Top 50 Gaming Angel Investors in Middle East (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Akin Babayigit
Angel
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7 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games | $425k–$30M |
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Hasan Aslanoba
Angel
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6 | Turkey, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $175k–$30M |
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Firat Isbecer
Angel
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6 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Internet, Software | $20k–$3.8M |
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Beni Nofech
Angel
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4 | Israel | Pre-Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Nutrition | $450k–$2M |
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Emre Gönül
Angel
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4 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Video Games, Online Games, Mobile | $99k–$3M |
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Ali Ilci
Angel
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4 | Turkey, Switzerland, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note | Hotel, Advice, Gaming | $123k–$184k |
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Agah Ugur
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, CRM | $134k–$1M |
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Ahmet Özokur
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Cooking, Food Processing, Food and Beverage | |
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Elad Kushnir
Angel
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3 | Israel, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Gaming, Software, Mobile Apps | $1M–$35M |
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Volkan Bicer
Angel
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3 | Turkey, Singapore, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed | Online Games, Mobile, Software | $99k–$3M |
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Nuri Sahin
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Angel, Pre-Seed | Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games | |
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Sake Bosch
Angel
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3 | The Netherlands, France, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology | $1.9M–$77M |
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Firat Ileri
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Gaming, Health Care | $100k–$200M |
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Aydın Harezi
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Cooking, Food Processing, Food and Beverage | |
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Kagan Çevik
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Cooking, Food Processing, Food and Beverage | |
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Ahu Serter
Angel
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3 | Turkey, Greece, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Transportation | $100k–$4M |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $100k–$3.7M |
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Emre Can
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Angel, Pre-Seed | Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games | |
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Yossi Ackerman
Angel
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3 | Israel, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Apps, Local, Mobile | |
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Ali Rıza Babaoğlan
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | TV, CRM, Apps | |
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Enis Hulli
Angel
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3 | United States, Turkey, Poland | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Gaming | $425k–$4.5M |
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Uri Levine
Angel
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3 | Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Travel, FinTech, Apps | $3M–$12M |
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Meltem Kirişçi
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services | $64k–$64k |
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Kushal Shah
Angel
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2 | United States, Egypt, Singapore | Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed | eSports, Mobile Apps, Telecommunications | $100k–$60M |
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Tunç Yalgın
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Series A | Video Games, Mobile, Sports | $7k–$600k |
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Fatih Isbecer
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, Software, Health Care | $20k–$9M |
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Danny Leshem
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | SaaS, B2B, Generative AI | $570k–$23M |
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Shwan Ibrahim Taha
Angel
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2 | Iraq | Seed, Convertible Note | Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine | |
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Kristian Segerstrale
Angel
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2 | United States, Finland, India | Seed, Series A, Angel | Gaming, PC Games, Online Games | $796k–$24M |
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Subhi Khudairi
Angel
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2 | Iraq | Seed, Convertible Note | Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine | |
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Tarık Bayar
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services | $64k–$64k |
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N.Mert Kalkavan
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Toys, PC Games, Online Games | |
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Tal Shoham
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Mobile Apps, Gaming | |
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Vladimir Nikolsky
Angel
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Serkan Omerbeyoglu
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Manufacturing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning | |
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Anton Gauffin
Angel
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2 | Finland, United States, Spain | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games | $191k–$9M |
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Emre Kurttepeli
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $135k–$3M |
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Alexis Bonte
Angel
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2 | Finland, Portugal, United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | Gaming, Video Games, Apps | $550k–$30M |
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Bradley M. Bloom
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence, Sports | |
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Danny Grander
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Developer Tools | $1.8M–$21M |
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Bassam Falah
Angel
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2 | Iraq | Seed, Convertible Note | Retail, Internet, Shopping | |
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Ercan Solmaz
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services | $64k–$64k |
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Engin Kale
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Apps, Gaming, Jewelry | |
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Deniz Devrim Cengiz
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, FinTech, Apps | |
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Rafi Gidron
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services | $2M–$8M |
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Mehmet Ayan
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Online Games, Gaming, Mobile | |
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Mehmet Emin Çiftçi
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Shipping, Logistics, E-Commerce | |
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Yahya Ülker
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Software, SaaS | |
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David Buttress
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, Egypt, Brazil | Seed, Angel | Mobile, Food Delivery, E-Commerce | |
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Ali Karakuş
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Toys, PC Games, Online Games | |
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Akin Babayigit is currently a co-founder of Tripledot Studios, a mobile games studio based in London. Before starting Tripledot, Akin was an active investor & advisor to various companies in the gaming space as well as serving as the Head of Business Operations & Special Projects at King Digital Entertainment. Before his experience at King,Akin was the head of Facebook Audience Network in EMEA.
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $425k–$8.4M; Series A $15M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Palabra.ai — AI-Powered Speech Translation & Voice Interpreter App. Get real-time translation in 30+ languages with minimal latency for smooth global communication.
- Pixel Flow — Stuck on Pixel Flow? Get instant solution for ANY level just by uploading a screenshot. Beat Pixel Flow very hard levels fast with easy cheat & walkthrough.
- Cypher Games — Cypher Games is a mobile gaming company founded by passionate gamers with a dream of building a global success story. We aim to shape the future of mobile gaming together with our colleagues, investors and thought partners.
business in the water industry. By 2005, the company succeeded in the Turkish bottled water industry under his guidance.In 2006, Erikli Water partnered its Turkish operations with Nestle Waters, the global leader of the bottled water industry.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $175k–$2.3M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $825k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
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.
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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- Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $727k–$3.8M; Angel $20k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$430k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
- Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Beni Nofech is a food-tech investor.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Nutrition
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $450k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
- 50CUT — 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.
Emre Gönül
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- Industry: Video Games, Online Games, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $99k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine is a mobile social gaming company with target operating markets in North America & Oceania. Freshly founded in 2021, we are headquartered in Istanbul; one of the major mobile gaming hubs.
- Novart Space Technologies —
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- Industry: Hotel, Advice, Gaming
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Pre-Seed $123k–$184k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pardon AI — Boost your business with Pardon AI 3.0, cutting-edge technology. Discover AI-driven insights to increase sales, enhance customer satisfaction, and streamline operations. Transform your hospitality experience today!
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
- HoustonBionics — HoustonBionics is proud to introduce ExoRehab X, a revolutionary at home stroke rehabilitation device to help support recovery.
Agah Uğur
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- Industry: Software, Apps, CRM
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $134k–$1M; Pre-Seed $400k–$425k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Malty — Malty engages in the sustainable food industry.
- Workhy — More than 20,000 entrepreneurs chose us for company formation, financial process management, tax return preparation, and bookkeeping services.
- Mükellef — Mükellef is a fintech company that provides financial services, digital transformation, and accounting services.
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- Industry: Cooking, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Elad Kushnir
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- Industry: Gaming, Software, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.4M; Series B $35M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Huuuge Games — Huuuge is a gaming company on a mission to build world's largest real-time social casual gaming platform connecting millions of players to have fun & socialize & play awesome games.They are passionate about transforming mobile casual gaming into massively fun, real-time, social experiences.Their mission is to be the global leaderof real-time free-to-play casual gaming on mobile: re-defining casual arcade, puzzle and casino categories.
- Luna Labs — Luna Labs is the maker of a creative management platform used to create mobile ads. Luna Labs technology allows app developers from enterprises to indie developers to create, manage and optimize their playable ad and video ads, at a fast speed and on a large scale.
- Mad Brain Games — Challenge your brain with this fun, free word scapes game!Solve puzzles to save the farm! Word Farm Adventure Game Save...
Volkan Biçer is the co-founder of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network.Bicer’e employment history includes his time as product manager of Turkcell’s mobile marketing and advertising department, and community manager at Yahoo, Turkey.Bicer holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Boğaziçi University and an MBAfrom Galatasaray University.
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- Industry: Online Games, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Singapore, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $99k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paydas — Paydas is a prop-fintech startup enabling individuals to invest digitally in income and appreciation of selected global real estate.
- Sentez —
- Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
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- Industry: Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mythos Cards — Mythos Cards is the leading collectible card company of Turkey. The company holds licenses to top Turkish Super league clubs and entertainments properties. Innovation lays at the centre of Mythos Cards.
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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: The Netherlands, France, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$9.5M; Series A $6.9M–$29M; Series B $7.1M–$77M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TerraSpark — TerraSpark Energy specializing in software solutions for renewable energy asset management. The product, TerraSpark Hub, provides comprehensive oversight of commercial and technical data for green energy assets like solar and wind projects.
- Recupere Metals — Recupere Metals focused on recycling copper scrap into high-quality electrical wires. It uses a patented mechanical process enhanced by AI to boost conductivity from impure scrap, bypassing energy-intensive smelting.
- A&B Smart Materials — The A&B Smart Materials Using innovative cooling technologies to boost photovoltaic efficiency.
Firat is a Partner at Hummingbird Ventures. His current portfolio includes Armut, Argent, Aspire, Billiontoone, Brigit, Ciceksepeti, Instacarro, Kernal Biologics and Layer.He previously worked with Frontier Car Group, Gram Games, Peak Games and Merlin prior to their acquisition. He is interested in marketplaces, frontier tech, fintech and gaming.Previously, he worked at J.P. Morgan at the Emerging Markets Structuring and Solutions group. He received B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Management Science and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $100k–$9M; Pre-Seed $800k–$7.5M; Series A $1M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Magic Games — Magic Games is a mobile gaming company with new genre of casual multiplayer puzzle games.
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Aydın Harezi
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- Industry: Cooking, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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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- Industry: Cooking, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, Greece, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $110k–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.5M; Series A $3.2M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jobtogo — Jobtogo is a freelancer platform that offers solutions to the problems experienced by companies in the supply of talent.
- Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.
- Tripy Mobility — Are you ready to pedal the city? Download the Tripy app to view available shared bikes for rent and start your journey now.
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- each::labs — AI marketplace for developers.
- Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
- Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
Emre Can
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- Industry: Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mythos Cards — Mythos Cards is the leading collectible card company of Turkey. The company holds licenses to top Turkish Super league clubs and entertainments properties. Innovation lays at the centre of Mythos Cards.
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).
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- Industry: Apps, Local, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
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- Industry: TV, CRM, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
- 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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Turkey, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $425k–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FERASET — FERASET builds next-gen apps by combining deep AI expertise with cutting-edge technology.
- Caretta — Caretta is a sales‑enablement application that works during sales calls to assist revenue teams. The tool listens to live calls, offers real‑time prompts to handle objections and questions, and produces post‑call notes that update CRM systems. It integrates with calendars, CRMs (such as HubSpot and Salesforce), drives contextual call preparation,and maintains security and compliance standards.
- Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
Uri Levine is the Founder, Chairman and Board member of Waze. He previously worked at HERE Technologies as a Board Member. Uri Levine attended Tel Aviv University.
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- Industry: Travel, FinTech, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$3.5M; Series A $3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SeeTree — SeeTree offers you complete transparency into the health and production of each of your trees by leveraging the most powerful innovations available.
- Oversee — AI growth engine for travel - Increase revenue, maximize savings, automate customer service and streamline operations
- WeSki — WeSki allows you to compare endless ski holiday combinations, find the best deals and build your perfect ski holiday package, in just few clicks.
Meltem Kirişçi
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- Industry: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $64k–$64k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Kushal Shah is a Co-Founder of Dubai Angel Investors. He was a Board Member at Airalo. He studied at the University of Cambridge.
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- Industry: eSports, Mobile Apps, Telecommunications
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Egypt, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series B $20M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Derq — Derq built an award-winning platform powered by AI and predictive analytics helping eliminate crashes, save lives, and create safer and smarter roadways. Our real-time analytics platform feeds a live dashboard available to road owners and operators and sends alerts to connected vehicles and infrast
- GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
- YaLLa esports — YaLLa Esports was born out of a passion for gaming shared by friends, which ignited a mission to build a community of gamers with an organized structure in the MENA region, championing the gaming culture and building the perfect environment for professional gamers to flourish. We aim to position ourselves as a supportive hub for gamers of alllevels with a future vision of constructing and managing the very best teams in the region, competing on a global scale and showcasing the Middle Eastern & African talent in the international gaming stratosphere.
Tunç Yalgın was Entrepreneur and investor, passionate about everything high-tech, disruptive and, even better, both!
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- Industry: Video Games, Mobile, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $7k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
- Gram Games — Gram Games is a mobile game development studio, committed to delivering high quality mobile games that create real bonds through play. Founded in 2012 with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, Gram Games has built a team of industry professionals focused on creating engaging games for mobile platforms. Due to the development and growth of Gram Games,a London office was opened in 2017.
- Hero Concept — Hero Concept is a computer games company that develops visionary reimaginations of the timeless classics of arcade gaming. The company studies the histories of the ever-present classics in order to carry them into the 21st century--with panache. Hero Concept was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
Fatih Isbecer - Founder & CEO @ Dataroid
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $70k–$9M; Angel $20k–$20k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mindway — Mindway is a fully immersive meditation app that proves mindfulness doesn't have to be boring.
- Gleam Games — Unique and exciting gaming experiences to enhance gamers' lives. We believe gaming is all about creating a world of unmatched collaboration, immersion, and emotion. At the heart of every gaming experience we create, we aim to bring you the best in-game experiences through design and technology.
- Flora — Flora is the only sustainable brand platform acquiring and growing Amazon FBA brands with a world-class team of professionals.
INT3 (Managing Partner); Kidaro (co-founder, acq. MSFT); OpenRest (co-founder, acq. WIX); angel investor.
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- Industry: SaaS, B2B, Generative AI
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $3.1M–$23M; Pre-Seed $570k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Draftt — Draftt is a software maintenance automation platform that minimizes availability risks of mission-critical applications.
- Reindeer AI — Training AI to take care of your tedious back office work
- Wonderful — AI for the Bold Enterprise
Shwan Ibrahim Taha
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- Industry: Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Kristian Segerstrale is the Co-founder of Initial Capital and Board member of Supercell, as well as the Co-founder and CEO of Playfish. Kristian has been at the forefront of the rapidly transforming game industry since 2001.He was a co-founder of mobile gaming pioneer Macrospace – today Glu Mobile (Nasdaq: GLUU) in 2001 through the successfulIPO in 2007. He left to co-found Playfish, the social gaming pioneer, where he served as CEO through the company’s rapid growth to 60 Million players and the subsequent acquisition by Electronic Arts for $400M in 2009. After a period as EVP Digital at Electronic Arts driving the aggressive transformation of the company from packaged goods to digital, Kristian left in March 2013 to focus on startups. Today Kristian leads seed stage investments with Initial Capital and serves on the board of Supercell, the #1 iOS game company.Kristian has previously served on the board of LOVEFiLM, the European streaming video pioneer until its acquisition by Amazon.com.
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- Industry: Gaming, PC Games, Online Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Finland, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $796k–$7M; Angel $1M–$5M; Series A $10M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
- Original Games — Casual mobile game design company
- Dead Astronauts — Dead Astronauts reinvents open-world game experiences with technical innovation at the core of the company and PLAYER CREATIVITY at the core of the games we make.
Subhi Khudairi
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- Industry: Restaurants, Food Delivery, Search Engine
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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- Industry: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $64k–$64k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
N.Mert Kalkavan is a CEO @ Doping Hafıza.
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- Industry: Toys, PC Games, Online Games
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Gamester — Gamester is a social gaming company located in Istanbul, Turkey. It develops and markets social games focusing on social interaction, playability and entertainment.Founded in 2009, Gamester provides users with free-to-play accessibility across a variety of social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google + and more. Hordemaster, Baldety,Oynaturka and Townster are some of the games developed by Gamester.Onur Karci, TurhanYigitbasi and Volkan Taban are the co-founders of Gamester.
- Tiny Minies — Tiny Minies is an educational software that creates educational and learning games for preschoolers and children aged two to six.
- Gamester Kids — Gamester's goal is to assist parents in giving their kids access to safe and instructive media so they can get the most out of their screen time. Their products are designed for families to play together every day to create, connect, and develop.
Angel investor | Games Industry and Ad-tech Executive | Board Member | Tedooo Co-Founder I PeerPlay Co-Founder
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- Industry: Software, Mobile Apps, Gaming
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- PARANA — Game development studio PARANA makes skill-based mobile games that offer cash prizes and leverage competitiveness. The company is currently in the production of two games and hosts cash-enabled live tournaments for mobile.
- PeerPlay — PeerPlay is a casual mobile games powerhouse
- Supersonic Studios — SuperSonic designs a mobile advertising technology platform that grows business by building a platform powered by advanced technology. Its mobile advertising technology platform optimizes user acquisition strategy by combining data from other tracking platforms, enabling developers to increase their revenue and find the users for theirapplications.
Vladimir Nikolsky joined Mail.Ru Group as Vice President of Online Games business in 2009 and became Chief Operating Officer (Russia) in 2013. Previously he was CEO of online game holding Astrum Online Entertainment (from 2007 to 2009) which subsequently became a part of Mail.Ru Group, and co-founder and CEO of online game company IT Territory(from 2004 to 2007). Vladimir graduated from Ivanovo State Power Engineering University.
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Top App Games — Top App Games specializes in mobile game creation and publishing, with a strong emphasis on strategic games.
M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu is the CEO at DgPays. M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu attended Alliant International University.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kito — Kito provides natural, fresh and healthy food for dogs.
- Chooch — Chooch AI healthcare inventory management system automates tracking and replenishment of medical supplies. Real-time tracking. No manual counts. No scanning.
Anton Gauffin is the Founder of Sumoing.
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Finland, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $191k–$9M; Pre-Seed $345k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gotiva — Play thousands of jigsaw puzzles for free on Android and iOS
- Odeeo — People play casual games to relax and have fun. So it’s no wonder the world’s 2.7bn free2play mobile gamers find aggressive full-screen ads annoying. Odeeo’s audio ad platform gets gamers. It’s built to amplify the in-game experience by overlaying contextual audio ads that players actually want to hear. For game developers, that meansmonetizing untapped in-game real estate and boosting incremental ad revenue—without hurting retention.For leading brands, it means cutting through the noise to target an attentive audience at ultra scale in an immersive brand-safe environment. And gamers? They can just play on!
- Benjamin — Start saving more money with our cash back app that automates the cash back earnings for people and businesses.
Emre Kurttepeli is a Serial Entrepreneur & Investor and is the Founder&CEO of Vuvy, a global mobile gaming company. Previously he has founded Mynet, Turkey’s leading internet company with over 32 million users.Columbia University/NY graduate, he has been the founder or the investor of over 50 internet and technology companies, mostlyleaders 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 Honorary President of Galata Business Angels (GBA), that are non-profit organizations helping to grow the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He serves on the Board of Endeavor Global. Besides being on the advisory board member of Columbia University Global Center in Istanbul, he also is a member Global Relations Forum.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $700k–$3M; Angel $135k–$450k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Base64 — Base64 Document Intelligence Platform automates document processing with Agentic AI and over 2,800 prebuilt models.
- RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
- Insider One — Insider One is the #1 Customer Engagement AI Platform for marketing teams. Unify CDP, personalization & journey orchestration to engage customers everywhere.
Alexis Bonte is based out of Madrid, Madrid, and is the President and Group CEO of Stillfront Group. Alexis previously worked at eRepublik Labs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Alexis Bonte attended Regent's University London.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Finland, Portugal, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $550k–$7M; Series A $10M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
- CASAFARI — CASAFARI brings transparency to chaotic property markets by building a clean and complete real estate database. The company's proprietary technology allows agents to collect, clean, match duplicates, and evaluate every property coming to the market and to source the best investment opportunities in real-time.
Bradley M. Bloom is the Managing Director at Berkshire Partners.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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) — 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.
Entrepreneur (Snyk), Angel Investor, CTF Player (@pastenctf)
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Developer Tools
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $6M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$2M; Series A $17M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Firmbase — Firmbase is the modern financial planning and analysis platform for tech companies. Our founders have strong leadership, product and software development experience from Facebook, Stanford and Unit 8200. Our group of top-tier investors include unicorn startup founders and senior executives from Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
- MagicYard — Hangout on the TV, play with friends or strangers
- Wonderful — AI for the Bold Enterprise
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- Industry: Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
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.
Ercan Solmaz
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- Industry: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $64k–$64k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Engin Kale is a partner/investor at Appsilon Enterprise.
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- Industry: Apps, Gaming, Jewelry
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Teleporter — California and Istanbul based VR gaming company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of VR medium and creating high-quality experiences that redefine social interaction and gaming.
- Appsilon Enterprise B.V. — At Appsilon, we use science and mastership to cultivate real diamonds in the lab.
Deniz Devrim Cengiz
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- Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
- Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
Rafi Gidron is the Founder and Chairman of Israel Brain Technologies. He previously worked at Lucent as a VP of Optical networks. Rafi Gidron attended Columbia University.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
- Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
- Dig — dig is a social listening platform using AI to analyze social video. Track brand mentions and sentiment analysis with our real-time media monitoring tool.
Mehmet Ayan is a partner at Ludus Venture.
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- Industry: Online Games, Gaming, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kidly — Kidly is an online broadcasting application that publishes illustrated and narrated books for kids and young children in the vicinity.
- Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine is a mobile social gaming company with target operating markets in North America & Oceania. Freshly founded in 2021, we are headquartered in Istanbul; one of the major mobile gaming hubs.
- Novart Space Technologies —
Mehmet Emin Çiftçi is an industrialist based on Istanbul, Turkey. He is currently serving as a Board Member at Akkök Holding
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- Industry: Shipping, Logistics, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
- Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
- Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
Yahya Ulker is the CEO at Yildiz Ventures.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
David Buttress is a Venture Partner at 83North.
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- Industry: Mobile, Food Delivery, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, Egypt, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Ali Karakuş is a Co-Founder at Doping Hafıza.
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- Industry: Toys, PC Games, Online Games
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Gamester — Gamester is a social gaming company located in Istanbul, Turkey. It develops and markets social games focusing on social interaction, playability and entertainment.Founded in 2009, Gamester provides users with free-to-play accessibility across a variety of social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google + and more. Hordemaster, Baldety,Oynaturka and Townster are some of the games developed by Gamester.Onur Karci, TurhanYigitbasi and Volkan Taban are the co-founders of Gamester.
- Tiny Minies — Tiny Minies is an educational software that creates educational and learning games for preschoolers and children aged two to six.
- Gamester Kids — Gamester's goal is to assist parents in giving their kids access to safe and instructive media so they can get the most out of their screen time. Their products are designed for families to play together every day to create, connect, and develop.
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