Top 45 Social Startup Investors in Middle East in April 2025

Investor	Social Middle East investments
lool ventures	4
Rami Lipman	3
Bloomberg Beta	2
North First Ventures	2
JOINT JOURNEY	2
Eilon Tirosh	2
iRobot	2
Maniv Mobility	2
Next Gear Ventures	2
Terra Venture Partners	2
Glory Ventures	1
Sherpa InnoVentures	1
Yossi Matias	1
Sensei	1
Kanga Exchange	1
BTS LABS	1
Samsung NEXT	1
Beltone Venture Capital	1
Index Ventures	1
Vektor Partners	1
Mirai Creation Fund	1
Sente Ventures	1
Conservation International Ventures	1
Sarya Holdings	1
Moshe Gaon	1
BECO Capital	1
Carl Kidd	1
Plus Venture Capital	1
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	1
Paul Sherry	1
Oxbull	1
OurCrowd	1
Spicy Capital	1
DeepMinds	1
Vision Ventures	1
Toyota Ventures	1
Grove Ventures	1
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen	1
Woven Capital	1
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	1
Falak Startups	1
Alex Zubillaga	1
MoonEdge	1
Equinox	1
Western Technology Investment	1

lool is a Tel-Aviv based venture capital fund focused on seed and pre-seed investments

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Dono — Supercharge your title production with Dono. The AI platform that ensures speed and efficient scale without compromising accuracy or consistency.
Eleos Health — Automate documentation, alleviate provider burnout, and elevate care quality with the CareOps Automation platform from Eleos Health.
ControlMonkey — ControlMonkey is the only fully end-to-end Terraform Automation Platform.From AI-powered code generation to best-in-class automations, we give cloud teams a powerful, unified way to visualize, spin-up, automate and govern cloud infrastructure end-to-end, at any scale, for any future.

Rami Lipman is an angel investor.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

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...

Bloomberg Beta is an early-stage venture capital firm with $375M under management, capitalized solely by Bloomberg. The fund exists to expand Bloomberg’s horizons by investing in companies built by extraordinary founders that make business work better, with a focus on machine intelligence.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Trayd — The all-in-one construction back office platform
Savant Labs — The all-in-one low-code, no-code automation platform for data access, data prep, data blending, analytics and automated delivery of insights to 100's of destination apps.
Anagram — Anagram offers AI-driven phishing simulations and interactive, personalized training that engages and educates staff members, going beyond conventional techniques like antiquated movies and quizzes to give a human-driven security platform that produces tangible results.

North First Ventures is a Venture Capital Fund, partnering with seed to round A stage companies in Israel that harness innovative technologies, solve real-world problems within large existing markets or create new markets.

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Gaviti — Gaviti is a receivable management solution that empowers the receivable collections task owners. Gaviti helps companies to accelerate cash-flow, reduce write-offs and increase productivity X10. This is achieved via: Visualization - quickly understand your receivables with a clear dashboard and insights screen. Automation - efficiently engage allyour delinquent clients with smart, personalized workflows. Optimizatione - improve results over time with data-driven collections process optimization.
Home365 — Home365, Is a Property Management Company. Our Goal Is Making Renting Out More Profitable, Predictable And Hassle Free. Click Here For More Information.
NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...

Active investment firm that calling founders with a great product vision across diverse industries

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Renova — AI-driven no-code platform for insurance industry.
Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
inspace — inspace is the innovative platform that streamlines workplace management and optimizes space utilization. Elevate your workplace experience with inspace.

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

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Digital Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Series C
Israel, United States

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.

iRobot designs and builds robots that empower people to do more. The company's home robots help people find smarter ways to clean and accomplish more in their daily lives. iRobot's portfolio of solutions features proprietary technologies for the connected home and advanced concepts in navigation, mobility, manipulation and artificialintelligence. iRobot was founded in 1990 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology roboticists with the vision of making practical robots a reality. iRobot's home robots are revolutionizing the way people clean – inside and out. More than 15 million home robots have been sold worldwide. The award-winning iRobot Roomba® Vacuum Cleaning Robot is leading the charge. Roomba made practical robots a reality for the first time and showed the world that robots are here to stay. iRobot's acclaimed line of home robots also includes the iRobot Scooba® Floor Scrubbing Robot, the iRobot Braava™ Floor Mopping Robot, the iRobot Mirra™ Pool Cleaning Robot and the iRobot Looj® Gutter Cleaning Robot.In 2015, iRobot generated $617 million in revenue and employed more than 600 of the robot industry's top professionals, including mechanical, electrical and software engineers and related support staff. iRobot stock trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the ticker symbol IRBT.iRobot's corporate headquarters are located in Bedford, Mass. The company also has offices in California, the United Kingdom, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Software, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Seed, Series A
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Osaro — OSARO provides goods to robot piece-picking solutions to automate your critical warehouse tasks. Explore OSARO's solutions for e-commerce, grocery, and beyond.
Sense — Leverage high-resolution data on smart meters. Engage customers, detect devices, balance loads, forecast demand, and pinpoint grid faults with precision.
Intuition Robotics — The AI care companion robot for older adults

Maniv Mobility is a global venture capital fund investing in the world's leading mobility start-ups.

Investment focus

Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

Anaphite — A breakthrough nanomaterial
FreshBus — Book bus tickets online at the best price on Fresh Bus. Travel in comfort with AC & electric buses. Book bus ticket booking service easy and securely.
Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.

Focused investments in entrepreneurs who pioneer sustainable, smart mobility.

Investment focus

Software, Automotive, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kardome — Kardome offers a real-time software suite that can be inserted in a variety of processing environments. The company engages a real-time software beamformer to improve speech signals from several speakers. It offers high-quality sound output without the need to shout or position the users mouths close to the microphone. The company developssolutions such as voice controlled devices, hands-free speakerphones, tablets and cellphones, and conference call devices.Kardome was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Mazor, Hamerkaz, Israel.
Lidwave — Lidwave’s deep-tech solution revolutionizes 3D sensing and the verticals relying on it by examining the biggest challenge in LiDAR technology from a new perspective, free of bandwidth limitations.
Bib Batteries — Bib extends the lifecycle of batteries from their first use in electric vehicles to their second life. Bib gives your batteries a new cost-effective life through repair, reuse, or recycling

We are an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with inspiring entrepreneurs to build breakthrough companies

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

FieldIn — Fieldin delivers risk mitigation for high value crops, helping farmers stay competitive against shrinking prices and profits.
Arugga AI Farming — Arugga develops ground robots to treat and monitor individual plants in the greenhouse. We are proud to be the first company to commercialize a robot that successfully replicates (bumblebee) buzz pollination in tomato greenhouses.
Intuition Robotics — The AI care companion robot for older adults

Glory Ventures is a cross-border venture capital fund established by a new generation of investors with a global perspective. Already achieving excellent performance, the investment team has plentiful experience in both China and Israel's high-tech and venture capital industries. The unique advantages by which Glory Ventures distinguishesitself from other domestic venture capitalists lie in the fact that it is a research-driven VC that realizes the value of an entire industrial value chain. They integrate industrial resources from the private equity markets and public-listed companies to build strategic synergy. They deliberate exits by both M&A and IPO, taking into consideration both opportunities. Thus, they strive to build an ecosystem across various industries through investment in specific value-chains and providing value-added services that lead to synergetic exits. With a clear multi-industrial positioning backed by their professional and outstanding investment team, Glory Ventures has been highly recognized by Chinese first-class investors and has won the strategic investments of famous organization such as Banyan Capital, major shareholders from various A-share listed companies, founding team of Dianping.com, and many others, making it a top-tier investment ecosystem combining early-stage venture capital investment and the integration of high-end entrepreneurs and industrial resources. Currently, Glory Ventures invests actively in Israel and China, but their global vision encompasses much more. In Israel, Glory Ventures invests in customer-proved, disruptive innovative companies which are synergistic with China’s enormous consumer market, including companies in the field of intelligent hardware, IoT, AI, computer vision. In China, Glory Ventures invests in subsectors such as B2B enterprise service, consumption upgrade, and IoT. Their portfolio includes 20+ stellar companies in the fields of AI, IoT, Fintech and consumption upgrade, over half of which have won the follow-up investment from the industrial capital and famous funds like HTC, Quanta Computer, Alibaba, Shanda Networks, Wind, Crystal Optoelectronics, Join-In Group, and Fortune Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

FuChe Biotech — FuChe Biotech is a biotechnology startup which Empower a clear future and innovative technology.
Dream Chasing Sky — Dream Chasing Sky specializes on electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft research and development.
Silicon Mobile Technology — Silicon Mobile Technology is an AI infrastructure company that specilaizes in large models inference and deployment system to reduce the cost in the AIGC and LLM industries.

Sherpa InnoVentures is an innovation-focused investment fund that invest in highly innovative technological companies to deliver value to its investors and to portfolio companies. Sherpa InnoVentures invests directly in internet and other information and communication technologies and non-pharma life sciences. The company is committed to personallyescort each portfolio company and to work closely with each company’s management team according to the company's specific needs. Sherpa InnoVentures' approach to fund management is developed to add value to both investors and portfolio companies by applying unique innovation tools at all stages and effecting personal working relationships between all parties involved. The company uses a structured approach for identifying and implementing innovation.Sherpa InnoVentures is headquartered in Israel.

Investment focus

AgTech, Gaming, Social
Seed, Series B
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Sightec — From today's delivery and inspection drones, to the flying passenger taxis of tomorrow. Sightec is opening up our skies to safe, reliable and high-performance air mobility with pioneering computer vision and AI flight technologies.
FortePhest — Founded in 2017, FortePhest is a biotechnology company focusing on crop protection. The Company develops innovative products to control both regular weeds and weeds which are resistant to herbicides. They do this mainly by exploring novel Mechanisms of Action (MOA) discovered in plants. Inspired by natural plant protectors, our products areintended to provide potent, environmentally friendly, and sustainable solutions that may eventually improve crop productivity. Our technology is based on research of world-class teams of scientists from Cornell University, The Weizmann Institute of Science and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Funatix Club — Founded in 2015, Funatix Club is a technology company oriented to the development of online Sport-Management games.

Yossi Matias is Vice President, Engineering, at Google and the Head of Google's R&D Center in Israel which he established. He leads global efforts in Search, AI, and Crisis Response (some highlights here), and is the founding executive lead of Google’s Campus Tel Aviv, the birthplace of Launchpad and other global entrepreneurship programs.In addition to his executive and entrepreneurial experience, Yossi has been on the Computer Science faculty at Tel Aviv University, and previously a Research Scientist at Bell Labs and visiting professor at Stanford. He published extensively, has dozens of patents on his name, and pioneered some of the early technologies for the effective analysis of big data, internet privacy, and contextual search. He is a recipient of the Godel Prize and is an ACM Fellow.Yossi was on the board of IATI - Israel Advanced Technology industries - and is co-chair of IATI’s Multi National Companies Forum.

Investment focus

Music, Social, Content
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Anyword — The AI writing platform that knows what works. Trusted by over 1 million marketers, Anyword is built to help you scale on-brand content that drives marketing results
Tonara — We believe in using technology to move music education forward. Tonara's products empower music teachers and their students, worldwide.
enso — enso is a marketplace for AI agents built by top experts for small businesses. Our AI solutions automate tasks, enhance efficiency, and drive growth. Affordable, scalable, and easy to use.

We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

Astra Nova — Astra Nova combines AGI gaming innovation, part of Nvidia Inception partnership, backed by Shiba Inu and a community-driven approach to revolutionize the gaming world.

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Investment focus

Gaming, Social, PC Games
Seed
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Astra Nova — Astra Nova combines AGI gaming innovation, part of Nvidia Inception partnership, backed by Shiba Inu and a community-driven approach to revolutionize the gaming world.

Where Cutting-Edge Research Meets Next-Gen Technology

Investment focus

Gaming, Social, PC Games
Seed
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Astra Nova — Astra Nova combines AGI gaming innovation, part of Nvidia Inception partnership, backed by Shiba Inu and a community-driven approach to revolutionize the gaming world.

Samsung NEXT Ventures is an investment arm of Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics dedicated to identifying new growth opportunities that will define the next decade. The firm prefers to invest in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, and media technology sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ceramic.ai — Ceramic.ai builds enterprise-grade infrastructure to optimize how companies train and deploy their AI models
Ceramic — Next generation AI training systems for better models with less compute, less time, and lower costs.
Primus Labs — Primus connects Web2 data to Web3, offering verified information to AI models while ensuring user privacy.

Beltone Venture Capital, a subsidiary of Beltone Holding Company.

Investment focus

Retail, Sports, Apparel
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
VelyVelo — Discover VelyVelo, the specialist in the rental, servicing and maintenance of electric bicycles for professionals in Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux and Marseille.
BIRD NEST — Live in a beautifully designed nests and small apartments in Cairo and Sahel.

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Taktile — Taktile's no-code platform enables you to easily build automated decision flows and iterate on them in a data-driven way leveraging backtests and A/B testing.
Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
Dorsia — Dorsia is a members-only platform that offers reservations at in-demand restaurants in major cities. The platform utilizes technology to enhance experiences for both operators and members, ensuring smooth booking without stress. Dorsia operates in various cities, including Miami, Los Angeles, Dubai, and San Francisco, making it a versatile choicefor food enthusiasts.

We invest in critical technologies driving the global transformation over the next decades, as the world moves towards Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Decarbonization.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Drover AI — AI-Powered Computer Vision for Micromobility. Pioneering the use of computer vision and AI on micromobility vehicles.
NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
COMPREDICT — COMPREDICT‘s virtual sensors and health & usage monitoring provide unique insights of vehicle usage and behavior without additional hardware for all sectors of mobility. Our solution is currently used in applications with 2 up to 18 wheel vehicles – and even trains. The virtual sensors measure the real dynamic behavior of components likesteering, brakes, powertrain and battery, regardless of whether the vehicle is a prototype or a series product, for a single vehicle or an entire fleet. We close the feedback loop between product development, in-use behavior or fleet management and service operations. With COMPREDICT, optimized component design and maintenance allow our customers to reduce weight, CO2 emissions and environmental impact over the whole product lifecycle.

The Mirai Creation Fund invests in companies and projects that use the latest technologies and business models, supporting the growth of value in these companies and projects, wherever they are found around the world.

Investment focus

Robotics, Information Technology, Software
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

MUSVI — MUSVI is an informartion technology company that provides spatial connectivity solutions, and community platform services.
SPACECOOL — Spacecool offers zero-energy cooling materials that radiate heat to space, reducing temperatures and mitigating global warming.
Aeterlink — Aeterlink is a wireless device maker and developer. They applied their technology to fields such as FA, robots, smart houses, and medicine and developed practical level technologies such as elemental technology that can wirelessly supply power.

Sente is a Chicago-based startup investment and innovation platform. Sente searches the world for the most high-potential startups and helps them scale through unprecedented guidance, support, and connections.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

KFOBIX — KFOBIX offers nano-composite materials to prevent freezing and contamination of solar panels, wind turbines, and automobile glass.
DRONEQUBE — DRONEQUBE provides an innovative SaaS solution that empowers drones to monitor and defend vineyard health autonomously, addressing pressing concerns brought about by the climate crisis and increasing labor challenges.
Kybele's Garden — Algae Biotechnology for Agrifood & Cosmetics Solutions

CI Ventures is an investment fund that provides loans to small- and medium-sized enterprises that operate in the forests, oceans and grasslands where Conservation International works.

Investment focus

Aquaculture, Internet of Things, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Indonesia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BIRD NEST — Live in a beautifully designed nests and small apartments in Cairo and Sahel.
Wittaya Aqua — A better approach to aquaculture management
Bureo Skateboards — Bureo Skateboards Online Store // Recycled Fishing Net Skateboard Decks

Sarya Holdings is a private-owned company engaged in various sectors ranging from AgriTech, Chemical Manufacturing, and a strong emphasis on FMCG.

Investment focus

Social, Social Network
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Hayi — Hayi is a free, private social network for neighbourhoods in the UAE. The mobile application provides neighbours with an exclusive platform to connect, share information and befriend those in close proximity.

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 atmybulb.vcOwner 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

Advertising, Association, Social Media Marketing
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Israel, United States

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.

Founded in 2012, BECO Capital pioneers early-stage venture capital firms, focusing on MENA and beyond. It proudly partners with regional success stories like Careem, Kitopi, SWVL, PropertyFinder, MaxAB, Tribal, and others, shaping the tech landscape

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
Mala Inc. — This is meta description
BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.

Carl Kidd

Investment focus

Social, Software, Mental Health
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

EaseUp — EaseUp makes building social confidence easy and fun. Our app turns exposure therapy into a gamified experience, rooted in science - accessible to all.

At Plus VC, we leverage over a decade of experience and 200+ transactions to empower MENA startups for sustainable growth. We offer fair...

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Lola Do — Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
Myne — Myne offers a comprehensive platform for tracking, growing, and protecting assets. The platform integrates seamlessly with various financial tools to provide users with a holistic view of their wealth. Key features include net worth tracking, budgeting, investing, and estate planning. Myne ensures data security with multiple layers of encryption,making it a secure choice for managing financial well-being.
Fincart — Fincart helps e-commerce SMBs access working capital through streamlining their last-mile operations through multi-courier shipping platform.

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

TV, CRM, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey

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.

Paul Sherry

Investment focus

Social, Software, Mental Health
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

EaseUp — EaseUp makes building social confidence easy and fun. Our app turns exposure therapy into a gamified experience, rooted in science - accessible to all.

Charging the Future of Blockchains

Investment focus

Finance, Software, Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed

Portfolio highlights

Astra Nova — Astra Nova combines AGI gaming innovation, part of Nvidia Inception partnership, backed by Shiba Inu and a community-driven approach to revolutionize the gaming world.
Aki Network — Aki offers a web3 growth stack to track actual influencer promotion results using on-chain data-driven goods. A variety of products and services have been developed by Aki Network to enable more users and influencers to participate in high-quality project campaigns and get commensurate compensation.
NuLink — NuLink combines best practices with best-of-breed security solutions to provide privacy-preserving technology with enterprise level security for decentralized applications

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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series B, Series A, Seed
Israel, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Lidwave — Lidwave’s deep-tech solution revolutionizes 3D sensing and the verticals relying on it by examining the biggest challenge in LiDAR technology from a new perspective, free of bandwidth limitations.
Kando — Kando is an end-to-end solution that creates continuous awareness of events in the collection system. Kando enables utilities to remotely and continuously improve their operations by providing the following features:• Realtime wastewater quality data across the collection system • Pinpoint sources of pollution • Early warnings of damaging WWTPinfluent quality • Machine learning that evolves with your network • Autonomous sampling units • User fee calculator • Customized pollution alerts • A user-friendly, online interface • Detection of COVID-19 infection rates (New)The combination of these actionable insights results in:• Reduced CAPEX/OPEX • Greater WW reuse capabilities • Improved public health • Cleaner environmentsKando has been deployed in Los Angeles, Milan, Brisbane, and many other cities. To gain a greater understanding of how our system can help your organization, visit our homepage at www.kando.eco.
Blue Tree Technologies Ltd. — Blue Tree’s mission is to develop a sugar reduction platform for industrial applications in the drinks industry.

Spicy Capital is dedicated to supporting innovative ideas that aim to transform the blockchain sector. They help initiatives from fundraising to success by leveraging our deep experience and industry relationships.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Saudi Arabia, United States

Portfolio highlights

OpenPad AI — OpenPad - The 1st AI Decentralized Launchpad
Stabble — stabble is a protocol revolutionizing liquidity pools by introducing protocol-managed and arbitrage pools. This allows stabble to tackle critical inefficiencies prevalent within Solana's decentralized exchanges.
Astra Nova — Astra Nova combines AGI gaming innovation, part of Nvidia Inception partnership, backed by Shiba Inu and a community-driven approach to revolutionize the gaming world.

About DeepMinds is a cutting-edge technology company that delves into the realm of advanced AI and machine learning solutions. With a focus on pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the digital landscape, DeepMinds is dedicated to crafting intelligent systems that can learn, adapt, and evolve, mirroring the intricacies of human thought processes. Rooted in innovation, the company is committed to exploring the depths of artificial intelligence to transform industries, revolutionize problem-solving, and pioneer a future where technology and human potential intertwine in unprecedented ways. At DeepMinds, the quest for profound insights and breakthroughs drives every endeavor, paving the way for a smarter, more connected world.

Investment focus

Social, Wellness, Veterinary
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Noog — About Noog is Building the AI-Powered Platform for Revolutionary Camel Care.
Lomina.ai — Lomina.ai solves the problem of creating and selling personalized merchandise for micro-influencers.
NCircle — About NCircle is Building the AI-Powered Platform

Vision Ventures (VV) is an early stage venture capital firm founded by experienced entrepreneurs. Its slogan is:"By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs". We invest in innovative startups in the Seed and Series A across a wide range of verticals. We help startups realize their dreams and make a difference in a noisy world. We are an energeticteam that has a wealth of experience in starting companies and steering them to success and hyper growth. Our combined experience spans over 90 years in multiple countries which gives us extensive experience in multi-national, multi-cultural teams. We provide startups with hands on assistance and guidance on marketing, sales, product/service development, financial planning and management, expansion & growth strategy, and more.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Ejari — Ejari is providing a Rent Now, Pay Later (RNPL) solution for residential rentals, Rent Now, Pay Later products enable tenants to better manage their budgets by converting rent from a yearly expense to a monthly expense, while landlords receive an entire year's rent in advance.
Lola Do — Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.

Toyota Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups from around the world. Founded in July 2017, its mission is to discover what’s next for Toyota by helping startups bring disruptive technologies and business models to market quickly. With more than $500 million in assets under management,the firm’s funds include the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund focused on artificial intelligence, cloud computing, autonomy, mobility, robotics, smart cities, digital health, financial technologies, materials, and energy; and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund focused on innovative solutions for carbon neutrality.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Holyheld — Holyheld is a onchain crypto debit card. The one card for all crypto natives. Get your card, pay from your phone, use your wallet, and pick your crypto.
Tereform — Tereform is a company that operates in the chemical engineering, manufacturing, and recycling industries. The company's mission is to enable textile-to-textile recycling, addressing the issue of textile waste. Tereform combines various technologies and processes to achieve this goal. The company is particularly focused on promoting circularitywithin the fashion and textile industries, aiming to reduce the environmental impact of these sectors.
Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.

Grove Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital fund in Israel. It partners early with exceptional Israeli founders who believe th...

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Enzymit — Enzymit's platform technology can build molecular machines that enable never before seen chemistry aiming to solve humanity's greatest challenges
Wing Cloud — Wing Cloud tames cloud complexity through a unified programming and operational model that works across all providers and services.
Quantum Source — Quantum Source is on a clear path to the most powerful, cost-effective, practical photonic quantum computer. Learn more.

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includes two IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products.  e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
Quantrol Ox — Building Machine Learning Based Software for Quantum Control with a goal to maximise quantum computer uptime.

Woven by Toyota innovates and invests in new technologies, software, and business models that transform how we live, work, and move.

Investment focus

Robotics, Solar, Energy
Funding Round, Series C, Series D
Israel, Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

Corvus Energy — Corvus Energy is the world's leading supplier of safe, innovative and reliable energy storage solutions for all segments in the maritime industry.
Intuition Robotics — The AI care companion robot for older adults
Third Wave Automation — Third Wave Automation brings people and autonomous systems together to improve throughput, efficiency, and safety beyond what people or automation could achieve alone.

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

TV, CRM, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

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.

Falak Startups is a start-up accelerator designed to support and empower the next generation of Egyptian entrepreneurs and contribute to the development of the start-up ecosystem in Egypt.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Portfolio highlights

InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
Tafatifi — Tafatifi is an online music platform that provides information regarding music events in Egypt. It is also a music based social media.
Fincart — Fincart helps e-commerce SMBs access working capital through streamlining their last-mile operations through multi-courier shipping platform.

Alex Zubillaga is the founder of 14W, a New York-based, venture capital firm focused on consumer Mobile, Web, E-commerce, CPG, and Media.Previously, Alex was Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group (WMG). Prior to WMG, Alex founded Net Uno, a leading Venezuelan cable television and broadbandoperator where he served as CEO and Chairman.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Music
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
Qapital — Qapital is an award-winning app designed to let you save, invest, and spend with any goal in mind.
Opal — Protect your focus time. Schedule your days, block distracting apps and focus fully, on your iPhone, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browser. Try Opal for Free!

The first decentralized launch pad fully dedicated to IDO on Polygon

Investment focus

Gaming, Online Games, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed

Portfolio highlights

Astra Nova — Astra Nova combines AGI gaming innovation, part of Nvidia Inception partnership, backed by Shiba Inu and a community-driven approach to revolutionize the gaming world.
Galaxy Fight Club — The first cross-IP PvP game for the NFT universe
Blockchain Monster Hunt — Blockchain Monster Hunt develops an NFT collectible game that lives on multiple blockchains. It is a multi-chain metaverse game that connects people from different blockchain communities. It allows users to play and earn in an abundantly diverse world of monsters

Equinox: Unlocking value in the Italian private equity mid-market

Investment focus

Snack Food, Restaurants, Food Processing
Private Equity
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Pizzium — Pizzium is a food retail chain restaurants who are into Neapolitan pizza making and selling business.
Astra Nova — Astra Nova combines AGI gaming innovation, part of Nvidia Inception partnership, backed by Shiba Inu and a community-driven approach to revolutionize the gaming world.

Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Joy — Joy is the creator of the first Smart Photo Album that allows you to curate and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Designed to live on your coffee table and sit comfortably in your lap, the Joy Album makes your most cherished moments instantly viewable in gorgeous layouts, finally modernizing the lost art of creating a physicalphoto album.The Joy team hails from Apple and Sonos and is building a premium all-in-one hardware and software photo solution for families to share memories with loved ones near and far.The company was founded in February 2016 and is backed by top investors including Obvious Ventures, David B. Heller, Maywic and The Chernin Group.Joy is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.joy.co.
Carbon Ridge — Modular onboard carbon capture for maritime shipping.
Cosmos Innovation — Cosmos Innovation specialize in full stack software development, product design, cloud hosting, and MVP deployment.