Top 50 Music Startup Investors in Middle East (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Firstime Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $600k–$42M |
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Genesis Partners
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Israel, China | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile | $4M–$30M |
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2B Angels
VC Fund
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3 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $800k–$25M |
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RePie Asset Management
VC Fund
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3 | Turkey, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps | $244k–$38M |
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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $420k–$50M |
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Rami Lipman
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, Machine Learning | $750k–$8M |
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lool ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS | $720k–$26M |
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Kafalat iSME
VC Fund
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2 | Lebanon, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Education, E-Commerce | $420k–$4.5M |
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Razor Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Bangladesh, Lebanon, Malaysia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Grocery | $450k–$3M |
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Eilon Tirosh
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Series C | Apps, FinTech, Payments | $750k–$4M |
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Q Angels
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed | Podcast, Software, Blockchain | $100k–$3.1M |
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Levent Sevinç
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment | |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Health Care, Software | $20k–$400k |
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Analytics, E-Commerce | $29k–$1.9M |
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Joel Hornstein
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | Music, Mobile Devices, Developer Tools | |
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Flint Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$37M |
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Steve Case
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya, Canada | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Enterprise Software, Internet | $903k–$31M |
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Auren Hoffman
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics | $750k–$157M |
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Advanced Media
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Israel | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Audio, Music | |
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O.D. Kobo
Angel
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1 | China, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Internet, Social Media, Information Technology | $250k–$32M |
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Dentsu
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round | Advertising, Information Technology, Software | $459k–$496M |
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Mark Gerson
Angel
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1 | United States, Russian Federation, Israel | Seed, Series A, Angel | Travel, Software, E-Commerce | $1M–$4M |
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Ariel Lebowits
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | Music, Mobile Devices, Developer Tools | |
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Samsung Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Korea, Israel | Series B, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $3.9M–$100M |
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Abdulaziz Al Loughani
Angel
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Apps, Music | $300k–$3M |
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Gilad Carni
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | Music, Mobile Devices, Developer Tools | |
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Eyal Waldman
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Software | $1.2M–$55M |
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Ash Pournouri
Angel
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1 | Sweden, United States, Israel | Pre-Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Music, Software, Information Technology | $2.3M–$30M |
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Index Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.4M–$102M |
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Hyundai Motor Company
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Corporate Round | Automotive, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$475M |
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Jeff Pulver
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Series A | Mobile, Android, CRM | $95k–$5.5M |
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Kokteyl
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey | Seed | PaaS, Music, Mobile | $142k–$300k |
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William Adams
Angel
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1 | United States, Sweden, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, Apps | $3M–$40M |
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Udi Mokady
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security | $650k–$51M |
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Yaron Carni
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Enterprise Software, Music, Security | |
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Dave Holmes
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Sweden | Series A, Series B | Messaging, Music, SMS | |
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Yossi Matias
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Generative AI, Music | $750k–$8M |
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Jean-Charles Carre
Angel
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1 | France, Israel | Series A | Apps, Music, Computer | $2.9M–$5M |
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Kaya Diker
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Music, Dating, Podcast | |
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Cedar Mundi Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Lebanon, United Kingdom | Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B | Health Care, Software, E-Commerce | |
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John Engelbert
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | Apps, Music, Information Technology | |
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Oqal
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | |
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Dana Messina
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | Music, EdTech, Software | |
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Ufuk Sarı
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Music, Dating, Podcast | |
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N. Kemal Yılmaz
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Music, Dating, Podcast | |
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Elron Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States, China | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Health Care, Software | |
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Raz Group
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Convertible Note | Events, Advertising, Media and Entertainment | |
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Kaedan Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, SaaS | |
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İzzet Zakuto
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Mobile Apps, Personal Health | |
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Yanki Margalit
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Mobile, B2B, iOS | $100k–$2.3M |
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Endurance is a direct lending firm providing tailored senior secured credit facilities to companies and projects with proven technologies, visible commercial demand and capital requirements that are often underserved by conventional financing providers.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6M; Series A $1M–$10M; Series B $5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Baibys — Baibys is a medical automated platform that provides AI and robotics-based autonomous sperm selection solutions for IVF.
- Remepy — Redefining combination therapy by fusing traditional pharmaceuticals with clinically validated app-delivered protocols in a single, regulated prescription.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, Israel, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Series A $4M–$20M; Series B $9M–$23M; Series C $6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2008
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.
- Worthy — Sell diamond jewelry, rings & watches for the absolute most at Worthy.com. Featured in NYT, Forbes and US News. Trustworthy, fully insured online auctions.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $800k–$3.3M; Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
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 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.
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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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $244k–$3.7M; Series A $1M–$38M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$20M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M 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.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 121
- Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $2.6M–$22M; Series B $4.6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $68M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
- 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.
- OCTA — OCTA brings you the clients and runs the work behind them, from books and reconciliations to billing and close. You grow the firm without adding headcount.
Rami Lipman is an angel investor.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $750k–$8M; Series A $2.5M–$5.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Exaware —
- NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Seed $720k–$8M; Series A $2M–$20M; Series B $5M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised 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
The iSME Programme is a USD 30 million initiative funded by the Government of Lebanon and the World Bank.
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- Industry: Software, Education, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Lebanon, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $420k–$1.8M; Series A $1.5M–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shelvz — An all-in-one field team solution aimed at streamlining the field data collection process to provide CPG stakeholders with real-time visibility & analytics.
- Ostaz — Ostaz is an education technology (EdTech) company focused on delivering AI-powered personalized tutoring services across the Middle East, particularly in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon. The platform connects students with qualified tutors while using artificial intelligence to improve tutor-student matching and educational outcomes.
- Mobsting — Bridging the gap between user generated videos and brands.
Razor Capital is a venture firm focused on unearthing unique investment opportunities.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Grocery
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Bangladesh, Lebanon, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $450k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HAQQ — All-in-one legal AI for law firms. Legal AI Chat for drafting and research, plus eFirm for matters, billing and clients. Trusted by 17,000+ legal teams.
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- Wakilni — A special fleet of delivery drivers powered by a high tech to manage orders
Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.
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- Industry: Apps, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $750k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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- Industry: Podcast, Software, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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!
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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- Industry: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MUSIWARS — Musiwars is an online marketplace and digital legalizing platform that creates more opportunities for songwriters and composers.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Egypt, Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $20k–$400k; Pre-Seed $20k–$340k
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Filtareeq — Optimize your ecommerce delivery with Filtareeq's AI-powered platform. Reduce delivery costs by 15-25% with automated carrier selection.
- 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.
- Instadiet — Instadiet helps to lower your blood sugar level to the normal range without medication or surgery. It controls blood sugar without medication and includes reducing the chances of heart disease, dispensing with medications, reducing cumulative sugar, and weight loss.
Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $110k–$1.9M; Angel $44k–$250k; Pre-Seed $29k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Blaze Labs — Blaze Labs makes it simple to launch real-time video with instant payouts; creating the backbone of on-chain media economics.
- Mindsite — Monitor pricing, availability, retailer search, content, reviews and retail media with Mindsite. Turn digital shelf data into commercial decisions.
- 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.
Joel Hornstein
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- Industry: Music, Mobile Devices, Developer Tools
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
Venture capital investments
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $2M–$20M; Series B $13M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $160M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- CopySight AI — Check AI-generated content for copyright risk before it ships. CopySight scores similarity to protected characters, brands, and artwork.
- RiskFront — RegTech
- Viewz — AI-native finance platform. One source of truth, agentic bookkeeping, real-time reporting. Built for financial leaders.
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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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $903k–$5M; Series A $3.5M–$31M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FiscalNote — The #1 most trusted partner for government relations & public affairs software. Track policy, manage stakeholders, act fast.
- 75F — 75F's award-winning smart sensors and controls improve indoor air quality and make commercial buildings more comfortable and energy efficient. Automatically.
- 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.
Auren Hoffman is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and executive. He is General Partner at Flex Capital, CEO of NQB8, and Co-founder of Aerdos and EliotNest. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of LiveRamp and founded SafeGraph. Hoffman attended the University of California, Berkeley and has made numerous investments in technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $750k–$7M; Series A $1M–$25M; Series B $5M–$157M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enki — Enki is the most effective way to learn Looker, Tableau, SQL, Excel, and other data skills. Training fully customized by role and team. Use data in the highest impact way for your role.
- CalypsoAI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
- Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.
Advanced Media is a voice recognition service provider that helps clients in the transription, call center, and healthcare industry.
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- Industry: Software, Audio, Music
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Yaraku — Yaraku is an online platform that enables users to translate documents of multiple languages. It was launched in August 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
O.D. Kobo is an alternative asset manager with more than two decades of experience leading capital deployment, structured finance, and cross-border investment execution across institutional, sovereign, and principal-backed mandates, with a sectoral focus on technology, energy, and infrastructure.
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- Industry: Internet, Social Media, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: China, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2M; Series A $3M–$5M; Series B $12M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kobo360 — Kobo360 is Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. We are simplifying the supply chain ecosystem with end-to-end tech products, providing a 360-degree view to all stakeholders.
- GiveHope — An easy way to raise money online for personal causes and life events, to challenging circumstances like accidents and illnesses. Voted the #1 Most Reliable Fundraising Website for personal and social causes by campaign organizers and donors across the United States.
- Totally Bored — Totally Bored is a trivia-style app designed to provide light-hearted amusement.
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- Industry: Advertising, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Corporate Round $468k–$496M; Venture - Series Unknown $459k–$80M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $42M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- TBM — TBM is a company that develops, manufactures and sells paper and plastic alternative products made from a limestone-based material known as “LIMEX”.
- IDN Media — IDN Media is the leading media platform company for Millennials and Gen Z in Indonesia.
- SilkChart — SilkChart helps growth teams improve campaigns based on what users are doing in product - without relying on expensive data scientists. We do this through a no code analytics tool that combines marketing and product usage data to identify which channels, audiences, and content maximize revenue growth.
Mark Gerson, a New York–based entrepreneur and philanthropist, is the co-founder of Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), 3I Members and other businesses. He is the co-founder and Chairman of United Hatzalah, the crowd-sourced system of volunteer first response that enables Israelis to be treated within the moments separating life from deathfollowing any medical trauma with more than 7,000 trained medics across Israeli society. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of African Mission Healthcare, which enables Christian medical missionaries to provide clinical care, training, and medical infrastructure for people throughout Africa where he and his wife, Rabbi Erica Gerson, made the largest gift ever to Christian medical missionaries. A graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School, Mark is the author of the national bestseller The Telling: How Judaism’s Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life. Mark’s articles and essays on subjects ranging from Frank Sinatra to the biblical Jonah to the Torah and science of clothing have been published in The New Republic, USA Today, Commentary, and Christian Broadcast Network. Mark Gerson's brother is Rick Gerson, the Co-Founder, Chairman, & CIO of Alpha Wave Global.
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- Industry: Travel, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Russian Federation, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4M; Angel $2.8M–$2.8M; Series A $1M–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Smarterer — Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Their dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serioussoftware developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
- LeagueApps — The leading youth sports management platform and online registration software to manage waivers, payments, schedules, facilities, teams, and more.
- 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.
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- Industry: Music, Mobile Devices, Developer Tools
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 246
- Round size: Series A $3.9M–$44M; Series B $4.8M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- ZutaCore — The ZutaCore waterless direct-to-chip liquid cooling solutions is a smart, sustainable alternative to conventional air and water cooling for data centers.
- Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Music
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $300k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
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.
With extensive knowledge of the event marketing industry, Gilad Carni founded GC Marketing Services in 2001. Gilad holds a Bachelors Degree in Marketing and an MBA in International Marketing and Entrepreneurship with Distinction from the University of South Florida. He frequently acts as a guest lecturer at the Stern Business School and is oftenemployed as a consultant for Wall Street due to his expertise in the field of event marketing. Gilad has also been featured in numerous publications both national and international and has made appearances on a variety of television shows.Gilad began his career in the liquor and tobacco marketing fields and he has overseen a vast number of marketing campaigns. Prior to opening his own agency, Gilad worked for Phillip Morris and was responsible for their event marketing bar program in New York. Gilad is now chairman of GC Marketing and has been a crucial mechanism in its expansion and growth. After serving in the Israeli military, Gilad made New York City his home and enjoys skiing and scuba diving.
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- Industry: Music, Mobile Devices, Developer Tools
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.5M; Series A $10M–$55M; Series B $31M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Regatta — The distributed database for high-performance transactional, analytical, and agentic AI workloads.
- Oligo Security — Oligo detects the attackable open source libraries, thus filtering out about 85% of the noise. Watch now.
- Airis Labs — Airis Labs provides a platform that turns user-generated content into field intelligence. The system extracts information from videos, images, audio, and text to help identify threats. It processes large amounts of unstructured data to support investigations and monitoring. The platform reduces time spent reviewing footage by automating theanalysis process. It offers high accuracy in locating urban areas from visual data. Airis combines multiple tools into one system for intelligence gathering and threat mapping. The platform can be deployed on private servers or through cloud networks.
Founder and CEO of At Night Management, manager of Avicii, Cazzette. He attended Stockholm University.
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- Industry: Music, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Sweden, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Series B $28M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shewy — Shewy is a producer of vitamin-enriched chewing gums sold in retail, online and against a subscription
- Savr — Savr is an Investment platform disrupting the Swedish fund industry with a lower fee structure and a new business model.
- Soundverse AI — Soundverse AI is an innovative music technology company based in New York City, founded by Sourabh Pateriya and Riley Williams. It offers an AI-powered platform that enables creators to generate original music through intuitive tools like ai music generator, AI song generator, stem separation, and a conversational voice assistant. The platform isdesigned to cater to a wide range of users, from hobbyists to professionals, facilitating the creation of high-quality, royalty-free music for various applications, including streaming, video content, and podcasts. Committed to ethical AI practices, Soundverse ensures that its models are trained with explicit artist consent and fair compensation, fostering trust within the creative community. Since its inception in 2023, the platform has attracted over 1.5m creators who have collectively produced more than 2 million tracks. With a focus on empowering artists and maintaining ethical standards, Soundverse AI is shaping the future of music creation by blending technology with human creativity.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1591
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $12M–$102M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $400M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Moleskine — Moleskine develops, distributes, and sells notebooks, diaries, portfolios, purses, writing materials, reading articles, and many other products in Italy and internationally.The company offers paper products such as notebooks, diaries, home and office products, and gifts as well as writing, travelling, and reading collections, including pens,pencils, bags, reading glasses, and book lights. It also offers digital services and products comprising templates and applications for smartphones and tablets; Smart Notebook; and print-on-demand services for the creation of photo-books.Moleskine distributes its products in approximately 105 countries through a network of book, department, specialty, and stationery stores as well as museums; its sales network and websites; and a retail network of 30 directly-operated stores, including 9 in China, 12 in Italy, 2 in the United Kingdom, 2 in France, and 5 in the United States.Moleskine was founded in 1997 and is based in Milan, Italy.
- PanGenetics — PanGenetics B.V. develops monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of immune mediated diseases.PanGenetics is a clinical development company that specializes in taking antibodies from the late research stage through to clinical proof of concept. The company is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands with an office in Cambridge, UK. PanGenetics employsa lean business model with manufacturing and clinical development activities outsourced to specialist providers. Apart from PG110, the other clinical program of PanGenetics is PG102, a CD40 antagonist for treatment of autoimmune diseases which is currently being evaluated in a clinical study in psoriatic arthritis patients
- Milestone Systems — See and know more with video technology. Milestone offers award-winning XProtect video management software, Arcules VSaaS, and BriefCam analytics.
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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- Industry: Automotive, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $100k–$9M; Series A $5M–$100M; Corporate Round $4.3M–$475M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VAST Data — VAST delivers the first AI Operating System, unifying storage, database, and compute to drive agentic computing and data intensive workloads. Learn more.
- Upstage — Upstage AI develops artificial intelligence technologies focused on large language models and document processing systems designed to support enterprise workflows. Its platform includes tools that convert unstructured data such as PDFs, scans, and emails into structured, machine-readable formats, enabling downstream analysis and automation. Thecompany also provides models like its Solar LLM, which are optimized for tasks such as text generation, information extraction, and question answering within business environments. Its solutions are applied across industries including finance, healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing to handle tasks like document parsing, data extraction, and workflow automation. Additionally, its services can be deployed through APIs, cloud environments, or on-premise systems to integrate with existing enterprise infrastructure.
- Video Rebirth — Video Rebirth Limited is a private limited company that is established with shares.
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Browse database — It's Free!Throughout his highly successful international career, Jeff Pulver contributed to helping to launch the VoIP industry in 1995 and helped grow it to what has now become a two trillion dollar global industry in 2019. As an Internet Pioneer known for his work in VoIP, Jeff literally helped change the way the world communicates. Jeff launched the firstphone network on the Internet known as Free World Dialup in 1995; launched the VoIP Industry Trade Show VON in 1997; founded the company which is now known as Vonage in 1998 and worked with policy makers in Washington, D.C. which resulted in the landmark order issued by the FCC in 2004 known as “The Pulver Order.”His work in Washington on getting “The Pulver Order” passed is the reason services like: FaceTime, Telegram and WhatsApp are free both in the US and in over 100 countries around the world. Jeff has influenced the creation of numerous startups and has invested in over 400 startups. Currently exploring the intersection of: Blockchain and Finance. As Co-Founder of The Local Group, Jeff is a passionate advocate of Programmable Securities and Digital Assets. Strategic adviser to Blockchain projects.
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- Industry: Mobile, Android, CRM
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $125k–$5.5M; Angel $95k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fever — Enjoy the best experiences. Get rewarded with Fever Club. Recommendations based on you. Making plans made easy.
- JamStar — Jamstar is a FREE app that teaches you how to play guitar without external devices or connections! Any guitar works. Available for Android, iOS & the web!
- Zola Books — Zola Books provides the tools for anyone anywhere to sell any book online. Giving power to writers, booksellers, publishers and more since 2012.
KOKTEYL offers its knowledge in information technologies to users in mobile and internet environments. It develops and operates functional systems with multiple users in the mobile and internet environment.KOKTEYL was established in 2002, primarily with the objective of developing B2C projects technology environments.KOKTEYL has divided itsin-house organization into two units: operations and business development. The operations unit provides content to operated and supported sites and applications, performs moderation, and provides technical support. The business development unit adds new functions to the existing projects and develops new projects.With its staff consisting of 30 people, KOKTEYL continues to create quality, creative and leading projects as a company that has developed and operated leading projects in the internet sector.
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- Industry: PaaS, Music, Mobile
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $142k–$300k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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 used so users can discover playlists. Users can share a picture and discover songs based on their mood. Their application is available for Android and iOS users. It is an online social media music site.
- Pepapp — Woman Health Mobile Applications
William Adams, is a multi-faceted entertainer and creative innovator, and a seven-time Grammy Award winner. Known for his work with The Black Eyed Peas, who have sold 31 million albums and 58 million singles worldwide, he also works with some of the industry’s biggest names including Michael Jackson, Rihanna, Usher, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears,David Guetta, and film composer Hans Zimmer.i.am+ is the developer of the dial, the first smart band device with an onboard, untethered mobile phone capability powered by AneedA, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-focused operating system. Fusing the worlds of technology and fashion, will.i.am and team also developed i.am+ EPs Bluetooth Wireless Headphone. EPs feature magnetic earpieces, when clipped together, transform the listening device into a stylish necklace made of spun metal and woven fabric that incorporates a microphone connected to AneedA for making calls and finding music, both hands-free.Frontman and founder of The Black Eyed Peas will.i.am has released three songs from his upcoming solo cd, #willpower on Interscope Records, due out in April, 2013. The three singles from the cd released in 2012 were: “This is Love” featuring Eva Simons; and “Scream & Shout” that has gone to number one on iTunes and radio play charts in dozens of countries. In 2013, he released his latest single “#ThatPower” featuring Justin Bieber. will.i.am is the first recording artist to send a song to Mars in conjunction with NASA’s Curiosity Mars Space Lab. Space and music industry firsts were achieved on August 28, 2012 when “Reach For The Stars (Mars Edition)” was played back from Mars during a youth education event hosted by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.His songs and imagery have entertained and inspired millions, and the power of his words resonated deeply in his song “Yes They Can” that mobilized an entire generation to action during the 2008 presidential campaign. Demonstrating that music, brands and causes can be intertwined to entertain and inform, “Yes They Can” garnered an Emmy Award for “Best New Approaches in Daytime Entertainment” as well as a CLIO award in the Interactive category.In addition to his music career, will.i.am is very active in front of, and behind the camera. His educational TV special “i.am.mars: Reach For The Stars”, a behind-the-scene look at the artistic and scientific elements involved in sending a song to Mars aired on Discovery’s SCIENCE Channel in August, 2012. In 2011, will.i.am executive produced and starred in his first prime time TV special “i.am FIRST: Science is Rock and Roll” to get young people excited about math and science education, as well as technology and science-related careers. In front of the camera, will.i.am returned in 2013 for a second season as a Coach on reality TV hit show “The Voice” UK on BBC One.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Sweden, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $3M–$15M; Series A $5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.
- Jetson Aero — Your personal aircraft in aluminium and carbon fibre, powered with eight powerful electric motors.
- Neko Health — Try the Neko Body Scan. Get answers right away, and let us monitor your health - so you don't have to.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $650k–$51M; Series A $6.5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
- Malanta.ai — Pre-Attack Prevention. Hit the source. Malanta is the first pre-attack prevention platform. We shift your security posture from reactive to proactive at machine speed by painting the full attack infrastructure picture before it becomes operational.
- Matia — Matia helps to improve data management by combining uniform ingestion, reverse ETL, observability, and cataloging. It is designed for frictionless collaboration, enabling organizations and the data teams that support them to make faster, smarter decisions with less tool bloat.
Yaron Carni is the Founder of Maverick Ventures (Israel). The word "Maverick" means spark and brilliance in Hebrew. Maverick Ventures (Israel) was founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. We provide funding for Tech Start-Up Companies by high value investors from around the world who are interested in the success of innovativeIsraeli companies. Maverick.Prior to that, Yaron founded the Tel Aviv Angel Group - a Boutique Angel Group of several hand picked value added individuals from the US, Canada and Europe that invest privately in a variety of Israeli based companies. The first investment he made, in LabPixies was the first Israeli company bought by Google. More at: www.TelAvivAngels.com Yaron served as the board member of the startup companies the group invests in. He invested in and was the Director of Business Development of Contextin and served on it's Board. The Tel Aviv Angel Group's holdings in Contextin were sold to Spark. Yaron also invested in and served on the board of Vaultive, an innovative information security company based in Tel Aviv. TAAG's holdings in Valutive were also sold.Prior to that, he was the first investor (with his group) and Director of Business Development in LabPixies which is the first company Google Inc. acquired in Israel and was it's Director of Business Development. Carni is the former Head of Business Development of GC Marketing Servcies (www.gcmarketingservices.com) in New York. He is a graduate of the Sam Zell Entreprenurship Program and also has a Master's in Law with a concentration in IP. Yaron serves on the board of United Hatzalah - Israel's bigggest volunteer rescue organziation of 2000 first responders.
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- Industry: Enterprise Software, Music, Security
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hirundo — Find and remove unwanted data from your AI models. Easily unlearn items from your models and training data. For optimization, debugging and compliance.
- Vaultive — Get the most complete Identity Security and Access Management Solutions that enable secure access across any device, anywhere, at just the right time.
- 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
The manager of iconic rock band Coldplay, Dave joined Shellanoo Group as a partner in 2014. He is a remarkably talented businessman with brilliant marketing insights. He has introduced our CEO to many senior executives in the music industry and remains a loyal friend to many of our partners.
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- Industry: Messaging, Music, SMS
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Path — Path is a mobile photo-sharing and messaging service for building personal social networks with up to 150 contacts. Currently Path Places. Path Talk and Path sold to Daum Kakao May 28, 2015.Path brings people closer together. Guided by the belief that mobile technology will fundamentally change the cultural, social, and economic landscape, Pathfocuses on simplicity, quality, and privacy to provide the best mobile personal networking service in the world. Path was designed with the people they love, closest friends, and family in mind.
- Airbnb — Find the perfect place to stay at an amazing price in 191 countries. Belong anywhere with Airbnb.
- 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.
Yossi Matias is Vice President, Google, and the Head of Google Research. Under Yossi’s leadership, world-class global teams are leading breakthrough research on Foundational Machine Learning & Algorithms, Computing Systems & Quantum Computing, Science, AI for Societal Impact in Health, Climate, Education and Socio-technical research, andfoundational advancements in Generative AI - shaping the future of technology and driving and accelerating the magic cycle between research and real-world impact.Recent research breakthroughs include speculative decoding, generative UI, genAI factuality, AI Co-Scientist, Earth AI, Quantum Echo algorithm, DeepSomatic, MedGemma, Flood Forecasting, FireSat, LearnLM.Yossi was previously on Google Search leadership for over a decade, driving strategic features and technologies, and pioneered Conversational AI innovations to help transform the phone experience and help remove barriers of modality and languages. He was also the founding lead of Google center in Israel and supported other global sites. During his tenure at Google Yossi founded and spearheaded initiatives such as Google's AI for Social Good, Crisis Resilience, Google for Startups Accelerator, social and cultural initiatives seeding Google Arts & Culture, and programs fostering startups, sustainability, and AI literacy for youth.Prior to Google Yossi was on the Computer Science faculty at Tel Aviv University, a visiting professor at Stanford, and a Research Scientist at Bell Labs. He’s published over 200 papers and is the inventor of over 80 patents. He pioneered some of the early technologies for internet privacy, contextual search, and the effective analysis of Big Data. He is a recipient of the Gödel Prize, an ACM Fellow, and a recipient of the ACM Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for seminal work on streaming algorithms, data sketches, and large-scale data analyticsYossi has a track record of impact-driven breakthrough research and innovation, and extensive product leadership, transforming products and advancing AI to help address global challenges.
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- Industry: Software, Generative AI, Music
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $750k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enso — Go-to-market with enso in places only agents can find demand. We deploy AI agents across the channels your buyers use to growth hack your way to customers.
- Leo AI — Discover Leo AI, the mechanical engineering copilot. Get verified answers for technical answers backed by 1M+ sources, Find the best parts for the job and create concept images and 3D models. Join 50,000+ engineers using Leo.
- Terra Security — Don't lose sleep over pen testing; our expert testers will ensure your systems are secure during the test while focusing their time on the most important assets.
Jean-Charles Carre is the business partner and manager of world renowned DJ and music producer David Guetta.
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- Industry: Apps, Music, Computer
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: France, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Series A $2.9M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Music, Dating, Podcast
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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!
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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- Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Lebanon, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- 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%.
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- Industry: Apps, Music, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 121
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
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- 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.
Dana Messina
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- Industry: Music, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Simply — Feel the joy of playing piano and guitar, or discovering your singing voice, with Simply. The best apps for learning musical instruments.
Ufuk Sarı is the Angel Investor.
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- Industry: Music, Dating, Podcast
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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!
N. Kemal Yılmaz is an Angel Investor.
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- Industry: Music, Dating, Podcast
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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!
Elron Ventures is an early-stage investor committed to turning promising ideas into global industry leaders, with a proven track record of investments and successful M&As worldwide. Elron invests in cyber security and B2B software. Since its establishment in 1962, Elron stands on the forefront of Israeli innovation both as a founder and earlyinvestor in companies across various industries such as Elbit, Medingo, Given Imaging, Cloudyn, Cyber Secdo, and Alcide.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cybersixgill — Cybersixgill is the leader in cyber threat intelligence enablement and enrichment. Their fully automated threat intelligence solutions help organizations fight cyber crime, detect phishing, data leaks, fraud and vulnerabilities as well as amplify incident response – in real-time. The Cybersixgill Investigative Portal empowers security teams withcontextual and actionable insights as well as the ability to conduct real-time investigations. Rich data feeds such as Darkfeed™ and DVE Score™ harness Cybersixgill’s unmatched intelligence collection capabilities and deliver real-time intel into organizations' existing security systems. Most recently, Cybersixgill introduced agility to threat intel with their CI/CP methodology (Continuous Investigation/Continuous Protection). Current customers include enterprises, financial services, MSSPs, governments and law enforcement entities.
- CartiHeal — Target improved outcomes in the treatment of knee cartilage and osteochondral defects with a porous, biocompatible and biodegradable off-the-shelf implant.
- Brainsgate — Established in 2000, BrainsGate is a medical device company committed to developing innovative therapies for patients suffering from Central Nervous System (CNS) diseases.BrainsGate's platform...
Raz Group empowers entrepreneurs and helps them transform their passions into value-adding companies.
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- Industry: Events, Advertising, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cargoz — Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage.
- Autobia — Autobia is a B2B marketplace leveraging the data to solve the infrastructure and after-sales challenges in the automotive industry. The company bridges the gap between wholesalers and resellers by offering in-between digital, operational and logistical integrated solutions. It was founded in 2021 and is located in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
- Dnaneer — Dnaneer is a FinTech platform that connects online businesses with investors through crowdfunding of enterprises.
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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- 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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- Industry: Apps, Mobile Apps, Personal Health
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
Yanki Margalit, an Israeli entrepreneur, investor, and speaker, founded Aladdin Knowledge Systems in 1985, leading it to a successful NASDAQ IPO in 1993 and guiding the company until 2009. Since then, he has invested in and mentored numerous startups through Innodo Ventures and served as chairman of several technology companies, including SpaceIL, the non-profit competing in the Google Lunar X Prize. In 2025, he launched Caura.ai, a startup pioneering memory and emotion in AI.
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- Industry: Mobile, B2B, iOS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iAngels — iAngels is a women-led venture capital firm and one of Israel's most active and recognized investors. Combining a deep, proprietary due-diligence process alongside best-in-class reporting, iAngels provides a window into Israel's extremely rich startup world and has a proven ability to generate and deliver superior VC returns. iAngels believes in going beyond and backs those who do, partnering with some of the highest-caliber entrepreneurs in the nation.
- Drippler — Drippler is a personalized tech assistant, helping people make the most of their technology
- Digital Layers — An intuitive, social music platform enabling music lovers at any level of expertise to take part in music creation using a multi-track format.discover, create, remix, collaborate & play music with studio like sound. Based on the principals of the open source concept, harnessing the wisdom of the crowd to ignite the first real open musicarena.
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