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Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Middle East (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Middle East Education startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Education startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Hesham Zreik
Angel
3 United States, Nigeria, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $50k–$5M
Bashar Hamood
Angel
3 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $5k–$5M
Shaula Alexander Yemini
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Angel iOS, Apps, EdTech
Rami Lipman
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed, Series A SaaS, Social, Software $750k–$8M
Zohar Gilon
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Health Care $1.5M–$15M
Eilon Tirosh
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series C Apps, FinTech, Payments $750k–$4M
Guy Gamzu
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Advertising $270k–$30M
Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A iOS, Software, macOS
Hadi Partovi
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Colombia Seed, Series A, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Internet $175k–$13M
Adam Doppelt
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Angel, Convertible Note SaaS, Software, Computer $425k–$3.3M
Craig Sherman
Angel
1 United States, Israel Series C, Series D, Seed Software, Health Care, Medical $1.3M–$635M
Eli Manning
Angel
1 United States, Israel Series B, Seed, Series E Sports, Ediscovery, EdTech $4M–$50M
Chris DeVore
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $118k–$4M
Ayla Cönger
Angel
1 Turkey Seed FinTech, Finance, Education
Ali Partovi
Angel
1 United States, Spain, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $770k–$100M
Roy Rodenstein
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Music $70k–$2.1M
Khalid AlHadlaq
Angel
1 United States, United Arab Emirates Seed Software, Apps, Video
Alex Zubillaga
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Apps, Music $745k–$100M
Koray Gultekin Bahar
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Sharing Economy $186k–$1.6M
Hemra Ashyrov
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Tutoring, Education, Online Portals
Barış Conger
Angel
1 Turkey Angel FinTech, Finance, Education
Nilüfer Günhan
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Gaming, FinTech, Finance
Patrick O'Donnell
Angel
1 Israel, United States Angel Computer, Internet, Software $425k–$1.3M
Ethan Lowry
Angel
1 Israel, United States Angel Computer, Internet, Software $425k–$1.3M
Joe Heitzeberg
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Angel Software, Education, Email Marketing
Yossi Matias
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Music, Social $750k–$8M
Abdullah Alzabin
Angel
1 Kuwait Seed Education
Dalia Al Sulaiman
Angel
1 Lebanon Seed Education, Mobile Apps, Peer to Peer
Abdulrahman ALJadhee
Angel
1 Saudi Arabia Series A, Series B EdTech, Internet, Tutoring
Udi Netzer
Angel
1 Israel Seed EdTech, Software, Education
Boris Wertz
Angel
1 Canada, United States, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Mobile, Internet $200k–$20M
David Milch
Angel
1 Israel Pre-Seed PaaS, EdTech, Software
Mazen Al Jubeir
Angel
1 Saudi Arabia, United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Apps, EdTech, Software $1.7M–$4M
Faissal Abdallah
Angel
1 Lebanon Pre-Seed EdTech
Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden Seed, Angel Travel, Property Management, Leisure
Mustafa Kemal Sözkesen
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Training, Service Industry
Jeff Swartz
Angel
1 Israel Seed Software, Recruiting, Social Impact
Josh Sutton
Angel
1 Israel Pre-Seed SaaS, Sports, E-Learning
Abdulla Elyas
Angel
1 Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Debt Financing SaaS, Credit, EdTech
Gal Gadot
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Series A Financial Services, EdTech, FinTech
Amit Gilon
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Developer Platform
Lamiaa Abdelmonem
Angel
1 Egypt Series A Education, Health Care, Real Estate
Dana Messina
Angel
1 Israel Seed Music, EdTech, Software
Ben Weiss
Angel
1 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Analytics
Ayberk Kuday
Angel
1 Turkey Angel FinTech, Finance, Education
Ivanka Trump
Angel
1 United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Education, Farming, CleanTech
Barak Rabinowitz
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Mobile, Big Data
Melih Odemis
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Lamya Mahmood
Angel
1 Oman, United Arab Emirates Seed Tutoring, Education
Erdal Asim Durukan
Angel
1 Turkey Seed EdTech, Education, E-Learning
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Education startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 619
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
  • Ensure Petroleum Pvt Ltd — Ensure Petroleum Fuel & Refinery is a Pakistan-focused energy venture founded by Muhammad Irfan Younas, a former executive.
  • Manufacturing Electronics Cards — it is a startup built on the idea of putting advanced electronics engineering expertise at the service of local and regional businesses.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 3 investments in Middle East Education startups

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 326
  • Round size: Seed $10k–$780k; Pre-Seed $5k–$500k; Series A $15k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.
  • G Super Races — G Super Races aims to revolutionize the global horse racing scene with its premier league.
  • ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
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Shaula Alexander Yemini
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Rami Lipman is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Mr. Zohar Gilon is a Managing Partner at Tamar Technology Ventures. He has personally invested in over 45 start-ups and has achieved 13 exits. Mr. Gilon has also served as the Transaction Manager for some of Israel's most highly recognized exits and has managed each deal from inception through completion, including pricing and distributions.He has extensive investment experience including activity as an angel investor and an Investment Advisor to the Gilon Group. Mr. Gilon is a private investor in numerous high-technology companies, including affiliates of Radcom Ltd. in Israel. From 1974 to 1993, Mr. Gilon served as the President of various companies representing major U.S. aerospace and electronics corporations. From November 1993 to August 1995, he served as the President of W.S.P. Capital Holdings Ltd. Previously he served, as the Managing Director of Shaked Technologies Ltd. He serves as a Director of HCL CleanTech Ltd., RIT, AVT Ltd., Oberon Media, Inc., Edge Medical, Exlibris, OrSense Ltd., and WisAir Ltd. He served as a Director of RAD Ventures. Mr. Gilon served as a Director of RiT Technologies Ltd. since 1995, Ceragon Networks Ltd. since June 1999, Radware Ltd. from October 2006 to July 2009 and Radcom Ltd. since June 1995. He served as Member of the Supervisory Board of Advanced Vision Technology (AVT) Limited. He served as an Outside Director of Silicom Ltd. since 1994.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.3M; Series A $1.6M–$11M; Series B $4.5M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
  • 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.
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Eilon Tirosh
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $270k–$2.1M; Series A $1.4M–$5M; Series B $6.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

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
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
  • Notes.io — A free note-taking app. Online Notes on everywhere.
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Hadi Partovi
Angel · Bellevue, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$3.5M; Angel $175k–$1.2M; Series A $800k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Adam Doppelt
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Entrepreneuer/hacker/investor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Ediscovery, EdTech
  • 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.
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Chris DeVore
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $118k–$4M; Angel $250k–$425k; Pre-Seed $118k–$120k
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

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.
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Ayla Cönger
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Ayla Cönger

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Spain, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $770k–$1.8M; Series A $1.7M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% 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.
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Roy Rodenstein
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Roy Rodenstein is Co-founder at SocMetrics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2.1M; Angel $70k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Seedscout — Seedscout is a professional network that connects founders, investors, and job seekers together across the global startup universe.
  • Troy Medicare — Troy Medicare is a Medicare Advantage plan powered by pharmacists and physicians to bring local care to our communities
  • Hackers/Founders — Hackers/Founders serves technology entrepreneurs by equipping founders, encouraging vibrant tech ecosystems and sharing Silicon Valley insights with the world.
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Khalid AlHadlaq
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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
  • Taste — User Reviews and Recommendations From Like-Minded People For Movies and TV Shows at Taste.
  • QIDZ LLC — The family guide for best inspiration, deals and rewards for kids activities. Browse on QiDZ now and start creating family memories today.
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Alex Zubillaga
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Music
  • 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

  • Listia — Earn Points for selling things you don't need and use it to get stuff you want! Claim yours when you download and join.
  • 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.
  • Tango Me — Tango is your free video chat and live streaming platform to meet new people, stream live, and connect in real time, anytime. Join now and start chatting.
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Koray Gultekin Bahar
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Sharing Economy
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $186k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% 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.
  • 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!
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Hemra Ashyrov
Angel · Ashgabat, Ahal, Turkmenistan · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Hemra Ashyrov

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Barış Conger - Advisor @ manibux

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Nilüfer Günhan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Patrick O'Donnell
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Yossi Matias
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tonara — We believe in using technology to move music education forward. Tonara's products empower music teachers and their students, worldwide.
  • 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.
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Abdullah Alzabin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Abdullah Alzabin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kuwait

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • CODED — CODED is the Middle East's First Coding Bootcamp. Learn everything you need to become a professional programmer.
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Dalia Al Sulaiman
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Dalia Al Sulaiman

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Mobile Apps, Peer to Peer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Lebanon

Investor stats

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

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.
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Abdulrahman ALJadhee
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Abdulrahman ALJadhee

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Udi Netzer is the Private Investor at Joonko.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $717k–$2.5M; Series A $3.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kobalt — Kobalt.io supports resources constrained companies, offering gap assessments, penetration testing, compliance support, training, monitoring and more
  • Twenty20 — T wenty20 has closed its doors and is no longer accessible. Continue your creative journey with curated photos from Envato Elements.
  • Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.
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David Milch
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

David Milch

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Quonder — Introducing the interactive teaching assistant that will help you save time and focus on what's important!
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Mazen Al Jubeir
Angel · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Mazen Al Jubeir - Board Member @ Careem

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, EdTech, Software
  • 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!
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Faissal Abdallah
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Faissal Abdallah

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Lebanon

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Zaker — Lebanon's leading hub for student resources
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Yourkeys — 'Yourkeys is a real-time transactional and data platform for house builders and estate agents selling properties. The platform significantly accelerates the property sales process whilst giving all stakeholders visibility of the transaction in real-time.'
  • Adalethanim — Adalethanim is a legal platform working with AI that analyzes, understands, interprets, and produces results to help with legal research, allowing the person working on the case to save time and access more information about a case. The company's vision is to make justice fast, cheap and accessible to everyone.Adalethanim was founded in 2018and is headquartered in Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Turkey.
  • UnderTheDoormat — UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation.
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Mustafa Kemal Sözkesen
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Mustafa Kemal Sözkesen

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Jeff Swartz

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
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Josh Sutton
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Pemo — Pemo is an all-in-one spend management solution that empowers your business by packing every company invoice, expense, approval and spending decision into one powerful platform.Our offering includes smart corporate cards, invoice payment systems and expense tracking functions. These are supported by automated approval flows, direct accountingintegration and real-time reporting - features that allow business owners to save time, save money, automate admin and every expense so you can get on with what you do best - building great businesses.
  • Buildnow — BuildNow is MENAP's first "Build Now Pay Later" solution. We fund the raw materials construction & manufacturing SMEs need, while providing credit terms tailored to optimize their cash flow and supercharge their growth.
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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Gal Gadot
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Amit Gilon is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
  • Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
  • daily.dev — daily.dev is the fastest growing online community for developers to stay updated on the best developer news. Together we supercharge developers' knowledge and empower better software.
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Lamiaa Abdelmonem
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Lamiaa Abdelmonem

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Investment focus

  • 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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Dana Messina
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Dana Messina

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Simply — Feel the joy of playing piano and guitar, or discovering your singing voice, with Simply. The best apps for learning musical instruments.
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Ben Weiss
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Ayberk Kuday - Advisor @ manibux

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Ivanka Trump

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Barak Rabinowitz is Managing Partner of F2 Capital, a seed-stage, Israeli venture capital fund backing exceptional founders at the junction of big data, AI and connectivity. Until 2016, Barak was General Partner at Genesis Partners where he focused on early stage investment opportunities and The Junction seed investment program. Previously, Barakled three startup companies from inception to exit as co-founder and CEO, and backed multiple companies as a strategic angel investor. Barak started his career in the Technology M&A Group at Morgan Stanley and served in an infantry paratroop brigade of the IDF. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS BA from Georgetown University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Zoog — Be part of their story
  • Zaraz — Cloudflare Zaraz is a third-party tool manager that loads tools in the cloud - away from browsers. Learn more about benefits and use cases of Zaraz.
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Melih Odemis
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
  • 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.
  • HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
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Lamya Mahmood
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Lamya Mahmood

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Erdal Asim Durukan

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Octovan — Octovan is an online leading platform that combines reliable movers with users who need moving.
  • UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
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