Top 25 Local Startup Investors in Middle East in May 2026

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• 7AI — The Agentic Security Revolution Starts Here. Swarming AI Agents to Eliminate Non-Human Work for Exponentially Better Security Outcomes.
• Tenderly — Ethereum developer platform that enables you to build innovative blockchain products.
• 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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• Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
• 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.
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.

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• Coralogix — Coralogix is a streaming platform for modern engineering teams. Coralogix’s Streama© technology produces real-time insights and long-term trend analysis with no reliance on storage or indexing, solving the challenge of data growth in large-scale systems.Ingest data from any source for a single, centralized platform to manage, monitor, and alertyour applications. As data is ingested, Coralogix instantly narrows millions of events down to common patterns for deeper insights and faster troubleshooting.Machine learning algorithms continuously observe data patterns and flows between system components and trigger dynamic alerts so you know when a pattern deviates from the norm without static thresholds or the need for pre-configurations.
• Securithings — Bringing IT Standards to the IoT Space.
• Agora — Agora is the investment management software that's built to help you build.

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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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• 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.
• FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.

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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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• 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.
• 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.
• Blackpanda — Asia's premier digital forensics and cyber incident response firm.

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• Ro — Ro is a healthcare company designed to help you meet your health goals. We connect patients with US-licensed healthcare professionals all online. Get started today.
• 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.
• Bread Financial — Bread Financial offers personalized payment, lending, and savings solutions. They provide customers and partners with a wide range of digitally enabled options that are easy, empowered, and flexible financially. Their service includes credit card facility, loan options, and flexible payment options.

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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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• 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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• 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.
• MobilMed — Since 2015, we have been providing services in the field of mobile biomedical device design and application solutions. Our goal is to provide you with great customer experience and exceptional value services.
• Parkkolay — Parkolay mobile app enables users to make parking reservations and paying parking fee via mobile phone. It is a platform that helps drivers to find a parking spot in under 1 minute. The company aims to make every step of parking more simple and easier with other parking solutions. The mobile app is available for IOS and Android operating sytems.

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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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• 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
• Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136

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• 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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• 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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• Anaphite — A breakthrough nanomaterial
• WhoDoYou — Find trusted local service providers on WhoDoYou. Rely on advice collected from real conversations, skip the biased reviews and manipulated listings.
• 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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• GoCement — Tempatnya jual beli bahan bangunan online terlengkap berkualitas dan harga murah di Indonesia. Cari kebutuhan alat dan bahan bangunanmu, hanya di GoCement
• Moneco — Moneco is a financial application that aims to provide financial products.
• 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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• 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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• 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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• YoRipe — Co-create with Inspiring Communities and Brands
• Guardara — The most comprehensive negative testing / fuzz testing platform to hunt down bugs and zero-day vulnerabilities.
• Responsible Cyber with IMMUNE — Responsible Cyber Landing Page

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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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• Textoni — Connect with 28,000 content creators from 58 different countries! With our artificial intelligence solutions, you can filter the most accurate writers for your brand and industry, and you can reach your quality content very quickly!
• Roombadi — Roombadi is a rental apartment platform that enables users can find a roommate or a house whenever they want by posting free ads.
• Withco Coworking Space — Withco Coworking Space is a designer and provider of shared offices, co-working spaces, meeting, and event areas.

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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.