Top 20 Social Angel Investors in Middle East (November 2026)

Rami Lipman is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 7
Round size: Seed $750k–$8M; Series A $2.5M–$5.2M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Matics Manufacturing Analytics Ltd. — Matics real-time manufacturing analytics provides a digital toolbox for factories' production floor management and dramatically increases the production efficiency.
Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...

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Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.

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 — Premium domains add authority to your site. Transparent pricing. 1 year WHOIS privacy included. 30-day money back guarantee.

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Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

Total investments: 1191
Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

FellowMe — FellowMe is the APP for the people to follow their passions while they are connecting with other people in a simple way. Coming soon...
UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
Primelocation care givers foundation — Primelocation care givers foundation is the promoter and sponsor of an 80-bed secondary..

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Enabling to democratize the education with bringing the miracles of technology, I am helping the sponsors of tomorrow to utilize their knowledge on their way to become more innovative and entrepreneurial than ever before. Also, I am a firm believer of equal opportunity principle in regards to education and since the very first days of DopingTechnology my work has proven to create opportunities for the next generations.

Investment focus

Industry: Toys, Gaming, PC Games
Stage:Seed
Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Gamester — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!
Tiny Minies — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!
Gamester Kids — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!

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Ali Karakuş is based out of Istanbul and is the Co-Founder of Doping Hafıza. Ali attended Atlantic International University.

Investment focus

Industry: Toys, Gaming, PC Games
Stage:Seed
Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Gamester — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!
Tiny Minies — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!
Gamester Kids — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!

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I am a business professional since 2008 and a financial investor since 2015, having strategic positions in several scale-up tech companies/startups and real-estate assets. I continue to invest in the tech domain with a focus on SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C markets, and real estate options in developing markets with ROI targets.Grow inEMEA, the company I started in 2015, focuses on East Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East markets mostly for tech and real estate options and portfolio management. Also, my team provides market access services to Baltics, Turkey, and UAE / Saudi and gives investment advisory services.Prior to the investment focus, I worked in Linkedin EMEA Headquarter where I hold Director of Turkish Speaking Territory in Dublin, Ireland. Before, I have been with SAP AG and IBM in Turkey. I also give speeches at local and global investment events. I gave keynotes on ARAB NET in Lebanon, IT Arena in Ukraine, Rise Up Summit in Egypt, and NEXT in Germany. I also spoke at several closed corporate events of Roche, VESTEL, SAP AG, DenizBank, Turkish Economy Ministry, Turkish Exporters Assembly, Bakioğlu Holding, and AGT.Now, I am living in Tallinn, Estonia.Email: alib@growinemea.com Web: https://alibabaoglan.com Photos: https://gie.investments/my-photos

Investment focus

Industry: Mobile Apps, TV, CRM
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations. Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

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Business entrepreneur and investor in startups. For the past 20 years developer of new initiatives and ideas. CEO, Chairman of companies, political strategist and advertising expert. Lead public opinion campaigns for people and issues from breast cancer, to national elections to the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Founding Partner at mybulb.vc Owner of the Gaon Holding Group; Executive Director in the group's companies, focusing on development and marketing products and services for the global Water Smart Grid. Member of the AquaAgro Fund Investment committee, a 50 Million dollar Israeli Venture Capital Fund, focused only on developing innovative water and agriculture technologies, as well as other innovative clean technologies.

Investment focus

Industry: Advertising, Assistive Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

Apester — Supercharge your marketing and funnel with interactive content experiences that generate more leads, engage and convert users, and boost retention
Yoocan — Yoocan is a global community for people with disabilities and their families, discover empowering stories, find support, and connect with a world that understands you.
IndieFlow — IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. The platform provides a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage creative projects, distribute to streaming platforms, collect roylaties, register music with royaltycollection societies, promote music, book gigs, receive payments and more.

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Yossi Matias is Vice President, Google, and the Head of Google Research. Under Yossi’s leadership, world-class global teams are leading breakthrough research on Foundational Machine Learning & Algorithms, Computing Systems & Quantum Computing, Science, AI for Societal Impact in Health, Climate, Education and Socio-technical research, andfoundational advancements in Generative AI - shaping the future of technology and driving and accelerating the magic cycle between research and real-world impact.Recent research breakthroughs include speculative decoding, generative UI, genAI factuality, AI Co-Scientist, Earth AI, Quantum Echo algorithm, DeepSomatic, MedGemma, Flood Forecasting, FireSat, LearnLM.Yossi was previously on Google Search leadership for over a decade, driving strategic features and technologies, and pioneered Conversational AI innovations to help transform the phone experience and help remove barriers of modality and languages. He was also the founding lead of Google center in Israel and supported other global sites. During his tenure at Google Yossi founded and spearheaded initiatives such as Google's AI for Social Good, Crisis Resilience, Google for Startups Accelerator, social and cultural initiatives seeding Google Arts & Culture, and programs fostering startups, sustainability, and AI literacy for youth.Prior to Google Yossi was on the Computer Science faculty at Tel Aviv University, a visiting professor at Stanford, and a Research Scientist at Bell Labs. He’s published over 200 papers and is the inventor of over 80 patents. He pioneered some of the early technologies for internet privacy, contextual search, and the effective analysis of Big Data. He is a recipient of the Gödel Prize, an ACM Fellow, and a recipient of the ACM Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for seminal work on streaming algorithms, data sketches, and large-scale data analyticsYossi has a track record of impact-driven breakthrough research and innovation, and extensive product leadership, transforming products and advancing AI to help address global challenges.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Generative AI, Music
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Seed $750k–$8M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Enso — Go-to-market with enso in places only agents can find demand. We deploy AI agents across the channels your buyers use to growth hack your way to customers.
Leo AI — Leo AI is the AI agentic engineer for mechanical engineering teams. It reviews designs, finds parts, generates CAD assemblies by leveraging industry standards and your PLM and organizational knowledge.
Terra Security — Don't lose sleep over pen testing; our expert testers will ensure your systems are secure during the test while focusing their time on the most important assets.

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N.Mert Kalkavan is a CEO @ Doping Hafıza.

Investment focus

Industry: Toys, Gaming, PC Games
Stage:Seed
Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Gamester — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!
Tiny Minies — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!
Gamester Kids — Everything little minds need: 1,000+ games, videos and books for ages 2-6. Ad-free, safe, loved by 5M+ families. Download free!

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Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen grew up across Africa, from Angola and Guinea-Bissau to Tanzania and Libya, after his family fled the Angolan Civil War as refugees. Those early experiences instilled in him a belief that education, technology, and social innovation can transform lives and continue to anchor his career and philanthropic activities to this day.Today, Lars is a General Partner at Owl Ventures ($2.2 billion AUM), the world’s leading venture capital firm focused exclusively on education technology. He leads Owl’s expansion across Europe, Africa, and global markets, backing founders who harness AI and breakthrough technologies to make learning more accessible and impactful.Before joining Owl, Lars co-founded 2xN, an early-stage fund at the frontier of deeptech and quantum innovation, with standout investments including Quantinuum (valued above $10 billion), Oxford Ionics (acquired by IonQ in a $1 billion deal), QSimulate, and Sparrow Quantum. Prior to that, he was a General Partner at Balderton Capital in London during which time the firm led the Seed and Series A rounds in Revolut. His investments also span education (Labster, uLesson, StudySmarter, Kukua), mobility (Yassir, Voi, Monta, NoTraffic), and mobile and frontier tech (Hiya, Monarch Money, Rahko, Pocket, Colossal, Celus, Octant Bio, Vivino, OpenSea, Blue Bottle Coffee).Lars previously spent a decade in Silicon Valley, shaping some of tech’s most iconic growth stories. At Uber, he joined when it operated in fewer than 20 cities and, as Vice President, forged global alliances with Verizon and América Móvil that fueled its international expansion. Before Uber, as Head of Mobile at Dropbox, he was among the first 25 employees and helped the company reach its first 100 million users through partnerships with Samsung and other OEMs.Despite his career in technology and venture capital, Africa has never left Lars’s journey. After his father’s passing, he returned to Angola to trace his family’s history, discovering that his sister had died of malaria as a child. That revelation transformed a personal loss into a mission. A technologist turned humanitarian innovator, Lars filed a patent for genetically modified mosquitoes that light up when carrying malaria and began funding malaria-research projects in Angola through partnerships with global nonprofits. In 2024, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for malaria research, following earlier campaigns such as climbing the Matterhorn and crossing the Sahara by motorbike.A Danish-Portuguese national who served with the Royal Danish Guards, Lars holds an MBA from London Business School, where he was a member of the Board of Governors and Chairman of the Endowment Fund, an MSc from Oxford University (Keble College), and a BSc from King’s College London. Across every chapter, from refugee to technologist to investor, his purpose endures: advancing education, health, and innovation as catalysts for social change.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 69
Round size: Seed $1.8M–$10M; Series A $4M–$48M; Series B $9.6M–$163M
Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

Blue — An Operating System for your Personal Health. Join the waitlist here.
UrbanKisaan — UrbanKisaan builds vertical farms in India and sells the produce directly to consumers via subscription based app. The farms create a positive change at every step from seed to store ensuring quality and traceability. They grow fresh veggies locally produced which are grown without using soil using 95% less water. It aims to create a sustainablefuture for farming and feed the world in a way that is good for both people and the planet.It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Colossal Biosciences — The science of genetics. The business of discovery.

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Yanki Margalit, an Israeli entrepreneur, investor, and speaker, founded Aladdin Knowledge Systems in 1985, leading it to a successful NASDAQ IPO in 1993 and guiding the company until 2009. Since then, he has invested in and mentored numerous startups through Innodo Ventures and served as chairman of several technology companies, including SpaceIL, the non-profit competing in the Google Lunar X Prize. In 2025, he launched Caura.ai, a startup pioneering memory and emotion in AI.

Investment focus

Industry: Mobile, B2B, iOS
Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 7
Round size: Seed $100k–$2.3M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

iAngels — iAngels is a women-led venture capital firm and one of Israel's most active and recognized investors. Combining a deep, proprietary due-diligence process alongside best-in-class reporting, iAngels provides a window into Israel's extremely rich startup world and has a proven ability to generate and deliver superior VC returns. iAngels believes in going beyond and backs those who do, partnering with some of the highest-caliber entrepreneurs in the nation.
Drippler — Drippler is a personalized tech assistant, helping people make the most of their technology
Digital Layers — An intuitive, social music platform enabling music lovers at any level of expertise to take part in music creation using a multi-track format.discover, create, remix, collaborate & play music with studio like sound. Based on the principals of the open source concept, harnessing the wisdom of the crowd to ignite the first real open musicarena.

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