Top 50 Retail Angel Investors in Middle East (October 2026)
For AI agents: Short investor table (Markdown), Detailed investor list (Markdown)
| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Ronan Bardet
Angel
|
2 | Spain, Israel | Angel, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Classifieds | $73k–$178k |
|
Firat Isbecer
Angel
|
2 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $20k–$3.8M |
|
Tarkan Ersubaşı
Angel
|
2 | Turkey | Seed, Convertible Note | Retail, Internet, Analytics | |
|
Ali Demir Akel
Angel
|
2 | Turkey | Convertible Note, Seed, Series A | Retail, Analytics, 3D Printing | |
|
Jonathan Doerr
Angel
|
2 | United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, VoIP, Credit | |
|
Hosam Arab
Angel
|
2 | United Arab Emirates, Canada | Seed, Series A, Debt Financing | B2B, FinTech, Software | |
|
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
|
2 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $100k–$2.7M |
|
Tushar Ahluwalia
Angel
|
2 | Germany, Mexico, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Retail, InsurTech, Insurance | $3.4M–$50M |
|
Yair Gamliel
Angel
|
2 | Israel | Pre-Seed | Retail, E-Commerce, Retail Technology | |
|
Ahmed Faruk Karslı
Angel
|
2 | Turkey, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | E-Commerce, Art, Retail | $461k–$4M |
|
Ömer Aras
Angel
|
2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Retail, Biopharma, Marketing | $280k–$4M |
|
Eilon Tirosh
Angel
|
1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Series C | Apps, FinTech, Payments | $750k–$4M |
|
Sina Afra
Angel
|
1 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet | $100k–$11M |
|
Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel
|
1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Retail, Soccer, Sports | $80k–$1.1M |
|
Onder Oztarhan
Angel
|
1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Pet, SaaS | $135k–$150k |
|
Oskar Hartmann
Angel
|
1 | Germany, India, Russian Federation | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive | $125k–$52M |
|
Karim Kawar
Angel
|
1 | Jordan | Seed | Retail, Fashion, Shopping | |
|
Ron Zuckerman
Angel
|
1 | Israel, United States, China | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, Video, Apps | $500k–$8M |
|
Yılmaz Yıldız
Angel
|
1 | Turkey | Seed | Procurement, Retail, E-Commerce | $64k–$1.5M |
|
Mohammed Shaikley
Angel
|
1 | Iraq | Seed | Retail, Internet, Shopping | |
|
Salman Butt
Angel
|
1 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS | $1M–$4M |
|
Alpay Berk Caglayan
Angel
|
1 | Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom | Private Equity, Pre-Seed | Advertising, Digital Marketing, Art | $250k–$2.2M |
|
Sercan Isik
Angel
|
1 | Turkey | Seed | Retail, Electronics, Procurement | |
|
Nour Sabri
Angel
|
1 | Iraq | Seed, Convertible Note | Retail, Internet, Shopping | |
|
Yuval Tal
Angel
|
1 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Payments, Financial Services | $1.5M–$26M |
|
Onur Gargılı
Angel
|
1 | Turkey | Seed | Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce | |
|
Robert Kay
Angel
|
1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | SaaS, Retail, Software | |
|
Elad Kushnir
Angel
|
1 | Israel, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Gaming, Software, Travel | $1M–$35M |
|
Yaser Alghamdi
Angel
|
1 | Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Finance, Information Technology | $215k–$3M |
|
Emre Kenci
Angel
|
1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Art, Retail, Security | |
|
Lord David Alliance
Angel
|
1 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Angel | SaaS, Software, Human Resources | $4.4M–$16M |
|
Bassam Falah
Angel
|
1 | Iraq | Seed, Convertible Note | Retail, Internet, Shopping | |
|
Cem Topcuoglu
Angel
|
1 | Turkey | Seed | SaaS, Retail, Software | $450k–$1.5M |
|
Ebru Dorman
Angel
|
1 | Turkey, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Apps | $100k–$1.2M |
|
Ariel Maislos
Angel
|
1 | Israel, United States, Uruguay | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$19M |
|
Mishaal Alireza
Angel
|
1 | United Arab Emirates, United States | Series A, Seed | iOS, Apps, Video | $1M–$2M |
|
İzzet Zakuto
Angel
|
1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Music, AgTech | $350k–$1.5M |
|
Kerem Danish
Angel
|
1 | Iraq | Seed | Retail, Internet, Shopping | |
|
Dany Farha
Angel
|
1 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services | $4M–$42M |
|
Mohammad Jaber
Angel
|
1 | Jordan | Seed | Retail, E-Commerce | |
|
Eyal Lavin
Angel
|
1 | Israel | Pre-Seed | Retail, E-Commerce, Retail Technology | |
|
Bradley Lafond
Angel
|
1 | Israel | Pre-Seed | Retail, E-Commerce, Retail Technology | |
|
Rayya Al Zubaydi
Angel
|
1 | Iraq | Seed, Convertible Note | Retail, Internet, Shopping | |
|
Caglar Erol
Angel
|
1 | Jordan, Turkey | Seed, Angel | Retail, Travel, Fashion | |
|
Ata Uzunhasan
Angel
|
1 | Turkey, Italy, Poland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Baby | |
|
Uygar Mesudiyeli
Angel
|
1 | Turkey | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | Wedding, Software, E-Commerce | |
|
Şafak Müderrisgil
Angel
|
1 | Turkey | Seed | Retail, FinTech, Leasing | |
|
Amar Shubar
Angel
|
1 | Iraq | Seed, Convertible Note | Retail, Internet, Shopping | |
|
Ariel Umi
Angel
|
1 | Israel | Pre-Seed | Retail, E-Commerce, Retail Technology | |
|
Aras Bulut İynemli
Angel
|
1 | Turkey | Seed | Retail, Recycling, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods | |
| Access all 50 angel investors in Middle East Retail startups. | |||||
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Investor list
Ronan Bardet is the founder and CEO of EGI GROUP.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Classifieds
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Spain, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Angel $73k–$178k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Heygo — Explore places to visit within the UK and around the world on Rest Less. Get inspired and plan trips to holiday destinations with us.
- Tu&Co — Tu&Co is an Ecommerce for the purchase of household products and guides for its assembly.
- TNG Shopper — TNG Shopper. Accelerating the Next Generation of Retail. A hybrid retail web platform where physical and digital retail merge. Hybrid Commerce - Hybrid Retail
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.8M; Angel $20k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$450k
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- Paket Mutfak — Paket Mutfak develops delivery-focused food brands and operates them from its ghost kitchens. They create restaurant brands for takeaway and serve good food all over the city with their cloud kitchens. The company allows consumers to use online digital channels to reinvent the local meal delivery experience.
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Tarkan Ersubaşı is the Founder of Speechouse. He previously worked at ITD Turkey as a Chief Technology Officer. Tarkan Ersubaşı attended Ege University.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Internet, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vispera — Drive your retail execution to perfection with Vispera image recognition technologies and intelligent retail solutions.
- Clickme Live — Clickme Live is a video-oriented shopping platform that sells products to consumer with live broadcasts, short videos, and commercials.
Ali Demir Akel
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Analytics, 3D Printing
- Stage:Convertible Note, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zaxe — Discover the Unique FDM 3D Printing Experience. Zaxe 3D Printers Provides Easy to Use with xDestop Slicer Software. Get Advantage in Additive Manufacturing with Zaxe Filaments
- Vispera — Drive your retail execution to perfection with Vispera image recognition technologies and intelligent retail solutions.
Jonathan Doerr is based out of Dubai, Dubai and is the Founder of Smileneo. Jonathan previously worked at Daraz as a Co-Founder & Co-CEO. Jonathan Doerr attended Baruch College.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: SaaS, VoIP, Credit
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Opontia — Opontia was founded by e-commerce experts, to provide a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.
- HelloCurve — Curve is an AI-powered Voice and Customer Intelligence Platform for Modern Sales & Support teams. Curve provides you with a business phone and call center quality technology through the cloud. We are reimagining CX through with our integrated Voice and Customer Intelligence Platform. With Curve, you can conduct customer conversationseffortlessly and extract deep insights with speech to text transcription, sentiment analysis, conversation auto-tagging, and seamless CRM integrations. Managers can elevate QA, pinpoint training opportunities, identify customer trends, and improve team collaboration.
- Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Hosam Arab is based out of Dubai, Dubai and is the CEO and Co-founder of Tabby. Hosam previously worked at Namshi.com as a CEO. Hosam Arab attended Harvard Business School.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: B2B, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
- Opontia — Opontia was founded by e-commerce experts, to provide a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.
- Pluto — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $233k–$2.7M; Angel $100k–$800k
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
- Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
- ya da multicosmetics — ya da multicosmetics is a cosmetics brand and aims to accelerate its R&D efforts, support its growth.
Tushar Ahluwalia is based out of Germany and is the CEO and Co-Founder of GeneralMind. Tushar previously worked at Razor Group as a Co-CEO and Co-Founder. Tushar Ahluwalia attended London Business School.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, InsurTech, Insurance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Mexico, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $6M–$50M; Pre-Seed $3.4M–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
- Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
- Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
Yair Gamliel
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TNG Shopper — TNG Shopper. Accelerating the Next Generation of Retail. A hybrid retail web platform where physical and digital retail merge. Hybrid Commerce - Hybrid Retail
Ahmed Karslı is the chairman of the board at Papara.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Art, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $461k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
- Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
- Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Ömer Aras
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Biopharma, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $280k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LIVAD Technologies — LIVAD develops cutting-edge live stream monetization products connecting brands with streamers. Our technology enables brands to reach their target audience authentically at scale while allowing streamers of all sizes to monetize their content consistently.
- Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
- PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech pioneers the integration of DNA & RNA sequencing data with AI for rare disease diagnostics. We offer the first RNA-based diagnostic support tool.
Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Apps, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $750k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- zooz — Manage and optimize multiple payment providers through a single platform.
- Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
- Thumzap — Thumzap reconnects people in the digital world by making the process of paying for someone else's purchases simple, fun and safe.Sometimes we need or just want someone else to pay for our purchases, either because we don't have a credit card or enough money, or because we're just not that tech-savvy and need some help.Thumzapmakes it easy to send friends and family a request to pay for us. All they have to do is approve the payment and they can pay with their own credit card or paypal account, in just one click. Not only does that make it completely safe and secure, but also familiar. No one has to share a password, set up a digital wallet, or input their credit card information, it’s a simple way to help fulfill a digital request.
Sina Afra is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting technology-driven companies.He is best known as the founder of Markafoni, one of Turkey’s first large-scale digital commerce companies and a defining success of the country’s early internet economy. In 2011, Naspers Groupacquired a majority stake in Markafoni in one of the landmark transactions of the Turkish internet sector.Over the course of his career, Sina has founded more than 20 companies, completed 12 exits, and angel-invested in over 60 early-stage startups across Europe, Africa, and the United States.He is a Founding Partner at Founder One, an impact venture capital fund, and the Founder and Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Foundation (Girişimcilik Vakfı), which focuses on developing entrepreneurial talent and strengthening the long-term infrastructure of the startup ecosystem in Turkey.Earlier in his career, Sina worked at KPMG and held leadership roles at eBay, where he gained first-hand experience in operating and scaling global internet platforms.His work has been recognized with more than 20 international awards and honors, including being named Internet Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Angel of the Year, and Forbes’ Brightest Minds Alive in Turkey, with features in Wired and Forbes.Sina holds a degree from the University of Münster and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages and is actively engaged in the European and Turkish technology and venture ecosystems.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $150k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Odeal — Oedeal is a developer of an app designed for companies to take payments via mobile. With the help of the company's platform, shops can do away with cash registers and accept payments from customers using tablets, smartphones, or point-of-sale devices, allowing them to finish their purchases right away. Making it simpler for all entrepreneursto access financial services is central to their mission of boosting the competitiveness of both enterprises and the nation.
- Faturalab — Faturalab is a mobile app that provides supply chain financing, payments, financial benefits, and capital management services.
- MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
Barbaros Serdar Özbugutu worked for FIRSTDATA, and later moved to KLARNA. In 2013, he officially launched Iyzico with his Co-Founder Tahsin Isin. Iyzico is transforming the payment processing experience for businesses through its bank-integrated, fraud-protected payment platform tailored to the nuances of the Turkish market.(https://www.iyzico.com/en)
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Soccer, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $80k–$430k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fuudy — Fuudy is a new Food ordering app
- Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- Swipeline Media — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
Onder Oztarhan
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Pet, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Angel $135k–$150k
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kito — Kito provides natural, fresh, and healthy food for both cats and dogs.
- nivo — Nivogo renews goods that couldn't pass to the consumption stage by putting them through a 6-step process and bring them to consumers.
- HIZLIÇEVİRİ — HIZLIÇEVİRİ is a professional translation platform that enables its users to get contracts, academic papers, technical specifications, and many other documents translated from professional and certified translators. The platform offers translation services for over 36 languages.HIZLIÇEVİRİ was launched in 2014 and is operated from Istanbul,Turkey.
Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, India, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $1M–$52M; Pre-Seed $125k–$200k; Series A $8.9M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
- Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
- MoonAI Inc — MoonAI enables businesses to deploy no-code AI agents—referred to as “AI salespersons”—within one day, with no installation cost. These agents automate lead qualification, escalate warm leads to managers, schedule meetings, and integrate with CRMs, messaging platforms.The solution operates 24/7, supports multiple languages (includingRussian, English, and informal Kazakh), and processes customer interactions in just seconds. It has helped companies double the volume of processed inquiries, reduce response times from minutes to seconds, and even autonomously close a portion of leads—all while reducing sales team workload and improving customer satisfaction.
Karim Kawar is the president of Kawar Group, and the former ambassador to the United States and Mexico from Jordan. He is also chairman of Kawar Energy and of IrisGuard. As ambassador to the United States, Kawar led the EDAMA Initiative, Jordan's blueprint for a green economy and was appointed by Royal Decree to the Board of Trustees of theKing Abdullah II Fund for Development. Previously, Kawar was appointed to the Economic Consultative Council by His Majesty King Abdullah II. He is the architect of the REACH Initiative, Jordan's blueprint for a knowledge economy, founder and chairman of the Information Technology Association of Jordan, former president of the Jordan Computer Society, and a founding member of several business associations and NGOs, including AmCham and the Jordan Intellectual Property Association.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Shopping
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MarkaVIP — Markavıp is an exclusive, invitation-only online shopping community focused on the Middle Eastern market. The website specializes in offering flash sales to its customers.Markavıp was founded by Ahmed Alkhatib, who previously spent 12 years in Silicon Valley working in the e-commerce industry. The website enjoys memberships from over 3 millionexclusive members across eight Arabic speaking countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Oman.
Ron Zuckerman is based out of Berlin, Berlin, and is the Advisory Council of Börse Stuttgart group. Ron previously worked at Attunity as a Board Member.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Internet, Video, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Israel, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Series A $1M–$8M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
- MedHub-AI — MedHub-AI develops deep-learning video analysis algorithms that provide accurate diagnostic insights and practical guidance for physicians. Users can incorporate its algorithm into medical video systems to improve the decision-making process for cardiologists and other physicians. Its technology uses multiple technological and big-data processingmethods designed to handle a massive amount of clinical data, both visual and textual. It designs its algorithms to improve physicians' performance and shorten procedure times by providing a multilayered automated system that is implemented from diagnosis to practical procedural guidance and documentation. It currently offers solutions for the cardiology and gastroenterology markets.
- Safeguard Applied Innovation — Safeguard Applied Innovation provides a mobile performance management platform for construction enterprises. It designs its solution to enable decision-making for successful project planning and execution, delivering effective control regardless of project complexity or national regulations.
Yılmaz Yıldız
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Procurement, Retail, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $64k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.
Mohammed is a seasoned investment executive with over two decades of experience in private equity, investment banking, M&A, and finance. He has led transactions and strategies across energy, infrastructure, industrials, real estate, technology, and other key sectors. As Chief Investment Officer of a UAE-based conglomerate, he oversees a globalportfolio spanning emerging and developed markets, where he designs and executes investment strategies for acquisitions, portfolio growth, and dispositions. Previously, Mohammed served as Senior Director of Investments and M&A at AMEA Power, a renewable energy company operating across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, where he helped scale the company into a leading regional renewable energy player. He spearheaded M&A, strategy, investment, and financing initiatives, and notably secured its first institutional equity raise from the SoftBank Group. Before AMEA Power, Mohammed was a founding member and Managing Director at Investbridge Capital, a DIFC-based private equity firm. He directed the group’s direct investments, driving growth in AUM, sector diversification, and overall scale. Earlier in his career, he held a range of roles in private equity and investment banking. Mohammed holds a Juris Doctor in Law and an MBA from Chapman University, as well as a BA in Political Science from the University of California. He also completed the Executive Program in Infrastructure & Project Finance at Harvard University.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Salman Butt - Co-Founder & Chief Expansion Officer @ Salla
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2M–$4M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
- Byzanlink — Byzanlink: Access Institutional Grade Yield On-chain Bridging TradFi and DeFi with RWA Tokenization for stable, institutional-grade yields
- MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
Alpay Berk Caglayan is the Founder & Executive Chairman of Inviox Studios. Alpay currently manages $6 million in assets. Alpay Berk Caglayan attended Yale University.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Advertising, Digital Marketing, Art
- Stage:Private Equity, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Private Equity $250k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zwiket — Zwiket is a multi-faceted brand start-up, blending marketing, design, and technology. Partnering with over 20 innovative brands globally, with bases in Växjö, Köln, Istanbul, and London.
- Wepress Media — Wepress is a full-service millennial-run marketing agency - offering inventive, results-driven solutions that harness the highest immediate return in digital + social media. With core services anchored around Social Media Management, Web Design & Development, Ad Management, Branding & Design and Email Marketing, we cut the fluff and bringprojects from plan to production with hands-off execution + results you can see. Specialties include creative production, go-to-market strategy and user acquisition.
- Joseph Shining — Joseph Shining is a Turkish-American multinational retailer of personal care and beauty products with nearly 10 brands, along with its own private label, Joseph's Collection, and includes beauty products such as cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, nail color, beauty tools, body lotions, and haircare.
Sercan Isik - CEO & Co-Founder @ Scorp
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Electronics, Procurement
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
Nour Sabri is based out of Dubai and is the Founder and CEO of BorrowMe. Nour previously worked at Finastra as a Lead Client Partner, Banking as a Service. Nour Sabri attended the University of Auckland.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
Yuval Tal has made quite a difference in the world of business online thanks to the creation of various e-commerce companies, many of which have successfully developed through his co-creation or his additional expertise. He has over 20 years of experience in technological startups, prepaid card applications, and security technology. CurrentWork Experience: Yuval Tal is the president of the NYC-based Payoneer, the private company he founded in 2005 an served as CEO during 2005-2010. Payoneer establishes viable solutions for payments in prepaid MasterCard® credit cards through the Internet via their prepaid Payoneer credit card. Instead of using typical banking services, Payoneer allows its members (including many online businesses) to sell products, but pay for their own supplies through an online service. Their technology system is secure, but assures privacy for its customers. The company is composed of over100 technology and finance expert employees. While based in NY, it also has research and development locations in Israel.Tal also provides consultation to Payments-r-us, a company started by four e-commerce experts who provide payment processing, merchandising and assorted payment solutions to their customers. The company helps their members find appropriate and free payments solutions.Past Work Experience: Before the creation of Payoneer, Tal was a co-founder for E4X Inc., technology and e-commerce payments provider worldwide. The company was established in 1999 but later changed its name to FiftyOne as it became a global market and e-commerce leader. The company allows its businesses to develop their online sales, marketing, delivery, stock, and transaction capabilities. Its current value is upwards of $500 million. Tal was the acting vice president as part of the business and development sector. FiftyOne is an innovative e-commerce solution because it's one of the pioneers of the e-commerce movement, allowing online retailers from the US to promote, market, and sell their merchandise using the monetary means of their native country. This is still significant today in terms of global money orders, payment processes and the international flow of goods from one point to the other. It's no wonder that market retailers like the Anthropologie clothing store, luxury and electronic gift store Brookstone, and Overstock.com have worked with the company. The company is based in New York, with its research and development operations unit in Israel.Tal also shined in leadership positions for companies such as R-U-Sure, where he was the chief executive officer, and vice president of business development at Radware, a publically traded company on NASDAQ.Summits and Conferences:Yuval Tal has participated in a plethora of affiliate, marketing, and digital-related conferences connected to his kind of work. At many of the conferences, he was featured as a speaker. The most recent conference was the impressive "Apps World," which was held in London in October 2012. The conference is noted to be the leading venue for those involved in the apps industry where they network and collaborate on international projects. He was a guest speaker at the conference and he explained the concept of Payoneer to the participants detailing how it fits into the newest e-wallet technologies. Through Payoneer, companies distribute branded cards that enable them to send direct payments into the recipient's account. He also shared his thoughts on the shape of the future mobile industry and responded to a series of general questions regarding the e-commerce industry.When he was invited to participate in a panel discussion at Israel's Afeka College, he had the opportunity to address many issues that were unclear to the attendees. Among others, the subjects ranged from discussions on the topic of Israel as a “hotbed” in the area of financial innovation, how web based financial start-ups differs from the more traditional start-ups on the web, as in social and media networks, and how the mobile will shape the future. He also dealt head-on with such questions as to the leaders in fintech space, the coming big trends that will take place in the financial tech space, how government and foreign regulations affect business and how to manage the pace of change without being snowed under. Since Tal works with clients at online affiliate networks as part of Payoneer, it's no surprise that the hi-tech head shared his knowledge and experience at both the 2009 and 2012 Affiliate Summit conferences. The Affiliate Summit established by Affiliate marketing experts is recognized as the most important event in affiliate marketing. The 2012 Affiliate Summit West Conference event was held last January in Las Vegas. The 2009 Affiliate Summit East Conference was held in New York. At that conference Tal spoke about his affiliate experience working with affiliate agents, heightening Payoneer's prowess in e-commerce, and establishing various payment methods through the company. Tal was a keynote speaker at two important e-commerce conferences in Israel. First, he spoke at the one-day Take Charge 2011 Digital Commerce Summit in September 2011, which offers innovative ecommerce concepts for digital companies, vendors and affiliates. He also spoke at the Track N' Pay Summit in Tel Aviv, which was hosted by Payoneer. This one-day conference is based on concepts in Internet and mobile affiliate tracking and payment services. For both conferences, Tal spoke on behalf of his veteran online, selling, affiliate marketing, and e-commerce work at Payoneer as related to the concepts of each conference. Personal Experience: Yuval Tal was born in August 1965 in Israel and still resides there in his home country in a suburb called Ramat HaSharon, located about 20 minutes from the country's central city Tel Aviv. It was in Tel Aviv where he received university education after serving in an elite unit in the Israeli Defense Forces. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Tel Aviv University in 1992. He went on to earn his Masters at Tel Aviv University where he studied biomedical engineering, minor in business administration.Tal has many hobbies outside the business and e-commerce realm. He likes photography and took five courses in it at the New School for General Studies and the Parsons School of Design, both in New York City. He has also been active in the Tel Aviv Nike Run, a 10 kilometer marathon throughout the city and has participated in a triathlon, which included running, biking, and swimming.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9M; Series A $4.5M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Humanz — Turn influencer marketing into a growth engine. Humanz is the AI-powered platform for creator advocacy & performance media. Get started now!
- Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
- ReturnGO — Easy-to-use self-service return management portal that allows customers to return and exchange products increases revenue and customer retention.
Onur Gargılı
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Clotie — Clotie offers a brand new shopping experience to its users by offering an online personal styling service. It creates a unique customer experience by combining technology with the personal touches of experienced stylists and sends monthly outfits suitable for its users’ style. Clotie primarily focuses on eliminating online and offline shoppingproblems by providing a personalized, plus accessible styling service for those who do not have time for shopping but still want to be stylish.
Robert Kay
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: SaaS, Retail, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zip24 — Innovating Logistics for a Smarter, Faster, Global Tomorrow Partnering with you to revolutionize logistics through intelligent solutions, delivering
Elad Kushnir
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Gaming, Software, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.4M; Series B $35M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Localbird — Explore unique experiences, on-demand services, rentals, you name it.
- Celery — Celery is an internal auditing and control platform, designed to automate critical and time-consuming processes and prevent costly mistakes.
- Mad Brain Games — Challenge your brain with this fun, free word scapes game!Solve puzzles to save the farm! Word Farm Adventure Game Save...
Yaser Alghamdi
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Pre-Seed $215k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EdfaPay — Build the future of payments with EdfaPay's comprehensive payment infrastructure solutions. We empower businesses of all sizes to create, deploy, and scale
- KalPay — KalPay is the largest Shariah Compliant Buy Now Pay Later in Pakistan, giving our customers easy access to credit and allowing them to purchase products in 3 monthly installments. We have a portfolio of hundreds of brands spread across multiple segments!
- ON Market — E-grocery marketplace allows customers to order from their favorite retailers while empowering retailers to build & sustain online commerce
Emre Kenci
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Art, Retail, Security
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- fucimo — Fucimo is a technology-driven two-way marketplace in media & advertising that aims to democratize the industry and make it accessible to all. Our journey is fueled by our commitment to provide innovative solutions that leverage technology to make marketers and media owners more accessible and empower them to partner more effectively. We areworking towards creating a world where the media advertising industry is truly inclusive and accessible to all, and where marketers and publishers have the necessary tools and support they need to succeed in an efficient and effective manner.At fucimo, we believe that technology can help build meaningful relationships and nurture a supportive community through trust, kindness, and care. We take ownership of our work, holding ourselves accountable for the success of fucimo and our users, and we strive to make a positive impact on the industry as a whole.Join us in our mission to shape the future of media advertising, using the power of technology to build a better, more inclusive industry for everyone.
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
- Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!David Alliance, Lord of Manchester, is an angel investor. He served as the Non-Executive Chairman of Brown Group for over forty years.Lord. David Alliance, CBE (Lord Alliance of Manchester) served as the Non-Executive Chairman of N Brown Group plc from 1968 to September 1, 2012. Lord Alliance served as the Chairman of Coats Viyella Plc. Lord.Alliance has been a Non Executive Director of N Brown Group plc since 1968. He is a Director of a number of private companies and was appointed a life peer in 2004.Lord Alliance serves on a number of committees including the Prince’s Youth Business Trust, Council for Industry and Higher Education, and the University of Manchester Foundation, and the Wiseman Institute. He is senior trustee of the Next Century Foundation. He has a number of fellowships including Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce; Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute; and Hon. Fellow of the Shenkar College of Textile Technology and Fashion. Lord Alliance holds a Doctorate of Science at Heriot-Watt University and Legum Doctor (Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa) from the University of Manchester. He is an Honorary Fellow of UMIST.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: SaaS, Software, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $4.4M–$16M; Series A $5M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hexa — Hexa is the world's first Immersive OS. The most powerful 3D tech stack to create, manage, display and analyze your 3D projects. Hexa's customers (Macy's, Logitech, Crate & Barrel, Unity), use their technology to lower visualization costs, increase sales, improve customer acquisition cost and globally display/distributetheir immersive content.
- OneDome — Find, buy or sell property in one place with OneDome. Property search, mortgages, conveyancing and estate agents, we cover every step of the property journey.
- Uptime — The AI capability platform for enterprise teams: five-minute sessions from named experts, in Microsoft Teams, Slack and the Uptime app. 30,000+ expert resources.
Bassam Falah is a Founder and Managing Partner of Innovest Middle East VC.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
- Alsaree3 — Alsaree3 offers a point of sale (POS) and hardware technologies to help restaurants handle their own orders while providing fast-delivery services for their end-users.
Cem Topcuoglu
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: SaaS, Retail, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $450k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kolay — Kolay is a SaaS platform that combines employee engagement with core HR needs. We are helping HR professionals to streamline their day to day tasks with an easy to use and smart platform.
- Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
Ebru Dorman
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Health Care, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $100k–$480k; Pre-Seed $500k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Refabric — Discover the Power of AI in Fashion Design #fashionai #aifashiondesign #refabric
- Genz Biotech — Genz is a biotech research & development company, developing novel diagnostic solutions for complex diseases, like cancer, coronavirus pandemic. Genz provides solutions for medical centers and/or end-users in cooperation with genetic disease and diagnostic centers. To date, Genz received 4 R&D grants and approval by Turkish Ministryof Health for 3 genetic tests.
- Thread In Motion — Looking for wearables to digitize your operations? Hands-free and ergonomic new generation smart gloves are here to help you reduce cost and risks.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$3M; Series A $5M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GeoX — GeoX is an Aerial Imagery AI analytics company. We produce geospatial Property Data which is used for Underwriting & Claims in the US and European insurance industries. GeoX unique proposition is in 3-dimensional extraction technology which provides rich information about every property. GeoX also produces 3D building datasets from aerialimagery for complete geographies using automated processes. 3D building models are digital representations of the properties, and in conjunction with aerial imagery allows every staff member in any insurance discipline to see the property visualization, and get a good understanding of the structure, its dimensions and characteristics without visiting in the site. GeoX uses propriatetary and Patented technology for the 3D extraction.domains: Insurtech, Smart cities
- Parter — Where engineering, sourcing, and AI work as one. Parter keeps every BOM cost-optimized, disruption-free and fully sourced, from design to production.
- BeWith.io (Superc AI) — Connect residents and foster engagement with a centralized community calendar that brings all city events into one easy-to-access platform
Mishaal Alireza - Board Member @ DokkanAfkar
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: iOS, Apps, Video
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $1M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hang w/ — We leverage our 13 years of experience and innovative design practices to help our top-tier clients achieve success.
- Clip the Deal — Save money on grocery brands in UAE with Clip the Deal. Find discount deals, reviews of grocery items of top brands. Download the free app and start saving.
- Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
İzzet Zakuto
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Apps, Music, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $350k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
- Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
- WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
Kerem Danish
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
Dany is a successful serial entrepreneur and investor, with many exits from ventures in a variety of industries. Dany co-founded and exited Bayt.com, the Middle East’s largest job site; Butlers, the UAE’s largest commercial laundry company and Intercat, one of the largest catering companies in the UAE. Dany was a seed investor in Gonabit, a MiddleEast focused daily deal website that was acquired by Living Social in 2011. He currently sits on the boards of 3 portfolio companies.Dany is the first to acknowledge that he wouldn’t have accomplished all these things without the support of the investors and mentors that gave him his start. It is this belief that serves as the impetus behind BECO. Like those that boosted him when he needed it, Dany aspires to serve the next wave of entrepreneurs, so that they too can fulfil their potential and pass along the same spirit of generosity to those that follow in their footsteps.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $4M–$9.5M; Series A $4M–$19M; Series B $13M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoNabit — Group-buying platforms emerged as a game-changer by offering consumers a chance to access bulk discounts through collective purchasing power.
- JadoPado — JadoPado is a marketplace where people around the world come together to buy and sell great stuff!JadoPado lets you sell new, used and refurbished products directly to buyers. Sellers handle their own stores including products, offers, orders and fulfilment, while making sure everything looks great!JadoPado gives buyers incredible choiceacross a wide range of categories and an easy to use, secure experience. JadoPado handles payments on behalf of sellers and pays them out after you’ve received your purchase.
- BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
Mohammad Jaber is based out of Riyadh, Ar Riyad and is the Co-Founder and CEO of TABsense. Mohammad previously worked at Mawdoo3 as a Co-Founder, COO, and CTO. Mohammad Jaber attended Hashemite University. Mohammad Jaber has been awarded the King Abdullah II Royal Medal for Excellence and EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Faylasof — Because the storage space is limited in the traditional bookstores, and it is always under pressure to advertise only the best-selling books. And for the special needs of readers Faylasof has brought the solution to this troubled approach to current technology, only very little space to store large amounts of data and be able to quickly find thebooks they need, of course, books can provide readers with a variety of consulting needs.Faylasof is one of the largest advisor books online bookstore in the Middle east. That allows ordinary users to conveniently easy find books, offering more than 1 million titles of Arabic and English books with home delivery and customized payment methods .Faylasof Mission: provide people with what is needed to read more in a very technical and professional way, inspire them with EducationFaylasof Vision: Create a generation of Readers by building an international strategy to become the best books providers nationally, and internationally
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Empowering visionary entrepreneurs. I guide tech entrepreneurs in pivotal high-stakes financial transactions for over 25 years, driving several fund raising and M&A operations in Israel, France and the US. I leverage my experience as a late cofounder and executive, from pre series A to post IPO, to ensure my clients get the best deal possibleand are ready for success in the post deal life.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Shopper — TNG Shopper. Accelerating the Next Generation of Retail. A hybrid retail web platform where physical and digital retail merge. Hybrid Commerce - Hybrid Retail
Bradley Lafond
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Shopper — TNG Shopper. Accelerating the Next Generation of Retail. A hybrid retail web platform where physical and digital retail merge. Hybrid Commerce - Hybrid Retail
Rayya Al Zubaydi
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
Caglar Erol is the co-founder of cember.net, a Turkish online business networking platform acquired by XING AG in January 2008.Erol is an angel investor and serial entrepreneur in Turkey. His first investment after cember.net was doktorsitesi.com, a health site in Turkey. He also invested in Tasit.com, Gelirortaklari affiliate network, andCivicSolar.Erol currently serves as the co-founder and CEO of Enuygun.com, a service comparison site on bank loans, insurance, flight tickets, ADSL, and mobile phone tariffs.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Travel, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Jordan, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MarkaVIP — Markavıp is an exclusive, invitation-only online shopping community focused on the Middle Eastern market. The website specializes in offering flash sales to its customers.Markavıp was founded by Ahmed Alkhatib, who previously spent 12 years in Silicon Valley working in the e-commerce industry. The website enjoys memberships from over 3 millionexclusive members across eight Arabic speaking countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Oman.
- Wingie Enuygun Group — Wingie Enuygun Group is a technology company helping modern consumers save time and money, mostly in travel, but in insurance and financial products too. Located in Istanbul and Berlin, WEG currently serves customers in 6 languages, 10 countries.
Ata Uzunhasan - Managing Director @ Galata Business Angels
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Baby
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Italy, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Juphy — Juphy offers communication platform.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Replenit — Boost retention with smart replenishment & AI-driven repurchases. Automate repeat purchases and grow your store with Replenit.
Uygar Mesudiyeli is the Founder and Managing Partner of PragmaTech. He previously worked at Beylerbeyi UK Ltd. as a Co-Founder. Uygar Mesudiyeli attended the University of London.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Wedding, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- artlabs — Fast and Scalable 3D Generation with AI | 3D Asset Interoperability | Hyper-Realistic Augmented Reality and Virtual Try-On Experiences
- Weddingbouquet.com — DüğünBuketi is a web and special event organization portal that brings wedding firms together to get price quotes. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Izmir, Turkey.
- KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.
Şafak Müderrisgil is the Co-founder and Chair of Executive Committee at Etkiyap (Impact Investing Turkey). She attended University of Oxford.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, FinTech, Leasing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Fintegre — Affordibility Solutions Platform for Retailers. Fintegre operates in many verticals from Consumer financing solutions to Trade-in programs
- Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
- WorqCompany — WorqCompany provides services to businesses and entrepreneurs with technology and sharing economy support in these components. WorqCompany is positioned as a new generation.
Amar Shubar is a partner at Management Partners Consulting.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Internet, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Iraq
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
Ariel Umi
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Shopper — TNG Shopper. Accelerating the Next Generation of Retail. A hybrid retail web platform where physical and digital retail merge. Hybrid Commerce - Hybrid Retail
Aras Bulut İynemli is a Turkish actor.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Recycling, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nivo — Nivogo renews goods that couldn't pass to the consumption stage by putting them through a 6-step process and bring them to consumers.
FAQ
Is Shizune data fresh/accurate?
Shizune has monitored hundreds of funding sources since 2020.
Our investor database is updated every day, so investor data is always fresh.
All metrics are calculated from confirmed public rounds, so the data is accurate.
Can I download investor list?
To download the Retail Angel Investors in Middle East investor list, create a Shizune account. This investor list will be added to your saved investors and available for download in the export section.
You can also enrich the investor list with investor emails, phones, LinkedIns, and other contact data.
Can I access investor database?
To access all 48,091 angel investors investing in Middle East Retail startups and 48,091+ more investors, create a Shizune account.
Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.
The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.
You can enrich with email and download the data.
Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?
Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.
To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.
To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.
You can enrich your investor list with Shizune. Download it too.
What is Shizune?
Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.
With Shizune you can:
- browse the database
- use smart matching
- enrich with emails
- download
All you need to find investors for your startup.
Who is Shizune for?
Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.
If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.
Is Shizune free?
Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.
Email search and export are paid features.
For full info, visit our pricing.
Who built Shizune?
Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.
Contact 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!