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Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Middle East (August 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 Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
5 Turkey Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A iOS, Software, macOS
Hesham Zreik
Angel
4 United States, Nigeria, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $12k–$5M
Murat Tayhan
Angel
3 Turkey Angel Training, Service Industry $50k–$50k
Bashar Hamood
Angel
3 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $7k–$5M
Mehmet Murat İsen
Angel
2 Turkey Angel Training, Service Industry
Nrupaditya Singhdeo
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed Education, Guides, Finance $500k–$500k
Koray Gultekin Bahar
Angel
2 Turkey, Estonia, United States Seed, Angel, Convertible Note Software, FinTech, Education $140k–$1M
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$3M
Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
2 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Travel, Leisure, Internet $18k–$1.3M
Shaula Alexander Yemini
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Angel iOS, Apps, EdTech
Satish Gopinathan
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed Education, Guides, Finance $500k–$500k
Mustafa Kemal Sözkesen
Angel
2 Turkey Angel Training, Service Industry
Zohar Gilon
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Health Care $1.5M–$15M
Guy Gamzu
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Advertising $300k–$30M
Nir Zohar
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Publishing, B2B $2M–$14M
Rami Lipman
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed, Series A SaaS, Social, Software $750k–$8M
Eilon Tirosh
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series C Apps, FinTech, Payments $750k–$4M
Lamiaa Abdelmonem
Angel
1 Egypt Series A Education, Health Care, Real Estate
Melih Odemis
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Barak Rabinowitz
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Mobile, Big Data
Erdal Asim Durukan
Angel
1 Turkey Seed EdTech, Education, E-Learning
Lamya Mahmood
Angel
1 Oman, United Arab Emirates Seed Tutoring, Education
Paul Volosov
Angel
1 Israel Seed EdTech, Children, Education
Civan Sözkesen
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed EdTech, Psychology
Rıza Kaya
Angel
1 Turkey Angel E-Learning
Musaab Hakami
Angel
1 United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Nezih Sipahioğlu
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel Marketing, E-Learning, Crowdfunding
Amal bint Abdulaziz Al-Ajlan
Angel
1 Egypt Pre-Seed EdTech, Primary Education
Mustafa Sandal
Angel
1 Turkey Angel FinTech, Finance, Education
Ayberk Kuday
Angel
1 Turkey Angel FinTech, Finance, Education
Eli Manning
Angel
1 United States, Israel Series B, Seed, Series E Wellness, Sports, Personal Health $4M–$50M
Barış Conger
Angel
1 Turkey Angel FinTech, Finance, Education
Yossi Matias
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Generative AI, Music $750k–$8M
Mr. Tarek Jallad
Angel
1 Lebanon Series A Internet, Education
Andrey Belozerov
Angel
1 Russian Federation Seed Apps, EdTech, FinTech
Burak Günsev
Angel
1 Turkey Angel FinTech, Finance, Education
Mekan Yusupov
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Tutoring, Education, Online Portals
Udi Netzer
Angel
1 Israel Seed EdTech, Software, Education
Dan Shapiro
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Angel, Series B Internet, Software, SaaS $425k–$1.4M
Hande Enes
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $29k–$4.1M
Gil Hirsch
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Analytics $1.1M–$12M
Dr. Lama
Angel
1 Lebanon Seed Education, Mobile Apps, Peer to Peer
Adam Doppelt
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Angel, Convertible Note SaaS, Software, Computer $425k–$3.3M
Boris Wertz
Angel
1 Canada, United States, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence $717k–$20M
Alex Zubillaga
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile Apps $745k–$100M
Ali Partovi
Angel
1 United States, Spain, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $770k–$105M
Abdulrahman ALJadhee
Angel
1 Saudi Arabia Series A, Series B, Series C EdTech, Internet, Tutoring $19M–$19M
Scott Banister
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Mobile, Internet $500k–$45M
Roy Rodenstein
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Music $70k–$2.1M
Craig Sherman
Angel
1 United States, Israel Series C, Series D, Seed Software, Health Care, Gaming $1.3M–$635M
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel · 5 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:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
  • Notes.io — A free note-taking app. Online Notes on everywhere.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 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, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 887
  • 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.
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Murat Tayhan
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Education startups

Murat Tayhan

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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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, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 476
  • 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.
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Mehmet Murat İsen
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Education startups

Mehmet Murat İsen

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Nrupaditya Singhdeo
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Education startups

Nrupaditya Singhdeo

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Koray Gultekin Bahar
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 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, 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!
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Education startups

Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: 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.
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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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 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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Satish Gopinathan
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Education startups

Satish Gopinathan

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Mustafa Kemal Sözkesen
Angel · 2 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: 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.
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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: 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.
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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 $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.
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Nir Zohar
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
  • Willow — The AI basecamp for the enterprise.Willow (formerly Webrix) connects any AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to your internal systems with the visibility security needs and the enablement teams want. SSO, RBAC, audit trail, and runtime guards, built in.You'll find: - Technical deep dives on MCP, agents, and AI governance - Enterprise AIadoption playbooks (not hype) - Real implementation walkthroughs from production deployments - Conversations with CISOs, platform leaders, and AI adoption ownersBuilt for: CISOs, VPs of Engineering, platform leads, and CTOs rolling out AI at scale.
  • Safe School Analytics — Safe School Analytics is a software solution for K–12 schools. They produce content to support social and emotional learning and the internet safety of kids and teenagers. With the intention of assisting schools, the organization works in teams composed of subject matter specialists, teaching personnel, educational psychologists, consultants, andsocial workers.
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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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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 — 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Paul Volosov
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Paul Volosov

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Jotit — Jotit is a cutting-edge educational technology startup that uses handwriting tools to help kids, instructors, and parents stay organized.
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Civan Sözkesen
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Civan Sözkesen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Psychology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ParentWiser — Parent education app.
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Rıza Kaya
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Rıza Kaya

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Voltran — Voltran is a subscription-based digital platform for high school students.
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Musaab Hakami
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Nezih Sipahioğlu

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
  • Edurey Eğitim, Danışmanlık, Bilişim ve Yazılım Hizmetleri A.Ş — A Learning Experience Platform where you can include users' experience and participation in processes while offering a social learning environment with different features. You can include the learner experience in all your training processes with EDUREY LXP. Or You can choose Edurey LMS which is The training management system, where you canmake your training management processes in the corporate or academic field, offers a unique experience to the users.
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Amal bint Abdulaziz Al-Ajlan
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Amal bint Abdulaziz Al-Ajlan is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Mustafa Sandal
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Mustafa Sandal - Advisor @ manibux

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Eli Manning is a former Quarterback at New York Giants.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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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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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, 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.
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Mr. Tarek Jallad
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Mr. Tarek Jallad

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Kamkalima — Arabic e-Learning platform that provides high-tech & interactive educational content in line with the modern academic systems.
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Andrey Belozerov
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Burak Günsev - Advisor @ manibux

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Mekan Yusupov

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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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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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Dan Shapiro
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Hande Enes

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Gil Hirsch
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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Dr. Lama
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Dr. Lama

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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 an education technology (EdTech) company focused on delivering AI-powered personalized tutoring services across the Middle East, particularly in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon. The platform connects students with qualified tutors while using artificial intelligence to improve tutor-student matching and educational outcomes.
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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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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, 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
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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, 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!
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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: 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.
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Abdulrahman ALJadhee
Angel · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

Abdulrahman ALJadhee

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
  • Noon Academy — Why Study Alone Again? Start study groups with your friends and access the best teachers on demand!
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Scott Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Education startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, 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.
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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: 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.
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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, Gaming
  • 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.
  • GENETICA® US — Originated from San Francisco, Genetica® is a leading and the fastest growing gene testing company in Asia with leading-edge proprietary technology.
  • 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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