Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in Middle East (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Samih Toukan
Angel
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3 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Jordan | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $500k–$7.1M |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $100k–$3.7M |
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Firat Isbecer
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Internet, Software | $20k–$3.8M |
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Omar Darwazah
Angel
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2 | United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $360k–$125M |
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Jake Seid
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology | $2.8M–$100M |
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Himanshu Periwal
Angel
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1 | India | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, B2B | $50k–$2.7M |
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Elad Kushnir
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Gaming, Software, Mobile Apps | $1M–$35M |
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Ayla Cönger
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | FinTech, Finance, Education | |
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Musaab Hakami
Angel
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1 | United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $50k–$7.4M |
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Michael Ovitz
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $2.3M–$115M |
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Henry Helgeson
Angel
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates | Series A, Seed | FinTech, Finance, Payments | $1M–$3.5M |
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Koray Gultekin Bahar
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, Estonia | Seed, Convertible Note, Angel | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $140k–$1M |
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Rashid Alshamsi
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | FinTech, Finance, Financial Services | |
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Nilüfer Günhan
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Gaming, FinTech, Finance | |
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Alexander Schneider
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Private Equity | Energy, Finance, Robotics | |
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Kenges Rakishev
Angel
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1 | Cyprus, Israel, United States | Series B, Seed | Mobile, Internet, Video | $3.7M–$22M |
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Henrique Dubugras
Angel
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1 | United States, Brazil, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, SaaS | $1.1M–$225M |
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Fahad Hafiz
Angel
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1 | India, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Seed | Medical, Pharmaceutical, Food and Beverage | $14k–$5M |
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Arman Eker
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | FinTech, Finance, Robotics | |
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Abdullah Kurmstaji
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | FinTech, Finance, Financial Services | |
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Jason Gardner
Angel
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1 | United States, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands | Seed, Series A, Series C | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $3M–$60M |
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Mustafa Sandal
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | FinTech, Finance, Education | |
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Yaron Adler
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A | Sensor, FinTech, Finance | |
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Akif Cahit Erdoğan
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Finance, Financial Services | |
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
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1 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment | $480k–$18M |
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Oskar Hartmann
Angel
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1 | Germany, India, Russian Federation | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive | $300k–$52M |
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Nazan Zeybek
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Finance | |
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John Nakamura
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | SEO, FinTech, Finance | |
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Burak Günsev
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | FinTech, Finance, Education | |
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Metin Tarakçı
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Finance, Financial Services | |
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Ayberk Kuday
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | FinTech, Finance, Education | |
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Sevda Taner
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Finance, Analytics, Cryptocurrency | |
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Ashneer Grover
Angel
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1 | India, United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $572k–$25M |
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Rafi Gidron
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services | $2M–$8M |
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Barış Conger
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | FinTech, Finance, Education | |
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Jeff Immelt
Angel
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1 | United States, Saudi Arabia | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Hardware | $1M–$36M |
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n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance | |
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Roni Michaely
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed, Series A | SEO, Mobile, FinTech | |
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Boon Hwee Koh
Angel
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1 | Singapore, United States, China | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $399k–$20M |
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Yakup Doğan
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Finance, Financial Services | |
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Ahmet Bilgen
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Education, E-Commerce, Sharing Economy | $15k–$1.2M |
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Paul Vienneau
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Series A | FinTech, Finance, Software | |
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Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $125k–$35M |
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Alper Çetinkaya
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Banking, Finance, Financial Services | |
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Ali Altug KOCA
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Finance, Financial Services | |
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Ihsan Elgin
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $244k–$4M |
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Jonathan Kolber
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series B | Social Media, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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Sema Sarsar
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Finance | |
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Orhan Ayanlar
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Private Equity | Apps, EdTech, Gaming | $250k–$1M |
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Yaron Lemelbaum
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | SaaS, FinTech, Internet | $1M–$15M |
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In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Series A $1.5M–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kitchenful — Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits.
- Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
- Jusoor Labs — Jusoor Labs is an edtech startup that provides interactive simulations and virtual labs for students and educational institutions.
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- each::labs — AI marketplace for developers.
- Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
- Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
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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- Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $727k–$3.8M; Angel $20k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$430k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
- Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Omar is a Managing Director, General Partner, and CFO at AAF Management Ltd. (AAF), an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016. Over the past 5 years, Omar has invested in over 120 venture-backed startups in the US, Europe, and MENA region across a multitude of different sectors alongside over 800 blue-chip venture capital firms,corporate venture arms as well as notable incubators and accelerators. Omar has also deployed capital to 18 emerging managers globally. His fund performance is consistently ranked in the top decile in terms of DPI and TVPI respectively benchmarked on Cambridge Associates’ data on over 1500 US VC Funds. Previously, Omar spent 10 years of his career with OCI N.V. in Cairo and New York focusing on investor relations, strategy, and corporate finance where he worked on over $35 billion worth of corporate transactions. Prior to that, Omar was with Deloitte Tax LLP in Chicago and Deutsche Bank’s Leveraged Finance team in London.Omar also founded and successfully exited his own startup, Premier Foods SAE, which managed two gourmet fast food brands in Egypt. Omar previously advised Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ corporate venture arm Hikma Ventures on its digital healthcare investments Omar is also an angel investor in over 20 tech companies including Andela, Blockstack, BitOasis, Dayra, Freterium, Halan, FiscalNote, Thndr, and Ziina. Omar sits on the Board of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) and the Middle East Venture Capital Association (MEVCA). He is also a mentor to the NYU Steinhardt EdTech Accelerator, an advisor to Yale University’s Center for Digital Health and Innovation, and a judge at the Wharton School’s Venture Lab. In aggregate, Omar has over 16 years of international experience in corporate finance, corporate communications, management consulting, strategy, investor relations, and venture capital.Omar is an avid traveler and has visited 87 countries around the world. He also has an interest in film production and has been an Executive Producer on several short feature films including Baby Mine (2017) and Lab Rat (2018).Omar holds a BA in Economics and Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was named as one of Wharton’s 40 under 40 in 2017 and one of the Top 100 the University of Chicago Alumni in Tech in 2021.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$14M; Pre-Seed $360k–$3M; Series B $24M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
- Fuze — Transform your business with Fuze's digital assets infrastructure solutions and integrated payment systems. Achieve seamless transactions and efficiency.
- Exponential DeFi — Exponential is now powering the YO Risk Engine. The risk graph that powers YO will soon be published.
Jake Seid is based out of San Mateo, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Ballistic Ventures. Jake previously worked at Ten-X as an Advisory Board Member. Jake Seid attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has a unique combination of operating and investing experience, which supports founders as they grow theirbusinesses. Previously, as sole founder of Stone Bridge Ventures, 12 of his early-stage investments grew to become unicorn companies. Prior to that, he was president of TenX/Auction. With 800 people in his reporting org, he grew the real estate-focused transactional online marketplace to be the industry’s leading platform. The company was acquired for $1.6B. Jake started his tenure in venture capital as a member of the team that launched Lightspeed Venture Partners and became a key Managing Director helping drive the firm’s early growth. Early on, he was a Cisco product lead for the team that commercialized broadband technology, helping the group grow from startup to a $1B revenue run rate in 2 years and drove many important cybersecurity-focused innovations into his products. He holds an BS in Electrical Engineering and an M.Eng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. At MIT, he was awarded the Karly Taylor Compton Prize, the highest honor given to a student. He is a long-serving board member of the MIT Club of Northern California. In 2009, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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- Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$17M; Series A $7M–$100M; Series B $5M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bolt — Bolt makes Ecommerce better with One-Click Checkout and CheckoutOS. See how Bolt checkout boosts your sales today.
- Rattle — Sales automation for scaling teams. Learn how revenue leaders use Rattle to effortlessly update Salesforce, improve pipeline accuracy and skyrocket their success.
- Ribbon Home — Ribbon provides all-cash offers and powerful software solutions for agents.
Himanshu is the Co-Founder at unlu / unluclass, an online learning & collaboration platform for creators. He has worked with Amazon, Bain & Company, ixigo over the last 10 years. He was the VP Growth at ixigo, helping it grow transactions by 23x over 3 years. At Amazon, he was part of the team that launched it in India and wasits' first Product Marketing Manager. Prior to that, he worked with Bain & Company on various Private Equity, Fin-tech, Retail sector mandates.A graduate of IIM Calcutta, he is also a Product Management Faculty at upGrad, a Start-up Advisor at NASSCOM, GSV Labs, TechStars and has been associated with over 20 start-ups as a Mentor/Investor/Consultant. Himanshu has also been on the stage for various events at IAMAI, Google, Facebook, Branch.io, Netcore, SATTE, HiFi, Clevertap, IIM Calcutta, MDI Gurgaon, Delhi University, Nirma University, BITS Pilani, Growth Folks, Headstart, etc.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stealth Mode — We began Sateeq with a vision to make Private Equity investing accessible to everyone, and we are humbled by the trust and support of over 50,000 users who joined us on this journey.
- Soptle — Founded in Sep 2021, Soptle started to establish an integrated technology to the neglected regional FMCG Manufacturers in India with a B2B Retail Commmerce App. It uses tech and data to distribute at scale and use necessary components (existing Distributor/Wholesaler) in the FMCG Supply Chain to build a high growth and profitable business.
- Phot.ai — Explore Phot.ai for state-of-the-art AI photo editing. Transform, enhance, and bring creativity to life with our powerful, user-friendly online tools.
Elad Kushnir
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- Industry: Gaming, Software, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.4M; Series B $35M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Huuuge Games — Huuuge is a gaming company on a mission to build world's largest real-time social casual gaming platform connecting millions of players to have fun & socialize & play awesome games.They are passionate about transforming mobile casual gaming into massively fun, real-time, social experiences.Their mission is to be the global leaderof real-time free-to-play casual gaming on mobile: re-defining casual arcade, puzzle and casino categories.
- Luna Labs — Luna Labs is the maker of a creative management platform used to create mobile ads. Luna Labs technology allows app developers from enterprises to indie developers to create, manage and optimize their playable ad and video ads, at a fast speed and on a large scale.
- Mad Brain Games — Challenge your brain with this fun, free word scapes game!Solve puzzles to save the farm! Word Farm Adventure Game Save...
Ayla Cönger
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Founder, Ex-GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $50k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3M; Series A $5.2M–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
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.
- MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
- Groundfloor — Groundfloor Club: The neighborhood workspace where productivity, connection & community come together.
Michael Ovitz co-founded Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in 1974 and served as its Chairman until 1995. Over that 20-year period, he grew the agency from a start-up organization to the world’s leading talent agency, representing more than 1,000 of the most notable actors, directors, musicians, screenwriters and other personalities in theentertainment industry including Martin Scorsese, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Steven Spielberg, David Letterman, Meryl Streep, Barbara Streisand, Michael Crichton and Michael Jackson. In his journey from the mailroom to media mogul, Mr. Ovitz launched the most powerful agency in the world (to date), sold three major Hollywood studios, executed all marketing and advertising for The Coca-Cola Company (including creating the Polar Bear Campaign) and was at the forefront of the digital revolution, making alliances with Intel Corporation and other early Silicon Valley companies. Mr. Ovitz also served as President of the Walt Disney Company, from October 1995 to January 1997. In 2010, Mr. Ovitz founded the venture capital fund Broad Beach Ventures LLC, a portfolio of over thirty companies. He has been a senior advisor to Palantir Technologies for over 10 years and has invested in and advised companies from startups to black swans. He was instrumental in the creation of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and frequently consults for Founders Fund, 8VC and many other firms. In 2018, Mr. Ovitz wrote and published his memoir Who Is Michael Ovitz?, which was on the long list for The Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Mr. Ovitz is a graduate of University of California, Los Angeles and helped rebuild the UCLA Medical Center in 1997 while serving as its Chairman for over a decade. Mr. Ovitz is also a notable art collector and serves on The Board of Trustees at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$30M; Series A $9.6M–$60M; Series B $18M–$115M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
- Isara Laboratories — Isara Laboratories operates as an artificial intelligence startup.
- Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.
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Browse database — It's Free!Henry Helgeson is the current CEO of BlueSnap. He previously worked at Cayan LLC as a CEO and Founder. Henry Helgeson attended Marist College.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Payments
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Monami Tech — They work alongside financial institutions and telcos to bridge the gap between conventional and sophistication through modern digital solutions that enhance user experience. Institutions can offer their customers a simple, secure and personalized experience on any device they choose.
- Biller Genie — Make accounts receivable easy with Biller Genie - an automated invoice creation tool for businesses. Create invoices automatically & get late payment reminders.
Koray Gultekin Bahar is a Co-Founder & CEO at Figopara.Koray attended Eastern Mediterranean University.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $175k–$1M; Angel $140k–$200k; Convertible Note $250k–$730k
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
- Yancep — Yancep is a micro saving, and micro investment application.
- 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!
Rashid Alshamsi
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Namara — Namara is facilitating the dream by equipping individuals with access to superior borrowing, saving, and side jobs products. Namara harnesses advanced analytics and machine learning-powered technology to achieve a comprehensive understanding of its customers' financial situations, resulting in custom-tailored advice and underwriting. Itsreward, point, and incentive system encourages sound financial decision-making and improves overall financial outcomes. Namara is headquartered in Dubai and maintains offices in Abu Dhabi. For further details, please visit www.namara.ae or obtain the app at https://bnc.lt/E1yh/DNjAQCAwrD.
Nilüfer Günhan
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- Industry: Gaming, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
- Teleporter — California and Istanbul based VR gaming company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of VR medium and creating high-quality experiences that redefine social interaction and gaming.
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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- Industry: Energy, Finance, Robotics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
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 — Panoramic Power, the leading provider of energy management solutions, enables businesses to optimize their energy consumption, improve operational efficiency and generate income through load response programs. Using its innovative and affordable circuit-level cloud-base analytics solution, companies across a wide range of retail and commercialindustries gain insight into their energy usage and are able to optimize operations, processes and maintenance resources.
Kenes (Kenges) Rakishev - a prominent entrepreneur and investor, and one of the most influential businessmen in Kazakhstan, according to Forbes magazine, Kenes has served in several top positions in both the private and public sector throughout his career and worked as an advisor for the Kazakhstan Interior Ministry and Department of Education.Kenes is a co-founder of the global venture fund Singulariteam. It was his vision to make advancing mobile technology more widely available after he noted a very real desire for currently unobtainable functionality.
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- Industry: Mobile, Internet, Video
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: Cyprus, Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series B $3.7M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- mobli — Mobli is going to be a new social media application coming fall 2024 - tips from fans
- TriPlay — TriPlay is the next generation personal cloud company, enabling users worldwide to easily access, manage, share and enjoy their music, photos and videos across any computer, mobile phone, tablet or web-enabled television. TriPlay is a privately held company with offices in New York and Israel.
- Fastlane Ventures — Fastlane Ventures is a Russian company focused on the development, launch and promotion of innovative internet businesses.Founded in 2010 by a team of experienced entrepreneurs with a track record of successful investments, the company has launched 20 internet start-ups to capitalize on the increasing demand for online services and growingappetite for investment in the Russian internet market by Western and Russian investors.The company has attracted more than $85 million from international investment funds. Key strategic investment partners of Fastlane Ventures are Direct Group, e.ventures and VTB Capital. Among the investors of the company also Intel Capital, Kinnevik, Mangrove Capital, ru-Net, UMJ Russia, and some others to launch companies across the online retail, travel, relationship, health and recruitment areas. The strategic focus of Fastlane Ventures is to target business-to-consumer niche markets with low levels of competition. The Company's aim is to anticipate the not yet satisfied needs of Russian customers.Fastlane Ventures acts as both an operational and investment partner at the same time. It is the sole Russian company that provides an initial seed investment in addition to having a hands-on operational role with its businesses through its team of high calibre professionals. To launch its business quickly and effectively, Fastlane Ventures has adopted proprietary solution called Fast 50, which enables a new venture to launch in just 50 days and ensures an efficient path between launch and exit. Fastlane Ventures has established a team of highly regarded professionals, who possess unique knowledge and expertise in management, entrepreneurship, e-commerce, business development, marketing and PR, investment generation, HR management, web design and much more. Once the new business venture is operating effectively, Fastlane Ventures helps its investment partners realize their investment return through the sale of the business to other strategic investors. This usually takes place approximately 2-3 years after the initial business launch. For more information about Fastlane Ventures and its portfolio companies, please visit http://fastlaneventures.ru/en/
Henrique Dubugras is the co-founder and Chairman of Brex. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was sixteen years old. In just three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in the volume of transactions processed. In the fall of 2016, Henrique sold Pagar.me and enrolled at StanfordUniversity. After eight months, he left school and founded Brex, which raised $215M in funding across three rounds in its first 22 months and was the fastest U.S. business-to-business company to be valued at over $1bn.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$14M; Series A $33M–$225M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
- Fundamental — Fundamental is an AI research company that focuses on overcoming the fundamental challenges of machine learning in large-scale tabular systems.
- Portal — One integration opens the entire world of Web3 to your users. DeFi, games, NFTs, and more.
Fahad Hafiz is based out of Bengaluru, Karnataka and is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Hydra Electric™. Fahad previously worked at Syndicate Group of Companies as a Group Chief Executive Officer.
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- Industry: Medical, Pharmaceutical, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: India, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $60k–$5M; Pre-Seed $14k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BC29 — Private Family Office of Mr. Fahad Hafiz
- Al Dana — Al Dana is an Algo Trading Firm.
- The Syndicate Investment Group (SIG) — Syndicate Investments is an investment company that invests in companies and provides them with the equity capital and support necessary to scale up from early-stage startups to successful businesses. With a presence in more than 16 locations globally and with $500M assets under management, Syndicate Investments is a recognized top-rankinginvestment company. It has a proven track record of finding the next big thing in a variety of industries and sectors.
Arman Eker - CEO @ Trendbox
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Robotics
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Figopara — Figopara is a solution that discounts companies' e-invoices before their due dates with the offers received by financial institutions. It provides secure information to the financial companies that the customer is associated with and wants to reach by providing them with printed invoice information.Figopara was established in 2017 to developfinancial technology applications and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Robomotion — Robomotion is an AI-powered automation platform. Build, deploy, and manage intelligent agents and cloud workflows to streamline your business processes.
Abdullah Kurmstaji
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Namara — Namara is facilitating the dream by equipping individuals with access to superior borrowing, saving, and side jobs products. Namara harnesses advanced analytics and machine learning-powered technology to achieve a comprehensive understanding of its customers' financial situations, resulting in custom-tailored advice and underwriting. Itsreward, point, and incentive system encourages sound financial decision-making and improves overall financial outcomes. Namara is headquartered in Dubai and maintains offices in Abu Dhabi. For further details, please visit www.namara.ae or obtain the app at https://bnc.lt/E1yh/DNjAQCAwrD.
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Browse database — It's Free!Jason Gardner is the Founder, Executive Chairman of Marqeta. He previously worked at MoneyGram International as a Vice President of PropertyBridge. Jason Gardner attended Arizona State University.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $5.2M–$60M; Series A $3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MoneyHash — Emerging and Global markets first all-in-one flexible payment orchestration and revenue operations platform that covers all of your payment needs. We help you build, optimize, and scale your payment infrastructure at any stage of growth.
- Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
- ClearGrid — Revolutionize your debt recovery with AI and advanced analytics. Our platform delivers faster, more personalized collections that benefit both your business and your customers.
Mustafa Sandal - Advisor @ manibux
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Yaron Adler - Founder @ We Group LTD
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- Industry: Sensor, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- eToro — Trade and invest on a trusted multi-asset platform. Get ideas from 35M users, practise with a demo account or copy top-performing traders automatically.
- Mircod — IoT and IoMT (Healthcare IoT) creation require ever-increasing and sophisticated electronic design. It also demands a superior level of expertise and necessitates the need for experienced and highly professional companies to expedite the development process. At the core of every electronic product is the electronics (hardware) and firmware(software) needed to run it.Mircod experience and multi-disciplines enable the company to provide turnkey development of: • Circuit Schematics: Analog & Digital, Gerber Artwork, and Layout Design. • Embedded Systems. • Firmware & Micro Controller Programming Software Design. • User-Interface Development. • Hardware Design for CE, FCE, UL, ROHS, WEEE, and FDA.The ability to provide the right, properly “up and running” comprehensive prototype for the desired idea, while selecting the precise components, defines all aspects of a product's performance, realistic proof of concept, durability, cost, and successful market penetration.MIRCOD brings together personnel with substantive expertise in all primary disciplines required to deliver the most complicated hardware and software solutions. This flexible and multi-skilled team brings an inherent understanding of the R&D in hardware and software related activities and the interfaces with other system delivery disciplines (mathematical algorithms, system engineering, sourcing, advanced materials, and manufacturing) required for success. MIRCOD also has the advantage of having worked on a diverse range of activities across a varied customer base in both production and prototyping capacities.BIOTECHNOLOGY Industry - MIRCOD actively participates in R&D projects initiated by international consortiums. Gene therapy technology developed in consideration with international top cell and gene biotech companies and universities, guarantees to transform tomorrow's medicine by treating the causes of disease rather than the manifestations.IoT Industry - We make the Internet of Things easy from Sketch to Scale. MIRCOD white-labeled rapid IoT web-based platform for rapid design, prototyping, design, and manufacturing is a hardware and software-agnostic system with white-label mobile apps, private BA and BI, complete device management, custom-defined analytics, and advanced AI.ROBOTICS Industry - MIRCOD AI-enabled robots are designed to work with scientists on a daily basis in a high demanding space at biotech laboratories. The MIRCOD autonomous robotic arms can be left alone to perform time-consuming biotechnological tasks in R&D biotech labs like setting up comprehensive predefined experiments in POC stations.HEALTHCARE Industry - MIRCOD team believes that today's remote monitoring technology isn't sufficiently advanced to predict a potential adverse event and alert a monitoring provider before disaster strikes. Our mission is to enhance these technologies and bring to the market an “ease of use” remote monitoring technology platform that enables continuous, configurable, wireless acquiring of biometric parameters from the human body. (Wherefore platform is not limited only to healthcare!)
Akif Cahit Erdoğan
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $480k–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
- Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, India, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $300k–$52M; Series A $7.4M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
- Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
- MoonAI Inc — MoonAI enables businesses to deploy no-code AI agents—referred to as “AI salespersons”—within one day, with no installation cost. These agents automate lead qualification, escalate warm leads to managers, schedule meetings, and integrate with CRMs, messaging platforms.The solution operates 24/7, supports multiple languages (includingRussian, English, and informal Kazakh), and processes customer interactions in just seconds. It has helped companies double the volume of processed inquiries, reduce response times from minutes to seconds, and even autonomously close a portion of leads—all while reducing sales team workload and improving customer satisfaction.
Nazan Zeybek
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- Industry: Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KrediKarti.co — Finding better products for your financial life should be as easy as watching videos or sharing viral contents. KrediKarti.co enables you to check all of them in one site.
Director at TipRanks.
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- Industry: SEO, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TipRanks — TipRanks stock market research and analysis, lets you see the track record and measured performance of any analyst or blogger, so you know who to trust!
Burak Günsev - Advisor @ manibux
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Metin Tarakçı
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
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Browse database — It's Free!Ayberk Kuday - Advisor @ manibux
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Sevda Taner
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- Industry: Finance, Analytics, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Give a Coin — Give A Coin is a platform designed for positive behaviors using psychology-based rewards. It employs a structured system that guides users through a step-by-step process to track their progress, set goals, and earn rewards for their achievements. By focusing on engagement and motivation, the platform aims to help users cultivate beneficial habitsand enhance their overall well-being.
- KrediKarti.co — Finding better products for your financial life should be as easy as watching videos or sharing viral contents. KrediKarti.co enables you to check all of them in one site.
Ashneer Grover is the CEO and Co-Founder of BharatPe. He previously worked at PC Jeweller Ltd as a Head Of New Business. Ashneer Grover attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $572k–$3M; Series A $4.5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- QuicKart — QuicKart is a Retail Application firm offering and delivering household essentials and dairy items to their customers.
- EventBeep — EventBeep is an online events platform that provides all events information to students.
- Lorien Finance — Lorien Finance is a cross-border FinTech platform providing affordable student loans and retail banking services to immigrants (students and temporary workers) moving to the US.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
- 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.
Barış Conger - Advisor @ manibux
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE's Plastics, Appliances, and Healthcare businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997.Immelt has been named one of the World's Best CEOs three times by Barron's, and since he began servingas chief executive officer, GE has been named America's Most Admired Company in a poll conducted by Fortunemagazine and one of The World's Most Respected Companies in polls by Barron's and the Financial Times.Immelt was the chair of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences.Immelt earned a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1978 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1982. He and his wife have one daughter.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Hardware
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.5M; Series A $3M–$33M; Series B $28M–$36M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MaintainX — MaintainX helps you track your reactive maintenance, preventive maintenance, and control the daily operations of your business. Get started for Free!
- Rx Redefined — Rx Redefined is a medical logistics platform that allows physicians to extend services to patients who require specific medical products. The company was founded in 2018 by Brandon Boots and Erik Smith and is headquartered in Oakland, California, United States.
- Next Power 360 — NextPower360 offers the most advanced generator in the world for variable input and output applications such as wind power and electric vehicles.
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- Industry: Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Undeads Metaverse — Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. Feature-rich gameplay never seen in Web3 space before. Join the Undeads Metaverse!
Roni Michaely - Professor of Finance @ Cornell University
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- Industry: SEO, Mobile, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ourcart — We help CPG brands activate and gain insight into shopper behavior at retail. We leverage our patented technology to help companies directly or through partners and market research firms. Our unique capabilities and solutions enable brands to close the gap with consumers at retail for the mutual b
- TipRanks — TipRanks stock market research and analysis, lets you see the track record and measured performance of any analyst or blogger, so you know who to trust!
Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $399k–$5M; Series A $704k–$20M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yolk.fm — Yolk.fm is a social platform that allows users to chat rather than send text messages.
- Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
- Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.
Yakup Doğan
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Education, E-Commerce, Sharing Economy
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1.2M; Angel $15k–$140k; Pre-Seed $50k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — Admarket is a trailblazing AdTech startup that's reshaping the advertising landscape. By offering a streamlined and secure platform for reserving, purchasing, and selling ad spaces, it connects advertisers and media owners like never before. With just one click, advertisers can book various types of ad spaces - including TV, radio, digitalscreen, outdoor, in-store, and in-flight - from anywhere in the world.Admarket simplifies the process of securing ad spaces from preferred media owners and agencies, while its payment service provider, Stripe, ensures top-notch security for customer credit card information. Media owners benefit by gaining access to a global customer base and boosting their revenue.Designed for ease of use, Admarket allows advertisers to view ad spaces on a map, similar to hotel booking sites. Its innovative AdsChange feature enables media owners to swap ad spaces with one another, like exchanging billboard space for radio ads. Plus, advertisers can swiftly broadcast urgent announcements via TV or radio.Looking ahead, Admarket aims to leverage AI technology for identifying sector-specific advertising needs, planning, and design. It will also incorporate automatic bid strategies for outdoor media, TV, and radio ad spaces. Advertisers will be able to view cost-effective advertising options on various timeframes through chart data, akin to flight ticket pricing. Moreover, the AdBroker feature will enable media owners to earn additional income through Admarket's profit-sharing program.In a nutshell, Admarket is a groundbreaking AdTech startup that's revolutionizing the advertising industry by streamlining ad space booking for advertisers and expanding the customer base for media owners. With plans to introduce even more cutting-edge features, Admarket will continue to drive innovation for both advertisers and media owners.
Paul Vienneau
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Software
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Monami Tech — They work alongside financial institutions and telcos to bridge the gap between conventional and sophistication through modern digital solutions that enhance user experience. Institutions can offer their customers a simple, secure and personalized experience on any device they choose.
Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$17M; Pre-Seed $125k–$7.4M; Series A $8.8M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Palm — AI-powered cash forecasting that sits on top of your TMS/ERP. Go live in weeks
- Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
- Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.
Alper Çetinkaya
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- Industry: Banking, Finance, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fingate.io — Fingate.io is a local startup that provides services in the fields of Service Banking (BaaS) and open banking. Fingate offers non-bank channels for access to bank products and services.
Ali Altuğ Koca is the co-editor of Webrazzi, a tech blog featuring issues on internet and digital markets, startups, investments, technological developments, and events. Koca was previously a product manager at Crenvo and finished his higher education at Doğuş Üniversitesi.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
Ihsan Elgin is the Co-Founder of Startups.Watch. He was a Co-Founder and Executive VP, EMEA at ClimateMinder. He attended Koç University.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $244k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
- 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!
- Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
Jonathan is the Founder and CEO of Anfield Ltd. He previously worked at Viola Growth as a General Partner. Jonathan Kolber attended Harvard University.
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- Industry: Social Media, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- eToro — Trade and invest on a trusted multi-asset platform. Get ideas from 35M users, practise with a demo account or copy top-performing traders automatically.
- Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
- Atlas Invest — A platform for institutional investors to invest in real estate backed bridge loans at scale with reduced risk.
Sema Sarsar
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- Industry: Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KrediKarti.co — Finding better products for your financial life should be as easy as watching videos or sharing viral contents. KrediKarti.co enables you to check all of them in one site.
Orhan is a Partner of Mediterra and serves on the investment committee. Prior to joining the team in 2011, Orhan was with Bedminster Capital Management, a US$320 million private equity fund focusing on Southeast Europe and Turkey. Prior to joining Bedminster, Orhan worked at private equity and investment banking houses including Is Private Equity,the corporate finance division of Unlu&Co and the debt capital markets division of Bear Stearns, NY.Orhan has completed the Chartered Financial Analyst® Program, has BA in Economics and BSc in Finance from Boston University and is a Robert College graduate.Orhan serves on the Board of Directors of Logo Yazilim, Soke Un, Mobiliz and Glasshouse. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Mikro Odeme.
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- Industry: Apps, EdTech, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Figopara — Figopara is a solution that discounts companies' e-invoices before their due dates with the offers received by financial institutions. It provides secure information to the financial companies that the customer is associated with and wants to reach by providing them with printed invoice information.Figopara was established in 2017 to developfinancial technology applications and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Twin Science & Robotics — AI literacy, combined with the safest tools, empowers your school to build real-world AI skills with confidence.
- Funverse Games — Funverse Games is a game development studio that develops blockchain games on many platforms.
Mr. Lemelbaum is an experienced Film Producer. Since 2007 Mr Lemelbaum is also involved in Investment Research and Managment, and serves on the Board of Directors of Israeli listed public companies AMS Electronics and BSR Europe. Mr. Lemelbaum holds a BA in Computer Science from IDC, and MBA from Columbia University
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- Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $4.1M–$12M; Series B $5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Homeis — Checkout the full domain details of Homeis.com. Click Buy Now to instantly start the transaction or Make an offer to the seller!
- Simplex — Buy crypto instantly with credit card, bank transfer, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more. Simplex provides a fast, secure fiat-to-crypto onramp.
- Rewire — Secure financial services designed to help migrants make cross-border money transfers. Rewire offers great rates, fast delivery, multilingual customer support
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