# Top 50 Real Estate Angel Investors in Middle East in June 2026

## Bedii Can Yucaoglu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Mobile, Big Data

Bedii Can Yucaoglu - Advisor @ Hesapkurdu

## Nevzat Aydın
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.

## Mehmet Celikol
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Rental, Travel, Boating

Mehmet Celikol

## Paul Graham
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Paul Graham is the Founder of Y Combinator.

## Eddy Shalev
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology

Eddy Shalev is an angel investor. Eddy is one of the best-known figures in the Israeli business community. Since the beginning of Israel's venture capital industry, Eddy has focused on private-equity investments in the high-tech sector, and has played a key role in several high-profile success stories, including Fundtech, ParadigmGeophysical and Orbot Instruments. Eddy is currently on the board of Aternity, Profitect and Sensible Medical.Eddy has been an active private equity investor in Israel since 1992, when he began a private equity investment program that invested in early-stage Israeli high-tech companies. Beginning in 1985, Eddy led the Israeli affiliates of Oscar Gruss and Sons Inc., and then later CIBC-Oppenheimer, where he directed the firm’s corporate banking, sales and trading, and equity research for Israeli companies traded on NASDAQ.

## Melih Odemis
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. 
Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. 
Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.

## Sekan Bagce
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Hospitality, Vacation Rental, Property Management

Sekan Bagce

## Mehmet Fatih Trabzon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, Real Estate

Mehmet Fatih Trabzon serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors at FTR Makina Kimya Metalurji A.Ş.

## Sercan Alici
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Pet, Hospitality, Photography

Sercan Alici

## Peter Thiel
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Peter Thiel Is the Managing Partner of The Founders Fund. He previously worked at Stanford Law School as a Visitor. Peter Thiel attended Stanford University.

## Eyal Waldman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Big Data, Semiconductor, Internet

Eyal Waldman is a Chairman Waldo of Holdings also a board member at Speedata. He previously worked in Mellanox Technologies as a CEO. He Attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

## Mehmet Onarcan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Social Media

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

## Ahu Serter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Transportation

Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.

## Emre Tok
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Payments, Shopping

Emre, the former VP of Growth and Digital Marketing at Careem, Emre has 21 years of experience in Product Marketing, Development & Management, Digital, Customer Analytics, Growth and Internet Business Development. He has embarked on many successful projects in multinational companies in UAE, the UK and Turkey. Growth & Product MarketingConsultant. He is the CEO in One Tech Capital LLC, a start-up studio owning www.cofeapp.com the first coffee marketplace in GCC Region.- Industrial Engineer with an MBA
- Former VP of Growth – Free-Now
- Former VP of Growth & Digital – Careem (Acquired by Uber for 3.2B $)
- Former Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager – UK
- Former Microsoft Online & Compete Lead – Turkey
- Former Turkcell, Leading TELCO In Turkey, Head of Value Added Internet Services

## Alper Şener
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Hospitality, Mobile Apps

Alper Şener

## Yair Weinberger
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, B2B, Software

Tech Entrepreneur, Angel Investor

## Khaled Ismail.
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Information Technology

Khaled Ismail is the founder and Chairman of Kiangel, an angel investment fund investing in early-stage startups in Egypt (2011).

## Yoav Amit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Herseliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, B2C

Yoav Amit is an angel investor. Attended Tel Aviv University.

## Rasim Zengin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Marketing, Advertising, Mobile Apps

Rasim is co founder at forTaksi.

## Mehmet Ali Aydemir
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Marketing, Advertising, Mobile Apps

Mehmet is co founder at forTaksi.

## Bashar Hamood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

## Ron Gura
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Video, Mobile, Internet

Ron Gura is the Co-Founder & CEO of Empathy. He previously worked at WeWork as an SVP Product. Ron Gura attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

## Mishaal Alireza
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: iOS, Apps, Video

Mishaal Alireza - Board Member @ DokkanAfkar

## Ahmet Giray Ölmez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Procurement

Ahmet Giray Ölmez

## Mudassir Sheikha
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: EdTech, Restaurants, Management Consulting

Mudassir Sheikha is the co-founder and CEO of Careem, MENA’s leading car booking service that is based out of Dubai and operates from Morocco to Pakistan.Prior to Careem, Mudassir was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he advised clients on strategy and business building. Before McKinsey, Mudassir spent a decade in the SiliconValley building technology startups, where he was most recently the co-founder of DeviceAnywhere, which was eventually acquired by Keynote Systems. He has an academic background in Computer Science and Economics from Stanford and USC.

## Emre Kozlu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, InsurTech

Emre Kozlu is a Director Strategy & Program Delivery at Philip Morris International.

## Tarush Awasthi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Property Management

Tarush Awasthi is an Associate at The Xander Group.

## Jamal Almuttareb
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate

Jamal Almuttareb

## Rory Mounsey-Heysham
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Property Management

Rory Mounsey-Heysham  is the Venture Capital at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

## Oliver Samwer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Oliver Samwer was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1972. Oliver holds M.Sc. degree in Business Administration from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Upon graduation, Oliver and his two brothers founded Alando.de in 1999. After the sale of Alando.de to eBay Inc., he was Managing Director of eBay, responsible for Germany, Switzerland andAustria. In 2000, Oliver and his two brothers founded Jamba! AG, which was acquired by Verisign Inc. in 2004. In 2007, Oliver founded Rocket Internet. Since 2014, Oliver has served as Rocket’s Chief Executive Officer. Oliver is responsible for strategy development and implementation, business development and investor relations.

## Emre Acikel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Mobile

Angel Investor. Investing in Turkey (member of Sharks & Partners) & Switzerland (member of Business Angels Switzerland).

## Noam Bardin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, iOS

Hailed as one of Business Insider's 100 Stars of Silicon Valley, Noam holds a B.A. in Economics from the Hebrew University and a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he started planning on how to save the world. He's since decided it will be one GPS point at a time.

## Kobi Rozengarten
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series F
- Focus: Mobile, Wireless, Landscaping

With over twenty-five years of experience in senior management positions in the technology sector, Kobi is a recognized expert in the semiconductor and storage fields.  Kobi was instrumental in leading several of JVP’s recent exits including facilitating the sale of optical component company CyOptics to Avago and the investment and sale offlash storage innovator XtremIO to EMC in May 2012. A key member of JVP’s management team, Kobi is currently Chairman of the Board of Altair Semiconductors, Celltick and Reduxio Systems as well as a board member of Teridion, Noobaa, Smart-X and Nativeflow. Prior to joining JVP, Kobi was President and COO of Saifun Semiconductors, a leading provider of IP solutions for the non-volatile memory market. In this capacity, Kobi was responsible for formulating and executing the company’s business strategy, and led its IPO and secondary offering on the NASDAQ. Prior to joining Saifun, Kobi served for over a decade as Managing Director, Director of Operations and VP of Business Development at Kulicke and Soffa Industries, a leading supplier of equipment for the semiconductor industry. Kobi holds a BS in Industrial Engineering (Information systems) and a MS in Industrial Management from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and serves as a member of the Technion Board of Governors.

## Ariel Maislos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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

## Sina Afra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet

Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster.

## Tim Draper
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Mobile

Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

## Ofir Avny
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Convertible Note
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Home Decor

Ofir Avny

## Hatem Dowidar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Mobile, Internet, Real Estate

Hatem Dowidar

## Mehmet Sacit Sungu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Apps, Local

Mehmet Sacit Sungu

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Ziad Abdelmageed
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate

Ziad Abdelmageed

## Ahmed Bazara
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate

Ahmed Bazara

## Doron Myersdorf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2C, Human Resources, Real Estate Investment

Doron brings vast experience in business and technology management to StoreDot. Prior to founding the company, he served as senior director of the SanDisk SSD Business Unit (NASDAQ: SNDK), establishing and managing the division in Israel, building product strategy, marketing and business development, resulting in sales to leading laptop makersamounting to over $100M in revenue in under 3 years. Previously, he was VP Flash and Operations of msystems, a flash memory global leader, where he managed the strategic sourcing of $1B annually, resulting in product revenue of over $1.5B. He created and managed joint ventures totaling over $500M annually in Flash procurement, and established strategic partnerships for Flash production and capacity sharing. Doron’s diverse record also includes founder and CEO of InnerPresence, a Silicon Valley security software company, and co-founder and VP business development of Siftology, a pioneer in interactive media search. Earlier, as a partner at Tefen – Semiconductor Operations Management, Doron managed West Coast US operations, in charge of the design and establishment of over 40 semiconductor, pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing facilities worldwide for Fortune 500 companies. Doron holds a Ph.D. in R&D Management (1994), M.Sc. in information systems (cum laude, 1991) and B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering Management (cum laude, 1989) - all from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

## Ron Zuckerman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Internet, Video, Marketplace

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

## Hillel Kobrinsky
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Big Data, Software, Construction

Hillel Kobrinsky is an individual investor.

## Ran Sarig
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Real Estate Investment

Ran Sarig - GM Datorama @ Salesforce

## Lamiaa Abdelmonem
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Education, Health Care, Real Estate

Lamiaa Abdelmonem

## Nico Barawid
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, SaaS

Nico Barawid is the Co-Founder of Tunic Pay. He previously worked at Casai as a Co-Founder and CEO. Nico Barawid attended the University of Oxford.

## Onur Canlıtepe
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Logistics

Early Stage Investor in Industrial Digitalisation and Decarbonisation, Angel Investor, Mentor, Experienced Investment Banker

## Atakan Atalar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Izmir, Izmir, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Financial Services, Software

Atakan Atalar is the Founder of Atanova Ventures. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com (acquired by Gusto) as an Investor. Atakan Atalar attended Istanbul Kultur University.

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