Top 10 Local Angel Investors in Middle East (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Mehmet Sacit Sungu
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding | Information Technology, Apps, Local | $15k–$645k |
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Namik Kural
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Apps, Local, Security | $365k–$645k |
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Atakan Atalar
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Rental, Software | $100k–$100k |
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Erdem Gülen
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Series A | Local, Mobile, Medical | |
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Net Jacobsson
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Local, Beauty | |
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Hanjoo Lee
Angel
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1 | Israel | Angel | Local, Internet, Social Media | |
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Michael Granoff
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Automotive, Transportation, Hardware | $3.8M–$126M |
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Mohammed Shafik
Angel
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1 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Angel | Local, Travel, Leisure | |
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Ryan Rzepecki
Angel
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1 | United States, Turkey, Finland | Seed, Angel, Series A | B2C, E-Commerce, Augmented Reality | |
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Adam Goldstein
Angel
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1 | United States, Turkey | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Software, Internet, Enterprise Software | |
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Mehmet Sacit Sungu
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- Industry: Information Technology, Apps, Local
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $15k–$645k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Co Print — Co Print offers advanced multicolor 3D printer upgrade kits to enhance print quality and enable vibrant, multi-filament printing. Our modular solutions, including ChromaSet and Klipper KCM Set, are compatible with most 3D printer brands. Discover the future of multicolor printing and unlock unlimited color potential!
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Namik Kural is a Board Member at Visionteractive.
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- Industry: Apps, Local, Security
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $365k–$645k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
- LOKI — LOKI is a cloud-based secure network platform that can be managed without any technical knowledge.The company enables companies to manage and secure their networks by changing how they interact with cybersecurity products. LOKI platform offers a cloud-based secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that automatically scansand protects all network traffic from threats.
- eTasin — https://etasin.com
Atakan Atalar is the Founder of Atanova Ventures. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com (acquired by Gusto) as an Investor. Atakan Atalar attended Istanbul Kultur University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Rental, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $100k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LOKI — LOKI is a cloud-based secure network platform that can be managed without any technical knowledge.The company enables companies to manage and secure their networks by changing how they interact with cybersecurity products. LOKI platform offers a cloud-based secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that automatically scansand protects all network traffic from threats.
- BlindID — BlindID is a unique social media platform which allows users to make one hundred percent anonymous voice calls with random people for a limited time. BlindID does not use information such as user name, phone number, profile photo, and gender. Enjoyable time with BlindID spending is only left to communication ability and creativity.
- StartupFon — StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.
I am who I am.
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- Industry: Local, Mobile, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scotty — Scotty Rideshare is the first and only two-wheel rideshare Company in Turkey
- Scotty — Leading e-commerce logistics player in Turkey
- Genz Biotech — Genz is a biotech research & development company, developing novel diagnostic solutions for complex diseases, like cancer, coronavirus pandemic. Genz provides solutions for medical centers and/or end-users in cooperation with genetic disease and diagnostic centers. To date, Genz received 4 R&D grants and approval by Turkish Ministryof Health for 3 genetic tests.
Net Jacobsson is a former early Facebook Executive, Co-founder of Sparklabs Global Ventures, entrepreneur, angel investor & passionate mountain biker.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Local, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hooch — HOOCH is the free app that rewards you up to 10% back plus exclusive perks when you travel, shop or dine with global partners.
- WhoDoYou — Find trusted local service providers on WhoDoYou. Rely on advice collected from real conversations, skip the biased reviews and manipulated listings.
- Cointopia — Cointopia is an ICO launching platform that provides a crowdfunded marketplace powered by blockchain technology.
John Lee is Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures. He is also a co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs, a startup accelerator in Korea. John is a co- founder & EVP of Corporate Development and Strategy of Hostway. He serves additional responsibilities as CEO of Hostway India. John and his fellow co- founders bootstrapped Hostwayinto a top 5 web hosting company in the world with over 700 employees.Hostway is a multinational web hosting company headquartered in Chicago, and serves more than 600,000 customers worldwide. He is currently responsible for overall corporate strategy, strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions. Previously, he has held positions in every department of the company, including leading global marketing and sales and overall P&L for North America.Mr. Lee was born and raised in Korea and immigrated to the United States at age 13. He holds a BA in Biology from the University of Chicago.
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- Industry: Local, Internet, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WhoDoYou — Find trusted local service providers on WhoDoYou. Rely on advice collected from real conversations, skip the biased reviews and manipulated listings.
Michael J. Granoff is based out of Tel Aviv, Israel, and is the Founder & Managing Partner of Maniv Mobility. Michael previously worked at Zoomo as a board observer. Michael J. Granoff attended Tufts University.
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- Industry: Automotive, Transportation, Hardware
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $3.8M–$7M; Series A $5.1M–$34M; Series B $100M–$126M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Blissway — BLISSWAY provides next-generation roadside tolling infrastructure deployable in weeks and at zero upfront cost to agencies.
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- Revel — Electrifying cities through charging hubs, all electric rideshare, mopeds and eBikes.
Co-founder & CFO of Go.dayuse.
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- Industry: Local, Travel, Leisure
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Godayuse — Godayuse is world's first portal specializes only in featuring day activities to help people break their routine without having to travel
- HyperSpace — Hyperspace is a permanent ticketed experiential attraction developer that creates, builds, operates, and funds attractions. Founded in 2020 and is based inDubai, AE.
Ryan Rzepecki was the founder and CEO of NYC-based JUMP Bikes (acquired by Uber in 2018), focused on developing innovative solutions for urban transportation. Early in his career, Rzepecki worked as a planner in the bikes division of New York City’s Department of Transportation. During that time, he worked extensively to bring bike facilities tomore New Yorkers. It was this experience that led him to design a high-tech bike share model that he entered in the Copenhagen Design Competition. By 2010, he founded the company under its original name Social Bicycles, and set out to realize his vision of using bicycles as a smarter, cleaner, and more fun mode of urban transportation. His company pioneered "smart bike" technology, allowing bike share to go dockless and become more accessible and convenient for riders.In 2013, Rzepecki was named one of the 100 Coolest People in Tech by Business Insider and one of the Top 100 City Innovators Worldwide by UBM’s Future Cities. He received his master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College of the City University of New York and his bachelor’s degree in marketing and international business from Pennsylvania State University.
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- Industry: B2C, E-Commerce, Augmented Reality
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Turkey, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bümo — BumoCare offers on-demand weekday and weekend child care for busy parents. We provide educare -- care powered by our globally recognized curriculum.
- Soar — Soar is a real-time streaming platform for volumetric video
- Subject — Subject provides high school learners access to premium, on-demand courses for credit or study support
Adam Goldstein is a Visiting Scientist at Levin Lab. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2006 to 2010.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Arist — Inspired by Stanford research, Arist helps leading companies deliver microlearning, training, and nudges in the flow of work via Slack, Microsoft Teams, and text messages.
- Scotty — Scotty Rideshare is the first and only two-wheel rideshare Company in Turkey
- Scotty — Leading e-commerce logistics player in Turkey
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