# Top 50 Medical Angel Investors in Middle East in June 2026 ## Fatima Al-Kuwari - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Health Care Fatima Al-Kuwari ## Firat Isbecer - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris. ## Zohar Gilon - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care Mr. Zohar Gilon is a Managing Partner at Tamar Technology Ventures. He has personally invested in over 45 start-ups and has achieved 13 exits. Mr. Gilon has also served as the Transaction Manager for some of Israel's most highly recognized exits and has managed each deal from inception through completion, including pricing and distributions.He has extensive investment experience including activity as an angel investor and an Investment Advisor to the Gilon Group. Mr. Gilon is a private investor in numerous high-technology companies, including affiliates of Radcom Ltd. in Israel. From 1974 to 1993, Mr. Gilon served as the President of various companies representing major U.S. aerospace and electronics corporations. From November 1993 to August 1995, he served as the President of W.S.P. Capital Holdings Ltd. Previously he served, as the Managing Director of Shaked Technologies Ltd. He serves as a Director of HCL CleanTech Ltd., RIT, AVT Ltd., Oberon Media, Inc., Edge Medical, Exlibris, OrSense Ltd., and WisAir Ltd. He served as a Director of RAD Ventures. Mr. Gilon served as a Director of RiT Technologies Ltd. since 1995, Ceragon Networks Ltd. since June 1999, Radware Ltd. from October 2006 to July 2009 and Radcom Ltd. since June 1995. He served as Member of the Supervisory Board of Advanced Vision Technology (AVT) Limited. He served as an Outside Director of Silicom Ltd. since 1994. ## Fatih Isbecer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Software, Health Care Fatih Isbecer - Founder & CEO @ Dataroid ## Marius Nacht - Type: Angel - Location: Tel Aviv-yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Machine Learning Marius Nacht, one of Check Point’s founders, has served as Chairman of our board of directors since 2015. Nacht has also served as one of our directors since we were incorporated in 1993. From 1999 through 2005, Nacht held Senior Vice President roles at Check Point. Nacht earned a B.S. (cum laude) in Physics and Mathematics from the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem in 1983, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Communication Systems from Tel Aviv University in 1987. ## Prof. Rafael Beyar - Type: Angel - Location: Haifa, Hefa, Israel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Medical, Medical Device, Machine Learning Prof. Rafael Beyar ## Shimon Eckhouse - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Biotechnology, Fitness Shimon Eckhouse ## Hala Fadel - Type: Angel - Location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Social Media Hala is a partner at leap ventures, a late-stage venture capital firm based in Beirut and Dubai, and the founder and chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum of the pan-Arab region, an organization that promotes entrepreneurship and organizes among other things the MIT Arab startup competition. She is also an Angel investor in start-up companies inthe Middle East and Europe, and has launched a co-working space in Beirut called Coworking+961. She recently founded MIT Technology review Arabic, the Arabic edition of the MIT Technology review Magazine, that covers science and innovation in the Arab region.Hala was previously for 12 years a portfolio manager for European Equities at Comgest, a euro Equity 20bn fund. She graduated from HEC in France in 1997 with a Masters in Financial Economics and attended the Berkeley Haas School of Business, she holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. While at MIT she participated and won part of the MIT 50K business plan competition with Booleo, a telecom software business, later acquired as an internal solution by a client. ## Itsik Danziger - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Hospital, Health Care Itsik Danziger - Chairman of the Board @ The Center for Educational Technology (CET) ## Levent Hatay - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Dental, Medical Levent Hatay is a shareholder Şeffaf Aparey. ## Umur Çulha - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Dental, Medical Umur Çulha ## Kübel Özkut - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Dental, Medical Kübel Özkut ## Rafi Gidron - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Software Rafi Gidron is the Founder and Chairman of Israel Brain Technologies. He previously worked at Lucent as a VP of Optical networks. Rafi Gidron attended Columbia University. ## Rahul Arora - Type: Angel - Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Dental, Medical, Wellness Rahul Arora ## Mori Arkin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Men's, Medical, Health Care Mori Arkin is based out of Israel and is the Founder and Chairman of Arkin Capital. Mori Arkin attended Tel Aviv University. ## Selçuk Esenyel - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Wellness, Health Care Selçuk Esenyel is an Angel investor. ## Kurthan Atmaca - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Dental, Medical Kurthan Atmaca ## Amir Gross - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device Amir Gross is the CEO of Cardiovalve. ## Avi Kornreich - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Hospital, Health Care Avi Kornreich is a former CEO of Agentek. ## Steve Barsh - Type: Angel - Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical Steve Barsh is a managing partner at Dreamit Ventures. He attended the University of Michigan from 1983 to 1987. ## Erdem Gülen - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Local, Mobile, Medical I am who I am. ## Karim Hussein - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Blockchain, Health Care Karim is a technology veteran with deep experience in product and innovation management and rapid business growth and scaling – particularly in the healthcare and financial services markets. Karim has been an active investor and mentor to a number of technology businesses in Egypt and the US. He is founder and Chairman of D-Kimia DiagnosticSolutions developing fast, affordable, and accurate medical diagnostics using nano-technology and focused on controlling the Hepatitis C epidemic in Egypt and globally. Karim has served on the board of D-Kimia, Integreight, Shezlong.com, Prognos.ai, and Simplex Arabia CNC Solutions. He is also Chairman of the entrepreneurship committee of the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council, a mentor to high impact entrepreneurs through the Endeavor network, and a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Previously, Karim was SVP, Products and Engineering at WebMD, Inc., directing product management, technology strategy and engineering. Prior to WebMD, Karim was co-founder and CTO of Riskclick, Inc., a software firm specializing in commercial insurance applications. He also was a senior associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton where he was a member of the Global e-Commerce team.Karim received his PhD in Information Systems from MIT and a dual BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He has over 40 publications and a patent for his work on distributed computing. ## Burak Şen - Type: Angel - Location: Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Beauty, Mobile Burak Şen ## Nir Greenberg - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Advice, Medical, Software Founder and CEO at Natural Intelligence. ## Mine Dedekoca - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Dental, Medical Mine Dedekoca ## Serhat Özer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Dental, Medical Serhat Özer ## Yavuz Irtem - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Dental, Medical Yavuz Irtem ## Yehuda Zisapel - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Medical Device, Medical, Health Care Mr. Yehuda Zisapel (EE,MSc, MBA, DHC) is the founder and president of the RAD-Bynet Group, a leading pioneering association of Israeli companies active in the development, production and marketing of innovative solutions for the data communications industry, and Chairman of RAD. The RAD-Bynet Group grew out of Bynet Data Communications, whichMr. Zisapel founded in 1975 as a small private company that marketed data communications products. Bynet represented major international vendors and was the first to introduce cutting-edge technologies into the Israeli market. Today, the Bynet Group is comprised of eight companies active in both the Israeli and Eastern European markets in such fields as systems integration, cabling, testing, outsourcing, and software development. Following the arrival of Mr. Zisapel’s brother, Zohar, who joined him in 1981, a wide range of industrial activity was spawned from within the newly established RAD, the first of the RAD Group companies. In the years following its successful launch, twenty-four additional independent hi-tech companies were opened to develop, produce and market a wide variety of advanced data communications products. ## Moshe Yanai - Type: Angel - Location: Brookline, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series D - Focus: Data Storage, Artificial Intelligence, Medical Moshe Yanai has been instrumental in the development of some of the most advanced and successful storage technologies in the history of the industry. Mr. Yanai began his career in the 1970s, building IBM-compatible mainframe storage based on minicomputer disks. He went on to develop high-end storage systems for Nixdorf, and in the late 1980s,joined EMC, leading the team that developed Symmetrix (today’s “DMX series”). As Vice President of EMC’s Symmetrix group, Mr. Yanai was responsible for design and development of all hardware and software products for EMC’s industry-leading enterprise storage systems. Based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, EMC’s Symmetrix group grew from only one employee in 1987 to more than 3500 under his leadership. Mr. Yanai graduated in 1975 from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology with a Bsc in Electrical Engineering. He holds over 40 patents for various innovative storage hardware and software-related technologies. ## Rafi Benary - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Medical Device, Health Diagnostics Rafi Benary is the Co-founder at Innoventric and he holds a Masters’ degree from the New York University in Material Science and a Mechanical Engineering. He is an entrepreneur of 4 start-up companies, bringing them from inception to clinical stage through effective planning and execution. ## Benny Levin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Hospital, Health Care Benny Levin is a founder and former CEO of NICE. ## Jim Elkind - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Hospital, Health Care Jim Elkind is a private healthcare investor. ## Jacques R. Seguin - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Medical Device, Health Care Jacques Seguin is the Chairman Of The Board at Emanate Biomedical. He Attended Paris-Sud University (Paris XI) during 1975-1985. ## Raoul Stein - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Therapeutics Raoul joined Kreos in 1999 and over the last 12 years has built a highly active presence as the leading senior credit provider to high-growth companies in Israel, as well as supporting a wide range of transactions across Europe. Mr. Stein also plays a key role in the management and execution of Kreos's overall strategy.Before joining Kreos,Raoul was an associate with Apax Partners in Israel where he invested in services and high-growth technology businesses and corporate spin-offs. He also assisted the general partners in fund-related activities such as divestment of their funds' successes traded on NASDAQ, and in general fund-raising activities such as portfolio analysis, reporting and due diligence for the purpose of raising new funds.Prior to joining Apax Partners, Raoul was an associate with Friedman , Turbidy & Co, a New York-based financial advisory firm. Raoul assisted the managing partner in several refinancing and acquisition transactions. He was involved in a refinancing of asset-backed loans with a large glass maker in the US, representing the company in its efforts to refinance its debt with banking institutions. In addition he was involved in fund-raising for a US based cosmetics company in its expansion.Raoul studied law at Bar-Ilan University. He clerked at the firm of M. Porath & Co in Tel-Aviv and passed the Bar exams in Israel in 1993. After that he graduated in 1995 from Columbia Business School with an MBA. ## Berkay Mollamustafaoglu - Type: Angel - Location: Ankara, Ankara, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics Berkay Mollamustafaoglu is the Co-Founder & CEO at OpsGenie. Prior to OpsGenie, Berkay was the CEO of iFountain, and held roles at several technology and consulting companies including Netuitive, Smarts, Ernst & Young, and Predictive Systems. Berkay holds a degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from METU. ## Brock Weatherup - Type: Angel - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: EdTech, Medical, mHealth Brock Weatherup is the CEO/Founder of Metamorphosis Partners driving enterprise value through innovation in the $80B pet industry focused on the consumer. Brock was most recently the EVP of Strategic Innovation & Digital Experience at Petco. Previously he was CEO & CoFounder of PetCoach (acquired by Petco) - revolutionizing the PetHealth Care experience. Brock is a CEO, entrepreneur, angel investor, builder of enterprise value and passionate advocate about the consumer and their interactions with digital media & Ecommerce. Brock is also managing partner of Atai Ventures angel investments, co-founder of ICONYC (www.iconyclabs.com) an early stage NYC based Israeli accelerator, investor/advisor/board member for 7+ startups - VeryApt, SideCar, Social Ladder, Ethology and an industry advisor for VC firms EQT Partners, MissionOG & SafeGuard. Previously Brock was SVP/Chief Digital Officer of Petsmart after selling Pet360 where he was CEO the prior 5 years. Brock was also CEO of Fathead and held several leadership positions with InterActiveCorp (Ticketmaster, Match.com, CitySearch, ReserveAmerica). A graduate of University of Colorado Boulder, sits as a board member of the Nature Conservancy – Adirondacks, father of two amazing girls and pet owner to my 4yr old retriever named...Boulder. ## Al Raya Kuwaiti - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Software, Internet of Things Al Raya Kuwaiti ## Ufuk Coşkun - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Dental, Medical Ufuk Coşkun ## Ayberk Kalkavan - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Medical, Wellness, Psychology Ayberk Kalkavan ## Savaş Yılmazer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Dental, Medical Savaş Yılmazer ## Oren Dobronsky - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Payments, Software Entrepreneur at heart. Angel investor in past two decades. I had the privilege to invest in the following startups, mostly at seed level: Houzz(Unicorn), TripActions(Unicorn), Hippo(Unicorn), HomeLight, Domestika, Loop Commerce, RedKix, Duda, YouNow, OwnerListens... But mostly, I am known as Oren from Oren's Hummus :) ## Menachem Winfield - Type: Angel - Location: Sai Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Consumer Goods, Personal Health Menachem Winfield is the founder and Managing Director of Starry Group. He previously worked at Seebo as an Advisor. ## Ebru Dorman - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Health Care, Apps, Fitness Ebru Dorman ## Arie Abecassis - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Events Arie Abecassis is the Co-Founder at ICONYC labs. ## Shiva Datawani - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Convertible Note - Focus: Medical, Psychology, Health Care Shiva Datawani ## Dov Moran - Type: Angel - Location: Kfar Saba, HaMerkaz, Israel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Hardware, Health Care, Semiconductor Dov Moran is the Managing Partner of Grove Ventures. He attended Technion. ## Shai Rephaeli - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, EdTech, Medical Shai Rephaeli - Co-Founder and CEO @ Tutoria Digital ## Moshe Shoham - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence Moshe Shoham ## Koray Bahar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, CRM, Apps Koray Bahar is an investor at Ekmob. ## Hadeer Shalaby - Type: Angel - Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Convertible Note - Focus: Medical, Psychology, Health Care Hadeer is currently the General Manager of Careem in Cairo and was the founder of Taxi El Sa7el. She worked in Lebanon & The Netherlands in 2011-2013 in AIESEC and graduated from AUC from Business Marketing in 2011.