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Top 50 Platforms Angel Investors in Middle East (November 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Middle East Platforms startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Platforms startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
6 Turkey Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A iOS, Software, macOS $1k–$2.4M
Shlomo Kramer
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Cyber Security, Software, Security $4M–$50M
Rakesh Loonkar
Angel
2 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Cyber Security, Network Security, Security $2M–$250M
Shaula Alexander Yemini
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Angel iOS, Apps, EdTech
Mickey Boodaei
Angel
2 United States, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Network Security, Cyber Security, Security $2M–$60M
Bill Tai
Angel
1 United States, Australia, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $512k–$105M
Rahma Javed
Angel
1 Turkey Seed WebOS, Software, Consulting
Bon Woong Koo
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Angel, Series A E-Commerce, iOS, Mobile
Serhat Can
Angel
1 Turkey Seed WebOS, Software, Consulting
Avishai Abrahami
Angel
1 Israel, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $250k–$35M
Joe Greenstein
Angel
1 United States, India, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Mobile, Health Care $465k–$14M
Auren Hoffman
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics $750k–$157M
Tom McGovern
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed iOS, News, Mobile
Chantalle Dumonceaux
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates, Singapore Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Internet, Software, E-Commerce $800k–$1M
Lior Prosor
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, SaaS, Software $1M–$50M
Seval Işık
Angel
1 Turkey Angel iOS, Apps, Mobile
David Pirrie
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Seed iOS, Mobile, Internet
Micha Kaufman
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $700k–$30M
Bahtiyar Yurtoğlu
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed iOS, Mobile, Mobile Apps
Tuğra Gönden
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Mobile Apps, Apps, SaaS $13k–$120k
Engin Yenidunya
Angel
1 Turkey Angel iOS, Apps, Mobile
Ali Cebi
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Mobile, Mobile Apps, Social Media $70k–$1.5M
Paul Maritz
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series C Software, PaaS, iOS $1.5M–$946M
Emre Gönül
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Video Games, Online Games, Mobile $99k–$3M
Sercan Akkaş
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Apps, iOS, SaaS $120k–$600k
Ariel Maislos
Angel
1 Israel, United States, Uruguay Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.5M–$19M
Hanan Abdel Meguid
Angel
1 Egypt Seed iOS, Apps, Communities
Hugh Cullman
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown iOS, Apps, EdTech $350k–$13M
James Brown
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed SaaS, Recruiting, Operating Systems
Volkan Bicer
Angel
1 Turkey, Singapore, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Online Games, Mobile $130k–$2.7M
Chris Burch
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Fashion, Health Care $750k–$15M
Aviram Jenik
Angel
1 United States, South Korea, Israel Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning $30k–$7M
Faris Algosaibi
Angel
1 Bahrain Angel iOS, Apps, Gaming
Ayşe Topçu
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed iOS, Mobile, Mobile Apps
Emre Gerçek
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed iOS, Apps, Gaming
Jorg Mohaupt
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Sweden, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Music, Mobile Apps, Art $326k–$2.8M
Alex Zubillaga
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile Apps $745k–$100M
Elad Kushnir
Angel
1 Israel, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Gaming, Software, Travel $1M–$35M
Onur Özdemir
Angel
1 Turkey Angel iOS, Apps, Mobile
Berk Kaymak
Angel
1 Turkey Angel iOS, Apps, Mobile
Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Social Media, Apps, Mobile
Mohamad Waqas Javed
Angel
1 Turkey Seed WebOS, Software, Consulting
Robin Kestek
Angel
1 Turkey Angel iOS, Apps, Mobile
Tom Andrews
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed SaaS, Recruiting, Operating Systems
Berfin And
Angel
1 Turkey Angel iOS, Apps, Mobile
Daniel Eskapa
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Enterprise Software $165k–$565k
Çağrı Makaroğlu
Angel
1 Turkey Angel iOS, Apps, Mobile
Oliver Slipper
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Art, B2B, B2C $382k–$3.5M
Hadar Goldman
Angel
1 Israel Seed iOS, Mobile Apps, Location Based Services
Burcu Altıparmak
Angel
1 Turkey Angel iOS, Apps, Mobile
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel · , Istanbul, Turkey · 6 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

I am the Art and Code Director at Metromedya Digital Ad Agency. In addition to my role as director, I am also a skilled programmer, designer, and musician. I have expertise in iOS and MacOS development and enjoy snowboarding in my free time. As a self-proclaimed geek, I am always seeking to learn and grow in my field. I am passionate about creating innovative and visually appealing designs and using my coding skills to bring them to life.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Software, macOS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
  • Notes.io — A free note-taking app. Online Notes on everywhere.
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Shlomo Kramer
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Shlomo Kramer is based out of Tel Aviv and is the CEO and Founder of Cato Networks. Shlomo previously worked at Aqua Security as a Founding Investor and Board Director. Shlomo Kramer attended The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cyber Security, Software, Security
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$14M; Series A $5.1M–$29M; Series B $12M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Opti — Opti is an AI-powered identification protection system that uses domain-trained models to automate enterprise IAM.
  • Aryon Security — Aryon prevents multi-cloud security risks, without changing the definition, management, or operation of your cloud.
  • Clover Security — Empower product security teams with design-led AI agents that plug into the tools they already use, enabling secure design, secure agentic development, and continuous validation, without slowing builders down.
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Rakesh Loonkar
Angel · Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Rakesh K. Loonkar is based out of Boston, Massachusetts and is the President & Co-Founder of Transmit Security and Partner of Picture Capital. Rakesh previously worked at FS-ISAC as a Board Observer. Rakesh K. Loonkar attended the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Rakesh K. Loonkar has received 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2021.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cyber Security, Network Security, Security
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$16M; Series A $8M–$38M; Series B $25M–$250M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Entro Security — SailPoint Secure Agentic AI delivers comprehensive visibility and rich context to help secure non-human identities across your digital workforce.
  • Ocean — Ocean's agentic email security platform investigates every email with AI before threats land. Stop targeted phishing and AI-powered attacks that surface-level tools miss.
  • Linx Security — The AI-native platform for identity security, visibility, and governance.
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Shaula Alexander Yemini
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

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 as CEO 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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Investment focus

  • 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 the easiest, fastest, and most accurate insights platform for analyzing open-ended text from virtually any source, including surveys, customer reviews and social media. Canvs is used by some of the world’s most admired brands, research agencies, and media & entertainment companies to accelerate time-to-insights, reduce cost, anddeepen the understanding of consumers. For more information or to request a customized demo, please visit https://canvs.ai/ or email sales@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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Mickey Boodaei
Angel · , , Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Founder and CEO of Transmit Security.Previously Founder of Trusteer (now IBM Security) and Imperva. Early stage investor in cyber security startups including Armis, RiskRecon (now Master Card), and FireGlass (now Symantec).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Network Security, Cyber Security, Security
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$51M; Series A $8M–$20M; Series B $13M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PointFive — PointFive provides a cloud and AI efficiency platform that helps organizations identify, monitor, and remediate inefficiencies across cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and AI environments. Its technology uses deep detection capabilities to uncover optimization opportunities that may be overlooked by traditional cloud cost management tools,while providing context and remediation workflows for engineering teams. The platform integrates with existing cloud environments and productivity tools, enabling teams to manage efficiency within their regular operational processes. PointFive supports multi-cloud environments and offers visibility into cloud usage, resource allocation, infrastructure performance, and AI-related spending across major cloud providers. By combining continuous monitoring, cost analysis, and automated remediation capabilities, the company helps organizations improve operational efficiency and manage cloud and AI expenditures more effectively.
  • Ocean — Ocean's agentic email security platform investigates every email with AI before threats land. Stop targeted phishing and AI-powered attacks that surface-level tools miss.
  • Linx Security — The AI-native platform for identity security, visibility, and governance.
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Bill Tai
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Bill Tai is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the Co-Founder of OneOf. Bill previously worked at Maxthon International Limited as a Chairman of the Board. Bill Tai attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $512k–$8M; Series A $3M–$31M; Series B $2M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Monid — Monid is an all-in-one tool registry that connects AI agents to over 1,700 tools and APIs through a single integration.
  • Dyad — Unlock better patient outcomes and streamline healthcare operations with AI-driven solutions. From improved care coordination to enhanced compliance, our platform optimises value-based care for payers, providers, and ACOs. Trusted by the NHS for over 5 million patients.
  • TrustedRouter — TrustedRouter develops an independent API router and intelligent architecture that protects privacy through an attested gateway.
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Rahma Javed
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Rahma Javed is based out of New York, New York and is the Director of Engineering of Deliveroo. Rahma previously worked at Wealthfront Inc. as a Director Of Engineering. Rahma Javed attended the University of Toronto.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: WebOS, Software, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Altogic — Open-source self-hosted alternative to Vercel, Netlify, Raiway.app, Render or Heroku running on Kubernetes clusters.
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Bon Woong Koo
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Bon Woong Koo is the Founder and GP of Formation 8. He attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, iOS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Any.do — More than 25 million people worldwide rely on Any.do to stay organized and get more done. Any.do is an all-in-one productivity solution, combining calendar, tasks, lists, reminders and an assistant that tackles your to-do's for you. All with real-time sync across devices.
  • ONEHOPE — ONEHOPE is a Napa Winery Built on Hope and Rooted in Purpose
  • 5D Holdings LLC — Revolutionary investment banking with $15+ billion in capital raised, serving 500+ clients across 14 regions.
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Serhat Can
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Technical Evangelist @ OpsGenie

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Investment focus

  • Industry: WebOS, Software, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Altogic — Open-source self-hosted alternative to Vercel, Netlify, Raiway.app, Render or Heroku running on Kubernetes clusters.
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Avishai Abrahami
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Avishai Abrahami is based out of New York, New York and is the Co-Founder & CEO of Wix. Avishai previously worked at Sphera as a Co-Founder.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $7M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Willow — One AI access platform, every agent governed: identity, scoped access, runtime enforcement, shadow AI detection, and audit trails. Trusted by Wix, Papaya Global, Innovid and more.
  • Marquee — Marquee turns football data into decision-ready insights in seconds, unifying external and internal data and filtering it through your club's sporting DNA.
  • CustoMED — End-to-end platform turning medical scans into patient-specific surgical plans, tools & implants instantly. AI-powered surgical planning in minutes.
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Joe Greenstein
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Joe Greenstein is the Co-Founder and Assistant Zookeeper at Innerspace. He attended the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $465k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $650k–$2M; Series A $1.2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Topknot — Topknot is the online personal development platform for women. With a unique blend of independent exercises and peer group feedback, Topknot supports women on their journey to building the life they want. By teaching skills rooted in coaching and mindfulness, Topknot's intentional interaction model empowers women to address what’s top of mindtoday, while also equipping them for tomorrow’s challenges–providing the space for processing, perspective, and accountability that leads to meaningful change.
  • Gently — Find secondhand clothing, effortlessly. Wearloom sends you the best new listings from sites like Poshmark, Depop, eBay, ThredUp, and Vestiaire Collective.
  • Reveri — Hypnotize yourself to relieve pain and stress, improve your sleep, and build better habits.
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Auren Hoffman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Tom McGovern
Angel · Pasadena, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

STARTUPS| ENTREPRENEUR| LATom is a Managing Director of Idealab where he focuses on new company creation and early stage investments. Prior to this role, Tom founded Snap Technologies which was contextual advertising and content distribution (Snap Shots) Company. In 1999, Tom founded a successful e-commerce company with Idealab, which wasacquired by PETsMART, Inc. a leading multi-channel marketer. Tom served as President and CEO of the division of PETsMART managing the Internet and traditional direct marketing businesses. Tom returned to Idealab in 2003 to explore new internet marketing and search opportunities. Prior to his Idealab group endeavors, Tom was a Senior Vice President of Warner Bros. and a management consultant. While at Warner Bros. he co-founded the Internet mall which was one of the earliest online marketplaces. Tom started his career at Price Waterhouse and is a CPA. Tom serves on a number of private company boards and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and earned his B.S. from the University of Colorado.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, News, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ivee — Ivee is a Wi-Fi voice-activated assistant that can answer questions, respond to commands, and connect to many smart home devices.It is designed to function as a tabletop clock with the added benefit of 33 voice-activated functions. It is also capable of controlling many home automation devices such as Nest thermostat, Hue Lights, orWeMo-enabled devices.
  • Hitpad — Hitpad is a trends discovery platform that provides the quickest, easiest and most comprehensive way to discover & consume relevant information for trends as they evolve over time within the chaos and noise of the social streams.The company's first product, Hitpad for iPad, provides users with a quick and easy way to see what's upand important today. The company was founded by Jay Meydad (CEO) & Nir Holtzman Ninio (CTO) at the end of 2010. The company is located in Tel Aviv. Prior to moving back to Israel from Los Angeles, Jay spent four years as the Vice President of Products and Operations at Snap.com (backed by Idealab and Mayfield Fund) and three years as the Vice President of Products at Spark Networks (AMEX: LOV, parent company of JDate.com). Prior to Hitpad, Nir spent four years as the Director for Consumer Websites at LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) and two years as SW Development Manager at Kasamba.com (acquired by Liveperson). The company’s investors include Pasadena-based Idealab and Tom McGovern, CEO of Snap.com. Advisors and directors to the company include Bill Gross, Allen Morgan, Marcia Goodstein and Tom McGovern.
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Chantalle Dumonceaux
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Chantalle Dumonceaux is the Venture Partner of Accelerator Ventures and an Advisor to Upshift Capital. She previously worked at Womena as a Co-Founder and E11 Capital as a Partner. Chantalle Dumonceaux attended Columbia University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Melltoo — Best quality & prices for new and used mobiles, computers & laptops, electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, autos. FREE DELIVERY UAE. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
  • Souqalmal — Compare more quote features than ever from top UAE brands at souqalmal.com
  • OfficeRock — Online e-commerce store specifically built to service small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company aims to offer end to end business supply solutions from office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry, cleaning and uniforms.
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Lior Prosor
Angel · , , Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Lior Prosor is the Founding Partner of Hanaco Venture Capital. He previously worked at Elevator as a Partner. Lior Prosor attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$23M; Series A $3M–$41M; Series B $25M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Talkspace — Connect with a licensed therapist from the palm of your hand, and experience the most convenient, affordable way to improve your mental health. Start today.
  • Via — Via is a re-engineering public transit company that develops and provides on-demand public mobility solutions for commuters. The company transforms public transit from a regulated system of rigid routes and schedules to a fully dynamic, on-demand network. Via's mobile app connects passengers who are headed the same way, allowing riders toseamlessly share a premium vehicle. The platform operates in the United States and in Europe through its joint venture with Mercedes-Benz Vans, ViaVan. Via's technology is deployed worldwide through partner projects with public transportation agencies, private transit operators, taxi fleets, private companies, and universities, integrating with public transit infrastructure to power cutting-edge on-demand mobility.Via's software offers an end-to-end solution for planning, optimizing, and operating efficient and equitable transit systems, thereby unlocking opportunity for all and constructing resilient cities for the future.
  • Yokee™ Music LTD — Domain name Yokee.com offers a harmonious blend of connectivity and unity, symbolizing the coming together of ideas and individuals. With its short, 5-letter, 2-syllable structure, it is easy to remember and spell, making it ideal for start
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Seval Işık
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Seval Işık is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CatchJobs — CatchJobs is an application that offers staffing and recruitment services to users. It is a video-based employment platform connecting hospitality job seekers with employers.
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David Pirrie
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

David is the Founder, Owner, and Non-Executive Director of Financial Software Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Melltoo — Best quality & prices for new and used mobiles, computers & laptops, electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, autos. FREE DELIVERY UAE. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
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Micha Kaufman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Micha Kaufman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Fiverr, the world's largest and fastest-growing marketplace for digital services. He is an angel investor, a partner at Cerca VC, a startup mentor, and a contributor at WIRED and Forbes.Fiverr is a platform that links companies of all kinds with independent contractors that deliver avariety of digital services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$9.5M; Series A $10M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HyperAd io — Wider reads your ad account and your competitors', finds what's really driving results, and turns it into batches of on-brand ads ready to launch.
  • Weavy — Transform your creative vision into scalable workflows with Figma Weave. Integrate AI models and editing tools in one seamless, node-based platform.
  • Unlimited Robotics — Unlimited Robotics empowers developers to build apps on Gary, the perfect robot for your business or office, and make any robot into a multipurpose one with Ra-Ya.
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Bahtiyar Yurtoğlu
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Bahtiyar Yurtoğlu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Mobile, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Letz — Letz is a mobile app that lets you find available people for all activities to hang out with.
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Tuğra Gönden
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Tuğra Gönden is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Grifon Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $13k–$13k; Pre-Seed $75k–$120k
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BlindID — BlindID is a unique social media platform which allows users to make one hundred percent anonymous voice calls with random people for a limited time. BlindID does not use information such as user name, phone number, profile photo, and gender. Enjoyable time with BlindID spending is only left to communication ability and creativity.
  • Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
  • Evde Mimar — Evde Mimar is focused home painting. The company has biggest web site traffic in this industy in Turkey. Evde Mimar provide home service for become beautiful home.
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Engin Yenidunya
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Engin Yenidunya currently works as an Advisor and Investor for Zaiko. He previously worked at Tarantula as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Engin Yenidunya attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CatchJobs — CatchJobs is an application that offers staffing and recruitment services to users. It is a video-based employment platform connecting hospitality job seekers with employers.
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Ali Cebi
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Ali Çebi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Mobile Apps, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$75k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
  • Tamamliyo — Tamamliyo is a business software developer who works with insurance firms and digital enterprises to integrate their systems. Their platform contacts many insurance companies and finds insurance products suitable for the digital platform, enabling businesses to configure.
  • Volt Lines — Yeni nesil personel, okul, vardiya ve teknopark servisi.
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Paul Maritz
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Paul Maritz is based out of Mercer Island, Washington and is the Chairman of Pivotal. Paul previously worked at VMware as a CEO. Paul Maritz attended the University of Cape Town.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, PaaS, iOS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$18M; Series A $7M–$946M; Series C $10M–$653M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tignis — Cohu offers the broadest portfolio of test and inspection equipment and services for back-end semiconductor manufacturing, including a one-stop-shop for semiconductor test and handling equipment, thermal subsystems, test contacting, vision inspection and MEMS test solutions.
  • True — True is a social app designed for private group conversations. It is free, private and easier to share engaging content than messaging.
  • True — True is a social app designed for private group conversations. It is free, private and easier to share engaging content than messaging.
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Emre Gönül
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Emre Gönül

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video Games, Online Games, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $99k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sentez — An autonomous product studio. Self-operating apps and Qualia, the company brain & AI employee.
  • Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine Games is a mobile game studio in Istanbul making Coin Chef, Wonder Skies, Carnival Knockdown, Pop Flow 3D, Flower Sort, Purr Link, Move Out, Peel Match 3D, Ring Escape, Sand Convoy and Treat Bar: puzzle and social casual games for iOS and Android.
  • Novart Space Technologies — Novart Space Technologies is an aerospace engineering company specializing in space exploration through propulsion technologies.
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Sercan Akkaş
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, iOS, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $209k–$600k; Pre-Seed $120k–$123k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kidolog — Kidolog offers developmental processes for children from pregnancy to the age of 18 and provides support in different categories to children and parents. They provide counseling services via video, voice, or messaging. Their purpose is that the child development process is carried out by their skilled personnel in collaboration with parents.
  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting and team management platform for esports organizations. Think of it as a Moneyball approach to esports.
  • CatchJobs — CatchJobs is an application that offers staffing and recruitment services to users. It is a video-based employment platform connecting hospitality job seekers with employers.
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Ariel Maislos
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Ariel has been leading technology innovation and entrepreneurship for over 30 years, leading teams, founding companies and mentoring entrepreneurs. He is an active angel investor in startups, and supports technology education as a philanthropist. Ariel is a graduate of the prestigious Talpiot program, and holds a BSc from the Hebrew University ofJerusalem in Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science (Cum Laude) and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Uruguay

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$3M; Series A $5M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GeoX — GeoX is an Aerial Imagery AI analytics company. We produce geospatial Property Data which is used for Underwriting & Claims in the US and European insurance industries. GeoX unique proposition is in 3-dimensional extraction technology which provides rich information about every property. GeoX also produces 3D building datasets from aerialimagery for complete geographies using automated processes. 3D building models are digital representations of the properties, and in conjunction with aerial imagery allows every staff member in any insurance discipline to see the property visualization, and get a good understanding of the structure, its dimensions and characteristics without visiting in the site. GeoX uses propriatetary and Patented technology for the 3D extraction.domains: Insurtech, Smart cities
  • Parter — Parter operates as an AI-native platform built for the real-world needs of electronics producers across across R&D, engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing.
  • BeWith.io (Superc AI) — Connect residents and foster engagement with a centralized community calendar that brings all city events into one easy-to-access platform
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Hanan Abdel Meguid
Angel · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Hanan Abdel Meguid is the Founder and CEO of Kamelizer. She previously worked at Cairo Angels as a Board Member. Hanan Abdel Meguid attended the American University in Cairo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Communities
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Iqraaly — Iqraaly provides applications for audio, audiobooks, and novels that provide users with a listening experience for the novels and books within their renewed audio library.
  • RiseUp — Join Egypt's premier AI summit where innovation meets opportunity. Experience groundbreaking keynotes, hands-on workshops, and connect with industry leaders shaping the future of artificial intelligence. Discover how AI is transforming industries, solve real-world challenges, and explore cutting-edge AI startups.
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Hugh Cullman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Hugh Cullman - Owner @ ITJ Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% 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
  • Epicured — Epicured delivers gourmet low-FODMAP, gluten-free meals by chefs for digestive health. Tasty cuisine right to your door.
  • Milestone Sports — Milestone Sports is a wearable marketing platform that connects and benefits consumers and retailers/brands. Every time a new consumer data stream enters the world, enormous marketing dollars flow. The next new consumer data stream has arrived. Wearables. Milestone Sports has built and proven a platform to monetize this data stream. We havecustomers, revenue, and a talented team that can deliver. Wearables can give retailers and brands the ability to meet the real needs of customers beyond the point of sale. In real-time. At low-cost. Our Wearable Marketing Platform: A. MilestonePod. Low-cost consumer device worn on a shoe to capture performance and gait data without GPS. B. MilestonePod App. Free consumer interface to view metrics and receive personalized messaging from retailer based on real life product use and needs. C. MilestoneConnect. Marketing tool for delivering tailored ads, offers and coaching. Enabled by the MilestonePod. D. MilestoneInsights. Big data analytics providing actionable marketing/product development and competitive insights.
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James Brown
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

James Brown

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Recruiting, Operating Systems
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RecXchange Portal LLC — The recruiter network where 15,000+ recruiters partner on placements and split fees automatically. Access 270M candidates and $750K+ in live placement fees.
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Volkan Bicer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Volkan Biçer is the co-founder of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network.Bicer’e employment history includes his time as product manager of Turkcell’s mobile marketing and advertising department, and community manager at Yahoo, Turkey.Bicer holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Boğaziçi University and an MBAfrom Galatasaray University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Online Games, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $130k–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paydas — Paydas is a prop-fintech startup enabling individuals to invest digitally in income and appreciation of selected global real estate.
  • Sentez — An autonomous product studio. Self-operating apps and Qualia, the company brain & AI employee.
  • Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
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Chris Burch
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Christopher Burch is Founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital. Mr. Burch is an active investor in a variety of businesses spanning a wide range of industries and is the co-founder of the luxury fashion brand, Tory Burch. Mr. Burch has always been devoted to the power of branding, and currently applies his keen sense of marketing and sales to business interests spanning apparel, financial services, hospitality, technology and consumer products.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$15M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cerebral — Cerebral is a mental health telemedicine company that provides clients with long-term, comprehensive access to medication management, therapy, and counseling for anxiety, depression, insomnia, ADHD, and more. It offers affordable, convenient, and evidence-based care that drives significant improvement in outcomes for clients.
  • Crush Capital — Crush Capital is a fintech company democratizing access to investment opportunities. It empowers retail investors by providing access to IPOs and other financial products that were previously reserved for the wealthy and connected. Crush Capital's groundbreaking series "Going Public" allows anyone globally over 18 years old toinvest in featured companies. In 2020, Darren Marble and Todd Goldberg co-founded Crush Capital in Beverly Hills, California.
  • Business of Home —
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Aviram Jenik
Angel · Cupertino, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$7M; Angel $135k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$275k
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
  • StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
  • Tribe Money Pools — An early stage Seattle-based fintech startup building a digital platform to streamline how groups share and manage their finances.
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Faris Algosaibi
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Faris Algosaibi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Gaming
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Bahrain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • The Stories Studio — A Bahrain based indie game development studio creating games for Impact. Looking for someone to develop your game. Get in touch with us.
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Ayşe Topçu
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Ayşe Topçu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Mobile, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Letz — Letz is a mobile app that lets you find available people for all activities to hang out with.
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Emre Gerçek
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Emre Gerçek

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kidolog — Kidolog offers developmental processes for children from pregnancy to the age of 18 and provides support in different categories to children and parents. They provide counseling services via video, voice, or messaging. Their purpose is that the child development process is carried out by their skilled personnel in collaboration with parents.
  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting and team management platform for esports organizations. Think of it as a Moneyball approach to esports.
  • CatchJobs — CatchJobs is an application that offers staffing and recruitment services to users. It is a video-based employment platform connecting hospitality job seekers with employers.
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Jorg Mohaupt
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Jörg was appointed to the Board when Access Industries acquired the Company in 2007. Jörg is responsible for the media/online and telecom businesses at Access Industries, which he joined in May 2007. He was previously a Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners. Jörg has been active in the media and communications space since 1992. He has, as an investor, been involved with several businesses dealing with sports rights (RGE Group, Digiturk), internet services (Bibit NV, Adyen, Speedera Networks) and content delivery (Casema NV, Comhem AB). Jörg’s current board positions include Tory Burch LLC, Rebate Networks GmbH, AINMT Holdings AB, RGE Group Limited, Icon UK Distribution Holdings Limited and Mendeley Research Networks. Prior board positions include Digiturk, Casema NV, Comhem AB, Bibit BV, VersaTel Telecom NV and Speedera Networks Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Mobile Apps, Art
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $326k–$510k
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Penfold — Our flexible, simple and powerful pension is designed to get you to your saving goals and stay with you for life, whichever direction it takes you.
  • Tracklib — Tracklib is the only service where anyone can legally clear samples from real music. From Isaac Hayes to Mozart, we got it.
  • Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.
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Alex Zubillaga
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Alex Zubillaga is the founder of 14W, a New York-based, venture capital firm focused on consumer Mobile, Web, E-commerce, CPG, and Media. Previously, Alex was Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group (WMG). Prior to WMG, Alex founded Net Uno, a leading Venezuelan cable television and broadband operator where he served as CEO and Chairman.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $745k–$5.4M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
  • Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
  • Opal — Protect your focus time. Schedule your days, block distracting apps and focus fully, on your iPhone, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browser. Try Opal for Free!
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Elad Kushnir
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Elad Kushnir

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Software, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.4M; Series B $35M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Localbird — Explore unique experiences, on-demand services, rentals, you name it.
  • Celery — Celery is an internal auditing and control platform, designed to automate critical and time-consuming processes and prevent costly mistakes.
  • Mad Brain Games — Challenge your brain with this fun, free word scapes game!Solve puzzles to save the farm! Word Farm Adventure Game Save...
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Onur Özdemir
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Onur Özdemir is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CatchJobs — CatchJobs is an application that offers staffing and recruitment services to users. It is a video-based employment platform connecting hospitality job seekers with employers.
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Berk Kaymak
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Berk Kaymak is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CatchJobs — CatchJobs is an application that offers staffing and recruitment services to users. It is a video-based employment platform connecting hospitality job seekers with employers.
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel · , Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Letz — Letz is a mobile app that lets you find available people for all activities to hang out with.
  • Missafir — Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
  • Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
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Mohamad Waqas Javed
Angel · San Mateo, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Mohamad Waqas Javed was the former Director of Engineering at AppLovin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: WebOS, Software, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Altogic — Open-source self-hosted alternative to Vercel, Netlify, Raiway.app, Render or Heroku running on Kubernetes clusters.
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Robin Kestek
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Robin Kestek is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CatchJobs — CatchJobs is an application that offers staffing and recruitment services to users. It is a video-based employment platform connecting hospitality job seekers with employers.
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Tom Andrews
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Tom Andrews

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Recruiting, Operating Systems
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RecXchange Portal LLC — The recruiter network where 15,000+ recruiters partner on placements and split fees automatically. Access 270M candidates and $750K+ in live placement fees.
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Berfin And
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Berfin And is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CatchJobs — CatchJobs is an application that offers staffing and recruitment services to users. It is a video-based employment platform connecting hospitality job seekers with employers.
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Daniel Eskapa
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Daniel is not as well known in the Tech Investing world, but he’s quietly been investing in the tech space and been making some really incredibly smart investments. We were introduced through a mutual friend and before we knew it, we had spent hours upon hours together hanging out, talking about Tout, talking about life, spirituality, and doinggood in the world. I’m super excited to have Daniel on as an Investor and an Advisor, and most importantly a good friend.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $165k–$565k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Consumr — Consumr is an unbiased, democratic platform that allows its users to make informed decisions and express their opinions. The platform was created for ratings and reviews of consumer products. Its app lets users instantly see the opinions of people just like them by scanning a barcode.Consumr supports its users in taking decisions related toeverything from buying a stroller for the first time or purchasing a new camera to capture life’s special moments. Its community has shared over 1 million ratings to help its users.Consumr was featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, U.S.A. Today, InStyle, and more. Launched in 2011 by Ryan Charles, The platform is based in New York, N.Y.
  • Rukkus — The fastest, cheapest and easiest app to purchase tickets to all events. Mobile entry, price alerts, no fee tickets, last minute event finder and more.
  • Juno — Juno is a fresh approach to ride sharing. By leading with its values and putting drivers first, it will pave the way for better rider experiences. Launching in New York spring 2016
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Çağrı Makaroğlu
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Çağrı Makaroğlu is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CatchJobs — CatchJobs is an application that offers staffing and recruitment services to users. It is a video-based employment platform connecting hospitality job seekers with employers.
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Oliver Slipper
Angel · Cobham, Surrey, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Building Sports & Tech Companies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, B2B, B2C
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $393k–$510k
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Split — Split will let you know each time someone you’re avoiding is around & suggest an escape route. Split will display ‘hot zone’ map pointers on any location that the people you avoid tend to frequent. Know who the people you avoid are hanging out with (the ‘two birds, one stone’ feature).
  • PickGuru — At PickGuru we help betting companies, rights holders and publishers enhance the sports fan customer lifecycle of acquisition, engagement, retention, referrals and revenues. Our dynamic sports prediction games and community building tools supercharge the fan relationship and boost trust and loyalty with our client brands.
  • Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.
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Hadar Goldman
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Hadar Goldman - Co-founder @ Minteye

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Mobile Apps, Location Based Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Split — Split will let you know each time someone you’re avoiding is around & suggest an escape route. Split will display ‘hot zone’ map pointers on any location that the people you avoid tend to frequent. Know who the people you avoid are hanging out with (the ‘two birds, one stone’ feature).
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Burcu Altıparmak
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Platforms startups

Burcu Altıparmak is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CatchJobs — CatchJobs is an application that offers staffing and recruitment services to users. It is a video-based employment platform connecting hospitality job seekers with employers.
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