Top 20 Recruiting Angel Investors in Middle East (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Young Sohn
Angel
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2 | United States, Germany, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $200k–$80M |
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Uri Levy
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | Recruiting, Human Resources | $13M–$13M |
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Kalish brothers
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | Recruiting, Human Resources | |
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Al Shafar
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | Internet, Recruiting, Career Planning | |
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Sulaiman Al- Rubaie
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | Internet, Recruiting, Career Planning | |
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Al Serkal
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | Internet, Recruiting, Career Planning | |
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Gigi Levy Weiss
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps | $1M–$45M |
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Leon Recanati
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | Software, SaaS, AgTech | $2.5M–$13M |
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Chemi Peres
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Series C, Seed, Series A | Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology | $1.7M–$100M |
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Nir Zohar
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, Publishing, B2B | $3M–$14M |
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Tom Andrews
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed | SaaS, Recruiting, Operating Systems | |
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Yossi Vardi
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Angel, Seed, Series A | Search Engine, Internet, Software | $100k–$1.7M |
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Jeff Swartz
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | Software, Recruiting, Social Impact | |
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Nir Adler
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, SaaS, Big Data | $5M–$13M |
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Zahi Khouri
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | SaaS, Recruiting, Human Resources | |
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Al Ghussain
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | Internet, Recruiting, Career Planning | |
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Fahir Han
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Internet, Consulting, Recruiting | |
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Oren Rosenbach
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | Solar, Robotics, Recruiting | $13M–$13M |
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Tomer Pomerantz
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | Recruiting, Human Resources | $13M–$13M |
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Arya Bolurfrushan
Angel
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Education | |
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Young Sohn is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose passion is building businesses and fostering emerging technologies that have the potential to transform the world for the better. Currently, Sohn serves as Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics and Chairman of the Board of HARMAN. He leads Samsung’s strategy forglobal innovation, investment, and new business creation, and led the company’s $8 billion acquisition of HARMAN. Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, Sohn served as CEO of two successful, public Silicon Valley companies and on the boards of Arm, Cadence, Cymer (ASML), and others. Under his leadership as CEO and board member, he took PLX Technologies, Synnex Technologies, and Inphi public. He was also a seed investor in some of the industry’s most innovative companies, including Bitfury, Fungible, Graphcore, and Zoom.Sohn is a leader of the global Tech for Good movement. He helped launch the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), the world’s largest startup competition for entrepreneurs addressing global challenges. He also serves as a North America board member at MIT Sloan, a senior advisor to the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, a board member at Cadence, and an advisor for the University of California Innovation Council. Sohn holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS from the MIT Sloan School of Management. An avid outdoorsman, Sohn spends his personal time kite surfing, cycling, running, hiking, and competing in triathlons.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $200k–$18M; Series A $20M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aeditive — Construction, Concrete 3D Printing, Automation, Robotics, Digital Concrete
- Anari AI — Anari AI is the next-generation computation platform for AI. It pioneers reconfigurable AI for customers to personalize their infrastructure in one click; it also enables chip designers to rapidly create and deploy their solutions.
- Interactio — Interactio is a mobile system that provides remote simultaneous interpretation and replaces translation equipment during live events. Interactio platform allows an unlimited number of smartphones to be turned into wireless microphones in a systematic manner and connected to an on-site stereo system, allowing users to utilize their smartphones aswireless microphones during live events. The company was founded in 2014 by Henrikas Urbonas, Simona Andrijauskaite, and Domas Labokas.
Uri Levy
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- Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $13M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perfect — Where the future of recruitment happens - intelligent, fast, and precise.
- Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.
Kalish brothers
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- Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.
Al Shafar
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- Industry: Internet, Recruiting, Career Planning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bloovo — BLOOVO is an innovative online recruitment platform, which adopts algorithms in the recruitment process, offering unique recruitment solutions in an interactive manner to both employers and job seekers in the Gulf region. BLOOVO aims to eliminate the job-mismatch hurdles through the introduction of insightful algorithm-based features and theprovision of enhanced and more affordable services.
Sulaiman Al- Rubaie
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- Industry: Internet, Recruiting, Career Planning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bloovo — BLOOVO is an innovative online recruitment platform, which adopts algorithms in the recruitment process, offering unique recruitment solutions in an interactive manner to both employers and job seekers in the Gulf region. BLOOVO aims to eliminate the job-mismatch hurdles through the introduction of insightful algorithm-based features and theprovision of enhanced and more affordable services.
Al Serkal
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- Industry: Internet, Recruiting, Career Planning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bloovo — BLOOVO is an innovative online recruitment platform, which adopts algorithms in the recruitment process, offering unique recruitment solutions in an interactive manner to both employers and job seekers in the Gulf region. BLOOVO aims to eliminate the job-mismatch hurdles through the introduction of insightful algorithm-based features and theprovision of enhanced and more affordable services.
Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $6.5M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Faireez — Optimizing tenants' lifestyle and convenience through enabling them with a hotel-like home cleaning service
- BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
- Diagnostic Robotics — Diagnostic Robotic develops a signal-agnostic artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. It allows to build powerful predictive analytics models that will solve a world-wide challenge, strained health budgets, and workforces. Diagnostic Robotic was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Leon Y. Recanati is currently the Chairman and CEO of GlenRock Israel Ltd., a private investment company whose main field of activity is venture capital investments in startup companies engaged in life sciences, biotechnology, medical devices, and in advanced technologies. Until May 2003, and prior to founding GlenRock, he served as Chairman& CEO of IDB Holding Corporation Ltd., Chairman of Clal Industries and Investments Ltd., and Chairman of Azorim Investment Development and Construction Ltd., in addition to several other positions in a variety of operating companies in Israel. Mr. Recanati initiated in 1998 Clal Biotechnologies Ltd. (CBL). Clal Industries invested $100 million in CBL. Clal Biotechnologies is considered the largest biotechnology investment company operating in Israel.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, AgTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perfect — Where the future of recruitment happens - intelligent, fast, and precise.
- Treetoscope — The first and only commercial device that senses the internal water flow of a plant and directly measures its water consumption and real-time irrigation needs. without extrapolations based on indirect sensing technologies.Treetoscope offers a SaaS irrigation management platform, based on direct plant sensing technology. We tackle one of the mostcrucial challenges farmers face today: water scarcity and irrigation optimization. Our groundbreaking ag-tech enables the unprecedented measurement of real-time actual water use of trees (based on our patented single probe Sap Flow sensor). Through the Treetoscope solution, growers gain great value as a result of the affordability, scalability, and ease of deployment of our technology.
- Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.
Chemi Peres is the Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Pitango. He previously worked at Taboola as a Board Member. Chemi Peres attended Tel Aviv University.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
- Stage:Series C, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $13M–$30M; Series A $1.7M–$16M; Series C $9M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perfect — Where the future of recruitment happens - intelligent, fast, and precise.
- Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.
- Voltify — Voltify is a climate tech company that offers decarbonization solutions for the freight rail industry.
Nir has been with Wix since 2007 and he’s been the driving force behind the successful scaling of the company's operations from a small start-up into an international company serving tens of millions of users. Nir spearheads all efforts to develop and implement Wix' strategic plans geared towards accommodating the company's growthobjectives and business goals.Prior to joining Wix, Nir was the Budget and Production Manager for two years at M.B. Contact Ltd., a private Israeli event production company. Before that, Nir worked for The Jewish Agency and the Israeli Scouts. Nir’s experience stems from his position as Lieutenant Commander and Chief Engineer in the Israeli Navy.On his day off you catch him reading or avidly following the NBA scores.
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- Industry: Software, Publishing, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $3M–$5.3M; Series A $13M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
- Villiger — Villiger provides an app that unites parents and their support network within a private social network where they can share stories, recommendations, and resources, as well as book and pay for services.Users can download the app and upload friends to their Village via Facebook Connect or their address book.The platform allows parents to sharetheir support network within a “Trusted Village,” then receive recommendations, advice, requests and contacts within the Village. The platform provides direct booking and payment for a variety of support providers including sitters, tutors, music teachers, housekeepers, coaches, and more.
- Demostack — Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.
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- Industry: SaaS, Recruiting, Operating Systems
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RecXchange Portal LLC — The recruiter network where 15,000+ recruiters partner on placements and split fees automatically. Access 270M candidates and $750K+ in live placement fees.
One of Israel’s early entrepreneurs, Yossi Vardi co-founded, led, funded and helped build more than 80 high-tech, energy, natural resources, and clean-tech companies. Many of them went public, including Tekem, Alon Energy, Granite Hacarmel, answers.com, scopus, International Lasers Technologies, epals, tocows, brightcove, other were acquired :Gteko (by Microsoft), Tivella (by cisco,) Airlink (by sierra wireless), Foxytunes (by yahoo),starnet (by IAC),Gift project (by ebay).As the founding investor ofMirabilis Ltd, -the creator of iCQ - Vardi co-pioneered instant messaging. ICQ was one of the internet’s earliest successes, later sold to AOL.Vardi was chairman of the board of trustees of Jerusalem Foundation, serves on the board of trustees of the technion and served on those of Weitzman Institute. Hebrew university, open university .he was advisor to the World Bank, United Nations Development Program , CEO’s of Amazon, AOL, Siemens Albis, and Allied–signal. member of the World Economic Forum, and Co-chairman of the EU-Israel business dialogue.Vardi had an extensive government and public career, hewas the director general of Ministry of Development and Ministry of Energy. was chairman of Israel National Oil Company, and Israel Chemicals. participated in the peace talks with Egypt, Palestinians, Jordan and Syria. He received Honorary Doctorates from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and the Ben Gurion university , the Prime Minister Hi-Tech Award for life achievements (twice); Best Internet Personality by TechCrunch Europe; Entrepreneur of the Year by Tel Aviv University , Europe’s 25 top techs by Wall Street Journal; and one of the 200 Greatest Israelis of all times by Ynet. was elected by Israel 21c to the top 10 icons of Israeli high tech - the pioneers, by The Algemeiner for the "jewish 100 - the top 100 people positively influenced jewish life " and by wired magazine (uk) as number 9 of the wired 2014 top 100 influential people in EuropeYossi Vardi sits on the advisory boards of 3i and Amdocs and has served on boards of numerous state and private corporations including Bezeq, Israel Electric, and the Bank of Israel. Yossi has also been an Advisor to the CEOs of AOL, Amazon, and Allied Signal. Yossi Vardi has received many awards, including the Prime Minister of Israel Hi-Tech Award for life achievements on two occasions, the Industry Prize, the Ramniceanu Prize and CEOs Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame.
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- Industry: Search Engine, Internet, Software
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Angel $100k–$268k; Series A $1.1M–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RoomiePics — RoomiePics is a social camera for sharing photos with people nearby. The app is currently in development.
- Similarweb — All in one Website analytics & competitive traffic intelligence platform - Compare website traffic and performance, analyze strategies & grow your market share!
- The Gifts Project — The Gifts Project is a social ecommerce platform for Group Gifting that helps online retailers, marketplaces and gift stores to leverage their social buying experience. This white label solution brings major ecommerce websites a Social Group Gifting Platform with a winning combination of Social Networks and Group Payment straight to theircheckout process. With Group Gifting, customers can share their special occasions with their social graph by letting friends to chip in for each others gifts while shopping at their favorite online store. The Gifts Project is a product of Appchee Applications Ltd., an Israeli startup company that is backed by
Jeff Swartz
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- Industry: Software, Recruiting, Social Impact
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
Nir Adler - General Partner @ State of Mind Ventures
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- Industry: Information Technology, SaaS, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perfect — Where the future of recruitment happens - intelligent, fast, and precise.
- Rivery.io — Rivery is an intuitive data integration platform that aggregates and transforms all your internal and external data sources in a single cloud-based solution.Now you can automate every ELT process for cloud data warehouses, including Redshift, BigQuery, Azure, or Snowflake.As a flexible code-free solution, Rivery empowers business intelligenceand data teams to focus on analysis and insights, while leaving data pipeline maintenance solely to us.
- Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.
Zahi Khouri
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- Industry: SaaS, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SocialDice — SocialDice offers an innovative digital hiring solution making hiring easy, smart and fun. Employers can advertise their job to several job sites via few clicks and they will manage all candidates from all job sites via their candidates’ dashboard. They will drill down to top 10-15 candidates directly via their Artificial Intelligence technologythat leverage machine learning & semantic algorithms, collaborate effectively via their social timeline, communicate with candidates via their features and manage the stages of the process.
Al Ghussain
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- Industry: Internet, Recruiting, Career Planning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bloovo — BLOOVO is an innovative online recruitment platform, which adopts algorithms in the recruitment process, offering unique recruitment solutions in an interactive manner to both employers and job seekers in the Gulf region. BLOOVO aims to eliminate the job-mismatch hurdles through the introduction of insightful algorithm-based features and theprovision of enhanced and more affordable services.
Fahir Han
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- Industry: Internet, Consulting, Recruiting
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SmartCV — SmartCV provides innovative technology in the recruitment sector so that rightful candidate can be selected.
Oren Rosenbach - Partner @ Swarth Group
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- Industry: Solar, Robotics, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $13M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ecoppia — World leader in fully automated robotic solar cleaning for utility-scale solar PV sites featuring award-winning technology for improved O&M & energy output | Ecoppia
- Perfect — Where the future of recruitment happens - intelligent, fast, and precise.
- Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.
Tomer Pomerantz
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- Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $13M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perfect — Where the future of recruitment happens - intelligent, fast, and precise.
- Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.
Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Oliv — Oliv.com is a career marketplace based in Dubai, made for the youth of the Middle East. We connect students and graduates to employers for internships, part-time & graduate jobs. Launched in 2013, we set out to tackle a huge problem - a 30% youth unemployment rate in the MENA region. Oliv helps university students and graduates launch theircareers. And we're pretty good at it.Today, Oliv is home to thousands of students and graduates where their ambitions are aligned to opportunity. More than 1,000 businesses from startups to Fortune 500s use Oliv to hire top emerging talent to maintain a healthy talent pipeline and grow their business for the future.Our goal is to make launching careers simple, personal and rewarding. That's Oliv.
- The Applied AI Company (AAICO) — AAICO is a leading AI technology company with a team of renowned Silicon Valley-based engineers, applied AI experts, and seasoned entrepreneurs.
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