Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in Middle East (August 2026)
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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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Sina Afra
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet | $15k–$11M |
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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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Ron Levy
Angel
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2 | Israel | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Developer Tools, Content Creators | |
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Gigi Levy Weiss
Angel
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2 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$45M |
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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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Angel
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2 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Social Media | $1.6M–$5.6M |
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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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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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John Henderson
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Internet, Analytics | $120k–$110M |
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Steve Case
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Enterprise Software, Internet | $650k–$31M |
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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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Mustafa Sevinç
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Angel, Series A | Apps, Fitness, Software | $112k–$2.5M |
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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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Sami ElShafai
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed | Big Data, Software, Analytics | |
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Aviram Jenik
Angel
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1 | South Korea, United States, Israel | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence | $74k–$18M |
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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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Brian Norgard
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $750k–$15M |
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Lior Delgo
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed | TV, SaaS, Content | |
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Mustafa Vardalı
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Series A, Angel | Apps, Fitness, Software | $112k–$15M |
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Scooter Braun
Angel
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1 | United States, Egypt, Norway | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Wellness | $2M–$70M |
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Abdullah Mohammed Al-Dosari
Angel
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1 | Saudi Arabia | Pre-Seed | Apps, Social Media, Social Network | |
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Erdem Gezer
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Itzik Ben Bassat
Angel
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1 | Israel | Pre-Seed | Apps, Internet, Social Media | |
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Farhana Rahman
Angel
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1 | Israel | Pre-Seed | Apps, Internet, Social Media | |
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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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Shaul Olmert
Angel
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1 | Israel | Pre-Seed | Apps, Internet, Social Media | |
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Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Yalcin Ayaydin
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Q&A, Internet, Social Media | |
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Net Jacobsson
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Local, Beauty | |
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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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Kaan Kayabalı
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | eSports, Education, Communities | |
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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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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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Isaac Applbaum
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Mobile, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $483k–$15M |
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Hanjoo Lee
Angel
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1 | Israel | Angel | Local, Internet, Social Media | |
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Yossi Vardi
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States | Angel, Seed, Series A | Search Engine, Internet, Software | $100k–$1.7M |
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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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Alper Akcan
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Angel | Apps, Fitness, mHealth | $400k–$2.5M |
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Rıfat Elhadef
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Eyal Waldman
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Software | $1.1M–$55M |
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Yechiam Yemini
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence | |
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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 | $550k–$28M |
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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: 46
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Odeal — Oedeal is a 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.
- MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
- Temizlikyolda — Get professional Home Cleaning Service from our referenced professionals for your home cleaning needs.
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 — AI-powered electrical schematic analysis. Design faster. Avoid re-spins. Launch with confidence.
- Munch — Munch allows you to create once. Repurpose to Dozens of pieces on every platform. Analyze engagement. Control Monetization. All On One Platform.
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 — Bluesky is a new social media platform.
- 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.
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.
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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $6.5M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% 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.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- 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
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 $13M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Willow — The AI basecamp for the enterprise.Willow (formerly Webrix) connects any AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to your internal systems with the visibility security needs and the enablement teams want. SSO, RBAC, audit trail, and runtime guards, built in.You'll find: - Technical deep dives on MCP, agents, and AI governance - Enterprise AIadoption playbooks (not hype) - Real implementation walkthroughs from production deployments - Conversations with CISOs, platform leaders, and AI adoption ownersBuilt for: CISOs, VPs of Engineering, platform leads, and CTOs rolling out AI at scale.
- Marquee — Marquee 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.
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: 17
- Round size: Seed $125k–$4.1M; Angel $50k–$280k; Pre-Seed $29k–$430k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
- Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $120k–$11M; Series A $2.8M–$17M; Series B $5.4M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aniways — The leading source brandable domain names. Competitive prices. Excellent service. Get your domain name today.
- Sablier — Free-to-use infrastructure for token distribution. DAOs and businesses use Sablier for vesting, payroll, airdrops, and more.
- RockSolid Network — RockSolid Network is a DeFi protocol offering institutional-grade liquid vaults and white-label vault solutions.
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
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $3.5M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% 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.
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: 24
- Round size: Seed $137k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aniways — The leading source brandable domain names. Competitive prices. Excellent service. Get your domain name today.
- Optix — Optix is the only coworking software enhanced with end-to-end automation capabilities to save time and accelerate your growth.
- Immediately — Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce.Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, tosending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows.We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.
Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon.
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- Industry: Apps, Fitness, Software
- 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.
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!
Sami ElShafai
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- Industry: Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Crowd Analyzer — The 1st media and digital crowd monitoring, analytics and activation by which brands and agencies can understand people's opinions on social, analyze their content, ask them questions, and incentive them to do digital actions.
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, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $491k–$18M; Angel $250k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $74k–$275k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% 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 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 a music social media site available online. Users can create playlists, share photos, and search for songs they prefer.
- Yemece — Yemece offers its customers the opportunity to design their own menus.
- Tiramisu — TIRAMISU MOBILE GAME STUDIO
Brian Norgard is Chief Product—and team builder extraordinaire—at Tinder. Under his leadership, Tinder is the fastest growing mobile revenue company in consumer Internet history.In less than 3 years, Tinder became the top-grossing mobile app in the world, created over $11 billion dollars in market value and led to hundreds of millions ofconnections worldwide. Brian is considered one of the most authoritative voices in the dynamics surrounding subscription-based business models.As a creator of blockbuster products like Super Like, Boost, Tinder Gold, Super Likeable. Brian extinguished industry records and redefined the physics of the category. Brian's product philosophy of simple, fun and useful is utilized throughout the industry and has resulted in more than 200 million lifetime downloads. His product team is consistently lauded as world-class and best-in-industry with respect to experience design. Josh Elman of Greylock Partner stated, "Brian built the smartest business on top of an active consumer product that we have seen in ages. Maybe ever."At 25, Brian was the youngest GM/VP in the history of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp after the acquisition of his first company Newroo where he served as the GM of MySpace News and FIM Labs. In 2012 Brian built one of the fastest growing Facebook applications in history (Chill) which reached over 30MM people. Thereafter, his Kleiner Perkins funded mobile messaging application Tappy became Tinder’s first acquisition. Brian also co-founded advertising network Ad.ly which was acquired by Nestivity in 2014.A respected and savvy investor, Brian helped entrepreneurs ignite franchises from AngelList—where he was the first angel investor—to Tinder. Brian's investment vehicle, Norgard Fund, invests in startups ranging from Lyft to SpaceX. Brian graduated with honors from Brown University where he received a prestigious NCIIA Grant awarded to top collegiate innovators.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $750k–$12M; Pre-Seed $2.7M–$3.1M; Series A $5.6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Frond — Building new spaces for communities that can't share a place.
- Perle AI — Kiva AI is a platform designed to supply high-quality and compliant data solutions at scale to create specialized AI applications in domains such as healthcare, finance, and law.
- Hedges — The easiest way to trade commodities.
Lior is an entrepreneur with a proven record of building disruptive technology and new business models. He was Co-Founder and CEO of FareChase (acquired by Yahoo) and VideoSurf (acquired by Microsoft). He loves leading product and technology teams, most recently as a Partner and GPM of Microsoft’s Xbox, and holds numerous technology patents.
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- Industry: TV, SaaS, Content
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Silo — Half-built, fully committed.
- Karat — Karat helps companies hire top engineering talent by improving the quality, efficiency, and equity of their technical hiring process
- Social Studios — Transform your digital marketing strategy with Page Ads. Our platform provides intuitive tools for campaign management, analytics, and more.
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Browse database — It's Free!Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.
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- Industry: Apps, Fitness, Software
- 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.
Scooter Braun is one of the entertainment industry’s biggest entrepreneurs and innovators and the founder of SB Projects, a diversified entertainment and media company with ventures at the intersection of music, film, television, technology, brands, culture, and social good. Braun has a roster of the top pop culture icons under his management,record label, and publishing companies that include Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Zac Brown Band, and Karlie Kloss.Braun has broken more new artists than any other music executive in the last decade and has expanded his reach by establishing a fund, which invests in some of the largest management, media, and rights companies in the industry. SB Projects houses a film and television production division and also continues to impact new verticals under its tech incubator, Silent Labs, which holds investments in Uber, Spotify, Songza, Casper, Waze, and Pinterest.Braun also leads Ithaca Holdings LLC., a fully integrated holding company with interests across multiple verticals. The company has built an elite portfolio of acquisitions and partnerships including the acquisition of Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Label Group, Mythos Studios with Marvel Founding Chairman David Maisel, the acquisition of Atlas Publishing, and partnerships with management companies.Braun remains committed to SB Projects’ founding philosophy of giving back by serving on the boards of Pencils of Promise and Fuck Cancer, and he, his clients, and his companies have – together – granted more wishes for Make-A-Wish than any other organization in the history of the foundation.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Egypt, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- 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.
Abdullah Mohammed Al-Dosari is the Founder and Managing Director at T2.
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- 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.
Erdem Gezer
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Git Kargo — Git Kargo; Yeni Nesil Kargo #gitkargo
Itzik Ben Bassat
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- Industry: Apps, Internet, Social Media
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
Farhana Rahman
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- Industry: Apps, Internet, Social Media
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
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.
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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- Industry: Apps, Internet, Social Media
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Wudya — 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.
Yalcin Ayaydin
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- Industry: Q&A, Internet, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Net Jacobsson is a former early Facebook Executive, Co-founder of Sparklabs Global Ventures, entrepreneur, angel investor & passionate mountain biker.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Local, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
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
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- Total investments: 34
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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
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- Total investments: 40
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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
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- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc.
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- Industry: eSports, Education, Communities
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
N. Kemal Yılmaz is an Angel Investor.
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- Industry: Music, Dating, Podcast
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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!
Ufuk Sarı is the Angel Investor.
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- Industry: Music, Dating, Podcast
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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: 34
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M; Series A $3.7M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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.
Isaac Applbaum joined MizMaa Ventures Limited as Founder and Partner in 2016.Isaac Applbaum is a founding General Partner of Opus Capital, a billion dollar early stage venture fund, .focusing his efforts on finding Israeli-based investments for the firm. Previously, Isaac was a Partner and Managing Director for Israel at Lightspeed Venture Partnersan early stage venture capital firm with over two billion dollars under management.Prior to joining Lightspeed, Mr. Applbaum was the founder and CEO of Concorde Solutions Inc. (CSI). In 1998 Mr. Applbaum sold CSI to Bank of America becoming a Senior Vice President at the bank with responsibility for running the bank’s E-ventures group and an advisor to the strategic investments group.Before founding Concorde Solutions, Mr. Applbaum was responsible for running US operations for Advanced Technology International, a large Israeli software development company.Mr. Applbaum currently serves as a Senior Advisor for Philanthropy to the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat. Mr. Applbaum is President of the Board of the California Israel Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of The Western Wall Heritage Foundation, is on the board of directors of: The Koret Israel Economic Development Funds, the Shalem Institute, the Modern Bank and is on the National Council of AIPAC. Mr. Applbaum is a member of the Young Presidents Organization.
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- Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $769k–$3M; Pre-Seed $483k–$1.1M; Series B $6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KLIPY — Discover KLIPY, the largest library of localized GIFs, Memes, Stickers and Clips! Make your conversations fun and expressive with the best content.
- Popsa — Popsa 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.
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.
One of Israel’s early entrepreneurs, Yossi Vardi co-founded, led, funded and helped build more than 80 high-tech, energy, natural resources, and clean-tech companies. Many of them went public, including Tekem, Alon Energy, Granite Hacarmel, answers.com, scopus, International Lasers Technologies, epals, tocows, brightcove, other were acquired :Gteko (by Microsoft), Tivella (by cisco,) Airlink (by sierra wireless), Foxytunes (by yahoo),starnet (by IAC),Gift project (by ebay).As the founding investor ofMirabilis Ltd, -the creator of iCQ - Vardi co-pioneered instant messaging. ICQ was one of the internet’s earliest successes, later sold to AOL.Vardi was chairman of the board of trustees of Jerusalem Foundation, serves on the board of trustees of the technion and served on those of Weitzman Institute. Hebrew university, open university .he was advisor to the World Bank, United Nations Development Program , CEO’s of Amazon, AOL, Siemens Albis, and Allied–signal. member of the World Economic Forum, and Co-chairman of the EU-Israel business dialogue.Vardi had an extensive government and public career, hewas the director general of Ministry of Development and Ministry of Energy. was chairman of Israel National Oil Company, and Israel Chemicals. participated in the peace talks with Egypt, Palestinians, Jordan and Syria. He received Honorary Doctorates from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and the Ben Gurion university , the Prime Minister Hi-Tech Award for life achievements (twice); Best Internet Personality by TechCrunch Europe; Entrepreneur of the Year by Tel Aviv University , Europe’s 25 top techs by Wall Street Journal; and one of the 200 Greatest Israelis of all times by Ynet. was elected by Israel 21c to the top 10 icons of Israeli high tech - the pioneers, by The Algemeiner for the "jewish 100 - the top 100 people positively influenced jewish life " and by wired magazine (uk) as number 9 of the wired 2014 top 100 influential people in EuropeYossi Vardi sits on the advisory boards of 3i and Amdocs and has served on boards of numerous state and private corporations including Bezeq, Israel Electric, and the Bank of Israel. Yossi has also been an Advisor to the CEOs of AOL, Amazon, and Allied Signal. Yossi Vardi has received many awards, including the Prime Minister of Israel Hi-Tech Award for life achievements on two occasions, the Industry Prize, the Ramniceanu Prize and CEOs Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame.
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- Industry: Search Engine, Internet, Software
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Angel $100k–$268k; Series A $1.1M–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RoomiePics — RoomiePics is a social camera for sharing photos with people nearby. The app is currently in development.
- Similarweb — All in one Website analytics & competitive traffic intelligence platform - Compare website traffic and performance, analyze strategies & grow your market share!
- The Gifts Project — The Gifts Project is a social ecommerce platform for Group Gifting that helps online retailers, marketplaces and gift stores to leverage their social buying experience. This white label solution brings major ecommerce websites a Social Group Gifting Platform with a winning combination of Social Networks and Group Payment straight to theircheckout process. With Group Gifting, customers can share their special occasions with their social graph by letting friends to chip in for each others gifts while shopping at their favorite online store. The Gifts Project is a product of Appchee Applications Ltd., an Israeli startup company that is backed by
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.
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.
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
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.5M; Series A $10M–$55M; Series B $31M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Regatta — AI winners won't be decided by models; They'll be decided by data.
- 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.
Yechiam Yemini is the current Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor at Turbonomic. He previously worked at Comverse Technology as a Co-founder. Yechiam Yemini attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel
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- Total investments: 5
- 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.
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: 44
- Round size: Seed $550k–$5.6M; Series A $1.1M–$15M; Series B $8M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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.
- Lootsie — Lootsie is mobile-first customer loyalty. Our partners include Warner Bros, Rotten Tomatoes, Dreamworks, Pik Pok, JoyBits, Perfect365, and even BART. We're re-inventing "smart" loyalty, applying the most cutting edge software technologies — moving at the speed of thought.
- CREATESAFE — CREATESAFE, automating the management, distribution, and marketing of music.
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Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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Blaze Labs
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Kolay Randevu
— Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
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Mindsite
— Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
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