Top 50 Life Science Startup Investors in Middle East

Investor	Life Science Middle East investments
TRANGELS	4
Integra Holdings	4
Egypt Ventures	4
Israel Innovation Authority	3
Pitango VC	3
OrbiMed	3
Neo Ventures	3
Sapir Venture Partners	3
Pontifax	2
FutuRx	2
Cancer Focus Fund	2
Takeda Ventures	2
Minrav	2
Endure Capital	2
Johnson & Johnson Robotics and Digital Solutions	2
Cairo Angels	2
PeakBridge	2
Ahmed Abdelhamid	2
aMoon Fund	2
Arancia International	2
Averroes Ventures	2
Genesis Park	2
fresh.fund	2
Oryx Fund	2
LoftyInc Capital	2
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	1
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	1
S3 Ventures	1
Dementia Discovery Fund	1
RMGP Biopharma Investment Fund	1
Okan Erol	1
OTV	1
Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund	1
Trust Ventures	1
Aries Holding BV	1
Arc Impact	1
Angel	1
Stony Hill Corp	1
Alex Angels	1
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)	1
Arba Finance Ltd.	1
Emirates Angels	1
Ibtikar Fund	1
Grove Ventures	1
Knuru Capital	1
Pinnacle Capital	1
Milk and Honey Investments	1
Talisman Capital Partners	1
Morningside Venture Investments	1
Essam Abdelhadi	1

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

& New Me — Andnewme is a health platform that serves with the motto "only aesthetics". You can get information about aesthetic treatments and find the doctor you are looking for!
Biftek — The future of meat starts here. We produce growth medium to make cultured meat affordable.
Nanomik Biotechnology — Nanomik Biotechnology produces next generation biofungicides that increase the shelf life of fresh fruits and vegetables. Antimicrobial raw materials produced by microorganisms isolated from nature and active molecules obtained from plants are placed in micro-sized biopolymer capsules and applied to fruits. These completely natural microcapsulesadhere to the fruit and open within 24-48 hours and provide protection on the surface. While the biopolymer material forms an edible layer on the fruit, the ingredients in it prevent the growth of molds present in the medium. Unlike chemical fungicides, our products do not cause any harm to human and environment.

Our expert team is the first to examine and evaluate the Hebrew University's biomedical breakthroughs. We then capitalize decades of experience - transforming the inventions into pioneering companies. Our golden eggs Ayana Pharma A late stage company with

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Life Science
Seed, Series B, Series F
Israel

Portfolio highlights

BacoCure — BacoCure is developing a novel bacterial product for local therapy of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) patients.
Splisense — Splisense is develops antisense oligonucleotide based therapies to target genetic diseases caused by splicing mutations. The company has developed a compound to cure the lung disease in cystic fibrosis patients carrying a specific splicing mutation. It is also developing a targeted modulation approach to correct the splicing pattern of CFTRtranscripts according to the specific mutation carried.
Rebiotic Rx — Develops nanotechnology-based antibiotics with the focus on resistant bacteria

Egypt Ventures is an investment firm that empowers the entrepreneurial ecosystem by investing in accelerators. The firm was founded in 2017 and is based in Columbia.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

MNT-Halan — MNT-Halan is a microfinance lending and payments company.
Gahez Market — Gahez Market Online store
Synapse Analytics — We build data science and AI solutions for streamlined operations and data driven decisions. Synapse Analytics, enabling a smarter world.

The Israeli innovation agency, the Innovation Authority, was established in 1965 as the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and was designed as a body that supports R & D conducted in the framework of government research institutes. Industrial development in order to increase industrial exports of high-techproducts. The Chief Scientist focused on reducing the risk by participating in financing the project, which the private companies chose and led.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, Mali

Portfolio highlights

BloomX — Helping nature do its magic with the power of technology
MICA — MICA save lives & improve life quality. Our approach to the environmental and social dimensions is reflected in our commitment to United Nations Sustainable
NurExone Biologic — New approach to Spinal Cord Injury treatment based on view that intranasal exosome administration offers alternative to cell transplantation

Pitango VC is a venture capital firm focused on health-tech (Pitango Health-tech) and growth (Pitango Growth) investments in startups around the world in domains such as vertical SaaS, digital health, deep tech, fintech and insurance technology, devops, generative AI, Web3, and food tech.With two offices in Israel, Pitango currently managesseveral venture funds totaling over $2.8 billion in committed capital. It has invested in more than 250 companies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
Israel, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Variantyx — Based on clinical whole genome sequencing (WGS) and using a single patient sample, Variantyx's Genomic Unity® test identifies and reports all major variant types including small sequence changes, structural variants, mitochondrial variants and short tandem repeat expansions. This comprehensive test test eliminates the need for traditionalstep-wise, reiterative genetic testing.
Gina Life — At Nevia bio, we are focused on women's health. Our mission is to use innovative technologies to provide early detection of diseases through vaginal secretions analysis, enabled by Nevia's Machine Learning Platform.
Salvador Technologies — Salvador Technologies provides the world's fastest recovery from cyber-attacks and software/hardware malfunctions. Our innovative solution ensures the continuous operation of critical workstations and servers, eliminating downtime. Back to work in 30 seconds based on offline air-gapped sotrage.

Leading Global Healthcare Platform with Deep Proprietary Resources and Global Industry Coverage.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Avalo Therapeutics — Avalo Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that employs a precision medicine approach to discover, develop, and commercialize highly targeted therapeutics in areas of significant unmet clinical need.
Nkarta Therapeutics — Nkarta seeks to improve upon the efficacy of cell therapy, making it more potent, better tolerated and more rapidly available to a broad population of patients with a variety of hematologic and solid tumor malignancies.While T-cell therapy, often known as CAR-T, has proven successful in certain cancer indications, its promise has been limited toa few hematologic malignancies and the side effects can be severe. Natural Killer cells are the immune system’s first responders against diseases and pathogens. Unlike T cells, they have an inherent ability to target tumor cells without genetic alteration, and therefore hold significant promise in the development of potent therapies that can be used more readily for diverse tumor types. Nkarta’s differentiated cell therapy approach is designed to boost and enhance the inherent power of Natural Killer cells to target and destroy tumor cells, while also offering a better tolerated safety profile.
Alterome Therapeutics — Transforming the lives of cancer patients, one alteration at a time. Our Mission is to discover precise therapies and inspire hope for individuals affected by cancer.

Neo Ventures is the first open-ended early stage investor, based in Eastern Europe. The founders have backed more than 30 startups and exited 10 successfully. We invest in game-changing businesses, without geographic limitations. We partner with exceptional founder teams to challenge incumbents in markets ripe for change or to create entirely newmarkets. Neo Ventures funds and then supports the founders in business planning, scaling operations, follow-on investments, making the best of each opportunity and dealing with hard situations. Our investment focus is on data analytics, computer vision and remote sensing addressing disruptive opportunities across the high-growth SpaceTech, BioTech and Security verticals.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Israel, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

EnduroSat — EnduroSat designs, builds and operates class-leading NanoSats for a range of commercial, exploration and science missions. We focus on inter-satellite connectivity and space data applications
Cyberwrite — TRUSTED BY INDUSTRY LEADERS One platform to accelerate value across the cyber insurance lifecycle THE LATEST FROM CYBERWRITE
GemmaCert — The easy-to-use GC-PRO by GemmaCert for quick and accurate potency analysis of cannabis and hemp, including for THC, CBD, and CBG.

Early Stage VC

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Enzymit — Enzymit's platform technology can build molecular machines that enable never before seen chemistry aiming to solve humanity's greatest challenges
DeepCure — Pioneering a new frontier in drug development. DeepCure is building an AI engine for small-molecule drug discovery.
Genetika+ — Genetika+ is revolutionzing depression treatment. Using biological, medical and genetic data, GenetikaPlus develops personalized solution for every patient to help them recover better, faster.

Pontifax is a healthcare-dedicated venture capital firm.The fund focuses on innovative bio-pharma opportunities.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel, France

Portfolio highlights

Abcuro — Precision Targeting of Highly Cytotoxic T Cells in Autoimmune Disease.
Precirix — Developing radio-immunotherapeutic drugs for cancer patients.
AgomAb Therapeutics — AgomAb is developing molecular therapies for the regeneration of damaged tissues. Their unique agonistic monoclonal antibody molecules (“agomAbs”) stimulate molecular and cellular repair mechanisms that have the potential to restore organ function in patients with fibrotic, inflammatory, autoimmune and degenerative diseases.

FutuRx is the Israeli biotechnology accelerator that was established in 2014 by OrbiMed Israel Partners, Johnson & Johnson Innovation and Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC) and Takeda Ventures Inc. following winning the tender of the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS), Ministry of Economy, in Israel.The incubator willadvance new biotechnology products by identifying and nurturing early-stage life science innovation.FutuRx is located in the Weizmann Science Park in Ness Ziona (near the Weizmann Institute), Israel.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Life Science, Biopharma
Seed, Funding Round
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ramino Bio — Ramino Bio is a private biotech company that develops an oral drug to treat metabolic diseases.Ramino has received funding totaling about $3.3 million since its beginning from the FutuRx biotech incubator, which is supported by the Israeli Innovation Authority, Takeda, J&J, OrbiMed, and RMPG. By speeding up their disintegration, our exclusivetechnology lowers the extra BCAA that is floating around.
Protekt Therapeutics — ProteKt Therapeutics is a drug development company aiming to develop potent and selective oral inhibitors of the kinase PKR for the treatment of neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory diseases. The company has raised a $4M pre-A round and graduated from the FutuRx accelerator in 2019.
Bsense Bio Therapeutics — Bsense Bio Therapeutics is developing small molecules for the treatment of neuropathic pain. Bsense is pioneering a novel approach targeting multiple pain-related mechanisms using a single compound, to achieve greater efficacy and safety.

Cancer Focus Fund is an investment firm that is dedicated to providing financial services to its clients. The company was founded by Ross Barrett.

Investment focus

Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

ImmunoGenesis — We are rapidly translating the most cutting-edge discoveries from academic tumor immunology into drugs optimized for treating the majority of patients who have "cold" cancers refractory to currently available immunotherapy.
March Biosciences — Transforming Patient Care by Unlocking New Target Spaces March Biosciences is a clinical-stage company in the cell therapy field focused on developing CAR-T cell strategies to address the most challenging hematological cancers Pipeline MB-105 https://march.bio/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/shutterstock_1008023995-HD-30.mp4 Focused on Excellence Target Space Our approach combines biological and engineering insights to enable target-unlock without the risk and complexity
Nectin Therapeutics — NectinTX is a biotech company focused on unlocking the power of the immune system by developing a collection of next-gen immunotherapy agents.

Takeda Ventures, Inc. (TVI) is the corporate investment arm of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TPC). TVI was founded in 2001 and invests in current and future areas of interest for TPC. They are based alongside Takeda’s R&D sites in Cambridge, MA, and San Diego, CA. As a strategic investor, TVI aims to provide support and guidance toentrepreneurs and early-stage companies driving concepts through clinical proof of concept. They also strive to forge active, collaborative interactions that result in synergies with Takeda's considerable R&D resources. Their goal is to build a portfolio of strategic investments, with an immediate emphasis on oncology, gastroenterology, neuroscience, and rare diseases.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Cerevance — Cerevance is a developer of novel therapeutics intended to advance new medicines for serious neurological diseases.The company's therapeutics applies it's technology called NETSseq to reveal transcriptional and epigenetic differences between specific cell types in mature human brains, enabling healthcare providers to detect and tackle theearly onset of various neurological diseases.
OncoResponse — OncoResponse Inc., an immuno-oncology company located in Houston, Texas, has partnered with MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) to deploy a unique and transformational approach to cancer therapeutic monoclonal antibody and target discovery. The company licensed the I-STAR™ platform, developed and validated by Theraclone Sciences of Seattle, tointerrogate the human memory B-cell repertoire of cancer patients who are considered “Elite Responders” to immunotherapy; as such, their own adaptive immune system responded to immunotherapy stimulation in a way that achieved curative or durable responses. From these Elite Responders, OncoResponse is leveraging the human immune system to identify fully human monoclonal antibodies and discover novel targets that will lead to the development of fully human antibody derived therapeutics for the treatment of cancer.
Larkspur Biosciences — Larkspur's strategy focuses on the particular ways in which tumours hijack the immune system by developing precision immunotherapies for molecularly defined patient groups to overcome the bottlenecks that allow the tumour to subvert the immune system.

Minrav provides engineering and construction services.

Investment focus

Health Care, Hospital, Wellness
Funding Round
Israel, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

iwi Life — Algae is the ultimate source of Omega-3s. Research has proven that Omega-3s support cardiovascular health, a balanced mood, and healthy brain development.
Qualitas Health — Qualitas Health Group aims to serve patients through a network of 500 clinics by 2022 with quality healthcare services across the Asia Pacific.

Endure Capital is an early stage investment fund headed by entrepreneurs looking for startup teams. They look for founders who are relentlessly resourceful and imaginative, solving genuine problems that matter to a lot of people and building high growth companies that endure.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Egypt, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
Pylon — Pylon provides water and electricity distribution companies, in emerging markets, with a platform for managing their customers and infrastructure.
Almentor — almentor.net is a cutting-edge continuous e-learning platform curating top-rated video-based training programs delivered by leading subject matter experts and accessible through B2C and B2B channels to serve the needs of Arabs across the world. The platform was officially launched in January 2018 and currently offers the biggest Arabic high qualitycontinuous learning video library in the world, including paid courses, free talks, crash courses and books, primarily in Arabic.

Healthcare innovation wherever it originates.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Moon Surgical — MastOR is a medical device company developing a surgical robot for laparoscopy assistance. MastOR is an early-stage surgical robotics company whose laparoscopy assistance platform broadens access to minimally-invasive techniques for surgeons and optimizes resource utilization in the operating room.
Artera — Discover the power of Personalized Precision Medicine & AI Cancer Therapy with ArteraAI. Transforming cancer therapy through innovation.
ONL Therapeutics — ONL Therapeutics develops innovative therapeutics to protect and improve the vision of patients with a range of retinal diseases and conditions.

Cairo Angels is an angel investment network that invests in and supports early-stage startups it convenes regular investment meetings to review pre-selected potential investees.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketplace
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing Analytical and R&D services to the region's life science, food, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.
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The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids

PeakBridge is an Alternative Investment Fund Manager and Investment Services Firm specialized in FoodTech.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hyperplan — Hyperplan is a SaaS company whose mission is to assist industrial companies in dealing with crop production's increasing volatility. Hyperplan is a live, real-time software platform for crop and harvest management for all crops.
WNWN Food Labs — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein
The Mediterranean Food Lab — The Mediterranean Food Lab merge traditional fermentation and cutting-edge science, to produce natural plant-based flavor-bases for a wide range of meat replacement needs.

Ahmed Abdelhamid is Partner at Endure Capital. He attended Vlerick Business School.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Biopharma, Life Science
Seed, Convertible Note
Egypt, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing Analytical and R&D services to the region's life science, food, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.
Wright Electric, Inc. — Wright Electric, Inc. is building technologies for large commercial airplanes. The company is currently developing their flagship Airplane, the Wright 1, which will be a 186-seat single aisle airliner with an 800 mile range. The company hopes to achieve entry to service for the Wright 1 by 2030 and is working with commercial airlines includingeasyJet and VivaAerobus. In addition to the newly announced U.S. DOE’s ARPA-E funding, the company is funded by Y Combinator, the Clean Energy Trust and venture funds.

aMoon is a leading healthtech & life sciences venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Eleos Health — Automate documentation, alleviate provider burnout, and elevate care quality with the CareOps Automation platform from Eleos Health.
Better Life Partners — The Better Life Partners team helps people achieve healthier lives filled with purpose. We offer community support as well as virtual care.
Ibex Medical Analytics — Ibex Medical Analytics develops AI-driven clinical decision support tools that help pathologists deliver more efficient, metric-driven, objective and accurate diagnosis. It combines AI, data science, image analysis and machine learning technologies and applies them to cancer diagnostics in digital pathology.

Arancia International Inc is a part of Arancia Group in Mexico. We are long term investors in food, nutrition and biotechnology companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Life Science
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Israel, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

NextFerm — NextFerm is a science oriented industrial company, representing a new era in fermentation and fermentation-derived nutrients for supplements, food, infant nutrition and animal feed.The world is striving for better nutrition. Nutrition which is less artificial and more natural, sustainable and cost effective - with a much higher nutritional value.At Nextferm, they aim to use their capabilities to lead this new and exciting world of better nutrition.
iwi Life — Algae is the ultimate source of Omega-3s. Research has proven that Omega-3s support cardiovascular health, a balanced mood, and healthy brain development.
The Mediterranean Food Lab — The Mediterranean Food Lab merge traditional fermentation and cutting-edge science, to produce natural plant-based flavor-bases for a wide range of meat replacement needs.

Averroes Ventures helps and invests in entrepreneurial teams seeking to transform big ideas into game-changing companies. Averroes Ventures' team possesses years of combined experience in global business operation and management across a multitude of sectors to help achieve visions.

Investment focus

Transportation, Logistics, Delivery
Seed, Convertible Note
Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

ILLA — Digital trucking and delivery platform powered by reliable drive to enable businesses with different volumes handle and optimize their trucking and logisitcs processes effeciently.
Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing Analytical and R&D services to the region's life science, food, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.
Khazenly — Khazenly is an on-demand digital warehousing and fulfillment management platform that provides an omnichannel solution to help merchants digitize their businesses.

Genesis Park is a Houston-based private equity firm focusing on buyouts, partnering strategies with public corporations, and growth financing. We bring capital, commercial execution capabilities and a depth of experience in mergers and acquisitions.We are opportunistic within market sectors where we have depth and exposure. Those sectors includetelecommunications, energy technology and media. Energy technology is a rapidly expanding category, and our Houston base allows us to marry traditional and alternative techniques in upstream and downstream environments. Founded in 2000, Genesis Park has used discipline and patience to build value for our investors, regardless of prevailing market conditions. We are consistently active in our portfolio companies, listening, learning and adding value by working alongside management. While our preference is to partner with an existing management team, we commonly source additional talent to optimize the existing opportunity.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Natural Resources
Private Equity, Debt Financing, Funding Round
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

The Good Feet Store — Good Feet has been helping people with foot problems feel better and get back to living their lives. Personally fit with the arch support that meets their needs. Contact us now to see the available Good Feet Arch Support!
WESTCO GROUNDS — Westoco Provides Landscaping is a highly competitive industry, and Westco continues to thrive because it tailor services to specific client needs and deliver complete solutions with dependability,Rainbird facilitate quick responses and ressources.
Conditioned Air — Conditioned Air is South Florida's premier air conditioning contractor with 60 years of experience. Serving Naples, Venice, Ft. Myers, Englewood, Port Charlotte, Sarasota, Bradenton & Surrounding Areas.

fresh.fund is an Israeli pre-seed venture capital fund investing in early-stage startups across segments and verticals.We're built to partner with early-stage founders from day one, often as the company's first institutional investors. Our model is refreshingly simple: up to $300,000 in pre-seed funding within <4 weeks and follow-oncapital as necessary.Check out our portfolio here >> https://www.fresh.fund/portfolio. It's never too early to have a conversation about your startup.

Investment focus

Health Care, FinTech, E-Learning
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Israel, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Wisor — Propelling the supply chain industry into the digital age Wisor is a plug & play solution that provides a global automated quoting solution that allows freight forwarders to generate quotes and communicate with clients automatically Get a demo What took days now takes minutes Wisor is specifically designed to support and simplify the complexity of generating quotes
Peech — Peech, an automatic video editing tool, analyzes the verbal content of your video, edits it into a short & catchy version and enhances it with suited visual elements that attract your audience.
Ritual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback

Oryx Fund is a MENA-focused Investment fund from Hambro Perks. Investing in game-changing early-stage technology companies at late Seed and Series A, led by outstanding entrepreneurs in sectors we have deep expertise such as Fintech, Healthtech, Enterprise tech, Logistics tech, and Edtech.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Ejari — Ejari is providing a Rent Now, Pay Later (RNPL) solution for residential rentals, Rent Now, Pay Later products enable tenants to better manage their budgets by converting rent from a yearly expense to a monthly expense, while landlords receive an entire year's rent in advance.
Fundbot — Fundbot is a solution for lenders that helps them digitize invoice financing, supply chain financing, and other financial services. It is a cash flow optimization tool and a financing marketplace for SMEs.The invoices are synchronized in the accounting system. It offers a digital CFO that analyses payables and receivables in real-time and offers tofinance. It provides financial recommendations based on the business’s needs.
Barakah — Barakah is a food delivery startup based in Saudi Arabia.

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

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.

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, 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.

Venture Capital Firm

Investment focus

FinTech, Social Network, Stock Exchanges
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!
Alma Health — Alma Health is a digitally-native chronic illness management platform serving an addressable market of 20m patients in GCC. Through its cloud pharmacy and virtual doctor consultations, Alma Health is translating patient behavior and insights into personalized services and products like digital treatments and at home monitoring systems. Alma Healthis based in Hub71-Abu Dhabi.

SV Health Investors is a specialist healthcare fund manager, investing across multiple stages and sectors. Our goal is to transform healthcare one investment at a time.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Therini Bio — Therini Bio is developing novel therapeutics based insights into the role of fibrin in driving chronic innate immune activation.
AstronauTx — AstronauTx is a UCL spin-off, will develop medicines designed to reset the behaviour of astrocytes.
Violet Therapeutics — Violet Therapeutics is a healthcare company that operates in stealth mode.

RMGP Biopharma Investment Fund is an investment Fund

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Biopharma, Health Care
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ramino Bio — Ramino Bio is a private biotech company that develops an oral drug to treat metabolic diseases.Ramino has received funding totaling about $3.3 million since its beginning from the FutuRx biotech incubator, which is supported by the Israeli Innovation Authority, Takeda, J&J, OrbiMed, and RMPG. By speeding up their disintegration, our exclusivetechnology lowers the extra BCAA that is floating around.
Pi Therapeutics — Pi Therapeutics is a discovery-stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to develop a novel cancer drug. The company is financed by a syndicate of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company through its venture group Takeda Ventures Inc., Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, OrbiMed Israel Partners, Pontifax, and the Israel Innovation Authority, and hasoperated since March 2015 in the FutuRx biotech accelerator in Ness Ziona, Israel. The company’s mission is to develop novel first-in-class drugs directed against the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS), mainly for treatment of cancer.
Protekt Therapeutics — ProteKt Therapeutics is a drug development company aiming to develop potent and selective oral inhibitors of the kinase PKR for the treatment of neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory diseases. The company has raised a $4M pre-A round and graduated from the FutuRx accelerator in 2019.

Okan co-founded Wordego and as CEO leads the company’s strategic, executive and managerial efforts. His executive management experience includes working as a Business Development Manager for French Chamber of Commerce, CEO for Imerys Minerals, CEO for Esen Minerals, and CEO for Steno Energy. Okan holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering fromGalatasaray University, an MBA from Sorbonne University and a PhD degree in Finance & Banking from Kadir Has University.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, AgTech, Ad Exchange
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

WORDEGO — Wordego is a Programmatic Ad Exchange Platform for Advertisers and Publishers. Wordego provides advertisers to target consumers surfing on the publisher websites, and show them personalized digital ads and coupons. Wordego provides advertisers to acquire, convert, and re-engage customers on the internet, and enables publishers to manage andmonetize their websites’ advertising inventory.
Nanomik Biotechnology — Nanomik Biotechnology produces next generation biofungicides that increase the shelf life of fresh fruits and vegetables. Antimicrobial raw materials produced by microorganisms isolated from nature and active molecules obtained from plants are placed in micro-sized biopolymer capsules and applied to fruits. These completely natural microcapsulesadhere to the fruit and open within 24-48 hours and provide protection on the surface. While the biopolymer material forms an edible layer on the fruit, the ingredients in it prevent the growth of molds present in the medium. Unlike chemical fungicides, our products do not cause any harm to human and environment.
MD Research & Development — MD Research & Development are into research and development of innovative products and methods needed in the field of radiation oncology.

OTV focuses on round A+ startups that aim to make a significant impact on people's lives. Our focus is on entrepreneurs with innovative ideas who are advancing the global state of well-being. Come join the digital health revolution, and be a part of transforming the healthcare industry.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Scopio — Buy & sell images on the largest Solana Photography NFT Marketplace. Find high-quality stock images & hire artists from around the world.
Scopio Labs — Click here to learn more about Scopio Labs AI Driven Digital Platform for Cell Morphology.
Stake — Renters earn Cash back for rent. Building operators outperform the market. That's the Stake win-win. Find out how we're building the financial tools for the next generation of rentals.

The Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund is the strategic venture fund of the Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Actym Therapeutics, Inc. — Actym Therapeutics is developing key biotech to help target intractable immune pathways in the tumor microenvironment.
smartbax — We develop novel multi-targeted, antibacterial compounds with extraordinary potency against multi-drug resistant bacteria and difficult-to-treat biofilms.
Glox Therapeutics — Developing novel precision antibiotics based on protein bacteriocins, to target Gram-negative Antimicrobial Resistant (AMR) pathogens.

Trust Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on startups and provides knowledge and expertise in incumbent-heavy industries. The firm was founded in 2018 and is based in Austin, Texas, United States.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Harbor — Harbor is an infant care technology company that focuses on transforming the way to take care of young children and their families.
Antora Energy — Antora converts low-cost, intermittent renewable electricity into a reliable, on-demand source of zero-emissions industrial heat and power.
Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.

financial holding company / investments

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed
The Netherlands, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Wakuli — It's called specialty coffee. Roasted lighter to enhance all the exciting flavours. To really taste them it's important to drink fresh. That's why we send our mailbox-friendly coffee within one week after roasting. And always with a better price for the farmers - thanks to you.
Diptera — Developing technology to fight mosquitoes with mosquitoes.
Flow — Flow is FinTech 3.0: It let's you automate payments between your bank accounts and wallets. Based on triggers and actions you can transfer your money automatically to the accounts you choose. Use Flow to automate a budgetting system, your investing, buying crypto or to distribute your money the way you like it. Where the previous generationpayment companies needed to build and maintain expensive payment rails, Flow focusses on leveraging Open Banking. People trust Flow to help with their cashflow automation.

Arc Impact is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Food and Beverage, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Behavidence — Behavidence is a mental health application that generates a daily mental health score. It compares your digital behavior to other people with anxiety, depression and ADHD.
MadeRight — We usher in a new era of sustainable fungi-based materials that deliver excellent performance. The future, as we see it, is a novel industrial chain based on biomaterials.
Virtual Internships — The only platform that provides guaranteed remote internships in your chosen industry and region to gain the skills employers seek.

Angel

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Vytal.ai — Vytal allows for brain health evaluation in minutes with just a laptop. Take control of your cognitive health.
Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
Greena World — In a world where travel connects us, we often overlook the impact we leave behind. Tourism accounts for over 8% of global CO2 emissions. Beyond environmental challenges like deforestation, pollution, and water scarcity, local communities also face pressure, experiencing changes in their traditions and ways of life.With expertise from SwanseaUniversity and the United Nations, our team recognised these challenges and envisioned a world where travel helps, not harms. Introducing Greena World. More than just a piece of technology, it's a guide for hotels and restaurants, helping them understand, improve, and share their impact on both the environment and local communities.The true beauty of embracing sustainability? The rewards. With the Greena Index, businesses can improve their sustainability and, in doing so, unlock a new market of over 100+ million eco-conscious travellers, boost revenues, and save on operating costs.The sustainable tourism sector is rapidly expanding, currently valued at $75B and witnessing a growth rate of 9.7% each year. While our initial focus is on hotels and restaurants, the Greena Index has ambitions to reshape the entire spectrum of the industry, from airlines to activities and destinations.Join us on a mission to transform the entire tourism industry for many generations to come.

A Diversified Company focused on multiple area of the cannabis hemp and CBD industry.

Investment focus

AgTech, Medical, Cannabis
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

GemmaCert — The easy-to-use GC-PRO by GemmaCert for quick and accurate potency analysis of cannabis and hemp, including for THC, CBD, and CBG.

Alex Angels is an investment management company that helps investors to invest in early-stage companies with strong management teams. The company specializes in the fields of financial services, financial exchange, and investments. Alex Angels was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Al Iskandariyah, Egypt.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

CardoO — Welcome To Our InnovationsExplore
SIDEUP — SIDEUP provides you with all the necessary tools to grow your business through a hassle-free experience from local and global logistics support, storage services, and innovative and real-time dashboards.
Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.

Investment strategy is spearheaded by a deep expertise in identifying companies from inception and building global industry leaders.

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Akeyless Security — Akeyless Vault secures IT & DevOps resources, credentials, & access with advanced secrets vault management in hybrid & legacy environments.
BioBetter — BioBetter is a foodtech company that develops plant-based platforms for the production of complex growth factors used in cultivated meat. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Israel.
Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies by accelerating compute and mining hardware performance.

Investment banking boutique based in Tel Aviv since 1978.

Investment focus

AgTech, Medical, Cannabis
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

GemmaCert — The easy-to-use GC-PRO by GemmaCert for quick and accurate potency analysis of cannabis and hemp, including for THC, CBD, and CBG.

investing in the future.

Investment focus

Health Care, Life Science
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Takalam — Takalam is an online counseling platform for a digital solution for mental well-being.

Ibtikar (Innovation, in Arabic) is a disruptive fund that will invest in innovative Palestinian companies. Ibtikar’s investments begin at the seed level through local accelerators, continue in post-acceleration phases and can also include series A investments in its portfolio companies. Through this investment strategy we aim to close a criticalfunding gap between acceleration and VC and other later-stage investors. Our goal is to maximize return for our investors by helping high-potential Palestinian companies answer regional and global needs. We will do this through direct support from our management team and select group of advisors, and will leverage the strong network of our investors and partners for the benefit of each of our portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Palestinian Territory, United States, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

DataQueue — DataQueue is a premier technology platform that transforms how businesses manage their entire AI lifecycle. It's a platform that covers every element of the AI lifecycle, from data labeling to model training, deployment, and human-in-the-loop integration, in order to ease AI adoption and speed up creativity.
Alma Health — Alma Health is a digitally-native chronic illness management platform serving an addressable market of 20m patients in GCC. Through its cloud pharmacy and virtual doctor consultations, Alma Health is translating patient behavior and insights into personalized services and products like digital treatments and at home monitoring systems. Alma Healthis based in Hub71-Abu Dhabi.
Algebra Intelligence — Algebra Intelligence is a software development firm that integrates artificial intelligence solutions into the energy sector by providing comprehensive asset performance management, proactive notifications, predictive maintenance, and energy forecast.

Grove Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital fund in Israel. It partners early with exceptional Israeli founders who believe th...

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
Wing Cloud — Wing Cloud tames cloud complexity through a unified programming and operational model that works across all providers and services.
DeepChecks — Continuous validation for machine learning. Validate and monitor your data and models during training, production and new version releases.

Based out of Dubai, Knuru pursues equity and credit opportunities in fintech and marketplaces across the GCC, Africa and Southern Europe. The management is led by a team of investors and entrepreneurs bringing to venture capital extensive cross-asset class experience dedicated to supporting high growth businesses.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation
Funding Round, Series C, Series A
United Arab Emirates, Spain, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Savana — Transform EMR into Deep-Real World Evidence with a scientific methodology that applies Artificial Intelligence (AI) to EMR free-text.
Alma Health — Alma Health is a digitally-native chronic illness management platform serving an addressable market of 20m patients in GCC. Through its cloud pharmacy and virtual doctor consultations, Alma Health is translating patient behavior and insights into personalized services and products like digital treatments and at home monitoring systems. Alma Healthis based in Hub71-Abu Dhabi.
The Giving Movement — Sustainable Activewear & Streetwear Clothing | Made in UAE | $4 per item donated to charity | Gym Clothing & Workout Clothes

Pinnacle Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Life Science, Information Technology
Series A
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Alma Health — Alma Health is a digitally-native chronic illness management platform serving an addressable market of 20m patients in GCC. Through its cloud pharmacy and virtual doctor consultations, Alma Health is translating patient behavior and insights into personalized services and products like digital treatments and at home monitoring systems. Alma Healthis based in Hub71-Abu Dhabi.

The Land of Milk and Honey is an abundant location where life is simple and devoid of need. Both in brand-new real estate development projects and while professionally restoring and renovating houses, Milk and Honey Investments LLC aims to create distinctive spaces of abundance and healthy living.

Investment focus

Life Science, Organic Food, Biotechnology
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

BioBetter — BioBetter is a foodtech company that develops plant-based platforms for the production of complex growth factors used in cultivated meat. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Israel.

Talisman Capital Partners operates as a private investment company.

Investment focus

Information Services, Pet, News
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Bond Vet — We offer compassionate, thorough, & friendly pet care in a warm, comfortable environment. Walk in or book online.
Prilenia — Prilenia is a clinical-stage biotech company that develops novel treatments for neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders. Its lead asset is Pridopidine, a n oral drug candidate with an established safety profile and potential in multiple movement disorders and neurodegenerative diseases affecting adults and children.The company wasfounded in 2018 and is based in Israel, the Netherlands, and Boston.
qServe Communications — At qServe Communications, it is their unique vision to be a one-stop source for all your maintenance and development needs. They understand the difficulty of locating reliable companies to meet all of your infrastructure requirements. qServe has built an answer to this problem, a national service network of in-house employees to deliver qualitymanagement, installation, erection, inspection and maintenance services to the communications industry.With their full spectrum of project and program management services, they drive your project from start to finish, becoming an integral part of your development team. Many of qServe Communications crews and staff bring many years of valuable experience in the development of communications systems and infrastructures. From Program and Project Management to in-house installation and maintenance services, qServe will work diligently to ensure your project's success.qServe has performed thousands of projects for clients including: AT&T Wireless Services, Alltel Mobile, Nextel, Sprint, Omnipoint, Bell Atlantic Mobile, Teligent, Metricom, American Tower, Crown Castle and SBA Communications Corporation.

The Morningside group invests private-equity and venture capital in novel science and technology sectors and is committed to social responsibility.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

GaeaStar — The zero waste disposable clay cups. GaeaStar is an engineering company developing sustainable single use products and technology.
Phage Pharm — Phage Pharm is a professional enterprise in the industrialization of bacteriophages.
Epigenic Therapeutics — Epigenic Therapeutics is a biotech firm that offers gene editing therapy.

Essam Abdelhadi

Investment focus

Biopharma, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing Analytical and R&D services to the region's life science, food, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.