Top 30 Publishing Angel Investors in Middle East (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
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5 | Turkey | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | iOS, Software, macOS | |
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B. Bonin Bough
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed | CRM, SaaS, Video | $850k–$1.5M |
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Morton Meyerson
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Israel | Seed, Angel, Series A | Apps, Mobile, Content | $240k–$2M |
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Jim Ramo
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed | Enterprise Software, Apps, Baby | $850k–$1.1M |
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Travel, Leisure, Internet | $18k–$1.3M |
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Itzhak Fisher
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Advertising, SaaS | $450k–$3M |
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Alain Bankier
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed | Publishing, SaaS, Video | $850k–$5M |
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Taj Chahal
Angel
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2 | Israel | Seed | SaaS, Video, Publishing | $850k–$1.1M |
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Avi Fogel
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series B, Series A | SaaS, Internet, Software | $850k–$8.5M |
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Shlomi Selim Benbasat
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Mobile, Software, Analytics | |
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Thomas Glocer
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series C | Software, FinTech, Analytics | $1M–$75M |
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Levent Sevinç
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment | |
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Ron Zuckerman
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, China | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, Video, Apps | $500k–$8M |
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Rafi Gidron
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services | $100k–$8M |
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Emre Gönül
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Video Games, Online Games, Mobile | $99k–$3M |
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Moshe Lichtman
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $1M–$20M |
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Sinan Güler
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Fitness, Software, Wellness | $135k–$2.5M |
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Volkan Bicer
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Online Games, Mobile | $130k–$2.7M |
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Deniz Başaran
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Books, Children, Wellness | |
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Brian S. Cohen
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Mobile | $300k–$12M |
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Shalom Meckenzie
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed, Series A | Art, SaaS, Video | $3M–$3M |
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Pankaj Jain
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Jordan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Analytics, SaaS, Mobile | $50k–$2.2M |
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Ory Weihs
Angel
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1 | Czech Republic, Cyprus | Seed, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $387k–$2.4M |
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Jeffrey Sherwin
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | SaaS, Video, Publishing | |
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Mehmet Ayan
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Online Games, Gaming, Mobile | $130k–$3M |
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Bruce Hack
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Apps, SaaS | $850k–$2.7M |
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Fred Langhammer
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series B | Retail, E-Commerce, SaaS | $1.1M–$1.8M |
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Elad Kushnir
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Gaming, Software, Travel | $1M–$35M |
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Fadi Ghandour
Angel
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1 | United States, Jordan, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Retail, Software | $250k–$18M |
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Burak Vardal
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Books, Children, Publishing | |
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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 creatinginnovative and visually appealing designs and using my coding skills to bring them to life.
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- Industry: iOS, Software, macOS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- 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.
B. Bonin Bough is Chief Growth Officer at Triller
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- Industry: CRM, SaaS, Video
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $850k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp offers media companies that sells advertising broader and deeper visibility into their advertising business and to provide the tools to optimize sales, operational efficiency, and productivity of businesses. PROPHET connects the disparate systems and data that powers its users’ ad businesses and works hand in hand with them to enableunified yield optimization across all channels, formats, and clients to continually optimize their advertising portfolio.PROPHET is a horizontal SaaS platform which automates the ingestion and normalization of its users’ data into a common structure, providing them with visuals giving visibility into inventories, sales, and audiences. The company offers its users with pre-deployment planning to post-deployment training and support services. Training and support is divided into two categories namely, virtual and in-person learning. Virtual learning offers the advantages of live instructions without the expense and time associated with travel. In-person instructor lead classroom style learning.Furious Corp is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2014 by Hillel Rom and Ashley Swartz.
- SuperPhone — Increase engagement, drive revenue, and build better relationships with SMS / MMS marketing. Guaranteed ROI with 98% open rates for Shopify and BigCommerce stores.
Morton Meyerson is the Founder at 2M Companies.
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $240k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zula — Zula has developed a mobile communications platform for teams, continuing Pulver and Ner-David's specialty in telecommunications.
- Curiyo — Curiyo automatically enhances the story behind publishers' content and keeps users entertained, informed and on the site.
- Timbuckdo Innovations — Timbukdo is a first-of-its-kind on-demand talent platform built to promote an alternative workforce. We are a private entity, headquartered in Bengaluru. Our digital platform is under the flagship of TimbukDo Technologies Pvt. Ltd.At TimbukDo, we are committed to bringing opportunity to our upcoming workforce by promoting a part-time work cultureamong students. This in turn provides an effective and flexible staffing solution for employers.
Jim Ramo - Executive Vice-President @ DIRECTV
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- Industry: Enterprise Software, Apps, Baby
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $850k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tot Squad — Tot Squad is a marketplace that connects new parents with health, wellness and safety services both virtually and in person. We're a one-stop shop in the $46B "New Mom Economy" consolidating the highly fragmented providers of services like car seat installation, babyproofing, and lactation consulting. Our car seat installationservices can be found on Amazon and Walmart as an add-on with a car seat purchase.
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp offers media companies that sells advertising broader and deeper visibility into their advertising business and to provide the tools to optimize sales, operational efficiency, and productivity of businesses. PROPHET connects the disparate systems and data that powers its users’ ad businesses and works hand in hand with them to enableunified yield optimization across all channels, formats, and clients to continually optimize their advertising portfolio.PROPHET is a horizontal SaaS platform which automates the ingestion and normalization of its users’ data into a common structure, providing them with visuals giving visibility into inventories, sales, and audiences. The company offers its users with pre-deployment planning to post-deployment training and support services. Training and support is divided into two categories namely, virtual and in-person learning. Virtual learning offers the advantages of live instructions without the expense and time associated with travel. In-person instructor lead classroom style learning.Furious Corp is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2014 by Hillel Rom and Ashley Swartz.
- NationalField — NationalField is powerful software that helps the world's biggest change-makers measure change.
Kıvılcım Çaylı is the author of "Startup Investor's Handbook", a technology company investor with 18 investments in 5 countries, management consultant, and private equity professional.He holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration), CPEP™ (Chartered Private Equity Professional), and FMVA® (Financial Modeling & ValuationAnalyst) degrees and a Capital Markets Activities License Level 3. After many years of corporate business experience in global companies and entrepreneurial experience in the companies he founded, he has contributed to the growth journey of nearly a hundred companies in his management consultancy career.He is the CEO of Kanvas Management Consultancy Company and Kılıç Çaylı & Partners Law Office and Private Equity & Venture Capital (PE & VC) Director & Partner at Financial Axis A.Ş. | GGI. He makes his personal investments under the Pareto Ventures brand.
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- Industry: Travel, Leisure, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $18k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fonbulucu — fonbulucu is a crowding funding platform that provide innovative financing and investment system benefit to entrepreneurs and investors.
- Teleporter — California and Istanbul based VR gaming company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of VR medium and creating high-quality experiences that redefine social interaction and gaming.
- UnderTheDoormat — UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation.
Itzhak Fisher serves as Executive Vice President, Global Business Development for Nielsen. Appointed to this role in January 2011, Itzhak holds responsibility for strategic business development initiatives and mergers and acquisitions to benefit clients and their priorities.A prominent entrepreneur in high-technology businesses for threedecades, Itzhak has led ventures through mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings. Previously, he was co-founder and chairman of Trendum, a leader in Internet search and linguistic analysis technologies, which was subsequently acquired by The Nielsen Company. In 2005, he led Trendum’s acquisition of BuzzMetrics, a market leader in online word-of-mouth research, and negotiated its 2006 acquisition of Intelliseek. Itzhak served as chairman of the combined entity, Nielsen BuzzMetrics.Previously, Itzhak founded and served as President and CEO of RSL Communications (NASDAQ: RSLC), a telecommunications firm which operated in 22 countries on four continents with over $1.5 billion in revenues.Itzhak holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in computer science from the New York Institute of Technology, and pursued advanced studies in computer science at New York University.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Advertising, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $450k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aaptiv — Hyper-personalized fitness that adapts to your lifestyle.
- Taptica — Taptica is a global mobile advertising technology company that helps the world's top brands reach their most valuable users with the widest range of traffic sources available today.
- MutualMarkets — Easily partner with your favorite TV shows and movies to create ads that grow your brand and increase your ROI.
Alain Bankier is an Operating Partner to the Management Company. Mr. Bankier is a serial entrepreneur and an active early stage investor, with over 20 years of experience investing in early stage and start-up companies. Until late 2013, Mr. Bankier was Co-President and chief executive officer of The Manischewitz Company. In 2002, Mr. Bankierco-founded the Saveur Food Group (“SFG”) to create, acquire and build branded food companies and in 2008 Manischewitz was merged with SFG. In the mid 90’s, Mr. Bankier was the co-founder of a leading New York based angel investment group, which was the precursor of the New York Angels. As a leading member of the New York Angels, Mr. Bankier invests in a wide variety of technology, media and content companies, as well as companies in France and Israel. Mr. Bankier is a board member and advisor to a variety of companies and has been instrumental in achieving exit opportunities for several of these business. Combining his operating experience and his knowledge of the technology startup world, Mr. Bankier has focused on investment opportunities which leverage technology and data to disrupt, or add efficiencies, to traditional media and manufacturing industries. Before being involved as the chief executive officer of operating companies, Mr. Bankier was a founder of an international boutique investment bank, which he sold to BNP Paribas and where he remained as the head of mergers and acquisitions-corporate finance North America for over 10 years. Mr. Bankier has a has a BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, a BS in economics from The Wharton School and an MBA from New York University and from HEC, Paris.
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- Industry: Publishing, SaaS, Video
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $850k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Authorea — Authorea is a provider of a collaborative platform that is designed to read, write, discuss, and publish research. Its platform serves as a powerful document editor for researchers and provides collaborative editing, automatic citation formatting, tracking changes and it has the ability to make any document public or fully private that enablesresearchers to write documents together and attach references, figures, data, and source code. It improves how researchers work and make breakthrough discoveries by tackling one of the most important parts of the research cycle which is communication.
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp offers media companies that sells advertising broader and deeper visibility into their advertising business and to provide the tools to optimize sales, operational efficiency, and productivity of businesses. PROPHET connects the disparate systems and data that powers its users’ ad businesses and works hand in hand with them to enableunified yield optimization across all channels, formats, and clients to continually optimize their advertising portfolio.PROPHET is a horizontal SaaS platform which automates the ingestion and normalization of its users’ data into a common structure, providing them with visuals giving visibility into inventories, sales, and audiences. The company offers its users with pre-deployment planning to post-deployment training and support services. Training and support is divided into two categories namely, virtual and in-person learning. Virtual learning offers the advantages of live instructions without the expense and time associated with travel. In-person instructor lead classroom style learning.Furious Corp is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2014 by Hillel Rom and Ashley Swartz.
- Territory Foods — Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by aproprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating.Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.
Taj chahal is the Member at New York Angels.
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- Industry: SaaS, Video, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $850k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp offers media companies that sells advertising broader and deeper visibility into their advertising business and to provide the tools to optimize sales, operational efficiency, and productivity of businesses. PROPHET connects the disparate systems and data that powers its users’ ad businesses and works hand in hand with them to enableunified yield optimization across all channels, formats, and clients to continually optimize their advertising portfolio.PROPHET is a horizontal SaaS platform which automates the ingestion and normalization of its users’ data into a common structure, providing them with visuals giving visibility into inventories, sales, and audiences. The company offers its users with pre-deployment planning to post-deployment training and support services. Training and support is divided into two categories namely, virtual and in-person learning. Virtual learning offers the advantages of live instructions without the expense and time associated with travel. In-person instructor lead classroom style learning.Furious Corp is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2014 by Hillel Rom and Ashley Swartz.
Avi is a principal at Majorlee Investment Corp, an asset management firm based in NYC, investing in private equity angel investment, public technology companies and income generating investments. Avi is also an active member in two angel groups - New York Angels, the largest angel group in New York, and Launchpad Venture Group of Boston.Prior to the current role Avi was an Exec-In-Residence at American Capital Strategies, the chairman and CEO at ProActivity, Inc, which he sold to EMC in mid-2006, and a Venture Partner at Infinity Venture Capital
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- Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $850k–$8.5M; Series B $3M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CourseHorse — Discover and compare the best classes and courses in NYC, LA, Chicago, Nashville, Houston, Boston & DC. Read reviews, book online, & earn discounts on every class. It's free!
- Boundless Mind — Thrive Global's mission is to end the burnout epidemic with sustainable, science-based solutions that unlock employee performance and enhance well-being through our behavior change technology.
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp offers media companies that sells advertising broader and deeper visibility into their advertising business and to provide the tools to optimize sales, operational efficiency, and productivity of businesses. PROPHET connects the disparate systems and data that powers its users’ ad businesses and works hand in hand with them to enableunified yield optimization across all channels, formats, and clients to continually optimize their advertising portfolio.PROPHET is a horizontal SaaS platform which automates the ingestion and normalization of its users’ data into a common structure, providing them with visuals giving visibility into inventories, sales, and audiences. The company offers its users with pre-deployment planning to post-deployment training and support services. Training and support is divided into two categories namely, virtual and in-person learning. Virtual learning offers the advantages of live instructions without the expense and time associated with travel. In-person instructor lead classroom style learning.Furious Corp is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2014 by Hillel Rom and Ashley Swartz.
Shlomi Selim Benbasat - Founder and CEO @ Turki.sh
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- adMingle — adMingle is a global social content discovery suite that helps enterprises amplify their brands’ awareness, sales, and loyalty. adMingle is using the Internet's state-of-the-art Influencer Marketing Platform; serving enterprises to better connect with real people, influencers, or creators wishing to become their brand ambassadors or mediapartners by creating and/or engaging enterprise brand communication and ad content over their various social channels and be rewarded in return.
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Browse database — It's Free!Thomas Glocer is based out of New York, New York, and is the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Board at BlueVoyant. Thomas previously worked at Thomson Reuters as a CEO. Thomas Glocer attended Yale Law School.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.7M; Series A $5M–$24M; Series C $13M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Superlegal — Superlegal is an AI Law Firm for Builders. Get your contracts reviewed and redlined by AI and commercial attorneys. Contract Review - Built Like Software, Practiced Like Law.
- Cradle — Using robust prediction algorithms and AI design recommendations, Cradle assists biologists in rapidly designing better proteins. Cradle gives you complete ownership of the intellectual property while maintaining the privacy and security of your sequences and data.
- Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
Levent Sevinç is the Founder & CEO of Assessment Systems. He previously worked at HR Consultancy as a Human Resources Consulting. Levent Sevinç attended Istanbul University.
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- Industry: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MUSIWARS — Musiwars is an online marketplace and digital legalizing platform that creates more opportunities for songwriters and composers.
Ron Zuckerman is based out of Berlin, Berlin, and is the Advisory Council of Börse Stuttgart group. Ron previously worked at Attunity as a Board Member.
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- Industry: Internet, Video, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Israel, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Series A $1M–$8M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
- MedHub-AI — MedHub-AI develops deep-learning video analysis algorithms that provide accurate diagnostic insights and practical guidance for physicians. Users can incorporate its algorithm into medical video systems to improve the decision-making process for cardiologists and other physicians. Its technology uses multiple technological and big-data processingmethods designed to handle a massive amount of clinical data, both visual and textual. It designs its algorithms to improve physicians' performance and shorten procedure times by providing a multilayered automated system that is implemented from diagnosis to practical procedural guidance and documentation. It currently offers solutions for the cardiology and gastroenterology markets.
- Safeguard Applied Innovation — Safeguard Applied Innovation provides a mobile performance management platform for construction enterprises. It designs its solution to enable decision-making for successful project planning and execution, delivering effective control regardless of project complexity or national regulations.
Rafi Gidron is the Founder and Chairman of Israel Brain Technologies. He previously worked at Lucent as a VP of Optical networks. Rafi Gidron attended Columbia University.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
- Dig — dig is a social listening platform using AI to analyze social video. Track brand mentions and sentiment analysis with our real-time media monitoring tool.
- The Digital Pets Company — pay77 situs gacor yang memberikan akses lengkap dengan fitur apk mobile dapat lebih mudah menemukan dan bermain di situs pay77, ayo install aplikasunya dan manfaatkan semua fitur yang tersedia di kami
Emre Gönül
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- 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 and Pop Flow 3D: 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.
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: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.4M; Series A $1.6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plannie — Mobile first scheduling platform for small businesses
- Data Blanket — Data Blanket develops drone swarm hardware and AI-driven software designed to support wildfire response teams by improving situational awareness and coordination during active fire events. The company’s system deploys coordinated aerial drones that collect real-time visual, thermal, and environmental data to map fire behavior, terrain conditions,and asset locations. Its AI software processes incoming data streams to generate actionable insights that help incident commanders allocate firefighting resources more effectively and adapt strategies as conditions change. Data Blanket’s platform supports integration with existing wildfire command systems to enhance visibility across air and ground operations. The technology is designed to operate in challenging environments, enabling continuous monitoring even in low visibility or high-risk zones. Data Blanket works with emergency response organizations to support planning, training, and live operations aimed at improving the efficiency and safety of wildfire suppression efforts.
- 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.
Sinan Güler is a Co-Founder at Guler Legacy. He attended Carroll College.
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- Industry: Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2.5M; Angel $135k–$248k
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
- Uniqgene — Uniqgene combines the innate genetic data of individuals with physical parameters and transforms them into meaningful data, thus aiming to always be by your side by offering personalized reports to athletes, sports clubs and people who love to engage in sports activities.
- DeepSport — DeepSport is a new-gen mobile fitness app powered by AI to coach you in real time. It sees the user through the mobile phone camera and pinpoints the joints. This way, it calculates the angles of the body and defines the body position, giving real-time voice feedback, counting reps and calculating the accuracy.
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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- 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.
Deniz Başaran is Co-Founder and CFO at Rollic. He attended Istanbul Technical University.
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- Industry: Books, Children, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Biyaku — Biyaku is a Mindfulness app for sexual health.
- Kidly — Kidly is an online broadcasting application that publishes illustrated and narrated books for kids and young children in the vicinity.
Considered one of the fathers of science & technology strategic communications - founded Technology Solutions, Inc. in 1983. Client list read like a who's who list of startup technology companies in computing, communication, software, education, and entertainment. Maintained a strategic communications partnership with Sony & IBMCorporation (10 years). Received the Gold CIPRA award in 1998 for the IBM Deep Blue/Gary Kasparov Chess Match. In 1996, TSI was recognized as the #1 fastest growing agency in the United States. Sold the company to The McCann Erickson World Group in 1997 and became the Vice Chairman. Created Focus Technology, an organization that provided qualitative research and instituted the RPM model of integrated strategic communications providing ultra-competitive technology clients the ability to quickly discover and leverage their key strengths as well as mitigate their destructive weaknesses.Brian was a pioneer in the founding of a number of the first computing publications including Computer Systems News and InformationWeek magazine. Now serves as Chairman of the New York Angels. He is very devoted to the New York City startup community.Developed the AIMS (Applied Internet Media Studies) Program, a senior/graduate level college semester program where students will be rigorously trained to use the internet professionally.Frequent speaker on strategic communication, entrepreneurism and early startup investing. Now writing a book for McGraw Hill - a new organizational product launch model.Received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, holds a Masters Degree in Science Communications from Boston University's School of Communications.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $300k–$3M; Series A $1.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Authorea — Authorea is a provider of a collaborative platform that is designed to read, write, discuss, and publish research. Its platform serves as a powerful document editor for researchers and provides collaborative editing, automatic citation formatting, tracking changes and it has the ability to make any document public or fully private that enablesresearchers to write documents together and attach references, figures, data, and source code. It improves how researchers work and make breakthrough discoveries by tackling one of the most important parts of the research cycle which is communication.
- CourseHorse — Discover and compare the best classes and courses in NYC, LA, Chicago, Nashville, Houston, Boston & DC. Read reviews, book online, & earn discounts on every class. It's free!
- Boundless Mind — Thrive Global's mission is to end the burnout epidemic with sustainable, science-based solutions that unlock employee performance and enhance well-being through our behavior change technology.
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- Industry: Art, SaaS, Video
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $3M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Niio — One comprehensive video art platform & pro tools for artists, galleries and collection owners to manage, display and securely distribute moving image & digital artworks, 4K to VR
- CoinScan — Fastest trading history in the industry for any ETH token along with seeing pending transactions. One-of-a-kind Airdrops and Holders distribution for quick analysis and much more.
- MonkeyBall — MonkeyBall is a Solana-based play-to-earn soccer game – a kind of FIFA Street and Final Fantasy rolled into one fun monkey-themed game.
Pankaj Jain is the Managing Partner at Saka Ventures. Previously, he was a Partner at 500 Startups, a California based seed fund and accelerator program. Pankaj focuses on investing in early stage startups across New York City, India, South Asia and has led investments in over fifty companies at 500 Startups across 6 countries.Pankaj spent over12 years in the Financial industry at firms such as JP Morgan, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) and GlobeOp Financial Services in various operational roles including enterprise mortgage risk management, application development, market data infrastructure, trade management, pricing infrastructure and customer service areas.In 2007, Pankaj’s adventures in India began, where he started a company building an on-demand, employment marketplace for the under-served. In 2008, Pankaj became a co-founder of the HeadStart Network Foundation and the led the efforts in Delhi. In late 2010, he began setting up Startup Weekend in India.
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- Industry: Analytics, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WhizAI — One of the augumented analytics platform used for consumers purpose. Attend a trained session on life sciences data and other patient analytics as a sole! Hurry up to take a weekly demo on the life science by the best expertise on this field.
- Cypherock — Welcome to Cypherock, where we are dedicated to building the world's safest cold wallet to protect your crypto. Discover Cypherock X1 with cutting-edge technology and robust security features.
- Paperstreet — Write beautiful company updates to engage your investors, advisors, and users.
Ory Weihs is the Founder at Team Odeon. He attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Czech Republic, Cyprus
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $387k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Maxfusion — Create Winning Ads With AI at Scale The Creative Layer for AI Agents
- Patron GO — Patron GO is a fintech firm that uses AI to detect unnecessarily high costs on a customer's bank account and offers the best solutions.
- DecisionRules — DecisionRules is a lightweight and innovative business rules engine that lets you easily manage business rules in a secure cloud.
Jeffrey Sherwin is the Chief Operating Officer at MediaKind. Attended Columbia Business School.
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- Industry: SaaS, Video, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp offers media companies that sells advertising broader and deeper visibility into their advertising business and to provide the tools to optimize sales, operational efficiency, and productivity of businesses. PROPHET connects the disparate systems and data that powers its users’ ad businesses and works hand in hand with them to enableunified yield optimization across all channels, formats, and clients to continually optimize their advertising portfolio.PROPHET is a horizontal SaaS platform which automates the ingestion and normalization of its users’ data into a common structure, providing them with visuals giving visibility into inventories, sales, and audiences. The company offers its users with pre-deployment planning to post-deployment training and support services. Training and support is divided into two categories namely, virtual and in-person learning. Virtual learning offers the advantages of live instructions without the expense and time associated with travel. In-person instructor lead classroom style learning.Furious Corp is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2014 by Hillel Rom and Ashley Swartz.
Mehmet Ayan is a partner at Ludus Venture.
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- Industry: Online Games, Gaming, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $130k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kidly — Kidly is an online broadcasting application that publishes illustrated and narrated books for kids and young children in the vicinity.
- Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine Games is a mobile game studio in Istanbul making Coin Chef, Wonder Skies, Carnival Knockdown and Pop Flow 3D: 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.
Bruce Hack is based out of New York, New York, and is theFounder and CEO of BLH Venture, LLC . Bruce previously worked at PowerUP Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: PWUPU) as a Executive Chairman. Bruce Hack attended the University of Chicago.
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- Industry: Gaming, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $850k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp offers media companies that sells advertising broader and deeper visibility into their advertising business and to provide the tools to optimize sales, operational efficiency, and productivity of businesses. PROPHET connects the disparate systems and data that powers its users’ ad businesses and works hand in hand with them to enableunified yield optimization across all channels, formats, and clients to continually optimize their advertising portfolio.PROPHET is a horizontal SaaS platform which automates the ingestion and normalization of its users’ data into a common structure, providing them with visuals giving visibility into inventories, sales, and audiences. The company offers its users with pre-deployment planning to post-deployment training and support services. Training and support is divided into two categories namely, virtual and in-person learning. Virtual learning offers the advantages of live instructions without the expense and time associated with travel. In-person instructor lead classroom style learning.Furious Corp is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2014 by Hillel Rom and Ashley Swartz.
- Story2 — Revision Learning helps you find and tell your story for college admissions essays, career storytelling, and beyond through a learning platform, workshops, 1:1 coaching, and custom curriculum. Based in NYC, serving learners worldwide.
- Integrated Reality Labs — Remember neighborhood tag, manhunt, and hide & seek? SLAP brings those IRL games back. Bigger, funnier, and built to go viral. Play anywhere. Start or join live games, chase friends, and capture fun moments that everyone wants to repost.
Fred Horst Langhammer is based out of New York, New York, and is the Chairman of Global Affairs of Estee Lauder Companies. Fred previously worked at Central European Media Enterprises as a director. Fred Horst Langhammer has received the Foreign Policy Association’s Global Social Responsibility Award and was honored by the International Center inNew York on behalf of his service.
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- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PoachIt — PoachIt is an intelligent online shopping tool that provides consumers validated coupon codes while shopping online and price drop alerts for the products they want. Powered by patent-pending technology, PoachIt efficiently gathers and authenticates thousands of coupon codes behind the interface. Consumers just click to copy any valid coupon codeand capture the savings at checkout. PoachIt’s tracking feature also offers users visibility into pricing trends and merchant sale cycles, helping fuel the right purchase decision. PoachIt can be summoned across 5,000+ online and mobile sites, via extension or bookmarklet. It is also available for download on iOS and Android. PoachIt has been featured by The Today Show, Katie Couric, Queen Latifah, WIRED, Business Insider, Buzzfeed, and more.
- KIDBOX — KIDBOX delivers personalized experiences through curated premiere brands with an easy and fun way for parents and kids to shop from home. KIDBOX combines cool brands, meaningful savings, and a mission to cloth children in need.
- Furious Corp — Furious Corp offers media companies that sells advertising broader and deeper visibility into their advertising business and to provide the tools to optimize sales, operational efficiency, and productivity of businesses. PROPHET connects the disparate systems and data that powers its users’ ad businesses and works hand in hand with them to enableunified yield optimization across all channels, formats, and clients to continually optimize their advertising portfolio.PROPHET is a horizontal SaaS platform which automates the ingestion and normalization of its users’ data into a common structure, providing them with visuals giving visibility into inventories, sales, and audiences. The company offers its users with pre-deployment planning to post-deployment training and support services. Training and support is divided into two categories namely, virtual and in-person learning. Virtual learning offers the advantages of live instructions without the expense and time associated with travel. In-person instructor lead classroom style learning.Furious Corp is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2014 by Hillel Rom and Ashley Swartz.
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- 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...
Fadi Ghandour is based out of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the Co-Founder of Wamda. Fadi previously worked at Aramex as a Co-Founder. Fadi Ghandour attended The Wharton School.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Jordan, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $250k–$9.5M; Series A $1.3M–$10M; Series B $2.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shippify — Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014.
- Matternet — Matternet is a technology platform for urban aerial delivery. In March 2017, Matternet became the first company in the world to be authorized for urban drone delivery operations in Switzerland. In May 2018, the company was selected to participate in the FAA's Drone Integration Pilot Program for operations in North Carolina and San Diego. InMarch 2019, Matternet and UPS announced a partnership to implement drone delivery services at US hospitals and launched the first ongoing revenue drone delivery operation in US history at Wakemed in North Carolina.Founded in 2011, Matternet is headquartered in Mountain View, California
- Jusoor Labs — Jusoor Labs is an edtech startup that provides interactive simulations and virtual labs for students and educational institutions.
Burak Vardal is the Co-Founder & CEO at Rollic. Burak Vardal attended at Istanbul Bilgi University.
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- Industry: Books, Children, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kidly — Kidly is an online broadcasting application that publishes illustrated and narrated books for kids and young children in the vicinity.
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