Top 15 Local Angel Investors in Middle East (August 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 | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $37k–$1.2M |
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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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Gigi Levy Weiss
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$45M |
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Isaac Applbaum
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Mobile, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $483k–$15M |
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Hale Umul
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Biotechnology, Local, AgTech | |
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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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John HanJoo Lee
Angel
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1 | South Korea, Israel | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Local | $130k–$743k |
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Tuğrul Tekbulut
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Local, Security, Network Security | |
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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 | EdTech, E-Learning, B2C | $3.5M–$4.2M |
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Michael Granoff
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Transportation, Automotive, Hardware | $3.8M–$126M |
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Adam Goldstein
Angel
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1 | United States, Turkey | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Internet, Software, SaaS | $1.1M–$10M |
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Erdem Gülen
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Series A | Apps, Local, Mobile | |
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Hanjoo Lee
Angel
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1 | Israel | Angel | Local, Internet, Social Media | |
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Mehmet Sacit Sungu
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $37k–$645k; Equity Crowdfunding $817k–$1.2M
- 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.
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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
- 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.
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- 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.
Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $6.5M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Faireez — Optimizing tenants' lifestyle and convenience through enabling them with a hotel-like home cleaning service
- BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
- Accumulator — Accumulator is a U.S. private equity firm regulated by the SEC, operating as an index-like fund covering a wide range of privately held, growth-stage tech companies.
Isaac Applbaum joined MizMaa Ventures Limited as Founder and Partner in 2016.Isaac Applbaum is a founding General Partner of Opus Capital, a billion dollar early stage venture fund, .focusing his efforts on finding Israeli-based investments for the firm. Previously, Isaac was a Partner and Managing Director for Israel at Lightspeed Venture Partnersan early stage venture capital firm with over two billion dollars under management.Prior to joining Lightspeed, Mr. Applbaum was the founder and CEO of Concorde Solutions Inc. (CSI). In 1998 Mr. Applbaum sold CSI to Bank of America becoming a Senior Vice President at the bank with responsibility for running the bank’s E-ventures group and an advisor to the strategic investments group.Before founding Concorde Solutions, Mr. Applbaum was responsible for running US operations for Advanced Technology International, a large Israeli software development company.Mr. Applbaum currently serves as a Senior Advisor for Philanthropy to the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat. Mr. Applbaum is President of the Board of the California Israel Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of The Western Wall Heritage Foundation, is on the board of directors of: The Koret Israel Economic Development Funds, the Shalem Institute, the Modern Bank and is on the National Council of AIPAC. Mr. Applbaum is a member of the Young Presidents Organization.
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- Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $769k–$3M; Pre-Seed $483k–$1.1M; Series B $6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KLIPY — Discover KLIPY, the largest library of localized GIFs, Memes, Stickers and Clips! Make your conversations fun and expressive with the best content.
- Popsa — Popsa sits at the intersection of AI, photos and B2C. According to Deloitte, it is one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech startups, and in both 2022 and 2023 the Financial Times ranked Popsa in the Top 20 fastest-growing software companies in the whole of Europe. Popsa is developing generative AI technology and AI agents that generate personalisedproducts for consumers based on the data contained in their own photos, therefore removing countless anxieties and manual tasks usually associated with personalisation, and empowering everyday people with professional storytelling techniques for the first time.Its award-winning app has made printing memories so easy and accessible that anyone can do it. As a result, the company receives 18,000 orders every week, increasing to 80,000 during Q4.Popsa's native iOS and Android apps are available in 12 languages – attracting more than 8 million users to date – and they ship to 50 countries around the world. Only 15% of Popsa’s revenue comes from the UK (France is their top market whilst the US is the fastest growing).People come to Popsa to create photobooks and other products, but what Popsa really does is help them process their lives and relationships through reflection on their photos. The company's longer term ambition is to become a global destination; a space to explore all of life’s moments and the emotions that come with them – not just the highlights. So holidays, but also lazy days and sad days too. Popsa believes the more you reflect, the better you understand yourself and your connections with others.
- Ringil — Ringil is a digital platform for the management of freight logistics and transportation.
Hale Umul
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Local, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
- Bak-Tek — Bak-Tek is a technology company that produces bioguy, biosea, bioguy enzyme plus, bioguy tabs, and refresher. They stand for sustainable, unique environmental solutions using the trademarked biological technologies to decrease the stress factors caused by increasing population and industrialization. The company creates bioengineered goods andsolutions for the sustainable use of natural resources.
- Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.
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.
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- Cointopia — Cointopia is an ICO launching platform that provides a crowdfunded marketplace powered by blockchain technology.
John HanJoo Lee is a Co-founder & CEO at Bespin Global.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Local
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $130k–$743k
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GOPIZZA — GOPIZZA operates service restaurants specializing in single-serving pizzas with preparation systems and delivery-focused operations. The company develops compact store formats designed for dine-in, takeaway, and food delivery services. With operations across several international markets, GOPIZZA continues expanding its restaurant network anddigital ordering capabilities.
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- GrowthFit — E-commerce customer behavior data analytics solution
Tuğrul Tekbulut
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- Industry: Local, Security, Network Security
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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.
- Pinoo Robotics —
Mohammed Shafik is the Co-founder and 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: EdTech, E-Learning, B2C
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Turkey, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- Praxis — We are Praxis: a global community of creatives and technologists working to build the city of the future.
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: Transportation, Automotive, 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
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- FENIX — Fenix is a UAE-based free floating micromobility operator anchored in the GCC region.
- Revel — Electrifying cities through charging hubs, all electric rideshare, mopeds and eBikes.
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: Internet, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 is a logistics firm that provides distribution services. With its technological infrastructure and widespread courier network, scotty provides distribution services to its users.
- Scotty — Scotty is a logistics company that provides delivery services and package tracking solutions. The company develops a motorcycle-hailing application to provide people with bike transportation and logistics services to save time. It also offers cargo tracking, same-day, next-day, and day-to-day delivery services.
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- Industry: Apps, Local, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scotty — Scotty is a logistics firm that provides distribution services. With its technological infrastructure and widespread courier network, scotty provides distribution services to its users.
- Scotty — Scotty is a logistics company that provides delivery services and package tracking solutions. The company develops a motorcycle-hailing application to provide people with bike transportation and logistics services to save time. It also offers cargo tracking, same-day, next-day, and day-to-day delivery services.
- 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.
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.
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