Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Middle East

Investor	Financial Services Middle East investments
Musaab Hakami	7
Omar Darwazah	5
Rafi Gidron	3
Samih Toukan	3
Emre Tok	3
Emilios Markou	3
Ali Kolaghassi	3
Daniel Recanati	3
Yaron Lemelbaum	3
Gigi Levy Weiss	3
Tunç Mehmet Berkman	3
Atakan Atalar	2
Sid Dhamija	2
Firat Isbecer	2
Ali Shaaban	2
Yusuf Al Hasan	2
Kamil Guclu	2
Abdulla Elyas	2
Jon Moulton	2
Eyal Ofer	2
Eyal Gura	2
Fahad Hafiz	2
Chris Adelsbach	2
Arya Bolurfrushan	2
Nevzat Aydın	2
Nati Harpaz	2
Jonathan Kolber	2
Charlie Songhurst	2
Sertaç Özinal	2
Mark Ransford	2
Erik Podzuweit	1
Casey Neistat	1
Mato Perić	1
Asif Keshodia	1
Metin Tarakçı	1
Olugbenga Agboola	1
Connor Theilmann	1
Dan Westgarth	1
Tom Brown	1
Mario Segal	1
Mazin Alzaidi	1
Ilker Sozdinler	1
Eduardo Ronzano	1
Efe Duran Sarikaya	1
Jeff Immelt	1
Jonathan Ebinger	1
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet	1
Jitendra Gupta	1
Huey Lin	1
Harveen Narulla	1

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs with worldwide investors for sharia-compliant investments with 15% yearly income through small business debt crowdfunding.
Groundfloor — Building the infrastructure for IRL community

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

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 — Embedded digital asset capabilities for financial institutions. Digital asset infrastructure - purpose-built for the Middle East.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.

Rafi Gidron is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Xperiti. He attended Columbia University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Series B
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Blyp — Blyp is an AI-driven data analytics platform for e-commerce companies.
Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
GlossAI — GlossAI bridges the gap between the content created by organisations and how people consume it .Today's audiences do not have the attention span to listen to anything for an extended period of time. Even those attending events, podcasts, training sessions, and zoom calls can't keep up. At GlossAI we get smart AI video generator that canturn any single piece of content into many short videos, blog posts and more various channels and use cases.

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.

Investment focus

Social Media, Mobile, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Arab Emirates, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

Ola — Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporatetravel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India.
VUZ — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
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.

Emre, the former VP of Growth and Digital Marketing at Careem, Emre has 21 years of experience in Product Marketing, Development & Management, Digital, Customer Analytics, Growth and Internet Business Development. He has embarked on many successful projects in multinational companies in UAE, the UK and Turkey. Growth & Product MarketingConsultant. He is the CEO in One Tech Capital LLC, a start-up studio owning www.cofeapp.com the first coffee marketplace in GCC Region.- Industrial Engineer with an MBA - Former VP of Growth – Free-Now - Former VP of Growth & Digital – Careem (Acquired by Uber for 3.2B $) - Former Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager – UK - Former Microsoft Online & Compete Lead – Turkey - Former Turkcell, Leading TELCO In Turkey, Head of Value Added Internet Services

Investment focus

Mobile, Payments, Shopping
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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.
Delivers AI — Delivery droid operator
Mobilexpress — Mobilexpress is a PCI DSS Level 1 compliant platform of card payments enabling solutions. Mobilexpress offers extensive and highly flexible - configurable set of payment solutions for B2C and B2B clients in many sectors. The product set is shaped around payment gateway (integrated to all banks & PSPs), hosted payment pages (fully customizable,iframe/redirect use), card-on-file (cross-merchant interoperable mode or private mode), recurring payment functions and integrationless rapid use of ready-to-use custom merchant payment pages (fully customizable & configurable) and manuel use through Merchant Panel (also montoring, reporting, settings, post payment functions). Each solution is easily configurable/adaptable for any sector or company specific payment needs. Mobilexpress solutions are delivered through Mobilexpress Payment API, Mobilexpress Hosted Pages, Mobilexpress Merchant Panel and Mobilexpress Merchant Payment Pages, to be able to meet payment needs of clients with any technical sophistication level.

Emilios Markou isCo-Founder and Executive Directorat Hellas Direct.

Investment focus

Insurance, iOS, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Cyprus, Greece, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Baobab — Protect your business against cyber attacks
ParkAround — ParkAround in an online marketplace that enables drivers to find, book & pay parking spaces online in places like airports, ports & the city center.It's available in Greece (Athens & 4 more cities) and Spain (Barcelona & Malaga).Furthermore, ParkAround recently launched the 1st purely online, SaaS software for car parksnamed ParkAround CRM.
Hellas Direct — Hellas Direct is a digital-first, full-stack insurance company, empowered by cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence. The Cyprus-based company is backed by a roster of leading investors, including Portag3, IFC (a member of the World Bank), Endeavor Catalyst, former Goldman Sachs economist Lord O’Neill and private equity veteran JonMoulton. Modelling itself on Amazon, Hellas Direct aims to disrupt the insurance value chain by adopting an extreme focus on operational excellence.

Ali Kolaghassi

Investment focus

Mobile, Payments, Shopping
Series A, Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Lidio — Mobilexpress, the largest payment platform of Turkey, will carry on its activities as a “Lidio” group company. In our journey with “liberalizing payments” philosophy, we will deliver our new generation services to businesses and end users through Lidio brand. As soon as our Central Bank of Turkey license application process is approved, you will beable to access all our Lidio services.Meanwhile, we will keep providing services through Mobilexpress, the payment solutions partner of Turkey's largest companies and brands with more than 110 million annual transaction number and hosting more than 15 million securely stored cards. You may contact me or the team at any time to share your feedbacks and suggestions on this journey with the new Lidio brand
Mobilexpress — Mobilexpress is a PCI DSS Level 1 compliant platform of card payments enabling solutions. Mobilexpress offers extensive and highly flexible - configurable set of payment solutions for B2C and B2B clients in many sectors. The product set is shaped around payment gateway (integrated to all banks & PSPs), hosted payment pages (fully customizable,iframe/redirect use), card-on-file (cross-merchant interoperable mode or private mode), recurring payment functions and integrationless rapid use of ready-to-use custom merchant payment pages (fully customizable & configurable) and manuel use through Merchant Panel (also montoring, reporting, settings, post payment functions). Each solution is easily configurable/adaptable for any sector or company specific payment needs. Mobilexpress solutions are delivered through Mobilexpress Payment API, Mobilexpress Hosted Pages, Mobilexpress Merchant Panel and Mobilexpress Merchant Payment Pages, to be able to meet payment needs of clients with any technical sophistication level.

Daniel Recanati is the Founder & CEO of Rhodium. a private investment firm whose mission is to identify the most promising entrepreneurs and help them build thriving companies. focusing on Impact, digital, climate tech and space via Earth & beyond ventures. .

Investment focus

Internet, Analytics, Advertising
Seed, Series B, Series A
Israel, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Yo! Egg — At Yo Egg, we're on a mission to become the largest and most sustainable egg producer in the world, without the use of chickens.
Solutum — Solutum is a Cleantech start-up that develops a unique formula for plastic bags to dissolve in water.The company's team of chemical engineers have developed a unique compound that replaces the plastic with a cost-efficient, strong and eco-friendly solution. Solutum biodegradable products are environmentally friendly. These products aim toreplace plastic which is polluting our surroundings, causing devastating harm to nature and our own health.Each year around 350M ton of plastics are being produced around the world. About half of it is single-use products - resulting in mass pollution of the land and sea.The plastic that reaches the sea kills more than 1 million marine animals a year. This plastic also comes back to us in the food and water, causing major health problems. Translated into money - $139 Billion globally is being spent on the overall social and environmental costs of plastic pollution every year.Completely dissolving in water to natural and eco-friendly components, our product is a perfect and cost efficient solution to the plastic pollution.
Helios — HELIOS is developing technologies to extract and utilize metals and oxygen from martian and lunar soil, providing fuel and construction materials for future space missions.

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

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Homeis — We’ve created Homeis because we know first hand how deep the experience of being foreign-born is. When you ask us what home is, we don’t have an easy answer. It’s complicated. We have the city we chose to live in and call home, and then we have our culture, the country we come from, which we call home as well. And it’s a big part of our identity,it’s who we are.Homeis was created to help people like us, who belong here and there, and feel that the Internet is undeserving them. We’ve witnessed how difficult it is for local foreign-born communities to digitally connect, share their culture, their local knowledge, and unique context. We saw how important these communities are in one’s life, how supportive they can be, and how effective their common wisdom can be to its members.So we decided it’s time to give foreign-born communities a dedicated comprehensive product. A product that understands them really well, and most importantly - empowers them. It’s what we’re here for. While local culture networks have always existed, our mission is to use technology and innovation to turn these invisible groups into visible communities.Homeis was founded in Feb 2017 in NYC and Tel Aviv. We’ve launched our first community in Dec 2017, and are planning to open many more in the next months. As most foreign-born people, we are BIG dreamers. Join us!
Simplex — The fiat/crypto infrastructure for the world
Rewire — Secure financial services designed to help migrants make cross-border money transfers. Rewire offers great rates, fast delivery, multilingual customer support

Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kama — Kama offers sexual wellness practices that improve how you experience love, sex, and intimacy. Available on the iOS App Store.
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.

Tunç Mehmet Berkman

Investment focus

Mobile, Payments, Shopping
Seed, Series A, Angel
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HadsUp — HadsUp is a revolutionary Ad-Tech platform which combines AI and Hologram Technology
FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Mobilexpress — Mobilexpress is a PCI DSS Level 1 compliant platform of card payments enabling solutions. Mobilexpress offers extensive and highly flexible - configurable set of payment solutions for B2C and B2B clients in many sectors. The product set is shaped around payment gateway (integrated to all banks & PSPs), hosted payment pages (fully customizable,iframe/redirect use), card-on-file (cross-merchant interoperable mode or private mode), recurring payment functions and integrationless rapid use of ready-to-use custom merchant payment pages (fully customizable & configurable) and manuel use through Merchant Panel (also montoring, reporting, settings, post payment functions). Each solution is easily configurable/adaptable for any sector or company specific payment needs. Mobilexpress solutions are delivered through Mobilexpress Payment API, Mobilexpress Hosted Pages, Mobilexpress Merchant Panel and Mobilexpress Merchant Payment Pages, to be able to meet payment needs of clients with any technical sophistication level.

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.

Investment focus

Venture Capital, Financial Services, Information Technology
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.
TRANGELS — Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
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.

Sid Dhamija

Investment focus

FinTech, Database, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Cadena — Looking to expand to the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE etc.)? Cadena has a Local Sales Team in every GCC country and proprietary technology: Discovery Portal, BuyBeacon & IntelliContact for Low-Cost growth across the region.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Crait.it — Crait.It offers an AI-powered product photo generator that converts product photographs and scenario inputs into photo-perfect final product shots.
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.

Ali Shaaban has been a pioneer in the digital advertising and communications industry for more than 18 years, founding the award-winning full-fledged creative digital agency Icon Creations back in 2003 when the industry was at its infancy stage. Since then, Ali Shaaban has built strong long-term relationships and a strategic network with most ofthe leading automotive brands in Egypt and the Middle East, where he established a solid track record of delivering top-notch digital products & services that stood the test of time. Driven by passion for excellence and an always-on personalized approach to satisfying his partners, Ali Shaaban is the quintessential digital partner to have on your side in the automotive industry today.His automotive portfolio includes Alfa Romeo, Bentley, BMW, Castrol, Citroën, Ferrari, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, JAC, Jaguar, Jeep, KIA, Land Rover, Maserati, Mazda, MINI, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Peugeot, Pirelli, Renault, Seat, Subaru, Toyota, Volkswagen and more. Aside from being a digital pioneer, Ali Shaaban is also an angel investor and serial supporter of emerging innovative startups and fresh business ideas, venturing into several sectors to contribute in making a sustainable impact on the local and regional economies. His latest investments have tapped into the Fintech sector with rising companies such as Paynas (https://Paynas.com), Oxygen (https://oxygen.us/), Dfin Holding (https://www.dfinholding.com/) , and Kiwe wallet (https://kiweapp.com/) as well as the Media and AI sector with Speakol (https://speakol.com/) , NU Digital Awards (https://nudigitalawards.com/) and Nanotronics (https://nanotronics.co/ ).Ali Shaaban believes in always taking the next step forward in his extensive career, and using his core values and commanding personality as motivation, he has paved an impressive path over the years that will certainly lead towards an even more diverse and fruitful future.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
QuadriBot — QuadriBot is an engineering company specializing in the design and development of electronics and automation technology, real-time systems and the development of IT and electronic solutions around smart transportation issues. We focus on robotics and autonomous vehicles as well as any mobile platfo.
Nanotronics Imaging — At Nanotronics we provide customized solutions for automated optical inspection, process control, and security. Learn more about what we can do for you.

Yusuf Al Hasan

Investment focus

Seed, Pre-Seed

Portfolio highlights

Cadena — Looking to expand to the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE etc.)? Cadena has a Local Sales Team in every GCC country and proprietary technology: Discovery Portal, BuyBeacon & IntelliContact for Low-Cost growth across the region.

Kamil Guclu is active angel investor, Former Oracle Executive, Board Member of the Adastec, has been appointed as Senator at the Grand Assembly of the World Business Angels Investment Forum. Senator Guclu will represent Silicon Valley, US in the Global Startup Committee of the Grand Assembly.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Payments
Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

igor — We are a neobanking company based in Istanbul that operates exclusively online without any traditional physical branch. Igor allows you to open a paperless account in less than 2 minutes.While not a bank itself, we provide banking and financial services in partnership with leading banks in Turkey through our web, mobile app and prepaid igor Card.We offer numerous features for individuals and merchants as a payment and PF solution. We are trying to help small and big businesses succeed on their own terms by accepting all credit and debit cards with better commissions than the regular market.
Adastec Corp. — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
NomadVibe — NomadVibe is a media firm that delivers instructive, useful, motivating, and high-quality material for digital nomads.

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

Investment focus

SaaS, EdTech, FinTech
Seed, Series A
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Pemo — Pemo is an all-in-one spend management solution that empowers your business by packing every company invoice, expense, approval and spending decision into one powerful platform.Our offering includes smart corporate cards, invoice payment systems and expense tracking functions. These are supported by automated approval flows, direct accountingintegration and real-time reporting - features that allow business owners to save time, save money, automate admin and every expense so you can get on with what you do best - building great businesses.
Buildnow — BuildNow is MENAP's first "Build Now Pay Later" solution. We fund the raw materials construction & manufacturing SMEs need, while providing credit terms tailored to optimize their cash flow and supercharge their growth.
Noon - The Social Learning Platform — Why Study Alone Again? Start study groups with your friends and access the best teachers on demand!

Jon Moulton is a British venture capitalist. He is the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Better Capital, and is the former managing partner of the private equity firm Alchemy Partners.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Cyprus, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
Hometree — Keep yourself warm with Hometree, and try our no price hike promise. Compare our different boiler & home cover plans to see how you can save.
Hellas Direct — Hellas Direct is a digital-first, full-stack insurance company, empowered by cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence. The Cyprus-based company is backed by a roster of leading investors, including Portag3, IFC (a member of the World Bank), Endeavor Catalyst, former Goldman Sachs economist Lord O’Neill and private equity veteran JonMoulton. Modelling itself on Amazon, Hellas Direct aims to disrupt the insurance value chain by adopting an extreme focus on operational excellence.

Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is Chairman of Ofer Global, leading the group’s private portfolio of international businesses in shipping, real estate, energy, technology, banking and investments. In 2017, Eyal launched O.G. Venture Partners, a single LP Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-growth-stage technology start-ups, demonstrating hislong-standing support for tech entrepreneurs.In 2022, O.G. Venture Partners announced Fund II of $400M following the successful $100m Fund I, later expanded to $150m. Fund I has invested in 21 companies since its 2017 launch, with 5 exits already. The Fund I portfolio includes: LendBuzz, WSC Sports, BlueVine, Bringg, Paxos, Connecteam, Elementor, Coralogix, Candivore and SuperPlay. Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is Chairman of Ofer Global, leading the group’s private portfolio of international businesses in shipping, real estate, energy, technology, banking and investments. In 2017, Eyal launched O.G. Venture Partners, a single LP Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-growth-stage technology start-ups, demonstrating his long-standing support for tech entrepreneurs. In 2022, O.G. Venture Partners announced Fund II of $400M following the successful $100m Fund I, later expanded to $150m. Fund I has invested in 21 companies since its 2017 launch, with 5 exits already. The Fund I portfolio includes: LendBuzz, WSC Sports, BlueVine, Bringg, Paxos, Connecteam, Elementor, Coralogix, Candivore and SuperPlay.

Investment focus

Financial Services, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Home365 — Home365, Is a Property Management Company. Our Goal Is Making Renting Out More Profitable, Predictable And Hassle Free. Click Here For More Information.
Connecteam — Communicate, operate and train your non-desk employees with Connecteam's all-in-one employee app. Easy to use, customizable and affordable like no other!
Lightbits Labs — Discover Lightbits, revolutionizing cloud block storage with unparalleled scalability and cost-efficiency through our cutting-edge software-defined platform.

Eyal Gura is the Board Member of Imagene AI. He previously worked at Zebra Medical Vision Ltd as a Co-Founder, President and Chairman of the Board. Eyal Gura attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Theator — Discover the world's first surgical intelligence platform from theator. Continually perfect your craft with AI & computer vision technology.
Taranis — Taranis provides farmers with innovative and accurate precision agriculture solutions, powered by AI and machine learning, to optimize crop yields and streamline farm operations. Learn more about our cutting-edge technology. Request a demo today.
Imagene AI — Image-based H&E Biomarkers Profiling in Real-time

Fahad Hafiz is a prominent serial entrepreneur. Hafiz has a wealth of expertise in a wide range of industries, including finance, oil and gas, travel, automotive, cryptocurrencies, and fintech

Investment focus

Finance, Incubators, Hedge Funds
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates, Israel

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.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Arkifi — 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.
WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.

Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Education
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oliv — Oliv.com is a career marketplace based in Dubai, made for the youth of the Middle East. We connect students and graduates to employers for internships, part-time & graduate jobs. Launched in 2013, we set out to tackle a huge problem - a 30% youth unemployment rate in the MENA region. Oliv helps university students and graduates launch theircareers. And we're pretty good at it.Today, Oliv is home to thousands of students and graduates where their ambitions are aligned to opportunity. More than 1,000 businesses from startups to Fortune 500s use Oliv to hire top emerging talent to maintain a healthy talent pipeline and grow their business for the future.Our goal is to make launching careers simple, personal and rewarding. That's Oliv.
The Applied AI Company (AAICO) — AAICO is a leading AI technology company with a team of renowned Silicon Valley-based engineers, applied AI experts, and seasoned entrepreneurs.
Jingle Pay — Join now and get your ZERO fees, forever FREE account.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Apollo IoT — One of Turkey's digital energy platform initiatives is Apollo IoT. This platform is intended for invoice control, optimization, and forecasting. It allows you to monitor historical and current consumption data and confirm the correctness of your electricity bill, all without the need for device or hardware installation. Apollo assists inlowering the cost of electricity usage by providing real-time verification, detecting anomalous consumption and reactive fines in real-time, and informing you with enhanced warnings. It makes energy monitoring of corporate employees more realistic, saves money by boosting energy efficiency, and protects the environment thanks to its user-friendly web-based interface and excellent graphics.
Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.

Nati Harpaz is the CEO of Catch Group, Australia’s largest pure eCommerce organisation with a retail product business as well as a daily deals business. Nati’s focus is on building cultures in organisations to enable rapid growth which stems from the understanding that management cannot compromise on the quality of its human resource as well as therequirement of a very clear and concise business strategy to allow the entire organisation to focus on achieving it.On top of his position as CEO of Catch Group he is also the chairman of APAC’s largest retail media organisation – Inside Retail as well as an advisory board member of several publicly listed companies.

Investment focus

PaaS, FinTech, Internet
Seed
Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

BridgerPay — We’re solving the toughest payment challenges to deliver growth-ready payment infrastructure.

Jonathan is a private equity veteran with over 20 years of experience in launching international investments, raising capital, achieving exits and actively running public companies. As a former manager of Claridge Israel (1986-1997), the private equity fund grew from $50 to $700 through a series of highly successful exits, including TevaPharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: TEVA), ECI Telecom (NASDAQ: ECIL), Osem (TASE:OSEM) and Optrotech. Jonathan is the former CEO of the billion-dollar company Koor Industries where he steered the holding company through a very complex boom-burst-rebound period (1998-2006). During his tenure at Koor, he weathered the telecom meltdown, implementing a comprehensive restructuring plan that helped rejuvenate Koor Industries, and led a successful exit to IDB, Israel’s largest conglomerate. Jonathan has served as Chairman, CEO and Director in over 40 public and private companies in Israel and North America. He is adept at structuring complex, cross-border and cross industry business and financial transactions with leading investors and bankers, and has an extensive global relationship network.

Investment focus

Social Media, FinTech, Financial Services
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

eToro — eToro is a multi-asset investment platform that empowers people to grow their knowledge and wealth as part of a global community of successful investors. eToro was founded in 2007 with the vision of opening up the global markets so that everyone can trade and invest in a simple and transparent way. Today, eToro is a global community of more than 23million registered users who share their investment strategies; and anyone can follow the approaches of those who have been the most successful. Due to the simplicity of the platform users can easily buy, hold and sell assets, monitor their portfolio in real time, and transact whenever they want.
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.

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.

Sertaç Özinal

Investment focus

Internet, Gaming, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Artiox — Artiox is an investment company in METU Technopolis Area.
Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Fon Radar — Fon Radar is an online marketplace platform that brings businesses together with financial institutions.

Angel Investor

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, France, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Fence — At Fence, we're transforming the way debt facilities are managed. We are the Operating System for your debt facility, reducing the amount of resources spent in back-office operations and letting teams focus on what matters.Our platform, built on blockchain technology, offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that simplifies andautomate debt facility operations. Whether you're a capital provider or an asset originator, Fence leads you toward a smarter financial future.For capital providers, our platform enables internet-native debt solutions and real-time portfolio insights, enhancing your credit investment monitoring. With Fence, you stay ahead, making informed decisions for success. Asset originators benefit from enhanced capital efficiency and reduced operational costs, thanks to Fence's automation. We seamlessly integrate debt facilities into your tech stack and provide on-demand programmable debt, giving you unprecedented control over the capital you borrow.
qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
Aria — Aria is a fintech startup that allows companies to pay their freelancers. The company provides a response that is both innovative and concrete to a strong economic challenge that weakens talent and affects the competitiveness of companies. Aria was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.

Erik has many years of experience in the financial and e-commerce sector. Until last, he was Co-CEO at Westwing Home & Living Germany. Prior to this, Erik spent 7 years working in London and Frankfurt as an Executive Director and Vice President for Goldman Sachs.Erik studied Business and Economics at the University of Kiel and Warwick BusinessSchool. In addition, he was a tutor for statistics and econometrics.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Impact Investing
Seed, Series A
India, Germany, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

getquin — Track your assets, dividends, performance and more in real-time. Discuss trades and stocks with the community.
Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
UpScalio — We will partner with you to invest, grow and scale your e-commerce business to new heights. For and by Indian entrepreneurs and innovators.

Casey Neistat is a Youtube sensation with 9.5 million subscribers and over 2 billion views. Neistat is also the co-founder of Beme, a video-editing social app.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Opal — Opal is a product design and engineering company, based in California, known for making high-end cameras. The Opal C1 is the ultimate webcam for home setups. The Opal Tadpole is the first webcam designed for laptops.
Notch — We are the first insurance designed specifically to cater the unique needs of the businesses and assets that make the digital economy. Get an instant quote today!
Nothing — Nothing is a London-based company removing the barriers between people and technology to create a seamless digital future.

Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bamba — Bamba is a small software development house building Android applications
Enter — Enter's Revenue Cycle Management & Medical Billing service makes healthcare Providers' and Patients' lives better. Increase revenue and delight patients with 100% transparency.
Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.

Asif Keshodia is an Angel Investor based in Dubai, UAE and the co-founder of Storfox.com. He is most notable for his work as the Group CFO of Souq.com, which was acquired by Amazon in a milestone deal for the Middle East tech sector. He joined Souq in 2011 as an early stage investor and raised over $400m to help it become the leading onlineretailer in the region. After its acquisition by Amazon in 2017, he took the role of MENA Regional Finance Director at Amazon. Asif has over 20 years of experience with some of the world’s biggest names, such as PwC, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, and Amazon, in countries around the world, including the UK, South Africa, Russia, and Pakistan. He is now using his decades of multinational corporate experience to help usher small startups to big success. He is dedicated to aiding young entrepreneurs launch their projects, with sights currently set on bolstering the e-commerce ecosystem in the MENA region and South Asia’s burgeoning market.In the recent past Asif has served on the Boards of Souq, Payfort.com, and Instashop.com, recently acquired by the Delivery Hero. He has also invested in a number of fledgling startups including Shipox, Clicky.pk, EzHire and Cartlow.comAsif is a graduate of the University of Karachi with a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce & Economics and a Chartered Accountant (FCA). In 2016, he was named Best Retail CFO of the MENA Region by renowned Middle Eastern publication, The CFO.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Consumer Goods
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Kamel Pay — Looking for best payment method and safe corporate payment solutions in Dubai? Kamelpay provide leading business payment services in UAE
CLICKY.PK — Clicky.pk offers the largest collection of trendy and affordable fashion and lifestyle products online. Clicky has the best online brand stores in Pakistan. Huge Collection of Jewellery, Handbags, Clutches, Sunglasses, Clothing, Nightwear & More!
PriceOye — Priceoye is Pakistan's No.1 marketplace for buying original mobile phones and electronics. Priceoye is Pakistan's most trusted online store and offers the lowest prices every day.

Metin Tarakçı

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Pre-Seed
Turkey

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.

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Connor Theilmann is the Chief Business Officer at ServiceTitan. Previously he was an investor at Accel in Palo Alto. He attended The Wharton School for Accounting and Finance & the Penn Engineering School for Computer Science.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

APFusion — APFusion is a B2B automotive marketplace helping salvage yards increase sales.
Pulley — Pulley is the first dedicated platform for construction permitting. Our purpose-built workflows, localized requirements and embedded expertise help developers, contractors, and architects get permits faster, removing a costly bottleneck to construction. Across dozens of markets, leading builders trust Pulley to permit everything from single-familyhomes to complex commercial projects.
Albert Invent — 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com

Dan Westgarth

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Shopping
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
TILT — TILT app allow users to discover small brands, buy through videos, livestreams, and eard rewards.

Tom Brown is a consultant for Camp One Ventures, LLC. He has more than fifteen years experience in the payment industry, including a stint at Visa U.S.A. Inc., where he worked on the company’s reorganization and eventual IPO (NYSE: V). Tom has counseled a number of the market leaders in the payment industry and has been described by the FinancialTimes as charting the future of mobile payments. He is a partner at a global law firm with offices in, among other places, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Hong Kong, Seoul and Bejing, and serves as co-chair of the firm’s global payment systems practice. He serves as a non-lawyer advisor to a number of companies, including Zooz, LevelMoney, and Upstart. Thomas Brown holds a B.A. from Columbia College and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.

Investment focus

FinTech, Transaction Processing, Payments
Series A, Seed
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Forage — Forage is a third-party payment processor (TPP) and a pin provider that authenticates and processes EBT recipients and transactions. Forage makes it easier for grocers to accept SNAP EBT payments online. Forage guides merchants through the USDA application process and tech integration for merchants, taking most of the burden off retailers.Foragedemocratizes access to government benefits and helps underserved Americans easily access their benefits online. Forage works with multiple grocers and platforms such as Shopify and Flashfood to accept SNAP EBT payments online.
TenureX — Tenure is a pioneering technology and enablement service provider for correspondent banking services. It sets out to bring banks and financial institutions together in a collaborative, technology-based, business-oriented fashion.
Rally — RallyPay and Rally.org use innovative payments and data technology to connect donors to causes and companies with their clients. It is an easy to use storytelling platform that's designed to empower technical and non-technical users to fundraise and build social awareness on a large scale. To date, Rally has enabled millions of individuals andorganizations to share, connect to, and broadcast their passions, provide solutions to problems, leverage social networks, and mobilize communities. Rally's users vary in size and scope and address a wide range of topics. The site has been used by everyone from political candidates for campaign fundraising to Jon Bon Jovi's non-profit foundation to help raise money for Hurricane Sandy relief. Others have created Rally campaigns to help cover the cost of medical expenses, pay for tuition, start companies, fund films and everything in-between.

Mario Segal - Partner @ AfterDox

Investment focus

Security, Cyber Security, Fraud Detection
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Cyberint — Continuously expose and mitigate your most relevant known and unknown risks with threat intelligence, tailored to your attack surface.

Mazin Alzaidi, General Partner at STV.

Investment focus

FinTech, Internet
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs in Saudi Arabia and the UAE with retail and institutional investors worldwide. Investors earn up to 15% per annum by financing a local business and supporting the local economy.

Ilker Sozdinler is the Founder, CEO and Managing Partner of Birleşik Ödeme.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Big Data
Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

ELYT — Revolutionize customer loyalty with our modern solution; secure, scalable, and straightforward. Experience the future of customer interaction and, if you wish, open the doors of the Web3 era to your community.
EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.

Eduardo Ronzano is the Founder of KelDoc.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.
Morpho Labs — Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility

Efe Duran Sarikaya

Investment focus

Shipping, Shopping, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

fonbulucu — fonbulucu is a crowding funding platform that provide innovative financing and investment system benefit to entrepreneurs and investors.
FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Yollando.com — Yollando.com is a Turkish-based shopping and package forwarding service that facilitates shopping. They offer a variety of services such as Discounted packet forwarding, Buy for me, Package consolidation, Repackaging, Package tracking, Order returns/cancels, and Free storage for orders. They provide lower shipping rates to abroad with discountrates up to 80 percent.Yollando.com was established to contribute to the export of Turkish brands. Apart from shopping consultancy, they are already producing alternative solutions for logistics and product supply to individual persons and companies in Turkey and abroad.

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.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Family
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Lean Technologies — Lean provides the Data and Payments tools to empower MENA's next generation of financial products | Trusted by Etisalat, Hubpay, Lulu Finance, Binance, Sarwa and more.
Glacier — Glacier is the creator of the first affordable, high-performing, and space-efficient AI-enabled robot for recycling.
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.

Jonathan Ebinger is a General Partner at BlueRun Ventures where he focuses on mobile, enterprise software and fintech. Prior to BlueRun, Jonathan was a marketing executive at Qwest Communications, Bell Atlantic and MCI Communications. He has also started e-commerce businesses as an entrepreneur. He brings his operations and startup experience toearly stage startups and has led investments in Coupa, Kabbage, Radius, Verve Mobile, ZeeMee and others. Jonathan received his M.B.A. from Darden Graduate School of Business at University of Virginia and also has a B.S. from Virginia Tech. He currently serves as an advisor to The Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UVA.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

TenureX — Tenure is a pioneering technology and enablement service provider for correspondent banking services. It sets out to bring banks and financial institutions together in a collaborative, technology-based, business-oriented fashion.
Workspot — Our Enterprise VDI platform delivers virtual desktops and apps across multiple clouds and on-prem data centers with industry-leading reliability.
LoftSmart — LoftSmart helps young people discover and lease local rentals with transparency, ease, and simplicity.

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French e-commerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as to concentrate on his investments and new project.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is agraduate of the famous HEC Paris business school, where he studied entrepreneurship. He launched his first company, Visualis SA (a consultancy for the distribution sector), while still studying at HEC, with a €10,000 student loan. After graduating from HEC, Kosciusko-Morizet moved to the United States and became a manager in the marketing department of Finance Capital One, an internet-based credit card company. There he managed a team of 60 analysts, and specialised in the online credit and banking market.It was there that Kosciusko-Morizet saw a gap in the market. While websites existed in the United States linking buyers and sellers online, there was no equivalent site in France. He resigned from Finance Capital One and returned to France two weeks later to work on what would become PriceMinister with Pierre Krings, Olivier Mathiot, Nathalie Maurin and Justin Ziegler. In 2001 Priceminister launched and has grown into one of the largest and most successful e-commerce companies in France, currently employing around 200 passionate and dedicated staff.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a former President of the ACSEL (Association of the Digital Economy) and of the ASIC (Association of Internet Community Services), and Chairman and main investor of the Strategic Committee of ISAI, the “French internet entrepreneurs fund”, that raised over $100m. In 2010 Kosciusko-Morizet published an autobiographical book which details the story of PriceMinister.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

youzd — youzd is an e-commerce platform for second-hand furniture, electronics, and decoration products.
PowerZ — Tailored for kids ages 6 and up - learn Math, English, Geography, History, and Music in a universe that adapts to your level!
Wecasa — Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionalsWecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut,beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals.

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.

Huey Lin is a Venture Partner with GGV Capital where she supports and advises the fund's portfolio companies. She also leads special projects at Terraformation whose mission is to catalyze global forest restoration to solve climate change. Prior to this, she was the President of Asia at Flexport, a modern freight forwarder and one of thefastest-growing companies in global trade. She led all activities for Flexport across Asia, the company’s most strategic market. She was responsible for the region’s overall strategy and P&L.Before her time at Flexport, Huey was the founding Chief Operating Officer at Affirm (NYSE: AFRM). Huey began her career at PayPal, where she spent 12 years in a variety of key leadership roles with increasing responsibilities in multiple geographies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Colombia, Singapore, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Truora — Connect with your users via WhatsApp Optimize your onboarding process using WhatsApp.
CapitalOS — Embedded spend management for vertical SaaS platforms
Fintecture — Under continuous control and supervision of the financial regulator, Fintecture is an authorised Payment Institution (ACPR-17248).First bank to bank instant payment solution in France, Fintecture Pay by Bank enables merchants and businesses to :+ Bypass card ceilings + Avoid illegitimate declined payments + Significantly reduce theirtransaction costs + Receive funds rapidly into their bank account + Reduce fraud by removing chargebacks + Increase security, protecting their customersFintecture Pay by Bank makes payments easy and adapts to your needs : may it be B2B payments, recurring payments, Pay by link, you name it !=======Sous le contrôle et la supervision continus du régulateur financier, Fintecture est un établissement de paiement agréé (ACPR-17248).Première solution instantanée de paiement banque à banque en France, Fintecture Pay by Bank permet aux marchands et aux entreprises de : + Contourner les plafonds des cartes + Éliminer les rejets illégitimes + Baisser considérablement les coûts de transactions + Disposer plus rapidement des fonds collectés + Réduire la fraude en supprimant les chargebacks + Augmenter la sécurité, protégeant leurs consommateursFintecture Pay by Bank facilite les paiements et s’adapte à vos besoins : B2B, paiements récurrents, abonnements, Pay by Link et bien plus.

Harveen is an entrepreneur. After an early career as a lawyer with top-tier firms in Singapore, he spent a decade in various lead roles in technology ventures. This included co-founding and heading Hatcher, a leading technology venture builder in Singapore, whose portfolio includes Dropsuite (ASX:DSE), Telr (Middle East’s fastest growingonline payment processor), SocialCops (India’s leading comprehensive big data play) and Hatcher+ (big data transforming venture capital investing). Harveen also co-founded Pan African Logistics (PAL), which has grown into a leading third-party logistics player in East Africa. Harveen’s key competences include assembling and aligning strong teams, marshaling resources to start and grow businesses, deal negotiation and acquisitions, spotting arbitrage opportunities, and interventionist and supporting board roles.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round
Singapore, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Telr — Established in 2014, Telr is an award-winning, Dubai-based start-up offering payment gateway solutions for SME’s, government bodies and large corporates. Its wholly owned, unique platform enables it to handle complex or unique payment methods or integrations. TELR was awarded with the prestigious Start-up of the Year award in 2014 only month’safter officially launching. In 2015 it won Best Payment Product in the Middle East award, whilst in 2017 it was awarded Innovative Vendor – Fintech at the 2017 GEC Awards in Dubai.With a fast-growing presence in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and India, TELR is building a wider regional presence in the MENA Region. TELR enables businesses to transact in over 120 currencies with payment platform capabilities in 30 languages and it provides customers with a range of financial and business services that include social commerce, QR Codes, anti-fraud protection, Shopping Cart Integrations, and digital invoicing. TELR is the first PCI DSS Level 1 certified company in MENA (payment security standards council).
SocialCops — SocialCops are partner with leaders and organizations around the world to make data-driven decisions easier and more effective. Their work helps build a world with smarter cities, happier citizens, better policies, and a brighter future.Today's model of engaging with data — both the data they use and how they use it — is broken. Dataintelligence is the solution. It starts with finding all the data you need for your decision — extracted from elaborate internal systems, sourced from places you never would have thought to look, and unified with real-time data. they then transform this mass of data into intelligent insights that make the best decision obvious.SocialCops is backed by 500 Start-ups; Rajan Anandan, Managing Director of Google India; and Manoj Menon, Managing Director of Frost and Sullivan APAC. Its team consists of engineers and data scientists. The company won the love of the Forbes India '30 under 30', World Summit Youth Award, and IBM Smart Planet Challenge.
Inzen Studio — 5 game developers met at the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab. They’d worked on a couple of kick-ass games before, ranging from a cult-hit fighting game that was almost violence perfected, to a popular vertical shooter involving some seriously enraged dots which you controlled by literally sketching out awesome attack formations. Though they had a lotof fun at the time, they wanted to create more immersive play experiences.. especially ones involving Giant Mecha Gorillas! Enter Inzen Studio.Starting in Oct 2012, Inzen Studio is now a band of 11 fired up developers across Singapore, Uruguay and China.Inzen draws inspiration from Asian entertainment throughout the years. Being big fans of manga, anime and the games that were released in the 90s, we cheered when Shōhoku faced off against Sannoh, we laughed when Ultraman forgot how to activate his powers and we felt awesome when we punched our Sega Saturn controllers like Segata Sanshiro.