Top 25 Local Startup Investors in Middle East (June 2026)

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• Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
• Ballet — Ballet Crypto is a companion mobile app, which enables sending of cryptocurrency, checking market value and activating additional currencies. The use of the mobile app is completely optional, as you do not need it to receive and store your cryptocurrency safely.
• Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.

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• 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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• Alfred — Alfred is an end-to-end resident experience and building management platform that is changing the way people live and transforming the real estate industry. Operating at the intersection of real estate and technology, Alfred builds intuitive, personal support into one of the most important spaces of our lives: our homes. Named one of the Top 50Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast Company in the urban development space, Alfred has been recognized in The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, as a pioneer in the on-demand economy, following their decision to hire Alfred Home Managers as W-2 employees (complete with benefits, training, and the ability to move up in the organization) and its support of local ecosystems and neighborhood businesses.Hello Alfred was founded in 2014 by Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck, and is headquartered in New York, New York, United States.
• Handshake — The largest expert network for learning, earning, and growing careers in the AI economy, giving everyone an accessible first step into an AI-powered career.
• Freight Farms — Freight Farms create access to food in areas of the world where the climate cannot support traditional farming methods. The Freight Farms' system brings a high volume of fresh, quality, and affordable food within reach of everyone along the food supply chain. By enabling high-yield crop production in any climate, Freight Farms offer animmediate foundation to grow a local food economy and sustainable food system.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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• Svix — Svix is the enterprise-ready webhook platform delivering billions of webhooks every month for fast-growth startups and Fortune 500 companies including Brex, Benchling, and Drata. Send and receive webhooks at scale with retries, signature verification, and a managed dashboard.
• Finaloop — Hands-off, real-time accounting tailored-fit for your ecommerce.
• RiseUp — RiseUp offers a platform that helps users make good financial decisions. It aims to translate the complexities of the financial world into a simple and actionable WhatsApp messages, empowering users to make calm, informed decisions, and save for their future.

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• Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.
• Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
• HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.

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• 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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• Finku — Aplikasi manajemen keuangan yang membantu mengelola transaksi keuangan kamu secara otomatis. Pelajari semua insight yang dipersonalisasi khusus untuk kamu! Download aplikasi beta nya sekarang !
• Trukkr — Real-time fleet tracking, route optimization, and ERP integration for logistics companies. Transform your supply chain operations today.
• Dastgyr Technologies — Simplifying Global Trade

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• Enhance Ventures — Enhance is already live in 7 countries and can rapidly develop vertical marketplaces across Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey with a higher chance of success.
• Magnitt — Magnitt is a startup directory that connects investors, mentors, and emerging companies in the Middle East. The discovery platform is a database with over 5,500 MENA startups and over 200 investors.
• Joi Gifts — Joi Gifts is the best online gift shop for any occasion. Send flowers, cakes, and more with same-day delivery in KSA, UAE, Jordan, Egypt and Middle East.

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• 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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• 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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• Qubole — Qubole is the open data lake company . Open, simple and secure data lakes for machine learning, streaming analytics, data exploration, and ad-hoc analytics.
• Synack — Synack is a crowdsourced security platform that protects organizations with unparalleled ethical hacker talent and proprietary scanning technology. More than 1,500 of the world’s best security researchers from 82 countries are part of the Synack Red Team community that hunts for critical vulnerabilities. Their smarts combined with Synack’s powerfulsoftware safeguards leading global banks, federal agencies, DoD sensitive assets, and close to $1 trillion in Global 2000 revenue.The company was started in 2013 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
• Venuemob — Find & book top venues and event suppliers in Australia & New Zealand. Compare 5,000+ listings trusted by 150K+ customers for every type of event.

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• Claim — Claim is a social application that allows users to earn and trade rewards with friends. It also connects friends through their favorite brands and for brands to reward their customers. Its application enables friends to earn cash back, exchange rewards, and redeem together by shopping at their favorite brands.
• David Energy — David Energy is an electricity provider that designs, builds, and manages onsite energy grids. The company empowers buildings with the tools needed to maximize onsite energy and bring transparency to a traditionally opaque, commoditized industry. It provides hands-on expertise and on the ground support, all delivered through its software platform.Founded in 2017, David Energy is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
• Helical — The full power of DNA & (m)RNA Bio Foundation Models in one open-core platform. Accelerate Drug Discovery with AI.

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• Pyka — We believe that electrification and automation will make aviation safer, more affordable, and more accessible than has ever been possible in human history.
• Cash Cows — Cash Cows helps startups hone their operations and strategies so they can expand profitably and create better brands. They collaborate with customers to close the gap between traditional business practices (experience) and cutting-edge approaches (solutions), allowing companies to operate successfully.
• TwentyToo — TwentyToo is a user-centric approach and the application of AI and ML.

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• MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
• unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
• Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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• 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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• Smartstaff — Manage your workforce's attendance & payroll while using our powerful automation tools to optimize & improve their productivity
• Iambic — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
• Moneyview — Money View is an application that is able to track and organize expenses, bills, and account balances. It is able to derive finance information from SMSs.Money View enables its users to set and follow budgets, view their bank account balance, obtain reminders about bills, and spit bills with the other users. It also facilitates Savings+ andTaxSaver+ that allows its users to save money.Money View was founded in April 2014 by Sanjay Aggarwal and Puneet Agarwal. It is based in Bangalore, Karnataka.

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• PinPay — Pin-Pay is an innovative mobile payment service offered at our Partner Banks which aims to bring our subscribers the most secure, reliable and intelligent payment experience.Using Pin-Pay, you can perform a number of different transactions directly from your mobile phone. Since all transactions are conducted live and under 20 seconds, you cansafely receive money straight to your account in no time.
• HyperPay — Hyperpay is a leading payment gateway in MENA, providing smart payment solutions that fulfill the payment needs of ecommerce and all internet businesses
• The Cloud — NOTICE OF WINDING UP PETITION

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• 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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• Appload — Appload provides an online solution for logistics services. They connect logistics companies with customers looking for cargo transport. The app offers a secure scheduling and electronic payment system and the ability to secure shipments through an industry partner. They serve in the B2B space in transportation and logistics technology. They alsoprovides customer services.
• Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
• VIVAN Therapeutics — VIVAN Therapeutics, a company pioneering personalized cancer therapeutics using a new assay technology. MPT licensed technology from the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapeutics at Mt Sinai New York and is launching the world’s most comprehensive, personal genomics-based, block-chain enabled drug screening service. All recommended treatmentcombinations will include a cancer drug and a non cancer drug, making treatments less toxic and more affordable. Intelligently designed personalized treatment. Revolutionary cancer care.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• iPNOTE — The iPNOTE AI paralegal manages the entire IP registration workflow: answers attorney questions, reviews deliverables, summarizes documents, tracks deadlines, sends follow-ups to providers, monitors progress from filing to grant, and processes payments. Your team interacts with one intelligent agent that smoothly coordinates with patent attorneysworldwide - turning weeks of manual work into automated efficiency.
• Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
• Inspiration Moment — Inspiration Moments connects millions of artists worldwide, offering work sharing, publishing, communication, and monetization services.