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Top 50 Social Network Startup Investors in Middle East (August 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 $29k–$1.4M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
3 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $15k–$1.3M
Al-Romaizan Family Office
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Social Network, Stock Exchanges
Emkan Capital
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Transportation, Medical $1.2M–$20M
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
StageOne Ventures
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.8M–$45M
ENA Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Marketing $41k–$400k
Viola Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2M–$32M
Plus Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $550k–$5.6M
Joachim Behrendt
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A SaaS, Software, Social Media $11k–$1.9M
Oqal
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $100k–$10M
Lima Ventures
VC Fund
2 Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $18k–$697k
Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
2 Turkey, Germany, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Social Media, Apps, Mobile
Vertex Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, China, Israel Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $3M–$100M
Verizon Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, Canada Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Mobile, SaaS $3M–$107M
Chantalle Dumonceaux
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates, Singapore Seed, Series A Internet, Software, E-Commerce $800k–$1M
Raed Ventures
VC Fund
1 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $400k–$30M
VCDE Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 Germany, Turkey, India Seed, Series A Software, SEO, Automotive $2M–$4.9M
Draper Associates
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1M–$60M
WR Hambrecht
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, China Series A, Series C Software, Health Care, Internet $1M–$60M
Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Travel, Leisure, Internet $18k–$1.3M
Ibrahim Ulukaya
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed AgTech, Gaming, Retail $31k–$700k
3TS Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Romania, Poland Series A, Seed Software, Internet, SaaS $719k–$12M
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
Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $1M–$37M
Bill Tai
Angel
1 United States, Australia, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $500k–$105M
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
Vertex Ventures Israel
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $3.5M–$100M
Emrullah Saku
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Social Network
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund
1 United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $420k–$50M
Benny Schnaider
Angel
1 Israel, United States, Australia Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Apps, EdTech $4M–$20M
Yellow Rocks!
VC Fund
1 United States, Russian Federation, Cyprus Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Cypher Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Spinach Angels
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Horia Manda
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Marketing, Mobile Apps, Social Media
Stardom Ventures
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Media and Entertainment, B2B
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
Eleven Ventures
VC Fund
1 Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Spark Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series B, Series A, Series C Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $4M–$176M
Yaki Reisner
Angel
1 Israel Seed Real Estate, Social Network
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
Zoran Arsovski
Angel
1 Bulgaria, Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech
XVC Tech
VC Fund
1 France, Sweden, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed B2B, Blockchain, Fantasy Sports
Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Gaming
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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: 72
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$2.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% 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 — Decent enough games
  • 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: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.4M; Series A $6M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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!
  • Safqah Capital — Safqah Capital is an innovative fintech and proptech company headquartered in Riyadh. We specialize in structuring and distributing Sharia-compliant Sukuk for small and medium-sized real estate developers. Safqah's digital investment platform enables secure participation from both retail and institutional investors, backed by rigorous duediligence, transparency, and smart governance. Safqah operates at the intersection of technology, finance, and real estate, positioning itself as a key enabler of Vision 2030’s housing and development goals.
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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: 59
  • Round size: Seed $67k–$1.4M; Angel $100k–$500k; Pre-Seed $29k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zippsi — Zippsi connects individual and corporate clients with vehicle leasing companies in a quick, efficient and smart way.
  • 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 scalewith 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:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 307
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $32k–$650k
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • lululittle — lululittle combines storytelling with cultural themes to create empowering personalized books where your children are the heroes. We use the power of personalized storytelling to create inspiring and engaging reading experiences, placing your kids at the center of these stories. Our stories are inspired by relevant cultural themes that aim toempower kids in their diverse cultural environments. Our first story is inspired by the Arab world's rich culture and is suited for kids age 0-10. lululittle's easy to use online platform lets you personalize, preview, and order their book in just a few minutes.
  • Makan Home — SHEN168 adalah situs toto togel online yang terpercaya, menawarkan pengalaman bermain yang aman dan menyenangkan bagi para penggemar togel online.
  • Ouda W Dar — Ouda W Dar is an online platform that helps hosts and guests book unique short-term accommodations.
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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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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, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4M; Series A $6.9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow

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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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: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$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 — Commercial real estate bridge loans up to $20M with same-day term sheets and funding in as few as 7 days. Institutional private credit for investors.
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StageOne Ventures
VC Fund · Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups, 8 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: 120
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$15M; Series A $3M–$23M; Series B $6M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $235M in 2022

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.
  • Backslash Security — 360 application security including code, configuration and deployment, built for AppSec teams.
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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 — AI Transformation for Businesses
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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 A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 227
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$21M; Series A $3.5M–$29M; Series B $5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2022

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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Plus Venture Capital
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Middle East Social Network startups, 15 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, E-Commerce, 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 — Flexible furnished stays from weeks to a year. Stay longer and save across hotels, serviced apartments, and managed holiday homes with one simple payment and no hidden fees.
  • 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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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, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $11k–$1.9M; Angel $15k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scorp — "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views.
  • 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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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 andfast-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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $220k–$1M; Series A $133k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nqoodlet — Nqoodlet is a fintech company that develops an expense management platform to help small and medium-sized enterprises manage their spending, expenses, and purchases through the credit cards given to the employees. Its expense management platform enables enterprises to streamline their financial operations. By allowing businesses to register bills,track purchases, and manage expenses in one centralized system, the platform offers real-time visibility into all transactions made via corporate cards issued to employees. This solution simplifies the expense reporting process, enhances transparency, and improves financial control across the organization.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • Mantas — Cloud outage insurance, built for cloud-first businesses. #ParametricInsurance
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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: 36
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$697k; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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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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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Vertex Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Vertex Ventures US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 444
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$35M; Series B $6M–$48M; Series C $9.3M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Hotelogix — Best Hotel Management Software: Hotelogix that streamlines Front Desk, Bookings, & Reporting in a single cloud hotel software trusted by 25,000+ hotels globally.
  • Flutura — Accenture discusses how to maximize business potential with Accenture's Industrial Intelligence Suite. Read more.
  • Ace Turtle Omni Pvt Ltd — We help retail businesses in India, Singapore & Malaysia convert multichannel sales & marketing strategies to omnichannel on marketplaces & own websites
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Verizon Ventures
VC Fund · Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Shop Verizon smartphone deals and wireless plans on the largest 4G LTE network. First to 5G. Get Fios for the fastest internet, TV and phone service.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, SaaS
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$40M; Series B $10M–$35M; Series C $9.4M–$107M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1M in 2009

Portfolio highlights

  • Flint — Flint AI is an autonomous web platform built for fast-growing marketing and GTM teams. Launch on-brand landing pages in minutes.
  • Veniam — Transfer 10x more data for your video telematics, fleet operations, industrial IoT or connected vehicles.
  • Origin AI — Origin's AI WiFi Sensing technology and products provide a solution to keeping homes safe and secure, while maintaining privacy and comfort. Home, health and automotive. Learn more today.
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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. She previously worked at Shoppies as a Co-Founder. Chantalle Dumonceaux attended Columbia University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • 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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Raed Ventures
VC Fund · Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

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: 102
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
  • THINK-AI — Complete in-house freedom to innovate, develop, fine-tune and train AI models for any unique business needs. Own the AI.
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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, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Turkey, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$4.9M
  • 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.de - consolidating and digitizing the German 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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Draper Associates
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 435
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Series A $2.3M–$25M; Series B $5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Packlane — Packlane makes it easy and affordable for small businesses to design and order custom boxes and packaging online. Through Packlane's online store, customers can apply their own branding and artwork to various packaging styles, get an instant quote, and preview their box designs in full 3D.
  • Affinaquest — Kindsight's fundraising intelligence unlocks real-time insights to help you find donors, craft campaigns, and make more for your mission.
  • CampusLogic — Fill prospective student pipeline and accelerate financial aid packages with clear cost transparency, AI-powered virtual advising, and matched scholarships.
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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: 40
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$20M; Series C $3.4M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% 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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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel · 1 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: 12
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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.
  • 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.
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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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3TS Capital Partners
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

One of the leading European technology-focused growth capital investors, backing high-growth SMEs across Technology & Internet, Media & Communications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Romania, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $719k–$4.6M; Series A $768k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $176M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • NEXD — NEXD is a technology company with creativity at its heart that has developed a unique way to deliver content. Founded in 2015, NEXD is headquartered in London with sales offices in Berlin, Vienna and New York and has its main development hub in Tallinn, Estonia. NEXD is backed by leading Venture Capitalists including 3TS Capital Partners, part ofthe global Draper Venture Network and NEO Ventures.
  • GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) — GoTo, formerly known as LogMeIn, offers flexible-work software solutions such as GoTo Connect, GoTo Resolve, Rescue, and Central. Designed primarily for small and midsize business IT departments yet robust enough for enterprise use, GoTo's platform supports unified communications and collaboration (UCC) as well as IT management and support.With nearly 800,000 customers, GoTo facilitates over 1 billion participants in meetings, classes, and webinars through its UCC products and enables half a billion connections via its remote access and support tools.
  • ConveyIQ — ConveyIQ provides an intelligent candidate engagement platform. Its platform features an all-in-one bespoke communication framework for the entire candidate journey. ConveyIQ delivers personalized applicant communication that companies need to ensure a remarkable candidate journey.
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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: 74
  • 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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Khwarizmi Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Khwarizmi Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks investments in startups with a passion for algorithms. It seeks to help create their vision, as they embark on a journey together that aligns their goals to improve quality of life using technology powered by algorithms. .

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$16M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.4M; Series A $5.5M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
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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: 60
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M; Series A $500k–$31M; Series B $2M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Perle AI — Kiva AI is a platform designed to supply high-quality and compliant data solutions at scale to create specialized AI applications in domains such as healthcare, finance, and law.
  • Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
  • Robyn — Robyn provides an AI-powered marketing mix modeling platform that helps brands optimize media spend and measure performance.
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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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Vertex Ventures Israel
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

We partner early with global-minded entrepreneurs seeking to disrupt large markets

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 184
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$28M; Series B $4.7M–$35M; Series C $5.6M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Rylo — Nagish captions your phone calls and empowers you to talk using text or voice. It's fast, private, and free.
  • Aternity — Unlocking the full potential of your digital experiences has never been more accessible. Illuminate, accelerate and fully leverage the full breadth of possibilities with Riverbed.
  • Quantum Art — Quantum Art develops scalable, multi-core quantum computers with advanced trapped ion qubits and multi-qubit gates, accelerating breakthroughs in AI, finance, and materials science.
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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, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$6M; Series A $2.6M–$14M; Series B $4.6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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  • One Click Delivery Services — One Click Delivery Services redefines last mile delivery throughout the region. By providing seamless and personalized delivery from local businesses to the consumer’s doorstep, They are closing the last-mile gap between merchants and their customers. Their entire last mile and on-demand delivery is technology-enabled, with a robust deliverymanagement system featuring GPS locations tracking and automated customer notifications.
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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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Yellow Rocks!
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

Yellow Rocks! invests in fast-growing early-stage companies with a clear global expansion strategy. The fund is focused on companies that are leveraging disruptive technologies and that are ready to reach $1B.Yellow Rocks! is based in San Francisco & Lisbon and we consider ourselves geo-agnostic. We truly believe that brilliant founders canbe found anywhere irrespective of geographical location. That being said right now we are focused on startups from the US and Europe.Yellow Rocks! is formed by successful serial entrepreneurs and investors with a deep understanding of fundraising and company’s development. GPs have a 10+ years of track record in well known organizations (World Bank, IFC, Google, EPAM), universities (MIT, Harvard, Stanford) and startup ecosystems (Y Combinator, TheEngine, TechStars, MassChallenge, 500 startups). Our team is distributed around different countries including the USA, Portugal and Armenia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Russian Federation, Cyprus

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • LovOn — Get professional mental health treatment online. Connect with licensed therapists for anxiety, depression, ADHD, and more. Personalized care delivered s...
  • Litero AI — Litero helps you research, write, cite, and polish. Effortlessly.
  • Boost.Express — Get promoted by your trade show to the specific attendees
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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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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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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: 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.
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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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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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Eleven Ventures
VC Fund · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 1 investments in Middle East Social Network startups

We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 141
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • LAM'ON — LAM'ON OOD was created with the intention of creating a product that would be recyclable or compostable, improve environmental and human health safety, and readily replace the existing petroleum-based plastic solutions.
  • Bitloops — Bitloops is an AI-powered application development platform that enables organizations to develop, maintain, and operate complex web applications with ease. It helps you easily modify system designs, deploy applications to production, and manage changes, new features, and products. The platform enables teams to innovate quickly and grow the productor business without compromising the product's usability, extendability, or maintainability. Bitloops makes it simpler than ever to create high-quality software utilizing best practices and techniques like DDD, BDD, TDD, hexagonal architecture, clean architecture, ports and adapters, CQRS, and event sourcing suitable for extending legacy systems as well as new initiatives.
  • Outfindo — Making bikes & e-bikes buying easy
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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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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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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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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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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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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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