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Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Middle East (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and 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 Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
5 Turkey Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A iOS, Software, macOS
Entrée Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.5M–$60M
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
3 United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $600k–$65M
Avi Fogel
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series B, Series A SaaS, Internet, Software $1.1M–$8.5M
Taj Chahal
Angel
2 Israel Seed SaaS, Video, Publishing
Levent Sevinç
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
PICO Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology $600k–$59M
Rovio Entertainment Corporation
VC Fund
2 Turkey Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown Computer, Publishing, Mobile Apps
Oqal
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $100k–$10M
EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Sales $1.1M–$15M
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$30M
MSA Novo
VC Fund
2 Egypt, India, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech $1.5M–$32M
Vision Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $60k–$27M
Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
2 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Travel, Leisure, Internet $18k–$1.3M
Magma Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Mexico Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software $800k–$30M
Morton Meyerson
Angel
2 United States, India, Israel Seed, Angel, Series A Apps, Mobile, Content $240k–$2M
Acasia Group
VC Fund
2 Egypt, United States, Nigeria Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Financial Services, Mobile $50k–$2.6M
Itzhak Fisher
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Advertising, SaaS $450k–$3M
B. Bonin Bough
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed CRM, SaaS, Video $1.1M–$1.5M
Thomas Glocer
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A, Series C Software, FinTech, Analytics $1M–$27M
PLUS Ventures
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Egypt Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Video, Mobile $720k–$15M
2B Angels
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $800k–$11M
Rutledge Vine Capital
VC Fund
2 Israel Seed, Series A Video, Events, Software $150k–$1M
Jim Ramo
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Baby, SaaS, Video
Alain Bankier
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed Publishing, SaaS, Video $1.1M–$5M
Laconia Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A Advertising, Software, SaaS $425k–$9.5M
North Base Media
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B Digital Media, Advertising, News $75k–$23M
Bruce Hack
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed Gaming, Apps, SaaS
New York Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, Denmark Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $325k–$12M
Dtec Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Apps, E-Commerce, FinTech $170k–$3M
Saudi Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Tunisia Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence $300k–$68M
L Catterton
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, China Private Equity, Series B E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage $18M–$785M
BRaVe Media Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel Seed, Angel Video, Apps, Internet $1.1M–$4M
Oryzn Capital
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$50M
Faith Capital
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Elad Kushnir
Angel
1 Israel, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Gaming, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Saned Partners
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Online Portals
TPY Capital
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
PipelBiz.com
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Equity Crowdfunding, Seed Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
On Grid Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Retail, Mobile
Pitango VC
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, China Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Health Care, Information Technology $4M–$100M
Saga Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Art
Ory Weihs
Angel
1 Czech Republic, Cyprus Seed SEO, SaaS, FinTech
Oraseya Capital
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Ludus
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Gaming, Software, Mobile
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
1 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Emre Gönül
Angel
1 Turkey Seed iOS, Android, E-Commerce
Cedar Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series B, Series C, Series A Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile $3M–$27M
Pankaj Jain
Angel
1 United States, India, Jordan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Analytics, SaaS, Mobile $50k–$1.8M
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel · 5 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: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.
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 278
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $14M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022

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.
  • IRP Systems — IRP Systems delivers high performance electric vehicle systems, EVVER e-powertrains and TrueDRIVE control software for fast integration.
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HeyBreez AI — Conversational Al, for Everyone. Real phone calls. Real-time automation. 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
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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: 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.
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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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Levent Sevinç
Angel · 2 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, 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.
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PICO Venture Partners
VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$8M; Series A $4M–$20M; Series B $11M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% 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
  • Zero Networks — Zero Networks delivers automated microsegmentation, securing assets on-prem, in the cloud, and OT/IoT. Deploy in 30 days with set-and-forget simplicity.
  • ORION Security — ORION detects and prevents data loss across SaaS, email, cloud, AI tools, and endpoints using intelligent, context-aware, proprietary AI agents.
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Rovio Entertainment Corporation
VC Fund · Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Welcome to Rovio. We put joy first with our player-focused mobile games. Angry Birds, Small Town Murders and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Computer, Publishing, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ruby Games — Let's play together!
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Oqal
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $220k–$1M; Series A $133k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nqoodlet — Nqoodlet is a fintech company that develops an expense management platform to help small and medium-sized enterprises manage their spending, expenses, and purchases through the credit cards given to the employees. Its expense management platform enables enterprises to streamline their financial operations. By allowing businesses to register bills,track purchases, and manage expenses in one centralized system, the platform offers real-time visibility into all transactions made via corporate cards issued to employees. This solution simplifies the expense reporting process, enhances transparency, and improves financial control across the organization.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • Mantas — Cloud outage insurance, built for cloud-first businesses. #ParametricInsurance
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EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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 $1.1M–$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.
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% 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 — Complete in-house freedom to innovate, develop, fine-tune and train AI models for any unique business needs. Own the AI.
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MSA Novo
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, India, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% 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
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Vision Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Seed $190k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $60k–$1.6M; Series A $1.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Madeed — Madeed is a privately held company that works in the facilities and health care distribution industry.
  • DEEP.SA — DEEP.SA develops artificial intelligence engines and intelligent agents that support both consumer-facing and government-focused applications. It offers secure platforms for controlled access to AI models, incorporating knowledge graph-driven tools such as GraphI to convert complex data relationships into actionable insights for decision-making.The company deploys virtual assistants (for instance, KADI) and AI-powered search capabilities tailored to structured and unstructured data environments. Its offerings emphasize compliance with privacy and regulatory standards while enabling technology-driven transformation across different client domains.
  • Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Leisure, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CEOtudent — Founded in May 2015, CEOtudent.com is a content-based website that focuses on providing a rich vision and lifestyle to university and young professionals with content focused on success.On our internet site, we offer numerous contents from personal development to marketing, from career to events, from entrepreneurship to current news.AtCEOtudent.com, we share every piece of information we think that we can provide benefits and inspiration, and we are constantly trying to learn something new.
  • 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.
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Magma Venture Partners
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • 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.
  • PayKey — The PayKey social banking and mobile P2P payment solution: A patent-pending mobile payment keyboard that seamlessly integrates with your banking application and lets users complete a transaction without leaving their social application.
  • 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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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 $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.
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Acasia Group
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.6M; Angel $200k–$300k
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

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.
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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: 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.
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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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Thomas Glocer
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.7M; Series A $5M–$24M; Series C $13M–$27M
  • 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.
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PLUS Ventures
VC Fund · Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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2B Angels
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$3M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • 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.
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Rutledge Vine Capital
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Rutledge Vine Capital is a venture capital firm focused on startup and seed technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • 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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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 — NationalField is powerful software that helps the world's biggest change-makers measure change.
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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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Laconia Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $425k–$6.5M; 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
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North Base Media
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Digital Media, Advertising, News
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $75k–$5.7M; Series A $2M–$8M; Series B $2M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $19M in 2019

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!
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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 helps you find and tell your story for college admissions essays, career storytelling, and beyond through a learning platform, workshops, 1:1 coaching, and custom curriculum. Based in NYC, serving learners worldwide.
  • Integrated Reality Labs — Remember neighborhood tag, manhunt, and hide & seek? SLAP brings those IRL games back. Bigger, funnier, and built to go viral. Play anywhere. Start or join live games, chase friends, and capture fun moments that everyone wants to repost.
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New York Venture Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$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.
  • Journey Live — Journey is shifting the way modern companies prioritize mental health. Our proactive, inclusive tools engage every employee, every day.
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Dtec Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Oman

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • 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.
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Saudi Venture Capital
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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L Catterton
VC Fund · Greenwich, Connecticut, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 211
  • Round size: Series B $18M–$115M; Private Equity $30M–$785M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $800M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Dishoom — Dishoom is a restaurant chain company.
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  • 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
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BRaVe Media Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Apps, Internet
  • 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

  • TV[R]EV — 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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Oryzn Capital
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Early Stage VC. From Seed to Revenues.

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Investment focus

  • 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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Faith Capital
VC Fund · Sharq Hawalli, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • VUZ — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
  • Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
  • Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
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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, 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.
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
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Saned Partners
VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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!
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TPY Capital
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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PipelBiz.com
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

PipelBiz enables companies to raise capital from an unlimited number of investors without the need of a prospectus

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Vootto — Vootto is raising the bar in air purifier technology, engineered to clear the air in your car of 99.9% of airborne contaminants and germs in under 10 minutes. The best part is that you get to pick from a selection of quality scents and choose how to refresh your space. Vootto circulates the air through the scent capsule and actively freshens,unlike passive fresheners that just sit there.Vootto performs better than any other brand because of its innovative air routing system and its unique set of blades that provide the fastest rate of filtration. Not only that, Vootto’s exclusive Active Shield technology traps and destroys bacteria and viruses without releasing harmful byproducts, such as ozone or negative ions. Simply put, Vootto is in a league of its own.
  • Omnistream — Omnistream offers high-quality and user friendly app that produces professional video and production suit from your smartphone Omnistream empowers content creators, enabling anyone to produce high-quality and real-time video at an affordable and easy to use way
  • NeuroSense Therapeutics — NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd., is a clinical-stage biotechnology company, dedicated to the discovery and development of treatments for debilitating neurodegenerative diseases. Its lead product, PrimeC, is a novel oral therapy for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The company's preclinical pipeline includes: (1) StabiliC forthe treatment of Parkinson's disease and (2) CogniC for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.
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On Grid Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Investing in GeoDisruption

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
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Pitango VC
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Saga Ventures
VC Fund · Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Saga VC is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • 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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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: 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.
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Oraseya Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Oraseya Capital is a venture capital firm that is the venture arm of the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Ludus
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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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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Cedar Fund
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Publishing startups

Cedar Fund is a Venture Capital firm investing in Israel and the USA. Cedar Fund invests in seed and early stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$8M; Series B $5.5M–$19M; Series C $5.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wochit — Wochit empowers any organization to create compelling on-brand video content with revolutionary ease on a massive scale. Our innovative suite of video storytelling solutions is powerful enough for pros but easy for anyone to master—helping brands, nonprofits, and commercial organizations connect with their audience in new ways every day. Start withone of our standard deployments, or work with us to create a custom integration.Many of the world’s leading media brands have already transformed their video production with our intuitive, flexible solutions and expert support. With limitless access to the latest pre-licensed assets from Getty, AP, AFP, Reuters, Bloomberg, and more, our cloud-based editing tools make creating, versioning, automating, and publishing across platforms simpler than ever before.Proudly backed by Redpoint Ventures, Marker LLC, Greycroft Partners, and Cedar Fund, we’re based in New York, with offices in London and Tel Aviv, and serve globally. Find out more at wochit.com.
  • 365Scores — 365Scores is a cross-platform application that enables users to create their own personalized sports channel. Individuals can get live scores, news form media channels, video highlights, statistics, fixtures, standings, tweets, and more. Covering over 10 major sports, the platform is available in over 20 languages.
  • Pixie Technology — Pixie is creating the Internet of Your Everything™ by building the essential link between everyday things in the physical world and the digital one. It has developed a location-aware sensor network platform, accurate to inches, that enables a Do-it-Yourself IoT for consumer items, adding location awareness to things. That means that with Pixieyou’ll be able to track, locate, and navigate your way to anything you tag with a Pixie Point – making the location an exact science through its first-of-its-kind location technology for consumers. Pixie is an open ecosystem where innovative developers, manufacturers, and creative thinkers will build their own unique location-based apps.
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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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