Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in Middle East (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Analytics, E-Commerce | $29k–$1.9M |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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3 | United States, India, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $10k–$5M |
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Sina Afra
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet | $100k–$11M |
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Hande Enes
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $29k–$4.1M |
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Germany, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Social Media, Apps, Mobile | |
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Ron Levy
Angel
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2 | Israel | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Developer Tools, Content Creators | |
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Shlomi Selim Benbasat
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Mobile, Software, Analytics | |
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Avishai Abrahami
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $250k–$35M |
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Bashar Hamood
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $6k–$5M |
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Pavel Radzivilovsky
Angel
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2 | Israel | Pre-Seed, Seed | Hardware, Software, Content Creators | $900k–$3M |
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Amir Shevat
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence | $900k–$12M |
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Gigi Levy Weiss
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $120k–$36M |
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First Name
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Social Media, Cyber Security | $1.7M–$6M |
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Switzerland | Series A, Seed | Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Manufacturing | |
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mohamed alsamman
Angel
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1 | Egypt | Pre-Seed | Mobile, Delivery, Internet | |
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İlker Diker
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Art | |
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Kaya Diker
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Music, Dating, Podcast | |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | |
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İzzet Zakuto
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Mobile Apps, Personal Health | |
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N. Kemal Yılmaz
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Music, Dating, Podcast | |
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Ufuk Sarı
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Music, Dating, Podcast | |
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Jeremy Yap
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$5.7M |
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Eitan Reisel
Angel
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1 | Israel, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, Online Games | $1.8M–$2M |
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Rıfat Elhadef
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Sercan Alici
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | Pet, Hospitality, Photography | |
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Volkan Bicer
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Singapore, United Arab Emirates | Seed | Online Games, iOS, Mobile | |
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Yoav Vilner
Angel
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1 | Israel | Pre-Seed | Apps, Internet, Social Media | |
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Kaan Kayabalı
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Gaming, Mobile, eSports | |
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Jeremie Berrebi
Angel
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1 | United States, France, Canada | Seed, Angel, Series A | SaaS, Mobile, Software | $137k–$1.1M |
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Tobey Maguire
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | SMS, Video, Mobile | |
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Tim Draper
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $356k–$50M |
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Joachim Behrendt
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Software, Social Media | $103k–$1.9M |
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Tilli Kalisky-Bannett
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Payments, Software, Information Technology | |
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Anthony Saleh
Angel
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1 | United States, Egypt, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion | $622k–$28M |
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Michael Granoff
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Automotive, Transportation, Hardware | $3.8M–$126M |
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Aviram Jenik
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea, Israel | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning | $30k–$7M |
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Erdem Gezer
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | eSports, Logistics, E-Commerce | $369k–$679k |
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Shai Rephaeli
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | Software, EdTech, Medical | $880k–$1M |
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Barış Before
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Steve Case
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya, Canada | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Enterprise Software, Internet | $903k–$31M |
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Mustafa Sevinç
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Angel, Series A | Apps, Fitness, Health Care | $112k–$2.5M |
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Erdem Yurdanur
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Information Technology, Mobile, Marketplace | $30k–$1M |
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Nimrod Cohen
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1M–$28M |
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Hanjoo Lee
Angel
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1 | Israel | Angel | Local, Internet, Social Media | |
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Alper Akcan
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Angel | Apps, Fitness, mHealth | $400k–$2.5M |
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Ron Zuckerman
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, China | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, Video, Apps | $500k–$8M |
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Jeffrey Katzenberg
Angel
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1 | United States, Egypt, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Software, SaaS | $2.1M–$145M |
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Serkan Borancılı
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Series A, Seed, Angel | Internet, E-Commerce, Location Based Services | $350k–$2.5M |
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Kaan Kural
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Rafi Gidron
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services | $2M–$8M |
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Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1171
- Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Groccery store — Groccery store is a local Groccery store based in Hlotse, Leribe, Lesotho, designed to address a key challenge in the community
- Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
- Mercy Community School — Mercy Community School is a community-driven education initiative based in Linda Compound, Lusaka, Zambia.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $150k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Odeal — Oedeal is a developer of an app designed for companies to take payments via mobile. With the help of the company's platform, shops can do away with cash registers and accept payments from customers using tablets, smartphones, or point-of-sale devices, allowing them to finish their purchases right away. Making it simpler for all entrepreneursto access financial services is central to their mission of boosting the competitiveness of both enterprises and the nation.
- Faturalab — Faturalab is a mobile app that provides supply chain financing, payments, financial benefits, and capital management services.
- MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
Hande Enes
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- 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.
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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- Industry: Social Media, Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Letz — Letz is a mobile app that lets you find available people for all activities to hang out with.
- Missafir — Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
- Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
Ron Levy is based out of Tel Aviv District and is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of The Bono Way Charitable Foundation. Ron previously worked at Atlassian as an EMEA Lead for Atlassian Ventures. Ron Levy attended Reichman University.
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- Industry: Software, Developer Tools, Content Creators
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- daily.dev — daily.dev is the fastest growing online community for developers to stay updated on the best developer news. Together we supercharge developers' knowledge and empower better software.
- Munch — Munch allows you to create once. Repurpose to Dozens of pieces on every platform. Analyze engagement. Control Monetization. All On One Platform.
Shlomi Selim Benbasat - Founder and CEO @ Turki.sh
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- adMingle — adMingle is a global social content discovery suite that helps enterprises amplify their brands’ awareness, sales, and loyalty. adMingle is using the Internet's state-of-the-art Influencer Marketing Platform; serving enterprises to better connect with real people, influencers, or creators wishing to become their brand ambassadors or mediapartners by creating and/or engaging enterprise brand communication and ad content over their various social channels and be rewarded in return.
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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- 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 $7M–$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 turns football data into decision-ready insights in seconds, unifying external and internal data and filtering it through your club's sporting DNA.
- CustoMED — End-to-end platform turning medical scans into patient-specific surgical plans, tools & implants instantly. AI-powered surgical planning in minutes.
Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 631
- Round size: Seed $11k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $6k–$413k; Series A $33k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
- Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
- ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
Pavel Radzivilovsky is an Owner at Teramips Technologies ltd.
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- Industry: Hardware, Software, Content Creators
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $900k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
- Munch — Munch allows you to create once. Repurpose to Dozens of pieces on every platform. Analyze engagement. Control Monetization. All On One Platform.
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Browse database — It's Free!Amir Shevat is general partner at Darkmode Ventures. Previously Amir was head of the Twitter Developer Platform, the VP of developer Platform at Twitch, the director of developer relations at Slack, the global Startup Outreach lead in Google Play. Amir Led scalable programs in Developer Relations and Google Campus Tel Aviv. Amir has also foundedand sold several startups. He is a developer at heart with a passion for API and developer Platform. Author of two books - Building Web APIs and Designing Bots.
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- Industry: Software, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$12M; Pre-Seed $900k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- daily.dev — daily.dev is the fastest growing online community for developers to stay updated on the best developer news. Together we supercharge developers' knowledge and empower better software.
- Bluesky — Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.
- Clarity — Secure your digital media from Deepfakes and defend from AI-based attacks. Any media from phone and video calls to user-generated content. Built by global AI and cyber experts.
Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 191
- Round size: Seed $120k–$9.8M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$36M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% 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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Social Media, Cyber Security
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$6M; Series A $2.3M–$5.6M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% 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
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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- 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.
mohamed alsamman
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- 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
İlker Diker - Co-Founder - CPO @ Papara
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- 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!
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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- 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!
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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- 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.
İzzet Zakuto
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- 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.
N. Kemal Yılmaz is an Angel Investor.
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- 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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- 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!
Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across North America and Europe.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M; Angel $100k–$885k; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Staris — Staris is an AI-powered application security platform that continuously finds, proves, and explains exploitable vulnerabilities. Reduce false positives and validate real application risk with business context.
- Zero — Protect your devices and gain access to websites. Round-the-clock customer support. VPN for Windows, Android, macOS, iOS, and routers. Free trial period.
- Mirai — On-device SDK (developer suite) for running highly optimized inference, fine-tuning, and operating LLMs and other deep learning models on the device. We aim to make it easy for developers to choose and route the query to the right model and deploy it to the device in a couple of clicks.Mirai is addressing a significant gap in on-device AIinference and training. Current cloud-based models face high latency, privacy concerns, and reliance on constant connectivity. Developers also struggle with high costs for personalization (e.g., $100M per year for 1M MAU) which is the most crucial pain point now and a core of our GTM. There’s no existing developer-friendly solution for on-device mobile AI, fine-tuning, and management. Our vision involves expanding from a robust SDK to include a developer console for model management, benchmarks, and fine-tuning.
Eitan Reisel
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- 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.
Rıfat Elhadef
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Sercan Alici
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- Industry: Pet, Hospitality, Photography
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- DogGO — DogGO is a pet service app that uses a mobile application to offer safe and professional dog walking and grooming services to dog owners. It also offers its users a detailed profile of their pets, as well as an easy service request and tracking feature, smart and suitable matching, and 24/7 customer service to support all of their pet'sneeds. Their application has over 150,000 users and tens of thousands of pet profiles. Furthermore, by entering into agreements with corporate companies for their employees or users, they ensure that all pet families have access to DogGO when they need it.
- Albumera — Albumera provides photography services. They offer business, maternity, social media, and online photography services. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.
- 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!
Volkan Biçer is the co-founder of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network.Bicer’e employment history includes his time as product manager of Turkcell’s mobile marketing and advertising department, and community manager at Yahoo, Turkey.Bicer holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Boğaziçi University and an MBAfrom Galatasaray University.
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- Industry: Online Games, iOS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Singapore, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kidly — Kidly is an online broadcasting application that publishes illustrated and narrated books for kids and young children in the vicinity.
- 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!
- Evolution Group — Evolution Group is an operator of mobile advertising services.
Tech marketer, CEO, founder and a lame person overall. Attended Harvard University.
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- 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.
Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc.
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Wudya — Wudya is a social gaming company developing social and mobile games. Wudya developed 8 social games on Facebook like Magnificent Millennium and The Message, playable globally in Turkish, English and Arabic. In total 1.2 million users played these games.Our next product, a unique game, specially designed for smartphones and tablets offers a wholenew way of gaming experience combined with the old school methods. Whole story, design documents and a playable prototype is ready for the game.
- Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
Jeremie Berrebi is the CEO and Founder of MeetB. He previously worked at Fresh Planet as a Co-Founder. Jeremie Berrebi attended Yeshiva Netivot Olam.
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, France, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $137k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% 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.
- Optix — Optix is the only coworking software enhanced with end-to-end automation capabilities to save time and accelerate your growth.
- Immediately — Compare sweepstakes casinos rated for game variety and Sweeps Coins value. See welcome offers, redemption rules and how the free-to-play model works.
Tobey Maguire is an American actor and film producer who began his career in the late 1980s. He is known for his role as Peter Parker / Spider-Man in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy (2002–2007), as well as for his roles in Pleasantville (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999), Wonder Boys (2000), Seabiscuit (2003), Brothers (2009), andThe Great Gatsby (2013). He has been nominated for Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Awards and received two Saturn Awards, including one for Best Actor.
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- Industry: SMS, Video, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- toot — toot is an SMS service that connects students to expert tutors for homework help. Instantly connect by texting 424-292-TOOT or visit www.toot.ustoot also supports their local students with a mobile application that connects its users with local tutors face to face to help them learn various subjects ranging from math and music to video gamesand more. The application enables its users to view profiles and resumes of qualified tooters before selecting one. Text 415-319-TOOT for more info or dowload the app www.tootapp.com/gettoot was launched in 2015 by Sophia Parsa, Shakib Zabihian, and Randy Horowitz. It is operated from Santa Monica, California.
- mobli — Mobli is going to be a new social media application coming fall 2024 - tips from fans
- Casper — Get the sleep you've always dreamed of. Casper's award-winning mattresses, sheets & more are quality-crafted and ethically built in the USA. Free shipping & returns!
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Browse database — It's Free!Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 325
- Round size: Seed $356k–$5.9M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CASIMIR —
- illumicell AI — illumicell AI combines patented AI algorithms and proprietary microscopy technology to test 50x faster, 20x more effectively, empowering every healthcare provider at the point of care – not just fertility clinics – with accessible, scalable fertility diagnostics.
- 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.
Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $110k–$1.9M; Angel $103k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
- 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.
Tilli Kalisky-Bannett is a Managing Partner at SVB Capital and the Co-Founder at at-bay company. She attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: Payments, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aniways — The leading source brandable domain names. Competitive prices. Excellent service. Get your domain name today.
- AnyRoad — Brands use AnyRoad to manage, measure and scale their, live, virtual, and hybrid experiences and events with live data and unique insights
- Capitolis — Capitolis is the technology company helping to create safer and more vibrant financial markets by unlocking capital constraints and enabling greater access to more diversified capital and investment opportunities. Rooted in advanced technology and deep financial expertise, Capitolis powers groundbreaking financial solutions that drive growth forglobal and regional banks – and institutional investors alike.
Anthony Saleh is the Founder and CEO of Emagen Investment Group, Inc. and General Partner of WndrCo.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Egypt, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $622k–$5.6M; Series A $1.1M–$15M; Series B $8M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% 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.
- CREATESAFE — CREATESAFE, automating the management, distribution, and marketing of music.
- VersusGame — VersusGame offers creators and brands the opportunity to cultivate a community with an interactive content solution that rewards knowledge
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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- 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.
Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies
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- Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $30k–$7M; Angel $135k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$275k
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
- StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
- Tribe Money Pools — An early stage Seattle-based fintech startup building a digital platform to streamline how groups share and manage their finances.
Erdem Gezer
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- Industry: eSports, Logistics, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $369k–$679k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Git Kargo — Git Kargo; Yeni Nesil Kargo #gitkargo
- Healmeup — Evimdekipsikolog.com is a digital platform that provides accessible, easy, and cost-effective expert support to anyone who wants to get psychological counseling while struggling with the difficulties of life. Evimdekipsikolog.com works with a large number of experienced Psychologists and Psychological Counselors who are licensed and trained invarious fields.
Shai Rephaeli - Co-Founder and CEO @ Tutoria Digital
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- Industry: Software, EdTech, Medical
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $880k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Myndlift — Myndlift offers a therapist-guided home neurofeedback solution for mental health, using mobile and wearable technology. Home users enjoy accessible and affordable training while neuro-therapists can grow their practices with remote supervision.
- 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
Barış Before
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $903k–$5M; Series A $3.5M–$31M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FiscalNote — The #1 most trusted partner for government relations & public affairs software. Track policy, manage stakeholders, act fast.
- 75F — 75F's award-winning smart sensors and controls improve indoor air quality and make commercial buildings more comfortable and energy efficient. Automatically.
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon.
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- Industry: Apps, Fitness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations. Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
- 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.
Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost
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- Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $142k–$1M; Pre-Seed $30k–$510k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Charmy — Charmy is used so users can discover playlists. Users can share a picture and discover songs based on their mood. Their application is available for Android and iOS users. It is an online social media music site.
- Yemece — Yemece offers its customers the opportunity to design their own menus.
- Tiramisu — TIRAMISU MOBILE GAME STUDIO
Nimrod Cohen is based out of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv and is the Founder and Managing Partner of TAU Ventures. Nimrod previously worked at PLUS VENTURES as a Partner. Nimrod Cohen attended the Reichman University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M; Series A $3.7M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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.
John Lee is Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures. He is also a co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs, a startup accelerator in Korea. John is a co- founder & EVP of Corporate Development and Strategy of Hostway. He serves additional responsibilities as CEO of Hostway India. John and his fellow co- founders bootstrapped Hostwayinto a top 5 web hosting company in the world with over 700 employees.Hostway is a multinational web hosting company headquartered in Chicago, and serves more than 600,000 customers worldwide. He is currently responsible for overall corporate strategy, strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions. Previously, he has held positions in every department of the company, including leading global marketing and sales and overall P&L for North America.Mr. Lee was born and raised in Korea and immigrated to the United States at age 13. He holds a BA in Biology from the University of Chicago.
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- Industry: Local, Internet, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WhoDoYou — Find trusted local service providers on WhoDoYou. Rely on advice collected from real conversations, skip the biased reviews and manipulated listings.
Alper Akcan
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- 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.
Ron Zuckerman is based out of Berlin, Berlin, and is the Advisory Council of Börse Stuttgart group. Ron previously worked at Attunity as a Board Member.
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- Industry: Internet, Video, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Israel, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Series A $1M–$8M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
- MedHub-AI — MedHub-AI develops deep-learning video analysis algorithms that provide accurate diagnostic insights and practical guidance for physicians. Users can incorporate its algorithm into medical video systems to improve the decision-making process for cardiologists and other physicians. Its technology uses multiple technological and big-data processingmethods designed to handle a massive amount of clinical data, both visual and textual. It designs its algorithms to improve physicians' performance and shorten procedure times by providing a multilayered automated system that is implemented from diagnosis to practical procedural guidance and documentation. It currently offers solutions for the cardiology and gastroenterology markets.
- Safeguard Applied Innovation — Safeguard Applied Innovation provides a mobile performance management platform for construction enterprises. It designs its solution to enable decision-making for successful project planning and execution, delivering effective control regardless of project complexity or national regulations.
Jeffrey Katzenberg is the Founder and Managing Partner of WndrCo. He was a Co-Founder and Chairman of DreamWorks SKG.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Egypt, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $16M–$60M; Series B $30M–$145M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
- Sweatpals — Simplify your event logistics with automated waivers, tailored questionnaires, and seamless email collection all in one place.
- Mansa — Built by Black creators with a passion for making culture-positive content, Mansa is the only place to stream the best in Global Black stories
Serkan Borançılı is the founding partner of GittiGidiyor, Turkey's leading consumer-to-consumer marketplace, which was acquired by eBay in 2011 for $220 million dollars. Born in 1971 in Ankara, Borançılı graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a degree in Architecture. After working as a freelance architect, he founded ARKInformation Technologies with Burak Divanlıoğlu in 1999. Up to 2004 GittiGidiyor was administered by ARK. Borançılı is also the co-founder of UzmanTV, a video website specializing in curated content by experts, and Istanbul.net, Turkey's largest online dating platform. Borançılı is also the first investor in BiTaksi, Turkey's leading taxi-hailing app. Since, he has also invested in Modacruz, a marketplace for secondhand luxury fashion.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Location Based Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $500k–$879k; Series A $350k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BiTaksi — BiTaksi is a mobile application that enables its users to book taxis. It enables its users to locate a taxi through its online map and provides traffic data and turn-by-turn directions for drivers. BiTaksi is available for iOS and Android operating systems.
- Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
- denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
Kaan Kural
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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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- 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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Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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