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Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in Middle East (November 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
Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Analytics, E-Commerce $29k–$1.9M
Sina Afra
Angel
3 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $100k–$11M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
3 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $10k–$5M
First Name
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Software, Social Media $1.6M–$5.6M
Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
2 Turkey, Germany, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Social Media, Apps, Mobile
Amir Shevat
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence $900k–$12M
Bashar Hamood
Angel
2 United States, India, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $6k–$5M
Avishai Abrahami
Angel
2 Israel, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $250k–$35M
Pavel Radzivilovsky
Angel
2 Israel Pre-Seed, Seed Hardware, Software, Content Creators $900k–$3M
Hande Enes
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $29k–$4.1M
Gigi Levy Weiss
Angel
2 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $120k–$36M
Ron Levy
Angel
2 Israel Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Developer Tools, Content Creators
Shlomi Selim Benbasat
Angel
2 Turkey Seed Mobile, Software, Analytics
Abdullah Mohammed Al-Dosari
Angel
1 Saudi Arabia Pre-Seed Apps, Social Media, Social Network
Itzik Ben Bassat
Angel
1 Israel Pre-Seed Apps, Internet, Social Media
Farhana Rahman
Angel
1 Israel Pre-Seed Apps, Internet, Social Media
Shaul Olmert
Angel
1 Israel Pre-Seed Apps, Internet, Social Media
Yalcin Ayaydin
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Q&A, Internet, Social Media
Net Jacobsson
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Local, Beauty
Leonardo DiCaprio
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Switzerland Series A, Seed Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Manufacturing
mohamed alsamman
Angel
1 Egypt Pre-Seed Mobile, Delivery, Internet
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
İzzet Zakuto
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Mobile Apps, Personal Health
N. Kemal Yılmaz
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Music, Dating, Podcast
Ufuk Sarı
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Music, Dating, Podcast
Rıfat Elhadef
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Sercan Alici
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Pet, Hospitality, Photography
Volkan Bicer
Angel
1 Turkey, Singapore, United Arab Emirates Seed Online Games, iOS, Mobile
Yoav Vilner
Angel
1 Israel Pre-Seed Apps, Internet, Social Media
Kaan Kayabalı
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel Gaming, Mobile, eSports
Tilli Kalisky-Bannett
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Payments, Software, Information Technology
Anthony Saleh
Angel
1 United States, Egypt, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion $622k–$28M
Michael Granoff
Angel
1 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Automotive, Transportation, Hardware $3.8M–$126M
Shai Rephaeli
Angel
1 Israel Seed Software, EdTech, Medical $880k–$1M
Barış Before
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Kaan Kural
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Angel
1 United States, Egypt, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Software, SaaS $2.1M–$145M
Isaac Applbaum
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Mobile, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $483k–$15M
Yechiam Yemini
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence $700k–$2.2M
John Henderson
Angel
1 Australia, New Zealand, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet $1M–$110M
Lior Delgo
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed TV, Content, Internet $700k–$2.3M
Yossi Vardi
Angel
1 Israel, United States Angel, Seed, Series A Search Engine, Internet, Apps $100k–$1.7M
Mustafa Vardalı
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Fitness, Health Care $112k–$15M
Eyal Waldman
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Software $1.2M–$55M
Jason Finger
Angel
1 United States, Egypt Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Apps, FinTech $1.2M–$8M
Scooter Braun
Angel
1 United States, Egypt, Norway Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Wellness $2M–$70M
Eitan Reisel
Angel
1 Israel, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Online Games $1.8M–$2M
Jeremie Berrebi
Angel
1 United States, France, Canada Seed, Angel, Series A SaaS, Mobile, Software $137k–$1.5M
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel · , Istanbul, Turkey · 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: 28
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$1.9M; Angel $44k–$250k; Pre-Seed $29k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blaze Labs — Blaze Labs makes it simple to launch real-time video with instant payouts; creating the backbone of on-chain media economics.
  • Mindsite — Monitor pricing, availability, retailer search, content, reviews and retail media with Mindsite. Turn digital shelf data into commercial decisions.
  • Onlayer — Our powerful solutions suite streamlines onboarding, compliance, monitoring and insights to mitigate risk and secure growth at every stage of the digital business lifecycle.
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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 Group acquired 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: 47
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $150k–$1.9M; 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.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • FellowMe — FellowMe is the APP for the people to follow their passions while they are connecting with other people in a simple way. Coming soon...
  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
  • Primelocation care givers foundation — Primelocation care givers foundation is the promoter and sponsor of an 80-bed secondary..
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First Name
Angel · Woburn, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$1.7M; Series A $2.3M–$5.6M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel · , Istanbul, Turkey · 2 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: 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.
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Amir Shevat
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · , , United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 645
  • Round size: Seed $13k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $6k–$413k; Series A $33k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% 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.
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Avishai Abrahami
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Avishai Abrahami is based out of New York, New York and is the Co-Founder & CEO of Wix. Avishai previously worked at Sphera as a Co-Founder.

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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 $7M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Willow — One AI access platform, every agent governed: identity, scoped access, runtime enforcement, shadow AI detection, and audit trails. Trusted by Wix, Papaya Global, Innovid and more.
  • 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.
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Pavel Radzivilovsky
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Pavel Radzivilovsky is an Owner at Teramips Technologies ltd.

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Investment focus

  • 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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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, 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.
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Gigi Levy Weiss
Angel · , , Israel · 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, 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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Ron Levy
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Shlomi Selim Benbasat
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Shlomi Selim Benbasat - Founder and CEO @ Turki.sh

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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N. Kemal Yılmaz
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

N. Kemal Yılmaz is an Angel Investor.

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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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Ufuk Sarı
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Ufuk Sarı is the Angel Investor.

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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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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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Sercan Alici
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Sercan Alici

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Investment focus

  • 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!
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Volkan Bicer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Yoav Vilner
Angel · Manhattan, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Tech marketer, CEO, founder and a lame person overall. Attended Harvard 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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Kaan Kayabalı
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Tilli Kalisky-Bannett
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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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: 49
  • 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
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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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Shai Rephaeli
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Shai Rephaeli - Co-Founder and CEO @ Tutoria Digital

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Barış Before
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Barış Before

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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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Kaan Kural
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Kaan Kural

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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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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, 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
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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 Partners an 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 $770k–$3M; Pre-Seed $483k–$1.1M; Series B $6M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KLIPY — KLIPY is the expression platform for GIFs, memes, stickers, clips and mini games. Discover, create and share content across apps and communities.
  • Popsa — Popsa sits at the intersection of AI, photos and B2C. According to Deloitte, it is one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech startups, and in both 2022 and 2023 the Financial Times ranked Popsa in the Top 20 fastest-growing software companies in the whole of Europe. Popsa is developing generative AI technology and AI agents that generate personalisedproducts for consumers based on the data contained in their own photos, therefore removing countless anxieties and manual tasks usually associated with personalisation, and empowering everyday people with professional storytelling techniques for the first time.Its award-winning app has made printing memories so easy and accessible that anyone can do it. As a result, the company receives 18,000 orders every week, increasing to 80,000 during Q4.Popsa's native iOS and Android apps are available in 12 languages – attracting more than 8 million users to date – and they ship to 50 countries around the world. Only 15% of Popsa’s revenue comes from the UK (France is their top market whilst the US is the fastest growing).People come to Popsa to create photobooks and other products, but what Popsa really does is help them process their lives and relationships through reflection on their photos. The company's longer term ambition is to become a global destination; a space to explore all of life’s moments and the emotions that come with them – not just the highlights. So holidays, but also lazy days and sad days too. Popsa believes the more you reflect, the better you understand yourself and your connections with others.
  • Ringil — Ringil is a digital platform for the management of freight logistics and transportation.
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Yechiam Yemini
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Yechiam Yemini is based out of New York, New York and is the Co Founder & Chief Scientific Advisor of Turbonomic. Yechiam previously worked at Nextorage as a Co Founder. Yechiam Yemini attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Globality — Globality revolutionizes the way your company sources and buys services by utilizing artificial intelligence to unlock cost savings, efficiency gains, and drive remote collaboration from anywhere.
  • Pensa Systems — Learn how Pensa's syndicated data solution drives growth for CPG brands and retailers through accurate and actionable shelf visibility.
  • 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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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, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $4M–$17M; Series B $6.2M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% 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 provides access to the best of DeFi with actively managed, institutional-grade liquid vaults. Quickly launch tailored DeFi solutions and democratise access to exclusive offers, and world-class DeFi strategies.
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Lior Delgo
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Lior Delgo is based out of Palo Alto, California, and is the Co-Founder and President of Globality. Lior previously worked at FareChase as a co-founder and CEO.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$2.3M
  • 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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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 Europe Yossi 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, Apps
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Angel $100k–$268k; Series A $1.1M–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Overwolf — Overwolf is the all-in-one platform that lets creators build, share and monetize in-game apps and mods. We help developers supercharge games with creator-made content and make a living doing what they love.
  • 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!
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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, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M; Series A $250k–$15M
  • 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.
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Eyal Waldman
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Eyal Waldman is a Chairman Waldo of Holdings also a board member at Speedata. He previously worked in Mellanox Technologies as a CEO. He Attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.5M; Series A $10M–$55M; Series B $31M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Regatta — The distributed database for high-performance transactional, analytical, and agentic AI workloads.
  • Oligo Security — Oligo detects the attackable open source libraries, thus filtering out about 85% of the noise. Watch now.
  • Airis Labs — Airis Labs provides a platform that turns user-generated content into field intelligence. The system extracts information from videos, images, audio, and text to help identify threats. It processes large amounts of unstructured data to support investigations and monitoring. The platform reduces time spent reviewing footage by automating theanalysis process. It offers high accuracy in locating urban areas from visual data. Airis combines multiple tools into one system for intelligence gathering and threat mapping. The platform can be deployed on private servers or through cloud networks.
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Jason Finger
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Jason Finger is a founder at Seamless.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$8M
  • 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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Scooter Braun
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

Scooter Braun is based out of Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, and is the Senior Advisor and Board Member of Hybe.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $6M–$60M; Series B $5M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swsh — Swsh is a social app that aims to strengthen true friendships rather than superficial relationships with followers.
  • Born — SLAY is a social gaming company.
  • Kindo — Kindo brings AI-native security and automation to DevOps, SecOps, and ITOps. Streamline operations, cut alert fatigue, and resolve incidents autonomously with intelligent agents.
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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, 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.
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Jeremie Berrebi
Angel · Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France · 1 investments in Middle East Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $137k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% 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 automation-first software for coworking spaces, golf simulator venues and flex spaces of every kind. Save time and grow your business.
  • 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.
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