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Top 50 Gaming Angel Investors in Middle East in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 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 in February 2025

Investor	Gaming Middle East investments
Hasan Aslanoba	6
Akin Babayigit	5
Firat Isbecer	4
Beni Nofech	4
Elad Kushnir	3
Sake Bosch	3
Ali Ilci	3
Enis Hulli	3
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	3
Yossi Ackerman	3
Ömer Faruk Akarca	2
Ayşe Araz	2
Özgür Trakya	2
Emre Can	2
Meltem Kirişçi	2
Nuri Cem Erbak	2
Kaan Gunay	2
Uri Levine	2
Alexis Bonte	2
Tarık Bayar	2
Ramazan Evren	2
Sercan Akkaş	2
Emre Kurttepeli	2
Ercan Solmaz	2
Yılmaz Yıldız	2
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	2
Subhi Khudairi	2
Vladimir Nikolsky	2
Danny Leshem	2
Deniz Devrim Cengiz	2
David Buttress	2
Fatih Isbecer	2
Bassam Falah	2
Walter Beach	2
Tal Shoham	2
Nuri Şahin	2
Agah Uğur	2
Sertaç Özinal	2
Haluk Can Hür	2
Ömer Duran	2
Kristian Segerstrale	2
Shwan Ibrahim Taha	2
Hande Enes	2
Rawaz Rauf	2
Serkan Omerbeyoglu	2
Uğur Şeker	2
Danny Grander	2
Kaan Karamanci	2
Firat Ileri	2
Gigi Levy Weiss	2

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile Apps, PC Games
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Layer AI, Inc — The Collaborative MLOps platform
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.
Harmony Games — Harmony Games is a developer of next-generation hybrid-casual games.

Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Beni Nofech is a food-tech investor.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Elad Kushnir

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Israel, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PeerPlay — PeerPlay is a casual mobile games powerhouse
Travelier — Digitalizing ground & sea transportation
Celery — Celery is an internal auditing and control platform, designed to automate critical and time-consuming processes and prevent costly mistakes.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

DiffuseDrive — Search, Identify and Fill AI Data Gaps for Computer Vision in Autonomous Machines.
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
Intryc — Sample tickets, evaluate human and AI agents, and unlock customer insights with the power of AI with Intryc.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Ömer Faruk Akarca

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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

Ayşe Araz

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Özgür Trakya

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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

Emre Can

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.

Meltem Kirişçi

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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

Nuri Cem Erbak

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.

Kaan Gunay - Co-Founder & CEO @ Firefly

Investment focus

Gaming, Casual Games
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Ace Games — Gaming

Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Travel
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Engie — Connecting Cars with service providers- Engie's technology provides remote diagnostics and predictive maintenance information in a simple way, to make car repairs easy and efficient
SeeTree — SeeTree offers you complete transparency into the health and production of each of your trees by leveraging the most powerful innovations available.
WeSki — WeSki allows you to compare endless ski holiday combinations, find the best deals and build your perfect ski package holiday, in just few clicks.

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.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Software
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.

Tarık Bayar

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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

Ramazan Evren

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Fruit
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Ercan Solmaz

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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

Yılmaz Yıldız

Investment focus

Waste Management, Procurement, Retail
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Subhi Khudairi

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

Top App Games — Top App Games specializes in mobile game creation and publishing, with a strong emphasis on strategic games.

INT3 (Managing Partner); Kidaro (co-founder, acq. MSFT); OpenRest (co-founder, acq. WIX); angel investor.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, B2C
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

Deniz Devrim Cengiz

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Series A
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland

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.

David Buttress is a Venture Partner at 83North.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Fatih Isbecer - Founder & CEO @ Dataroid

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.

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

Investment focus

Retail, Internet, Shopping
Seed, Convertible Note
Iraq

Portfolio highlights

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

Walter Beach

Investment focus

AgTech, Software, Agriculture
Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

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

Angel investor | Games Industry and Ad-tech Executive | Board Member | Tedooo Co-Founder I PeerPlay Co-Founder

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Gaming
Pre-Seed, Seed
Israel, United States

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 is the mobile game publisher that's here to help you scale your game, profitably. Submit your game to start working together.

Nuri Şahin

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.

Agah Uğur

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
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!

Sertaç Özinal

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Haluk Can Hür

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Ömer Duran

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

Shwan Ibrahim Taha

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Hande Enes

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 eComm 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.

Rawaz Rauf

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kito Pet Food — Kito provides natural, fresh and healthy food for dogs.
Chooch — Chooch Vision AI combines computer vision with Generative AI to provide context to video and image data for faster, more precise insights.

Uğur Şeker

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.

Entrepreneur (Snyk), Angel Investor, CTF Player (@pastenctf)

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Developer Tools
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

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
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.

Kaan Karamanci is Co-founder at Gram Games.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Ace Games — Gaming
Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kama — Kama offers sexual wellness practices that improve how you experience love, sex, and intimacy. Available on the iOS App Store.
BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
Diagnostic Robotics — Diagnostic Robotic develops a signal-agnostic artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. It allows to build powerful predictive analytics models that will solve a world-wide challenge, strained health budgets, and workforces. Diagnostic Robotic was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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