Top 50 Music Startup Investors in Middle East in May 2026
Top 50 Music Startup Investors in Middle East in May 2026
| Investor | Music Middle East investments |
|---|---|
| Firstime Venture Capital | 4 |
| 2B Angels | 3 |
| Genesis Partners | 3 |
| RePie Asset Management | 3 |
| Rami Lipman | 2 |
| Eilon Tirosh | 2 |
| Q Angels | 2 |
| Omer Hayrı Erkmen | 2 |
| Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) | 2 |
| lool ventures | 2 |
| Fabrice Grinda | 1 |
| Ariel Lebowits | 1 |
| Alex Zubillaga | 1 |
| Erdem Yurdanur | 1 |
| Gee Roberson | 1 |
| Jean-Charles Carre | 1 |
| Steve Case | 1 |
| Udi Mokady | 1 |
| Razor Capital | 1 |
| Yossi Vardi | 1 |
| Abdulaziz Al Loughani | 1 |
| Triventures ARC | 1 |
| Flint Capital | 1 |
| Benson Oak Ventures | 1 |
| Tristan Jehan | 1 |
| Yossi Matias | 1 |
| Lior Prosor | 1 |
| Founder Collective | 1 |
| Hyundai Motor Company | 1 |
| Arcanum Capital | 1 |
| Sercan Alici | 1 |
| Kaya Diker | 1 |
| Applied Ventures | 1 |
| Mark Gerson | 1 |
| True. | 1 |
| Eyal Waldman | 1 |
| Index Ventures | 1 |
| Cedar Mundi Ventures | 1 |
| Wayne Barrow | 1 |
| Dentsu | 1 |
| Oqal | 1 |
| John Engelbert | 1 |
| Levent Sevinç | 1 |
| Aleph | 1 |
| Nicki Minaj | 1 |
| consortium | 1 |
| Samsung Ventures | 1 |
| Dana Messina | 1 |
| Tim Bergling | 1 |
| F6 Ventures | 1 |
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- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Baibys — Baibys is a medical automated platform that provides AI and robotics-based autonomous sperm selection solutions for IVF.
- Securithings — Bringing IT Standards to the IoT Space.
- STAX Engineering, Inc. — The STAX mission is to help 1 billion people significantly through new technologies that promote health, sustainability, reduced environmental toxins, and reduced global warming.
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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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Israel, United States
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.
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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- Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Israel, China
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Worklight — Signup to be the first to know when we launch.
- Sensible Medical Innovations — Sensible Medical Innovation Ltd. is introducing a breakthrough sensing and monitoring technology providing actionable and accurate data for guiding the management and treatment of several chronic medical conditions representing today’s biggest burden on US and worldwide healthcare budgets.
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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- FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Hayhay — Hayhay operates a mobile application that manages financial transactions. It provides an online tool that sends, receives, and processes different kinds of payments. Hayhay was founded in 2020 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
- VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
- Goldtag — Digital Asset Development
Rami Lipman is an angel investor.
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- SaaS, Social, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Matics Manufacturing Analytics Ltd. — Matics real-time manufacturing analytics provides a digital toolbox for factories' production floor management and dramatically increases the production efficiency.
- Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
- NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.
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- Apps, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Israel, United States
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 — Premium domains add authority to your site. Transparent pricing. 1 year WHOIS privacy included. 30-day money back guarantee.
Q Angels is an angel investment firm that contributes to the growth of startups.
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- Podcast, Blockchain, Social Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- PulpoAR — PulpoAR Virtual Try-On Solution is realistic and easy to integrate and customize e-commerce platforms. We have specialized in the beauty industry. Increase your sales by giving your users the chance to try-on your products from the comfort of their homes. PulpoAR Virtual Try-On can be integrated into your e-commerce website, mobile app, smartmirror, and smart mirrors and QR codes as in-store solutions.
- eTasin — https://etasin.com
- Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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- Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
- Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
- Onlayer — Our powerful solutions suite streamlines onboarding, compliance, monitoring and insights to mitigate risk and secure growth at every stage of the digital business lifecycle.
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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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States
Portfolio highlights
- HyperPay — Hyperpay is a leading payment gateway in MENA, providing smart payment solutions that fulfill the payment needs of ecommerce and all internet businesses
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- Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- ai.work — We are building the next generation of autonomous workers for the enterprise, introducing the world's first AI Worker Platform with autonomous, policy‑aware agents that automate and handle the busywork behind IT, Procurement, HR, Legal, Deal Desk, Finance, and Operations teams. Each AI Worker is domain-trained, policy-aware, and ready toautomate resolutions, shrinking ticket queues, accelerating service times, and reducing team workload by 50% or more. Your next hire is agentic.
- Zeroport — Zeroport enables secure remote access using hardware-enforced, non-IP isolation, eliminating malware, data exfiltration, and VPN-based attack surfaces.
- Cassidy Bio — A biotechnology company developing AI-driven genomic foundation models
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
- OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.
- Accumulator — Accumulator is a U.S. private equity firm regulated by the SEC, operating as an index-like fund covering a wide range of privately held, growth-stage tech companies.
Ariel Lebowits
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- Music, Mobile Devices, Developer Tools
- Series A
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- LabPixies — LabPixies is a leading provider of personalized web content and technology. Our mission is to provide the ultimate personalize online experience, bringing together the most advanced web technologies and services in a customizable, easy to use interface.At LabPixies we create quality interactive components ("Gadgets") for thepersonalized environment. Our gadgets range from entertainment gadgets such as games and music to utilities such as search tools and calculators.We believe in giving our users the power to personalize their online experience, helping them to enjoy an easier and richer web environment.In a
Alex Zubillaga is the founder of 14W, a New York-based, venture capital firm focused on consumer Mobile, Web, E-commerce, CPG, and Media.Previously, Alex was Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group (WMG). Prior to WMG, Alex founded Net Uno, a leading Venezuelan cable television and broadbandoperator where he served as CEO and Chairman.
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- E-Commerce, Apps, Music
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
- Qapital — Qapital is an award-winning app designed to let you save, invest, and spend with any goal in mind.
- Opal — Protect your focus time. Schedule your days, block distracting apps and focus fully, on your iPhone, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browser. Try Opal for Free!
Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost
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- Mobile, iOS, Advertising
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Ulak — [ENG] ULAK is a mobile app, that helps you find nearby couriers and place a custom order. With ULAK, the nearest courier to your location is directed to you, serves with the shipment you choose, app displays the instant location information until your shipment is delivered, shares delivery details with you, securely collects your payment from yourcredit card and completes the transaction. If you wish, you can get service with cash payment as well...[TUR] ULAK akıllı telefonlar üzerinde çalışan, motorlu kuryeye ihtiyacı olanlarla, güvenilir motorlu kuryeleri buluşturan bir mobil uygulamadır. ULAK ile size en yakın kuryeyi çağırarak gönderinizi yapabilir veya özel sipariş verebilirsiniz. ULAK ile bulunduğunuz konuma en yakın kurye size yönlendirilir, seçeceğiniz gönderi şekli ile hizmet verir, gönderiniz teslim edilene kadar anlık konum bilgisini gösterir, teslimat detaylarını size iletir, ödemenizi güvenli bir şekilde kredi kartınızdan tahsil eder, işlemi tamamlar. Dilerseniz nakit ödeme seçeneği ile hizmet alabilirsiniz.
- Charmy — Charmy is a music social media site available online. Users can create playlists, share photos, and search for songs they prefer.
- Tiramisu — TIRAMISU MOBILE GAME STUDIO
Gee Roberson
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- FinTech, Music, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- HIFI — Join a community advocating for artist-centric financial innovation and transparency. Access pioneering technologies and financial services tailored to the unique needs of music rightsholders.
- MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
- VersusGame — VersusGame offers creators and brands the opportunity to cultivate a community with an interactive content solution that rewards knowledge
Jean-Charles Carre is the business partner and manager of world renowned DJ and music producer David Guetta.
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- Apps, Music, Computer
- Series A
- France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Music Messenger — Shellanoo Group is a technology company specializing in mobile applications, Internet related services and interactive artificial intelligence with cognitive solutions.Introducing a modern way to invest in technology. Shellanoo Group offers investors the range of a diversified IT portfolio with the simplicity of investing in a single company.Shellanoo Group builds, operates and manages products and services that challenge the status quo, all of which are wholly owned by the Company.Founded in mid-2014 in Israel, Shellanoo Group has grown into one of Israel’s more appealing technology firms, combining both business expertise and technological strength.
- MWM — MWM designs, develops & markets mobile music apps and connected objects dedicated to music. Today MWM represents 200 million downloads in 182 countries.
Steve Case is a Chairman, Founder, and CEO at Revolution, a Chairman at The Case Foundation, a Founding Chair at Startup America Partnership, and a Chairman at Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. He attended Williams College.
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- Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Kenya, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Heliogen — Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company unlocking the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels.
- Science Exchange — Discover how to simplify purchasing, supplier management, and payment processing. Work with suppliers faster, reduce costs, and fuel innovation. Supplier Orchestration.
- Class Technologies — Class, the next generation virtual classroom. Trusted by 10M users from 1500 institutions in education and training. Make your virtual classroom feel like a real classroom.
Udi Mokady is the Chairman and CEO of CyberArk, and a pioneer in establishing the Privileged Access Management software market. Since co-founding the company in 1999, Mokady has entrenched CyberArk as the market leader. During his tenure at CyberArk, Mokady has also served as CyberArk’s chief strategist and visionary, overseeing global expansion,management, execution and corporate development.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Art
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bagel AI — Bagel AI is a product intelligence platform that automates product management, helping product teams turn data into insights, streamline GTM, and drive growth
- Minimus — Gutsy is a security process fabric that unifies vulnerability intelligence from across your tech stacks, leverages AI to improve risk prioritization, and applies process mining to accelerate remediation and drive accountability.
- Clarity — Secure your digital media from Deepfakes and defend from AI-based attacks. Any media from phone and video calls to user-generated content. Built by global AI and cyber experts.
Razor Capital is a venture firm focused on unearthing unique investment opportunities.
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- Audio, Music, Grocery
- Seed, Series B
- Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Podeo — Podeo is the Arab world's largest podcasting platform, dedicated to managing, distributing, and producing audio podcasts. Podeo owns the largest Arabic podcast catalog in the world and distributes audio to millions of listeners.
- Chaldal — Order grocery and food online with same-day home delivery. Save money, save time
One of Israel’s early entrepreneurs, Yossi Vardi co-founded, led, funded and helped build more than 80 high-tech, energy, natural resources, and clean-tech companies. Many of them went public, including Tekem, Alon Energy, Granite Hacarmel, answers.com, scopus, International Lasers Technologies, epals, tocows, brightcove, other were acquired :Gteko (by Microsoft), Tivella (by cisco,) Airlink (by sierra wireless), Foxytunes (by yahoo),starnet (by IAC),Gift project (by ebay).As the founding investor ofMirabilis Ltd, -the creator of iCQ - Vardi co-pioneered instant messaging. ICQ was one of the internet’s earliest successes, later sold to AOL.Vardi was chairman of the board of trustees of Jerusalem Foundation, serves on the board of trustees of the technion and served on those of Weitzman Institute. Hebrew university, open university .he was advisor to the World Bank, United Nations Development Program , CEO’s of Amazon, AOL, Siemens Albis, and Allied–signal. member of the World Economic Forum, and Co-chairman of the EU-Israel business dialogue.Vardi had an extensive government and public career, hewas the director general of Ministry of Development and Ministry of Energy. was chairman of Israel National Oil Company, and Israel Chemicals. participated in the peace talks with Egypt, Palestinians, Jordan and Syria. He received Honorary Doctorates from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and the Ben Gurion university , the Prime Minister Hi-Tech Award for life achievements (twice); Best Internet Personality by TechCrunch Europe; Entrepreneur of the Year by Tel Aviv University , Europe’s 25 top techs by Wall Street Journal; and one of the 200 Greatest Israelis of all times by Ynet. was elected by Israel 21c to the top 10 icons of Israeli high tech - the pioneers, by The Algemeiner for the "jewish 100 - the top 100 people positively influenced jewish life " and by wired magazine (uk) as number 9 of the wired 2014 top 100 influential people in EuropeYossi Vardi sits on the advisory boards of 3i and Amdocs and has served on boards of numerous state and private corporations including Bezeq, Israel Electric, and the Bank of Israel. Yossi has also been an Advisor to the CEOs of AOL, Amazon, and Allied Signal. Yossi Vardi has received many awards, including the Prime Minister of Israel Hi-Tech Award for life achievements on two occasions, the Industry Prize, the Ramniceanu Prize and CEOs Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame.
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- Search Engine, Internet, Software
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- RoomiePics — RoomiePics is a social camera for sharing photos with people nearby. The app is currently in development.
- Similarweb — All in one Website analytics & competitive traffic intelligence platform - Compare website traffic and performance, analyze strategies & grow your market share!
- The Gifts Project — The Gifts Project is a social ecommerce platform for Group Gifting that helps online retailers, marketplaces and gift stores to leverage their social buying experience. This white label solution brings major ecommerce websites a Social Group Gifting Platform with a winning combination of Social Networks and Group Payment straight to theircheckout process. With Group Gifting, customers can share their special occasions with their social graph by letting friends to chip in for each others gifts while shopping at their favorite online store. The Gifts Project is a product of Appchee Applications Ltd., an Israeli startup company that is backed by
Abdulaziz is co-founder & CEO of Floward, a full-fledged flowers & gifts ecommerce solution servicing the largest customer base in the MENA region. Abdulaziz is also co-founder & Managing Partner at Faith Capital, a venture capital practice that is focused on the MENA region. Previously, Abdulaziz was the founding Executive ViceChairman of the Kuwait National Fund for SMEs Development, a USD7bn independent public institution responsible for developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Kuwait (2013-2017). Prior to this role, he was a co-founder and Managing Partner of Talabat.com<http://Talabat.com> until 2010, and has since then been investing in technology startups and involved in a number of local and regional entrepreneurial initiatives. Abdulaziz has also previously served as Director at Global Capital Management, the alternative investments arm of Global Investment House “Global” where he has played a major role in managing key investments within the Private Equity Group of Global by handling various assignments on corporate restructuring, business planning, deal structuring, due diligence and managing portfolio companies' to exit. Abdulaziz has served as an executive and member of board on a number of companies within the MENA region in the technology, banking, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer finance, food & beverage and real estate sectors.Abdulaziz holds a Bachelor's degree - double major in Information Systems and E-Commerce from University of Toledo, and an MBA degree from London Business School.
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- E-Commerce, Apps, Music
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Ghinwa — A mobile app for anonymous self-broadcasting and Karaoke.
- Fakespot — Fakespot spots, analyzes and identifies fake reviews and counterfeits - helping you out when buying stuff online.
- Yougotagift.com — Buy UAE's most popular gift cards and gift vouchers online! Personalize and digitally send them via email or SMS! Starting at 20 AED. Choose from 200+ Top Brands.
Triventures is a global, early stage fund that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs. We partner with disruptive ventures with innovative breakthroughs in healthcare and beyond. Our vision is to create a better, healthier future through data driven solutions and cross industry convergence.
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- Health Care, Audio, Music
- Seed
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Latica (Formerly Lynx.MD) — Advancements in big data and artificial intelligence are enabling massive innovation and research, driven by the availability of large datasets. But in healthcare, data silos created by the lack of interoperability result in limited innovation.
- Tunefork — Tunefork is a software audio personalization technology that brings out the best from your mobile sound system, giving you the optimal hearing experience
Venture capital investments
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sensi AI — Clanz Technologies offers an audio-based system designed to support security in human interactions. The system works by connecting to devices that record audio. It analyzes audio data to find unusual sounds or patterns that may indicate incidents. When an anomaly is detected, the system sends alerts in real time. The service also providesinformation about conditions that can affect care quality, such as stress levels or lack of training. It can be used in places where monitoring human interaction is important for safety. The company offers a demo for organizations that want to use the system.
- Vayu — Discover Vayu, the cutting-edge billing and revenue management platform designed to streamline operations and maximize efficiency for finance teams.
- Leo AI — Leo™ is the world's first engineering design copilot, empowering engineers and designers to turn ideas into products in seconds. Leo's generative AI platform transforms text, sketches, specs, and CAD constraints into DFMA-optimized, full-assembly 3D CAD models, saving companies up to 70% of their engineering time and cost. Leading AIresearchers and mechanical engineers from MIT, Technion, Microsoft, and Elbit Systems founded Leo in 2023.
Benson Oak Ventures (“BOV”) is a buy-out and growth equity investment firm. Backed by a deep pool of international investors, BOC focuses on leading small to medium-size enterprises based in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Based in Prague, the firm’s investment professionals combine for more than 50 years of experience on the Czech and Slovakmarkets.Benson Oak s.r.o. was founded by Gabriel Eichler in 1991, and now acts exclusively as the advisor to BOC on both domestic and international acquisitions. Its advisory experience on the Czech and Slovak markets includes over 70 completed debt-raising and M&A transactions worth more than €6 billion, giving BOC unparalleled access to the highest ranks of local banks, government and corporate leaders.Since 2001, BOC has invested over €50 million across a variety of industries. Their position on the market allows us to source deals before they become public, leading to closer relationships with the companies they invest in and more aligned incentives. Once completed, they actively participate in each investment, helping to guide their portfolio companies from the early stages of strategic development through exit. Their principle goal as an organization is to invest in high quality businesses and provide those companies with the support necessary to reach new levels of performance. By adding a human element to the financial discipline they bring to each investment, they move beyond the purely monetary facets of their business and instead create true value for both their investors and the community they live in.
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- Content, Payments, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, China
Portfolio highlights
- Colu — Colu's platform helps cities engage with residents by rewarding them for taking actions that promote their strategic goals using a unique City Coin.
- Verofax Limited — Boost your business with AI customer service! Get 24/7 support, increase engagement, and enhance customer satisfaction with our AI-driven solutions.
- Talis — The NFT marketplace that empowers artists and bridges physical & digital art on the Terra blockchain.
Tristan Jehan
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- Art, Music, Machine Learning
- Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- MyPart — MyPart is an AI-powered song search and matching platform with products that serve both songwriters and creative industry executives.
Yossi Matias is Vice President, Engineering, at Google and the Head of Google's R&D Center in Israel which he established. He leads global efforts in Search, AI, and Crisis Response (some highlights here), and is the founding executive lead of Google’s Campus Tel Aviv, the birthplace of Launchpad and other global entrepreneurship programs.In addition to his executive and entrepreneurial experience, Yossi has been on the Computer Science faculty at Tel Aviv University, and previously a Research Scientist at Bell Labs and visiting professor at Stanford. He published extensively, has dozens of patents on his name, and pioneered some of the early technologies for the effective analysis of big data, internet privacy, and contextual search. He is a recipient of the Godel Prize and is an ACM Fellow.Yossi was on the board of IATI - Israel Advanced Technology industries - and is co-chair of IATI’s Multi National Companies Forum.
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- Music, Social, Content
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Sensi AI — Clanz Technologies offers an audio-based system designed to support security in human interactions. The system works by connecting to devices that record audio. It analyzes audio data to find unusual sounds or patterns that may indicate incidents. When an anomaly is detected, the system sends alerts in real time. The service also providesinformation about conditions that can affect care quality, such as stress levels or lack of training. It can be used in places where monitoring human interaction is important for safety. The company offers a demo for organizations that want to use the system.
- Enso — Build or buy AI agents to automate your business.
- Leo AI — Leo™ is the world's first engineering design copilot, empowering engineers and designers to turn ideas into products in seconds. Leo's generative AI platform transforms text, sketches, specs, and CAD constraints into DFMA-optimized, full-assembly 3D CAD models, saving companies up to 70% of their engineering time and cost. Leading AIresearchers and mechanical engineers from MIT, Technion, Microsoft, and Elbit Systems founded Leo in 2023.
Lior Prosor is the Founding Partner of Hanaco Venture Capital. He previously worked at Elevator as a Partner. Lior Prosor attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).
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- Information Technology, SaaS, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Via — Via is a re-engineering public transit company that develops and provides on-demand public mobility solutions for commuters. The company transforms public transit, from a regulated system of rigid routes and schedules to a fully dynamic, on-demand network. Via's mobile app connects passengers who are headed the same way, allowing riders toseamlessly share a premium vehicle. The platform operates in the United States and in Europe through its joint venture with Mercedes-Benz Vans, ViaVan. Via's technology is deployed worldwide through partner projects with public transportation agencies, private transit operators, taxi fleets, private companies, and universities, integrating with public transit infrastructure to power cutting-edge on-demand mobility.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, United States.
- VNN — The high school sports website and marketing platform that helps athletic directors do more with less. All-in-one athletics deparment management, fundraising and social media.
- Yokee™ Music LTD — Domain name Yokee.com offers a harmonious blend of connectivity and unity, symbolizing the coming together of ideas and individuals. With its short, 5-letter, 2-syllable structure, it is easy to remember and spell, making it ideal for start
Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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- Appy.AI — Appy.AI platform enables anyone to build complete AI businesses through natural conversation without coding.
- Coverflow — Coverflow is an AI-powered platform designed for policy checking, AMS updates, and generating proposals. Users can upload policies, and the AI automatically identifies and organizes them for analysis, flagging discrepancies and highlighting key details. The platform enables the generation of personalized proposals and provides complete checks toensure accurate decision-making. It also offers integration with other systems, automatic updates, and secure data handling with SOC2 compliance.
- Weavy — Weavy is a company focused on enhancing team collaboration by providing developers with pre-built, seamlessly integrated collaboration features for web applications. Their platform offers components such as chat, messaging, file sharing, AI tools, and cloud integrations designed to save developers from repetitive coding tasks, enabling them tobuild smarter and faster without reinventing the wheel. Weavy's tools emphasize developer-friendliness, intuitive user experience, and cost-effectiveness, aiming to empower developers across skill levels to embed collaboration and AI-driven capabilities into internal apps efficiently.
The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer. It has various vehicle lineups, brand vision, and global campaigns like clean mobility, sustainability, art, and sports partnership.The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group,which is the world's fifth-largest automaker based on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest automaker. As of 2012, the company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.
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- Automotive, Software, Transportation
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Israel
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- Ola — Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporatetravel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India.
- Kardome — Kardome offers a real-time software suite that can be inserted in a variety of processing environments. The company engages a real-time software beamformer to improve speech signals from several speakers. It offers high-quality sound output without the need to shout or position the users mouths close to the microphone. The company developssolutions such as voice controlled devices, hands-free speakerphones, tablets and cellphones, and conference call devices.Kardome was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Mazor, Hamerkaz, Israel.
- Metawave — Metawave develops AI-powered radar and 5G solutions for autonomous vehicles, enabling safer mobility and faster wireless connectivity.
Arcanum Capital is a growth-driven investment in decentralized protocols.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States, India
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- Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
- HIFI — HiFi Bridge is a cryptocurrency payments platform that allows customers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, trade NFT's, borrow loans, and connect their bank accounts all-in-one.The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. The company provides the accessibility for traditional financialusers to gain access to modern decentralized finance tools through it's mobile and web platform.Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2021.
- Theia Studios — Icons of Theia - a tactical turn based strategy game
Sercan Alici
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- Pet, Hospitality, Photography
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Turkey, United Kingdom
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- DogGO — DogGO is a pet service app that uses a mobile application to offer safe and professional dog walking and grooming services to dog owners. It also offers its users a detailed profile of their pets, as well as an easy service request and tracking feature, smart and suitable matching, and 24/7 customer service to support all of their pet'sneeds. Their application has over 150,000 users and tens of thousands of pet profiles. Furthermore, by entering into agreements with corporate companies for their employees or users, they ensure that all pet families have access to DogGO when they need it.
- Albumera — Albumera provides photography services. They offer business, maternity, social media, and online photography services. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.
- Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
Kaya Diker is the Co-Founder and CTO of Faladdin and Vision Technology. He previously worked at Michigan State University as a Research Assistant. Kaya attended Michigan State University.
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- Music, Dating, Podcast
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
Applied Ventures, LLC, is the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMAT) investing in innovative startups for over a decade.
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- Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Electronics
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, France
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- Metalenz — Metasurface optics to enable the next generation of sensing. Unparalleled control, performance, and information from a single flat lens made in the semiconductor foundry.
- Ayar Labs — Ayar Labs solves bandwidth and power bottlenecks by moving data using light. We built the world's first optical I/O chiplets.
- Salience Labs — Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high-throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designedto exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Münster, Germany.
Mark Gerson is a co-founder of GLG. He is the Chairman of United Hatzalah, the network of first responders that treat victims of pre-hospital trauma in Israel, and the co-founder and Chairman of the Africa Mission Healthcare Foundation, which supports the work of medical missionaries performing clinical care throughout Africa. In addition, Mr.Gerson is a co-founder and co-Chairman of Thuzio, Chairman of Axial Markets and author of The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to the Culture Wars (Madison Books: 1996) and In the Classroom: Dispatches from an Inner-City School That Works (Free Press: 1997).He graduated summa cum laude from Williams College and received his JD from Yale Law School.
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- Travel, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Russian Federation, Israel
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- Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
- Umi Kitchen — Umi Kitchen offers an application that enables its users to order homemade food from local chefs. The meals are delivered with reheating instructions and an ingredient list.Umi Kitchen enables its customers to rate and review services of the chefs. The company provides chefs with marketing, packaging, and delivery services.Umi Kitchen wasfounded by Khalil Tawil, Derek Gottfrid, and Hallie Meyer in March 2015. It is based in New York.
- Greats — Best selling white sneakers for men and women in sizes 7 through 16. Shop Reign, Royale, and Royale 2.0
A unique model for investing, innovating & growing
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, France
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- Fable — Fable Home dinnerware brings people together for love, laughter, and storytelling by delivering gorgeous cutlery, tableware, and glassware at affordable prices.
- Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
- Awe Inspired — We believe in fine jewelry as a vehicle for empowerment. Shop our collection of goddess necklaces, coin necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and more.
Eyal Waldman is a Chairman Waldo of Holdings also a board member at Speedata. He previously worked in Mellanox Technologies as a CEO. He Attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
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- Big Data, Semiconductor, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Israel, United States
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- Linguana — Linguana builds and monetizes your fully localized YouTube channels in new languages to reach new audiences across the globe and monetize them.
- Speedata — Speedata develops accelerated processor for big data analytics across industries. Speedata's Analytics Processing Unit (APU) was designed solely to optimize datacenter and cloud-based database and analytic workloads, dramatically improving performance by orders of magnitude while reducing costs, power consumption and space.
- Greeneye Technology — Spray Less, Grow More. Our mission is to dramatically reduce chemicals usage while increasing productivity and profitability for farmers.
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Trouva — Trouva, launched in September 2015, is the marketplace for bricks and mortar independent shops, selling unique homeware and lifestyle products from hundreds of shops and boutiques. Trouva bridges online and offline in retail to offer click and collect, 1-hour delivery, and worldwide shipping in a single seamless platform.Trouva is one of the mostexciting e-commerce start-ups in Europe, backed by amazing VC and Angel Investors whose successes include Secret Escapes, Net-A-Porter, and Farfetch (BGF Ventures, Octopus Investments, C4 Ventures, Index Ventures & LocalGlobe).
- Funding Circle — When Funding Circle was founded, they could see that businesses weren’t being given the finance to grow, while investors were making poor returns. They had a simple idea — let them support each other.By lending directly to businesses through Funding Circle, investors can now earn attractive returns to better provide for their future. Businessesget fast, easy access to funding to grow, create jobs, support local communities and drive the economy forward. They believe it’s better for everyone.
- Raisin — Raisin is a savings and investment marketplace that connects retail customers with banks looking to expand deposit reach. The company's goal is to provide savers the best interest rates. The company gives access to exclusive savings products from all over Europe. Raisin assures a smooth investment process and the simple management ofinvestments with all of the partner banks via one single platform.Raisin was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Raisin DS was formed by a merger of the FinTech companies Deposit Solutions and Raisin in June 2021.
Cedar Mundi Ventures specializes in the fields of venture capital and financial services. It also specializes in cross-border technology investments covering Europe & the MENA region. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Beyrouth, Lebanon.
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- Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Lebanon, United Kingdom
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- Podeo — Podeo is the Arab world's largest podcasting platform, dedicated to managing, distributing, and producing audio podcasts. Podeo owns the largest Arabic podcast catalog in the world and distributes audio to millions of listeners.
- Frak Labs — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
- Kamea Labs — Kamea Labs is a fintech company developping tools leveraging self custody and tokenisation to liberate capital and reshape the investment landscape. A fundamental building block for the next investment infrastructure that will enable finance to better serve the economy.Kamea Labs has developped Genki, a fundraising platform entirely based onself-custody and helping entrepreneurs execute compliant fundraisings, in crypto or equity while accepting crypto and fiat currencies of all ticket sizes.Kamea Labs is registered as PSAN with the AMF and aims at offering retail investors the first ever investment platform letting them invest like the top 1%.
Wayne Barrow is the former manager of Hip-Hop icon The Notorious B.I.G. Today he co-manages artists such as J. Cole, Miguel as co-CEO of ByStorm Entertainment.
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- Apps, Music, Retail
- Series A, Funding Round
- Israel, United States
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- Cure Companies — Cure Companies is a retail and brand development expert while focuses on building and backing the brands.
- Music Messenger — Shellanoo Group is a technology company specializing in mobile applications, Internet related services and interactive artificial intelligence with cognitive solutions.Introducing a modern way to invest in technology. Shellanoo Group offers investors the range of a diversified IT portfolio with the simplicity of investing in a single company.Shellanoo Group builds, operates and manages products and services that challenge the status quo, all of which are wholly owned by the Company.Founded in mid-2014 in Israel, Shellanoo Group has grown into one of Israel’s more appealing technology firms, combining both business expertise and technological strength.
At dentsu, innovation is our strength, and your growth is our mission. We help you keep up with technological changes in the digital economy.
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- Advertising, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Funding Round, Corporate Round, Series B
- Japan, United States, India
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- TBM — TBM is a company that develops, manufactures and sells paper and plastic alternative products made from a limestone-based material known as “LIMEX”.
- FIREBUG — FIREBUG enables comedians, actresses, models, artists, managers, and creators to develop their skills. They arrange production plans for numerous talents and create IP and advertising items based on the social networking sites of the talents. Additionally, they offer marketing solutions built around a range of talent-focused content. They offerbasic marketing assistance and advertising for businesses.
- IDN Media — IDN Media is the leading media platform company for Millennials and Gen Z in Indonesia.
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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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
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- Spare — Spare | Know Your Money
- DESAISIV — Pioneering the charge in transforming how the insurance industry operates.
- TruBuild — AI pre-construction tool to review tenders, compare bids, and manage contracts. Make faster decisions, reduce errors, and minimize admin.
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- Apps, Music, Information Technology
- Series A
- Israel
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- Xspray Pharma —
- Music Messenger — Shellanoo Group is a technology company specializing in mobile applications, Internet related services and interactive artificial intelligence with cognitive solutions.Introducing a modern way to invest in technology. Shellanoo Group offers investors the range of a diversified IT portfolio with the simplicity of investing in a single company.Shellanoo Group builds, operates and manages products and services that challenge the status quo, all of which are wholly owned by the Company.Founded in mid-2014 in Israel, Shellanoo Group has grown into one of Israel’s more appealing technology firms, combining both business expertise and technological strength.
Levent Sevinç is the Founder & CEO of Assessment Systems. He previously worked at HR Consultancy as a Human Resources Consulting. Levent Sevinç attended Istanbul University.
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- Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Musiwars — Musiwars is an online marketplace and digital legalizing platform that creates more opportunities for songwriters and composers.
Early-stage VC fund managing $850M+ and partnering with Israeli entrepreneurs to build impactful global brands, like Lemonade and Melio.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel, China
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- Coralogix — Coralogix is a streaming platform for modern engineering teams. Coralogix’s Streama© technology produces real-time insights and long-term trend analysis with no reliance on storage or indexing, solving the challenge of data growth in large-scale systems.Ingest data from any source for a single, centralized platform to manage, monitor, and alertyour applications. As data is ingested, Coralogix instantly narrows millions of events down to common patterns for deeper insights and faster troubleshooting.Machine learning algorithms continuously observe data patterns and flows between system components and trigger dynamic alerts so you know when a pattern deviates from the norm without static thresholds or the need for pre-configurations.
- Securithings — Bringing IT Standards to the IoT Space.
- Agora — Agora is the investment management software that's built to help you build.
Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982), known professionally as Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidad and Tobago-born rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and model. Born in Saint James, Port of Spain, and raised in Queens, New York City, she gained public recognition after releasing the mixtapes Playtime Is Over (2007), Sucka Free (2008), and Beam Me UpScotty (2009)
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- Apps, Music, Information Technology
- Series A
- Israel
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- Music Messenger — Shellanoo Group is a technology company specializing in mobile applications, Internet related services and interactive artificial intelligence with cognitive solutions.Introducing a modern way to invest in technology. Shellanoo Group offers investors the range of a diversified IT portfolio with the simplicity of investing in a single company.Shellanoo Group builds, operates and manages products and services that challenge the status quo, all of which are wholly owned by the Company.Founded in mid-2014 in Israel, Shellanoo Group has grown into one of Israel’s more appealing technology firms, combining both business expertise and technological strength.
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- Audio, Music, Energy
- Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- Israel, United Kingdom
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- Audioburst — Audioburst is an audio content search and discovery platform powered by AI. Pulling from podcasts and talk radio, Audioburst is connecting listeners to the world’s largest library of audio content through its powerful search engine while working with companies such as Hyundai, LG, Samsung, Bose, and Flipboard to develop next-gen listeningexperiences across a range of devices. For SMBs, Audioburst Studio is currently offering a light solution for easy integration of audio content playlists into an existing app or site. The company also serves podcasters and radio show producers through Audioburst Creators, a suite of tools to transcribe, edit, amplify, and monetize audio content.
- IPG Energy — IPG Energy is a climate tech company developing a clean, fuel-agnostic renewable generator to accelerate the transition away from diesel in hard-to-abate sectors, starting with construction.
The primary responsibilities of the group are to source, qualify, and invest in technology related companies. Our major investment areas include semiconductors, materials, mobile service, internet, software, security, enterprise solutions, bio engineering & medical, while potential investment subjects range from early-stage startups to pre-IPOcompanies. Currently, the group has over $1.8B under management and invests $250M annually.Samsung Ventures was founded on October 8, 1999, and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, South Korea, Israel
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- Swype — Swype creates text input technology for screens. The patented interface enables users to create words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard. This approach provides a faster and easier way to write. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and "swype" motions for both stylus and finger based input.In addition, the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.Seattle based Swype Inc. was founded by Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden in 2003. Cliff is the co-inventor of T9, the standard predictive text-entry solution used on almost 3 billion mobile phones worldwide. Randy is the developer of the onscreen keyboard included in Windows, with an installed base of over 500 million units
- Astute Networks — Astute is a provider of performance storage appliances for physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. It is the developer of VMware Ready Certified ViSX branded Networked Performance Flash solutions for accelerating virtualized server, desktop, and cloud computing environments. The company’s patented DataPump Engine delivers a high levelof best-in-class iSCSI IOPS with 100% sustained random I/O performance to eliminate performance-robbing I/O bottlenecks that degrade virtual machine and application performance and limits user productivity. ViSX is available through an established network of solution providers.
- Inpria — Inpria photoresists are intentionally designed, optimized and manufactured to meet industry specifications that span resolution, sensitivity, linewidth roughness, and integration into manufacturing flows.
Dana Messina
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- Music, EdTech, Software
- Seed
- Israel
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- Simply — Feel the joy of playing piano and guitar, or discovering your singing voice, with Simply. The best apps for learning musical instruments.
Tim Bergling is Music Producer.Tim Bergling better known by his stage name Avicii (stylized as ɅVICII or ◢ ◤ symbol), is a Swedish EDM DJ, remixer, and a country and electro house record producer. Avicii ranked 3rd on DJ Magazine 's annual Top 100 DJs in 2012 and 2013 and has been nominated twice for a Grammy Award, once for his workon "Sunshine" with David Guetta in 2012 and once for his song "Levels" in 2013. Some of his most famous songs are "I Could Be the One" with Nicky Romero, "Wake Me Up", "You Make Me", "X You", "Hey Brother" and "Addicted to You".
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- Apps, Music, Information Technology
- Series A
- Israel
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- Music Messenger — Shellanoo Group is a technology company specializing in mobile applications, Internet related services and interactive artificial intelligence with cognitive solutions.Introducing a modern way to invest in technology. Shellanoo Group offers investors the range of a diversified IT portfolio with the simplicity of investing in a single company.Shellanoo Group builds, operates and manages products and services that challenge the status quo, all of which are wholly owned by the Company.Founded in mid-2014 in Israel, Shellanoo Group has grown into one of Israel’s more appealing technology firms, combining both business expertise and technological strength.
MENA’s leading seed and early stage VC firm, and the manager of the most renowned startup programs in the region. We are Accelerating the Future.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, Canada, United States
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- Konsolto — This domain used to be connected to a Wix website. Learn how to reconnect it, or create your own website.
- Zr3i.com — Zr3i.com is a collaborative SAAS platform that strives to combine Digital Transformation Technologies focused on using cutting-edge Information Technology for the betterment of smallholder farmers using innovative business model. It deploys Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Blockchain, GIS(Satellite & Drones), Mobile Technology and Cloud Computing to not only improve both profitability and productivity of the smallholder farmers but also make agriculture value chain (both input and output side) more transparent, sustainable, traceable and efficient.
- Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.
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