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Top 45 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Middle East

A list of 45 angel investors that invest in Manufacturing startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Middle East

Investor Manufacturing Middle East investments
Nevzat Aydın 3
Avigdor Willenz 2
Murat Balcı 2
Eddy Shalev 2
Jeremy Coller 2
Anonymous 2
Ömer Aras 2
Serkan Omerbeyoglu 2
Zohar Zisapel 2
Ebru Dorman 2
Onur Topac 2
Ariel Maislos 2
Muzaffer Akpınar 1
Matt Mickiewicz 1
Cem Topcuoglu 1
Umur Özal 1
Karim Hussein 1
Peter Thiel 1
Edward Lando 1
José Andrés 1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch 1
Khaled Alashmouny 1
Ahu Serter 1
Gonzalo Martinez de Azagra 1
Zvi Limon 1
Henry Soesanto 1
Igor Ryabenkiy 1
Justin Mateen 1
Paul Buchheit 1
Manuel Alba 1
Sercan Isik 1
Orly Tsioni 1
Majed Alkhan 1
Beni Nofech 1
Emre Kenci 1
Sedat Eryilmaz 1
David Perlmutter 1
Paul Graham 1
L.D. Salmanson 1
Con O'Donnell 1
Rafi Gidron 1
Firat Isbecer 1
Benjamin Kahn 1
Figen Korun 1
Gil Hirsch 1
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Nevzat Aydın Angel · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Apollo IoT — One of Turkey's digital energy platform initiatives is Apollo IoT. This platform is intended for invoice control, optimization, and forecasting. It allows you to monitor historical and current consumption data and confirm the correctness of your electricity bill, all without the need for device or hardware installation. Apollo assists inlowering the cost of electricity usage by providing real-time verification, detecting anomalous consumption and reactive fines in real-time, and informing you with enhanced warnings. It makes energy monitoring of corporate employees more realistic, saves money by boosting energy efficiency, and protects the environment thanks to its user-friendly web-based interface and excellent graphics.
  • Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
Avigdor Willenz Angel
Avigdor Willenz is the Co-Founder & Chairman at Lightbits. Previously, Avigdor was the Founder at GT Services and also held positions at Annapurna Labs.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Buildots — Buildots specializes in transforming construction sites into a data-driven digital environment. Its platform enables maximum control of construction processes at minimal effort. The solution turns every site walk into valuable process data that can immediately be used for gaining full control of a certain project.
  • Astera Labs — Purpose-built connectivity solutions to remove performance bottlenecks in compute-intensive workloads, such as AI and machine learning
  • DustPhotonics — Provider of end-to-end Silicon Photonics solutions, addressing the constantly growing needs of hyper-growth data players
Murat Balcı Angel
Murat Balci is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Fitness, mHealth
  • Seed
  • Germany, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
  • Thread In Motion — Looking for wearables to digitize your operations? Hands-free and ergonomic new generation smart gloves are here to help you reduce cost and risks.
  • Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
Eddy Shalev Angel
Eddy Shalev is an angel investor. Eddy is one of the best-known figures in the Israeli business community. Since the beginning of Israel's venture capital industry, Eddy has focused on private-equity investments in the high-tech sector, and has played a key role in several high-profile success stories, including Fundtech, ParadigmGeophysical and Orbot Instruments. Eddy is currently on the board of Aternity, Profitect and Sensible Medical.Eddy has been an active private equity investor in Israel since 1992, when he began a private equity investment program that invested in early-stage Israeli high-tech companies. Beginning in 1985, Eddy led the Israeli affiliates of Oscar Gruss and Sons Inc., and then later CIBC-Oppenheimer, where he directed the firm’s corporate banking, sales and trading, and equity research for Israeli companies traded on NASDAQ.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • TripleW Ltd. — Making Waste History. TripleW upcycles food waste into high-value bioplastic
  • QEDIT — Augment your data tools with advanced encryption, by world leaders in zero-knowledge proofs, homomorphic encryption, multi-party computation
  • Photomyne — Photomyne is a company that specializes in family nostalgia. We leverage our original, unprecedented technology to provide tools for digitizing and managing all types of old (analog) and new media.Our primary app is designed for scanning, managing, and storing old photographs in bulk. In addition, we offer several other utility apps, eachspecializing in the scanning of a specific media type, to offer the best technological accommodation for each type and its characteristics.Explore our apps: https://photomyne.com/get-photomyne
Jeremy Coller Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Jeremy Coller founded the business in 1990.Prior to this, Jeremy spent five years at Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Investment Management, where he pioneered the acquisition of private equity secondaries.He began his career as a public equities investment analyst at Fidelity International Investment Management in London.Jeremy holds aBSc (Hons) in Management Sciences from the University of Manchester, UMIST; an MA in Philosophy from Sussex University; and a Diplôme Cours de Civilisation from the Sorbonne. He attended Carmel College.
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Investment focus
  • News, Video, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Castor Technologies — CASTOR is a complete decision support system for utilizing industrial additive manufacturing
  • Penfold — Our flexible, simple and powerful pension is designed to get you to your saving goals and stay with you for life, whichever direction it takes you.
  • X-trodes — X-trodes is a technology start-up that develops unique wearable, wireless technology, and advanced analytics of biopotential signals.
Anonymous Angel
Anonymous
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States, Egypt, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Aethir — Aethir is an Egyptian company that manufactures lighting equipment for professionals and amateurs in film making & Broadcasting industry.
  • ExaCare — Looking for the Best Assisted Living Software? Exacare Offers a Comprehensive Solution for Senior Care Management, Including CRM Functionality and Customizable Features.
  • ellipse — Ellipse is a technology company specializing in EMV-integrated card security code solutions to reduce CNP fraud and false declines. It offers a battery-free display card technology that allows card manufacturers to incorporate display cards into their products with existing equipment.
Ömer Aras Angel
Ömer Aras
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Biopharma, Marketing
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • LIVAD Technologies — LIVAD develops cutting edge Livestream Advertising products connecting brands with streamers. Our technology enables brands to serve smart, elegant, and non-intrusive ads while allowing streamers of all sizes to monetize their content consistently.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech Bioinformatics translates genome-wide molecular data (Genomics, Transcriptomics, Epigenomics, Microbiomics, etc.) into biotechnology solutions primarily for use in precision medicine.
Serkan Omerbeyoglu Angel
M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu is the CEO at DgPays. M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu attended Alliant International University.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kito Pet Food — Kito provides natural, fresh and healthy food for dogs.
  • Chooch — Chooch Generative AI-Powered Computer Vision automates manual video and image review and analysis tasks for faster insights with less resources.
Zohar Zisapel Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Zohar Zisapel
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Investment focus
  • Cyber Security, Information Technology, Security
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cylus — Cylus, the global leader in rail cybersecurity, helps rail, freight and metro companies avoid service disruption and safety incidents by detecting cyber-attacks in their signaling and control networks, wayside and onboard, before harm happens.
  • Nucleix — OUR TESTS AIM TO DETECT CANCER EARLIER - WHEN TREATMENT CAN BE MOST EFFECTIVE FOR PATIENTS OUR PRODUCTS
  • Hailo — Hailo have developed the best performing AI processors for edge devices. Our AI accelerator chips are used for Smart City & Homes, machine learning, automotive AI, retail AI and smart factory Industry 4.0 solutions.
Ebru Dorman Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Ebru Dorman
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Apps, Fitness
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Turkey, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Teleporter — Teleporter is the World of Gamers in VR that brings us together in one digital place for all the ways gamers get together. Focused on gamers, inspired by the world’s best MMORPGs, and amplified by video-gaming enthusiasts, we dream of building a universe for gamers using technology, artistry, and magic.Our players in Teleporter can play manybuilt-in games, watch game streams, find like-minded others, and hang out together in fantastic 3D environments. Teleporter: WoG universe feels like and works like a game, but it also allows players to do many different things they usually love to do with other gamers. Our dream is to shape the future of gamers getting together digitally.
  • 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.
  • Thread In Motion — Looking for wearables to digitize your operations? Hands-free and ergonomic new generation smart gloves are here to help you reduce cost and risks.
Onur Topac Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Onur Topac was born in 1990 in Istanbul. He graduated from Istanbul’s Austrian High School in 2009 and went on to receive a Bachelor’s degree from Koç University, Department of Industrial Engineering in 2013. Currently, he is pursuing a Master’s degree in Financial Engineering at Ozyegin University. Mr. Topac started his career in finance in 2008as a web site specialist at Gedik Investment; subsequently, he interned at FXCM in London in 2012. The following year, he participated in the establishment of the Investment Banking Department at Gedik Investment, leading the way in the Department’s technological transformation. Since April 2015, he has served as CEO at Gedik Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Ortaklıgı A.S (Gedik Venture Capital Investment Partnership). Onur Topac started to provide support to technology investments and ventures as an individual investor before obtaining the necessary certification to operate as an angel investor in 2015.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Big Data, Hardware
  • Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Poltio — We help the world's top brands access, engage with and learn from their users with interactive content and declared data.
  • Thread In Motion — Looking for wearables to digitize your operations? Hands-free and ergonomic new generation smart gloves are here to help you reduce cost and risks.
Ariel Maislos Angel · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Ariel has been leading technology innovation and entrepreneurship for over 30 years, leading teams, founding companies and mentoring entrepreneurs. He is an active angel investor in startups, and supports technology education as a philanthropist. Ariel is a graduate of the prestigious Talpiot program, and holds a BSc from the Hebrew University ofJerusalem in Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science (Cum Laude) and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cypago — End-to-end intelligent compliance solution for any security standard including SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOX-ITGC, and HIPAA
  • Configu — Open source & cloud configuration management platform letting developers automate & test application configurations with Configuration-as-Code
  • Unity SCM — Data across your entire supply chain easily collected and organized in one place
Muzaffer Akpınar Angel
Mehmet Muzaffer Akpinar is a businessperson who is associated with organisations like Penta Tekstil, MV Holding, Kvk Teknoloji Urunleri Ve Ticaret AS, Penta Textile, etc. He is an alumni of Bogazici University.
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Investment focus
  • 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Consumer Electronics
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Zaxe — Discover the Unique FDM 3D Printing Experience. Zaxe 3D Printers Provides Easy to Use with xDestop Slicer Software. Get Advantage in Additive Manufacturing with Zaxe Filaments
Matt Mickiewicz Angel
Matt Mickiewicz is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of SitePoint. Mickiewicz also co-founded the web companies Flippa, 99designs, and Hired.Born in Kraków, Poland, living in Hameln -Germany, and currently residing in Vancouver, Canada, Mickiewicz created his first website at the age of 14 called Webmaster-Resources.com, whichlater became SitePoint. At 16, Mickiewicz traveled to Melbourne with his mother and met his soon-to-be business partner and co-founder, Mark Harbottle. At 16, Mickiewicz found himself closing $10,000 advertising deals between classes at high school. Mickiewicz barely finished high school and did not attend college.In 2008, Mickiewicz spun off 99designs from SitePoint, which went on to raise $35 million in capital from Accel Ventures, Michael Dearing / Harrison Metal, Dave Goldberg (SurveyMonkey), Anthony Casalena, and Stewart Butterfield (Flickr). In June 2009 Mickiewicz and Harbottle launched Flippa.com, the largest marketplace for buying and selling websites in the world. In the fall of 2012, Mickiewicz co-founded DeveloperAuction.com which raised $2.7 million was later renamed Hired. The company later raised a $15 million Series-A round in March 2014. By December 2014, Hired was reportedly valued at $200m and had raised an additional $15m in the capital in its Series B round.Mickiewicz was named a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur by Forbes and INC in 2011, a Smart Company 30 under 30 in 2012, and frequently speaks at conferences and seminars worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • Human Resources, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
  • Wyvern — Wyvern was created to unlock the secrets of the elec-tromagnetic spectrum by providing groundbreak-ing access to high-resolution and quality imagery.This will enable a sustainable future for humanity.
  • Continuum Technology — Connecting world-class executive talent to the best venture-backed companies for consulting, advising and full-time roles.
Cem Topcuoglu Angel
Cem Topcuoglu
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Procurement, Manufacturing
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Umur Özal Angel
Umur Özal is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Baby, Rental, Retail
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Kiralarsın — Kiralarsın is a rental service to rent electronic devices.
  • Mutlubiev — A leading online cleaning services platform. It thrives on providing high-quality cleaning solutions and satisfying clients' personal needs.
Karim Hussein Angel · New York, New York, United States
Karim is a technology veteran with deep experience in product and innovation management and rapid business growth and scaling – particularly in the healthcare and financial services markets. Karim has been an active investor and mentor to a number of technology businesses in Egypt and the US. He is founder and Chairman of D-Kimia DiagnosticSolutions developing fast, affordable, and accurate medical diagnostics using nano-technology and focused on controlling the Hepatitis C epidemic in Egypt and globally. Karim has served on the board of D-Kimia, Integreight, Shezlong.com, Prognos.ai, and Simplex Arabia CNC Solutions. He is also Chairman of the entrepreneurship committee of the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council, a mentor to high impact entrepreneurs through the Endeavor network, and a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Previously, Karim was SVP, Products and Engineering at WebMD, Inc., directing product management, technology strategy and engineering. Prior to WebMD, Karim was co-founder and CTO of Riskclick, Inc., a software firm specializing in commercial insurance applications. He also was a senior associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton where he was a member of the Global e-Commerce team.Karim received his PhD in Information Systems from MIT and a dual BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He has over 40 publications and a patent for his work on distributed computing.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Series B
  • Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Elk — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
  • Elkrem — Elkrem provides hardware and software tools for developers to build Blockchain connected IoT products. The software and hardware tools allows anyone with minimal technical background, to build internet connected products that accept cryptocurrencies and communicate with different blockchain and decentralized protocols including Bitcoin,Ethereum, Swarm, Whisper, IPFS, IOTA and others.
  • Shezlong — Talk to your therapist online privately anytime anywhere!
Peter Thiel Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in the past 12 months
Peter Thiel Is the Managing Partner of The Founders Fund. He previously worked at Stanford Law School as a Visitor. Peter Thiel attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Lindus Health — Lindus Health. From recruitment to delivery, we accelerate clinical trials. Our mission is to make health research accessible for everyone, everywhere.
  • Enhanced Games — Enhanced Games Home
  • Alias Technologies — Here at Alias Technologies our goal is to help organizations tackle complex IT goals and initiatives in an ever-changing landscape. Leveraging our Partner relationships and extensive experience we are able to help position our customers for the future.
Edward Lando Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Edward Lando is the Founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a Co-Founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
  • NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
José Andrés Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
José Andrés - President/Chef @ Think Food Group
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture
  • Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
Nadav Ben-Chanoch Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Khaled Alashmouny Angel · Cupertino, California, United States
Khaled Alashmouny is the AMS IC Design at Apple.Khaled Alashmouny attended University of Michigan.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Hardware, Software
  • Seed
  • Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Elk — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
  • Elkrem — Elkrem provides hardware and software tools for developers to build Blockchain connected IoT products. The software and hardware tools allows anyone with minimal technical background, to build internet connected products that accept cryptocurrencies and communicate with different blockchain and decentralized protocols including Bitcoin,Ethereum, Swarm, Whisper, IPFS, IOTA and others.
Ahu Serter Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Baby, Information Services
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, Greece, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
  • Ampherr — Ampherr provides cutting-edge, intelligent energy storage solutions based on different chemical variations of lithium-ion cells, such as NMC, LTO, and LFP, for all types of electrical cars and stationary applications. Manufacturer of battery packs, focus on delivering application-specific products for practically all use cases while combiningquality, cutting-edge engineering, and agile service.
  • Memotive — Memotive is upgrading the mechanism for shift planning and service organization to digital. They developed tools that fall under the category of communication and feedback since they understand how essential it is for employees to interact with their businesses while working for them.
Gonzalo Martinez de Azagra Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Investor/global strategist with a deep business/financial training and the ability to understand technology at the engineering level.Related investments:* Replay Technologies* Celeno* AudioBurst* Corephotonics* Rounds* ScyllaDB* EarlySense* Cortica* Aveni* Pitango VI, VII, VC fund (Israel) * Triventures III*StoreDot (Israel) '12 * NextIO: Datacenter IO Virtualization company (US), '12* Undisclosed Flash based storage company (US) '12* Yume, Digital Ad Network, (US,Operational DD) '11Specialties: Areas of investment focus: 1) Mobile: Comp. Vision, Imaging, Wireless Comms 2) Cloud : IAAS, PAAS, Ent. Storage, Servers, Virtualization, Big data processing/management3) Semicon: Equipment/Process Technology/MetrologyOther: Media, Digital Advertising, Online Gaming/GamblingGeographic Coverage:1) Israel2) Europe3) USSManaged Portfolio:Replay TechnologiesGirafficStoreDot (Board Member)Pitango VI LP representativePurestorage (past)FusionIO (past)PrimeSense (Past)EXPERIENCEPrincipalSamsung VenturesDecember 2011 – Present (1 year 3 months)San Francisco Bay AreaDeal sourcing, due diligence, term sheet negotiation and execution, portfolio management and exitManager - Global StrategistSamsung ElectronicsAugust 2010 – December 2011 (1 year 5 months)Founded in 1997 by Group Chairman Kun-Hee Lee the Global Strategy group is an internal strategy consulting team created to help Samsung face its globalization challenges.Project Lead and UC Berkeley School Recruiting Champion:http://gsg.samsung.com/popup/popup_Berkeley.asp(Open)1 honor or awardSenior ConsultantPwC ConsultingJuly 2005 – August 2008 (3 years 2 months)Promoted from Analyst to Senior Consultant within 7 months. Strategic plans, process re-engineering, proforma modeling and investment appraisal for multiple industries.Systems Design EngineerAEA Technology (Former Atomic Energy Authority)July 2003 – July 2005 (2 years 1 month)London, United KingdomEMI studies (C++, Matlab). High Voltage Power Supply desig. Relevant projects: West Coast Route Modernization, CTRL, etc.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Video
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • IVIX — Address tax noncompliance and close the tax gap with the IVIX platform.
  • StoreDot — The extreme-fast charging battery pioneers StoreDot is a battery developer and materials innovation leader, developing ground-breaking battery technologies based on the design and synthesis of both organic and inorganic compounds. Replacing known materials and technologies with enhanced electro-chemical properties, StoreDot's proprietarycompounds, combined with nano-materials, are optimized for Extreme Fast Charging - XFC of electric vehicles. Designed to replace known technologies by means of enhanced physical, chemical, electrical and optical properties, StoreDot’s technology, inspired by nature, can be optimized for multiple industries, including fast-charging batteries for mobile devices and electric vehicles. With a strong technological team of noted scientists and device engineering experts, StoreDot is positioned to reinvent the world of materials and devices as they know it.
  • Loops — Loops is a no-code analytics platform that provides product and data teams with growth opportunities hidden in their data.
Zvi Limon Angel · Kefar Shmaryahu, Tel Aviv, Israel
Zvi has been an investor in public and private technology companies since 1990. His activity has mostly focused on companies in the communication space. Zvi is presently a General Partner at Rimon funds and a Venture Partner at Magma Venture Capital (previously Magnum). Prior to founding Magnum, Zvi was a management consultant at Bain & Co. inLondon and at Shaldor Ltd. in Israel.Zvi serves on the board of directors of several private and publicly traded companies: DSPG (Nasdaq:DSPG) , CEVA (Nasdaq :EVA), Tefron (NYSE:TFR), Autotalks and GI ViewZvi holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in Economics and Business Administration from Bar Ilan University
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Cloud Computing
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bizzabo — More human events, for more human humans.
  • Xsight Labs — Xsight Labs provides end-to-end connectivity with optimized power and performance for tomorrow's cloud and hyperscale data centers.
  • LocalizeOS — The future of real estate is here. Localize is revolutionizing the industry by harnessing the power of AI and cutting-edge technology. For buyers, we democratize data and streamline the house-hunting journey to find a place they’ll love long after moving day. For agents, we cultivate their leads and reintroduce them as qualified buyers at exactlythe right time. Together, our mission is to make homebuying better for everyone.
Henry Soesanto Angel
Henry Soesanto serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Monde Nissin Corporation.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic Food
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Singapore, China, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Haofood — The popularity of plant-based meat is rapidly growing in China; in 2020, 39% of the population were attempting to reduce their meat consumption, and 65% of them were willing to try plant-based meat to help them in this. However, many are dissatisfied with the plant-based meat options in China; Haofood’s founders discovered that this was because ofthe tofu-like quality of products currently available in the market. On top of that, often flexitarians and vegetarians struggle with craving comfort foods. Being the most consumed meat in the world, chicken products, such as fried chicken, are a comfort food to and missed by countless first-time vegetarians.Haofood offers a solution to these problems with its realistically textured and healthy plant-based chicken. They are the first company in the world to use peanut protein as their base, taking advantage of its potential for a strong and elastic texture. Led by a founding team of senior professionals from the food industry, who, together, hold a well-rounded skill set ranging from entrepreneurship to food technology, Haofood uses its own proprietary extrusion technology and formulation to create affordable, delicious plant-based chicken made from sustainable, non-GMO peanuts.
  • WTH Foods — WTH Foods is a plant-based alternative protein company based in Manila, Philippines. Using local and sustainable ingredients, we create plant-based versions of processed meat products that Southeast Asian love
  • Shiok Meats — Delicious, healthy & cell-based seafood from Shiok Meats. Get variety of cultivated meat, cultivated seafood, cell cultured meat & Lab Meats in Singapore.
Igor Ryabenkiy Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Igor Ryabenkiy is the Managing Partner at AltaIR Capital. Igor is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with over twenty years of successful executive and investment experience including Internet startups and IT companies. He has funded, developed, and exited a significant number of investment projects worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Israel, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
  • Sceenic — Sceenic offers solutions to power interactive viewing experiences. Through its "Watch Together" technology, media companies create watch together experiences for their audiences, offering friends and family a deeper, more engaging and interactive group viewing experience.
  • Feel — We make the cleanest, potent supplements in the world. Delivered straight to your door. Designed by nutritionists for energy, sleep, stress and hair, skin & nails.
  • Viridix — Boost your farming efficiency with Viridix - a precision irrigation solution using Root Sense soil moisture sensor technology. Save water, increase yield, and maximize profits with Viridix.
Justin Mateen Angel · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 techentrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
  • Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
  • Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.
Paul Buchheit Angel · Mountain View, California, United States
Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Character.ai — Meet AIs that feel alive. Chat with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Experience the power of super-intelligent chat bots that hear you, understand you, and remember you.
  • Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Manuel Alba Angel
Manuel Alba
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Machinery Manufacturing
  • Series A
  • Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Xsight Labs — Xsight Labs provides end-to-end connectivity with optimized power and performance for tomorrow's cloud and hyperscale data centers.
Sercan Isik Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Sercan Isik - CEO & Co-Founder @ Scorp
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Procurement, Manufacturing
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Orly Tsioni Angel
Orly Tsioni
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Machinery Manufacturing
  • Series A
  • Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Xsight Labs — Xsight Labs provides end-to-end connectivity with optimized power and performance for tomorrow's cloud and hyperscale data centers.
Majed Alkhan Angel
Majed Alkhan is the vice chairman of Infracorp.
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Investment focus
  • Furniture, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round
  • Bahrain
Portfolio highlights
  • YAS Holding — YAS Holding is a manufacturer of Furniture and Home Furnishings.
Beni Nofech Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Beni Nofech is a food-tech investor.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Nutrition
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Remilk — Remilk is a food-tech company that uses microbes to produce the key ingredients in milk. The company is developing technology for creating a milk substitute that is similar to cow milk in flavor, nutritional composition, composition, and functionality. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Oshi — Alternative Protein - Stealth Mode
  • Mush Foods — Mush Foods is an Israeli-based food tech company, growing edible mushroom mycelium to create innovative and sustainable animal-free protein as an ingredient for the food and beverage industry. We harness the fantastic power and innate intelligence of mushrooms to face future global challenges and provide sustainable groundbreaking food solutions tothe food of the future.
Emre Kenci Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Emre Kenci
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Investment focus
  • Art, Retail, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • fucimo — From billboards to newsletters, access affordable ads and sponsorships that fit your marketing plans, all in one place.
  • Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Sedat Eryilmaz Angel
Sedat Eryilmaz is an angel investor based in Turkey.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Daxe Games
  • Wastespresso — Companies that generate coffee waste (headquarters, hotels, cafes, offices, restaurants, etc.) regularly perform micro coffee waste management and upcycle these coffee wastes with its sustainable technological infrastructure. After this upcycling, coffee wastes and disposable/reusable cups, straws, flower pots, spoons, etc. various materials such as; both home appliances, white goods, automotive etc. parts for sectors; It also produces bio raw materials for the packaging and plastics industries.
David Perlmutter Angel
David Perlmutter is the Chairman Of The Board at Teramount LTD.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Packaging Services
  • Series A
  • Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Teramount — Teramount changes the world of optical connectivity by offering a novel solution, the patented PhotonicPlug, for connecting optics to silicon.
Paul Graham Angel · Mountain View, California, United States
Paul Graham
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Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Novig — Novig is a peer-to-peer sports betting exchange and the first platform to offer commission-free bets.
  • Roforco — Roforco runs a Roblox game accelerator that makes games successful by providing funding, resources and hands-on support. It's YCombinator for Roblox games, built by two YCombinator Alumni. Co-founders Artem and Brain have been building games together since they were 14 were developers on 12 top grossing titles, accounting for over 2.74billion plays/downloads.Prior to building the accelerator, Roforco was a game studio with a portfolio of games that reached benchmarks including 10 million monthly active users and 16,000 concurrent users. Roforco also worked with notable brands such as Unilever, for whom they made an branded game with over 50 million plays.In 2022, Roforco joined YCombinator's coveted startup accelerator and went on to secure a $1.5 million seed funding round from investors including Paul Graham, Dentsu Group, the prev. COO of Activision and the CEOs of Guilded and Jellysmack. Learn more about us at https://roforco.com/For press: tom@roforco.com Based and founded in San Francisco, CA
  • ParadeDB — ParadeDB is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres.
L.D. Salmanson Angel · New York, New York, United States
L.D. Salmanson - Co-Founder @ Cherre
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Mobile, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • N Join — n-Join is a technology development company focused on the industrial market Their solutions leverage big data and machine learning algorithms to increase production agility, efficiency and sustainability
  • Seecares — Scalable CRE Lending. SeeCares is empowering CRE Lenders and Borrowers to transact faster, cheaper, and more efficiently.
  • Switch — Switch is a smart, addictively simple job hunting app that is reinventing the way you browse and find your next job. Powered by intelligent machine-learning algorithms, Switch recommends the best opportunities for your specific profile and interests, daily. On Switch, you can connect directly with hiring managers in real-time, without missing abeat. Switch is discreet, easy-to-use, and the most effective job discovery app on the market. Thousands of job seekers already use Switch's iOS app to get hired by world-leading companies like Walmart, Staples, Accenture, Nationwide, Facebook, Dropbox, eBay, Amazon, and more. Download the app and import your professional profile in seconds. Receive daily recommendations of jobs. Swipe right to like a job and apply immediately. Connect and interact with employers and hiring managers via in-app chat. Your personal information and email address always stay private and are not shared with recruiters. Learn more... http://switchapp.com/ http://switchapp.com/download http://switchapp.com/employers/
Con O'Donnell Angel
Con O'Donnell is Founder & Advisor at ElWafeyat.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Hardware, Software
  • Seed
  • Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Elk — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
  • Elkrem — Elkrem provides hardware and software tools for developers to build Blockchain connected IoT products. The software and hardware tools allows anyone with minimal technical background, to build internet connected products that accept cryptocurrencies and communicate with different blockchain and decentralized protocols including Bitcoin,Ethereum, Swarm, Whisper, IPFS, IOTA and others.
Rafi Gidron Angel
Rafi Gidron is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Xperiti. He attended Columbia University.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services
  • Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Blyp — Blyp is an AI-driven data analytics platform for e-commerce companies.
  • Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
  • GlossAI — GlossAI bridges the gap between the content created by organisations and how people consume it .Today's audiences do not have the attention span to listen to anything for an extended period of time. Even those attending events, podcasts, training sessions, and zoom calls can't keep up. At GlossAI we get smart AI video generator that canturn any single piece of content into many short videos, blog posts and more various channels and use cases.
Firat Isbecer Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Crait.it — Empowering your e-commerce and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
  • Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Benjamin Kahn Angel
Chairman of the board since 2005, Benjamin Kahn now leads the Atlantium team as CEO.Chosen as a "Hero of the Environment" in 2007 by TIME Magazine, Benjie has been involved in improving water quality and security around the globe.In addition to his environmental activities, he serves as president of Coral World International Ltd, anowner/operator of marine parks worldwide that specializes in creating ecologically friendly tropical life systems in symbiotic environments. It is a world leader in underwater viewing systems, developing singular undersea observatories and boasts the world's longest underwater acrylic tunnels. During the past decade, Benjie initiated and led the innovative development of Maui Ocean Center, the world-renowned Hawaiian aquarium and Palma Aquarium, which opened in Spain in 2007 and set a new standard for aquariums in Europe.In addition to his substantial management background in aquaculture, Benjie has an extensive portfolio of investments in technology companies in the many fields, including education, computer software, life sciences and touch screen technologies. He leads them from a sustainability perspective, and keeping a focus on the mission from startup through commercial success.
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Investment focus
  • Water, Sensor, Computer
  • Series A, Series C, Series G
  • Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • N-Trig — N-Trig is a startup that develops touch screens and pen styluses. With an extensive patent portfolio, N-trig also supports a variety of applications for different market segments including consumer, education, business, healthcare, graphic and industrial design, gaming, entertainment, and multimedia.Founded in 1999, N-trig is a global operation,maintaining its: R&D facility, corporate headquarters, and management in Kfar Saba, Israel; sales, OEM, and ISV support in Austin, Texas and San Jose, California; ODM, operations, and supply chain support in Taipei, Taiwan, Tokyo, Japan and Shanghai, China.
  • Atlantium — Every once in a while, something comes along that makes us stop and see things differently, something that radically changes the way we view our world. That time is now. A leader in UV treatment solutions, Atlantium Technologies provides industry and municipalities with a sustainable, measurable water treatment option. Since
Figen Korun Angel
Figen Korun
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Coffee, Sharing Economy
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Ni-CAT Battery Materials and AI Company — Ni-CAT is working on AI-assisted research and development of next-generation battery materials, which is the key to the transition to battery electric vehicles. Ni-CAT believes that the speed of EV transition is still not enough to prevent global warming and replace carbon-based fuels in near future, and it is not related to money or resources. Webelieve that speeding up EV transition is possible with our novel methodology, which combines three approximation to the solution: our unique AI-assisted materials research, digitalized reactor farm and our novel surfactant-assisted synthesis.As the electrification of the automotive industry expands, we deliver state-of-the-art technologies to meet the industry’s high-quality standards. To help our customers to step up the EV transition, we will be working on our research and development of lower-cost/higher performance, ultra-high energy density battery materials to serve innovative solutions for a brighter future. With our expertise in the application of machine learning in material science, we are developing low cobalt/high nickel lithium cathode materials. Cathode determines the type of a lithium battery and is the limiting factor for nickel-based batteries. Further improvement in battery performance is possible through AI-assisted custom high nickel cathode materials with increased charge rate, charge to discharge ratio, tap density, or any other specifications. By our unique computer-controlled digital reactor farm, we numerize synthesis parameters and output specifications for the machine learning algorithm we have been developing.
  • İletmen — İletmen is a food delivery app which takes packages, products or orders from your business and deliver them to your customers.
  • Riskoptima — Riskoptima is a financial engineering company.
Gil Hirsch Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Gil Hirsch is an angel investor. Gil has over ten years of experience in software architecture, product and general management in computer technology. Before co-founding face.com, Gil held multiple R&D, Product and Sales executive roles at Amdocs, Xacct Technologies and Telrad Networks. Gil is also the co-founder of the garage geeks communityin Israel to drive non-commercial innovation activities.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Marketing, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • InfiniGrow — InfiniGrow helps B2B marketing teams drive higher ROI by measuring, predicting, and planning marketing efforts that drive revenue growth.
  • Oshi — Alternative Protein - Stealth Mode
  • Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!
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