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Top 50 Gaming Angel Investors in Middle East

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Gaming startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Gaming Angel Investors in Middle East

Investor Gaming Middle East investments
Hasan Aslanoba 6
Firat Isbecer 4
Beni Nofech 4
Akin Babayigit 4
Enis Hulli 3
Sake Bosch 3
Elad Kushnir 3
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan 3
Yossi Ackerman 3
Ömer Faruk Akarca 2
Tarık Bayar 2
Rawaz Rauf 2
Emre Can 2
Haluk Can Hür 2
Nuri Cem Erbak 2
Sercan Akkaş 2
Sertaç Özinal 2
Emre Kurttepeli 2
Shwan Ibrahim Taha 2
Danny Grander 2
Hande Enes 2
Bradley M. Bloom 2
Tunç Yalgın 2
Ayşe Araz 2
Serkan Omerbeyoglu 2
Kaan Gunay 2
Ömer Duran 2
Kristian Segerstrale 2
Uğur Şeker 2
Bassam Falah 2
Firat Ileri 2
Uri Levine 2
Fatih Isbecer 2
Yılmaz Yıldız 2
Nuri Şahin 2
Gigi Levy Weiss 2
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan 2
David Buttress 2
Eddy Shalev 2
Kaan Karamanci 2
Danny Leshem 2
Alexis Bonte 2
Agah Uğur 2
Ramazan Evren 2
Kushal Shah 2
Subhi Khudairi 2
Walter Beach 2
Ercan Solmaz 2
Meltem Kirişçi 2
Özgür Trakya 2
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Hasan Aslanoba Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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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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.
Firat Isbecer Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Crait.it — Empowering your e-commerce 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.
Beni Nofech Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Beni Nofech is a food-tech investor.
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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.
Akin Babayigit Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile Apps, PC Games
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Layer AI, Inc — The Collaborative MLOps platform
  • Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
  • Harmony Games — Harmony Games is a developer of next-generation hybrid-casual games.
Enis Hulli Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Gaming, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • Pine Games — Pine Games operates as a mobile gaming company that creates impactful experiences with widespread appeal.
  • Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
  • Sentify — Sentify's objective is to assist organizations in harnessing the power of Generative AI by providing greater insights into their users' experiences and conversations with LLM products.
Sake Bosch Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
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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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • The Netherlands, France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Fairbrics — Fairbrics is developing the first synthetic fiber with a net positive impact on climate change and capable of meeting the demand of the market.
  • 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.
Elad Kushnir Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Elad Kushnir
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Israel, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • PeerPlay — PeerPlay is a casual mobile games powerhouse
  • Bookaway — Search and compare bus, train, and ferry tickets across Europe, Asia, and South America. +1000 travel companies to help save you time and money.
  • Mad Brain Games — Challenge your brain with this fun, free word scapes game!Solve puzzles to save the farm! Word Farm Adventure Game Save...
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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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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.
Yossi Ackerman Angel
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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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.
Ömer Faruk Akarca Angel
Ömer Faruk Akarca
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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.
Tarık Bayar Angel
Tarık Bayar
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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.
Rawaz Rauf Angel
Rawaz Rauf
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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 Can Angel
Emre Can
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Investment focus
  • Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
  • Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
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.
Haluk Can Hür Angel
Haluk Can Hür
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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
Nuri Cem Erbak Angel
Nuri Cem Erbak
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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.
Sercan Akkaş Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.
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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
Sertaç Özinal Angel
Sertaç Özinal
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Gaming, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Artiox — Artiox is an investment company in METU Technopolis Area.
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
  • Fon Radar — Fon Radar is an online marketplace platform that brings businesses together with financial institutions.
Emre Kurttepeli Angel
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.
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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.
Shwan Ibrahim Taha Angel
Shwan Ibrahim Taha
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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.
Danny Grander Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Co-founder of Snyk; Investor attended The Open University of Israel.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Developer Tools
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MagicYard — Hangout on the TV, play with friends or strangers
  • Permit.io — Easily bake-in access control in minutes regardless of previous experience or expertise. Based on OPA and OPAL. Treat policy as code to make Auth-z easy.
  • deepdub — Dubbing and voice over end-to-end localization at scale in a single platform.
Hande Enes Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Hande Enes
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
  • Crait.it — Empowering your e-commerce and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
Bradley M. Bloom Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Bradley M. Bloom is the Managing Director at Berkshire Partners.
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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. — Sign up to request early access
Tunç Yalgın Angel · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Tunç Yalgın was Entrepreneur and investor, passionate about everything high-tech, disruptive and, even better, both!
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Investment focus
  • Video Games, Mobile, Sports
  • Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, Germany
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.
Ayşe Araz Angel
Ayşe Araz
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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.
Serkan Omerbeyoglu Angel
M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu is the CEO at DgPays. M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu attended Alliant International University.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kito Pet Food — Kito provides natural, fresh and healthy food for dogs.
  • Chooch — Chooch Generative AI-Powered Computer Vision automates manual video and image review and analysis tasks for faster insights with less resources.
Kaan Gunay Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Kaan Gunay - Co-Founder & CEO @ Firefly
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Casual Games
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Ace Games — Ace Games is a mobile gaming company with a vision to make games that are played by everyone around the world.
Ömer Duran Angel
Ömer Duran
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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.
Kristian Segerstrale Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Online Games, PC Games
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Finland, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Battlebound — Battlebound is on a mission to build memorable lifelong gaming communities that invite players into Heroic Stories, creating deep connections and positive life changes. Heroic stories are thrilling gameplay moments that bring players together and enrich players lives inside and outside the game. We believe blockchain technology will deepen these moments and enrich the player experience when paired with world-class gameplay.
  • Harmony Games — Harmony Games is a developer of next-generation hybrid-casual games.
  • Lightforge Games — Lightforge Games is a new, all-remote video game studio on a quest to change how the world plays RPGs.
Uğur Şeker Angel
Uğur Şeker
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, Gaming, Big Data
  • Seed
  • 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.
Bassam Falah Angel
Bassam Falah is a Founder and Managing Partner of Innovest Middle East VC.
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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.
Firat Ileri Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Ace Games — Ace Games is a mobile gaming company with a vision to make games that are played by everyone around the world.
  • Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
  • Monumental — Pioneering the automation of on-site construction with cutting-edge robotics and software. Committed to transforming the industry, our mission is to enable software-defined construction, creating bespoke, beautiful buildings rapidly with minimal labor.
Uri Levine Angel
Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Mobile, Travel
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Engie — Buy Twitch Followers and Buy Twitch Viewers from EngieApp to grow an organic following. Our Twitch followers, viewers are immensely real and authentic. Try Now!
  • SeeTree — SeeTree offers you complete transparency into the health and production of each of your trees by leveraging the most powerful innovations available.
  • WeSki — Experience winter's magic with WeSki. Explore, and compare endless ski holidays combinations and build your perfect ski package holiday in just few clicks.
Fatih Isbecer Angel
Fatih Isbecer - Founder & CEO @ Dataroid
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Mindway VR — 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.
Yılmaz Yıldız Angel
Yılmaz Yıldız
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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.
Nuri Şahin Angel
Nuri Şahin
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Investment focus
  • Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
  • Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
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.
Gigi Levy Weiss Angel · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Kama — Kama offers sexual wellness practices that improve how you experience love, sex, and intimacy. Available on the iOS App Store.
  • BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
  • Diagnostic Robotics — Diagnostic Robotic develops a signal-agnostic artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. It allows to build powerful predictive analytics models that will solve a world-wide challenge, strained health budgets, and workforces. Diagnostic Robotic was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan Angel · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
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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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 Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
David Buttress is a Venture Partner at 83North.
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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.
Eddy Shalev Angel
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • TripleW Ltd. — Making Waste History. TripleW upcycles food waste into high-value bioplastic
  • QEDIT — Augment your data tools with advanced encryption, by world leaders in zero-knowledge proofs, homomorphic encryption, multi-party computation
  • Photomyne — Photomyne is a company that specializes in family nostalgia. We leverage our original, unprecedented technology to provide tools for digitizing and managing all types of old (analog) and new media.Our primary app is designed for scanning, managing, and storing old photographs in bulk. In addition, we offer several other utility apps, eachspecializing in the scanning of a specific media type, to offer the best technological accommodation for each type and its characteristics.Explore our apps: https://photomyne.com/get-photomyne
Kaan Karamanci Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Kaan Karamanci is Co-founder at Gram Games.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Marketing, Automotive
  • Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Garajyeri — garajyeri offers an online platform that enables its users to find, compare, and obtain car rental services. The services are categorized as economy, family, premium, comfort, and campaigns.garajyeri enables its customers to connect with car owners to obtain information and discounts.garajyeri was founded by Arda Askin in January 2015. And itis based in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • incir.com — Incir is a Turkish internet marketing tech infrastructure provider that develops e-commerce systems and related services such as domain name registration, operations support, stock payment infrastructure, free marketing training, virtual POS, and more. Incir was founded in July 2012.
  • 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.
Danny Leshem Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
INT3 (Managing Partner); Kidaro (co-founder, acq. MSFT); OpenRest (co-founder, acq. WIX); angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, B2B, Small and Medium Businesses
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sentra — Sign up for our newsletter to stay ahead of the news.
  • MagicYard — Hangout on the TV, play with friends or strangers
  • SuperTenant — Solve the shared resource dilemma with SuperTenant
Alexis Bonte Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Alexis is a Venture Partner at Atomico advising on new investments in France, Spain & Portugal and Eastern Europe as well as sourcing and accelerating growth in the games, blockchain and travels vertical. He is passionate about high-impact, purpose-driven companies, and he currently serves on the boards of Bossa Studios and OhBiBi, Atomico’slatest game investment. He splits his time between London, Paris, Bucharest, Stockholm and Madrid.Alexis is co-founder and CEO of games company eRepublik Labs (eRepublik.com, Age of Lords, World at War, War and Peace) a “free-to-play” pioneer that he sold in June of 2017 to Stillfront Group. Alexis remains the company’s CEO, and is also the Group COO for Stillfront, giving him a unique mix of investor as well as operational expertise. Prior to Erepublik Labs, Alexis was part of the first wave of internet start ups and was with lastminute.com for six years right up to its $1.1B trade sale to Sabre in 2005.Alexis has numerous angel investments, mainly in Europe, and has been active in supporting the development of the European digital ecosystem through events and associations.Alexis is fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian and understands basic Romanian if pushed. A long time ago he was a national sailing champion in Portugal, but now he prefers to stay dry and play chess with one of his three children.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Finland, Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
  • Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
  • StageZero Technologies — StageZero inserts in-app ‘MicroTasks’ into mobile games; bite-sized activities that users can complete in exchange for rewards and perks, including coins and extra lives.
Agah Uğur Angel
Agah Uğur
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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.
  • Mukellef | a Workhy Company — More than 20,000 entrepreneurs chose us for company formation, financial process management, tax return preparation, and bookkeeping services.
  • Robomotion — What is Robotic Process Automation - RPA? Robomotion offers you the opportunity to automate your repetitive tasks such as Browser Automation, Content Marketing, SAP or Excel!
Ramazan Evren Angel
Ramazan Evren
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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.
Kushal Shah Angel
Kushal Shah is a Senior Partner at Roland Berger's Dubai office and a Managing Partner for the Middle East. Prior to joining Roland Berger, he spent 12 years with a leading consultancy in London and Dubai. He studied Economics at Cambridge in the UK and he is a certified Chartered Accountant.
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Investment focus
  • eSports, Video, Gaming
  • Seed, Series B
  • Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • VUZ — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
  • 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.
Subhi Khudairi Angel
Subhi Khudairi
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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.
Walter Beach Angel
Walter Beach
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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.
Ercan Solmaz Angel
Ercan Solmaz
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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 Angel
Meltem Kirişçi
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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.
Özgür Trakya Angel
Özgür Trakya
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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.
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