Top 10 Photography Angel Investors in Middle East (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Shaula Alexander Yemini
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed, Angel | iOS, Apps, EdTech | |
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Yariv Gilat
Angel
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2 | Israel | Seed | Software, Photography, Apps | $2M–$3M |
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Philippe Guez
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | Software, Photography, Digital Media | |
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Eric Elalouf
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A, Series B | SaaS, Security, Software | |
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Leon Recanati
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | Software, SaaS, AgTech | $2.5M–$13M |
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Switzerland | Series A, Seed | Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Manufacturing | $2.3M–$50M |
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Zohar Gilon
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Health Care | $1.5M–$15M |
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Tobey Maguire
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | SMS, Video, Mobile | |
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Moshe Lichtman
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Angel | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1M–$20M |
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Eddy Shalev
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series B, Series A | Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology | $500k–$17M |
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Dr. Shaula Alexander Yemini is a startup mentor, board member and advisor to several technology companies. She is also an angel investor. Until 2007, Shaula was a Vice President at EMC. She joined EMC in 2005 with the acquisition of SMARTS (System Management Arts), a developer of network and system management software that she founded and led asCEO from inception. SMARTS counted among its customers the leading global telecoms, global banks, and multi-national enterprises, as well as thousands of others. Shaula was named as 1 of 10 “Leaders Among Leaders” in Information Technology by Information Week Magazine, and selected as an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Her company SMARTS was an INC 500 company, a Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 company, and won other prestigious awards.
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- Industry: iOS, Apps, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
- Canvs AI — Canvs AI is an emotion and behavior insights platform that understands how consumers feel, why they feel that way, and the business impact those feelings and behaviors create for brands. Through identifying a massive number of expressions and analyzing more than 10 billion conversations, Canvs’ patented AI and machine learning platform and APIsquickly turn open-ended text from unstructured data, social media comments, marketing campaigns and customer surveys into powerful insights that can improve product and brand experiences. Brands like Disney and AMC, and research companies like Triangulum Insights and Luma Research use Canvs to create research efficiencies, unlock marketing opportunities and increase revenue with the power of emotion and behavior insights. Canvs was recently named to the Inc 5000 list for a second year straight. Canvs' TV solution is powered by Talkwalker’s Social Content Ratings Twitter data. The company is also an official Facebook Media Solutions partner. Start understanding your customers better at canvs.ai.
- Semperis — Semperis is the industry's most comprehensive Active Directory security and recovery platform, protecting hybrid AD environments from identity-based attacks.
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- Industry: Software, Photography, Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $2M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MyRoll — MyRoll (formerly Flayvr) is a mobile gallery application that organizes photos and videos and converts them into interactive collections, enabling its users to share them with others. MyRoll was founded by Adi Ashkenazi and Ron Levy in 2012.
- Photomyne — Photomyne is a company that specializes in family nostalgia. We leverage our original, unprecedented technology to provide tools for digitizing and managing all types of old (analog) and new media.Our primary app is designed for scanning, managing, and storing old photographs in bulk. In addition, we offer several other utility apps, eachspecializing in the scanning of a specific media type, to offer the best technological accommodation for each type and its characteristics.Explore our apps: https://photomyne.com/get-photomyne
- Scalez — Scalez develops AI driven conversational commerce platforms, which combine human intelligence with machine learning, AI and NLP to offer expert advice in the digital era. Human professional’ recommendations give your customers highly personalized answers to suit their need.The first vertical that Scalez is transforming with its unique AI-basedconversational commerce technology is the apparel industry. Using state of the art technology, Scalez creates a conversational fashion styling platform for online stylists to augment their knowledge and provide on-demand styling services. Connecting human insight with machine-generated data attributes enables us to create an authentic user journey with the capacity to create a richer experience for consumers at scale. Our expandable real time, fashion recommendation chatbot is based on a variety of unique parameters, such as the customers’ body type and style preferences, liked items, abandoned carts, past orders and much more. We offer brands a door to a new world of data, engaged users, increased conversions and better retention.Scalez Fashion’s AI driven platform enables online personal stylists / fashionistas to augment their knowledge and provide "Flash styling" sessions at scale. Clients can get instant outfit advice, or help finding jeans that are the perfect fit for their body type.For brands, with their own fully branded chatbot, they can create conversational shopping experiences that engage their audience, provide added-value, gain valuable insights and great retargeting opportunities.
Philippe Guez
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- Industry: Software, Photography, Digital Media
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Photomyne — Photomyne is a company that specializes in family nostalgia. We leverage our original, unprecedented technology to provide tools for digitizing and managing all types of old (analog) and new media.Our primary app is designed for scanning, managing, and storing old photographs in bulk. In addition, we offer several other utility apps, eachspecializing in the scanning of a specific media type, to offer the best technological accommodation for each type and its characteristics.Explore our apps: https://photomyne.com/get-photomyne
Eric Elalouf
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- Industry: SaaS, Security, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Photomyne — Photomyne is a company that specializes in family nostalgia. We leverage our original, unprecedented technology to provide tools for digitizing and managing all types of old (analog) and new media.Our primary app is designed for scanning, managing, and storing old photographs in bulk. In addition, we offer several other utility apps, eachspecializing in the scanning of a specific media type, to offer the best technological accommodation for each type and its characteristics.Explore our apps: https://photomyne.com/get-photomyne
- Vulcan Cyber — As a leader in vulnerability management, Tenable helps you know, expose and close cyber risk using robust cloud security and exposure management tools.
Leon Y. Recanati is currently the Chairman and CEO of GlenRock Israel Ltd., a private investment company whose main field of activity is venture capital investments in startup companies engaged in life sciences, biotechnology, medical devices, and in advanced technologies. Until May 2003, and prior to founding GlenRock, he served as Chairman& CEO of IDB Holding Corporation Ltd., Chairman of Clal Industries and Investments Ltd., and Chairman of Azorim Investment Development and Construction Ltd., in addition to several other positions in a variety of operating companies in Israel. Mr. Recanati initiated in 1998 Clal Biotechnologies Ltd. (CBL). Clal Industries invested $100 million in CBL. Clal Biotechnologies is considered the largest biotechnology investment company operating in Israel.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, AgTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perfect — Where the future of recruitment happens - intelligent, fast, and precise.
- Treetoscope — The first and only commercial device that senses the internal water flow of a plant and directly measures its water consumption and real-time irrigation needs. without extrapolations based on indirect sensing technologies.Treetoscope offers a SaaS irrigation management platform, based on direct plant sensing technology. We tackle one of the mostcrucial challenges farmers face today: water scarcity and irrigation optimization. Our groundbreaking ag-tech enables the unprecedented measurement of real-time actual water use of trees (based on our patented single probe Sap Flow sensor). Through the Treetoscope solution, growers gain great value as a result of the affordability, scalability, and ease of deployment of our technology.
- Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.
Leonardo DiCaprio is based out of Los Angeles and is the Founder of Appian Way Productions.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$5.2M; Series A $4M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bright — Bright offers residential solar for the developing world at $0 upfront. They operating first in Mexico, where electricity rates are 2-3x (that of the US), there's 40% more sun, and installation costs are half as much.
- Polestar — Polestar is an electric performance brand, focused on uncompromised car design and technology. A Volvo subsidiary, Polestar is at the center of Electromobility, introducing world-class electrified cars and innovative, customer- focused services and offers.Polestar is set to launch a range of electric vehicles. Polestar 1 will begin production in2019 whilst Polestar 2 and 3 are already at advanced stages of development.
- SolarMente — SolarMente is a software platform that provides solar hardware, installation, warranties, financing, insurance, and technical support. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Catalonia.
Mr. Zohar Gilon is a Managing Partner at Tamar Technology Ventures. He has personally invested in over 45 start-ups and has achieved 13 exits. Mr. Gilon has also served as the Transaction Manager for some of Israel's most highly recognized exits and has managed each deal from inception through completion, including pricing and distributions.He has extensive investment experience including activity as an angel investor and an Investment Advisor to the Gilon Group. Mr. Gilon is a private investor in numerous high-technology companies, including affiliates of Radcom Ltd. in Israel. From 1974 to 1993, Mr. Gilon served as the President of various companies representing major U.S. aerospace and electronics corporations. From November 1993 to August 1995, he served as the President of W.S.P. Capital Holdings Ltd. Previously he served, as the Managing Director of Shaked Technologies Ltd. He serves as a Director of HCL CleanTech Ltd., RIT, AVT Ltd., Oberon Media, Inc., Edge Medical, Exlibris, OrSense Ltd., and WisAir Ltd. He served as a Director of RAD Ventures. Mr. Gilon served as a Director of RiT Technologies Ltd. since 1995, Ceragon Networks Ltd. since June 1999, Radware Ltd. from October 2006 to July 2009 and Radcom Ltd. since June 1995. He served as Member of the Supervisory Board of Advanced Vision Technology (AVT) Limited. He served as an Outside Director of Silicom Ltd. since 1994.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.3M; Series A $1.6M–$11M; Series B $4.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
- 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!
- Annabella — The Electric Breast Pump that mimics a baby's tongue. This technology encourages the release of oxytocin and prolactin hormones, leading to a 50% increase in average milk production.
Tobey Maguire is an American actor and film producer who began his career in the late 1980s. He is known for his role as Peter Parker / Spider-Man in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy (2002–2007), as well as for his roles in Pleasantville (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999), Wonder Boys (2000), Seabiscuit (2003), Brothers (2009), andThe Great Gatsby (2013). He has been nominated for Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Awards and received two Saturn Awards, including one for Best Actor.
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- Industry: SMS, Video, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- toot — toot is an SMS service that connects students to expert tutors for homework help. Instantly connect by texting 424-292-TOOT or visit www.toot.ustoot also supports their local students with a mobile application that connects its users with local tutors face to face to help them learn various subjects ranging from math and music to video gamesand more. The application enables its users to view profiles and resumes of qualified tooters before selecting one. Text 415-319-TOOT for more info or dowload the app www.tootapp.com/gettoot was launched in 2015 by Sophia Parsa, Shakib Zabihian, and Randy Horowitz. It is operated from Santa Monica, California.
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Moshe Lichtman is an angel investor. Moshe Lichtman has spent 29 years creating software products for global markets. He's freshly retired from Microsoft where he was Corporate VP responsible for several of its consumer businesses including its MSN business in the late 90s, its TV business in the mid-2000s and most recently its IsraelR&D center, which he built into one of the 3 largest centers outside the U.S. Mr. Lichtman was also one of the leaders of the Windows 95 team and president of Softimage, a leader in media creation software. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Lichtman held software development and management positions in several high-tech startups. He is the co-author of the best-selling book "The complete guide to the C language" and holds a BSc Cum Laude in Computer Engineering from the Technion and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School. Mr. Lichtman is currently an active angel investor in Israeli startups. and is in the process of forming a private equity fund focused on growth and public tech companies in Israel
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.2M; Series A $2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Panorays — Panorays automates, accelerates and scales your third-party security evaluation and management process so you can easily manage and remediate risk.
- Semperis — Semperis is the industry's most comprehensive Active Directory security and recovery platform, protecting hybrid AD environments from identity-based attacks.
- Superwise — Superwise gives ML practitioners fully automated, enterprise-grade model observability in a self-service SaaS platform. Start monitoring ML in production in under 5 minutes.
Eddy Shalev is an angel investor. Eddy is one of the best-known figures in the Israeli business community. Since the beginning of Israel's venture capital industry, Eddy has focused on private-equity investments in the high-tech sector, and has played a key role in several high-profile success stories, including Fundtech, ParadigmGeophysical and Orbot Instruments. Eddy is currently on the board of Aternity, Profitect and Sensible Medical.Eddy has been an active private equity investor in Israel since 1992, when he began a private equity investment program that invested in early-stage Israeli high-tech companies. Beginning in 1985, Eddy led the Israeli affiliates of Oscar Gruss and Sons Inc., and then later CIBC-Oppenheimer, where he directed the firm’s corporate banking, sales and trading, and equity research for Israeli companies traded on NASDAQ.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Series A $4M–$7.5M; Series B $5.5M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TripleW Group NV — Making Waste History. TripleW upcycles food waste into high-value bioplastic
- QEDIT — Augment your data tools with advanced encryption, by world leaders in zero-knowledge proofs, homomorphic encryption, multi-party computation
- REACH — Document collaboration, e-signature, web conferencing and ID verification, all in one single platform.
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