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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Middle East (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Raz Group
VC Fund
25 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Events, Advertising, Media and Entertainment $550k–$2.5M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
17 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $15k–$1.3M
Firstime Venture Capital
VC Fund
15 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
14 United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $420k–$50M
Pitango VC
VC Fund
13 Israel, United States, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Health Care, Information Technology $4M–$100M
GEM Capital
VC Fund
12 Cyprus, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps $400k–$15M
Oqal
VC Fund
10 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $100k–$10M
Magma Venture Partners
VC Fund
10 Israel, United States, Mexico Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software $800k–$30M
2B Angels
VC Fund
10 Israel, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
10 Turkey, United States, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Software, Video Games $50k–$2M
Cardumen Capital
VC Fund
9 Israel, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $900k–$35M
PLUS Ventures
VC Fund
8 Israel, United States, Egypt Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Video, Mobile $720k–$15M
Algebra Ventures
VC Fund
7 Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace $150k–$30M
Flat6Labs
VC Fund
7 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
7 United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Kaedan Capital
VC Fund
6 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, SaaS
Inimiti
VC Fund
6 Israel, United States Seed, Series A Software, iOS, Apps $500k–$105M
Remagine Ventures
VC Fund
6 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment $850k–$20M
Vision Ventures
VC Fund
6 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Insight Partners
VC Fund
6 United States, Israel, Germany Series B, Series A, Series C Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Acasia Group
VC Fund
6 Egypt, United States, Nigeria Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Financial Services, Mobile $50k–$2.6M
RePie Asset Management
VC Fund
6 Turkey, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps $244k–$38M
Cairo Angels
VC Fund
6 Egypt, United States, Lebanon Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketplace
Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund
6 United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $284k–$25M
APY Ventures
VC Fund
6 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming $100k–$2.5M
Jibe Ventures
VC Fund
6 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $4.5M–$56M
Genesis Partners
VC Fund
5 United States, Israel, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile $3.5M–$30M
TT Ventures
VC Fund
5 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1k–$2.5M
Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
5 Turkey Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A iOS, Software, macOS
Falak Startups
VC Fund
5 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps $6k–$2.4M
Entrée Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.5M–$60M
lool ventures
VC Fund
5 Israel, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $720k–$26M
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
5 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$30M
Kerim Kotan
Angel
5 Turkey, Canada, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $9.9k–$3M
Legziel Family
VC Fund
5 Israel, United States, Indonesia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $20k–$4M
RZM Investments
VC Fund
4 Saudi Arabia, United States, Egypt Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics $1.8M–$27M
Silicon Badia
VC Fund
4 United States, Jordan, Egypt Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Bulent Tekmen
Angel
4 Turkey, Estonia Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Art, Video $200k–$4M
Lima Ventures
VC Fund
4 Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $18k–$697k
Maxfield Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Mobile, SaaS
Hande Enes
Angel
4 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Eilon Tirosh
Angel
4 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series C Apps, FinTech, Digital Entertainment
BRM Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Israel Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet
OurCrowd
VC Fund
4 Israel, United States, New Zealand Series B, Series A, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $593k–$65M
Kültepe Investment
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $31k–$2M
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
4 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$3M
Endeavor Catalyst
VC Fund
4 United States, Brazil, Mexico Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $5.5M–$200M
Sina Afra
Angel
4 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $15k–$11M
Aleph
VC Fund
4 United States, Israel, China Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $2.5M–$51M
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Raz Group
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 25 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Raz Group empowers entrepreneurs and helps them transform their passions into value-adding companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Events, Advertising, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dnaneer — Dnaneer is a FinTech platform that connects online businesses with investors through crowdfunding of enterprises.
  • Ebra — Ebra is leading a new era of debt recovery in the Middle East. As the region’s first AI-powered collection company, we’re redefining how businesses recover capital, making the process smarter, faster, and built on trust. We’re setting a new standard for debt collection.
  • Myne — Myne offers a comprehensive platform for tracking, growing, and protecting assets. The platform integrates seamlessly with various financial tools to provide users with a holistic view of their wealth. Key features include net worth tracking, budgeting, investing, and estate planning. Myne ensures data security with multiple layers of encryption,making it a secure choice for managing financial well-being.
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 17 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

F6 Ventures is a leading seed stage venture capital firm operating across emerging markets. We back exceptional founders from idea-stage all the way to Series A, combining early capital with strategic support and a commitment to long-term partnership. With deep ties across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond, we empower innovative startups to scalewith purpose and impact. We manage over $90M in AUM across more than 300 investments in seven countries. By investing early in Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A rounds, we help founders cover initial costs, develop their product, and take it to market. This early capital acts as a launchpad, enabling startups to hit key milestones like securing first customers, attracting follow-on funding, and making significant strides forward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 307
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $32k–$650k
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • lululittle — lululittle combines storytelling with cultural themes to create empowering personalized books where your children are the heroes. We use the power of personalized storytelling to create inspiring and engaging reading experiences, placing your kids at the center of these stories. Our stories are inspired by relevant cultural themes that aim toempower kids in their diverse cultural environments. Our first story is inspired by the Arab world's rich culture and is suited for kids age 0-10. lululittle's easy to use online platform lets you personalize, preview, and order their book in just a few minutes.
  • Makan Home — SHEN168 adalah situs toto togel online yang terpercaya, menawarkan pengalaman bermain yang aman dan menyenangkan bagi para penggemar togel online.
  • Ouda W Dar — Ouda W Dar is an online platform that helps hosts and guests book unique short-term accommodations.
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Firstime Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 15 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Firstime Ventures is investing in companies who are building a sustainable & accessible future for all.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Baibys — Baibys is a medical automated platform that provides AI and robotics-based autonomous sperm selection solutions for IVF.
  • Pixellot — Pixellot is a leading sport media company that offers automatic production solutions for the amateur and semi-professional market. Pixellot’s patented technology streamlines the production workflow by deploying an unmanned multi-camera system that covers the entire field. Advanced algorithms enable dynamic coverage of the flow of play and highlightgeneration. The company streams more than 11,000 live video hours each month to fans, players, and coaches on a variety of platforms. Founded in 2013 by seasoned video and media technology experts, Pixellot has sold over 2,000 systems around the world, deployed with minor leagues, high schools, as well as at youth academies and top league clubs. Pixellot’s partners include ESPN, PlayOn Sports, the US’ biggest high school sports media company and right holder, Sporttotal.tv, Germany’s largest amateur league media platform, global coaching solution provider STATS, SeeUPlay in Mexico and Hockey TV, North America’s largest non-NHL ice hockey streaming platform. The company also works directly with leading clubs such as Bayern Munich, Spain’s Real Sociedad, Dutch AZ Alkmaar and Maccabi Tel-Aviv.
  • Securithings — Bringing IT Standards to the IoT Space.
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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 14 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $2.6M–$14M; Series B $4.6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • The Cloud — NOTICE OF WINDING UP PETITION
  • One Click Delivery Services — One Click Delivery Services redefines last mile delivery throughout the region. By providing seamless and personalized delivery from local businesses to the consumer’s doorstep, They are closing the last-mile gap between merchants and their customers. Their entire last mile and on-demand delivery is technology-enabled, with a robust deliverymanagement system featuring GPS locations tracking and automated customer notifications.
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Pitango VC
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 13 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Pitango VC is a venture capital firm focused on health-tech (Pitango Health-tech) and growth (Pitango Growth) investments in startups around the world in domains such as vertical SaaS, digital health, deep tech, fintech and insurance technology, devops, generative AI, Web3, and food tech.With two offices in Israel, Pitango currently managesseveral venture funds totaling over $2.8 billion in committed capital. It has invested in more than 250 companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Israel, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 301
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$50M; Series B $8.1M–$55M; Series C $8.2M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $175M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Convizit — Convizit's AI automatically captures user actions, adds properties, and delivers this behavioral data directly into your analytics and marketing platforms.
  • Connie Health — At Connie Health, our Medicare advisors help older Americans find the right Medicare plan - all at no cost to you.
  • QuantHealth — QuantHealth is an AI company that provides a platform to simulate clinical trials in order to accelerate and de-risk drug development.
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GEM Capital
VC Fund · Paphos, Paphos, Cyprus · 12 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

GEM Capital is an international investment company that operates in private equity and venture capital markets. Leading venture capital investor in the games industry

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Cyprus, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$2.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SpeedyDD — Automate KYB onboarding, document management, compliance checks, and keep track of audit logs in one secure platform for regulated business
  • Odd Meter — Decent enough games
  • Hypemasters — At Hypemasters, we create legendary & genre-defining games that players all over the world enjoy for years.
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Oqal
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 10 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Oqal Group was formed as an endowment group by a group of young businessmen to be a platform that brings together angel investors and emerging entrepreneurs to form partnerships of economic feasibility that raise the welfare of society and enhance the quality of life. It enables the founders of entrepreneurial startups to develop innovative andfast-growing startups in a variety of sectors by providing access to smart capital and experienced angel investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $220k–$1M; Series A $133k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nqoodlet — Nqoodlet is a fintech company that develops an expense management platform to help small and medium-sized enterprises manage their spending, expenses, and purchases through the credit cards given to the employees. Its expense management platform enables enterprises to streamline their financial operations. By allowing businesses to register bills,track purchases, and manage expenses in one centralized system, the platform offers real-time visibility into all transactions made via corporate cards issued to employees. This solution simplifies the expense reporting process, enhances transparency, and improves financial control across the organization.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • Mantas — Cloud outage insurance, built for cloud-first businesses. #ParametricInsurance
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Magma Venture Partners
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 10 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Magma is Israel's leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in communication, semiconductors, internet and media. They seek bright ideas, infuse them with experience and foresight, and facilitate their rise as industry leaders that redefine the global communications sector. They use their experience and sectorspecialization in cooperating with entrepreneurs, industry experts, and other investors to define the future of the communication, semiconductors, internet and media arenas. Their goal is to foster and enable the flow of innovation from an idea's early stages and through a company's emergence as a leader within its dynamic market. They understand the local market and help to influence the global one.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$6M; Series A $1.9M–$12M; Series B $6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Aidoc — Aidoc is an Israel-based startup providing artificial intelligence tools for radiologists. Their products help detect and pinpoint critical anomalies for radiologists through deep learning and AI algorithms that analyze medical images and patient data. Aidoc eases up the work list and frees up time and attention to what matters. The startupdeidentifies these and sends them onto Aidoc’s cloud, where algorithms identify and highlight abnormalities before returning the images to radiology workstations for reidentification.Aidoc's s solutions aid radiologists in reducing turnaround time and increasing quality and efficiency by flagging acute anomalies in real-time. It also offers tests for intracranial hemorrhages and spinal fractures, plus several chest exams for pulmonary embolisms, pneumothorax, rib fractures, and lung nodules.Aidoc was founded by Guy Reiner, Elad Walach, and Michael Braginsky in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • PayKey — The PayKey social banking and mobile P2P payment solution: A patent-pending mobile payment keyboard that seamlessly integrates with your banking application and lets users complete a transaction without leaving their social application.
  • Magisto — Magisto online video editor is a fast & powerful video maker. Turn your photos and video clips into video stories with Magisto movie editor. Start free!
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2B Angels
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 10 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Cheshin Venture Capital - Beyond funding, we provide: mentorship, strategy consulting, connections, and Joyon your way to becoming a truly exceptional company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Valerann — Valerann empowers road network operators and creates certainty through enhanced use of data - to save lives, reduce congestion, decrease emissions and to support Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs). We transform the overwhelming, disparate data created by road infrastructure, ITS assets and drivers into meaningful, easily understood insights -unlocked by our Intelligent Traffic Management solutions.
  • Arya — Arya is building the Couples Wellness category, poised to become the next billion-dollar cornerstone in the global wellness market.Couples are falling into routine and many are experiencing increased loneliness. While billions are spent on fitness, mindfulness, and sleep, emotional and physical intimacy is often neglected. We invest in swipingfor the right partner and then trying to fix it (or spend a fortune divorcing them)... but not much in between.Arya's AI concierge makes it radically easy for couples to invest in their relationship and love life, both inside and outside the bedroom - a crucial ingredient to a successful relationship.
  • 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.
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Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 10 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Software, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $134k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$600k; Series A $228k–$431k
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7.3M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Ideanote — Ideanote is your complete innovation platform. It's faster, more efficient, and lets you build a fully customizable idea management flow from start to finish.
  • Lucida AI — Enhance your employees' language skills with our AI-powered tool, tailored to your company regulations using end-to-end encryption.
  • Ono — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
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Cardumen Capital
VC Fund · Tel Aviv-yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel · 9 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups, 7 in the past 12 months

We are an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in visionary founders transforming the world through technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$13M; Pre-Seed $900k–$5.8M; Series A $7.1M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Rylo — Nagish captions your phone calls and empowers you to talk using text or voice. It's fast, private, and free.
  • Incapto Coffee — Incapto provides coffee solutions that combine specialty whole-bean coffee, super-automatic coffee machines, and subscription-based delivery services for consumers and businesses. The company supplies freshly roasted coffee beans sourced from multiple origins and delivers them directly to customers through recurring subscriptions, ensuringcontinuous availability and freshness. Its offering includes fully automatic coffee machines that grind and brew beans on demand, enabling users to prepare coffee without single-use capsules or manual preparation steps. The company also provides workplace coffee solutions, supplying machines, beans, and technical support for offices, hotels, and food service environments.Incapto integrates digital tools that track consumption, manage inventory, and automate replenishment, allowing customers to monitor usage and receive supplies based on demand. It also offers complementary products such as accessories, beverages, and maintenance services to support ongoing operation of its coffee systems.
  • Brandlight — Brandlight is a digital technology company that provides an AI-driven platform for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing how brands appear and are represented across AI-generated search and conversational results on platforms. Its platform tracks real-time AI visibility signals, including brand mentions, sentiment, share of voice, and citationsources, to help marketing, content, and brand teams understand how AI models reference their content and narratives. Brandlight also offers analytics and governance tools that enable users to assess competitive context, identify content opportunities, and align AI-facing messaging with brand strategy. The company works with enterprise clients to integrate insights into digital strategies that bridge traditional SEO with emerging AI discovery workflows and support decision-making around content optimization and brand presence in AI-mediated interactions. Brandlight’s technology emphasizes multi-engine coverage and structured visibility intelligence tailored to evolving AI search landscapes.
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PLUS Ventures
VC Fund · Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel · 8 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

PLUS Ventures, part of the Moldawsky Group, is the first multi-vehicle early-stage investment firm - a structure which enables the company to tailor the right investment suited for each venture's specific needs.PLUS's investment specialization is in Israeli early stage, fast growth technology and media ventures. Its mission is to takea hands-on approach and help great entrepreneurs create great companies.In addition to, and as important as, straight-up cash, PLUS puts its long-term expertise, skills, and ecosystem to work with, and for, its portfolio companies.PLUS Ventures is one of the most active early-stage investors in Israel, and plans to continue to be a dominant player in this field for years to come.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Video, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $720k–$1.7M; Series A $1M–$11M; Series B $4M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
  • Evrideo — Evrideo provied end-to-end cloud broadcasting platform, enabling to easily create and manage channels, using broadcast SaaS technology solution
  • DocAuthority — Dapurtoto mempersembahkan promosi spektakuler untuk para penggemar togel online! Dengan hadiah besar yang ditawarkan situs bandar togel online ini menjanjikan bayaran penuh dan pengalaman bermain yang luar biasa.
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Algebra Ventures
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 7 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Algebra Ventures invests in technology startups that leverage innovation to transform large markets. They seek high-growth companies, led by passionate and capable teams, that have a unique value proposition, and that can generate significant economic returns.Algebra Ventures looks for entrepreneurial teams that possess vision and insight as wellas the execution skills needed to build scalable companies. Algebra Ventures focuses on Series A and Series B rounds in Egypt although they do not exclude investments in earlier-stage startups or in other parts of the MENA region. They prefer to meet startups early on and get to know the team as the opportunity is shaping up.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$7M; Pre-Seed $150k–$13M; Series A $750k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
  • Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
  • Blnk — Blnk is a fintech firm that provides lending, financing, affordability, commission, reporting and settlement, and e-commerce services.
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Flat6Labs
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 7 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders. Flat6Labs manages a number of seed funds with a total AUM in excess of $85M. More than 25 leading institutions have invested into the Flat6Labs managed funds; believing in the asset class and Flat6Labs’ proven track record as the market leader.. Flat6Labs provides a wide range of investment ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $500k, supporting startups through their early journeys from Pre-Seed all the way to Pre-Series A stages. Alongside to the investments, Flat6Labs’ exceptional startup programs, executed to cater specifically for the needs of the innovative entrepreneurs, helps them accelerate their growth by providing them with a plethora of support services and connecting them to unparalleled opportunities with an expansive network comprising hundreds of business mentors, investors and corporates. Launched and headquartered in Cairo since 2011, Flat6Labs has multiple offices across the region; with ongoing plans to expand into other emerging markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
  • Yamm — Yamm is an e-commerce platform that offers a method for refunding customers' money.
  • Wateer — Wateer is a digital partner that meets the needs of the real world with solutions from the digital world. Wateer offers paperless invoices at retail points "Receipt as a Service (RaaS)" using a low friction process for shoppers and retailers. It was founded in 2022 and is located in Riyadh, Riyadh.
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 7 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
  • Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system
  • Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
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Kaedan Capital
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 6 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Kaedan Capital is a private investment group active for over 15 years. We are entrepreneur centric investors with co-founder mentality, focused on Israeli related, seed to early stage ventures in diverse technology areas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
  • NOVOS — Hundreds of Fortnite training activities and routines in a personalized schedule that fits your needs and goals. Built for competitive Fortnite players that want to place higher and make earnings.
  • Voyantis — Voyantis game-changing technology helps marketing and growth teams optimize their CAC payback by leveraging AI to acquire the most valuable users, across any platform
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Inimiti
VC Fund · Glil Yam, Tel Aviv, Israel · 6 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Inimiti makes seed-stage New Media investments. They bring extensive experience in fund and company management from being entrepreneurs, CEOs and investors. Their focus is Software platforms and services in the New Media space (Internet, Mobile and anything in between).Its Name Inimiti, is a derivative of “inimitable” which means “somethingthat is beyond imitation, something surpassingly excellent, unrivaled and exceptional.” We like to feel that way but more important, it keeps us on edge and reminds us every day about the high level of performance we are expected to deliver.The company is at the beginning of a revolution in the way people communicate, consume content, shop, do business and manage their lives. The usage of Internet and mobile today, and their connectivity presents a tremendous opportunity to create successful companies that bring new platforms and services to the space. Combine that with today’s rapid development and deployment technologies and our start-up companies are getting to the market faster with less capital, and grow quickly into profitable businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, iOS, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.5M; Series A $750k–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
  • IGNITE IMPULSE, INC. — As a digital agricultural enhancing service, Ignite impulse offers a variety of services, some of which include the following: agricultural software and equipment rentals, sales, maintenance, and leasing solutions; self-regulated farm shells with pre-installed vertical farming solutions; machined irrigation consulting and installations; artificialintelligence (AI) powered farming solutions; hydroponics farming consultation- partnership and installations; supply chain and logistics partnership; and more.Ignite Impulse also offers hydroponics solutions, as well as controlled farming assistance and consulting, to corporate, government, and educational organizations as part of our cooperation with these entities.
  • 3D VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC — 3D technology consulting and implementation services, specializing in the application of 3D printing and 3D science to all spheres of human interaction. For instance, in the field of aquaculture, 3D farms not only cultivate seaweed and shellfish for the purpose of harvesting, but they also rehabilitate ecosystems that were damaged by commercialfishing in the past. Commercial fishing is destructive in addition to being harvesting.
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Remagine Ventures
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 6 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Remagine Ventures: Investing in founders at the forefront of the AI revolution. Discover our portfolio, insights, and how to pitch us.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$7.2M; Series A $4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Zoog — Be part of their story
  • Munch — Munch allows you to create once. Repurpose to Dozens of pieces on every platform. Analyze engagement. Control Monetization. All On One Platform.
  • Piggy — create awesome interactive content on your smartphone - no design skills or coding are needed
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 6 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Vision Ventures (VV) is an early stage venture capital firm founded by experienced entrepreneurs. Its slogan is:"By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs". We invest in innovative startups in the Seed and Series A across a wide range of verticals. We help startups realize their dreams and make a difference in a noisy world. We are an energeticteam that has a wealth of experience in starting companies and steering them to success and hyper growth. Our combined experience spans over 90 years in multiple countries which gives us extensive experience in multi-national, multi-cultural teams. We provide startups with hands on assistance and guidance on marketing, sales, product/service development, financial planning and management, expansion & growth strategy, and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rewaa — Rewaa was founded to make penetrating through the e-commerce industry easier for retailers with minimal operational and marketing costs by solving two main aspects:Marketing aspect: Make in-store products available online. By using Rewaa Cashier System, any product in the physical store will be automatically listed in the online marketplaces andthe merchant's online store. Operational aspects: The integration between physical, online store and marketplace, eliminate the need of independent inventory for online store operations, and that will help to reduce employment cost, therefore, the physical store will be the shipping center, so whenever an order received by online store will be transferred automatically for the nearest branch from the customer. And eventually, the inventory will be automatically updated across all channels.
  • Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
  • Quantum Platform — Quantum | B2B platform to acquire new customers, use our marketing & consumer behavior analysis tools to reach your exact target audience right to their doorsteps!
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Insight Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups, 57 in the past 12 months

Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 827
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Anjuna — Anjuna confidential cloud software establishes a secure enclave that isolates and encrypts applications and data in runtime, at rest, and on the network for end-to-end data protection
  • Kiteworks — Kiteworks is a cybersecurity company that provides secure communication and file-sharing solutions for businesses and organizations. The company focuses on protecting sensitive information by offering a secure platform that enables safe and compliant sharing of files, emails, and other forms of communication. Kiteworks offers a comprehensiveplatform that integrates a variety of communication and file-sharing tools designed to ensure the security and compliance of data exchanges. The platform allows users to securely share files both internally and externally, adhering to various data protection regulations. It provides end-to-end email encryption, safeguarding sensitive information during transmission. Additionally, Kiteworks facilitates secure managed file transfer (MFT), enabling the transfer of large files and sensitive data with detailed audit trails and compliance features. Organizations can also leverage secure APIs to embed file sharing, email, and communication functions directly into their existing applications. Furthermore, Kiteworks aids in meeting regulatory requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and FedRAMP by offering robust compliance and reporting features, ensuring comprehensive audit trails and adherence to industry standards.
  • Flightkeys — Flightkeys has been founded as a research and development company in April 2015 by global aviation experts.
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Acasia Group
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 6 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Cairo Angels is an angel investment network that invests in and supports early-stage startups it convenes regular investment meetings to review pre-selected potential investees.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.6M; Angel $200k–$300k
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bosta — Bosta provides an on-demand courier app with a B2C focus, allowing users to send parcels to their customers. The platform connects its users to couriers and allows them to monitor the status of the delivery of the package. Bosta was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt.
  • EFG EV Fintech — EFG EV Fintech is investing in startups and bolstering the Fintech ecosystem in the process. EFG EV Fintech combines the financial know-how of EFG Hermes and entrepreneurial expertise of Egypt Ventures to launch the a Fintech-focused startup accelerator.They invest in rising Fintech startups with the potential to grow domestically and expandbeyond the Egyptian market. EFG EV Fintech also provides innovators with the fully integrated services they need to thrive – from funding to mentorship, to training, and office space.
  • Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
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RePie Asset Management
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 6 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

RE-PIE is Turkey's first alternative asset management company that was authorized by Capital Markets Board of Turkey to establish real estate investment funds in 2015. With our top-quality management team that has many years of professional experience in various markets, it is our privilege to serve our investors to generate best in classinvestment returns in accordance with their risk perceptions and return expectations in line with our well-structured investment process and risk management guidelines. We aim to provide new funding opportunities and resources for Turkish Capital Markets in order to enable new investments and to grow steadily by increasing our fund size with wide range of products in various asset classes.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $244k–$3.7M; Series A $1M–$38M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
  • Goldtag — Digital Asset Development
  • Vimesoft — Manage secure team communication and AI-powered learning with Vimesoft on one platform, while keeping your data under your control on your own infrastructure.
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Cairo Angels
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 6 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Cairo Angels is an angel investment network that invests in and supports early-stage startups it convenes regular investment meetings to review pre-selected potential investees.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, Lebanon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing Analytical and R&D services to the region's life science, food, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.
  • Sprints — home page Description
  • The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
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Jabbar Internet Group
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 6 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

The exit of Souq to Amazon is the largest tech transaction of the region, and Souq continues to pave the way in e-commerce in the region. Souq was built from the ground up by the same team at Jabbar, who built the Maktoob portal before that. Maktoob was born out of a simple idea but with a vision that the Arabic Internet will grow and become anintegral part of everybody's life, and grew to become the largest Arabic Internet property before Yahoo acquired it.Both the Souq and Maktoob stories have become inspiring success stories in the region, where budding entrepreneurs and VC's alike, look to our team for inspiration and new ideas.Today Jabbar continues to grow and pave the way for tech in the region. It is in this spirit that we embrace any entrepreneur who is willing to innovate and take risks in order to create something great. Jabbar nurtures such individuals and supports nascent ideas that are in line with its mission. So join our journey :-)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $284k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $850k–$2.5M; Series A $800k–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
  • Qeen Ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
  • Blueground — Rent beautiful, fully furnished apartments for monthly stays in the best locations around the world. Thousands of furnished flats for short and long-term stays.
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APY Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 6 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups, 15 in the past 12 months

APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Nuvolog — Revolutionize logistics operations with Nuvolog. Features like spot procurement, carbon tracking, and time slot management enhance efficiency and streamline operations.
  • Viseur AI — Viseur AI delivers a cutting-edge medical imaging solution powered by artificial intelligence. Our platform provides robust, scalable, cost-effective long-term radiology and digital pathology solutions through end-to-end automation.
  • Spektra Games — We create the most realistic simulation/racing games for mobile!
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Jibe Ventures
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 6 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Venture capital Israel | Seed fund | Pre seed fund | Founders fund

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $4.5M–$29M; Series A $14M–$30M; Series B $25M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arato — Arato.ai is an advanced AI agent simulation platform that helps organizations test, evaluate, and monitor generative LLM applications for production readiness. The system autonomously generates dynamic, real world user scenarios to execute thousands of multi turn conversations against AI agents to identify hallucinations, security threats, and UXdrifts.
  • Notch — We are the first insurance designed specifically to cater the unique needs of the businesses and assets that make the digital economy. Get an instant quote today!
  • groundcover — Instantly pinpoint bleeding issues in production & troubleshoot quickly with groundcover. All with zero code changes.
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Genesis Partners
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 5 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Genesis Partners is a leading early stage Israeli venture capital firm that manages over $600 Million across four funds, and focuses on seed and early stage investments in the ICT sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$28M; Series B $8M–$20M; Series C $6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PPIO — PPIO is a distributed cloud computing project initiated by PPTV founders Bill YAO and Wayne Wang in 2018. The goal is to build a decentralized distributed cloud service platform. The mission is to gather global computing resources and serve all mankind. PPIO is based on the business model of sharing economy, combined with big data, cloud native anddistributed computing technology, and gathers professional server resources at the edge of network to build the first distributed cloud service covering all provinces, cities, districts and counties in China to serve the next generation edge computing scenarios with low-latency, high-bandwidth, reliability and security. At present, it has become the main provider of distributed cloud services for many first-line audio and video internet giants, cloud computing companies and unicorn startups at home and abroad.At present, there are micro data centers and distributed computing resources in more than 1000 cities and regions in China, which can provide eBareMetal, and eContainer at the edge of network nationwide, as well as edge computing services such as CDN, audio and video live streaming and transcoding, application performance monitoring, AI computing reasoning and cloud game rendering based on distributed cloud native architecture.
  • Aternity — Unlocking the full potential of your digital experiences has never been more accessible. Illuminate, accelerate and fully leverage the full breadth of possibilities with Riverbed.
  • Kaymera — Kaymera delivers the most sophisticated mobile defense system to protect organizations, governments and individuals from all mobile security threats
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TT Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 5 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

TT Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Turk Telekom.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $41k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $1k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
  • OctoXLabs — Most Comprehensive Cybersecurity Asset Management Solution #CSAM #CAASM
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel · 5 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

I am the Art and Code Director at Metromedya Digital Ad Agency. In addition to my role as director, I am also a skilled programmer, designer, and musician. I have expertise in iOS and MacOS development and enjoy snowboarding in my free time. As a self-proclaimed geek, I am always seeking to learn and grow in my field. I am passionate about creatinginnovative and visually appealing designs and using my coding skills to bring them to life.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Software, macOS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
  • Notes.io — A free note-taking app. Online Notes on everywhere.
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Falak Startups
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 5 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Falak Startups is a start-up accelerator designed to support and empower the next generation of Egyptian entrepreneurs and contribute to the development of the start-up ecosystem in Egypt.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $6k–$360k
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
  • Tafatifi — Tafatifi is an online music platform that provides information regarding music events in Egypt. It is also a music based social media.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

We are a team of former serial founders managing $1.5Bn across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York. We back the next generation of category-defining companies with conviction of founders who have built companies themselves.We back founders with a partnership built on trust, fairness and real operating experience. Westand with founders through every challenge, and help them grow with clarity, resilience and purpose.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 278
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $14M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
  • Identiq — Identiq's network members fight fraud and improve user experience by validating new users and vouching for ones they already know without sharing any personal user data at all.
  • IRP Systems — IRP Systems delivers high performance electric vehicle systems, EVVER e-powertrains and TrueDRIVE control software for fast integration.
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lool ventures
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 5 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

We find and work with Israel’s best founders who are driven by a clear vision of how the world or an industry could be better. We share their obsession with bringing that vision to life. We do this at the very start of their journey. We are Israel’s Seed Fund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $720k–$10M; Series A $1.2M–$20M; Series B $8M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeroport — Zeroport enables secure remote access using hardware-enforced, non-IP isolation, eliminating malware, data exfiltration, and VPN-based attack surfaces.
  • Dono — Supercharge your title production with Dono. The AI platform that ensures speed and efficient scale without compromising accuracy or consistency.
  • Cassidy Bio — A biotechnology company developing AI-driven genomic foundation models
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 5 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
  • THINK-AI — Complete in-house freedom to innovate, develop, fine-tune and train AI models for any unique business needs. Own the AI.
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Kerim Kotan
Angel · 5 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Kerim Kotan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $9.9k–$2M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1M; Venture - Series Unknown $715k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Buluttan — Buluttan delivers AI-powered hyper-local weather intelligence for energy, aviation, agriculture, logistics, and insurance. Accurate forecasts, severe-weather alerts, and operational decision support.
  • Werover — AI & IoT solutions for predictive maintenance
  • Innovasion Labs PINC — Next Generation of Energy Storage
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Legziel Family
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 5 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Legziel Famliy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Pre-Seed $20k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zoog — Be part of their story
  • Pelles.ai — Pells.ai is leveraging generative AI and path-planning algorithms to create a new way to design and produce mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) building systems to save time, money, and materials.
  • Atlas Invest — Commercial real estate bridge loans up to $20M with same-day term sheets and funding in as few as 7 days. Institutional private credit for investors.
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RZM Investments
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

RZM Investments manages the shares of various companies that are in the field of health, education, hospitality, and tourism.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5M; Series A $6M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aamar — An innovative real estate platform that simplifies and automates leasing processes.
  • Bonat — Bonat is a customer engagement solution that provides advanced tools to help in managing businesses.
  • Rewaa — Rewaa was founded to make penetrating through the e-commerce industry easier for retailers with minimal operational and marketing costs by solving two main aspects:Marketing aspect: Make in-store products available online. By using Rewaa Cashier System, any product in the physical store will be automatically listed in the online marketplaces andthe merchant's online store. Operational aspects: The integration between physical, online store and marketplace, eliminate the need of independent inventory for online store operations, and that will help to reduce employment cost, therefore, the physical store will be the shipping center, so whenever an order received by online store will be transferred automatically for the nearest branch from the customer. And eventually, the inventory will be automatically updated across all channels.
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Silicon Badia
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Silicon Badia is a venture capital firm providing networks and support to leading technology entrepreneurs around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Jordan, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • mtion interactive — Redefine play, shape new worlds, and unleash your story. mtion empowers anyone to build interactive experiences and share their creativity.
  • Roboost — Tayar is an enterprise solution using Artificial intelligence and complex Algorithms to facilitate, optimize, and manage the delivery process to any BTC (mainly home delivery) business to increase the delivery speed and performance.
  • The Prospective Co. — The Prospective Co. provides fast, interactive analytics & data visualization product for large datasets.
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Bulent Tekmen
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Bulent Tekmen is a co-founder of ininal, a payment system for the unbanked population in Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Art, Video
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$200k; Convertible Note $250k–$475k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
  • Vimesoft — Manage secure team communication and AI-powered learning with Vimesoft on one platform, while keeping your data under your control on your own infrastructure.
  • Swipeline Media — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
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Lima Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$697k; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shippn — International package forwarding service. Shop from Amazon, Shein, Macy's worldwide. Fast shipping with DHL & FedEx. Trusted by 50,000+ customers.
  • heybooster — heybooster is the creator of a platform for marketing analysis that aids e-commerce managers in finding chances for revenue growth and in making better choices. It provides clients with digital reporting, online meetings, online communication, an online project management system, and an online playbook that helps them discover problems, findpossibilities for revenue growth, and cut expenses.
  • Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
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Maxfield Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Venture fund investing in global information technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • NFWare — The World's Fastest Network Functions Virtualization. High-Performance NFV applications for carriers, data centers and enterprises
  • 3S Money — Collect, send and exchange high-value payments in 190+ countries, with 3S Money's global business accounts built for SMEs. Open an account today.
  • viisights — viisights is a leading innovator of behavioral recognition systems for real-time video intelligence. The company provides AI-powered behavioral recognition systems for safe and smart cities, enterprises, campuses, banks, financial institutions, critical infrastructures, transportation hubs, and for shared and autonomous mobility. viisights’ missionis to leverage artificial intelligence technologies that facilitate human-like pattern prediction to create fully autonomous video intelligence systems. To achieve success, the company relies on a seasoned management, a knowledgeable tech team, cutting-edge technological expertise and a far-reaching vision.
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Hande Enes
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Hande Enes

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
  • Crait.it — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
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Eilon Tirosh
Angel · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, FinTech, Digital Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • zooz — Manage and optimize multiple payment providers through a single platform.
  • Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
  • Thumzap — Thumzap reconnects people in the digital world by making the process of paying for someone else's purchases simple, fun and safe.Sometimes we need or just want someone else to pay for our purchases, either because we don't have a credit card or enough money, or because we're just not that tech-savvy and need some help.Thumzapmakes it easy to send friends and family a request to pay for us. All they have to do is approve the payment and they can pay with their own credit card or paypal account, in just one click. Not only does that make it completely safe and secure, but also familiar. No one has to share a password, set up a digital wallet, or input their credit card information, it’s a simple way to help fulfill a digital request.
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BRM Capital
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

BRM Capital is a dynamic venture capital fund investing in early stage, Israel-related software, internet infrastructure, and communication companies. Their investment focus is on the Internet, mobile and mobile applications, digital media, online services, enterprise software, and medical device sectors and they also offer flexible, streamlinedinvestment decision making.BRM headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel enjoys a worldwide network of industry, strategic and financial experts.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • V-Wave — V-Wave Ltd. is a privately held company with offices in Israel and the US. The company is focused on developing percutaneous implantable devices for treating patients with Chronic Heart Failure (HF). V-Wave’s vision is to help patients who remain with disabling symptoms or need hospitalization despite optimized medical treatment. V-Wave hasdeveloped a proprietary interatrial shunt intended to relieve symptoms, reduce hospitalization, increase exercise capacity and improve the overall quality of life.The original concept and development started in Israel with a talented team of engineers and medical scientists. The company’s senior management has decades of experience successfully developing, clinically testing and bringing to market multiple implantable cardiovascular devices.
  • ShopperAI — AI-powered shelf monitoring using your existing security cameras
  • Exceed Talent Capital — Exceed is an innovative platform to invest, earn, engage, influence, and celebrate Talent.
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OurCrowd
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Invest in exclusive and pre-vetted startups, late-stage companies, and top tier funds - private market access made simple, transparent, and institutional-grade.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 309
  • Round size: Seed $593k–$10M; Series A $5.3M–$34M; Series B $8M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
  • Hemispheric — Hemispheric develops fundamental AI technologies aimed at deciphering brain activity for innovative applications.
  • MUV Interactive — MUV Interactive designs and develops innovative technology for active human sensing, providing a natural and fluent interactive experience with any type of digital application, from displayed content, and smart home appliances to IOT (Internet of Things) devices, drones and AR/VR applications. The company’s flagship product, Bird, is anintuitive device that is worn on the index finger, which transforms any space into a 3D Interactive Environment. Bird is the first device to integrate the entire spectrum of input and control methods – including touch, remote touch, gesture control and mouse functionality. This gives users the flexibility to interact with each type of digital content in the most intuitive way, whether up close or from a distance of up to 100 feet away.
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Kültepe Investment
VC Fund · Kayseri, Kayseri, Turkey · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Kültepe Investment was established by 20 investors within the Erban Angel Investor Network to improve the investment climate of Central Anatolia and to make Kayseri a unique and unique center of attraction for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shippn — International package forwarding service. Shop from Amazon, Shein, Macy's worldwide. Fast shipping with DHL & FedEx. Trusted by 50,000+ customers.
  • Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
  • Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $233k–$2.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
  • Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
  • ya da multicosmetics — ya da multicosmetics is a cosmetics brand and aims to accelerate its R&D efforts, support its growth.
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Endeavor Catalyst
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Endeavor Catalyst is the co-investment fund set up to invest exclusively in led companies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 445
  • Round size: Series A $5.5M–$37M; Series B $10M–$100M; Series C $23M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $292M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life.
  • Rain — Rain is a vertically integrated issuing partner for global platforms. Enabling innovative financial products through modern APIs, flexible infrastructure, supporting electronic and digital money. Launch a card program in days not months.
  • Circeus — Shop Circle is a tech-driven company that acquires and grows the best e-commerce apps. We empower thousands of brands to build experiences that customers will love.
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Sina Afra is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting technology-driven companies.He is best known as the founder of Markafoni, one of Turkey’s first large-scale digital commerce companies and a defining success of the country’s early internet economy. In 2011, Naspers Groupacquired a majority stake in Markafoni in one of the landmark transactions of the Turkish internet sector.Over the course of his career, Sina has founded more than 20 companies, completed 12 exits, and angel-invested in over 60 early-stage startups across Europe, Africa, and the United States.He is a Founding Partner at Founder One, an impact venture capital fund, and the Founder and Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Foundation (Girişimcilik Vakfı), which focuses on developing entrepreneurial talent and strengthening the long-term infrastructure of the startup ecosystem in Turkey.Earlier in his career, Sina worked at KPMG and held leadership roles at eBay, where he gained first-hand experience in operating and scaling global internet platforms.His work has been recognized with more than 20 international awards and honors, including being named Internet Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Angel of the Year, and Forbes’ Brightest Minds Alive in Turkey, with features in Wired and Forbes.Sina holds a degree from the University of Münster and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages and is actively engaged in the European and Turkish technology and venture ecosystems.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Odeal — Oedeal is a developer of an app designed for companies to take payments via mobile. With the help of the company's platform, shops can do away with cash registers and accept payments from customers using tablets, smartphones, or point-of-sale devices, allowing them to finish their purchases right away. Making it simpler for all entrepreneursto access financial services is central to their mission of boosting the competitiveness of both enterprises and the nation.
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
  • Temizlikyolda — Get professional Home Cleaning Service from our referenced professionals for your home cleaning needs.
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Aleph
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 4 investments in Middle East Media (entertainment) startups

Early-stage VC fund managing $850M+ and partnering with Israeli entrepreneurs to build impactful global brands, like Lemonade and Melio.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$33M; Series B $11M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Coralogix — Coralogix is a full-stack observability platform that enables businesses to monitor and manage data in real time, providing instant insights without the need for indexing. The platform supports Log Analytics, application performance monitoring (APM), security information and event management (SIEM), real user monitoring (RUM), and infrastructuremonitoring, offering complete visibility into AI performance, security, and governance in a single solution. Coralogix offers a simple pricing model based on data volume, along with world-class support that ensures rapid response times and swift resolutions.
  • Voltify — Voltify is building the energy infrastructure for freight rail: battery locomotives, on-route charging, and grid-independent microgrids that replace diesel.
  • Inevitable AI Group — In retrospect, it was inevitable https://t.co/5tEZPEGfxw
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Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.

To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.

To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.

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What is Shizune?

Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.

With Shizune you can:

  • browse the database
  • use smart matching
  • enrich with emails
  • download

All you need to find investors for your startup.

Who is Shizune for?

Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.

If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.

Is Shizune free?

Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.

Email search and export are paid features.

For full info, visit our pricing.

Who built Shizune?

Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.

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