Top 50 Energy Angel Investors in Middle East in May 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Energy startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Energy companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Energy Angel Investors in Middle East in May 2025
Investor | Energy Middle East investments |
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Ahu Serter | 4 |
Nevzat Aydın | 3 |
Yossi Ackerman | 3 |
Daniel Recanati | 3 |
Yılmaz Yıldız | 3 |
Faruk Eczacıbaşı | 2 |
Taavura Holdings | 2 |
Olcayto Yigit | 2 |
Meltem Kirişçi | 2 |
Ercan Solmaz | 2 |
Firat Isbecer | 2 |
Ben Nun Group | 2 |
Emre Kurttepeli | 2 |
Özgür Trakya | 2 |
Yetik Kadri Mert | 2 |
Eddy Shalev | 2 |
Haluk Can Hür | 2 |
Tarık Bayar | 2 |
Ömer Faruk Akarca | 2 |
Nuri Cem Erbak | 2 |
Ömer Aras | 2 |
Uğur Şeker | 2 |
Shlomo Nechama | 1 |
Koray Gultekin Bahar | 1 |
Adi Sharabani | 1 |
Ran Tuttnauer | 1 |
Alexander Schneider | 1 |
Emre Kenci | 1 |
Aydın Öztunalı | 1 |
Shlomo Nehama | 1 |
Deniz T. | 1 |
Kerim Kotan | 1 |
Sedat Eryilmaz | 1 |
Tülin Karabük | 1 |
Sercan Isik | 1 |
Yair Amit | 1 |
Ina Schlie | 1 |
Yagiz Gokdemir | 1 |
Family & Friends | 1 |
TUĞRUL AĞIRBAŞ | 1 |
Cem Topcuoglu | 1 |
Bill Gates | 1 |
Umur Özal | 1 |
Hesham Zreik | 1 |
Özgür Ülkü | 1 |
Owen Rahadiyan | 1 |
Faisal Alabdelsalam | 1 |
Selcen Uyguntüzel | 1 |
Jonathan Karten | 1 |
Ahmet Bilgen | 1 |
Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Transportation, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, Greece, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Jobtogo — Jobtogo is a freelancer platform that offers solutions to the problems experienced by companies in the supply of talent.
- Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.
- Tripy Mobility — Tripy Mobility strives to promote the adoption of electric vehicles while reducing carbon emissions in transportation by increasing the charging station network.
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
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
- Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
- A.M.A Selections — Exclusive luxury holiday villa rentals in Europe, Africa & The Caribbean with A.M.A Selections. Some of the best & most luxurious villas to rent in Europe & across The World.
Joseph Ackerman, also known as Yossi, served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Elbit Systems Ltd., the holding company of Elbit Security Systems Ltd. and Harpia Sistemas S.A. from 1996 to March 31, 2013. From 1994 to 1996, Joseph Ackerman served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Elbit Ltd.'s Defense Systems Division(EDS.). He joined Elbit Ltd. in 1982 and held various management positions, including General Manager of EFW, Senior Vice President of Operations Group, Vice President of Operations and Vice President of Advanced Battlefield Systems. He serves as the Chairman of MediGuide Ltd. He served as the Chairman of Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT - Elisra Ltd. and Elbit Systems Ltd. He served as the Chairman of Tadiran Communications Ltd. since August 2005. He served as the Chairman of Elbit Systems Ltd. from 1996 to 2004. He served as the Vice Chairman of Elbit Systems Ltd. from April 1, 2013 to November 19, 2013. He serves as a Director of Imagesat International N.v. He served as a Director of Elbit Systems Ltd., the holding company of Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT - Elisra Ltd. from 1996 to 2004. Joseph Ackerman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology (the Technion).
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Investment focus
- Apps, Local, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Phytolon — Phytolon revolutionizes the way food colors are produce, by Leveraging a novel and sustainable technology for production of healthy food colors in high quality at low costs. Phytolon's mission is to exploit scientific advancement promote human health and environmental sustainability
- Musketeer — Help anywhere, anytime. Musketeer enables personal safety, alerting people close by and emergency services that someone needs help. In addition, it builds real life communities and promotes proactive safety by allowing people to ask for assistance, such as having someone walk them to their car because it's night and they don't want to bealone. All for free.Musketeer is the first social network dedicated to personal safety. By leveraging 21st century technology (crowdsourcing, cloud, and mobile) Musketeer enables users to seek assistance from people around them in case of distress. The system also provides safety related information in real-time and in aggregate for smarter Region/City management.
Daniel Recanati is the Founder & CEO of Rhodium. a private investment firm whose mission is to identify the most promising entrepreneurs and help them build thriving companies. focusing on Impact, digital, climate tech and space via Earth & beyond ventures.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Advertising, Analytics
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- Israel, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Yo Egg — At Yo Egg, we're on a mission to become the largest and most sustainable egg producer in the world, without the use of chickens.
- QuamCore — QuamCore is driving breakthroughs across industries by advancing the field of quantum computing, pushing the boundaries of what is possible, and bringing large-scale, commercially viable quantum computing to reality.
- Helios — Helios is developing a reactor that can process lunar soil and Martian soil to oxygen and metals. The company solution is unique as its output yields two highly crucial materials at the same time, and it doesn’t require earth brought consumables. They seek to enable the establishment of a permanent base on the Moon. Another potential use of ourreactor can be to supply oxygen from the lunar surface to earth orbit, as it requires 26 times less energy than launching it from Earth. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Israel.
Yılmaz Yıldız
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Investment focus
- Waste Management, Procurement, Retail
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.
Faruk Eczacıbaşı - Deputy Vice President of Eczacıbaşı @ KWORKS Koç University Entrepreneurship Research Center
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Investment focus
- iOS, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
- Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.
Taavura Holdings
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Investment focus
- Energy, Power Grid, Energy Storage
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Nostromo — Nostromo energy provides ice-based energy storage systems to commercial and industrial buildings, reducing emissions and energy costs and increasing resilience
Olcayto Yigit is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
Meltem Kirişçi
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Ercan Solmaz
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Ben Nun Group
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Investment focus
- Energy, Power Grid, Energy Storage
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Nostromo — Nostromo energy provides ice-based energy storage systems to commercial and industrial buildings, reducing emissions and energy costs and increasing resilience
Emre Kurttepeli is a Serial Entrepreneur & Investor and is the Founder & Chairperson of Mynet Group, Turkey’s leading internet company with over 32 million users and Founder & CEO of Mynet Games, a global mobile gaming company.Columbia University/NY graduate, he has been the founder or the investor of over 50 internet andtechnology companies, mostly leaders in their own categories that ranges from e-commerce companies to vertical social network sites, mobile and gaming companies, including Trendyol, Insider, Iyzico, RemoteTeam and vc fund that invests in the internet and technology space. Additionally he is an investor in C24 Gallery, a prominent contemporary art gallery in Chelsea/New York.He is the President of Endeavor Turkey and Galata Business Angels (GBA), that are non-profit organizations helping to grow the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He serves on the Board of Endeavor Global, TOBB Turkish Venture Capital Industry Council and TOBB Turkish Entrepreneurs Council. Besides being on the advisory board member of Columbia University Global Center in Istanbul, he also is a member of YPO and is an Ashoka fellow.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- Tarentum — Tarentum AI develops solutions to critical business needs using machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies.
Özgür Trakya
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Yetik Kadri Mert is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
Eddy Shalev is an angel investor. Eddy is one of the best-known figures in the Israeli business community. Since the beginning of Israel's venture capital industry, Eddy has focused on private-equity investments in the high-tech sector, and has played a key role in several high-profile success stories, including Fundtech, ParadigmGeophysical and Orbot Instruments. Eddy is currently on the board of Aternity, Profitect and Sensible Medical.Eddy has been an active private equity investor in Israel since 1992, when he began a private equity investment program that invested in early-stage Israeli high-tech companies. Beginning in 1985, Eddy led the Israeli affiliates of Oscar Gruss and Sons Inc., and then later CIBC-Oppenheimer, where he directed the firm’s corporate banking, sales and trading, and equity research for Israeli companies traded on NASDAQ.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Payouts.com — Payouts.com provides payouts automation for affiliates, freelancers, vendors & more. Experience faster, seamless payouts. Enjoy fast, automated payouts.
- Atlas Invest — A platform for institutional investors to invest in real estate backed bridge loans at scale with reduced risk.
- Element Security — Element Security is a cybersecurity landscape that is evolving rapidly, with external attack surfaces expanding and threats becoming increasingly sophisticated.
Haluk Can Hür
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Retail, Shopping
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- Shopi — All-in-One Store Platform for Omnichannel Retailing
Tarık Bayar
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Ömer Faruk Akarca
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Nuri Cem Erbak
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Ömer Aras
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Investment focus
- Retail, Biopharma, Marketing
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- LIVAD Technologies — LIVAD develops cutting edge Livestream Advertising products connecting brands with streamers. Our technology enables brands to serve smart, elegant, and non-intrusive ads while allowing streamers of all sizes to monetize their content consistently.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech pioneers the integration of DNA & RNA sequencing data with AI for rare disease diagnostics. We offer the first RNA-based diagnostic support tool.
Uğur Şeker
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Investment focus
- Marketing, Gaming, Big Data
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Turkey, Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.
Shlomo Nechama
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Investment focus
- Fruit, Water, AgTech
- Series A
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Saturas — Saturas is developing a miniature SWP sensor that is part of an automatic SWP sensing system. Embedded in the trunks of trees, vines, and plants, the sensor provides accurate information based on statistical analysis for optimized irrigation, reduced water consumption, and increased fruit production and quality. The Saturas precision agriculturesensing system components: miniature implanted sensors, in-orchard communications and transponders, and control unit. Saturas’ automatic SWP sensing system collects accurate data using a minimal number of sensors per hectare, and transmits the data to a central control system connected to irrigation controllers for automated irrigation. The farmer receives information in an easy-to-read report. The Saturas technology tailors irrigation to real-time needs, resulting in more efficient water use while increasing yields, fruit size, and sugar content (e.g., vineyards).
Koray Gultekin Bahar is a Co-Founder & CEO at Figopara.Koray attended Eastern Mediterranean University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Digital Marketing, Sharing Economy
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
- Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
- HrPanda — Streamline your hiring process with HRPanda's advanced applicant tracking system. Manage job postings, track candidates, and simplify recruitment all in one intuitive platform. Transform your hiring with HRPanda!
Adi Sharabani is the CEO and co-founder of Skycure. A world-renowned security expert with years of experience in enterprise software, Adi was formerly the leader of security for IBM software products. He came to IBM through the acquisition of Watchfire, a market leader in the field of application security, where Adi built and led its securityand research group. Adi holds more than 25 patents in the security space, and his works, presentations and keynotes are regularly given the highest accolades at prestigious conferences. Adi earned a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from Tel Aviv University, and is a fellow in Professor Yuval’s workshop for science, technology and security. Committed to cyber security education, Adi has been a teacher and education advisor, playing a key role in the vision and implementation of the cyber defense curriculum for high school students in Israel majoring in cyber security. After compiling decades of leadership in cyber security, Adi co-founded Skycure with the central idea of improving mobile security with a more proactive and predictive Mobile Threat Defense solution. In an interview for the RSA Conference blog, Adi notes, “Organizations [need] the ability to evolve to address the changing nature of [mobile security] attacks… for the most part, devices are simply running naked.” Adi embraces cyber security research and development, realizing that only through targeted research and continuous innovation can mobile security evolve into intelligent and highly active security for organizations.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mining, Aerospace
- Seed, Series A
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Raftt — Raftt provides easy-to-use developer environments which run in the cloud, enabling advanced collaboration while using existing local IDEs and other tools and workflows. No more "it works on my machine"!!
- Helios — Helios is developing a reactor that can process lunar soil and Martian soil to oxygen and metals. The company solution is unique as its output yields two highly crucial materials at the same time, and it doesn’t require earth brought consumables. They seek to enable the establishment of a permanent base on the Moon. Another potential use of ourreactor can be to supply oxygen from the lunar surface to earth orbit, as it requires 26 times less energy than launching it from Earth. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Israel.
- Oligo Security — Oligo detects the attackable open source libraries, thus filtering out about 85% of the noise. Watch now.
Ran Tuttnauer
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Big Data, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Innovopro — Bringing a unique chickpea protein platform to the global food & beverage market, for creating nutritious, tasty, and sustainable food products.
- Solidify — The Marketplayz platform helps you find the perfect creators to promote your products. It utilizes AI-powered technology to enable advertisers and creators to connect through a one-stop, self-service marketplace.
- Geneyx — Geneyx offers a superior NGS data analysis and interpretation platform, Harnessing genetic data to guide digital insights for rare and germline disorders Geneyx
Alex Schneider’s career has been dedicated to corporate finance and principal investing in businesses with under $50 million of revenue. Prior to Clover Capital Partners, Alex was with Keystone Capital, Inc. where he was the longest tenured professional outside of its founders. At Keystone, he helped create a unique and highly successful model toinvesting in the lower middle market. Compared to traditional private equity firms, Keystone is engaged in fewer transactions and allocates more financial and strategic resources to those businesses over longer hold periods. Alex’s direct investment experience spans a wide range of industries, including food manufacturing and packaging, metal fabrication, optical sensors, medical disposables, and professional services. Prior to Keystone, Alex was an investment professional with Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison, a middle market private equity fund. Previously, Alex was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan in New York City and Chicago where he worked on mergers and acquisitions and leveraged finance transactions. He earned his undergraduate degree and MBA from Northwestern University.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Finance, Robotics
- Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Soom Foods —
- Cleveland Kitchen — We are a culinary brand bringing the highest-quality fermented foods from the heart of Cleveland to the rest of the nation.
- Panoramic Power — Visualise your energy with real-time data to holistically manage your consumption, reduce spend, and improve operational efficiency.
Emre Kenci
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Investment focus
- Art, Retail, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- fucimo — Easily create, manage, and monetize your advertising and sponsorship opportunities with Fucimo. Ditch your old media kit and showcase your offerings like never before. Create a no-code online store for selling ads and sponsorships in just 5 min.
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Aydın Öztunalı
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, EdTech
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Evreka — Evreka is a leading SaaS company providing the most comprehensive intelligent solutions designed for the entire category of waste management across the globe.
- Initio — initio is Enabling the transformation of the pharmaceutical industry today by using lab-on-a-chip and organ-on-a-chip technologies
- Otsimo — Otsimo offers special education and speech therapy apps for autism, down syndrome and other developmental disabilities. Click to see our autism apps!
Mr. Shlomo Nechama served as the Chief Executive Officer of Arison Investments from 1992 to 2006. From 1982 to 1992, Mr. Nehama served as a partner and joint managing director of Eshed Engineers, a management consulting firm. He has been the Chairman of Ellomay Capital Ltd. (Formerly, NUR Macroprinters Ltd.) since March 31, 2008.
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Investment focus
- Fruit, Water, AgTech
- Seed
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AllofMe — AllofMe lets users create digital timelines using emails, photos, videos, documents, and more. The service is designed to help family members organize memorable digital assets and share them with each other. Users will also be able to compare their own timeline with historical events at the time. AllofMe later plans to transform timelines intovideo widgets.
- Saturas — Saturas is developing a miniature SWP sensor that is part of an automatic SWP sensing system. Embedded in the trunks of trees, vines, and plants, the sensor provides accurate information based on statistical analysis for optimized irrigation, reduced water consumption, and increased fruit production and quality. The Saturas precision agriculturesensing system components: miniature implanted sensors, in-orchard communications and transponders, and control unit. Saturas’ automatic SWP sensing system collects accurate data using a minimal number of sensors per hectare, and transmits the data to a central control system connected to irrigation controllers for automated irrigation. The farmer receives information in an easy-to-read report. The Saturas technology tailors irrigation to real-time needs, resulting in more efficient water use while increasing yields, fruit size, and sugar content (e.g., vineyards).
- NuConomy — NuConomy is helping companies better assess and understand website and social marketing performance with its free, next generation web analytics and optimization platform. NuConomy was specifically built to go beyond standard metrics and measure the rich interactions and social features of websites. Through NuConomy’s unique engagement module,websites can understand each individual user’s behaviors and engagement across content, brands and site features. Then, these insights are used to dynamically optimize their online presence, including advertising, and create 1:1 conversational marketing opportunities. NuConomy was founded in 2006 in Tel Aviv, Israel and is now headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its executive team is comprised of former Microsoft and Google leaders. NuConomy completed its A Round financing in 2008 from WPP Group, one of the world’s leading communications services groups. To learn more about NuConomy, visit www.nuconomy.com. NuConomy was sold in 2010 to LivePerson at a price covering the investment.
Deniz T.
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Investment focus
- PaaS, SaaS, Solar
- Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- SmartPulse Technology Inc. — The platform includes automated process management as well as integrated algorithmic trading and optimization. Generators and consumers can monitor operations, manage forecasts, employ autotrader functions, participate in a virtual and/or real balancing pools. The platform also acts as a marketplace for forecasting service providers and powerretail operations. SmartPulse also has a self-developed IoT platform.
Kerim Kotan
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Internet of Things
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Turkey, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Innovasion Labs PINC — Next Generation of Energy Storage
- TelomEye Pharmaceuticals — Site will be available soon. Thank you for your patience!
Sedat Eryilmaz is an angel investor based in Turkey.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Daxe Games —
- Wastespresso — Companies that generate coffee waste (headquarters, hotels, cafes, offices, restaurants, etc.) regularly perform micro coffee waste management and upcycle these coffee wastes with its sustainable technological infrastructure. After this upcycling, coffee wastes and disposable/reusable cups, straws, flower pots, spoons, etc. various materials such as; both home appliances, white goods, automotive etc. parts for sectors; It also produces bio raw materials for the packaging and plastics industries.
Tülin Karabük
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Investment focus
- Farming, CleanTech, Agriculture
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Local Greens — Local Greens is an indoor farming company operating in metropolitan cities to grow healthy, premium quality and delicious vegetables.While our combination of natural sunlight, LED grow lights and hydroponic growing methods ensure that we are using the resources as efficient as possible, our "grow local & sell local" approach allowsus to sell our greens without middleman and logistics costs, and deliver our greens as fresh as possible.
Sercan Isik - CEO & Co-Founder @ Scorp
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Investment focus
- Retail, Procurement, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Yair Amit is an entrepreneur, advisor and angel investor who specializes in the field of cyber security. Previously, he served as VP Product Strategy of Symantec's Endpoint Solutions and VP & CTO of
the Modern OS Security business of Symantec. He joined Symantec through the acquisition of Skycure, which he co-founded in 2012. Mr. Amit ledSkycure's & Symantec's engineering, product, research and analyst-relations activities in the field of mobile & modern OS security since the Mobile Threat Defense market's inception. Yair holds 20 security-related patents and has been active in the security industry for the past two decades: his research and findings led to numerous high-profile disclosures and presentations in global conferences throughout the years. Prior to founding Skycure, Yair managed the Application Security and Research Group at IBM, to which he joined through the acquisition of Watchfire. In his role, Yair led the research and implementation of IBM’s application security next-generation technology. Mr. Amit holds a BSc, summa cum laude, from Tel Aviv University in Bioinformatics.
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Investment focus
- Software, CRM, SaaS
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Helios — Snyk announces acquisition of Helios, accelerating application security posture management (ASPM) capabilities in Snyk AppRisk with runtime insights.
- Helios — Helios is developing a reactor that can process lunar soil and Martian soil to oxygen and metals. The company solution is unique as its output yields two highly crucial materials at the same time, and it doesn’t require earth brought consumables. They seek to enable the establishment of a permanent base on the Moon. Another potential use of ourreactor can be to supply oxygen from the lunar surface to earth orbit, as it requires 26 times less energy than launching it from Earth. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Israel.
- Oligo Security — Oligo detects the attackable open source libraries, thus filtering out about 85% of the noise. Watch now.
Ina Schlie serves as co-chair of the female investor network encourage ventures.
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Investment focus
- E-Learning, SaaS, Virtual Reality
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Israel
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- ExoMatter — ExoMatter is a digital materials development startup. They employ artificial intelligence algorithms to find better and more sustainable materials for their application. Their customized platform contains all material data in one location. They use scientific data on materials to develop enhanced and environmentally friendly materials. Theirmaterials research platform generates a customized list of materials for each client's application.
- Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.
- Re-Fresh Global — Re-Fresh Global brings sustainability innovation into the manufacturing industry. Our patented biotechnology transforms textile waste into recycled raw materials: nanocellulose, ethanol, and sanitized textile pulp.
Yagiz Gokdemir
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Estonia
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- Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
- Botgate AI — Capture, Respond and Channelise information to give personalized and quick responses to generate leads with our AI Tools, Chatbots, and Messaging API.
Family & Friends
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- Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United States, The Netherlands, Egypt
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- thrie — Transportation
- Alphunt — Login to LinkedIn to keep in touch with people you know, share ideas, and build your career.
- Bite - build your social circle — Bite is a social app focused on creating and facilitating hangouts. So you can build or maintain your social circle
TUĞRUL AĞIRBAŞ
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- Sustainability, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Malty — Malty engages in the sustainable food industry.
Cem Topcuoglu
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- Retail, Procurement, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Bill Gates is the Co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He attended Harvard University.
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- Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Series C, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Canada
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- Heineken — Welcome to the global website for Heineken International. Find information about our company, history, brands, strategy and careers here.
- Inflection AI — Inflection AI is a machine learning startup that engages in redefining human-computer interaction.
- Lucy Therapeutics — Lucy Therapeutics, a Boston-based biotech with a unifying mitochondrial platform, is developing small molecule treatments for neurological diseases.
Umur Özal is an angel investor.
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- Baby, Rental, Retail
- Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
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- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Kiralarsın — Kiralarsın is a rental service to rent electronic devices.
- Mutlubiev — A leading online cleaning services platform. It thrives on providing high-quality cleaning solutions and satisfying clients' personal needs.
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
- SFA — Lebanon and abroad for its personal account and non-account in all fields of trade and public industry.
- TeaLeaf — TeaLeaf is a firm that wants to assist in the distribution of tea.
Özgür Ülkü
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- AgTech, Farming, Software
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United Kingdom
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- UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
Owen Rahadiyan is an indonesian individual investor.
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- SaaS, CleanTech, Sustainability
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- Zeroe — Comprehensive carbon management and reporting to get your enterprise to net-zero
Faisal Alabdelsalam is the Founder and CEO of Zetta Technologies. He previously worked at STC as a Database Manager. Faisal Alabdelsalam attended King Saud University.
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- Consulting, Information Technology
- Seed
- Saudi Arabia
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- Bekia — With Bekia, Exchange your waste for products in Egypt
- Fine Diner — Fine Diner delivers mouth-watering meals straight to your door. From sizzling steaks to crispy fish and chips, our menu offers a variety of delicious options for every craving. Order now and experience the taste of quality food delivered with convenience
- ARKTECH — Ark is a real estate platform that creates a variety of investment channels and streamlines real estate operations while achieving sustainability. Ark Structured investment contracts in prestigious real estate that have fixed returns and produce income on a regular basis for a chosen time frame.
Selcen Uyguntüzel is an individual investor.
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- Sustainability, Transportation
- Seed
- Turkey
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- MaestroHub — MaestroHub is a Single Source of Truth industrial data governance platform to overcome data architecture and integration challenges faced in digital transformation. MaestroHub points data sources to a smart data layer with drag & drop features and automatically creates contextualized data packages in real-time with Unified Namespacearchitecture. MaestroHub is the first self-diagnostic Unified Namespace solution with DataOps capabilities.
- Tripy Mobility — Tripy Mobility strives to promote the adoption of electric vehicles while reducing carbon emissions in transportation by increasing the charging station network.
Global Early Stage Venture Investor and Financial Consultant for Middle East StartUps | Commercial Real Estate Investing | Former Israeli Air Force | Columbia University Graduate
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketing, Automotive
- Seed
- Israel
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- MyQuest — myQuest enables you to engage customers and employees anywhere, anytime. Easily train and interact with learners using AI, micro-learning, and gamification.
- Immagnify Ltd. — Immagnify provides you with easy access to millions of companies and professionals by email, phone, and social media channels to help your company grow faster.
- Spinframe Technologies — Founded in 2017, Spinframe Technologies deliver a single source of truth for the status of vehicles at every checkpoint. The company provides a real-time, AI-enabled platform for vehicle damage detection, inspection, and documentation. The fully automatic, plug & play stations are deployable at every gateway and detect up to the smallestdamages in real-time, such as scratches, dents, and scuffs. With Spinframe's technology, it is possible to monitor large volumes of vehicles without requiring any human intervention, from maritime ports to large transportation and logistics hubs, to parking lots, dealerships, rental branches, and service centers. For locations where physical systems cannot be deployed, we offer similar features via a mobile web app. The platform combines advanced image capturing and processing methods with in-house machine learning techniques for identifying and classifying damage. The data is stored in the cloud platform, enabling instant visualization and sharing of fleet status over time and at every checkpoint, through a single interface and a single platform. Spinframe is praised by leading port operators, leasing and rental companies, and automotive OEMs around the globe.
Ahmet Bilgen Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur and angele investor.
He lives in Famagusta-North Cyprus. He finished primary school and high School in Famagusta. He has been a very active person all throughout his life, he received a Black Belt II. Dan in TaeKwon-do, played in the local soccer team while studying at Canbulat high school. Ahmet was alsohelping his family with their farming business by selling the produce to shops, making some money in the meanwhile which he used to buy his first bicycle, first ball or his first pair of sneakers. Ahmet graduated with Bsc in Applied Marth and Computer Science from Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 he got his Masters degree in Computer Science. Right after he started his PhD degree in Computer Science but decided to quit academia after his first semester. During his masters and PhD degrees, he took part in developing intelligent user interfaces and inmemory data concepts for mobile devices. After leaving academic life, Ahmet worked in various IT companies for about 2 years and then joined SAP where he had his first professional work experience. Ahmet joined SAP Turkey as the Technology Consultant, and therefore took part in the implementation of more than 100 SAP projects with companies like Yaşar, Koç, Sabancı, Havelsan, Arena etc. as these were the first implementers of SAP ERP in Turkey. During his tenure at SAP, he worked in various roles such as technical consultant, business analyst, project and team manager and architect.
Ahmet, after working at SAP for 2 years and getting enough project experience and honing on his technical skils, he decided to set up FIT “Future Information Technology” Solutions together with 3 of his friends in 1999. By the end of 1999 FIT had already made its first million USD revenue. FIT has integrated Turkey’s most important e-commerce platform named “Arena Computer Supplier Portal” with SAP. This was featuted as an international success story by SAP Inside magazine in 2001. FIT Solutions(lately became Foriba) has a lot of experience from completing many software integration projects. Working with the top 250 companies also gives the company the advantage to have a more extensible, scalable, sustainable and supportable product. These experiences and know-how attained over the years put the company in an advantageous position to achieve end-to-end e-invoicing solutions.
in 2019 Ahmet Bilgen exited from Foriba.
Foriba did:
- Series A With Revo Capital
- Series B With Revo, IFC, Endeavor Catalyst
- Exit
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- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Education
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
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- FlexyWatt — FlexyWatt's smart energy management technology allows consumers to optimize energy use and cut electricity expenditures.
- Topi — Topi is an B2B e-commerce platform for wholesale market.
- admarket.co — Outdoor,Billboard,Taxi,Bus,Print,sms Advertising,book ad spaces in The USA-admarket
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