a successful venture.With over 200+ years of collective industrial experience of its founders and mentors, SDCEE is focused towards promoting entrepreneurial excellence through exceptional mentorship, entrepreneurship training programs, and consulting services.Our programs have been designed to combine rigorous, updated curriculum with practical learning to maximize real-world application and impact.
Satish Gopinathan
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- Industry: Education, Guides, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $500k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Newage Learning — NewAge Learning official website is a Dubai-based professional training and corporate learning platform focused on executive education, compliance training, and skill development programs. The company mainly provides KHDA-approved certification courses for professionals and businesses.
- SD Centre for Entrepreneurship Excellence — AT SDCEE, We believe that entrepreneurship is the primary driving force for innovation and sustainable economic growth. To this end—in collaboration with Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Campus (Dtec), and Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) —we have launched the SD Centre for Entrepreneurship Excellence (SDCEE).Located inDubai, United Arab Emirates, SDCEE is the premier centre for individuals looking to build and develop their entrepreneurial skills to create a successful venture.With over 200+ years of collective industrial experience of its founders and mentors, SDCEE is focused towards promoting entrepreneurial excellence through exceptional mentorship, entrepreneurship training programs, and consulting services.Our programs have been designed to combine rigorous, updated curriculum with practical learning to maximize real-world application and impact.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $233k–$2.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
- ya da multicosmetics — ya da multicosmetics is a cosmetics brand and aims to accelerate its R&D efforts, support its growth.
Mehmet Murat İsen
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- Industry: Training, Service Industry
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skilled Hub — Skilled Hub creates jobs in the technology industry and offers services in the areas of human resources and education.
- Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.
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- 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 — Thumzap reconnects people in the digital world by making the process of paying for someone else's purchases simple, fun and safe.Sometimes we need or just want someone else to pay for our purchases, either because we don't have a credit card or enough money, or because we're just not that tech-savvy and need some help.Thumzapmakes it easy to send friends and family a request to pay for us. All they have to do is approve the payment and they can pay with their own credit card or paypal account, in just one click. Not only does that make it completely safe and secure, but also familiar. No one has to share a password, set up a digital wallet, or input their credit card information, it’s a simple way to help fulfill a digital request.
Ivanka Trump
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- 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.
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Amit Gilon is an angel investor.
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- 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.
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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- 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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- 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.
Paul Volosov
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- 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.
Civan Sözkesen
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- Industry: EdTech, Psychology
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Amal bint Abdulaziz Al-Ajlan is an angel investor.
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- Industry: EdTech, Primary Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Farid — Farid is the first and most prominent platform in the Middle East and North Africa to offer direct, one-on-one sessions for character development and mental health treatment.
Michael is a General Partner at Aleph, an early stage venture capital fund with $850M under management. Aleph focuses on partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs to build large, meaningful companies and impactful global brands. Since its founding in 2013, Aleph has invested in over 50 companies (not all announced) including Lemonade (NYSE:LMND), Frank (acquired JPM), Melio, Healthy.io, JoyTunes, Fabric, Honeybook and Bringg. Prior to Aleph, Michael was a General Partner at Benchmark Capital, which he joined in July 2005, and where he continues as the partner responsible for Benchmark’s Israeli portfolio. Michael has focused on internet and software-enabled service investments since 1995. He has invested in and served on the boards of some of Israel’s leading companies and startups, such as Conduit, Gigya (Acquired SAP), Picturevison (acquired: EK), SeekingAlpha, Shopping.com (Nasdaq: SHOP, acquired: EBAY), Tradeum (acquired: VERT), and Wix (Nasdaq: WIX), and Wework (NYSE: WE). Since 2006, Michael has been writing the blog “Six Kids and a Full Time Job,” on topics ranging from politics to technology, Judaism and macroeconomics. He was a contributor to TheMarker, a Hebrew-language daily business newspaper, and is the author of the “Hummus Manifesto,” the seminal piece on Israel’s innovation scene. Michael has also published numerous books, including The Vanishing Jew, Ben Barukh, and The Tree of Life and Prosperity. He has published two additional books in Hebrew which are due out in English in the coming years: Everyone Can Be Moses and Roaring Tribe. Michael also lectures frequently on venture capital, Israel and entrepreneurship. He is the Chairman of HaShomer Hachadash and sits on the board of Yeshivat Har Etzion. Michael founded the Nevo network, a professional network organization that integrates immigrants to Israel into the high tech ecosystem and serves as the organization's active Chairman. Michael lives in Jerusalem with his wife and eight children.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series C, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- 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.
- Beewise — Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey.
- Dream Security — Dream Security provides critical infrastructure defensive cyber solutions.
Alex Zubillaga is the founder of 14W, a New York-based, venture capital firm focused on consumer Mobile, Web, E-commerce, CPG, and Media.Previously, Alex was Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group (WMG). Prior to WMG, Alex founded Net Uno, a leading Venezuelan cable television and broadbandoperator where he served as CEO and Chairman.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $745k–$8M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $12M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
- Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
- Opal — Protect your focus time. Schedule your days, block distracting apps and focus fully, on your iPhone, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browser. Try Opal for Free!
Hande Enes
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $125k–$4.1M; Angel $50k–$280k; Pre-Seed $29k–$430k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Mekan Yusupov
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Education, Email Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- 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.
- Glue — Engage and retain employees with deep insights and data-backed morale strategy.
Lamiaa Abdelmonem
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- Industry: Education, Health Care, Real Estate
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Al-Jannat Real-Estate — Al Janat is a real estate investment company, an Egyptian joint stock company engaged in real estate investment and real estate development in Egypt, which has a new concept for residential projects.
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- 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.
Noam Hachmon
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- 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.
Faissal Abdallah
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- Industry: EdTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Lebanon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Shai Rephaeli - Co-Founder and CEO @ Tutoria Digital
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- Industry: Software, EdTech, Medical
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $880k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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
Ayberk Kuday - Advisor @ manibux
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- 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.
Ayla Cönger
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- 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.
Eli Manning is a former Quarterback at New York Giants.
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- Industry: Wellness, Sports, Personal Health
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Series E
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $4M–$11M; Series B $20M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Ali Partovi is the CEO and Founder of Neo. He previously worked at Dropbox as an Advisor. Ali Partovi attended Harvard University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Spain, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Pre-Seed $770k–$1.8M; Series A $1.7M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vybe — Virtual Try-On & AI Styling for Fashion Stores
- Ohana — Find sublets and furnished apartments for internships, travel nursing & monthly stays. Ohana offers flexible short-term and mid-term rentals in top cities.
- Skiff — Everything on Skiff is end-to-end encrypted. Your most sensitive data is private, decentralized, and truly owned by you.
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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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- 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.
Udi Netzer is the Private Investor at Joonko.
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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.
Entrepreneuer/hacker/investor.
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- 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.
David Milch
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- 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!
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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- Industry: Software, Generative AI, Music
- 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
- Enso — enso deploys AI agents where your customers spend time - finding cracks in platform castles and turning them into growth before competitors notice.
- Leo AI — The Generative AI Engineering Design Platform
- 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.
Roy Rodenstein is Co-founder at SocMetrics.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Music
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2.1M; Angel $70k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Humanoid — Humanoid is the world's first human brainpower API.Humanoid offers computer programmers a reliable way to use human intelligence in software applications. Using a drag-and-drop interface, engineers can swiftly create tasks and send instructions to humans.Proprietary software breaks the tasks into small pieces and routes them to workersacross the globe. Meanwhile, Humanoid’s artificially intelligent workforce manager ensures accuracy and prevents fraud without human oversight. When the task is complete, developers receive the resulting data through a simple programming interface, known as an API.
- Juna — Juna is transforming chronic care, starting with GLP-1 weight loss treatments, addressing the needs of over 40% of U.S. adults with obesity. One-size-fits-all healthcare often fails, leaving gaps for the 133 million Americans affected by chronic diseases.
- Seedscout — Seedscout is a professional network that connects founders, investors, and job seekers together across the global startup universe.
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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- Industry: Analytics, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $320k–$3M; Series A $1.1M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% 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.
- Tindie — Tindie is a marketplace for maker made products. From Raspberry Pi to Arduino to drones, Tindie's goal is to bring innovation to the masses faster than ever before.
- Shippable — The only platform for DevOps automation that covers the complete pipeline, end-to-end, JFrog, now also with Shippable inside.
Khalid is an active angel investor in early-stage technology companies with 17 years of experience and a General Management education from Harvard Business School. After an exciting career at Microsoft and Logica, Khalid co-founded and managed Xceed Ventures, a social media intelligence company that got acquired. He currently serves as the CreativeSolutions Director at the Central Payment System of Saudi Arabia to support the development of FinTechs in Saudi and bring disruptive innovation.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Video
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Digitzs — Digitzs team comes from Visa, PayPal, and Apple. We make payments painless for platforms that process ticket payments for sporting events, donation payments for nonprofits and rent payments for property managers. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
- Taste — User Reviews and Recommendations From Like-Minded People For Movies and TV Shows at Taste.
- QiDZ — The family guide for best inspiration, deals and rewards for kids activities. Browse on QiDZ now and start creating family memories today.
Boris Wertz is the Founder & General Partner of Version One Ventures. He previously worked at Ether Capital as a Lead Independent director. Boris Wertz attended the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $850k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $717k–$2.5M; Series A $3.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unbounce — Grow your relevance, leads, and sales with Unbounce. Use Unbounce to easily create and optimize landing pages for your small business and boost conversions with AI insights.
- NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
- RewardLoop — Domain name RewardLoop.com offers a captivating blend of reward and continuity, suggesting a seamless and rewarding experience for users. The term loop evokes a sense of endlessness and connectivity, hinting at a cycle of rewards that keeps
Mazen Al Jubeir - Board Member @ Careem
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- Industry: Apps, EdTech, Delivery
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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!
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Localbird — Explore unique experiences, on-demand services, rentals, you name it.
- 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.
- 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!
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