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Top 10 Local Angel Investors in Middle East (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Middle East Local startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Local startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Atakan Atalar
Angel
2 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Rental, Software
Isaac Applbaum
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Mobile, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $476k–$15M
Mehmet Sacit Sungu
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel Information Technology, Apps, Local $15k–$645k
Namik Kural
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel Apps, Local, Security $365k–$645k
Gigi Levy Weiss
Angel
1 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps $1M–$45M
Erdem Gülen
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Series A Local, Mobile, Medical
Net Jacobsson
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Local, Beauty
Michael Granoff
Angel
1 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Automotive, Transportation, Hardware $3.8M–$126M
Mohammed Shafik
Angel
1 Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Angel Local, Travel, Leisure
Ryan Rzepecki
Angel
1 United States, Turkey, Finland Seed, Angel, Series A B2C, E-Commerce, Augmented Reality
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Atakan Atalar
Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Local startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Rental, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • 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.
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Isaac Applbaum
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Local startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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 $476k–$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 won the Software category and was placed 3rd overall in Deloitte’s list of the 50 fastest growing companies in the UK in 2020 (in-between Bulb and Revolut), and was also awarded a place as a "one to watch" in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100.In an increasingly digital world, it's all too easy to lose your photos to the cloudor to the depths of your camera roll, never to be seen again.So we decided to do something about it.Popsa launched in 2016 to bring your memories to life by printing them in beautiful, physical products that you can hold.However, instead of making you spend hours designing your product (like Snapfish or Photobox), we do the hard work for you in minutes.Our vision is to send you regular bundles of photos in the post without you having to think about it. Little presents to yourself. A monthly subscription to your memories.We're developing technology to make it happen:• Machine learning to curate your most sentimental photos. • Bespoke algorithms to automatically design beautiful layouts. • The fastest delivery from the best printers in the world.Customers will sign up and every month they'll unwrap a new collection of memories to keep for years to come.
  • Ringil — Ringil is a digital platform for the management of freight logistics and transportation.
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Mehmet Sacit Sungu
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Local startups

Mehmet Sacit Sungu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Apps, Local
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$645k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
  • Diici — Diici is a digital entrepreneurship ecosystem guide.
  • eTasin — https://etasin.com
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Namik Kural
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Local startups

Namik Kural is a Board Member at Visionteractive.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Local, Security
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $365k–$645k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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
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Gigi Levy Weiss
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Local startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $6.5M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% 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.
  • Diagnostic Robotics — Diagnostic Robotic develops a signal-agnostic artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. It allows to build powerful predictive analytics models that will solve a world-wide challenge, strained health budgets, and workforces. Diagnostic Robotic was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Erdem Gülen
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Local startups

I am who I am.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Net Jacobsson
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Local startups

Net Jacobsson is a former early Facebook Executive, Co-founder of Sparklabs Global Ventures, entrepreneur, angel investor & passionate mountain biker.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Michael Granoff
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Local startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

  • WhoDoYou — Find trusted local service providers on WhoDoYou. Rely on advice collected from real conversations, skip the biased reviews and manipulated listings.
  • Revel — Electrifying cities through charging hubs, all electric rideshare, mopeds and eBikes.
  • Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.
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Mohammed Shafik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Middle East Local startups

Co-founder & CFO of Go.dayuse.

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Investment focus

  • 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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Ryan Rzepecki
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Local startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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