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Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Middle East in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Middle East in July 2025

Investor	Food and Beverage Middle East investments
Hasan Aslanoba	6
Beni Nofech	4
Sake Bosch	3
Enis Hulli	3
Yossi Ackerman	3
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	3
Ahu Serter	3
Haluk Can Hür	2
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	2
David Buttress	2
Walter Beach	2
Nuri Cem Erbak	2
Meltem Kirişçi	2
Agah Uğur	2
Firat Isbecer	2
Bradley M. Bloom	2
Yahya Ülker	2
Ali Ilci	2
Shwan Ibrahim Taha	2
Tarık Bayar	2
Eddy Shalev	2
Ramazan Evren	2
Ayşe Araz	2
Emre Kurttepeli	2
Mehmet Emin Çiftçi	2
Özgür Trakya	2
Ömer Faruk Akarca	2
Ercan Solmaz	2
Bassam Falah	2
Subhi Khudairi	2
Ömer Duran	2
Uğur Şeker	2
Serkan Omerbeyoglu	2
Yılmaz Yıldız	2
Rawaz Rauf	2
Kibbutz Maagan Michael	1
Emre Karaca	1
Doruk Akpek	1
Abdulelah Algosaibi	1
Samih Toukan	1
Özgür Ülkü	1
Jonathan Karten	1
Sule Mene	1
Onder Oztarhan	1
Musa Bin Adi	1
Cana Güneş	1
Zuhair Shammout	1
Marc Lore	1
Yaser Alghamdi	1
Yucel Olcer	1

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business in the water industry. By 2005, the company succeeded in the Turkish bottled water industry under his guidance.In 2006, Erikli Water partnered its Turkish operations with Nestle Waters, the global leader of the bottled water industry.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Turkey, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
Local Greens — Local Greens is an indoor farming company operating in metropolitan cities to grow healthy, premium quality and delicious vegetables.While our combination of natural sunlight, LED grow lights and hydroponic growing methods ensure that we are using the resources as efficient as possible, our "grow local & sell local" approach allowsus to sell our greens without middleman and logistics costs, and deliver our greens as fresh as possible.

Beni Nofech is a food-tech investor.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Nutrition
Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Remilk — Remilk is a food-tech company that uses microbes to produce the key ingredients in milk. The company is developing technology for creating a milk substitute that is similar to cow milk in flavor, nutritional composition, composition, and functionality. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Oshi — Alternative Protein - Stealth Mode
Mush Foods — Mush Foods is an Israeli-based food tech company, growing edible mushroom mycelium to create innovative and sustainable animal-free protein as an ingredient for the food and beverage industry. We harness the fantastic power and innate intelligence of mushrooms to face future global challenges and provide sustainable groundbreaking food solutions tothe food of the future.

Sake Bosch is a Founder and Managing Partner of Prime Ventures since 1999. Sake brings over 25 years of experience in marketing and sales and venture capital to Prime. Prior to founding Prime in 1999, Sake was a Senior Principal at Holland Venture and was responsible for managing investments in technology companies. Sake was involved in many ofthe Holland Venture technology investments including Applicare Medical Imaging (acquired by GE Medical Systems), BWise (acquired by Nasdaq), SQL Systems (acquired by Datastream) and Freecom (acquired by Mitsubishi Kagaku Media). Before joining Holland Venture in 1994, Sake worked as an Independent Corporate Finance Consultant focusing primarily on early stage companies. Prior to this position Sake was a Sales Executive at Securitas Group. Sake started his career in 1989 as a Strategic Market Analyst at VNU. Sake serves on the board of directors of Civolution, 4C, Dealerdirect, Digital Origin, Greetz, Forcare, SaaSPlaza, SlimPay and Takeaway.com. Previous investments include: 3mensio Medical Imaging (acquired by Esaoto), eBuddy (acquired by Booking.com), Global Collect (acquired by General Atlantic), MarketXS (acquired by Markit), Nedstat (acquired by comScore Inc.), Tridion (acquired by SDL) and Watermark (acquired by Qurius). Sake holds an M.Sc. degree in Business Administration as well as a B.A. degree in Management Science and Industrial Engineering.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Series B
The Netherlands, France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Faircraft — A sustainable, lab-grown alternative to animal leather.
FononTech — FononTech specializes in impulse printing.It is used to print small electronic circuits for electronic devices.
Mermade Seafoods — Mermade is a pioneering cellular aquaculture company, bringing a novel approach and mindset for the production of cell based seafood.

Enis is a General Partner of 500 Startups and the Host of cc: Podcast. Prior to that, he was a Research Assistant at McGill University. He graduated from McGill University and Istanbul Technical University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Turkey, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

FERASET — FERASET builds next-gen apps by combining deep AI expertise with cutting-edge technology.
EcoTrove — EcoTrove is your energy concierge for cheaper, greener and more predictable power bills.
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management

Joseph Ackerman, also known as Yossi, served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Elbit Systems Ltd., the holding company of Elbit Security Systems Ltd. and Harpia Sistemas S.A. from 1996 to March 31, 2013. From 1994 to 1996, Joseph Ackerman served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Elbit Ltd.'s Defense Systems Division(EDS.). He joined Elbit Ltd. in 1982 and held various management positions, including General Manager of EFW, Senior Vice President of Operations Group, Vice President of Operations and Vice President of Advanced Battlefield Systems. He serves as the Chairman of MediGuide Ltd. He served as the Chairman of Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT - Elisra Ltd. and Elbit Systems Ltd. He served as the Chairman of Tadiran Communications Ltd. since August 2005. He served as the Chairman of Elbit Systems Ltd. from 1996 to 2004. He served as the Vice Chairman of Elbit Systems Ltd. from April 1, 2013 to November 19, 2013. He serves as a Director of Imagesat International N.v. He served as a Director of Elbit Systems Ltd., the holding company of Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT - Elisra Ltd. from 1996 to 2004. Joseph Ackerman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology (the Technion).

Investment focus

Apps, Local, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Phytolon — Phytolon revolutionizes the way food colors are produce, by Leveraging a novel and sustainable technology for production of healthy food colors in high quality at low costs. Phytolon's mission is to exploit scientific advancement promote human health and environmental sustainability
Musketeer — Help anywhere, anytime. Musketeer enables personal safety, alerting people close by and emergency services that someone needs help. In addition, it builds real life communities and promotes proactive safety by allowing people to ask for assistance, such as having someone walk them to their car because it's night and they don't want to bealone. All for free.Musketeer is the first social network dedicated to personal safety. By leveraging 21st century technology (crowdsourcing, cloud, and mobile) Musketeer enables users to seek assistance from people around them in case of distress. The system also provides safety related information in real-time and in aggregate for smarter Region/City management.

I am a business professional since 2008 and a financial investor since 2015, having strategic positions in several scale-up tech companies/startups and real-estate assets. I continue to invest in the tech domain with a focus on SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C markets, and real estate options in developing markets with ROI targets.Grow inEMEA, the company I started in 2015, focuses on East Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East markets mostly for tech and real estate options and portfolio management. Also, my team provides market access services to Baltics, Turkey, and UAE / Saudi and gives investment advisory services.Prior to the investment focus, I worked in Linkedin EMEA Headquarter where I hold Director of Turkish Speaking Territory in Dublin, Ireland. Before, I have been with SAP AG and IBM in Turkey. I also give speeches at local and global investment events. I gave keynotes on ARAB NET in Lebanon, IT Arena in Ukraine, Rise Up Summit in Egypt, and NEXT in Germany. I also spoke at several closed corporate events of Roche, VESTEL, SAP AG, DenizBank, Turkish Economy Ministry, Turkish Exporters Assembly, Bakioğlu Holding, and AGT.Now, I am living in Tallinn, Estonia.Email: alib@growinemea.com Web: https://alibabaoglan.com Photos: https://gie.investments/my-photos

Investment focus

TV, CRM, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, Greece, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Jobtogo — Jobtogo is a freelancer platform that offers solutions to the problems experienced by companies in the supply of talent.
Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.
Tripy Mobility — Tripy Mobility strives to promote the adoption of electric vehicles while reducing carbon emissions in transportation by increasing the charging station network.

Haluk Can Hür

Investment focus

Mobile, Retail, Shopping
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Shopi — All-in-One Store Platform for Omnichannel Retailing

Investment focus

TV, CRM, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

David Buttress is a Venture Partner at 83North.

Investment focus

Mobile, Food Delivery, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Egypt, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

elmenus — Discover Delivery And Dineout Restaurant Menus from over 6,000 restaurants in Cairo. Order your food online and check out photos, reviews, ratings and phone numbers of the best restaurants
Paperclip — Paperclip aims to champion the sharing economy via a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying, selling, renting and donating within communities. This concept has been tentatively titled the 'social inventory movement' - a marketplace where listings never leave; an ecosystem of people's assets, with ownership transferred from profile toprofile following transactions.The overarching mission is to change the way people think about the things that they own, in the same manner that Airbnb changed the way people think about their properties - to empower people by unlocking the value of their everyday assets such as bikes, power tools, clothes, books and even food.
MyJam — All the food you love in one place.

Walter Beach

Investment focus

AgTech, Software, Agriculture
Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Beewise — Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey.

Nuri Cem Erbak

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.

Meltem Kirişçi

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.

Agah Uğur

Investment focus

Software, Apps, CRM
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom

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.
Workhy — More than 20,000 entrepreneurs chose us for company formation, financial process management, tax return preparation, and bookkeeping services.
Robomotion — Robomotion handles dull everyday tasks with robotic process automation technology. Delegate tasks to software robots and they can work 24/7.

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 AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.

Bradley M. Bloom is the Managing Director at Berkshire Partners.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage, Sports
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Perch — Perch brings velocity based training into the 21st century. No strings. No wearables. Learn more about how Perch enables VBT and weight room technology!
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.
AUI™ (Augmented Intelligence) Inc. — Apollo is a groundbreaking language model that combines the best of generative and rule-based AI to create agents that can be tailored to any business.

Yahya Ulker is the CEO at Yildiz Ventures.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yenir — Yenir is a platform Yenir that sells fresh products without producing waste.
Refabric — Refabric stands as a premier provider of artificial intelligence software tailored for the fashion industry, establishing a new benchmark for creativity and efficiency driven by data, while promoting sustainable manufacturing practices. The company delivers comprehensive AI solutions that tackle challenges throughout the fashion value chain,beginning with ideation and design and continuing through production and commercialization. Notably, Refabric is the first and only AI fashion enterprise to receive recognition from LVMH.
Istegelsin — Istegelsin is an online supermarket that offers the next generation market shopping experience for consumers. The company solves the market shopping problems by developing technologies to provide mobile solutions that bring the freshest fruits and vegetables kept on cold storages, products from the best brands, out-of-the-oven bakery products tohouse for the same prices as the regular supermarkets. Istegelsin was foundedi n 2018 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

Exeter I Oxford I Former Investment Banker I Tech Executive I Online Lecturer I Author I Angel Investor

Investment focus

Hotel, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Turkey, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yenir — Yenir is a platform Yenir that sells fresh products without producing waste.
Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Copyright Capital — Copyright Capital specializes in financial services tailored specifically for creators across various platforms. The company focuses on enhancing creators' revenue profiles and addressing their unique financial needs through customized solutions. With a keen understanding of platform dynamics and macro trends, Copyright Capital offers accessto capital and strategic business advice to help creators mitigate risks associated with algorithm changes and platform uncertainties. The firm engages in detailed analysis and forecasting of revenue flows, ensuring a data-driven approach to financial support. Whether dealing with agencies or individual creators, Copyright Capital aims to provide financial solutions that align with each creator's specific situation and goals, thereby fostering a more secure and prosperous environment for creative content production.

Shwan Ibrahim Taha

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
Seed, Convertible Note
Iraq

Portfolio highlights

Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.

Tarık Bayar

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.

Eddy Shalev is an angel investor. Eddy is one of the best-known figures in the Israeli business community. Since the beginning of Israel's venture capital industry, Eddy has focused on private-equity investments in the high-tech sector, and has played a key role in several high-profile success stories, including Fundtech, ParadigmGeophysical and Orbot Instruments. Eddy is currently on the board of Aternity, Profitect and Sensible Medical.Eddy has been an active private equity investor in Israel since 1992, when he began a private equity investment program that invested in early-stage Israeli high-tech companies. Beginning in 1985, Eddy led the Israeli affiliates of Oscar Gruss and Sons Inc., and then later CIBC-Oppenheimer, where he directed the firm’s corporate banking, sales and trading, and equity research for Israeli companies traded on NASDAQ.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series B, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Payouts.com — Payouts.com provides payouts automation for affiliates, freelancers, vendors & more. Experience faster, seamless payouts. Enjoy fast, automated payouts.
Atlas Invest — A platform for institutional investors to invest in real estate backed bridge loans at scale with reduced risk.
Element Security — Element Security is a cybersecurity landscape that is evolving rapidly, with external attack surfaces expanding and threats becoming increasingly sophisticated.

Ramazan Evren

Investment focus

Coffee, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

Ayşe Araz

Investment focus

Coffee, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

Emre Kurttepeli is a Serial Entrepreneur & Investor and is the Founder & Chairperson of Mynet Group, Turkey’s leading internet company with over 32 million users and Founder & CEO of Mynet Games, a global mobile gaming company.Columbia University/NY graduate, he has been the founder or the investor of over 50 internet andtechnology companies, mostly leaders in their own categories that ranges from e-commerce companies to vertical social network sites, mobile and gaming companies, including Trendyol, Insider, Iyzico, RemoteTeam and vc fund that invests in the internet and technology space. Additionally he is an investor in C24 Gallery, a prominent contemporary art gallery in Chelsea/New York.He is the President of Endeavor Turkey and Galata Business Angels (GBA), that are non-profit organizations helping to grow the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He serves on the Board of Endeavor Global, TOBB Turkish Venture Capital Industry Council and TOBB Turkish Entrepreneurs Council. Besides being on the advisory board member of Columbia University Global Center in Istanbul, he also is a member of YPO and is an Ashoka fellow.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Tarentum — Tarentum AI develops solutions to critical business needs using machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies.

Mehmet Emin Çiftçi is an industrialist based on Istanbul, Turkey. He is currently serving as a Board Member at Akkök Holding

Investment focus

Shipping, Logistics, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management

Özgür Trakya

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.

Ömer Faruk Akarca

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.

Ercan Solmaz

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.

Bassam Falah is a Founder and Managing Partner of Innovest Middle East VC.

Investment focus

Retail, Internet, Shopping
Seed, Convertible Note
Iraq

Portfolio highlights

Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.

Subhi Khudairi

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
Seed, Convertible Note
Iraq

Portfolio highlights

Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.

Ömer Duran

Investment focus

Coffee, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

Uğur Şeker

Investment focus

Marketing, Gaming, Big Data
Seed, Convertible Note
Turkey, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.

M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu is the CEO at DgPays. M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu attended Alliant International University.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kito — Kito provides natural, fresh and healthy food for dogs.
Chooch — Chooch Autonomous AI provides hospitals and healthcare systems touchless, automated inventory management. No manual tracking. No stockouts.

Yılmaz Yıldız

Investment focus

Waste Management, Procurement, Retail
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.

Rawaz Rauf

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
Seed, Convertible Note
Iraq

Portfolio highlights

Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.

Kibbutz Maagan Michael is the founder od Maagan Filtration.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Food Processing
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Vanilla Vida — We are here to help the world consume more natural vanilla by establishing a vertical integration company.

Emre Karaca

Investment focus

Cooking, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Rafinera Cloud Kitchen — The Rafinera Cloud Kitchen operates various brand, last-mile satellite restaurants where these are finished once ordered, delivered very quickly, and provided at a very high service level. Our consumers adore the great flavors of the comfort food brands that we own and operate.

Doruk Akpek is a Co-Founder of BEIJE.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Sorb — SORB is a sports drink containing electrolytes that were created for people who lead an active lifestyle. It is carefully made for the rapid recovery of minerals that are essential to the body.

Abdulelah Algosaibi is the Saudi angel investor.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Bahrain

Portfolio highlights

OrderJet — OrderJet is an innovative F&B solution that improves customer experience and helps business owners increase efficiency and lower costs. It is suitable for all types of restaurants, coffee shops, food courts, and food trucks, and supports dine-in, take-out, and delivery services.

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

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.
Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.

Özgür Ülkü

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Software
Seed, Angel
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.

Global Early Stage Venture Investor and Financial Consultant for Middle East StartUps | Commercial Real Estate Investing | Former Israeli Air Force | Columbia University Graduate

Investment focus

Software, Marketing, Automotive
Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

MyQuest — myQuest enables you to engage customers and employees anywhere, anytime. Easily train and interact with learners using AI, micro-learning, and gamification.
Immagnify Ltd. — Immagnify provides you with easy access to millions of companies and professionals by email, phone, and social media channels to help your company grow faster.
Spinframe Technologies — Founded in 2017, Spinframe Technologies deliver a single source of truth for the status of vehicles at every checkpoint. The company provides a real-time, AI-enabled platform for vehicle damage detection, inspection, and documentation. The fully automatic, plug & play stations are deployable at every gateway and detect up to the smallestdamages in real-time, such as scratches, dents, and scuffs. With Spinframe's technology, it is possible to monitor large volumes of vehicles without requiring any human intervention, from maritime ports to large transportation and logistics hubs, to parking lots, dealerships, rental branches, and service centers. For locations where physical systems cannot be deployed, we offer similar features via a mobile web app. The platform combines advanced image capturing and processing methods with in-house machine learning techniques for identifying and classifying damage. The data is stored in the cloud platform, enabling instant visualization and sharing of fleet status over time and at every checkpoint, through a single interface and a single platform. Spinframe is praised by leading port operators, leasing and rental companies, and automotive OEMs around the globe.

Sule Mene

Investment focus

Software, Information Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

MOBIQU — Smart Box Subscription for Last-Mile Delivery
TrabTech — TrabTech develops innovative medical products using innovative materials, new generation manufacturing technologies and biomimetic designs.

Onder Oztarhan

Investment focus

Retail, Recycling, Manufacturing
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Kito — Kito provides natural, fresh and healthy food for dogs.
Nivogo — Nivogo renews goods that couldn't pass to the consumption stage by putting them through a 6-step process and bring them to consumers.

Musa is an entrepreneur, author , and a senior business leader who worked in various managerial positions with many years of experience specializing in management and compliance, marketing, business risk management, project management, operational risk, and enterprise infrastructure and operations for clients in the oil & gas, manufacturing,engineering, and food industries. Musa holds a master's degree in International Management from the University of Liverpool, a certificate in cybersecurity management from the University of Toronto, a diploma in Project Management, and a BSc degree in electrical power engineering technology.

Investment focus

SaaS, Restaurants, Food Delivery
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Whatfoodsmenu — Whatfoodsmenu is a marketplace and online ordering platform for restaurants, cafes, cloud kitchens, and food outlets. Moreover, Whatfoodsmenu is a cloud smart management software as a service (SaaS). Whatfoodsnenu also is working to develop advanced solutions to automate kitchen management and point of sale to improve and increase the efficiency ofits client’s operations. Furthermore, whatfoodsmenu aims to provide all- in- solutions on one platform. Whatfoodsmenu main services include a marketplace on web and on mobile, QR digital menu, E-store – online ordering, online payment, point of sales, QR code table management, floor planning, Expenses and Profit, WhatsApp ordering messages, Dine-in + Takeaway and Delivery Orders. Whatfoodsmen aims to disrupt the market with its competitive and comprehensive advantage offering.Whatfoodsmenu is a simple and easy way to order food online. Customers enjoy a variety of options and cuisines that can be delivered to their homes or offices. The digital menu is based on a smart interface that any standard user can use without difficulty. Whatfoodsmenu creates a digital menu for restaurants, cafes, cloud kitchens, and food outlets in either one or multiple languages and assigns QR codes to the digital menu with the ability to receive payments via more than 20 payment methods or simply accept cash. Also available within the platform is the ordering and payment system across tables and QR codes, where customers can easily order and pay without talking to employees, which contributes to a better user experience and reduces the need for employee intervention.How does it work?When the customer browses the digital menu of the restaurant or cafe, he or she chooses what he or she wants and completes the order upon checkout with a simple registration process. After user verification, the user can continue the checkout process and sends the purchase order via both the system and WhatsApp message to the restaurant directly.The Restaurants that receive orders via the system and or by WhatsApp message can confirm if they are accepting or rejecting the order. if orders are accepted will be added to the point-of-sale system that is also available within the whatfoodsmenu platform. Both Restaurants and whatfoodsmenu may set a delivery cost for each specific area, accept/reject the order, deliver, track and assign drivers, categories, items, etc. A staff management feature is also available to make things easier and faster

Cana Güneş

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Cloud Data Services
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.

Zuhair Shammout

Investment focus

Virtualization, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Jordan

Portfolio highlights

Kitchefy — Building the largest decentralized network of cloud kitchens in the MENA Region.

Marc Lore is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Wonder Group. He previously worked at Walmart as a President and CEO. Marc Lore attended Bucknell University.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
Cure Hydration — Cure is a premium, hydrating electrolyte drink mix made with organic coconut water, pink Himalayan salt and no added sugar. Based on the WHO's ORS (Oral Rehydration Solution.)

Yaser Alghamdi

Investment focus

Information Technology, Retail, Grocery
Pre-Seed
Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

EdfaPay — Edfapay is a fintech enterprise that provides smart & efficient payment solutions, That save money, time & effort using soft pos technology.
ON Market — Grocery and daily food essentials from your favourite retailers to your doorstep.

Yucel Olcer is the retail COO of ING Bank Turkey and and Head of ING Hubs.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Avane Cloud Kitchens — Avane Cloud Kitchens operates restaurants that are only available online. A Turkish FoodTech scale-up developing a unique portfolio of F&B brands delivered through multi-brand cloud kitchens. Avane Cloud Kitchens is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

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