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Top 25 Publishing Angel Investors in Middle East (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Middle East Publishing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Publishing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Thomas Glocer
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A, Series C Software, FinTech, Analytics $1M–$27M
Jim Ramo
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Baby, SaaS, Video
Morton Meyerson
Angel
2 United States, India, Israel Seed, Angel, Series A Apps, Mobile, Content $285k–$2M
Taj Chahal
Angel
2 Israel Seed SaaS, Video, Publishing
Avi Fogel
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series B, Series A SaaS, Internet, Software $1.1M–$5.5M
Alain Bankier
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed Publishing, SaaS, Video $1.1M–$5M
B. Bonin Bough
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed CRM, SaaS, Video $1.1M–$1.5M
Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A iOS, Software, macOS
Itzhak Fisher
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Advertising, SaaS $450k–$3M
Mehmet Ayan
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Online Games, Gaming, Mobile $1M–$2M
Brian S. Cohen
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Mobile $300k–$12M
Pankaj Jain
Angel
1 United States, India, Jordan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Analytics, SaaS, Mobile $50k–$1.8M
Levent Sevinç
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
Ory Weihs
Angel
1 Czech Republic, Cyprus Seed, Pre-Seed SaaS, SEO, Apps $1.8M–$2.2M
Ron Zuckerman
Angel
1 Israel, United States, China Series A, Seed Internet, Video, Apps $500k–$8M
Moshe Lichtman
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Angel Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1M–$20M
Fadi Ghandour
Angel
1 United States, United Arab Emirates, Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Software $250k–$18M
Emre Gönül
Angel
1 Turkey Seed iOS, Android, E-Commerce
Jeffrey Sherwin
Angel
1 Israel Seed SaaS, Video, Publishing
Deniz Başaran
Angel
1 Pre-Seed Wellness, Health Care
Elad Kushnir
Angel
1 Israel, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Gaming, Software, Mobile Apps $1M–$35M
Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden Seed, Angel Travel, Leisure, Internet $18k–$1.3M
Rafi Gidron
Angel
1 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Software $2M–$8M
Bruce Hack
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed Gaming, Apps, SaaS
Fred Langhammer
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series B Retail, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.1M–$1.8M
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Thomas Glocer
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$13M; Series A $5M–$24M; Series C $13M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Superlegal — Superlegal, the world's #1 contract automation platform, is the fastest, easiest and most cost effective way to negotiate and close deals.
  • 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.
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Jim Ramo
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Jim Ramo - Executive Vice-President @ DIRECTV

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Baby, SaaS, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • 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
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Morton Meyerson
Angel · Dallas, Texas, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Morton Meyerson is the Founder at 2M Companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Mobile, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $285k–$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.
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Taj Chahal
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Taj chahal is the Member at New York Angels.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Video, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • 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.
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Avi Fogel
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.2M; Series B $3M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CourseHorse — CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering thepath to personal enrichment.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
  • 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.
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Alain Bankier
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, SaaS, Video
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$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.
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B. Bonin Bough
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

B. Bonin Bough is Chief Growth Officer at Triller

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, SaaS, Video
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$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.
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing 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 creatinginnovative 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:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% 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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Itzhak Fisher
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Advertising, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aaptiv — Hyper-personalized fitness that adapts to your lifestyle.
  • 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.
  • MutualMarkets — Easily partner with your favorite TV shows and movies to create ads that grow your brand and increase your ROI.
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Mehmet Ayan
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Mehmet Ayan is a partner at Ludus Venture.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Online Games, Gaming, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2M
  • 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 is a mobile social gaming company with target operating markets in North America & Oceania. Freshly founded in 2021, we are headquartered in Istanbul; one of the major mobile gaming hubs.
  • Novart Space Technologies
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Brian S. Cohen
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.2M–$12M
  • 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.
  • CourseHorse — CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering thepath to personal enrichment.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
  • 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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Pankaj Jain
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Jordan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atlan — The missing context layer for enterprise AI. Atlan gives every AI agent the data graph, business logic, and governance to act on trusted data.
  • Logic Roots — Logic Roots is an education company that provides a social math game and equipment for kids. It offers math board games and math worksheets it helps children to practice in mathematics. Logic roots help reinventing how kids practice Math. Through board games, math activities and apps. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Mumbai
  • Headout — Headout is an on-demand mobile marketplace that helps travelers discover & book the most incredible tours, activities, events & local experiences in town for the next 24 hours at incredible prices. All it takes is 3 taps and 60 seconds.
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Levent Sevinç
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • 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.
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Ory Weihs
Angel · Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Ory Weihs is the Founder at Team Odeon. He attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, SEO, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Czech Republic, Cyprus

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Scaut — Scaut is a human resource service platform focused on verifying the data accuracy provided by the candidates and contractors.
  • Team Odeon — Welcome to Team Odeon, we are a higher education and vocations focused performance marketing company, we create informational websites.
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Ron Zuckerman
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Ron Zuckerman is the Co-Founder and Director of TV Time.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Video, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Series A $3M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cymbio — Connect to hundreds of digital sales channels via Cymbio's automated multi channel e-commerce platform to increase sales & elevate revenue.
  • Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
  • 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.
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Moshe Lichtman
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.2M; Series A $2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Panorays — Panorays automates, accelerates and scales your third-party security evaluation and management process so you can easily manage and remediate risk.
  • Semperis — Semperis is the industry's most comprehensive Active Directory security and recovery platform, protecting hybrid AD environments from identity-based attacks.
  • Superwise — Superwise gives ML practitioners fully automated, enterprise-grade model observability in a self-service SaaS platform. Start monitoring ML in production in under 5 minutes.
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Fadi Ghandour
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$9.5M; Series A $1.3M–$10M; Series B $2.5M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Viki — Watch Asian TV shows and movies online for FREE! Korean dramas, Chinese dramas, Taiwanese dramas, Japanese dramas, Kpop & Kdrama news and events by Soompi, and original productions -- subtitled in English and other languages.
  • 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
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Emre Gönül
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Emre Gönül

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Android, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
  • Kidly — Kidly is an online broadcasting application that publishes illustrated and narrated books for kids and young children in the vicinity.
  • Rollic Games — Rollic is a game developer and publisher focused on free-to-play hyper-casual games for iOS and Android. Games released by Rollic include Go Knots 3D, Flipper Dunk, Onnect – Pair Matching Puzzle, Pixel Shot 3D, Picker 3D, Repair Master 3D, Tangle Master 3D, Water Shooty, and Wheel Smash.
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Jeffrey Sherwin
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Jeffrey Sherwin is the Management Consultant at 367 Partners.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Deniz Başaran
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Deniz Başaran is Co-Founder and CFO at Rollic. He attended Istanbul Technical University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Pre-Seed

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Elad Kushnir
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Elad Kushnir

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Software, Mobile Apps
  • 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

  • Celery — Celery is an internal auditing and control platform, designed to automate critical and time-consuming processes and prevent costly mistakes.
  • Gliding Deer — Gliding Deer Ltd is the gaming developer platform that provides tools for the gamers. They design, develop, and publishes casual social casino games.
  • Huuuge Games — Huuuge is a gaming company on a mission to build world's largest real-time social casual gaming platform connecting millions of players to have fun & socialize & play awesome games.They are passionate about transforming mobile casual gaming into massively fun, real-time, social experiences.Their mission is to be the global leaderof real-time free-to-play casual gaming on mobile: re-defining casual arcade, puzzle and casino categories.
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Cayli began his career in 2000 and held various positions for Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, and Turev. Founded and led two healthcare companies (Idea and Invivo) and two consultancy companies (Kanvas and Biovenka).He holds a BSc and an MBA, both from Middle East Technical University (aka ODTU).As a seasoned investor, he has 8personal investments including British, Irish, American, Swedish, and Turkish companies, and serves on the Board of some. He also consults startups on behalf of TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific & Technological Research Council). He is a member of BIC Angels and GAIN Global.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Leisure, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yourkeys — 'Yourkeys is a real-time transactional and data platform for house builders and estate agents selling properties. The platform significantly accelerates the property sales process whilst giving all stakeholders visibility of the transaction in real-time.'
  • Adalethanim — Adalethanim is a legal platform working with AI that analyzes, understands, interprets, and produces results to help with legal research, allowing the person working on the case to save time and access more information about a case. The company's vision is to make justice fast, cheap and accessible to everyone.Adalethanim was founded in 2018and is headquartered in Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Turkey.
  • 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.
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Rafi Gidron
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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
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Bruce Hack
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • 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 uses a storytelling software, interactive workshops, one-on-one coaching and personalized feedback to support students with college essays and careers.
  • Integrated Reality Labs — Real life games with anyone, anywhere! Slap is bringing excitement, competition, and connection to everyday life through real-world massively multiplayer games, starting with senior assassin. Download the SLAP app!
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Fred Langhammer
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Fred H. Langhammer, 67, is Chairman, Global Affairs, of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of cosmetics products. Prior to being named Chairman, Global Affairs, Mr. Langhammer was Chief Executive Officer of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. from 2000 to 2004, President from 1995 to 2004 and Chief Operating Officer from 1985through 1999. Langhammer joined The Estée Lauder Companies in 1975 as President of its operations in Japan. In 1982, he was appointed Managing Director of its operations in Germany. He has been a director of Central European Media Enterprises, Ltd., since December 2009 and was also a director of The Shinsei Bank Limited from 2005 to 2009 and a director of AIG from 2006 to 2008. Langhammer has been a Director of the Company since 2005.

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Investment focus

  • 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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