Top 15 Hospitality Angel Investors in Middle East in April 2025
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Hospitality startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Hospitality Angel Investors in Middle East in April 2025
Investor | Hospitality Middle East investments |
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David Buttress | 2 |
Emre Tok | 2 |
Mehmet Celikol | 2 |
Sercan Alici | 2 |
Alper Şener | 2 |
Mehmet Celikol | 2 |
Bhavik Bajaj | 2 |
Mehmet Onarcan | 2 |
Sekan Bagce | 2 |
Fahad Sami Al-Hukair | 1 |
Nevzat Aydın | 1 |
Bahar Gücüyener Pardoroke | 1 |
Soha Nashaat | 1 |
Eynat Guez | 1 |
AbdulMuhisn Al-Sulaiman | 1 |
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.
Emre, the former VP of Growth and Digital Marketing at Careem, Emre has 21 years of experience in Product Marketing, Development & Management, Digital, Customer Analytics, Growth and Internet Business Development. He has embarked on many successful projects in multinational companies in UAE, the UK and Turkey. Growth & Product MarketingConsultant. He is the CEO in One Tech Capital LLC, a start-up studio owning www.cofeapp.com the first coffee marketplace in GCC Region.- Industrial Engineer with an MBA
- Former VP of Growth – Free-Now
- Former VP of Growth & Digital – Careem (Acquired by Uber for 3.2B $)
- Former Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager – UK
- Former Microsoft Online & Compete Lead – Turkey
- Former Turkcell, Leading TELCO In Turkey, Head of Value Added Internet Services
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Payments, Shopping
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey
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.
- Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
- Mobilexpress — Mobilexpress is a PCI DSS Level 1 compliant platform of card payments enabling solutions. Mobilexpress offers extensive and highly flexible - configurable set of payment solutions for B2C and B2B clients in many sectors. The product set is shaped around payment gateway (integrated to all banks & PSPs), hosted payment pages (fully customizable,iframe/redirect use), card-on-file (cross-merchant interoperable mode or private mode), recurring payment functions and integrationless rapid use of ready-to-use custom merchant payment pages (fully customizable & configurable) and manuel use through Merchant Panel (also montoring, reporting, settings, post payment functions). Each solution is easily configurable/adaptable for any sector or company specific payment needs. Mobilexpress solutions are delivered through Mobilexpress Payment API, Mobilexpress Hosted Pages, Mobilexpress Merchant Panel and Mobilexpress Merchant Payment Pages, to be able to meet payment needs of clients with any technical sophistication level.
Mehmet Celikol
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Investment focus
- Rental, Travel, Boating
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- viravira.co — Choose among 12,000 yacht charter, boat rental & gulet holidays. Yachts, boats & gulets for charter with the lowest prices are at Europe's #1 platfom viravira.
- 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.
- Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
Sercan Alici
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Investment focus
- Pet, Hospitality, Photography
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- DogGO — DogGO is a pet service app that uses a mobile application to offer safe and professional dog walking and grooming services to dog owners. It also offers its users a detailed profile of their pets, as well as an easy service request and tracking feature, smart and suitable matching, and 24/7 customer service to support all of their pet'sneeds. Their application has over 150,000 users and tens of thousands of pet profiles. Furthermore, by entering into agreements with corporate companies for their employees or users, they ensure that all pet families have access to DogGO when they need it.
- Albumera — Stunning, convenient 30 minute photo shoots by talented local pros. Your session is complimentary - you only pay for the photos you love!
- 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.
Alper Şener
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Hospitality, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Bartme — Bartme is a c2c Barter Platform. Our mission is to put barter back in our daily life to maximise lifespan of any book today and any product tomorrow. Globally. Innovatively.We see a very strong tech-driven hype in 2nd hand (i.e. pre-owned) market. However, there is immense untapped potential in traditional barter. We have examined prominentproblems in barter concept and developed a unique, brand new mobile app to make barter a favorable option in 2nd hand trade.Happy Barter,Bartme Team
- 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.
Mehmet Celikol
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Investment focus
- Dental, Procurement, Property Management
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- viravira.co — Choose among 12,000 yacht charter, boat rental & gulet holidays. Yachts, boats & gulets for charter with the lowest prices are at Europe's #1 platfom viravira.
- Dentalpiyasa — Dentalpiyasa connects dentists and dental warehouses, enabling direct procurement from manufacturers and importers.
- Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
Bhavik Bajaj
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
- ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
- THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Internet, Social Network
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Ireland, United States
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.
- Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
- Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
Sekan Bagce
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Investment focus
- Hospitality, Vacation Rental, Property Management
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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.
Fahad Sami Al-Hukair
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Software
- Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- ToggleMarket — ToggleMarket is a B2B digital marketspace facilitating and powering secure multi-tenant interactions across the supply chains of non-standard goods - from procurement to fulfilment - through its advanced infrastructure e-commerce technology, and dedicated industry specific web platforms for Hospitality, Healthcare, Education and Construction.Toggle Market is an end-to-end highway for B2B procurement connecting pre-qualified buyers and suppliers with robust enterprise level workflow tools to manage complex multi-stakeholder transactions driving greater efficiencies in managing pre-opening procurement needs.
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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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
- A.M.A Selections — Exclusive luxury holiday villa rentals in Europe, Africa & The Caribbean with A.M.A Selections. Some of the best & most luxurious villas to rent in Europe & across The World.
Bahar Gücüyener Pardoroke
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Investment focus
- Hospitality, Vacation Rental, Property Management
- Seed
- Turkey
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.
Soha Nashaat served as Strategic Advisor To The Executive Chairman of SHUAA Capital psc since January 20, 2014. Nashaat served as a Senior Advisor of Barclays Bank (Suisse). She is a high-calibre leader with global, multi touch experience and expertise in building client-centric financial organizations. She has private and institutional clients.Nashaat served as Chief Executive Officer of Wealth Middle East & North Africa at Barclays PLC. Nashaat served as Head of Middle East of Barclays Private Bank Limited. Nashaat joined Barclays Bank in June 2006. Nashaat served as Managing Director and Head of Middle East Team of Barclays Bank plc, United Arab Emirates. Nashaat served as the Chief Executive Officer of Middle East and North Africa of Barclays Wealth Management. She established the footprint and operations for the wealth management business. Prior to Barclays, Nashaat had a distinguished career at Merrill Lynch, where she served leadership positions in New York, Buenos Aires and London, including responsibility for the offshore Middle East business for London, Geneva and Monaco as well as creating the Institutional Client Group serving small and mid-size institutions across Europe and the Middle East. She serves as a Member of the Board of Barclays Bank (Suisse). She serves on the Board of the Foundation for Renewable Energy & Environment and on the International Committee for Barnard College, Columbia University. Nashaat is widely recognized as a Leader in financial services and a leading Business Woman, including "Woman Banker of the year 2007" by Businesswomen and Leaders Achievements Awards, "Leading Business Women in the Arab World" by the Financial Times in 2007 and 2008, "Top 100 women in Finance" by Financial News (Dow Jones) and was ranked 23rd among the "100 Most Powerful Arab Women" in 2011 by Arabian Business.
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Investment focus
- Hotel, Travel, E-Commerce
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- TravelerVIP — TravelerVIP.com is a unique curated hotel booking website that turns ordinary online reservations into a VIP experience. The website is the world's largest coll The website initially gained popularity for its private sales, offering members discount on luxury hotels. It has since expanded its model to include a collection of over 1,000hand-picked hotels that are curated by its Arabic and English editors and come with free perks.
Eynat Guez is a Co-founder and CEO at Papaya Global.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Trustmi — Trustmi is the end-to-end payment security solution that assists organizations in protecting their bottom line by reducing losses caused by cyberattacks, internal collusion, and human mistakes ensuring payments go to the right place.
- Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
- Reeco — #1 Shopping Solution for the hospitality industry
AbdulMuhisn Al-Sulaiman
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Software
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- ToggleMarket — ToggleMarket is a B2B digital marketspace facilitating and powering secure multi-tenant interactions across the supply chains of non-standard goods - from procurement to fulfilment - through its advanced infrastructure e-commerce technology, and dedicated industry specific web platforms for Hospitality, Healthcare, Education and Construction.Toggle Market is an end-to-end highway for B2B procurement connecting pre-qualified buyers and suppliers with robust enterprise level workflow tools to manage complex multi-stakeholder transactions driving greater efficiencies in managing pre-opening procurement needs.
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