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

Last updated: May 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 May 2025

Investor	Food and Beverage Middle East investments
Hasan Aslanoba	6
Beni Nofech	4
Ahu Serter	3
Enis Hulli	3
Sake Bosch	3
Yossi Ackerman	3
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	3
Ayşe Araz	2
Ercan Solmaz	2
Subhi Khudairi	2
Ömer Duran	2
Ömer Faruk Akarca	2
Uğur Şeker	2
Serkan Omerbeyoglu	2
Bassam Falah	2
Yahya Ülker	2
Yılmaz Yıldız	2
Rawaz Rauf	2
Ramazan Evren	2
Haluk Can Hür	2
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	2
David Buttress	2
Walter Beach	2
Nuri Cem Erbak	2
Tarık Bayar	2
Meltem Kirişçi	2
Agah Uğur	2
Eddy Shalev	2
Firat Isbecer	2
Özgür Trakya	2
Bradley M. Bloom	2
Ali Ilci	2
Shwan Ibrahim Taha	2
Emre Kurttepeli	2
Thibaud Elziere	1
Omar Benmoussa	1
Mehmet Celikol	1
Oğuzhan Öztürk	1
Eitan Yohananov	1
Mohammed Alawadhi	1
Abdulla Al-Mutawa	1
Ayşe Güçlü Onur	1
Ahmed Al Alola	1
Sercan Akkaş	1
Ran Tuttnauer	1
Youcef Oudjidane	1
Madilet Eda Akyumuk	1
Aydın Harezi	1
Selim Şahinbaş	1
Ahmet Özokur	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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 — Prevent stockouts, safety risks and delays with Chooch Autonomous AI. Real-time Vision AI for inventory tracking, facility risk detection & remote patient monitoring.

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.

Yahya Ulker is the CEO at Yildiz Ventures.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Food Delivery
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Yenir — Yenir is a platform Yenir that sells fresh products without producing waste.
Refabric —
Istegelsin —

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
Skynopy — Connecting satellites. As a service
Presti — Photorealistic images of your furniture in seconds using AI

Omar Benmoussa is the Founder at of Kapten.

Investment focus

Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
Angel
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

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.

Mehmet Celikol

Investment focus

Dental, Procurement, Property Management
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

viravira.co — Choose among 12,000 yacht charter, boat rental & gulet holidays. Yachts, boats & gulets for charter with the lowest prices are at Europe's #1 platfom viravira.
Dentalpiyasa — Dentalpiyasa connects dentists and dental warehouses, enabling direct procurement from manufacturers and importers.
Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.

Oğuzhan Öztürk

Investment focus

Hotel, Mobile Apps, Restaurants
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Pardon — Contact us for the best quality Smart QR Menu for restaurants, cafes and hotels, quick reference and much more. What are QR menu prices?

Eitan Yohananov Chief Executive Officer, M Yochananof & Sons ltd.

Investment focus

Food Processing, Food and Beverage
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Resugar — Resugar is a FoodTech company that uses innovative technology to reimagine the future of sweet. Our sugar replacement solutions perfectly replicate the taste and properties of sugar while eliminating all of its harmful effects. The sweet life has arrived.

Co-Founder of MyHome App.

Investment focus

Apps, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Convertible Note
Kuwait

Portfolio highlights

MyHome — MyHome, the app for all of your needs, functions as a Kuwait-based mobile application that connects users to service providers and vendors. The application has a diverse products and services offering ranging from AC Maintenance and Cleaning to Groceries and Car Washes.

Abdullah Al Mutawa is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO at The Taken Seat.

Investment focus

Delivery, Software, E-Commerce
Seed
Bahrain

Portfolio highlights

Parcel — The BEST delivery service in BAHRAIN! You do not need to hire a driver, register with Parcel Delivery the fastest delivery service in Bahrain for free, and pay only when you deliver! Start Delivery What is Parcel Delivery Parcel Delivery is the fastest delivery service in Bahrain, Register now to deliver to your end.

Ayşe Güçlü Onur

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Cloud Data Services
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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

Ahmed Al Alola

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Restaurants
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

jalebi — An award-winning restaurant point of sale (POS) & inventory management system thathelps you save 5% on the cost of every order served.

Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Fruit
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Lugath — Lugath automates content localization with the power of AI translation.
Kidolog — Kidolog provides support to parents with video or messaging on issues they may need about pre-pregnancy and post-pregnancy.
Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics

Ran Tuttnauer

Investment focus

Health Care, Big Data, Medical Device
Seed, Series A
Israel, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Innovopro — Bringing a unique chickpea protein platform to the global food & beverage market, for creating nutritious, tasty, and sustainable food products.
Solidify — The Marketplayz platform helps you find the perfect creators to promote your products. It utilizes AI-powered technology to enable advertisers and creators to connect through a one-stop, self-service marketplace.
Geneyx — Geneyx offers a superior NGS data analysis and interpretation platform, Harnessing genetic data to guide digital insights for rare and germline disorders Geneyx

Youcef Oudjidane is the Co-Founder of Elevate. He previously worked at Class 5 Global as a Managing Partner. Youcef Oudjidane attended the University of Nottingham.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Organic Food
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
Theneo — Generate Stripe-like API docs in just a few clicks. We support OpenAPI, Postman, GraphQL and much more
FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.

Madilet Eda Akyumuk

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Food Delivery
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

YEMMEK — Yemmek, order your favourite food with us!

Aydın Harezi

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.

Selim Şahinbaş

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.

General Partner

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.

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Artificial intelligence