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Top 30 Social Network Angel Investors in Middle East (October 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Middle East Social Network startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Social Network startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Bashar Hamood
Angel
2 United States, India, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $6k–$5M
Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
2 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Travel, Leisure, Internet $18k–$1.3M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
2 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $10k–$5M
Engin Utkan
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Art, AgTech, Farming $15k–$1.3M
Joachim Behrendt
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed SaaS, Software, Social Media $103k–$1.9M
Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
2 Turkey, Germany, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Social Media, Apps, Mobile
Erbil Karaman
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Web3, Medical, Freelance
Ozlem Petek Hun
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Film, Software, Biotechnology $52k–$100k
David Pirrie
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Seed iOS, Mobile, Internet
Zoran Arsovski
Angel
1 Bulgaria, Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Internet $204k–$6.9M
Benny Schnaider
Angel
1 Israel, United States, Australia Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Apps, EdTech $4M–$20M
Ibrahim Ulukaya
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed AgTech, Gaming, Retail $31k–$700k
Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Analytics, E-Commerce $29k–$1.9M
Ayhan Ağırgöl
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Social Network
Tunay Gur
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel IaaS, SaaS, Software
Mehmet Gürleyen
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Freelance, Social Network, Professional Services
Aksel Kastoryano
Angel
1 Turkey, Hungary, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Big Data, Software, Training
Jeff Pulver
Angel
1 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Mobile, Android, CRM $95k–$5.5M
Mortimer Singer
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Private Equity E-Commerce, Manufacturing, B2B $1.3M–$3.6M
Horia Manda
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Marketing, Mobile Apps, Social Media
Chantalle Dumonceaux
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates, Singapore Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Internet, Software, E-Commerce $800k–$1M
Huseyin Karayagiz
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed AgTech, Battery, Farming
Emrullah Saku
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Social Network
Abdullah Mohammed Al-Dosari
Angel
1 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Payments, Social Media
Daniel Eskapa
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Enterprise Software $165k–$565k
Avishai Abrahami
Angel
1 Israel, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $250k–$35M
Bill Tai
Angel
1 United States, Australia, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $1.3M–$105M
Yaki Reisner
Angel
1 Israel Seed Real Estate, Social Network
Yusuf Azoz
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Internet, Freelance, Social Network
Sinan Güler
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Fitness, Software, Wellness $135k–$2.5M
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 631
  • Round size: Seed $11k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $6k–$413k; Series A $33k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
  • Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
  • ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Kıvılcım Çaylı is the author of "Startup Investor's Handbook", a technology company investor with 18 investments in 5 countries, management consultant, and private equity professional.He holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration), CPEP™ (Chartered Private Equity Professional), and FMVA® (Financial Modeling & ValuationAnalyst) degrees and a Capital Markets Activities License Level 3. After many years of corporate business experience in global companies and entrepreneurial experience in the companies he founded, he has contributed to the growth journey of nearly a hundred companies in his management consultancy career.He is the CEO of Kanvas Management Consultancy Company and Kılıç Çaylı & Partners Law Office and Private Equity & Venture Capital (PE & VC) Director & Partner at Financial Axis A.Ş. | GGI. He makes his personal investments under the Pareto Ventures brand.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Leisure, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fonbulucu — fonbulucu is a crowding funding platform that provide innovative financing and investment system benefit to entrepreneurs and investors.
  • Teleporter — California and Istanbul based VR gaming company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of VR medium and creating high-quality experiences that redefine social interaction and gaming.
  • UnderTheDoormat — UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1171
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Groccery store — Groccery store is a local Groccery store based in Hlotse, Leribe, Lesotho, designed to address a key challenge in the community
  • Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
  • Mercy Community School — Mercy Community School is a community-driven education initiative based in Linda Compound, Lusaka, Zambia.
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Engin Utkan
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

A. Engin Utkan is Senior Salesforce Consultant | Flow Automation Expert | Application Architect

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, AgTech, Farming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Tarfin — Using its cloud-based platform and smart algorithms, Tarfin provides underbanked farmers with high-quality farm inputs and competitive point-of-sale financing. Tarfin is the winner of EFSE's 2016 Financial Inclusion Challenge.
  • Makswin Real Estate Technologies, Inc. — Cutting-edge technological solutions aimed at data inconsistency and inefficiencies in the real estate industry.
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Joachim Behrendt
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$1.9M; Angel $103k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
  • Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
  • Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Letz — Letz is a mobile app that lets you find available people for all activities to hang out with.
  • Missafir — Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
  • Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
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Erbil Karaman
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Erbil Karaman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Huma. He previously worked at Earnin as a Chief Product Officer. Erbil Karaman attended Middle East Technical University,

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web3, Medical, Freelance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bionluk — A community-driven platform where creative class meets like-minded people, and get hired.
  • inshAllah — Superstake your Solana | https://t.co/wBBBzeX5VN
  • HoustonBionics — HoustonBionics is proud to introduce ExoRehab X, a revolutionary at home stroke rehabilitation device to help support recovery.
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Ozlem Petek Hun
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Ozlem Petek Hun

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Film, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $52k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best-automated bus configurations for the needsof public transportation operators.
  • Materix — Materix is a nanotechnology company collaborating with industry and academia to develop commercializable materials. The company uses thin films for surface properties, providing hydrophobic, photocatalytic, protection, and antibacterial functions.
  • Octo — Octo Networks build app for connecting the communities.
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David Pirrie
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

David is the Founder, Owner, and Non-Executive Director of Financial Software Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Melltoo — Best quality & prices for new and used mobiles, computers & laptops, electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, autos. FREE DELIVERY UAE. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
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Zoran Arsovski
Angel · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $870k–$6.9M; Angel $204k–$430k; Pre-Seed $660k–$901k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

Benny Schnaider is the Chairman of Brinker. He previously worked at Oracle as a VP SW Development. Benny Schnaider attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Raftt — Raftt provides easy-to-use developer environments which run in the cloud, enabling advanced collaboration while using existing local IDEs and other tools and workflows. No more "it works on my machine"!!
  • Matific — Matific is a multi-award winning e-learning platform for K-9 mathematics. Designed by pedagogical experts. 2000+ curriculum aligned activities.
  • Wing Cloud — Wing Cloud tames cloud complexity through a unified programming and operational model that works across all providers and services.
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Ibrahim Ulukaya
Angel · Manhattan, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Ibrahim Ulukaya

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Investment focus

  • Industry: AgTech, Gaming, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$700k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vahaa — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
  • artlabs — Fast and Scalable 3D Generation with AI | 3D Asset Interoperability | Hyper-Realistic Augmented Reality and Virtual Try-On Experiences
  • Octo — Octo Networks build app for connecting the communities.
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$1.9M; Angel $44k–$250k; Pre-Seed $29k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blaze Labs — Blaze is real-time video infrastructure with wallet-native subscriptions and tips with instant payouts, delivering low-latency live streaming at global scale.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
  • Onlayer — Our powerful solutions suite streamlines onboarding, compliance, monitoring and insights to mitigate risk and secure growth at every stage of the digital business lifecycle.
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Ayhan Ağırgöl
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Ayhan Ağırgöl

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Network
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Octo — Octo Networks build app for connecting the communities.
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Tunay Gur
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Tunay Gur - Engineering Manager @ Meta

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Investment focus

  • Industry: IaaS, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bionluk — A community-driven platform where creative class meets like-minded people, and get hired.
  • Virtkick — Virtkick lets independent hosting companies increase conversion rates, simplify server management and take on the biggest players. Virtkick is a SaaS cloud management panel that offers simplicity and great user experience for our customers - hosting companies - and their end customers - software developers, software houses, designers etc.
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Mehmet Gürleyen
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Mehmet Gürleyen is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Freelance, Social Network, Professional Services
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bionluk — A community-driven platform where creative class meets like-minded people, and get hired.
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Aksel Kastoryano
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Aksel Kastoryano is the Co-Founder at Cameralyze.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Software, Training
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Hungary, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Datapare — Expert data engineering consultancy. Build robust pipelines, modern platforms, and AI-ready infrastructure.
  • Avatao — Avatao’s security training goes beyond simple tutorials and videos offering an interactive job-relevant learning experience to developer teams, security champions, pentesters, security analysts and DevOps teams.With 600+ challenges and tutorials in 10+ languages, the platform covers a wide range of security topics across the entire security stackfrom OWASP Top 10 to DevSecOps and Cryptography. The platform immerses developers in high-profile cases and provides them with real, in-depth experience with challenging security breaches. Engineers will actually learn to hack and patch the bugs themselves. This way Avatao equips software engineering teams with a security mindset that increases their capability to reduce risks and react to known vulnerabilities faster. This in turn increases the security capability of a company to ship high-quality products.
  • Plugger.ai — Cameralyze is a no-code AI platform to design and build AI applications and workflows without writing code. It includes hundreds of ready-to-use integrations and applications.
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Jeff Pulver
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Throughout his highly successful international career, Jeff Pulver contributed to helping to launch the VoIP industry in 1995 and helped grow it to what has now become a two trillion dollar global industry in 2019. As an Internet Pioneer known for his work in VoIP, Jeff literally helped change the way the world communicates. Jeff launched the firstphone network on the Internet known as Free World Dialup in 1995; launched the VoIP Industry Trade Show VON in 1997; founded the company which is now known as Vonage in 1998 and worked with policy makers in Washington, D.C. which resulted in the landmark order issued by the FCC in 2004 known as “The Pulver Order.”His work in Washington on getting “The Pulver Order” passed is the reason services like: FaceTime, Telegram and WhatsApp are free both in the US and in over 100 countries around the world. Jeff has influenced the creation of numerous startups and has invested in over 400 startups. Currently exploring the intersection of: Blockchain and Finance. As Co-Founder of The Local Group, Jeff is a passionate advocate of Programmable Securities and Digital Assets. Strategic adviser to Blockchain projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Android, CRM
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$5.5M; Angel $95k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fever — Enjoy the best experiences. Get rewarded with Fever Club. Recommendations based on you. Making plans made easy.
  • JamStar — Jamstar is a FREE app that teaches you how to play guitar without external devices or connections! Any guitar works. Available for Android, iOS & the web!
  • Zola Books — Zola Books provides the tools for anyone anywhere to sell any book online. Giving power to writers, booksellers, publishers and more since 2012.
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Mortimer Singer
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Mortimer Singer is the president of Marvin Traub Associates, a business development and strategy consulting firm focused on advising brands, retailers and developers in the upscale retail and consumer goods sector. Mr. Singer oversees all aspects of Marvin Traub Associates’ business from strategic consulting to M&A advisory in the fashionand retail industries with clients domestically, as well as in the UAE, Russia, India and Europe. Mr. Singer is also a co-founder of TSM Capital, MTA’s investment vehicle.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Manufacturing, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Private Equity
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Getonic — GETONIC provides a unique solution for commerce across all social media channels. From music to media fans are rewarded for buying and sharing.
  • NuORDER — Unleash your true potential with NuORDER by Lightspeed. The leading B2B platform powering commerce for the world's best brands and retailers.
  • Sabatino North America — Sabatino Truffles has been the leading truffle company since 1911. We are the premier destination to buy truffles and truffle products like truffle oil, truffle salt, and Truffle Zest. Visit our store to buy fresh white truffles and black truffles from Italy and more. Our NYC store also sells Italian truffles direct.
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Horia Manda
Angel · Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Horia Manda has over 17 years of experience in private equity investment management in South-Eastern Europe. He has built a very successful track record in the management, as Chairman or Director of the Board, of numerous portfolio companies, with a special focus on the financial sector. Throughout his career as an investment manager, Horia Mandaadministered equity investments in excess of EUR 200m in a variety of sectors, with successful ventures in areas as diverse as financial services, IT, retail, energy and manufacturing. Horia Manda holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Paris VII, France (1993), an MBA degree (summa cum laude) from the Romanian-Canadian MBA Program (McGill University, University of Quebec-Montreal, ASE Bucharest, 1996) and an M.Sc.in Theoretical Physics from the University of Bucharest (1984).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Mobile Apps, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
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Chantalle Dumonceaux
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Chantalle Dumonceaux is the Venture Partner of Accelerator Ventures and an Advisor to Upshift Capital. She previously worked at Womena as a Co-Founder and E11 Capital as a Partner. Chantalle Dumonceaux attended Columbia University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Melltoo — Best quality & prices for new and used mobiles, computers & laptops, electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, autos. FREE DELIVERY UAE. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
  • Souqalmal — Compare more quote features than ever from top UAE brands at souqalmal.com
  • OfficeRock — Online e-commerce store specifically built to service small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company aims to offer end to end business supply solutions from office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry, cleaning and uniforms.
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Huseyin Karayagiz
Angel · Yeniköy, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Huseyin Karayagiz

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Investment focus

  • Industry: AgTech, Battery, Farming
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best-automated bus configurations for the needsof public transportation operators.
  • Vahaa — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
  • Batron Energy — Batron is an Energy Electronics Company that offers services in the field of smart Energy Management and Li-Ion Storage Systems.
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Emrullah Saku
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Emrullah Saku

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Network
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Octo — Octo Networks build app for connecting the communities.
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Abdullah Mohammed Al-Dosari
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Payments, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bubbl Widget — A note from your person, waiting on the Home Screen.
  • SimpliFi — We power the cards behind your brand. Instantly issue and manage virtual or physical cards, enable payments in multiple currencies, and scale globally through one secure API platform.
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Daniel Eskapa
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Daniel is not as well known in the Tech Investing world, but he’s quietly been investing in the tech space and been making some really incredibly smart investments. We were introduced through a mutual friend and before we knew it, we had spent hours upon hours together hanging out, talking about Tout, talking about life, spirituality, and doinggood in the world. I’m super excited to have Daniel on as an Investor and an Advisor, and most importantly a good friend.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $165k–$565k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Consumr — Consumr is an unbiased, democratic platform that allows its users to make informed decisions and express their opinions. The platform was created for ratings and reviews of consumer products. Its app lets users instantly see the opinions of people just like them by scanning a barcode.Consumr supports its users in taking decisions related toeverything from buying a stroller for the first time or purchasing a new camera to capture life’s special moments. Its community has shared over 1 million ratings to help its users.Consumr was featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, U.S.A. Today, InStyle, and more. Launched in 2011 by Ryan Charles, The platform is based in New York, N.Y.
  • Rukkus — Find the best prices and selection of Sports, Music & Theater Tickets in dynamic Virtual Reality. https://t.co/nAmCzHdAmH
  • Juno — Juno is a fresh approach to ride sharing. By leading with its values and putting drivers first, it will pave the way for better rider experiences. Launching in New York spring 2016
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Avishai Abrahami
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Willow — The AI basecamp for the enterprise.Willow (formerly Webrix) connects any AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to your internal systems with the visibility security needs and the enablement teams want. SSO, RBAC, audit trail, and runtime guards, built in.You'll find: - Technical deep dives on MCP, agents, and AI governance - Enterprise AIadoption playbooks (not hype) - Real implementation walkthroughs from production deployments - Conversations with CISOs, platform leaders, and AI adoption ownersBuilt for: CISOs, VPs of Engineering, platform leads, and CTOs rolling out AI at scale.
  • Marquee — Marquee turns football data into decision-ready insights in seconds, unifying external and internal data and filtering it through your club's sporting DNA.
  • CustoMED — End-to-end platform turning medical scans into patient-specific surgical plans, tools & implants instantly. AI-powered surgical planning in minutes.
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Bill Tai
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Bill Tai is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the Co-Founder of OneOf. Bill previously worked at Maxthon International Limited as a Chairman of the Board. Bill Tai attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M; Series A $3M–$31M; Series B $2M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dyad — Unlock better patient outcomes and streamline healthcare operations with AI-driven solutions. From improved care coordination to enhanced compliance, our platform optimises value-based care for payers, providers, and ACOs. Trusted by the NHS for over 5 million patients.
  • Robyn — Robyn provides an AI-powered marketing mix modeling platform that helps brands optimize media spend and measure performance.
  • TrustedRouter — TrustedRouter develops an independent API router and intelligent architecture that protects privacy through an attested gateway.
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Yaki Reisner
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Yaki Reisner

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, Social Network
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ChatList — ChatList is a social network for real estate transactions, young and innovative that allows the user to find the right apartment in the most convenient and efficient way.
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Yusuf Azoz
Angel · Istambul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

After getting his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University, Yusuf Azoz completed his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. Starting his business life in the USA, he worked for four years as senior consultant at Telcordia Technologies, formerly Bell Labs. After returning to Turkey in 2001,he held various positions at Turkcell Value Added Services, finally serving as the Division Head of Consumer Services, responsible of product marketing of Turkcell's consumer value added services, including messaging, mobile internet, music and entertainment services. During this period he witnessed the evolution of internet and mobile technologies, undertaking innovative projects in both fields. Since 2007, Yusuf Azoz is the CEO of Kariyer.net , Turkey’s biggest online recruitment platform with a database of nearly 18 million resumes and 49 thousand member companies, serving with 10 regional offices around the country.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Freelance, Social Network
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bionluk — A community-driven platform where creative class meets like-minded people, and get hired.
  • HIZLIÇEVİRİ — HIZLIÇEVİRİ is a professional translation platform that enables its users to get contracts, academic papers, technical specifications, and many other documents translated from professional and certified translators. The platform offers translation services for over 36 languages.HIZLIÇEVİRİ was launched in 2014 and is operated from Istanbul,Turkey.
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Sinan Güler
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Sinan Güler is a Co-Founder at Guler Legacy. He attended Carroll College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Software, Wellness
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2.5M; Angel $135k–$248k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
  • Uniqgene — Uniqgene combines the innate genetic data of individuals with physical parameters and transforms them into meaningful data, thus aiming to always be by your side by offering personalized reports to athletes, sports clubs and people who love to engage in sports activities.
  • DeepSport — DeepSport is a new-gen mobile fitness app powered by AI to coach you in real time. It sees the user through the mobile phone camera and pinpoints the joints. This way, it calculates the angles of the body and defines the body position, giving real-time voice feedback, counting reps and calculating the accuracy.
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