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Top 50 Social Network Startup Investors in Middle East (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and 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 Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
GEM Capital
VC Fund
8 Cyprus, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps $400k–$15M
Joa Capital
VC Fund
4 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, PropTech, Information Technology $1M–$35M
TRANGELS
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $55k–$1.4M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
3 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Pre-Seed, Seed, Non-Equity Assistance Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $15k–$1.1M
Oqal
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace $100k–$10M
Marker
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, India Series B, Series C, Series A Software, Enterprise Software, Video $5M–$32M
Engin Utkan
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Art, AgTech, Farming $15k–$1.3M
Legziel Family
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Indonesia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $20k–$4M
Bashar Hamood
Angel
2 United States, India, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $6k–$5M
Shorooq Partners
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $600k–$29M
Viola Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2M–$35M
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$30M
Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
2 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Travel, Leisure, Internet $18k–$1.3M
Emkan Capital
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, United States, Kuwait Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Transportation, Content $1.2M–$20M
BIC Angels
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Apps, Education $13k–$1.9M
ENA Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Marketing $41k–$400k
Hesham Zreik
Angel
2 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $10k–$5M
StageOne Ventures
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.8M–$45M
Lima Ventures
VC Fund
2 Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $20k–$697k
Plus Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $550k–$5.6M
Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
2 Turkey, Germany, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Social Media, Apps, Mobile
Al-Romaizan Family Office
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Social Network, Stock Exchanges
Joachim Behrendt
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed SaaS, Software, Social Media $103k–$1.9M
Falak Startups
VC Fund
1 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps $6k–$2.4M
S3 Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Health Care, Life Science
Hashed
VC Fund
1 United States, South Korea, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Cypher Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Blizzard Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
Corner Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel Series B, Series C, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Spark Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series B, Series A, Series C Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $4M–$176M
M-Systems
VC Fund
1 Israel B2B, Electronics, Social Media
Abdullah Mohammed Al-Dosari
Angel
1 Saudi Arabia Pre-Seed Apps, Social Media, Social Network
Ozlem Petek Hun
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Film, Software, Biotechnology $52k–$100k
Zoran Arsovski
Angel
1 Bulgaria, Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Ayhan Ağırgöl
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Social Network
VCDE Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 Germany, Turkey, India Seed, Series A Software, SEO, Apps $2M–$6.1M
WR Hambrecht
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, China Series A, Series C Software, Health Care, Internet $1M–$124M
Emrullah Saku
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Social Network
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $420k–$50M
Benny Schnaider
Angel
1 Israel, United States, Australia Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Apps, EdTech $4M–$20M
Yaki Reisner
Angel
1 Israel Seed Real Estate, Social Network
Innovative Startups and SME’s Fund (ISSF)
VC Fund
1 Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Gift, Health Care $150k–$2.4M
NFX
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Stardom Ventures
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Media and Entertainment, B2B
Spinach Angels
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Hongfan Capital
VC Fund
1 China, United Arab Emirates Angel, Series A, Seed Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Cipio Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, France Series B, Series C Software, Semiconductor, Enterprise Software $5M–$50M
XVC Tech
VC Fund
1 France, Sweden, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed B2B, Blockchain, Fantasy Sports
Alpha Wave Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Israel Series C, Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
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GEM Capital
VC Fund · Paphos, Paphos, Cyprus · 8 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

GEM Capital is an international investment company that operates in private equity and venture capital markets. Leading venture capital investor in the games industry

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Cyprus, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SpeedyDD — Automate KYB onboarding, document management, compliance checks, and keep track of audit logs in one secure platform for regulated business
  • Odd Meter — Odd Meter develops video games across PC, VR, and console platforms. Focuses on action, adventure, and simulation genres.
  • Hypemasters — At Hypemasters, we create legendary & genre-defining games that players all over the world enjoy for years.
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Joa Capital
VC Fund · Az Zahra', Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 4 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Joa Capital: Pioneers in financing technology and innovation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, PropTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.4M; Series A $6M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
  • Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
  • InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!
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TRANGELS
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $67k–$1.4M; Angel $100k–$500k; Pre-Seed $55k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Datasance — Securely deploy, manage, and scale containerized workloads across thousands of heterogeneous far-edge and IoT environments.
  • Trawell Data — Trawell Data is a mobile data services company that provides travelers to use mobile data on their mobile phones without changing phones or sim cards. It enables the phone to digitally connect and use the local operator. Trawell Data was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Syosset, New York.
  • Visionteractive — Visionteractive develops social media based, fun and interactive physical and digital products, bridging the gap between online and actual world. The company aims to bring a brand together with the target audience by developing various creative products, while enhancing the memorability owing to the interactive experience with the users.Visionteractive was founded on 2013 and is based in Turkey.
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 3 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

F6 Ventures is a leading seed stage venture capital firm operating across emerging markets. We back exceptional founders from idea-stage all the way to Series A, combining early capital with strategic support and a commitment to long-term partnership. With deep ties across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond, we empower innovative startups to scale with purpose and impact. We manage over $90M in AUM across more than 300 investments in seven countries. By investing early in Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A rounds, we help founders cover initial costs, develop their product, and take it to market. This early capital acts as a launchpad, enabling startups to hit key milestones like securing first customers, attracting follow-on funding, and making significant strides forward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Non-Equity Assistance
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 365
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $49k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $95M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
  • Makan Home — SHEN168 adalah situs toto togel online yang terpercaya, menawarkan pengalaman bermain yang aman dan menyenangkan bagi para penggemar togel online.
  • MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
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Oqal
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Oqal Group was formed as an endowment group by a group of young businessmen to be a platform that brings together angel investors and emerging entrepreneurs to form partnerships of economic feasibility that raise the welfare of society and enhance the quality of life. It enables the founders of entrepreneurial startups to develop innovative and fast-growing startups in a variety of sectors by providing access to smart capital and experienced angel investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $220k–$1.1M; Series A $133k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • Mantas — Parametric insurance for cloud outages with swift payouts triggered by real-time data
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Marker
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Marker LLC: Venture Capital. Intelligent investing. Enlightened model. New York, NY and Herzliya, Israel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Video
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 117
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$25M; Series B $8.6M–$23M; Series C $8M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $208M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Overwolf — Overwolf is the all-in-one platform that lets creators build, share and monetize in-game apps and mods. We help developers supercharge games with creator-made content and make a living doing what they love.
  • Wristcam — Wristcam camera for Apple Watch. With the help of a camera on apple watch, you can capture 4K Photos, HD Videos and send Live Video Messages to your friends on any device.
  • Illusive — Illusive is now Proofpoint Identity Threat Defense. We have joined forces to protect your organization from identity vulnerabilities and threats.
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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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Legziel Family
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Legziel Famliy

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $575k–$4M; Pre-Seed $20k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zoog — Be part of their story
  • Pelles.ai — Pells.ai is leveraging generative AI and path-planning algorithms to create a new way to design and produce mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) building systems to save time, money, and materials.
  • Atlas Invest — A platform for institutional investors to invest in real estate backed bridge loans at scale with reduced risk.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · , , United Arab Emirates · 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: 634
  • Round size: Seed $13k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $6k–$413k; Series A $33k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% 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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Shorooq Partners
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Shorooq Partners is the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 222
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • FMSi — FMSi is a SaaS company that helps with vehicle tracking solutions, administration and monitoring services for IVMS, and project management.
  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • OptimizeGEO.ai — OptimizeGEO.ai is an AI search visibility platform whose proprietary engine helps brands dominate LLM and AI search results
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Viola Ventures
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Viola Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in Israeli or Israeli-related early-stage techology companies, in key market segments including FinTech, Consumer, Enterprise Infrastructure & Applications, Frontier & Deep Technologies (automotive, IOT, AR/VR, drones), Robotics and AgTech.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 264
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$21M; Series A $3.5M–$29M; Series B $5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $100M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • TYLsemi — Advancing AI with production-ready chiplets. Standards-based silicon for AI infrastructure.
  • PandoLogic (formerly RealMatch) — Unlock the power of PandoLogic's programmatic job advertising AI platform, revolutionizing recruitment software for efficient and effective hiring. Experience the future of recruiting by requesting a demo today.
  • Faye — Travel insurance that goes the distance to cover you at every step of your journey with incredible coverage, 24/7 support, instant claims processing and more.
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Raed Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $2.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeal — Zeal transforms your current card machines, enabling them to unlock powerful insights and deliver seamless loyalty. Zeal integrates with all card machines and is trusted by industry leaders.
  • Echelon — Echelon is an artificial intelligence operations group that manages technology integrations, technical workforce training, and industrial software distribution for enterprise and government clients.
  • THINK-AI — The Think AI Fabric: AI Node, ILM, and Constellation bonded into one supercompute platform, built for radical efficiency. Nothing sits idle.
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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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Emkan Capital
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Emkan Capital invests primarily in early-stage technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Transportation, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Kuwait

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4M; Series A $6.9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $31M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!
  • Mojo — Mojo's mission is to help beauty enthusiasts discover, share, and buy beauty, skincare, and wellness products. Mojo's platform allows users to buy items with one or two clicks.
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BIC Angels
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

BIC Angels is an investment firm that provides venture capital for startups engaged in the internet sector. It is primarily focused on companies engaged in SaaS, location-based services, and mobile applications. The Company's early-stage investment ranges from $25,000 to $1,000,000. BIC Angels is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Apps, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $13k–$1.9M; Angel $100k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CEOtudent — Founded in May 2015, CEOtudent.com is a content-based website that focuses on providing a rich vision and lifestyle to university and young professionals with content focused on success.On our internet site, we offer numerous contents from personal development to marketing, from career to events, from entrepreneurship to current news.AtCEOtudent.com, we share every piece of information we think that we can provide benefits and inspiration, and we are constantly trying to learn something new.
  • Fithletic — Fithletic is an application designed to enhance the way individuals engage with sports and fitness. The platform offers a streamlined and user-friendly experience, allowing users to explore, evaluate, and select gyms or physical activities that best align with their preferences and schedules.
  • Evde Mimar — Evde Mimar is focused home painting. The company has biggest web site traffic in this industy in Turkey. Evde Mimar provide home service for become beautiful home.
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ENA Venture Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

We partner with entrepreneurs with the mission to make the world a better place, help the society progress,.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $41k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Orbina — Transform customer experience with Orbina AI. Shorten response times, boost satisfaction and increase conversions with smart AI chat.
  • Aidea — Create high-quality training content in minutes. Aidea helps you generate structured, materials effortlessly with AI.
  • Skymod Technology — Build, deploy and govern enterprise AI agents, workflows, search and chat with SkyStudio. Keep control of your models, data and infrastructure across cloud, VPC and on-premise deployments.
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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: 1176
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
  • Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
  • JLC Industry Of Tomato Paste Sarl U — JLC Industry is a Togolese agro-industrial startup dedicated to the production, processing, and commercialization of tomato concentrate.
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StageOne Ventures
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups, 7 in the past 12 months

StageOne Ventures, leads investments in exceptional Israel-related entrepreneurs. We focus on early-stage transformative deep tech startups solving complex enterprise challenges.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$15M; Series A $3M–$19M; Series B $6M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $165M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • definity — definity is a Data Application Observability & Remediation platform, helping Spark-heavy data engineering teams to seamlessly monitor data applications health + data quality + performance in-motion, detect anomalies in run-time, resolve incidents in minutes, optimize applications’ performance, and cut infrastructure cost – with zero codechanges.
  • Coralogix — Coralogix is a full-stack observability platform that enables businesses to monitor and manage data in real time, providing instant insights without the need for indexing. The platform supports Log Analytics, application performance monitoring (APM), security information and event management (SIEM), real user monitoring (RUM), and infrastructuremonitoring, offering complete visibility into AI performance, security, and governance in a single solution. Coralogix offers a simple pricing model based on data volume, along with world-class support that ensures rapid response times and swift resolutions.
  • HydroSight — HydroSight uses AI to turn marine data into subsea intelligence for offshore energy and infrastructure. The company automates the processing of complex marine survey data to create detailed, continuously updated seafloor maps. Its B2B enterprise technology helps ports, telecom cable operators, and offshore energy companies safely plan and managecritical underwater infrastructure.
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Lima Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$697k; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shippn — International package forwarding service. Shop from Amazon, Shein, Macy's worldwide. Fast shipping with DHL & FedEx. Trusted by 50,000+ customers.
  • heybooster — heybooster is the creator of a platform for marketing analysis that aids e-commerce managers in finding chances for revenue growth and in making better choices. It provides clients with digital reporting, online meetings, online communication, an online project management system, and an online playbook that helps them discover problems, findpossibilities for revenue growth, and cut expenses.
  • 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
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Plus Venture Capital
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups, 10 in the past 12 months

At Plus VC, we leverage over a decade of experience and 200+ transactions to empower MENA startups for sustainable growth. We offer fair...

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $550k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • estaie — Explore furnished homes and extended stays. Find your next monthly stay with estaie.
  • Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
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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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Al-Romaizan Family Office
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Al-Romaizan Family Office is a family investment office.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Social Network, Stock Exchanges
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!
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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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Falak Startups
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Falak Startups is a start-up accelerator designed to support and empower the next generation of Egyptian entrepreneurs and contribute to the development of the start-up ecosystem in Egypt.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $6k–$360k
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • InCurA — Why InCurA ProductsWe Innovate Medical Devices for Today, Tomorrow and What's Needed NextInCurA is developing a pipeline of products based on its unique
  • Tafatifi — Tafatifi is an online music platform that provides information regarding music events in Egypt. It is also a music based social media.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
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S3 Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Venture Capital Firm

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Health Care, Life Science
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!
  • Alma Health — Alma Health is a digitally-native chronic illness management platform serving an addressable market of 20m patients in GCC. Through its cloud pharmacy and virtual doctor consultations, Alma Health is translating patient behavior and insights into personalized services and products like digital treatments and at home monitoring systems. Alma Healthis based in Hub71-Abu Dhabi.
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Hashed
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 255
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lysto — How much does culture influence creative thinking?
  • Flexity — Flexity provides fast and efficient planning and design services.
  • Phi Labs — Blockchain tools that empower and reward builders
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Cypher Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Cypher Capital is a web3 and blockchain venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Wincast — Wincast is the first live NFT bidding platform for live sports. Our platform allows users to bid on incredible sports moments while they're happening, and at the end of each quarter/round/play/down/at-bat, the highest bid is awarded an NFT collectible of that play. Users will then be able to buy, sell, and trade other keymoments with users on the platform through our secondary market and integrated wallet solutions.Own your favorite sports moments before they become THE moment.
  • FanTV AI — FanTV, the leading AI Agent platform for next-gen Content Creation and backed by Multicoin Capital, is where AI meets Crypto on Sui, leading with over 8 million On-chain Users (80k Creators) and 27 million transactions, processing more than 1.2 million hours of AI-powered content monthly. As the largest platform for content creation across allchains, FanTV contributes to more than 22% of active wallets on Sui.
  • SecondLive — SecondLive is a diversified metaverse focused on building social networks and supporting creator economic activities.
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Blizzard Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Blizzard Fund is a venture capital fund managed by AVA Labs and targets cryptocurrency industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • dKloud — dKloud is an enterprise-level cloud platform that helps customers build better software and more efficiently through our products.
  • Sphinx — Experience 24/7 derivatives trading with near-instant clearing, dynamic margin and up to 90% lower fees.
  • Datagram — Datagram is an AI-driven, decentralized infrastructure platform operating as a DePIN baselayer. The company provides a live, scalable node network for launching custom DePIN networks and real-world decentralized applications, with cost savings over traditional cloud providers.
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Corner Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Corner Ventures, re-branded from DAG Ventures (c. 2004) in 2018, with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Tel Aviv and Tokyo, focuses on building category leading companies in a variety of industries including information technology, cyber-security, financial services, healthcare, software among others.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tedooo — Download Tedooo by M.A Tedooo Group LTD on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Tedooo.
  • Sightful — Multinarity is a revolutionary Mixed reality (MR) startup.
  • Latigo Biotherapeutics — Operator of a drug discovery company intended to develop novel, non-opioid therapies for chronic pain. The company utilizes unique, translated insights to provide a differentiated approach to targeting therapeutics across the blood-nerve barrier, enabling patients to get access to a pain management therapy that does not create addiction, dependenceor tolerability.
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Spark Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 568
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$37M; Series B $7M–$80M; Series C $20M–$176M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Alfred — Alfred is an end-to-end resident experience and building management platform that is changing the way people live and transforming the real estate industry. Operating at the intersection of real estate and technology, Alfred builds intuitive, personal support into one of the most important spaces of our lives: our homes. Named one of the Top 50Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast Company in the urban development space, Alfred has been recognized in The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, as a pioneer in the on-demand economy, following their decision to hire Alfred Home Managers as W-2 employees (complete with benefits, training, and the ability to move up in the organization) and its support of local ecosystems and neighborhood businesses.Hello Alfred was founded in 2014 by Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck, and is headquartered in New York, New York, United States.
  • Handshake — The largest expert network for learning, earning, and growing careers in the AI economy, giving everyone an accessible first step into an AI-powered career.
  • Freight Farms — Freight Farms create access to food in areas of the world where the climate cannot support traditional farming methods. The Freight Farms' system brings a high volume of fresh, quality, and affordable food within reach of everyone along the food supply chain. By enabling high-yield crop production in any climate, Freight Farms offer animmediate foundation to grow a local food economy and sustainable food system.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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M-Systems
VC Fund · Kfar Saba, HaMerkaz, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

M-Systems provides flash memory storage products for individuals and enterprises. It creates True Flash Filing System which presents the flash memory as a disk drive to the computer. The products of the company are DiskOnKey, DiskOnChip, and TrueFFS.M-Systems is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2008 and the company was acquired bySanDisk on July 30, 2006.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Electronics, Social Media
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Saifun Semiconductors — Semiconductor With the B2B website www.semiconductor-scout.com we create for you as a company a sustainable advantage through use of new media to everyday processes. Cause semiconductor-scout.com occupied a central position in the daily workflow between the semiconductor and microelectronic market operating companies.
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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, Social Media, Social Network
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bubbl Widget — Bubbl is a widget that displays live text feeds from your favorite pals right on your Home Screen. You and your best pals will see each other's thoughts and statuses every time you unlock your phone. It's a small insight into what everyone is up to throughout the day.
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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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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, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Bulgaria, Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 — With the Native Teams platform, you can easily hire anyone, anywhere as an employer or get an employed status if you're working as a freelancer. Explore our international EOR and PEO services and start working remotely with full compliance.
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Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • F4e — Boost employee performance and business results with AI-Powered Performance Management Software. Align for Excellence with F4E.
  • Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
  • Ideanote — Ideanote is your complete innovation platform. It's faster, more efficient, and lets you build a fully customizable idea management flow from start to finish.
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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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VCDE Venture Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

We love to invest in awesome technology

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SEO, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Turkey, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2008

Portfolio highlights

  • itravel — itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personalpreferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.
  • 123Fahrschule — 123Fahrschule specializes in the consolidation and digital expansion of the driver's license training in the driving school market.
  • StalkBuyLove — Styched is India's largest online youth fashion brand. Shop everything from tshirts, polos, hoodies to tops, dresses and a large range of fashion products online on Styched. Free delivery for all prepaid orders.
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WR Hambrecht
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

WR Hambrecht + Co provides venture capital and early growth funding for disruptive companies worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$20M; Series C $3.4M–$124M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Gabbi — Your breast specialist. Assessing risk and navigating you to an early detection.
  • Getlabs — Getlabs comes to you to collect your labs and delivers to Labcorp and Quest for testing.
  • Hone Health — Hone Health is a telehealth clinic that helps people improve healthspan through advanced biomarker testing, clinician-guided care, and personalized protocols.
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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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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $2.6M–$22M; Series B $4.6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $68M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
  • PinPay — Pin-Pay is an innovative mobile payment service offered at our Partner Banks which aims to bring our subscribers the most secure, reliable and intelligent payment experience.Using Pin-Pay, you can perform a number of different transactions directly from your mobile phone. Since all transactions are conducted live and under 20 seconds, you cansafely receive money straight to your account in no time.
  • OCTA — OCTA brings you the clients and runs the work behind them, from books and reconciliations to billing and close. You grow the firm without adding headcount.
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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 an Australian global EdTech company, headquartered in Sydney Australia offering an innovative, adaptive online platform designed to enhance mathematics learning for students aged 4 to 15. These immersive bite-sized apps for tablets and personal computers are based on a modular and progressive spiral learning system. The Matific approachwas designed to provide optimal support for educators to convey math concepts in as effective and engaging manner as possible. Matific episodes enable a blended learning approach. Having selected the relevant episodes, teachers can seamlessly integrate hands-on math explorations into their own class learning format.Matific have picked up a number of awards including numerous CODiEs, Academics’ Choice, Edtech Digest, Time Magazine World Top EdTech Companies to name a few.
  • 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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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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Innovative Startups and SME’s Fund (ISSF)
VC Fund · Amman, Amman, Jordan · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

The Innovative Startups and SMEs Fund (“ISSF”) is a private sector managed fund making investments in innovative startups and early stage SMEs. The World Bank has invested USD 50 million in the Fund which was complimented by the Central Bank of Jordan with an additional USD 48 million bringing the total working capital of the ISSF to USD 98million.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Gift, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $450k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • gamiphy — GAMIPHY is a user engagement and retention platform that equips brands in different industries with tools proven to increase customer reach and loyalty such as branded mini games, playable Ads and digital loyalty programs. The tools and techniques offered by GAMIPHY can be either integrated into existing websites and apps, or can be used to createplatform-independent solutions. The available solutions are diverse, fully customizable, DIY, and are guaranteed to improve each customer journey, thus shorten the path to earn the loyalty sought after.
  • Kitchefy — The all-in-one restaurant management system & POS to streamline your operations, manage inventory, order online and boost sales.
  • Kader — Kader is an on-demand hiring platform for jobs in the hospitality, retail, and service sector.
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NFX
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups, 19 in the past 12 months

We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 271
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
  • Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
  • Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
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Stardom Ventures
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

We're looking for stars that want to change the universe. Our network of media professionals is here to make any bold dream come alive.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Media and Entertainment, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • PeerPlay — PeerPlay is a casual mobile games powerhouse
  • Piggy — create awesome interactive content on your smartphone - no design skills or coding are needed
  • Botika — Botika is the leader in AI generated models for fashion. We help you create stunning, photo realistic fashion images at a fraction of the cost. Visit us today!
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Spinach Angels
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Spinach is a group of angel investors focused on Israeli ​Pre-Seed tech ​investments. Spinach was established in 2014 with the goal of supporting and financing innovative Israeli companies with early-stage funding.Spinach is not a classic VC or fund. It’s a pool of experienced angel investors, with collective net worth of over $2bn, who decidedto act together and provide financial and managerial support to entrepreneurs in the earliest stages of realizing their dreams and building their companies.We believe in super-simple deals, and move extremely fast so that the founders can focus on developing their products and businesses. We see ourselves as the founders’ ‘friends-and-family’ initial support.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lightico — AI Intelligent Document Processing, IDP, eSignatures, ID Verification, KYC and Compliant Customer Journeys for Banks, Auto Finance, Telecoms.
  • RapidSec — Orca Security provides agentless, workload-deep, context-aware cloud infrastructure security and compliance through our comprehensive cloud security solution all in a single platform.
  • PickyStory — Amplify helps Shopify merchants boost revenue with AI-powered bundles, upsells, and subscriptions. Increase AOV and conversions effortlessly. Try Amplify today!
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Hongfan Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Hongfan Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Gaming, Information Technology
  • Stage:Angel, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: China, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MyClass — My class is coming, parents no longer have to go to the crowded banks to take the line and wait for two or three hours to pay tuition.It is a K12 stage dedicated to providing a new home school service platform for parents, teachers and school administrators of full-time schools. Innovative technology companies. Founded by senior Internetprofessionals and educators, the founding team is a passionate and energetic team.
  • AOE Network Technology — AOE is an overseas input method developer focused on the development of overseas multi-language input methods.
  • Qingshi Quality Education Technology — Qingshi Quality Education Technology is a quality education course service provider for primary and secondary schools
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Cipio Partners
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Founded in 2003, Cipio Partners is a leading investment management and advisory firm for European growth capital & minority buyouts for technology companies (typical sectors e.g. software, technology enabled B2B products & services, components and consumer internet). Cipio Partners targets European growth stage technology businesses with€10-50 million in revenue and makes initial investments ranging from €5-15 million. Cipio Partners operates from offices in Munich and Luxembourg. Further information is available at www.cipiopartners.com

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Semiconductor, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Series B $6.3M–$14M; Series C $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • tyntec — tyntec drives growth for enterprises by optimizing mobile journeys, and enables operators to unlock new revenue streams through enhanced network performance and security.
  • Spiideo — Spiideo delivers astonishingly simple, powerful, and innovative solutions to the global sports community that shape the future of sports video production, analysis, and consumption.Spiideo’s fixed and mobile camera systems for both indoor and outdoor sports feature automatic recording, AutoFollow, and virtual panorama technology that integratesdirectly with both Spiideo Perform and Spiideo Play. Spiideo recently launched its new CloudStudio Anywhere feature, which enables commentators and producers to remotely broadcast live games from anywhere in the world.By living in Spiideo, sports organizations are able to eliminate manual recording processes, analyze the performance in a single platform, share footage from the cloud, and earn revenue through streaming.More than 2000 teams and organisations are currently optimising these technologies. Spiideo’s users also include the French Football Federation, Iceland’s Pepsi Max League, USL, MLS, NHL, NBA, as well as an even wider array of football, rugby, ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse and basketball teams throughout Europe and North America.Spiideo was founded in Malmö, in the south of Sweden, in 2012. Since then, the company has expanded and now has international offices in the UK, US, China, & Germany.
  • FintechOS — FintechOS is the AI platform for financial product operations. Design, price, launch, and evolve financial products with governed AI and reduced core dependency.
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XVC Tech
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

XDC Ventures is a $125mn fund supported by founders of the XDC Blockchain Network that specializes in investing in early-stage Tech start-ups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Blockchain, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, Sweden, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bubblemaps — Explore DeFi tokens and NFTs through bubbles in our crypto dApp. Cryptocurrency data for beginners, degens, and experts.
  • Klink Finance — Klink enables weekly earnings on your deposit of up to $1M every week through its no-loss prize draws.
  • Zodia Markets — Zodia Markets' mission is to be the most trusted and reliable partner for your institutional crypto trading. Secure your institution's digital assets today.
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Alpha Wave Ventures
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Alpha Wave Ventures is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series C, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Biolinq — Introducing a revolutionary platform for metabolic health.
  • Hunch — Hunch is a personality-based dating app that helps you find authentic matches aligned with your true self.
  • HistoSonics — HistoSonics provides the Edison Platform, which uses advanced imaging and proprietary sensing technology to deliver non-invasive, personalized treatments with precision and control, and uses the science of histotripsy and focused sound energy to generate pressures to liquify and completely destroy targeted tissues at sub-cellular levels.
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