Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Middle East (September 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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Wamda Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $600k–$65M |
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.5M–$54M |
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Acasia Group
VC Fund
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3 | Egypt, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Mobile, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $50k–$2.6M |
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PICO Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Israel, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security | $1M–$54M |
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North Base Media
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Vietnam | Seed, Series A, Series B | Digital Media, Advertising, News | $75k–$23M |
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Levent Sevinç
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment | |
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Taya Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, Taiwan, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Cyber Security, Software, Network Security | $650k–$28M |
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Speed Accelerator
VC Fund
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2 | Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Apps, Internet | $30k–$500k |
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Rovio Entertainment Corporation
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey | Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown | Computer, Publishing, Mobile Apps | |
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $400k–$30M |
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Faith Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Internet | $300k–$50M |
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2B Angels
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $800k–$25M |
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PipelBiz.com
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Equity Crowdfunding, Seed | Software, Health Care, Medical | $150k–$2.8M |
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EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Retail, Sales | $1M–$15M |
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MSA Novo
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, India, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $1.5M–$32M |
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Ibtikar Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Palestinian Territory, United States, Jordan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $60k–$2M |
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $22k–$27M |
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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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Magma Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, Mexico | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software | $800k–$30M |
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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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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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B. Bonin Bough
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States | Seed | CRM, SaaS, Video | $1.1M–$1.5M |
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Oqal
VC Fund
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2 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $100k–$10M |
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Laconia Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Advertising, Software, SaaS | $425k–$9.5M |
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Avi Fogel
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series B, Series A | SaaS, Internet, Software | $1.1M–$8.5M |
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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–$30M |
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Taj Chahal
Angel
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2 | Israel | Seed | SaaS, Video, Publishing | |
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PLUS Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Video, Mobile | $720k–$15M |
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Rutledge Vine Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Israel | Seed, Series A | Video, Events, Software | $150k–$1M |
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Jim Ramo
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed | Enterprise Software, Apps, Baby | |
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Alain Bankier
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed | Publishing, SaaS, Video | $1.1M–$5M |
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Oryzn Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$50M |
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Elad Kushnir
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Gaming, Software, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | |
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Saned Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals | |
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TPY Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data | |
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On Grid Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, Retail, Mobile | |
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Pitango VC
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States, China | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $4M–$100M |
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Saga Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Art | |
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Ory Weihs
Angel
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1 | Czech Republic, Cyprus | Seed | SEO, SaaS, FinTech | |
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Oraseya Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Ludus
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Software, Mobile | |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | |
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Emre Gönül
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | iOS, Android, E-Commerce | |
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New York Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Denmark | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $300k–$12M |
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Dtec Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Apps, FinTech, E-Commerce | $170k–$3M |
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Saudi Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Tunisia | Seed, Series B, Series A | E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence | $300k–$68M |
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L Catterton
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, China | Private Equity, Series B | E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage | $18M–$785M |
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BRaVe Media Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Angel | Video, Advertising, Analytics | $1.1M–$4M |
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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.
We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$10M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- HeyBreez AI — The operational layer for Voice AI. Real phone calls. Real-time speed. Built for real operations.
- Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
- Anecdote —
We are a team of former serial founders managing $1.5Bn across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York. We back the next generation of category-defining companies with conviction of founders who have built companies themselves.We back founders with a partnership built on trust, fairness and real operating experience. Westand with founders through every challenge, and help them grow with clarity, resilience and purpose.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 297
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $17M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $175M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
- Identiq — Identiq's network members fight fraud and improve user experience by validating new users and vouching for ones they already know without sharing any personal user data at all.
- Horizon Trade — The first agentic trading platform Type your strategy in plain English, backtest, deploy live Backed by @EntreeCapitalVC
Cairo Angels is an angel investment network that invests in and supports early-stage startups it convenes regular investment meetings to review pre-selected potential investees.
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- Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Egypt, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.6M; Angel $200k–$300k
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Bosta — Bosta provides an on-demand courier app with a B2C focus, allowing users to send parcels to their customers. The platform connects its users to couriers and allows them to monitor the status of the delivery of the package. Bosta was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt.
- EFG EV Fintech — EFG EV Fintech is investing in startups and bolstering the Fintech ecosystem in the process. EFG EV Fintech combines the financial know-how of EFG Hermes and entrepreneurial expertise of Egypt Ventures to launch the a Fintech-focused startup accelerator.They invest in rising Fintech startups with the potential to grow domestically and expandbeyond the Egyptian market. EFG EV Fintech also provides innovators with the fully integrated services they need to thrive – from funding to mentorship, to training, and office space.
- Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
Pico Venture Partners invests in visionary Israeli entrepreneurs building future-defining technologies. We seek the leaders who are relentless in their quest to disrupt existing markets, industries, business processes, and consumer experiences.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.5M; Series A $2M–$20M; Series B $6M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Tastewise — Tastewise fuels product, sales, and marketing innovation by helping you predict how consumers cook, order, and eat. No guesswork, no outdated reports - Tastewise AI equips exceptional food and beverage brands with real-time insights. (Customers: Nestle, Coca-Cola, Campbell's, Dole, General Mills, and dozens more!)Product: Design productsthat delight your customers and meet their specific needs Marketing: Build marketing campaigns that speak to the right audiences Sales: Identify restaurants that need your products and supplies, and build first-mover advantage
- Xpander.ai — Xpander.ai delivers backend infrastructure for AI agents, managing memory, tools, state, integrations, and native deployment within Slack.
- ORION Security — ORION detects and prevents data loss across SaaS, email, cloud, AI tools, and endpoints using intelligent, context-aware, proprietary AI agents.
NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.
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- Industry: Digital Media, Advertising, News
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $75k–$5.7M; Series A $1.5M–$7.5M; Series B $2M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $500k in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Zaiko — Zaiko is the market leader in providing ticketing technology for live events and streaming shows. Monetize your show, engage fans, user analytic data, memberships, and more.
- Rappler — Rappler is the Philippines' leading digital media company that's driven by uncompromising journalism, enabled by technology, and enriched by communities of action.
- Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!
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.
A seed-stage venture fund that will offer entrepreneurs guidance, knowledge and access to Taya Media’s professional network.
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- Industry: Cyber Security, Software, Network Security
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, Taiwan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $1.6M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SafeLiShare — SafeLiShare prevents leakage and insider threats when sharing data assets in enterprises and federations across clouds powered by confidential computing.
- TXOne Networks — We offer cybersecurity solutions tailored to the protection of industrial control systems, ensuring reliability and safety from cyberattacks.
- Tron Future — Tron Future Tech Inc. designs, develops and manufactures the world's thinnest hybrid and all-digital AESA radar/SAR/communication/EW systems used in spacecraft,
Speed is a tech accelerator based out of the Beirut Digital District that empowers software startups to succeed and scale globally through a 3-month mentorship-driven program, $30,000 in funding, and a lifelong network of mentors and partners.The accelerator offers software startups $30,000 in financial support, an intensive 3-monthmentorship-driven program that includes in-house mentorship, mentorship from experts, workshops, access to a network of investors, and a free working space at BDD, in exchange for 5% equity in common shares. Startups also receive lifelong support from a network of 100+ local and international mentors, the opportunity to be sponsored by Speed for a 2-week immersion program in Silicon Valley in partnership with LebNet, technology perks worth $1M+ through the accelerator’s partnership with the Global Accelerator Network (GAN), and a fast-track referral to the 47 Techstars programs around the world.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $30k–$500k; Pre-Seed $30k–$300k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PawPots — PawPots is a pet service that offers real and healthy food made for dogs. It is designed with the perfect balance of protein, carbohydrates, and healthy oils which help build strong immunity. The company provides a healthy diet alternative for pets and an online platform for pet parents and vets.
- Sidelick — Pet parenting made easy! Browse through tens of reviewed pet sitters and dog walkers around you to find the best fit for your pets.
- Scriptofilm Corp. — Scriptofilm is an interactive platform that links scriptwriters and filmmakers to producers, investors, and buyers.
Welcome to Rovio. We put joy first with our player-focused mobile games. Angry Birds, Small Town Murders and more.
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- Industry: Computer, Publishing, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $2.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
- Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
- THINK-AI — The Think AI Fabric: AI Node, ILM, and Constellation bonded into one supercompute platform, built for radical efficiency. Nothing sits idle.
Faith Capital is a venture capital firm investing in talented MENA founders building long-term value by developing sound operations at home and abroad.A Kuwait based venture capital fund owned and managed by individuals with proven business experience and success in the GCC.The principal focus of Faith Capital is on e-commerce businesses,based in the region, which have high growth potential for the future.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $300k–$3.6M; Series A $3.5M–$8M; Series B $8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VUZ — VUZ is the leading immersive video app that allows users to stream on the web, mobile, TV, and headsets XR digital experiences with a new level of immersive realism. VUZ owns exclusively the world's largest premium exclusive immersive content library, with over 30,000 hours of immersive content covering entertainment, creators, and sportssegments, as well as XR, VR, and AR experiences from virtually anywhere in the world. VUZ has exclusive immersive rights for LaLiga, PFL, SerieA and many others. It aims to bring people together and connect the world by providing authentic immersive experiences while removing (TTA) Travel, Time, and Access constraints for billions of people worldwide.VUZ was established on January 1, 2017, with offices in Los Angeles, Dubai, and Riyadh.
- Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
- Mealplanet — mealplanet makes working #meals #easy. Our online #food ordering platform saves business's time, ensures accurate orders, and makes #restaurants more money.
Cheshin Venture Capital - Beyond funding, we provide: mentorship, strategy consulting, connections, and Joyon your way to becoming a truly exceptional company.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $800k–$3.3M; Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Valerann — Valerann empowers road network operators and creates certainty through enhanced use of data - to save lives, reduce congestion, decrease emissions and to support Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs). We transform the overwhelming, disparate data created by road infrastructure, ITS assets and drivers into meaningful, easily understood insights -unlocked by our Intelligent Traffic Management solutions.
- Arya — Arya is building the Couples Wellness category, poised to become the next billion-dollar cornerstone in the global wellness market.Couples are falling into routine and many are experiencing increased loneliness. While billions are spent on fitness, mindfulness, and sleep, emotional and physical intimacy is often neglected. We invest in swipingfor the right partner and then trying to fix it (or spend a fortune divorcing them)... but not much in between.Arya's AI concierge makes it radically easy for couples to invest in their relationship and love life, both inside and outside the bedroom - a crucial ingredient to a successful relationship.
- Coralogix — Coralogix is a full-stack observability platform that enables businesses to monitor and manage data in real time, providing instant insights without the need for indexing. The platform supports Log Analytics, application performance monitoring (APM), security information and event management (SIEM), real user monitoring (RUM), and infrastructuremonitoring, offering complete visibility into AI performance, security, and governance in a single solution. Coralogix offers a simple pricing model based on data volume, along with world-class support that ensures rapid response times and swift resolutions.
PipelBiz enables companies to raise capital from an unlimited number of investors without the need of a prospectus
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2.8M; Equity Crowdfunding $152k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MICA — MICA save lives & improve life quality. Our approach to the environmental and social dimensions is reflected in our commitment to United Nations Sustainable
- Pickspace — Run rent collection, accounting, leasing, maintenance and owner reporting on one AI-native platform. Book a demo today.
- Nina Medical Ltd. — World's first truly non-invasive treatment for enlarged prostate (BPH). Safe, precise, and liberating care for millions of men. Treat early with dignity.
Evergreen venture capital investing in Seed to Series A startups across MENA and Africa. 27 active investments, $71.8M portfolio NAV, 17% IRR.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Sales
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coraly — Coraly helps real estate teams create listing-ready content, qualify leads, manage transactions, and share client-ready Packs from one AI-powered platform.
- Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
MSA Novo, a multi-stageglobal venture capital firm, boasts a diverse portfolio of startups and established businesses in tech, fintech, and consumer sectors.
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, India, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- Tap Protocol — Tap Protocol is a protocol that focuses on the development of bitcoin capabilities through the Ordinals system.
- Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan
Ibtikar (Innovation, in Arabic) is a disruptive fund that will invest in innovative Palestinian companies. Ibtikar’s investments begin at the seed level through local accelerators, continue in post-acceleration phases and can also include series A investments in its portfolio companies. Through this investment strategy we aim to close a criticalfunding gap between acceleration and VC and other later-stage investors. Our goal is to maximize return for our investors by helping high-potential Palestinian companies answer regional and global needs. We will do this through direct support from our management team and select group of advisors, and will leverage the strong network of our investors and partners for the benefit of each of our portfolio companies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Palestinian Territory, United States, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $60k–$750k
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Nabeeh — Nabeeh is an online platform that allows users to book housekeeping, cleaning services, maintenance, repairs, and renovation services.
- DataQueue — Discover essential strategies for AI readiness with DataQueue. Learn how to prepare your business, choose the right AI tools, and develop a strategic AI plan for future success
- MilkStraw AI — Save 53% on your AWS bill in 5 minutes!
Vision Ventures (VV) is an early stage venture capital firm founded by experienced entrepreneurs. Its slogan is:"By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs". We invest in innovative startups in the Seed and Series A across a wide range of verticals. We help startups realize their dreams and make a difference in a noisy world. We are an energeticteam that has a wealth of experience in starting companies and steering them to success and hyper growth. Our combined experience spans over 90 years in multiple countries which gives us extensive experience in multi-national, multi-cultural teams. We provide startups with hands on assistance and guidance on marketing, sales, product/service development, financial planning and management, expansion & growth strategy, and more.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Round size: Seed $200k–$5M; Pre-Seed $22k–$1.7M; Series A $1.3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
- Madeed — Madeed is a privately held company that works in the facilities and health care distribution industry.
- Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
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.
Magma is Israel's leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in communication, semiconductors, internet and media. They seek bright ideas, infuse them with experience and foresight, and facilitate their rise as industry leaders that redefine the global communications sector. They use their experience and sectorspecialization in cooperating with entrepreneurs, industry experts, and other investors to define the future of the communication, semiconductors, internet and media arenas. Their goal is to foster and enable the flow of innovation from an idea's early stages and through a company's emergence as a leader within its dynamic market. They understand the local market and help to influence the global one.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $800k–$6M; Series A $1.9M–$12M; Series B $6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Aidoc — Aidoc is an Israel-based startup providing artificial intelligence tools for radiologists. Their products help detect and pinpoint critical anomalies for radiologists through deep learning and AI algorithms that analyze medical images and patient data. Aidoc eases up the work list and frees up time and attention to what matters. The startupdeidentifies these and sends them onto Aidoc’s cloud, where algorithms identify and highlight abnormalities before returning the images to radiology workstations for reidentification.Aidoc's s solutions aid radiologists in reducing turnaround time and increasing quality and efficiency by flagging acute anomalies in real-time. It also offers tests for intracranial hemorrhages and spinal fractures, plus several chest exams for pulmonary embolisms, pneumothorax, rib fractures, and lung nodules.Aidoc was founded by Guy Reiner, Elad Walach, and Michael Braginsky in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Ubeya — Ubeya is an employee management platform that helps manage shift and hourly employees. Offering an and-to-end solution for Staffing Agencies, Catering and Hospitality industries, Delivery Fleets, and more. Helping Managers, Payroll, HR and Legal departments to digitize operations with an employee app and a client portal. Our modular system allows each business to choose the functions that best serve their business: Schedule, Clock-in, Track, Communicate and Pay your employees with Ubeya.
- Magisto — Magisto online video editor is a fast & powerful video maker. Turn your photos and video clips into video stories with Magisto movie editor. Start free!
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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.
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.
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 $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.
Oqal Group was formed as an endowment group by a group of young businessmen to be a platform that brings together angel investors and emerging entrepreneurs to form partnerships of economic feasibility that raise the welfare of society and enhance the quality of life. It enables the founders of entrepreneurial startups to develop innovative andfast-growing startups in a variety of sectors by providing access to smart capital and experienced angel investors.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 139
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $220k–$1.1M; Series A $133k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
- Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
- Mantas — Cloud outage insurance, built for cloud-first businesses.
Laconia Ventures is a New York City-based venture capital firm that provides early-stage funding and strategic resources for inspired entrepreneurs in the information technology sector.Our goal is to work closely with entrepreneurs and their lead investors to build sustained, scalable, competitive advantage by applying our capital, experience,and professional network to their unique ideas and emerging businesses. We invest in companies that leverage technology and crowd-sourced community to disrupt the traditional structure of industries for increased consumer value and market reinvention. We have specific expertise and interest in the Digital Media, Data Analytics, Mobile, Social, and Ad Technology sectors.
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- Industry: Advertising, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $425k–$5.2M; Series A $1.4M–$9.5M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- Trestle — Trestle helps construction organizations streamline the vendor contracting and procurement process with integration, smart tools, and use data that's currently going uncollected to reduce risks in future contracts.
- Brooklyn Health — Brooklyn Health is a company of clinicians, scientists, and engineers dedicated to enhancing digital health measurement.
- Auxa Health — Best-in-class social care coordination platform for Medicare Advantage plans to improve utilization, delivery, and management of their Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) services. We offer a payer-first solution including data analytics, care coordination, and an engagement infrastructure that i
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 $1.1M–$8.5M; Series B $3M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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.
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: 55
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.7M; Series A $5M–$24M; Series C $13M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% 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.
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
- 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.
PLUS Ventures, part of the Moldawsky Group, is the first multi-vehicle early-stage investment firm - a structure which enables the company to tailor the right investment suited for each venture's specific needs.PLUS's investment specialization is in Israeli early stage, fast growth technology and media ventures. Its mission is to takea hands-on approach and help great entrepreneurs create great companies.In addition to, and as important as, straight-up cash, PLUS puts its long-term expertise, skills, and ecosystem to work with, and for, its portfolio companies.PLUS Ventures is one of the most active early-stage investors in Israel, and plans to continue to be a dominant player in this field for years to come.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Video, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $720k–$1.7M; Series A $1M–$11M; Series B $4M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
- Evrideo — Evrideo provied end-to-end cloud broadcasting platform, enabling to easily create and manage channels, using broadcast SaaS technology solution
- DocAuthority — Dapurtoto mempersembahkan promosi spektakuler untuk para penggemar togel online! Dengan hadiah besar yang ditawarkan situs bandar togel online ini menjanjikan bayaran penuh dan pengalaman bermain yang luar biasa.
Rutledge Vine Capital is a venture capital firm focused on startup and seed technology companies.
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- Industry: Video, Events, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $150k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Evolero — Is your live event canceled? It's time to move to virtual events. Create an unforgettable virtual event experience for your attendees with great branding.
- Carambola — At Carambola we deliver the most relevant and engaging social content to users while seamlessly integrating ads. Our cutting-edge solutions for site monetization generate increased ad revenue for publishers, while extending users sessions and improving overall site performance.
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- Industry: Enterprise Software, Apps, Baby
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
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 $1.1M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $3.5M–$47M; Series B $5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IndieFlow — IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. The platform provides a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage creative projects, distribute to streaming platforms, collect roylaties, register music with royaltycollection societies, promote music, book gigs, receive payments and more.
- Rep AI — Shopify's #1 AI Concierge (chatbot) for eCommerce. Rep converts more traffic (CVR), increases sales (AOV), and can handle up to 97% of your support tickets.
- Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!
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- Industry: Gaming, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- PeerPlay — PeerPlay is a casual mobile games powerhouse
- Travelier — Digitalizing ground & sea transportation
- Celery — Celery is an internal auditing and control platform, designed to automate critical and time-consuming processes and prevent costly mistakes.
Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland
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- Total investments: 100
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
- Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
Saned Partners is an independently managed Venture Capital fund, aiming to nurture early-stage companies in the MENA region into growth and profitability.Their mission is to partner with entrepreneurs and to provide them with the means and resources to turn their projects into established, best-in-class businesses that offer exceptional all-aroundvalue to stakeholders.Saned’s vision is to serve as a catalyst for economic and social development in the region, by providing entrepreneurs with the opportunity to capitalize on their ambition and ideas.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Toters — Fast & easy delivery. GET THE APP
- Sarwa — Sarwa is your all-in-one investment platform. We offer hands-off investing, real-time trading, and high-yield savings. With holistic financial tools at your fingertips, investing has never been easier. Sarwa SDWCL is regulated by the FSRA in the ADGM.
- Mumzworld — Shop at Mumzworld, the leading online store for newborn and child essentials across the Middle East and worldwide. Find motherhood must-haves and shop today!
TPY Capital is a Tel Aviv based early state VC, investing in some of Israel’s most talented entrepreneurs. They are active investors who typically lead rounds in the areas we invest in, which include data and analytics, digitization and human augmentation, fintech, and frontier tech such as quantum computing.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Tabnine — Tabnine is an AI code-completion tool that helps developers worldwide write better code faster.
- Kodem Security — Providing users with runtime intelligence to grasp the relevant application risks.
- DOT Compliance — Dot Compliance - Get life-changing products to market faster and safer with the industry's first AI-powered eQMS. Get a Demo.
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- Industry: Software, Retail, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- CloudFrame — The Cure for COBOL COBOL to Java. In place or to the Cloud. Ready to Find Out More? REQUEST A DEMO Request a Demo Simplify your IT environment, unlock hidden business potential, and maintain agility in the digital age. With CloudFrame, you are in control! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a9WcQir958 Telecom Saves $4m a Year by reducing MIPS usage
- Tire Agent — Tire Agent is an online tire retailer that provides at-home/on-site installation. It offers consumers a premium service at a value price. Tire Agent provides consumers with personalized tire recommendations, live tire experts, warranty claims, and great prices.
- With Clarity — With Clarity is the only online, direct to consumer home try-on engagement ting company that marries affordability with expertise and convenience with a personal touch.With their Free Home Preview, they can try replicas of engagement ring styles at home to make a confident decision. Then return to their site to fully customize the ring and makeit one of a kind. It has the lowest diamond prices guaranteed and a refreshing new way to shop for engagement rings. With Clarity was formerly known as Four Mine
Pitango VC is a venture capital firm focused on health-tech (Pitango Health-tech) and growth (Pitango Growth) investments in startups around the world in domains such as vertical SaaS, digital health, deep tech, fintech and insurance technology, devops, generative AI, Web3, and food tech.With two offices in Israel, Pitango currently managesseveral venture funds totaling over $2.8 billion in committed capital. It has invested in more than 250 companies.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Israel, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 281
- Round size: Series A $4M–$50M; Series B $7.5M–$44M; Series C $8.2M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $175M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Convizit — Convizit's AI automatically captures user actions, adds properties, and delivers this behavioral data directly into your analytics and marketing platforms.
- Tomorrow.io — Predict, automate, and solve your biggest weather challenges with Tomorrow.io.
- DriveNets — Providing the highest performance Ethernet-based back-end network solutions for AI infrastructures and open, high-scale routing solutions for service providers
Saga VC is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Art
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Luminal — Luminal provides a machine learning compiler and serverless cloud platform that automates PyTorch model optimization and deployment.
- FleetWorks Technology — FleetWorks is a logistics management platform that uses AI to automate manual freight brokerage operations.
- Reframe Systems — Robotic microfactories for building net-zero homes 2x faster, 2x cheaper with 10x lower carbon
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- Industry: SEO, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Czech Republic, Cyprus
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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- Team Odeon — Welcome to Team Odeon, we are a higher education and vocations focused performance marketing company, we create informational websites.
Oraseya Capital is a venture capital firm that is the venture arm of the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
- Prop-AI — Prop-AI is building the Bloomberg Terminal for real estate—an AI-powered platform that automates property discovery, evaluation, and acquisition.Headquartered in Dubai, Prop-AI uses proprietary machine learning and over 3 billion verified data points from government registries, real estate marketplaces, developers, and private sources. Itanalyzes all market listings and can access off-market opportunities by understanding all available supply and stakeholders. The platform delivers instant property valuations, investment scores, rental and appreciation forecasts, and fraud detection, giving investors and owners unmatched transparency and confidence.Prop-AI is focused on launching its Prop-AI Business platform and APIs for real estate professionals, alongside the region’s most advanced Agentic AI for Real Estate in 2025. These innovations aim to make intelligent, data-driven decision-making accessible to investors, real estate professionals, and eventually autonomous AI systems—setting a new standard for real estate investing in the region and beyond.
- Kanjo — Kanjo is a software company offering pre-diagnosis, remote monitoring, and personalized care-matching solutions for mental health wellness.
Ludus finds, invests in, and nurtures the best-in-class gaming startups. We aim to pioneer the venture studio model in Turkey by providing in-house expertise, strategic guidance, and funding for entrepreneurs and start-ups.
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- Industry: Gaming, Software, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.
- Alpaka Games — Alpaka Games is a mobile gaming company.
- TaleMonster Games — TaleMonster is a multinational mobile game firm that genuinely wants to provide millions of gamers experiences they won't soon forget. By putting our passion at the center of everything we make, we hope to reinvent what casual in mobile gaming means.
F6 Ventures is a leading seed stage venture capital firm operating across emerging markets. We back exceptional founders from idea-stage all the way to Series A, combining early capital with strategic support and a commitment to long-term partnership. With deep ties across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond, we empower innovative startups to scalewith purpose and impact. We manage over $90M in AUM across more than 300 investments in seven countries. By investing early in Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A rounds, we help founders cover initial costs, develop their product, and take it to market. This early capital acts as a launchpad, enabling startups to hit key milestones like securing first customers, attracting follow-on funding, and making significant strides forward.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 185
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Let'sGrant — Let’sGrant is a point of sale lending platform, partnering with lenders and consumer goods stores to make the lending process fast, simple and flexible for everyone. With a vision to be internationally recognized as a driving force in personal and consumer loans in the MENA region, Let’sGrant will soon be launching the first online peer to peerlending platform for personal loans in the MENA region which connects individual investors directly to potential borrowers in search of funding through debt.
- lululittle — lululittle combines storytelling with cultural themes to create empowering personalized books where your children are the heroes. We use the power of personalized storytelling to create inspiring and engaging reading experiences, placing your kids at the center of these stories. Our stories are inspired by relevant cultural themes that aim toempower kids in their diverse cultural environments. Our first story is inspired by the Arab world's rich culture and is suited for kids age 0-10. lululittle's easy to use online platform lets you personalize, preview, and order their book in just a few minutes.
- Ouda W Dar — Ouda W Dar is an online platform that helps hosts and guests book unique short-term accommodations.
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- 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.
New York Venture Partners is a seed stage venture capital firm dedicated to the entrepreneur. New York Venture Partners provide an ecosystem of financing, mentorship and strategic marketing consulting to the best entrepreneurs out there today.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $300k–$4M; Pre-Seed $750k–$2M; Series A $1.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dstlry — DSTLRY is the next-generation comics publisher and it redefines creator-owned comic books for consumers everywhere.
- nMachine — A Low-Code solution for creating extraordinary Day 2 Operations platforms - called nMachines - for your existing Kubernetes-based applications, that can be shared inside and outside your organization.
- Hank — Caregiving tools designed just for you. Hank saves you time by scheduling and fulfilling essential tasks on your behalf.
Dtec Ventures is the venture capital unit of Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority and an integral part of the Dtec ecosystem. We invest in early-stage technology businesses in the MENA region with a nucleus in Dubai, that are disrupting or enabling traditional industries.
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- Industry: Apps, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $170k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $1.5M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
- AlgoDriven — AlgoDriven is an automotive data platform that helps car dealers, classifieds, banks and insurance companies accurately identify and price used cars. Car dealers use our patented mobile app, EvalExpert to appraise their cars, while enterprise clients access our platform through our APIs
- Ghost Financial — Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens.
SVCIC is uniquely positioned to lead the development of the nascent venture capitalindustry in Saudi Arabia by providing unmatched levels of support for fundamentally strong small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) that lack the necessary resources for growth and expansion.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Tunisia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $300k–$300k; Series A $4M–$6.6M; Series B $5M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lean Technologies — Lean provides the Data and Payments tools to empower MENA's next generation of financial products | Trusted by Etisalat, Hubpay, Lulu Finance, Binance, Sarwa and more.
- Pi Flow — Pi Flow operates as an accounting services provider. Pi Flow is a dedicated Virtual accounting team that offers bookkeeping services and strives to enhance the quality of our client's books.
- Nana — Nana is an online grocery platform that provides doorstep deliveries of groceries and other home essentials. The company's platform offers a wide assortment of groceries, fruits, and vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers that enables consumers to purchase products online and get them delivered to their homes.
L Catterton provides capital to companies to support acquisitions, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and turnarounds. They consider investments across many targeted industry verticals within the consumer industry: food and beverage, retail and restaurants, consumer products and services, and media and marketing services.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 222
- Round size: Series B $18M–$115M; Private Equity $30M–$785M
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $550M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Dishoom — Dishoom is a restaurant chain company.
- Farmley — Farmley is a direct-from-farm Indian brand delivering the freshest and cleanest dry fruits to the world. Our direct to consumer value chains allow us to deliver : -) High quality, adulteration free products to the end customer at competitive prices -) Drive maximum value to the farmer community by eliminating middlemen
- Seki Furniture — Seki Furniture Co is planning and sales of furniture, interior, and housing-related products. The method differs depending on the person in charge of development, and in some cases, the method is created by using design software such as CAD, or in some cases, the designer is informed of the image and the drawing or sketch is drawn.
BRAVE Ventures is a strategic advisory and investment firm that specializes in the converging technology, media, and direct to consumer revolution. For the multi-billion dollar brands we work with, we help our clients prepare for and navigate disruptive change and drive innovation.
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- Industry: Video, Advertising, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TVREV — TVREV is an analyst group of advertising, media, marketing, streaming and technology experts covering changes in TV and streaming media with exclusive reports, analysis and insights about the industry and its future.
- Encantos — With Encantos, kids get lost in storyworlds. There, they meet characters like them and characters unlike them, and pick up important skills and lessons along the way. Best of all, when learning is fun, kids love learning.
- PositivEnergy — We are energy architects driven by a desire to make the benefits of clean energy easy, risk-free and available to all. Learn about energy storage systems, EV charging infrastructure and backup power / UPS.
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