Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Middle East in May 2026
Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Middle East in May 2026
| Investor | Enterprise Middle East investments |
|---|---|
| Omer Hayrı Erkmen | 19 |
| Ariel Maislos | 19 |
| Nevzat Aydın | 10 |
| Zohar Zisapel | 10 |
| Rakesh K. Loonkar | 9 |
| Danny Hadar | 9 |
| Gigi Levy Weiss | 9 |
| Sertaç Özinal | 9 |
| Mickey Boodaei | 9 |
| Joachim Behrendt | 8 |
| Jonathan Karten | 8 |
| Assaf Rappaport | 8 |
| Shlomo Kramer | 8 |
| Sina Afra | 8 |
| Ofer Ben Noon | 7 |
| Ameet Patel | 7 |
| Musaab Hakami | 7 |
| Utku Öz | 7 |
| Nadir Izrael | 7 |
| Emre Acikel | 6 |
| Aaron Applbaum | 6 |
| Zohar Gilon | 6 |
| Aviram Jenik | 6 |
| Firat Isbecer | 6 |
| Rafi Gidron | 6 |
| Ron Zuckerman | 6 |
| Moshe Lichtman | 6 |
| Marius Nacht | 6 |
| Ahu Serter | 6 |
| Bedii Can Yucaoglu | 5 |
| Micha Kaufman | 5 |
| Bhavik Bajaj | 5 |
| Altay Tinar | 5 |
| Aryeh Mergi | 5 |
| Hesham Zreik | 5 |
| Burak Dayıoğlu | 5 |
| Yevgeny Dibrov | 5 |
| Atakan Atalar | 5 |
| Yossi Vardi | 4 |
| Fatih Isbecer | 4 |
| George Kurtz | 4 |
| Ron Gross | 4 |
| Mehmet Onarcan | 4 |
| Bashar Hamood | 4 |
| Ali Rıza Babaoğlan | 4 |
| Melih Odemis | 4 |
| Eddy Shalev | 4 |
| Hasan Aslanoba | 4 |
| Michael Fey | 4 |
| Koray Bahar | 4 |
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Find investors — It's Free!Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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- Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
- Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
- Onlayer — Our powerful solutions suite streamlines onboarding, compliance, monitoring and insights to mitigate risk and secure growth at every stage of the digital business lifecycle.
Ariel has been leading technology innovation and entrepreneurship for over 30 years, leading teams, founding companies and mentoring entrepreneurs. He is an active angel investor in startups, and supports technology education as a philanthropist. Ariel is a graduate of the prestigious Talpiot program, and holds a BSc from the Hebrew University ofJerusalem in Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science (Cum Laude) and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Israel, United States, Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- GeoX — GeoX is an Aerial Imagery AI analytics company. We produce geospatial Property Data which is used for Underwriting & Claims in the US and European insurance industries. GeoX unique proposition is in 3-dimensional extraction technology which provides rich information about every property. GeoX also produces 3D building datasets from aerialimagery for complete geographies using automated processes. 3D building models are digital representations of the properties, and in conjunction with aerial imagery allows every staff member in any insurance discipline to see the property visualization, and get a good understanding of the structure, its dimensions and characteristics without visiting in the site. GeoX uses propriatetary and Patented technology for the 3D extraction.domains: Insurtech, Smart cities
- Parter — Parter operates as an AI-native platform built for the real-world needs of electronics producers across across R&D, engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing.
- BeWith.io (Superc AI) — Connect residents and foster engagement with a centralized community calendar that brings all city events into one easy-to-access platform
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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- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
- Shark Guitar — Premium electric guitars manufactured with robotic precision. Shark Guitars mean freedom of versatility, customization and portability.
- 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.
Zohar Zisapel
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- Cyber Security, Security, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cylus — Cylus, the global leader in rail cybersecurity, helps rail, freight and metro companies avoid service disruption and safety incidents by detecting cyber-attacks in their signaling and control networks, wayside and onboard, before harm happens.
- Nucleix — OUR TESTS AIM TO DETECT CANCER EARLIER - WHEN TREATMENT CAN BE MOST EFFECTIVE FOR PATIENTS OUR PRODUCTS
- Hailo — Hailo is an Israel-based deep learning company that develops a breakthrough specialized deep learning microprocessor to deliver data center performance to edge devices. The company aims to drive artificial intelligence to the edge. Its processors enable edge devices to go beyond handling sensors and streaming volumes of data for remoteprocessing–they can do the processing themselves.Hailo’s complete re-think of computer architecture breaks the barriers of traditional paradigms, accelerating the extremely heavy computation of deep neural networks.
Rakesh is the President and Co-Founder of Transmit Security. Rakesh earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
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- Cyber Security, Network Security, Security
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- PointFive — PointFive provides ongoing cloud cost savings by providing deeper detection and collaborative repair solutions that fit smoothly into teams' normal operations.
- Entro Security - Non-human Identities — Entro is the first platform to unify security for AI agents, NHIs, and secrets - delivering full visibility, ownership attribution, and real-time detection of anomalies.
- Linx Security — The AI-native platform for identity security, visibility, and governance.
For the last 10 years, I have been active within the Israeli and US startup ecosystems where I completed 20+ seed investments in companies such as Geoforce (acquired by LLR), Bonobo (acquired by Salesforce), Optitex (acquired by Efi), Keeprz (acquired by Como), Drippler (acquired by Soluto), Snyk (Unicorn) and few others. I am passionate for seedinvestments, creative ideas, risk taking and supporting entrepreneurs.Prior to that, I founded 2 companies, Blue Sky (Energy) and Sinusafe (Medical) after working as a software engineer for 7 years.I grew up in Israel, and lived in the US for 5 years while completing my MBA from Duke. I love all kinds of extreme sports, and particularly kite surfing and snowboarding.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Laxis — Learn how UX designers, product managers, market research, consultants, and attorneys use conversation Intelligence to supercharge their business and increase revenue. Learn more.
- Deci AI — Deci enables deep learning to live up to its true potential by using AI to build better AI. With the company’s end-to-end deep learning acceleration platform, AI developers can build, optimize, and deploy faster and more accurate models for any environment, including cloud, edge or mobile. With Deci’s platform, developers can increase deeplearning model inference performance by 3x-15x, on any hardware, while still preserving accuracy. This translates directly into new use cases on limited hardware, substantially shorter development cycles, and reduced compute costs by up to 80%. The platform is powered by Deci’s Automated Neural Architecture Construction (AutoNAC) technology, an algorithmic optimization engine that squeezes maximum utilization out of any hardware. The AutoNAC engine contains a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) component that redesigns a given trained model’s architecture to optimally improve its inference performance (throughput, latency, memory, etc.) for specific target hardware while preserving its baseline accuracy. Deci achieved a record-breaking 11.8x accelerated inference speedup on Intel CPUs at MLPerf Industry Benchmark and has been named to the CBInsights top 100 AI companies. Led by a team of world-class deep learning experts, Deci lets AI developers focus on what they do best - creating innovative AI-based solutions for our world’s most complex problems.
- Velocity — Accelerate the way you build and deliver products. Spin up fully isolated, production-like environments in seconds. Work with your existing dev toolbox.
Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Faireez — Optimizing tenants' lifestyle and convenience through enabling them with a hotel-like home cleaning service
- BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
- Diagnostic Robotics — Diagnostic Robotic develops a signal-agnostic artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. It allows to build powerful predictive analytics models that will solve a world-wide challenge, strained health budgets, and workforces. Diagnostic Robotic was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Sertaç Özinal
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- Internet, Gaming, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Finekra — Finekra is a Banking Application that manage all Banks from a single screen.
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
- Fon Radar — Fon Radar is an online marketplace platform that brings businesses together with financial institutions.
Founder and CEO of Transmit Security.Previously Founder of Trusteer (now IBM Security) and Imperva. Early stage investor in cyber security startups including Armis, RiskRecon (now Master Card), and FireGlass (now Symantec).
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- Network Security, Cyber Security, Security
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- PointFive — PointFive provides ongoing cloud cost savings by providing deeper detection and collaborative repair solutions that fit smoothly into teams' normal operations.
- Entro Security - Non-human Identities — Entro is the first platform to unify security for AI agents, NHIs, and secrets - delivering full visibility, ownership attribution, and real-time detection of anomalies.
- Linx Security — The AI-native platform for identity security, visibility, and governance.
Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.
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- SaaS, Software, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Scorp — "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views.
- Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
- Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
Principal at Awz Ventures | Advancing Israel’s Economic & Technological Resilience Investing in deep-tech innovations across AI, cybersecurity, photonics, biotech, and quantum technologies to strengthen Israel’s economy and defense capabilities. Veteran Staff Sergeant in the Israeli Air Force Intelligence division, Horizon. MSc BusinessAnalytics & BA Financial Economics, Psychology & Business Management; Columbia University Magna Cum Laude.• Former President and Founder of Democratize Value (VC) • Former President and Founder of The Iftach Consulting Group (Management Consulting)My recent accomplishments include: • Raising $8 million from angel investors and due diligence/investing in 27 ventures in PropTech, E-commerce, Marcom, Healthcare, and FinTech sectors • Providing fundraising, due diligence, marketing, and operational advice to 23 PropTech, FinTech, and other Israeli start-ups • Underwriting, modeling, sourcing capital, negotiating, and closing 100+ commercial real estate transactions in the US, Israel, and EuropeOn the personal side, I: • Created a documentary called “Survival In The Forest, Isidore Karten & The Partisans”. • Served in the Israeli Air Force (SSG in Business Intelligence Division) • Volunteer as a Board Member with Yad Va Shem and the Israeli American CouncilSkills Global Early-Stage Startups | Venture Capital| Business Valuation | Account Management | Arabic | Business Strategy | Data Analysis | Financial Reporting | Foreign Relations| Hebrew | Management Consulting | Public Speaking | Social Media | Statistical Data Analysis | Strategic Communications | Team Leadership | Arab-Israel Conflict | Business Valuation | Client-Focused | Customer Relationship Management (CRM) | Commercial Real Estate Acquisition | Commercial Real Estate Analysis | Commercial Real Estate Development | Competitive Analysis | Corporate Finance | Corporate Venture Capital| Creative Entrepreneurship | Early-Stage Investment | Early-Stage Ventures| Debt & Equity Capital Raising| Debt & Equity Financing | Entrepreneurship Development| Financial Analysis | Financial Modeling | Fintech| Fundraising | Global Cross Functional Team Leadership | International Business Development | International Trade Relations | Investment Communications | Management Due Diligence| Market Research | New Business Development |Operational Due Diligence| Private Equity Firms | Proptech | Real Estate Private Equity | Residential Real Estate Sales | Startup Development | Start-Ups | Valuation Modeling
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- Software, B2B, Marketing
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Israel, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- 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 business teams with accurate B2B contact information based on advanced technographic segmentation and customer analysis.
- DayDream Ventures — DayDream Ventures is a venture fund investing in founders building with community-led growth in mind in.
Assaf Rappaport is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wiz. He previously worked at Microsoft as a General Manager, at Microsoft Israel R and D. Assaf Rappaport attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Twine — Twine Vision is to create AI digital cybersecurity and introduce virtual digital employees to work alongside human teams.
- Linx Security — The AI-native platform for identity security, visibility, and governance.
- JetStream Security — JetStream Security is a platform for enterprise AI governance and security designed to manage, safeguard, and expand agentic AI in manufacturing. JetStream allows teams to define and approve AI behavior, ties all actions together, and offers continuous AI visibility across models, agents, copilots, tools, and processes.
Shlomo is co-founder and CEO of Cato Networks. He is a network security expert and a serial entrepreneur. Shlomo has co-founded Check Point Software, who created the first commercial Firewall, and Imperva, the innovator of the Web Application Firewall. Shlomo has made early investments in successful cybersecurity companies including Palo AltoNetworks, Trusteer, and numerous others. He was named CEO of the Year by SC Magazine in 2008, one of “20 luminaries who changed the network industry” by Network World in 2006, and was inducted into the InfoSec Hall of Fame in April 2013.Shlomo holds a master’s degree in computer science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University.
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- Software, Cyber Security, Security
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Opti — Opti is an AI-powered identification protection system that uses domain-trained models to automate enterprise IAM.
- Token Security — Token is the new approach designed for the identity boom era. Introducing Machine-First Identity Security.
- Clutch Security — Clutch Security provide security teams with comprehensive, clear, and actionable tools for Non-Human Identity security.
Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Turkey, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
- MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
- Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.
Ofer Ben Noon is the Co-founder & CEO of Talon Cyber Security. He previously worked at Continental as a Senior Executive Manager. Ofer Ben Noon attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).
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- Software, Cyber Security, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- RapidSec — Orca Security provides agentless, workload-deep, context-aware cloud infrastructure security and compliance through our comprehensive cloud security solution all in a single platform.
- Blink Ops — Blink is a no-code workflow platform for CloudOps. Blink helps DevOps, SREs and SecOps teams shift left with no-code automation for more reliable, resilient cloud operations.
- Fabrix Security — Fabrix delivers next-gen identity security with intelligent automation, user access governance, and risk reduction, simplifying compliance and securing access.
CTO//Investor//Whisperer to Leading Enterprise Companies Exits Acopia Networks, Mimosa Systems, Integrien, Cyvera, Librato, Caspida, BlueBox Security, Nodeprime, APIGEE, SkyHigh, Solinea, Cask, Zscaler (TPG-IPO), Anaplan (IPO)
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- Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Tracebit — Tracebit generates and maintains bespoke decoy resources in your cloud environments, closing gaps beyond stock protection without time- and cost-intensive detection engineering
- Patlytics — Patent discovery, analytics, comparison, and workflow. Simplified via Artificial Intelligence.
- Restate — Restate is a lightweight runtime that lets developers build innately resilient distributed apps without the complexity tax.
Founder, Ex-GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
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: The neighborhood workspace where productivity, connection & community come together.
Utku is a Partner based in our Istanbul office. He is the leader of the “Digital and Analytics” Practice in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, helping clients create value with data, innovative tools and techniques. He serves a wide range of industries, including financial services, telecoms, manufacturing and retail.
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- Internet, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
- Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
As co-founder and CTO, Nadir Izrael guides the technology vision behind Armis to protect the new connected or IoT devices in and around the workplace. He co-founded the company in 2015 with its CEO, Yevgeny Dibrov. Prior to Armis, worked at Google as senior software engineer. Before Google, Nadir spent six years in the Israeli army, specifically inunit 8200, where he designed and programmed software projects and systems, serving as team leader and attaining the rank of captain.
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- Software, Security, Cyber Security
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Velocity — Accelerate the way you build and deliver products. Spin up fully isolated, production-like environments in seconds. Work with your existing dev toolbox.
- Daylight Security — Daylight Security provides agentic security services that allow organizations to operate and establish traditional Security Operations.
- Talon Cyber Security — Talon is the pioneer in cyber security solutions for the hybrid workforce, providing a secure and isolated browser-based endpoint environment.
Angel Investor. Investing in Turkey (member of Sharks & Partners) & Switzerland (member of Business Angels Switzerland).
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.
- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
- 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.
Aaron Applbaum - Partner @ MizMaa Ventures
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- Information Technology, Software, Cyber Security
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Drift.ai — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
- Decart — Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models.
- Clutch Security — Clutch Security provide security teams with comprehensive, clear, and actionable tools for Non-Human Identity security.
Mr. Zohar Gilon is a Managing Partner at Tamar Technology Ventures. He has personally invested in over 45 start-ups and has achieved 13 exits. Mr. Gilon has also served as the Transaction Manager for some of Israel's most highly recognized exits and has managed each deal from inception through completion, including pricing and distributions.He has extensive investment experience including activity as an angel investor and an Investment Advisor to the Gilon Group. Mr. Gilon is a private investor in numerous high-technology companies, including affiliates of Radcom Ltd. in Israel. From 1974 to 1993, Mr. Gilon served as the President of various companies representing major U.S. aerospace and electronics corporations. From November 1993 to August 1995, he served as the President of W.S.P. Capital Holdings Ltd. Previously he served, as the Managing Director of Shaked Technologies Ltd. He serves as a Director of HCL CleanTech Ltd., RIT, AVT Ltd., Oberon Media, Inc., Edge Medical, Exlibris, OrSense Ltd., and WisAir Ltd. He served as a Director of RAD Ventures. Mr. Gilon served as a Director of RiT Technologies Ltd. since 1995, Ceragon Networks Ltd. since June 1999, Radware Ltd. from October 2006 to July 2009 and Radcom Ltd. since June 1995. He served as Member of the Supervisory Board of Advanced Vision Technology (AVT) Limited. He served as an Outside Director of Silicom Ltd. since 1994.
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- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
- Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
- Annabella — The Electric Breast Pump that mimics a baby's tongue. This technology encourages the release of oxytocin and prolactin hormones, leading to a 50% increase in average milk production.
Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies
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- Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, South Korea, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
- SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
- Adversa AI — Autonomous AI red teaming platform that continuously tests AI agents, LLMs, and GenAI apps. 300+ attack techniques. OWASP & NIST mapped. Trusted by Fortune 500
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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- Internet, SaaS, Software
- 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.
Rafi Gidron is the Founder and Chairman of Israel Brain Technologies. He previously worked at Lucent as a VP of Optical networks. Rafi Gidron attended Columbia University.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
- Dig — dig is a social listening platform using AI to analyze social video. Track brand mentions and sentiment analysis with our real-time media monitoring tool.
- The Digital Pets Company — pay77 situs gacor yang memberikan akses lengkap dengan fitur apk mobile dapat lebih mudah menemukan dan bermain di situs pay77, ayo install aplikasunya dan manfaatkan semua fitur yang tersedia di kami
Ron Zuckerman is the Co-Founder and Director of TV Time.
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- Internet, Video, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Israel, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Cymbio — Connect to hundreds of digital sales channels via Cymbio's automated multi channel e-commerce platform to increase sales & elevate revenue.
- Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
- Safeguard Applied Innovation — Safeguard Applied Innovation provides a mobile performance management platform for construction enterprises. It designs its solution to enable decision-making for successful project planning and execution, delivering effective control regardless of project complexity or national regulations.
Moshe Lichtman is an angel investor. Moshe Lichtman has spent 29 years creating software products for global markets. He's freshly retired from Microsoft where he was Corporate VP responsible for several of its consumer businesses including its MSN business in the late 90s, its TV business in the mid-2000s and most recently its IsraelR&D center, which he built into one of the 3 largest centers outside the U.S. Mr. Lichtman was also one of the leaders of the Windows 95 team and president of Softimage, a leader in media creation software. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Lichtman held software development and management positions in several high-tech startups. He is the co-author of the best-selling book "The complete guide to the C language" and holds a BSc Cum Laude in Computer Engineering from the Technion and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School. Mr. Lichtman is currently an active angel investor in Israeli startups. and is in the process of forming a private equity fund focused on growth and public tech companies in Israel
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- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Panorays — Panorays automates, accelerates and scales your third-party security evaluation and management process so you can easily manage and remediate risk.
- Semperis — Semperis is the industry's most comprehensive Active Directory security and recovery platform, protecting hybrid AD environments from identity-based attacks.
- Superwise — Superwise gives ML practitioners fully automated, enterprise-grade model observability in a self-service SaaS platform. Start monitoring ML in production in under 5 minutes.
Marius Nacht, one of Check Point’s founders, has served as Chairman of our board of directors since 2015. Nacht has also served as one of our directors since we were incorporated in 1993. From 1999 through 2005, Nacht held Senior Vice President roles at Check Point. Nacht earned a B.S. (cum laude) in Physics and Mathematics from the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem in 1983, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Communication Systems from Tel Aviv University in 1987.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Machine Learning
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Israel, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
- WaveBL — WAVE BL lets you digitally issue, transfer, sign, endorse and surrender trade documents while cutting costs and eliminating fraud.
- Ultima Genomics — Ultima Genomics is unleashing the power of genomics at scale. Ultima Genomics drives the scale of genomic information to enable unprecedented advances in biology and improvements in human health.
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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- Software, Manufacturing, Transportation
- 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 — Are you ready to pedal the city? Download the Tripy app to view available shared bikes for rent and start your journey now.
Bedii Can Yucaoglu - Advisor @ Hesapkurdu
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- Marketplace, Mobile, Big Data
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Tapu.com — Tapu.com has built the first managed real estate marketplace in Turkey and started selling from its first week of launch in 2015. Tapu.com is the first online real estate auction platform for the Turkish market, bringing many sellers like financial institutions, companies and individuals together with qualified buyers. Tapu.com has launched aneasy-to use platform that leverages the competitive bidding process on verified properties with a mission to make transactions easier and more transparent. Tapu.com has completed 4 major investment rounds from Earlybird Venture Capital and prominent Turkish angel investors.
- Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.
- Vivense Home & Living — Vivense is a Turkish online furniture store that connects customers with furniture manufacturers. It offers a wide variety of furniture items such as sofas, chairs, tables, beds, dining tables, and more. Vivense allows clients to order their preferred furniture items online, and offers free delivery for certain products.
Micha Kaufman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Fiverr, the world's largest and fastest growing marketplace for digital services. He is an angel investor, partner at Cerca VC, a startup mentor, and a contributor at WIRED and Forbes.
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- Software, B2B, Apps
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Foraged — 13K Followers, 701 Following, 195 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Foraged Market (@foraged.market)
- Weavy — Weavy is a company focused on enhancing team collaboration by providing developers with pre-built, seamlessly integrated collaboration features for web applications. Their platform offers components such as chat, messaging, file sharing, AI tools, and cloud integrations designed to save developers from repetitive coding tasks, enabling them tobuild smarter and faster without reinventing the wheel. Weavy's tools emphasize developer-friendliness, intuitive user experience, and cost-effectiveness, aiming to empower developers across skill levels to embed collaboration and AI-driven capabilities into internal apps efficiently.
- Unlimited Robotics — Unlimited Robotics empowers developers to build apps on Gary, the perfect robot for your business or office, and make any robot into a multipurpose one with Ra-Ya.
Bhavik Bajaj
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- Information Technology, Software, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
- ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
- THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
Altay Tinar - Co-Founder & CEO @ Yuvako
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- CRM, Apps, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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.
- ORTHERO —
- Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
Aryeh Mergi is an and entrepreneur and an angel investor. In his background Aryeh was a co-founder of M-Systems, XtremIO and several other companies Aryeh received a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (with honors) from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel in 1988.
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- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, Spain, United States
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- IO River — A unified layer of security, traffic control & serverless compute services on top of Edge platforms to improve the reliability, performance & cost of online services.
- Datawizz.ai — A cutting-edge platform that empowers users to effortlessly define, generate, augment, enrich, and evaluate synthetic data. We make overcoming data privacy concerns, cold starts, and sharing issues a breeze. It’s the turnkey solution for any data challenge!
- FalkorDB — An ultra-low latency Graph Database that perfects the Knowledge Graph for GraphRAG. Effectively overcoming the existing limitations of RAG for Large Language Models (LLM).
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Nigeria
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- Credit Cooperatif Africain — Crédit Coopératif Africain is a Rwandan microfinance institution established as a private limited company and subsidiary of SCIAC Ltd.
- Primelocation care givers foundation — Primelocation care givers foundation is the promoter and sponsor of an 80-bed secondary..
- Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity — Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity is a faith-based non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated.
Dayioglu holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering and holds CISSP, CSSLP, CRISC, CIPT certificates with a strong technology background. He is an active angel investor.
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- Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Audit Now — AuditNow is a software platform to modernize how internal audit teams collaborate and deliver results faster and more efficiently.
- heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
- Onlayer — Our powerful solutions suite streamlines onboarding, compliance, monitoring and insights to mitigate risk and secure growth at every stage of the digital business lifecycle.
Leads the vision and direction for Armis. Previously Head of Global Business Development for cloud security company Adallom (acquired by Microsoft). Graduate Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
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- Software, Cyber Security, SaaS
- Seed, Series A
- Israel
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- Axiom — Axiom is an IAMOps platform provider that enables seamless, scalable, and secure Cloud and SaaS authorization.
- Daylight Security — Daylight Security provides agentic security services that allow organizations to operate and establish traditional Security Operations.
- Backslash Security — 360 application security including code, configuration and deployment, built for AppSec teams.
Atakan Atalar is the Founder of Atanova Ventures. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com (acquired by Gusto) as an Investor. Atakan Atalar attended Istanbul Kultur University.
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- Information Technology, Rental, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- LOKI — LOKI is a cloud-based secure network platform that can be managed without any technical knowledge.The company enables companies to manage and secure their networks by changing how they interact with cybersecurity products. LOKI platform offers a cloud-based secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that automatically scansand protects all network traffic from threats.
- BlindID — BlindID is a unique social media platform which allows users to make one hundred percent anonymous voice calls with random people for a limited time. BlindID does not use information such as user name, phone number, profile photo, and gender. Enjoyable time with BlindID spending is only left to communication ability and creativity.
- StartupFon — StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.
One of Israel’s early entrepreneurs, Yossi Vardi co-founded, led, funded and helped build more than 80 high-tech, energy, natural resources, and clean-tech companies. Many of them went public, including Tekem, Alon Energy, Granite Hacarmel, answers.com, scopus, International Lasers Technologies, epals, tocows, brightcove, other were acquired :Gteko (by Microsoft), Tivella (by cisco,) Airlink (by sierra wireless), Foxytunes (by yahoo),starnet (by IAC),Gift project (by ebay).As the founding investor ofMirabilis Ltd, -the creator of iCQ - Vardi co-pioneered instant messaging. ICQ was one of the internet’s earliest successes, later sold to AOL.Vardi was chairman of the board of trustees of Jerusalem Foundation, serves on the board of trustees of the technion and served on those of Weitzman Institute. Hebrew university, open university .he was advisor to the World Bank, United Nations Development Program , CEO’s of Amazon, AOL, Siemens Albis, and Allied–signal. member of the World Economic Forum, and Co-chairman of the EU-Israel business dialogue.Vardi had an extensive government and public career, hewas the director general of Ministry of Development and Ministry of Energy. was chairman of Israel National Oil Company, and Israel Chemicals. participated in the peace talks with Egypt, Palestinians, Jordan and Syria. He received Honorary Doctorates from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and the Ben Gurion university , the Prime Minister Hi-Tech Award for life achievements (twice); Best Internet Personality by TechCrunch Europe; Entrepreneur of the Year by Tel Aviv University , Europe’s 25 top techs by Wall Street Journal; and one of the 200 Greatest Israelis of all times by Ynet. was elected by Israel 21c to the top 10 icons of Israeli high tech - the pioneers, by The Algemeiner for the "jewish 100 - the top 100 people positively influenced jewish life " and by wired magazine (uk) as number 9 of the wired 2014 top 100 influential people in EuropeYossi Vardi sits on the advisory boards of 3i and Amdocs and has served on boards of numerous state and private corporations including Bezeq, Israel Electric, and the Bank of Israel. Yossi has also been an Advisor to the CEOs of AOL, Amazon, and Allied Signal. Yossi Vardi has received many awards, including the Prime Minister of Israel Hi-Tech Award for life achievements on two occasions, the Industry Prize, the Ramniceanu Prize and CEOs Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame.
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- Search Engine, Internet, Software
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- RoomiePics — RoomiePics is a social camera for sharing photos with people nearby. The app is currently in development.
- Similarweb — All in one Website analytics & competitive traffic intelligence platform - Compare website traffic and performance, analyze strategies & grow your market share!
- The Gifts Project — The Gifts Project is a social ecommerce platform for Group Gifting that helps online retailers, marketplaces and gift stores to leverage their social buying experience. This white label solution brings major ecommerce websites a Social Group Gifting Platform with a winning combination of Social Networks and Group Payment straight to theircheckout process. With Group Gifting, customers can share their special occasions with their social graph by letting friends to chip in for each others gifts while shopping at their favorite online store. The Gifts Project is a product of Appchee Applications Ltd., an Israeli startup company that is backed by
Fatih Isbecer - Founder & CEO @ Dataroid
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- Internet, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
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- Mindway — Mindway is a fully immersive meditation app that proves mindfulness doesn't have to be boring.
- Gleam Games — Unique and exciting gaming experiences to enhance gamers' lives. We believe gaming is all about creating a world of unmatched collaboration, immersion, and emotion. At the heart of every gaming experience we create, we aim to bring you the best in-game experiences through design and technology.
- Flora — Flora is the only sustainable brand platform acquiring and growing Amazon FBA brands with a world-class team of professionals.
George Kurtz is a President, CEO, and Founder at CrowdStrike. He was a Worldwide Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at McAfee. He attended Seton Hall University.
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- Software, Cyber Security, Computer
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Israel, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Zania — Autonomous AI agents for Security Risk and Compliance
- Doppel — Doppel is a real-time, cross-chain monitoring platform for detecting NFT fraud -- starting with counterfeits.
- JetStream Security — JetStream Security is a platform for enterprise AI governance and security designed to manage, safeguard, and expand agentic AI in manufacturing. JetStream allows teams to define and approve AI behavior, ties all actions together, and offers continuous AI visibility across models, agents, copilots, tools, and processes.
Ron Gross
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- Sales, Dating, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Israel, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Kirobo — Making Blockchain As Simple As Online Banking Solution Kirobo adds a logic layer into the blockchain that protects users from human error
- Lua — Lua is a swipe-free dating app focused on depth and intimacy. With our smart & unique matching model, users receive hand-picked matches that consider their interests, personal sharings, and engagement holistically.Once matched, users are guided through a series of intimacy-building questions during a mystery meeting, before being given theoption to reveal their personal profile, and continue the journey with that special someone in the light.
- Substrata — Substrata | #1 AI Real-Time Sales Coach | Designed by data scientists, psychologists and linguists to help you book more meetings and close more deals
Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.
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- Apps, Internet, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Ireland, United States
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- Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
- Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
- Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.
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- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
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- Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
- TravelTales — TravelTales is a platform that connects travelers with local guides who offer personalized.
- Mancano And Associates — Domain name Mancano.com exudes a sense of mystery and intrigue, with a versatile appeal that can cater to a wide range of startups. The names brevity, with only 7 letters, makes it easy to remember and type, ideal for establishing a strong
I am a business professional since 2008 and a financial investor since 2015, having strategic positions in several scale-up tech companies/startups and real-estate assets. I continue to invest in the tech domain with a focus on SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C markets, and real estate options in developing markets with ROI targets.Grow inEMEA, the company I started in 2015, focuses on East Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East markets mostly for tech and real estate options and portfolio management. Also, my team provides market access services to Baltics, Turkey, and UAE / Saudi and gives investment advisory services.Prior to the investment focus, I worked in Linkedin EMEA Headquarter where I hold Director of Turkish Speaking Territory in Dublin, Ireland. Before, I have been with SAP AG and IBM in Turkey. I also give speeches at local and global investment events. I gave keynotes on ARAB NET in Lebanon, IT Arena in Ukraine, Rise Up Summit in Egypt, and NEXT in Germany. I also spoke at several closed corporate events of Roche, VESTEL, SAP AG, DenizBank, Turkish Economy Ministry, Turkish Exporters Assembly, Bakioğlu Holding, and AGT.Now, I am living in Tallinn, Estonia.Email: alib@growinemea.com Web: https://alibabaoglan.com Photos: https://gie.investments/my-photos
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- TV, CRM, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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.
- N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
- Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
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- 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!
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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- Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- Israel, United States
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- TripleW Group NV — Making Waste History. TripleW upcycles food waste into high-value bioplastic
- QEDIT — Augment your data tools with advanced encryption, by world leaders in zero-knowledge proofs, homomorphic encryption, multi-party computation
- REACH — Document collaboration, e-signature, web conferencing and ID verification, all in one single platform.
business in the water industry. By 2005, the company succeeded in the Turkish bottled water industry under his guidance.In 2006, Erikli Water partnered its Turkish operations with Nestle Waters, the global leader of the bottled water industry.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Turkey, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
- RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
- 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.
Michael Fey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Island. He previously worked at ShieldX Networks as a Board Member. Michael Fey attended Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
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- Cyber Security, Security, Software
- Series A, Seed
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Valence Security — Valence Security is the first Business Application Mesh security company focused on managing the risks from third-party integrations and securing app-to-app connectivity.
- Oasis Security — Oasis pioneers the first enterprise platform dedicated to tackling the security and operational hurdles of Non-human Identities.
- Oasis Communication Technologies — Oasis is a unique system integrator in the design, implementation, and maintenance of highly complex telecommunications systems.Oasis offer proactive maintenance and support services.Oasis focuses on three main fields: Data systems infrastructure, communication networks and perimeter security.
Koray Bahar is an investor at Ekmob.
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- Software, CRM, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Dusyeri — Dusyeri is an edutainment platform that focuses on children.
- OppZone — OppZone offers a wide range of content marketing services.
- Diştedavim — Your dental health is important to you. Don't postpone your appointment anymore, make an online appointment now.!
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