Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Middle East in April 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Middle East in April 2025
Investor | Payments Middle East investments |
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Kunal Shah | 3 |
Musaab Hakami | 3 |
Amrish Rau | 3 |
Yaron Lemelbaum | 3 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 3 |
Jitendra Gupta | 3 |
Winslow Strong | 2 |
Ivo Georgiev | 2 |
Anton Bukov | 2 |
Jaynti Kanani | 2 |
Omar Darwazah | 2 |
Nati Harpaz | 2 |
Philippe Teixeira da Mota | 2 |
Mark Ransford | 2 |
Kamil Guclu | 2 |
Srinivas Rao M | 2 |
Patrick Dai | 2 |
Chris Adelsbach | 2 |
Prajit Nanu | 2 |
Omar Bajarash | 1 |
Sergej Kunz | 1 |
Evan Van Ness | 1 |
Eduardo Ronzano | 1 |
Private Private | 1 |
Kathryn Petralia | 1 |
Amir Sarhangi | 1 |
Yan Hascoët | 1 |
Yusuf Sevim | 1 |
Ziv Paz | 1 |
Richard Aseme | 1 |
Thibaud Elziere | 1 |
Dov Baharav | 1 |
Guillaume Houzé | 1 |
Martin Köppelmann | 1 |
Eyal Ofer | 1 |
Olugbenga Agboola | 1 |
Dingaling | 1 |
NFTboi | 1 |
Frederic Lardieg | 1 |
Shunsuke Oyu | 1 |
wale. moca | 1 |
Kutay Pinarci | 1 |
Yahya Bajarash | 1 |
Stefan George | 1 |
Philipp Zentner | 1 |
Arya Bolurfrushan | 1 |
Jon Oringer | 1 |
Eyal Gura | 1 |
Sina Afra | 1 |
Samih Toukan | 1 |
Kunal Shah
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.
- Lorien Finance — Lorien Finance is a cross-border FinTech platform providing affordable student loans and retail banking services to immigrants (students and temporary workers) moving to the US.
- Presentations.AI — Create stunning PowerPoint presentations in seconds with Presentations.AI - the ultimate AI presentation maker. Just type your idea and watch as we craft a professional PPT for you. Perfect for all: businesses, educators, and hobbyists. Dive in now, start for free!
Founder, Ex-GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Lisan — Lisan is an AI writing platform offering state-of-the-art proofreading and grammar checking to help individuals who write in Arabic to maximize their productivity, create exceptional content using cutting-edge generative AI models, and automate tasks with AI accelerators.
- Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs with worldwide investors for sharia-compliant investments with 15% yearly income through small business debt crowdfunding.
- Groundfloor — Building the infrastructure for IRL community
Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, Singapore, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
- Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
Mr. Lemelbaum is an experienced Film Producer. Since 2007 Mr Lemelbaum is also involved in Investment Research and Managment, and serves on the Board of Directors of Israeli listed public companies AMS Electronics and BSR Europe.
Mr. Lemelbaum holds a BA in Computer Science from IDC, and MBA from Columbia University
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Homeis — We’ve created Homeis because we know first hand how deep the experience of being foreign-born is. When you ask us what home is, we don’t have an easy answer. It’s complicated. We have the city we chose to live in and call home, and then we have our culture, the country we come from, which we call home as well. And it’s a big part of our identity,it’s who we are.Homeis was created to help people like us, who belong here and there, and feel that the Internet is undeserving them. We’ve witnessed how difficult it is for local foreign-born communities to digitally connect, share their culture, their local knowledge, and unique context. We saw how important these communities are in one’s life, how supportive they can be, and how effective their common wisdom can be to its members.So we decided it’s time to give foreign-born communities a dedicated comprehensive product. A product that understands them really well, and most importantly - empowers them. It’s what we’re here for. While local culture networks have always existed, our mission is to use technology and innovation to turn these invisible groups into visible communities.Homeis was founded in Feb 2017 in NYC and Tel Aviv. We’ve launched our first community in Dec 2017, and are planning to open many more in the next months. As most foreign-born people, we are BIG dreamers. Join us!
- Simplex — Buy crypto instantly with credit card, bank transfer, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more. Simplex provides a fast, secure fiat-to-crypto onramp.
- Rewire — Secure financial services designed to help migrants make cross-border money transfers. Rewire offers great rates, fast delivery, multilingual customer support
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
- Optimum — Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains.
- Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
- CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.
Winslow Strong
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Privacy
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- BEAM — Beam offers privacy, confidential assets, DeFi, NFTs, DEX, and a seamless user experience in a secure, decentralized environment.
- Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
- Altitude — Actively managed collateralised loans
Ivo Georgiev - Co-Founder & CEO @ Ambire AdEx
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Investment focus
- Privacy, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Funding Round
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- BEAM — Beam offers privacy, confidential assets, DeFi, NFTs, DEX, and a seamless user experience in a secure, decentralized environment.
I am a philosopher, concept generator, and innovator with a deep fascination for technology, simplicity, and innovation, stemming from my software engineering journey that began in 2002. I have a profound curiosity in diverse domains such as algorithms, space exploration, blockchain technology, virtual and augmented reality, artificialintelligence, emerging energy sources, and new material sciences. My holistic and interdisciplinary approach propels me towards harnessing technology and innovation to conceive and create a future that surpasses the conventional boundaries of imagination
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Portugal, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
- Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
- Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
- NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.
- Electron — Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient.
Omar is a Managing Director, General Partner, and CFO at AAF Management Ltd. (AAF), an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016. Over the past 5 years, Omar has invested in over 120 venture-backed startups in the US, Europe, and MENA region across a multitude of different sectors alongside over 800 blue-chip venture capital firms,corporate venture arms as well as notable incubators and accelerators. Omar has also deployed capital to 18 emerging managers globally. His fund performance is consistently ranked in the top decile in terms of DPI and TVPI respectively benchmarked on Cambridge Associates’ data on over 1500 US VC Funds. Previously, Omar spent 10 years of his career with OCI N.V. in Cairo and New York focusing on investor relations, strategy, and corporate finance where he worked on over $35 billion worth of corporate transactions. Prior to that, Omar was with Deloitte Tax LLP in Chicago and Deutsche Bank’s Leveraged Finance team in London.Omar also founded and successfully exited his own startup, Premier Foods SAE, which managed two gourmet fast food brands in Egypt. Omar previously advised Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ corporate venture arm Hikma Ventures on its digital healthcare investments Omar is also an angel investor in over 20 tech companies including Andela, Blockstack, BitOasis, Dayra, Freterium, Halan, FiscalNote, Thndr, and Ziina. Omar sits on the Board of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) and the Middle East Venture Capital Association (MEVCA). He is also a mentor to the NYU Steinhardt EdTech Accelerator, an advisor to Yale University’s Center for Digital Health and Innovation, and a judge at the Wharton School’s Venture Lab. In aggregate, Omar has over 16 years of international experience in corporate finance, corporate communications, management consulting, strategy, investor relations, and venture capital.Omar is an avid traveler and has visited 87 countries around the world. He also has an interest in film production and has been an Executive Producer on several short feature films including Baby Mine (2017) and Lab Rat (2018).Omar holds a BA in Economics and Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was named as one of Wharton’s 40 under 40 in 2017 and one of the Top 100 the University of Chicago Alumni in Tech in 2021.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
- Fuze — Transform your business with Fuze's digital assets infrastructure solutions and integrated payment systems. Achieve seamless transactions and efficiency.
- Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.
Nati Harpaz is the CEO of Catch Group, Australia’s largest pure eCommerce organisation with a retail product business as well as a daily deals business. Nati’s focus is on building cultures in organisations to enable rapid growth which stems from the understanding that management cannot compromise on the quality of its human resource as well as therequirement of a very clear and concise business strategy to allow the entire organisation to focus on achieving it.On top of his position as CEO of Catch Group he is also the chairman of APAC’s largest retail media organisation – Inside Retail as well as an advisory board member of several publicly listed companies.
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Investment focus
- PaaS, FinTech, Internet
- Seed
- Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- BridgerPay — We’re solving the toughest payment challenges to deliver growth-ready payment infrastructure.
Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
- Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
- Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.
Angel Investor
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
- Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice
- Little John — Little John creates a platform using generative AI to empower insurance brokers.
Kamil Guclu is active angel investor, Former Oracle Executive, Board Member of the Adastec, has been appointed as Senator at the Grand Assembly of the World Business Angels Investment Forum. Senator Guclu will represent Silicon Valley, US in the Global Startup Committee of the Grand Assembly.
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- igor — We are a neobanking company based in Istanbul that operates exclusively online without any traditional physical branch. Igor allows you to open a paperless account in less than 2 minutes.While not a bank itself, we provide banking and financial services in partnership with leading banks in Turkey through our web, mobile app and prepaid igor Card.We offer numerous features for individuals and merchants as a payment and PF solution. We are trying to help small and big businesses succeed on their own terms by accepting all credit and debit cards with better commissions than the regular market.
- ADASTEC Corp. — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
- NomadVibe — NomadVibe is a media firm that delivers instructive, useful, motivating, and high-quality material for digital nomads.
Srinivas Rao M is a CEO at T-Hub.
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Investment focus
- Advice, Payments, Financial Services
- Grant, Seed
- India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
- CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.
- CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.
Patrick is graduated from Draper University and dropped out of his doctoral degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Previously employed by Alibaba, and committed to the blockchain technology development, with abundant blockchain industry development experience.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Privacy, Computer
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bodhi — Bodhi is a decentralized prediction market platform focusing on Chinese market.Bodhi prediction market will be built on top of the Qtum blockchain. Qtum combines Bitcoin Core infrastructure with Ethereum Virtual Machine to provide stability, modularity and interoperability for dApps build on its platform. Bodhi aims to be one of the earliest andlargest dApps run on Qtum.
- BEAM — Beam offers privacy, confidential assets, DeFi, NFTs, DEX, and a seamless user experience in a secure, decentralized environment.
- RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
- WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
- Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.
Prajit serves as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors. Based in Mumbai, Prajit is responsible for executing the business strategy and directing the overall performance and growth of our organization. He is also in charge of driving innovation across processes and create value add for customers. Prior to co-foundingInstarem Prajit, held several leadership positions in global companies, including Global Sales Director, TMF Group and Vice President, Sales and Account Management at WNS (NYSE:WNS). He is a graduate from Mumbai University.
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Investment focus
- Advice, Payments, Financial Services
- Seed
- India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
- CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.
- CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.
Omar Bajarash
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Payments, Logistics
- Debt Financing
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.
Co-Founder of 1inch Network, Software Engineer and Security Expert.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed, Series A
Portfolio highlights
- STON.fi — Instantly swap Toncoin for any coin or token at the best rate. STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain providing virtually zero fees, low slippage, an extremely easy interface, and direct integration with TON wallets.
- Oasis.app — Borrow Dai, a USD pegged Stablecoin, or multiply your exposure using crypto as your collateral
- Big Whale Labs — We build the future while everybody else lives in the past
Evan Van Ness
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Open Source
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
- Frak Labs — FRAK is DeFi* protocol that enables creators and users to get paid for the usage of the content.
- Morpho Labs — A permissionless and non-custodial lending protocol. Earn interest on over-collateralized lending and borrow digital assets using immutable infrastructure.
Private Private
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Investment focus
- Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- FCUK Ecosystem — A startup aimed at building an ecosystem based on Bitcoin and the Ordinals protocol and creating infrastructure for BRC20 / BRC21 / DRC20 / LTC20 tokens.
Kathryn Petralia is the Co-founder and President of Kabbage Inc., a data and technology company offering automated cash flow solutions to small businesses. Kathryn is a seasoned leader in financial services with more than 20 years’ experience across credit, payments and lending. Recognized as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World byForbes, Kathryn helps lead Kabbage to simplify the way small businesses access the capital and services they need to build lasting businesses.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Banking, FinTech
- Seed
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- TenureX — Tenure is a pioneering technology and enablement service provider for correspondent banking services. It sets out to bring banks and financial institutions together in a collaborative, technology-based, business-oriented fashion.
- WorkChew — WorkChew is a marketplace that connects remote workers to the safe, productive coworking space in worker-friendly restaurants.It is focused on the B2B side of the business, signing up enterprises looking for flexible work options for their remote employees. The company also has a self-serve option, where remote workers can sign in, see the spaceoptions and all the amenities offered near their locations, and book a seat for up to four hours. For hotels on the WorkChew platform, users can also book a conference room or guest room. Restaurants and hotels on the WorkChew platform keep 100 percent of any money they make on food or beverage sales. With hotels, WorkChew makes a commission off conference room bookings, but the hotels keep everything they make off everything else.Co-founders Maisha Burt and Allyson McDougal established the company in Washington, District of Columbia in 2018.
Amir Sarhangi is the Founder and CEO of Supermojo. He previously worked at Ripple as a VP of Product and Services. Amir Sarhangi attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed
- United States, United Arab Emirates
Yan Hascoët
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Investment focus
- Banking, Finance, Cannabis
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- France, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
Yusuf Sevim
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Investment focus
- Apps, FinTech, Software
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Metatime — Metatime is building the world's most comprehensive digital ecosystem by maximizing the efficiency of blockchain technology.
Ziv Paz is the Co-Founder and COO of Melio. He previously worked at FIMI Opportunity Fund as a VP. Ziv Paz attended Tel Aviv University.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Billing
- Seed
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Evermile — Evermile has everything you need to simplify operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive business growth. Try it, it's easier than you think!
- Vayu — Discover Vayu, the cutting-edge billing and revenue management platform designed to streamline operations and maximize efficiency for finance teams.
- Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
Richard Aseme is the VP, International Marketing and Distribution, EMEA at Paramount Pictures. He attended Oxford University (Jesus College) oct 1996 - June 2000.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Credit, InsurTech
- Seed, Angel
- Egypt, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Axis — axis for Business enables small businesses to seamlessly manage employee payroll, salary advances, and expenses - all from one place.
- Octo — Experience infinite possibilities with financial solutions tailored to fit your lifestyle. From swift payments to personalized credit options, Octo is here to make every transaction seamless.
- Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
- Skynopy — Connecting satellites. As a service
- Presti — French startup using GenAI to create lifestyle product photos for furniture brands
Dov Baharav has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2010. Dov is the chairman of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. - a leading provider of products and services for satellite-based broadband communications, and of Cyberint Technologies Ltd.- which specializes in Information and Cyber Security. Dov has served as the chairmanof the board of directors of Israel Aerospace Industries, Ltd., a defense and civil aerospace technology company, from July 2011 until October 2013. From July 2002 until November 2010, Dov served as president and chief executive officer of Amdocs Management Limited, or Amdocs, a communications services company. He also served as a member of Amdocs’ board of directors and executive committee from July 2002 until November 2010. Dov joined Amdocs in 1991 as vice president and then president of Amdocs’ principal U.S. subsidiary, Amdocs, Inc., and served as chief financial officer of Amdocs from 1995 until June 2002. From 1983 until 1991, Dov served as chief operating officer of Optrotech Ltd., an electro optical device company. Dov is the chairman of scholarships fund with the College of Management Academic Studies in Rishon Lezion, Israel. He was also a member of the board of directors of SeamBI, a private advertising technology company, from July 2006 to November 2012. Dov holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Accounting, as well as a Master of Business Administration, from the University of Tel Aviv. Dov is located in Israel.
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Investment focus
- Security, Cyber Security, Fraud Detection
- Series A
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Cyberint — Continuously expose and mitigate your most relevant known and unknown risks with threat intelligence, tailored to your attack surface.
Founder of Motier Ventures. Executive Board member of the Galeries Lafayette Group. President of ANDAM and Lafayette Anticipations.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Blockchain, Payments
- Seed
- Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nilos — Pay, track and reconcile your crypto wallets and fiat accounts in one platform.
- Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.
Martin Köppelmann - Co-Founder & CEO @ Gnosis
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Investment focus
- Web3, Blockchain, Database
- Seed
- United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is Chairman of Ofer Global, leading the group’s private portfolio of international businesses in shipping, real estate, energy, technology, banking and investments. In 2017, Eyal launched O.G. Venture Partners, a single LP Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-growth-stage technology start-ups, demonstrating hislong-standing support for tech entrepreneurs.In 2022, O.G. Venture Partners announced Fund II of $400M following the successful $100m Fund I, later expanded to $150m. Fund I has invested in 21 companies since its 2017 launch, with 5 exits already. The Fund I portfolio includes: LendBuzz, WSC Sports, BlueVine, Bringg, Paxos, Connecteam, Elementor, Coralogix, Candivore and SuperPlay.
Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is Chairman of Ofer Global, leading the group’s private portfolio of international businesses in shipping, real estate, energy, technology, banking and investments. In 2017, Eyal launched O.G. Venture Partners, a single LP Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-growth-stage technology start-ups, demonstrating his long-standing support for tech entrepreneurs.
In 2022, O.G. Venture Partners announced Fund II of $400M following the successful $100m Fund I, later expanded to $150m. Fund I has invested in 21 companies since its 2017 launch, with 5 exits already. The Fund I portfolio includes: LendBuzz, WSC Sports, BlueVine, Bringg, Paxos, Connecteam, Elementor, Coralogix, Candivore and SuperPlay.
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- Financial Services, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Israel
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- Home365 — Home365, Is a Property Management Company. Our Goal Is Making Renting Out More Profitable, Predictable And Hassle Free. Click Here For More Information.
- Connecteam — Communicate, operate and train your non-desk employees with Connecteam's all-in-one employee app. Easy to use, customizable and affordable like no other!
- Lightbits Labs — Software-defined NVMe/TCP storage that performs like local flash. Scalable High Performance Storage - accelerate IT operations, and reduce cost.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
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- SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Dingaling is an individual investor and crypto twitter celeb.
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- Gaming, PC Games, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Indonesia, United States
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- ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.
- Tokyo Beast — Tokyo Beast is powered by a diverse range of content, including gaming, cryptocurrency generation and management, and betting. At its heart is a cryptocurrency-based betting system.
- Ethos Network — The Ethos Credibility Score is the first dApp created on the Ethos Network. It created Ethos to be expandable to various interfaces and dApps by developing the infrastructure onchain. Using any interface, developers can post reviews, vouches, and slashes straight into Ethos' smart contract.
NFTboi is the founder of BoiLabs.
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- Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Media and Entertainment
- Angel
- United Arab Emirates
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- Liquidium — Liquidium is the leading Bitcoin lending protocol where users can borrow and lend against Inscriptions, Ordinals, Runes, BRC-20, and more.
- Tokyo Beast — Tokyo Beast is powered by a diverse range of content, including gaming, cryptocurrency generation and management, and betting. At its heart is a cryptocurrency-based betting system.
Frederic is a partner at Mubadala Ventures Europe, based in London.
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- SaaS, Fashion, Software
- Seed
- United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
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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).
- Rewardable — Turn your spare time into extra cash with simple online tasks and micro-jobs. Earn money whenever and wherever you like.
Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc.
Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016.
Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.
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- Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore, United States
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- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
- Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
wale.moca is Doing research at Azuki.
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- Tokyo Beast — Tokyo Beast is powered by a diverse range of content, including gaming, cryptocurrency generation and management, and betting. At its heart is a cryptocurrency-based betting system.
With over 17 years of experience in strategy consulting, capital & finance management, strategic growth, business modelling and development; he helps scale-ups and enterprises to grow rapidly and sustainably in competitive and dynamic markets. A proven track record of leading and executing complex & high-impact cases and engagementsacross multiple industries and geographies, delivering solid value for clients, stakeholders and teams.His roles required overseeing the formulation, execution, and monitoring diversified portfolio of businesses, ranging from B2B to B2C, within various verticals such as energy, manufacturing, healthcare, finance to edge-technology.As well as having a startup portfolio as an angel investor, thanks to 10 years of senior leadership in M&A and 5 years of tech-enabled startup background, he lead the identification, evaluation, and integration of potential acquisition targets. These experiences cover LP fund raising, acquisitions, sell-side fundraising and joint venture initiatives in large scale mergers. Kutay is passionate to enable and facilitate the challenging visions through innovation and commercial growth as a tech-enthusiastic business leader and active investor.
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- Banking, FinTech, Payments
- Seed
- Turkey
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- igor — We are a neobanking company based in Istanbul that operates exclusively online without any traditional physical branch. Igor allows you to open a paperless account in less than 2 minutes.While not a bank itself, we provide banking and financial services in partnership with leading banks in Turkey through our web, mobile app and prepaid igor Card.We offer numerous features for individuals and merchants as a payment and PF solution. We are trying to help small and big businesses succeed on their own terms by accepting all credit and debit cards with better commissions than the regular market.
Yahya Bajarash
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- SaaS, Payments, Logistics
- Debt Financing
- United Arab Emirates
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- AHOY Holding — Through AHOY's core tech, we are able to optimize any process related to movement, tasks, consent, and resources on this earth. People, goods, money, and information meet spatial capabilities in a serverless cloud. Get in touch and explore our APIs and technology.
Stefan George - Co-Founder & CTO @ Gnosis
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United Kingdom, Norway, Germany
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- karpatkey — Market leaders in onchain asset management, karpatkey helps crypto organisations grow their assets responsibly and sustainably. We provide active treasury management, financial services, ecosystem growth and risk management solutions.
- Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
- Rarimo Foundation — Rarimo Foundation, which aims to facilitate the development and growth of a new generation of social applications.
Philipp Zentner - CEO, Founder @ Li.Finance
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Service Industry
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- VELAR — VELAR is a Multi-Feature DeFi App with Bitcoin Finality.
- STON.fi — Instantly swap Toncoin for any coin or token at the best rate. STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain providing virtually zero fees, low slippage, an extremely easy interface, and direct integration with TON wallets.
- Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Education
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
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- Oliv — Oliv.com is a career marketplace based in Dubai, made for the youth of the Middle East. We connect students and graduates to employers for internships, part-time & graduate jobs. Launched in 2013, we set out to tackle a huge problem - a 30% youth unemployment rate in the MENA region. Oliv helps university students and graduates launch theircareers. And we're pretty good at it.Today, Oliv is home to thousands of students and graduates where their ambitions are aligned to opportunity. More than 1,000 businesses from startups to Fortune 500s use Oliv to hire top emerging talent to maintain a healthy talent pipeline and grow their business for the future.Our goal is to make launching careers simple, personal and rewarding. That's Oliv.
- AppliedAI — AAICO uses artificial intelligence to solve document, process, and measurable business improvement problems in regulated industries.
- Jingle Pay — Join now and get your ZERO fees, forever FREE account.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.
Eyal Gura is the Board Member of Imagene AI. He previously worked at Zebra Medical Vision Ltd as a Co-Founder, President and Chairman of the Board. Eyal Gura attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).
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- Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel, Belgium
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- Theator — Discover the world's first surgical intelligence platform from theator. Continually perfect your craft with AI & computer vision technology.
- Taranis — Taranis is a leading precision agriculture intelligence platform that uses sophisticated computer vision, data science, and deep learning algorithms to effectively monitor fields. The system enables farmers to make informed decisions by detecting early symptoms of weeds, uneven emergence, nutrient deficiencies, disease or insect infestations, waterdamage, and machinery problems. Overseeing millions of acres of farmland in Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States, Taranis gives farmers the tools to address issues in real-time, increasing yields and cutting costs. Taranis employs over 100 people worldwide and is headquartered in San Francisco with subsidiaries in Israel, Argentina, and Brazil.
- Imagene AI — Image-based H&E Biomarkers Profiling in Real-time
Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Turkey, United States, Germany
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- Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
- MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
- Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.
In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.
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- Social Media, Mobile, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Arab Emirates, Jordan
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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.
- VUZ — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
- Kitchenful — Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits.
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