Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Middle East in April 2025

Investor	Social Media Middle East investments
Sina Afra	3
Cairo Angels	3
Omer Erkmen	3
Chalhoub Group	3
Pitango VC	3
Kaedan Capital	3
Benson Oak Ventures	2
Wamda Capital	2
BY Venture Partners	2
1776 Ventures	2
Gigi Levy Weiss	2
Horizon Ventures	2
First Name	2
BRM Capital	2
Avishai Abrahami	2
Cubit Investments	2
B&Y Venture Partners	2
Firstime Venture Capital	2
OurCrowd	2
HIMAngel	2
First Name	2
Algebra Ventures	2
TAU Ventures	2
Founders Fund	2
Inimiti	2
Faith Capital	2
GWC Innovator Fund	2
Raed Ventures	2
Hande Enes	2
Arzan Venture Capital	2
Rafi Gidron	1
AnD Ventures	1
Lima Ventures	1
Itzik Ben Bassat	1
Sagi Shorrer	1
David O. Sacks	1
Shaul Olmert	1
Aviv Raiz	1
Tim Draper	1
Keiretsu Forum Northwest	1
Yuval Rakavy	1
Alpha Wave Ventures	1
GIG	1
Alphan Manas	1
mohamed alsamman	1
Lior Shemesh	1
Maccabee Ventures	1
Farhana Rahman	1
Q Angels	1
Tuesday Capital	1

Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
Turkey, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.

Cairo Angels is an angel investment network that invests in and supports early-stage startups it convenes regular investment meetings to review pre-selected potential investees.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Marketplace
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Lebanon

Portfolio highlights

Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing Analytical and R&D services to the region's life science, food, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.
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The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.

Discover the world of Chalhoub Group, the leader in luxury retail and innovative solutions. Explore our collection of luxury brands, services and initiatives shaping the industry today

Investment focus

Apps, Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Zbooni — Customers are most receptive on social and messaging apps today. Bring the checkout experience to them, in real-time.
Wethenew — Acquistate le vostre autentiche sneakers prodotti streetwear in edizione limitata in modo sicuro e protetto su wethenew.com!

Pitango VC is a venture capital firm focused on health-tech (Pitango Health-tech) and growth (Pitango Growth) investments in startups around the world in domains such as vertical SaaS, digital health, deep tech, fintech and insurance technology, devops, generative AI, Web3, and food tech.With two offices in Israel, Pitango currently managesseveral venture funds totaling over $2.8 billion in committed capital. It has invested in more than 250 companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Homethrive — Homethrive is dedicated to helping families care for their loved ones who are aging or have special needs. Discover how our caregiving solution, Dari, can help you!
Guardoc Health — Streamlining clinical compliance with AI-driven accuracy in charting to meet regulations, enhance patient care, and optimize revenue management.
Quantum Source — Quantum Source is on a clear path to the most powerful, cost-effective, practical photonic quantum computer. Learn more.

Kaedan Capital is a private investment group active for over 15 years. We are entrepreneur centric investors with co-founder mentality, focused on Israeli related, seed to early stage ventures in diverse technology areas.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
NOVOS — Hundreds of Fortnite training activities and routines in a personalized schedule that fits your needs and goals. Built for competitive Fortnite players that want to place higher and make earnings.
Voyantis — Voyantis game-changing technology helps marketing and growth teams optimize their CAC payback by leveraging AI to acquire the most valuable users, across any platform

Benson Oak Ventures (“BOV”) is a buy-out and growth equity investment firm. Backed by a deep pool of international investors, BOC focuses on leading small to medium-size enterprises based in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Based in Prague, the firm’s investment professionals combine for more than 50 years of experience on the Czech and Slovakmarkets.Benson Oak s.r.o. was founded by Gabriel Eichler in 1991, and now acts exclusively as the advisor to BOC on both domestic and international acquisitions. Its advisory experience on the Czech and Slovak markets includes over 70 completed debt-raising and M&A transactions worth more than €6 billion, giving BOC unparalleled access to the highest ranks of local banks, government and corporate leaders.Since 2001, BOC has invested over €50 million across a variety of industries. Their position on the market allows us to source deals before they become public, leading to closer relationships with the companies they invest in and more aligned incentives. Once completed, they actively participate in each investment, helping to guide their portfolio companies from the early stages of strategic development through exit. Their principle goal as an organization is to invest in high quality businesses and provide those companies with the support necessary to reach new levels of performance. By adding a human element to the financial discipline they bring to each investment, they move beyond the purely monetary facets of their business and instead create true value for both their investors and the community they live in.

Investment focus

Content, Social Media, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, China

Portfolio highlights

Colu — Colu's platform helps cities engage with residents by rewarding them for taking actions that promote their strategic goals using a unique City Coin.
Verofax Limited — Transform customer experiences with AI, AR, and blockchain. Verofax enhances engagement, ensures transparency, and optimizes operations for superior service.
Talis — The NFT marketplace that empowers artists and bridges physical & digital art on the Terra blockchain.

We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system
Heltia — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.

Our team of former founders backs phenomenal early-stage founders, providing empathetic support and invaluable connections to help them scale globally.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Vasco — Vasco is a software company that provides revenue architect, finance, consultants, revops solution for startup companies.
Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.

1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Kenya, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
Clarametyx Biosciences — Clarametyx Biosciences is a late preclinical stage biotechnology company developing targeted, immune-enabling biologic therapies to counter persistent infections associated with biofilms.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kama — Kama offers sexual wellness practices that improve how you experience love, sex, and intimacy. Available on the iOS App Store.
BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
Diagnostic Robotics — Diagnostic Robotic develops a signal-agnostic artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. It allows to build powerful predictive analytics models that will solve a world-wide challenge, strained health budgets, and workforces. Diagnostic Robotic was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Horizon Ventures is a California based venture capital firm specialized in early- and late-stage investments.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Electronics
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, Israel, China

Portfolio highlights

Kytopen — Kytopen is pioneering a novel and non-viral process to engineer human cells for therapeutic applications in immuno-oncology and genetic disorders.
what3words — Every 3 metre square has a unique 3 word address.
Sandbox Banking — Sandbox Banking provides banking-as-a-service technology to banks, credit unions, and fintech. Its platform, Glyue, enables users to build banking integrations and APIs that typically accelerate connectivity projects by more than 80%. Glyue contains an extensive and constantly growing library of banking system adapters, pre-built solutiontemplates, an Excel-like integration development environment, and support tools.

First Name

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Information Technology, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel

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

BRM Capital is a dynamic venture capital fund investing in early stage, Israel-related software, internet infrastructure, and communication companies. Their investment focus is on the Internet, mobile and mobile applications, digital media, online services, enterprise software, and medical device sectors and they also offer flexible, streamlinedinvestment decision making.BRM headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel enjoys a worldwide network of industry, strategic and financial experts.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

V-Wave — V-Wave Ltd. is a privately held company with offices in Israel and the US. The company is focused on developing percutaneous implantable devices for treating patients with Chronic Heart Failure (HF). V-Wave’s vision is to help patients who remain with disabling symptoms or need hospitalization despite optimized medical treatment. V-Wave hasdeveloped a proprietary interatrial shunt intended to relieve symptoms, reduce hospitalization, increase exercise capacity and improve the overall quality of life.The original concept and development started in Israel with a talented team of engineers and medical scientists. The company’s senior management has decades of experience successfully developing, clinically testing and bringing to market multiple implantable cardiovascular devices.
ShopperAI — ShopperAI is a company that provides AI-powered shopper research and analytics tools to understand customer behavior and grow the business.
Exceed Talent Capital — Exceed is an innovative platform to invest, earn, engage, influence, and celebrate Talent.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.
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.
Unlimited Robotics — Unlimited Robotics empowers developers to build apps on Gary, the perfect robot for your business or office, and make any robot into a multipurpose one with Ra-Ya.

Cubit Investments Limited is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed/start up, and early venture investments. The firm prefers to invest in information technology and Internet companies. It seeks to invest in Israel. The firm seeks to invest between $0.1 million and $1 million. It invests through its personal capital. CubitInvestments Limited was founded in 1998 and is based in Israel.

Investment focus

Advertising, Social Media, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Spike — Streamline team collaboration with Spike's unified platform. Empower your team with chat, emails, meetings, and collaborative documents in one space.
Real — One location for all Real marketing materials and media.
Yeloha — Yeloha provides you with energy credits that helps to reduce your electric bills to great extent. Each Yeloha panel gives a minimum amount solar energy production.

Our team of former founders backs phenomenal early-stage founders, providing empathetic support and invaluable connections to help them scale globally.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bridged Media — Bridge the gap between empathy to action to boost your engagement and retention on text, audio, and video. The easiest way to help your audience create an impact.
Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance

Firstime Ventures is investing in companies who are building a sustainable & accessible future for all.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Baibys — Baibys is a medical automated platform that provides AI and robotics-based autonomous sperm selection solutions for IVF.
Securithings — Bringing IT Standards to the IoT Space.
STAX Engineering, Inc. — The STAX mission is to help 1 billion people significantly through new technologies that promote health, sustainability, reduced environmental toxins, and reduced global warming.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

HIMAngel is a venture capital and private equity firm that supports early-stage startups to grow. It fills the funds' gap as there is an increasing focus on growth-stage VC funds, but little attention and even less money made available for early-stage investments. HIMAngel was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rology — AI-assisted On-demand Teleradiology Platform
GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
FreshSource — FreshSource is revolutionizing the agriculture value chain through a tech-based B2B platform that is disrupting the distribution model of horticulture produce.

First Name

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Developer APIs, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Israel

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

Algebra Ventures invests in technology startups that leverage innovation to transform large markets. They seek high-growth companies, led by passionate and capable teams, that have a unique value proposition, and that can generate significant economic returns.Algebra Ventures looks for entrepreneurial teams that possess vision and insight as wellas the execution skills needed to build scalable companies. Algebra Ventures focuses on Series A and Series B rounds in Egypt although they do not exclude investments in earlier-stage startups or in other parts of the MENA region. They prefer to meet startups early on and get to know the team as the opportunity is shaping up.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

EFreshli — Furnishing & decorating is exciting with our expert designers, curated shopping experience, and professional setup. Transform your space with our easy 3-step process.
YoLa Fresh — At YoLaFresh, our mission is to revolutionize the fresh produce supply chain in Africa by leveraging technology and data to disrupt traditional distribution models. We strive to create a more efficient and transparent system that benefits all stakeholders, from farmers to retailers and consumers. Our vision is to create a world where access tofresh, high-quality produce is a universal right. We believe that by empowering farmers and retailers with innovative technology solutions, we will improve their livelihoods and make a positive impact on their communities.
Connect Money — White labeled card issuance - Zero upfront investment - no integrations - go live in less than 10 weeks.

TAU Ventures is an early-stage focused venture capital fund affiliated with Tel Aviv University, investing in the next generation of impactful home-grown technology companies. At the heart of the start-up nation, TAU Ventures invests the first capital into startups and is dedicated to helping them transform their ideas into global businesses.TAU Ventures cultivates an innovation ecosystem by combining the resources and global network of Tel Aviv University, strong industry connections, and a supportive home-base for founders. Together with its world-leading team of experienced mentors, TAU Ventures empowers startups in their critical, early steps. At its 1000 sq meter co-working office space located in Tel Aviv, the team works shoulder to shoulder with their portfolio companies, nurturing their growth by drawing on the strength of its innovation ecosystem on a daily basis.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
Momentick — Momentick's advanced algorithms unlock the power of satellite imagery to measure, monitor and reduce GHG emissions. Our on-demand emissions intelligence delivers the technology industries and regulatory bodies need to autonomously detect & monitor emissions on a global scale.
Kerna Labs — Developing better genetic medicines, built with AI.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ThreatMate — ThreatMate revolutionizes cybersecurity by offering a single platform with inquisitive security capabilities for the middle market. The company was founded by a team of serial entrepreneurs and cybersecurity experts that aims to protect mid-sized companies from cyber threats.
Biosphere — Biosphere engages in manufacturing commercial-scale fermentation products and robotic greenhouses.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

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Investment focus

Software, Photography, iOS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
IGNITE IMPULSE, INC. — As a digital agricultural enhancing service, Ignite impulse offers a variety of services, some of which include the following: agricultural software and equipment rentals, sales, maintenance, and leasing solutions; self-regulated farm shells with pre-installed vertical farming solutions; machined irrigation consulting and installations; artificialintelligence (AI) powered farming solutions; hydroponics farming consultation- partnership and installations; supply chain and logistics partnership; and more.Ignite Impulse also offers hydroponics solutions, as well as controlled farming assistance and consulting, to corporate, government, and educational organizations as part of our cooperation with these entities.
3D VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC — 3D technology consulting and implementation services, specializing in the application of 3D printing and 3D science to all spheres of human interaction. For instance, in the field of aquaculture, 3D farms not only cultivate seaweed and shellfish for the purpose of harvesting, but they also rehabilitate ecosystems that were damaged by commercialfishing in the past. Commercial fishing is destructive in addition to being harvesting.

Faith Capital is a venture capital firm investing in talented MENA founders building long-term value by developing sound operations at home and abroad.A Kuwait based venture capital fund owned and managed by individuals with proven business experience and success in the GCC.The principal focus of Faith Capital is on e-commerce businesses,based in the region, which have high growth potential for the future.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
Nana — Nana is an online grocery platform that provides doorstep deliveries of groceries and other home essentials. The company's platform offers a wide assortment of groceries, fruits, and vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers that enables consumers to purchase products online and get them delivered to their homes.Nana wasestablished in 2016 and is headquartered in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.

Their newly launched GWC Innovator Fund is a venture fund focused exclusively on investing in global innovators that are improving the world. Some of their recent investments include 3D Robotics in the US, Goqii in India, DayDayUp in China and Qraved in Indonesia. G-Startup Worldwide (https://angel.co/g-startup-worldwide) is theirglobal startup competition held around the world to find the most innovative, early stage startups, invest $1,000,000 in them, support them with a global network and enable them to change the world.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

BabyQuip — Rent baby equipment for holidays and vacation. All the baby gear and furniture you need: cribs, strollers, car seats, toys, etc. We deliver, setup and pick-up.
Edwin — Edwin is an AI-powered service for learning foreign languages.
FriendlyData — FriendlyData helps enterprise companies make data accessible for non-technical people by providing natural language interface to databases. FriendlyData is a San Francisco-based enterprise software company backed by 500 Startups and other Silicon Valley investors.

We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.
Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.

Hande Enes

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

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.

Arzan Venture Capital (Arzan VC) is a Kuwait-born VC firm that has been investing in startups with a MENA angle since 2014, making it one of the earliest VC firms in the region. Arzan VC's portfolio includes 30+ startups. The firm invests in young, fast-growing and innovative tech teams and it remains committed to building long-lastingrelationships with the region’s most talented entrepreneurs at an early stage.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Hulexo — UAE's leading ERP software for retail businesses. Integrated data, accurate info, real-time insights.
Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations
Revenya Capital — Revenya Capital, providing revenue-based financing to tech startups in MENA.

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

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vyzer — One platform for investment tracking, financial planning, data-driven insights, document analysis & more! Ideal for diverse portfolios.
Dig — Dig leads the market in Social Video Intelligence, enabling companies to see, understand, and control the life of their brands on Social Video in a Video-First world.
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AnD Ventures invests in early-stage startups in the artificial intelligence, database, software technologies, and emerging markets.The fund aims to accelerate and develop company building, enabling entrepreneurs to build transformational tech companies. It seeks to enhance the deal flow by partnering with IDC Herzliya’s IDCX Accelerator and theEuropean Institute of Innovation and Technology’s Calling2Scale Bootcamp, hoping to spot the best companies. The firm also will leverage close partnerships with large enterprises, hoping those companies can give needed traction to the firm’s new investments through being a customer, strategic investor.It was established in 2020 by Ariel Cohen, Kfir Kachlon, Lee Moser, and Roy Geva Glasberg in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Investment focus

Big Data, PC Games, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

VineSight — Fighting Misinformation on Social Media
Edge — A new social gaming platform, allowing every gamer to capture their gameplay highlights and turn them into "Playables" - mini game chunks augmented with challenges, that you can share with your fans, friends and the world. Edge is where every gamer can instantly become a game creator.
Onebeat — Onebeat is one of the most exciting retail-tech solutions today. We specialize in adaptive inventory management at scale, item by item.

Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Digital Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
Enqura Information Technologies — Enqura Information Technologies offers advanced technologies in conjunction with human resources as reasonable solutions. Enqura develops creative solutions in the field of digital transformation. They provide innovative and end-to-end solutions to several industries, primarily finance and insurance.

Itzik Ben Bassat

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Social Media
Pre-Seed
Israel

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.

Sagi Shorrer is an Entrepreneur, advisor and angel investor in the digital media and technology space, with 15 years of strategic and operational experience across large companies and startups (including: Google, BBDO, i-Touch, Brainbow). Strong focus on mobile apps, monetization and Internationalization.

Investment focus

Digital Entertainment, Gaming, Mobile
Seed, Series A
Singapore, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Intellect — Intellect is a global mental health benefits company serving 4 million+ members across 100 countries in 120+ languages. Access coaching, therapy, self-care tools, crisis management, L&D programmes, and more.
Trailblazer Games — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!
Treasure Play — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Social Media
Pre-Seed
Israel

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.

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

Investment focus

Apps, Family, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
Israel

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
Zest Protocol — Zest Protocol enables users to put their Bitcoin to work. Earn more BTC, or borrow against your BTC.

Keiretsu Forum is a community of private equity investors, business leaders and entrepreneurs with a network of over 50 global chapters and more than 2,500 investor members.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

iQure Pharma — iQure Pharma preclinical and clinical drug development
Levered Learning — Levered Learning is a classroom-tested and teacher-designed instructional system providing 3rd-5th grade mathematical learning. The company was founded in 2017 by Mitch Slater and is headquartered in Soquel, California, United States.
Vartega — Vartega is a technology development company specializing in the carbon fiber-reinforced plastic recycling process. We have developed alternative technology, processes, and equipment to provide low-cost carbon fiber for use in mass market applications.

Yuval Rakavy - Founder @ BRM Capital

Investment focus

Apps, Family, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
Israel

Portfolio highlights

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

Alpha Wave Ventures is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series C, Seed, Series A
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Biolinq — Introducing a revolutionary platform for metabolic health.
Attralus — Our mission is to improve the lives of amyloidosis patients by developing transformational therapeutics focused on amyloid removal.
Hunch — Use Hunch to ask weird questions and get interesting answers. Know what people really think.

GIG

Investment focus

Software, Marketing, Social Media
Series A
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Klear — Klear is a powerful and easy-to-use influencer marketing platform that handles even the most advanced needs in a delightful and intelligent way.

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

Investment focus

Q&A, Internet, Social Media
Angel
Turkey

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.

mohamed alsamman

Investment focus

Mobile, Delivery, Internet
Pre-Seed
Egypt

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

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

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Social Media
Pre-Seed
Israel

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.

Maccabee Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs who have assembled great teams with demonstrated product-market fit. Our goal is to actively assist these emerging companies inachieving market penetration, growth and scale by leveraging, harnessing and amplifying the 70,000+ well positioned alumni,faculty and academic strengths and energetic students of Yeshiva University. Founded by two (Yeshiva University) alumni, the fund is associated with, but separate and distinct from, Yeshiva University.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Marqii — Marqii’s automated system removes the daily pain points associated with updating content across consumer-facing platforms. Marqii revolutionizes the way restaurants, bars, coffee shops and dispensaries publish their menus, location data, and specials to potential customers. This process creates consistent and accurate content which leads to anincrease in unbranded local search.
GlossAI — Detect, analyze, and monitor every brand-related video with GlossAi's Social Watching platform. Enhance your brand protection, get video insights, real-time marketing, and influencer selection. Monitor and analyze videos to elevate your brand's online presence today!
PackageX — PackageX is revolutionizing the logistics industry with the world's first Headless Logistics Cloud. PackageX empowers retail and commercial enterprises to achieve unprecedented success by delivering unparalleled developer experiences, workflow improvements, customer loyalty, and profitability.

Farhana Rahman

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Social Media
Pre-Seed
Israel

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.

Q Angels is an angel investment firm that contributes to the growth of startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Podcast, Blockchain
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, Sweden, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Catio — Cloud architecture platform enabling companies to excel with cloud native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution, with the help of AI.
Finceptor — Become an early investor of Web3's top projects with over 250,000 other backers.
eTasin.com — https://etasin.com

Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Grazzy — Grazzy improves retention and recruiting for hotels, bars, restaurants and salons by powering cashless tipping and instant payouts. Safe, secure, and simple to get started.
Kollegio — Kollegio is an AI-driven platform for college applications.
Foundation Health — Foundation Health is a telehealth and nationwide pharmacies and diagnostic distribution centre