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Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in Middle East (July 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Middle East Social Media startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Social Media startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Sina Afra
Angel
3 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $15k–$11M
Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Analytics, E-Commerce $29k–$1.9M
First Name
Angel
2 United States, Israel Series A, Seed Social Media, Cyber Security, Developer APIs $2.3M–$5.6M
Gigi Levy Weiss
Angel
2 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps $1M–$45M
Hande Enes
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Social Media $29k–$4.1M
Avishai Abrahami
Angel
2 Israel, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $250k–$35M
Joachim Behrendt
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A SaaS, Software, Social Media $11k–$1.9M
Udi Netzer
Angel
1 Israel Seed EdTech, Software, Education
John Henderson
Angel
1 Australia, New Zealand, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Analytics $120k–$110M
Erdem Yurdanur
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Mobile, iOS, Advertising $142k–$1M
Steve Case
Angel
1 United States, Kenya, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Enterprise Software $641k–$31M
Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
1 Turkey, Ireland, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Apps, Internet, Social Media
Nimrod Cohen
Angel
1 Israel, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $1M–$28M
Anthony Saleh
Angel
1 United States, Egypt, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion $550k–$28M
Rafi Gidron
Angel
1 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services $2M–$8M
Jason Finger
Angel
1 United States, Egypt Seed, Series A Software, Apps, Internet
Tim Draper
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $356k–$50M
Yuval Rakavy
Angel
1 Israel Series A, Series B, Series C Apps, Family, Internet
Brian Norgard
Angel
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Social $750k–$15M
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Angel
1 United States, Egypt, Spain Seed, Series A, Series C FinTech, SaaS, Software $2.1M–$156M
Isaac Applbaum
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Mobile, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $476k–$15M
Aviv Raiz
Angel
1 Israel Series A, Series B, Series C Apps, Family, Internet
Yossi Vardi
Angel
1 Israel, United States Angel, Seed, Series A Search Engine, Internet, Software $100k–$1.7M
Eitan Reisel
Angel
1 Israel, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Video $1.8M–$2M
Mustafa Vardalı
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel, Series A Apps, Fitness, Software $112k–$2.5M
Lior Delgo
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed TV, SaaS, Content
Alper Akcan
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel Apps, Fitness, mHealth $400k–$2.5M
Abdullah Mohammed Al-Dosari
Angel
1 Saudi Arabia Pre-Seed Apps, Social Media, Social Network
Erdem Gezer
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Farhana Rahman
Angel
1 Israel Pre-Seed Apps, Internet, Social Media
Itzik Ben Bassat
Angel
1 Israel Pre-Seed Apps, Internet, Social Media
Zoran Arsovski
Angel
1 Bulgaria, Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Shaul Olmert
Angel
1 Israel Pre-Seed Apps, Internet, Social Media
Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Dr. Ilan Cohn
Angel
1 Israel Seed SEO, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Alphan Manas
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Q&A, Internet, Social Media
Net Jacobsson
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Local, Beauty
Yalcin Ayaydin
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Q&A, Internet, Social Media
Leonardo DiCaprio
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Switzerland Series A, Seed Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Manufacturing
David O. Sacks
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet
mohamed alsamman
Angel
1 Egypt Pre-Seed Mobile, Delivery, Internet
Michael Granoff
Angel
1 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Automotive, Transportation, Hardware $3.8M–$126M
Jonathan Kolber
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Series B Social Media, FinTech, Financial Services
Lior Shemesh
Angel
1 Israel Pre-Seed Apps, Internet, Social Media
İlker Diker
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Art
Kaya Diker
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Music, Dating, Podcast
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Gamze Cizreli
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Q&A, Internet, Social Media
İzzet Zakuto
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Mobile Apps, Personal Health
Rıfat Elhadef
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Odeal — Oedeal is a online payment service company, dedicated in providing wide range of financial solutions to entrepreneurs.
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
  • Temizlikyolda — Get professional Home Cleaning Service from our referenced professionals for your home cleaning needs.
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel · 3 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$1.9M; Angel $44k–$250k; Pre-Seed $29k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blaze Labs — Blaze is real-time video infrastructure with wallet-native subscriptions and tips with instant payouts, delivering low-latency live streaming at global scale.
  • Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
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First Name
Angel · Woburn, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Cyber Security, Developer APIs
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$5.6M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoTab — GoTab's Restaurant & Hospitality Point of Sale platform optimizes experiences and efficiencies to create a better guest experience.
  • Cyabra — We break down social media so you can understand narratives, detect authenticity and reach true audiences.
  • LoginID — Strong authentication made fast and simple. Improve security, user experience, privacy and compliance in minutes using simple SDKs
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Gigi Levy Weiss
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $6.5M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Faireez — Optimizing tenants' lifestyle and convenience through enabling them with a hotel-like home cleaning service
  • BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
  • Accumulator — Accumulator is a U.S. private equity firm regulated by the SEC, operating as an index-like fund covering a wide range of privately held, growth-stage tech companies.
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Hande Enes
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Hande Enes

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.1M; Angel $50k–$280k; Pre-Seed $29k–$430k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
  • Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
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Avishai Abrahami
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communicationtechnology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company's sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces' elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $13M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Willow — The AI basecamp for the enterprise.Willow (formerly Webrix) connects any AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to your internal systems with the visibility security needs and the enablement teams want. SSO, RBAC, audit trail, and runtime guards, built in.You'll find: - Technical deep dives on MCP, agents, and AI governance - Enterprise AIadoption playbooks (not hype) - Real implementation walkthroughs from production deployments - Conversations with CISOs, platform leaders, and AI adoption ownersBuilt for: CISOs, VPs of Engineering, platform leads, and CTOs rolling out AI at scale.
  • Marquee — Marquee AI is a Sports tech company that develops advanced AI platforms to analyze recruitment, scouting and performance of the player.
  • CustoMED — CustoMed transforms surgical planning and execution. It does this by converting medical imaging into 3D visualizations, planning procedures, and producing customized 3D-printed surgical solutions at scale in a matter of minutes, all while streamlining the process and providing surgical excellence.
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Joachim Behrendt
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $11k–$1.9M; Angel $15k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scorp — "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views.
  • Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
  • Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
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Udi Netzer
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Udi Netzer is the Private Investor at Joonko.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Software, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lingua.ly — Founded by Cambridge and Stanford graduates Dr. Jan Ihmels and Dr. Orly Fuhrman, Lingua.ly is a brand new way to learn a language. Collect new words from across the web with Lingua.ly's smart dictionary. Use your new vocab as you read real articles you choose. Immersion is the ultimate way to learn a language, and Lingua.ly’s free, onlinelearning platform uses “digital immersion” to give you all the same benefits no matter where you learn. Do you like to read about science and technology in your spare time? Prefer French recipes or travel magazines? Perhaps following business updates from the Middle East is key to your company’s success? Our patent pending algorithm understands your vocabulary to fill your feed with real articles from the web to suit both your level and interests. Better still, we let you practice your new words through fun games and quizzes. So, give your vocabulary a boost, create some colorful flashcards, keep your mind engaged and explore the web in a new language with Lingua.ly! Learn English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, German and Russian. Lingua.ly’s blended learning solution can be used as a stand-alone product or to complement language classes and self-study course-ware. It is cloud synced and operable via desktop or mobile and supports 18+ dictionary languages. Website: http://lingua.ly App Store: http://bit.ly/1pyL1bb Google Play: http://bit.ly/1s04YuK
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John Henderson
Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

John is a Partner at Airtree Ventures. He works with the best Australian and Kiwi founders to create world class technology businesses. John was previously a Principal at White Star Capital in London and New York and also co-founded London.ai, Europe’s leading event for the AI community which is held quarterly in London. Prior to his currentroles, John was the COO of Summly (acquired by Yahoo in May 2013) and has also held roles at Facebook, The Boston Consulting Group and as a lawyer at Linklaters. John also co-founded Bush Campus whose failure perhaps taught him more than the rest of his experiences combined.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$11M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $5.4M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aniways — Aniways has an SDK for adding "intelligence and interaction" to mobile communication services, giving any chat/IM/social networking service an amazing way to monetize their traffic. Aniways allows users to easily add dynamic, expressive and fun emoticons to their conversations.
  • Sablier — Free-to-use infrastructure for token distribution. DAOs and businesses use Sablier for vesting, payroll, airdrops, and more.
  • RockSolid Network — RockSolid Network is a DeFi protocol offering institutional-grade liquid vaults and white-label vault solutions.
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Erdem Yurdanur
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, iOS, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $142k–$1M; Pre-Seed $393k–$510k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ulak — [ENG] ULAK is a mobile app, that helps you find nearby couriers and place a custom order. With ULAK, the nearest courier to your location is directed to you, serves with the shipment you choose, app displays the instant location information until your shipment is delivered, shares delivery details with you, securely collects your payment from yourcredit card and completes the transaction. If you wish, you can get service with cash payment as well...[TUR] ULAK akıllı telefonlar üzerinde çalışan, motorlu kuryeye ihtiyacı olanlarla, güvenilir motorlu kuryeleri buluşturan bir mobil uygulamadır. ULAK ile size en yakın kuryeyi çağırarak gönderinizi yapabilir veya özel sipariş verebilirsiniz. ULAK ile bulunduğunuz konuma en yakın kurye size yönlendirilir, seçeceğiniz gönderi şekli ile hizmet verir, gönderiniz teslim edilene kadar anlık konum bilgisini gösterir, teslimat detaylarını size iletir, ödemenizi güvenli bir şekilde kredi kartınızdan tahsil eder, işlemi tamamlar. Dilerseniz nakit ödeme seçeneği ile hizmet alabilirsiniz.
  • Charmy — Charmy is a music social media site available online. Users can create playlists, share photos, and search for songs they prefer.
  • Tiramisu — TIRAMISU MOBILE GAME STUDIO
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Steve Case
Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Steve Case is a Chairman, Founder, and CEO at Revolution, a Chairman at The Case Foundation, a Founding Chair at Startup America Partnership, and a Chairman at Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. He attended Williams College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $641k–$5M; Series A $3.5M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Heliogen — Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company unlocking the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels.
  • Science Exchange — Discover how to simplify purchasing, supplier management, and payment processing. Work with suppliers faster, reduce costs, and fuel innovation. Supplier Orchestration.
  • Class Technologies — Class, the next generation virtual classroom. Trusted by 10M users from 1500 institutions in education and training. Make your virtual classroom feel like a real classroom.
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
  • Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
  • Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
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Nimrod Cohen
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Nimrod Cohen is the Managing Partner of TAU Ventures. He previously worked at Hapoel Ramat-Gan as a Chairman. Nimrod Cohen attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M; Series A $6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swimm — Silos can sneak in to even the most agile of teams and create needless delays on essential projects. Chasing down information keeps teams out of sync. But onboarding, outdated documents, or project switching should never slow a project down. Swimm is a SaaS company built to make the development process fast and smooth with smart docs and continuousdocumentation. Teams use Swimm to create focused and engaging tutorials that help them share knowledge on the codebase. Thanks to Swimm's unique auto-sync technology, tutorials remain fresh and up-to-date even if the code changes.
  • Cyabra — We break down social media so you can understand narratives, detect authenticity and reach true audiences.
  • XTEND — Explore cutting-edge military-grade tactical drones powered by AI, designed to enhance strategic capabilities and mission success in complex environments.
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Anthony Saleh
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Anthony Saleh is the Founder and CEO of Emagen Investment Group, Inc. and General Partner of WndrCo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$5.6M; Series A $1.1M–$15M; Series B $8M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

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.
  • DoseDr — This domain name is available, own it today. Affordable payment options. Fast and professional service.
  • VersusGame — VersusGame offers creators and brands the opportunity to cultivate a community with an interactive content solution that rewards knowledge
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Rafi Gidron
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Rafi Gidron is the Founder and Chairman of Israel Brain Technologies. He previously worked at Lucent as a VP of Optical networks. Rafi Gidron attended Columbia University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
  • Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
  • Dig — dig is a social listening platform using AI to analyze social video. Track brand mentions and sentiment analysis with our real-time media monitoring tool.
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Jason Finger
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Jason Finger is a founder at Seamless.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Egypt

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Minly — Connect with your favorite celebrities with video shoutouts, DMs, voice notes, and more.
  • Alfred — Alfred is an end-to-end resident experience and building management platform that is changing the way people live and transforming the real estate industry. Operating at the intersection of real estate and technology, Alfred builds intuitive, personal support into one of the most important spaces of our lives: our homes. Named one of the Top 50Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast Company in the urban development space, Alfred has been recognized in The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, as a pioneer in the on-demand economy, following their decision to hire Alfred Home Managers as W-2 employees (complete with benefits, training, and the ability to move up in the organization) and its support of local ecosystems and neighborhood businesses.Hello Alfred was founded in 2014 by Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck, and is headquartered in New York, New York, United States.
  • Nextmv — A customizable, developer-friendly decision automation platform that provides the APIs and SDKs to solve, model, and integrate optimization problems.
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Tim Draper
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 289
  • Round size: Seed $356k–$5.9M; Series A $2.5M–$27M; Series B $3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CASIMIR
  • Exobiosphere — Exobiosphere is a cutting-edge company operating at the intersection of space exploration and biotechnology.
  • SignalRank — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
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Yuval Rakavy
Angel · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Yuval Rakavy - Founder @ BRM Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Family, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • MyHeritage — MyHeritage is the global destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history. Our platform and DNA kits make it easy for anyone, anywhere to embark on a meaningful journey into their past and treasure their family stories for generations to come. Our powerful technology does the searching for you, revealing fascinating new detailsabout your family history — effortlessly.The company was founded in 2003 by our CEO – entrepreneur and family historian Gilad Japhet. From a humble garage startup, MyHeritage has grown into a global company with 90 million users across 196 countries.Our 370 employees work out of bright, spacious offices in Israel, North America, and Europe to deliver an exceptional user experience in 42 languages. Guided by our core values of innovation, compassion and diversity, our team undertakes many voluntary community initiatives, using our expertise and technology to reunite families. We are delighted to go the extra mile for our users, offering 24/7 support and striving to create a true sense of community in the world of family history.In October 2013 MyHeritage was named the most promising Israeli start-up for 2013-14 by "Globes" magazine.
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Brian Norgard
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Brian Norgard is Chief Product—and team builder extraordinaire—at Tinder. Under his leadership, Tinder is the fastest growing mobile revenue company in consumer Internet history.In less than 3 years, Tinder became the top-grossing mobile app in the world, created over $11 billion dollars in market value and led to hundreds of millions ofconnections worldwide. Brian is considered one of the most authoritative voices in the dynamics surrounding subscription-based business models.As a creator of blockbuster products like Super Like, Boost, Tinder Gold, Super Likeable. Brian extinguished industry records and redefined the physics of the category. Brian's product philosophy of simple, fun and useful is utilized throughout the industry and has resulted in more than 200 million lifetime downloads. His product team is consistently lauded as world-class and best-in-industry with respect to experience design. Josh Elman of Greylock Partner stated, "Brian built the smartest business on top of an active consumer product that we have seen in ages. Maybe ever."At 25, Brian was the youngest GM/VP in the history of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp after the acquisition of his first company Newroo where he served as the GM of MySpace News and FIM Labs. In 2012 Brian built one of the fastest growing Facebook applications in history (Chill) which reached over 30MM people. Thereafter, his Kleiner Perkins funded mobile messaging application Tappy became Tinder’s first acquisition. Brian also co-founded advertising network Ad.ly which was acquired by Nestivity in 2014.A respected and savvy investor, Brian helped entrepreneurs ignite franchises from AngelList—where he was the first angel investor—to Tinder. Brian's investment vehicle, Norgard Fund, invests in startups ranging from Lyft to SpaceX. Brian graduated with honors from Brown University where he received a prestigious NCIIA Grant awarded to top collegiate innovators.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Social
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$12M; Pre-Seed $2.7M–$3.1M; Series A $5.6M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hedges — Hedges Platforms is a financial technology company that develops software and services for institutional investors. The platform offers integrated solutions for hedge funds and asset managers, including tools for portfolio management, trade execution, and real-time risk analysis. Hedges Platforms assists clients in navigating complex markets byproviding integrated data management and compliance features.
  • Maximus — Consumer health startup that maximizes masculinity using science and psychology.
  • Ottr Finance — The Wallet For Everyone
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Jeffrey Katzenberg
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Jeffrey Katzenberg is the Founder and Managing Partner of WndrCo. He was a Co-Founder and Chairman of DreamWorks SKG.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $16M–$60M; Series C $100M–$156M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reprise — Build interactive product demos that empower enterprise teams to showcase the power of their products. Explore the AI-powered Reprise demo platform today!
  • point.me — Search and book award flights and maximize the value of your points. Travel on points for less with point.me's flight award search tool.
  • Everyrealm — Everyrealm is an immersive media company, specializing in technology and infrastructure that drives social, community-driven gaming experiences and platforms.
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Isaac Applbaum
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Isaac Applbaum joined MizMaa Ventures Limited as Founder and Partner in 2016.Isaac Applbaum is a founding General Partner of Opus Capital, a billion dollar early stage venture fund, .focusing his efforts on finding Israeli-based investments for the firm. Previously, Isaac was a Partner and Managing Director for Israel at Lightspeed Venture Partnersan early stage venture capital firm with over two billion dollars under management.Prior to joining Lightspeed, Mr. Applbaum was the founder and CEO of Concorde Solutions Inc. (CSI). In 1998 Mr. Applbaum sold CSI to Bank of America becoming a Senior Vice President at the bank with responsibility for running the bank’s E-ventures group and an advisor to the strategic investments group.Before founding Concorde Solutions, Mr. Applbaum was responsible for running US operations for Advanced Technology International, a large Israeli software development company.Mr. Applbaum currently serves as a Senior Advisor for Philanthropy to the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat. Mr. Applbaum is President of the Board of the California Israel Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of The Western Wall Heritage Foundation, is on the board of directors of: The Koret Israel Economic Development Funds, the Shalem Institute, the Modern Bank and is on the National Council of AIPAC. Mr. Applbaum is a member of the Young Presidents Organization.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $769k–$3M; Pre-Seed $476k–$1.1M; Series B $6M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KLIPY — Discover KLIPY, the largest library of localized GIFs, Memes, Stickers and Clips! Make your conversations fun and expressive with the best content.
  • Popsa — Popsa won the Software category and was placed 3rd overall in Deloitte’s list of the 50 fastest growing companies in the UK in 2020 (in-between Bulb and Revolut), and was also awarded a place as a "one to watch" in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100.In an increasingly digital world, it's all too easy to lose your photos to the cloudor to the depths of your camera roll, never to be seen again.So we decided to do something about it.Popsa launched in 2016 to bring your memories to life by printing them in beautiful, physical products that you can hold.However, instead of making you spend hours designing your product (like Snapfish or Photobox), we do the hard work for you in minutes.Our vision is to send you regular bundles of photos in the post without you having to think about it. Little presents to yourself. A monthly subscription to your memories.We're developing technology to make it happen:• Machine learning to curate your most sentimental photos. • Bespoke algorithms to automatically design beautiful layouts. • The fastest delivery from the best printers in the world.Customers will sign up and every month they'll unwrap a new collection of memories to keep for years to come.
  • Ringil — Ringil is a digital platform for the management of freight logistics and transportation.
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Aviv Raiz
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Aviv Raiz is Member of the Board of Directors at MyHeritage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Family, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • MyHeritage — MyHeritage is the global destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history. Our platform and DNA kits make it easy for anyone, anywhere to embark on a meaningful journey into their past and treasure their family stories for generations to come. Our powerful technology does the searching for you, revealing fascinating new detailsabout your family history — effortlessly.The company was founded in 2003 by our CEO – entrepreneur and family historian Gilad Japhet. From a humble garage startup, MyHeritage has grown into a global company with 90 million users across 196 countries.Our 370 employees work out of bright, spacious offices in Israel, North America, and Europe to deliver an exceptional user experience in 42 languages. Guided by our core values of innovation, compassion and diversity, our team undertakes many voluntary community initiatives, using our expertise and technology to reunite families. We are delighted to go the extra mile for our users, offering 24/7 support and striving to create a true sense of community in the world of family history.In October 2013 MyHeritage was named the most promising Israeli start-up for 2013-14 by "Globes" magazine.
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Yossi Vardi
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

One of Israel’s early entrepreneurs, Yossi Vardi co-founded, led, funded and helped build more than 80 high-tech, energy, natural resources, and clean-tech companies. Many of them went public, including Tekem, Alon Energy, Granite Hacarmel, answers.com, scopus, International Lasers Technologies, epals, tocows, brightcove, other were acquired :Gteko (by Microsoft), Tivella (by cisco,) Airlink (by sierra wireless), Foxytunes (by yahoo),starnet (by IAC),Gift project (by ebay).As the founding investor ofMirabilis Ltd, -the creator of iCQ - Vardi co-pioneered instant messaging. ICQ was one of the internet’s earliest successes, later sold to AOL.Vardi was chairman of the board of trustees of Jerusalem Foundation, serves on the board of trustees of the technion and served on those of Weitzman Institute. Hebrew university, open university .he was advisor to the World Bank, United Nations Development Program , CEO’s of Amazon, AOL, Siemens Albis, and Allied–signal. member of the World Economic Forum, and Co-chairman of the EU-Israel business dialogue.Vardi had an extensive government and public career, hewas the director general of Ministry of Development and Ministry of Energy. was chairman of Israel National Oil Company, and Israel Chemicals. participated in the peace talks with Egypt, Palestinians, Jordan and Syria. He received Honorary Doctorates from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and the Ben Gurion university , the Prime Minister Hi-Tech Award for life achievements (twice); Best Internet Personality by TechCrunch Europe; Entrepreneur of the Year by Tel Aviv University , Europe’s 25 top techs by Wall Street Journal; and one of the 200 Greatest Israelis of all times by Ynet. was elected by Israel 21c to the top 10 icons of Israeli high tech - the pioneers, by The Algemeiner for the "jewish 100 - the top 100 people positively influenced jewish life " and by wired magazine (uk) as number 9 of the wired 2014 top 100 influential people in EuropeYossi Vardi sits on the advisory boards of 3i and Amdocs and has served on boards of numerous state and private corporations including Bezeq, Israel Electric, and the Bank of Israel. Yossi has also been an Advisor to the CEOs of AOL, Amazon, and Allied Signal. Yossi Vardi has received many awards, including the Prime Minister of Israel Hi-Tech Award for life achievements on two occasions, the Industry Prize, the Ramniceanu Prize and CEOs Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Search Engine, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Angel $100k–$268k; Series A $1.1M–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RoomiePics — RoomiePics is a social camera for sharing photos with people nearby. The app is currently in development.
  • Similarweb — All in one Website analytics & competitive traffic intelligence platform - Compare website traffic and performance, analyze strategies & grow your market share!
  • The Gifts Project — The Gifts Project is a social ecommerce platform for Group Gifting that helps online retailers, marketplaces and gift stores to leverage their social buying experience. This white label solution brings major ecommerce websites a Social Group Gifting Platform with a winning combination of Social Networks and Group Payment straight to theircheckout process. With Group Gifting, customers can share their special occasions with their social graph by letting friends to chip in for each others gifts while shopping at their favorite online store. The Gifts Project is a product of Appchee Applications Ltd., an Israeli startup company that is backed by
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Eitan Reisel
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Eitan Reisel

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Comunix — Comunix is a social gaming company with a vision for interactive gaming experiences grounded in human connection. Formed by a team of seasoned technology and gaming professionals, Comunix aims to reinvent the current gaming experience by integrating innovative methods for human communication, such as group video chat, to create a seamless social experience for users. Our hit game Pokerface is enjoyed by millions of people from around the world.
  • PeerPlay — PeerPlay is a casual mobile games powerhouse
  • Playstream — Viewer Engagement - Stream Monetization - Thrilling Interactions. Game changing streaming tools with Playstream.gg new technology.
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Mustafa Vardalı
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
  • Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
  • Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
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Lior Delgo
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Lior is an entrepreneur with a proven record of building disruptive technology and new business models. He was Co-Founder and CEO of FareChase (acquired by Yahoo) and VideoSurf (acquired by Microsoft). He loves leading product and technology teams, most recently as a Partner and GPM of Microsoft’s Xbox, and holds numerous technology patents.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: TV, SaaS, Content
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Silo — Half-built, fully committed.
  • Karat — Karat helps companies hire top engineering talent by improving the quality, efficiency, and equity of their technical hiring process
  • Social Studios — Transform your digital marketing strategy with Page Ads. Our platform provides intuitive tools for campaign management, analytics, and more.
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Alper Akcan
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Alper Akcan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, mHealth
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.
  • Lisa AI — Lisa is a mobile app that predicts engagement of Instagram photos before they are posted. We use state of the art deep learning methods to analyze the visual content and help users to choose which photo to publish to maximize the engagement of their audience.
  • Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.
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Abdullah Mohammed Al-Dosari
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Abdullah Mohammed Al-Dosari is the Founder and Managing Director at T2.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Social Media, Social Network
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bubbl Widget — Bubbl is a widget that displays live text feeds from your favorite pals right on your Home Screen. You and your best pals will see each other's thoughts and statuses every time you unlock your phone. It's a small insight into what everyone is up to throughout the day.
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Erdem Gezer
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Erdem Gezer

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Git Kargo
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Farhana Rahman
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Farhana Rahman

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.
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Itzik Ben Bassat
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Itzik Ben Bassat

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.
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Zoran Arsovski
Angel · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Zoran and his team focus on Digital Marketing Consulting for B2B growth-stage companies supported by the leading technology VC funds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Bulgaria, Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
  • Visibilio — At Visibilio, we are at the forefront of a seismic shift in how companies connect with their clients. Our mission is simple: to empower companies, organizations, and individuals to seamlessly create, repurpose, and distribute meaningful content—turning their audiences into loyal clients. We believe that building your own audience shouldn’t be hardor expensive, and is much more efficient compared to buying it from platforms like Google/Facebook.Who We AreVisibilio was founded by a team of experienced professionals: Alexei Lazarov, former editor-in-chief of Bulgaria’s leading business media Capital; Zoran Arsovski, a marketing professional, entrepreneur, and investor; and Stoyan Kondev, a skilled software developer and BPM consultant. Together, they bring a unique blend of editorial expertise, business acumen, and technological innovation to drive transformative change.What We Do (And Why)Visibilio builds an AI-powered agentic workforce that transforms the way content is created and distributed. With our swarms and constelations of AI agents, telling interesting stories and building loyal audiences is no longer time-consuming or costly. We believe that the way people consume information and how businesses connect with clients is undergoing a profound transformation. In the coming years, it will be essential for companies to think like publishers—creating consistent, meaningful content, building their own audiences, and converting them into loyal customers.At Visibilio, we are developing the tools to make this shift seamless, helping businesses save time, effort, and resources while staying ahead in an evolving digital landscape.
  • Native Teams — With the Native Teams platform, you can easily hire anyone, anywhere as an employer or get an employed status if you're working as a freelancer. Explore our international EOR and PEO services and start working remotely with full compliance.
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Shaul Olmert
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Shaul Olmert is the Co-founder and CEO of Piggy. He previously worked at Playbuzz as a Co-Founder and CEO. Shaul holds a master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.
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Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
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Dr. Ilan Cohn
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Dr. Ilan Cohn - Advisor and Board Member @ Feelter

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SEO, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Feelter — FEELTER is nothing short of an earthquake in the e-commerce market. It is an engine bridging the worlds of social networking world e-commerce in an unprecedented manner At FEELTER, they are focused on improving and maximizing the business potential embedded in traffic on e-commerce websites by providing the information and support needed byinternet surfers - the potential customers - in order to keep them on websites for longer and ultimately lead them to making purchases.
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Alphan Manas
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Alphan Manas - Country Manager - Türkiye Başkanı @ ERA Real Estate Türkiye · Kıbrıs

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Q&A, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.
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Net Jacobsson
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Net Jacobsson is a former early Facebook Executive, Co-founder of Sparklabs Global Ventures, entrepreneur, angel investor & passionate mountain biker.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Local, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Hooch — HOOCH is the free app that rewards you up to 10% back plus exclusive perks when you travel, shop or dine with global partners.
  • WhoDoYou — Find trusted local service providers on WhoDoYou. Rely on advice collected from real conversations, skip the biased reviews and manipulated listings.
  • Cointopia — Cointopia is an ICO launching platform that provides a crowdfunded marketplace powered by blockchain technology.
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Yalcin Ayaydin
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Yalcin Ayaydin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Q&A, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and nine Golden Globe Awards. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004), and has been nominated by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Acommitted environmentalist, DiCaprio has received praise from environmental groups for his activism. At the 2007 Oscar ceremony, DiCaprio and former Vice President Al Gore announced that the Academy Awards had incorporated environmentally intelligent practices throughout the planning and production processes, and on July 7, 2007, DiCaprio presented at the American leg of Live Earth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Exowatt — Modular full-stack renewable energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
  • ID Genève — We make watches that reflect the values and principles of people who are committed to fight climate change and who wish to have a positive social and environmental impact. The materials used are circular and have a lower carbon footprint than the industry average.
  • SolarMente — SolarMente is a software platform that provides solar hardware, installation, warranties, financing, insurance, and technical support. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Catalonia.
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David O. Sacks
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

David O. Sacks is the Co-Founder and Partner of Craft Ventures. He previously worked at Zenefits as an Investor, COO, and Interim CEO. David Sacks attended the University of Chicago Law School and Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rumi.ai — Rumi.ai redefines meetings with AI-synced notes and tasks, streamlining your workflow and ensuring productive action tracking
  • Index — Index wants companies to use its no-code dashboard builder to help visualize their KPIs and track performance. The tool boasts integration with a variety of data providers so that users aren’t forced to manually enter data into another tool. The startup hopes that building embeddable dashboards will help their solution catch fire and that startupswill turn to their tool when they want to track progress on goals.
  • Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
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mohamed alsamman
Angel · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

mohamed alsamman

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Delivery, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Awfar — Awfar Market is the first online platform for supermarket and Grocery Stores in MENA Region, providing users with the ability to choose their favorite supermarket chain and shop for groceries, also comparing and viewing products nutrition information and picking appropriate delivery time & method of payment. Awfar Market provided the deliveryy service in the most safe and hygienic way through Through our Cloud Sourcing Delivery Application, Delivery Rep ( with their cars ) using our Application to pickup order and deliver to customer GPS Location, which is equipped with the required tools to keep your groceries safe, cool and fresh.- Vision Our Vision to be a leader in the e-commerce Sector In Middle east Through building a new shopping experience matching with culture of Middle East customers and satisfy their needs.- Mission: We are on a mission to virtualize the businesses around the Arab world
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Michael Granoff
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Michael J. Granoff is based out of Tel Aviv, Israel, and is the Founder & Managing Partner of Maniv Mobility. Michael previously worked at Zoomo as a board observer. Michael J. Granoff attended Tufts University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Transportation, Hardware
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $3.8M–$7M; Series A $5.1M–$34M; Series B $100M–$126M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blissway — BLISSWAY provides next-generation roadside tolling infrastructure deployable in weeks and at zero upfront cost to agencies.
  • WhoDoYou — Find trusted local service providers on WhoDoYou. Rely on advice collected from real conversations, skip the biased reviews and manipulated listings.
  • Revel — Electrifying cities through charging hubs, all electric rideshare, mopeds and eBikes.
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Jonathan Kolber
Angel · Kefar Shmaryahu, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Jonathan is the Founder and CEO of Anfield Ltd. He previously worked at Viola Growth as a General Partner. Jonathan Kolber attended Harvard University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • eToro — Trade and invest on a trusted multi-asset platform. Get ideas from 35M users, practise with a demo account or copy top-performing traders automatically.
  • Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
  • Atlas Invest — A platform for institutional investors to invest in real estate backed bridge loans at scale with reduced risk.
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Lior Shemesh
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Lior brings to Wix his vast 15 years of experience in shaping and leading financial strategy and operations in top technological organizations.Lior joined Wix after serving as Chief Financial Officer for two years at Alvarion Ltd.,a provider of optimized wireless broadband solutions. This followed his position as the company’s Vice President ofFinance which he held since October 2008.Prior to that, for five years, Lior served as Vice President of Finance at Veraz Networks Inc., a provider of softswitch, media gateway and digital compression solutions.Before that Lior was the Controller, and later the Associate Vice President of Finance of the Broadband division, for ECI Telecom Ltd., a network infrastructure provider.On a day off you can catch him cycling

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.
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İlker Diker
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

İlker Diker - Co-Founder - CPO @ Papara

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
  • Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
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Kaya Diker
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Kaya Diker is the Co-Founder and CTO of Faladdin and Vision Technology. He previously worked at Michigan State University as a Research Assistant. Kaya attended Michigan State University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Dating, Podcast
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
  • Shark Guitar — Premium electric guitars manufactured with robotic precision. Shark Guitars mean freedom of versatility, customization and portability.
  • A.M.A Selections — Exclusive luxury holiday villa rentals in Europe, Africa & The Caribbean with A.M.A Selections. Some of the best & most luxurious villas to rent in Europe & across The World.
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Gamze Cizreli
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Gamze Cizreli is the Founder & CEO at BigChefs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Q&A, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.
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İzzet Zakuto
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

İzzet Zakuto

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Mobile Apps, Personal Health
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
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Rıfat Elhadef
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Rıfat Elhadef

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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