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Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in Middle East (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Middle East Sports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Sports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Kushal Shah
Angel
3 Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series B eSports, Video, Gaming $100k–$3.4M
Sertaç Özinal
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Internet, Gaming $20k–$2.5M
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Internet, Software, E-Commerce $84k–$3.7M
Uri Levine
Angel
2 Israel Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Mobile, Travel $3M–$12M
Yaron Samid
Angel
2 United States, Israel, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Apps, SaaS $2M–$47M
Semiramis Kulak
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Rıfat Elhadef
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Noam Hachmon
Angel
1 Israel Pre-Seed SaaS, Sports, E-Learning
Kaan Karapınar
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Mustafa Vardalı
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel, Series A Apps, Fitness, Software $112k–$2.5M
Ozan Çağlar İnaç
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Apps, Fitness, Health Care
Avi Meir
Angel
1 Spain, Israel, United States Seed, Series A SaaS, Software, Gaming $6M–$9M
Moshe Rafiah
Angel
1 Israel Travel, Leisure, Tourism
Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Avishai Abrahami
Angel
1 Israel, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Apps $250k–$9.5M
Shimon Eckhouse
Angel
1 Israel Seed Medical, Biotechnology, Fitness
Aaron Stone
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series A Health Care, Mobile, Sports $2.5M–$7.5M
Ali Rampurwala
Angel
1 United States, Egypt, India Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $340k–$4.7M
Erdem Gezer
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Ercan Ergül
Angel
1 Turkey Series A Soccer, Sports, eSports
Oren Zeev
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Canada Series B, Series A, Seed Software, Internet, FinTech $800k–$100M
Nimrod Cohen
Angel
1 Israel, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $1M–$28M
Selin Kiper
Angel
1 Turkey Series A Soccer, Sports, eSports
Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel
1 Turkey Series A Soccer, Sports, eSports
Gigi Levy Weiss
Angel
1 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps $1M–$45M
Hande Enes
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Social Media $29k–$4.1M
İzzet Zakuto
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Music, AgTech $350k–$788k
Andrey Belozerov
Angel
1 Russian Federation Seed Apps, EdTech, FinTech
Marc Rowan
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Norway Series A, Private Equity Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $4.1M–$1.4B
Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Retail, Soccer, Sports $80k–$1.1M
Hakan Bas
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps $300k–$1.2M
Cem Ortabaş
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C Gaming, Mobile, Fitness $440k–$755k
Jochen Engert
Angel
1 Germany, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Rental, Travel $1.5M–$30M
Brad Kotansky
Angel
1 United States, Israel, South Korea Series A, Seed, Series B Internet, E-Commerce, News $900k–$10M
Moshe Gaon
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Advertising, SaaS, Music
Sir Ronald Cohen
Angel
1 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Health Care, Financial Services, Apps $1.7M–$100M
Sercan Akkaş
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, SaaS, Fruit
Mustafa Emre Gündüz
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Kaan Kayabalı
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Kaan Kural
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Fethi Ahmet Özbulut
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
İrfan Ündevli
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Marc Merrill
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Norway Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment $1.2M–$13M
Daniel Krauss
Angel
1 Germany, Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Rental, Information Technology $1.4M–$30M
Dylan Collins
Angel
1 Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A SaaS, eSports, Messaging
Danny Grander
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Developer Tools $1.8M–$21M
Khalid AlTawil
Angel
1 Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates Seed Gaming, eSports, Rental $165k–$600k
Mustafa Sevinç
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel Apps, Fitness, Health Care $112k–$2.5M
Danny Leshem
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel SaaS, B2B, Cyber Security $570k–$23M
Wes Schwalje
Angel
1 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology $150k–$2M
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Kushal Shah
Angel · 3 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Kushal Shah is a Senior Partner at Roland Berger's Dubai office and a Managing Partner for the Middle East. Prior to joining Roland Berger, he spent 12 years with a leading consultancy in London and Dubai. He studied Economics at Cambridge in the UK and he is a certified Chartered Accountant.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
  • LabLabee — Gain practical expertise in the most in-demand Telco Cloud technologies with instantly set up labs.
  • YaLLa esports — YaLLa Esports was born out of a passion for gaming shared by friends, which ignited a mission to build a community of gamers with an organized structure in the MENA region, championing the gaming culture and building the perfect environment for professional gamers to flourish. We aim to position ourselves as a supportive hub for gamers of alllevels with a future vision of constructing and managing the very best teams in the region, competing on a global scale and showcasing the Middle Eastern & African talent in the international gaming stratosphere.
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Sertaç Özinal
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Sertaç Özinal

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Internet, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $63k–$123k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Finekra — Finekra is a Banking Application that manage all Banks from a single screen.
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
  • Malwation — At Malwation, we are your trusted cybersecurity partner, specializing in comprehensive malware analysis, sanitization, and simulation solutions.With an unwavering commitment to safeguarding your enterprise
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $233k–$3.7M; Angel $84k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Shark Guitar — Premium electric guitars manufactured with robotic precision. Shark Guitars mean freedom of versatility, customization and portability.
  • Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
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Uri Levine
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Mobile, Travel
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$3.5M; Series A $3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Engie — Connecting Cars with service providers- Engie's technology provides remote diagnostics and predictive maintenance information in a simple way, to make car repairs easy and efficient
  • SeeTree — SeeTree offers you complete transparency into the health and production of each of your trees by leveraging the most powerful innovations available.
  • WeSki — WeSki allows you to compare endless ski holiday combinations, find the best deals and build your perfect ski holiday package, in just few clicks.
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Yaron Samid
Angel · Ramat Hasharon, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Yaron Samid is an Israeli-American technology entrepreneur, investor, and startup community builder. Yaron is the founder of TechAviv, the 3K-member global Israeli startup founders club, and is the managing partner of TechAviv Founder Partners, a pre-seed venture fund, backed and powered by over 100 of the world’s most successful company builders.Previously, Yaron was the founder and CEO at BillGuard (Acq. by Prosper), founder & CPO at Pando (Acq. by Microsoft), and a founding board director at CloudLock (Acq. by Cisco) and Pond5.Yaron lives in Tel Aviv with his family and is a regular guest lecturer at Stanford and Columbia Business School. He attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$39M; Pre-Seed $2M–$5.3M; Series A $9M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • bxblue — bxblue is a marketplace for personal loans in Brazil explicitly targeting pensioners and Government workers because they can they take loans secured by their guaranteed income. Because of that banks can deduct the payment directly from the paycheck, leading to an apr 10x lower than credit cards. Payroll secured loans are the most affordablepersonal loan in Brazil, and they represent 60% of the personal loans in the country. It is a 40bn dollar/year marke, completely offline. We are taking this entire market online.
  • Emedgene — Applying machine learning to genomics. Accelerate NGS data analysis and automate variant classification with evidence curated from the literature. From sample to report.
  • Lumen — Lumen is a device and app that measures your metabolism in a single breath and provides daily personalized nutrition based on your metabolic data. Through the device and app, you can achieve your fitness goals whether they be weight loss, performance optimization, or simply improving your metabolic health.As a company, we are a team ofscientists, researchers, engineers, and designers, aimed at improving the way people understand their metabolism. We believe that a healthy metabolism is a key to better health and that everyone can attain it with a little help from Lumen.At Lumen, we are all about teamwork, friendship, and family. Curious about joining? We are always looking for creative people who share our passion for health and fitness to join our team.
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Semiramis Kulak
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Semiramis Kulak

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Aposto — All-in-one media service currently based in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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Rıfat Elhadef
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Rıfat Elhadef

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Noam Hachmon
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Noam Hachmon

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Sports, E-Learning
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Skillset — Skillset is a game-based sports e-learning platform that offers young athletes and sports fans the opportunity to learn from leading professional athletes. Through its app, Skillset offers courses that break down techniques and tactics used by some of the world's top football players into easy-to-follow lessons. The app is designed to behighly engaging, with social and gamification elements that encourage continued viewing and sharing.
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Kaan Karapınar
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Kaan Karapınar

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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Mustafa Vardalı
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
  • Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
  • Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
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Ozan Çağlar İnaç
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Ozan Çağlar İnaç

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
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Avi Meir
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Avi Meir is the Co-Founder & CEO of TravelPerk, a ground-breaking business travel platform offering companies of any size a one-stop-shop to book & manage all their travel in one place. TravelPerk is one and one of the fastest-growing tech startups in Europe and raised $14m from some of the world's leading investors including SparkCapital, famous for Twitter, Trello and Slack• Prior to founding TravelPerk, Avi was Co-Founder of Hotel Ninjas, which was acquired by Booking.com in 2014, and VP Product at Budgetplaces.com, which was acquired by Palamon in 2011• Avi is started writing code when he was 12 years old, holds an MBA from IESE, and is a frequent speaker about travel technology in industry events• He lived in three countries and speaks English, French, Spanish, Hebrew and Klingon

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Spain, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $6M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pensero AI — Pensero analyzes engineering work patterns in real time and delivers AI-powered insights so managers can improve performance with clarity and confidence.
  • Freeverse.io — The home of Living Assets: NFT 2.0. Evolving - Scalable - Multicurrency - Sustainable - Certifiable.Freeverse’s mission is to bring true ownership of 'living' digital assets (such as NFTs) into the mainstream. Born from a simple idea of allowing gamers to trade their in-game assets among themselves, legally, for real money,Freeverse's ambition is to revolutionize the concept of 'digital ownership', where users truly own their digital assets, yet permitting companies and content creators the right to control how those assets are used within their applications.To accomplish our mission, we have created a platform that allows the creation of 'Living Assets' - NFTs that can be traded freely among users, but whose properties are regulated by their initial creators. We go beyond the concept of 'static'-NFTs (collectibles) and permit NFTs to evolve and change according to how they are actually used. We are funded by leading European tech VCs.
  • WeSki — WeSki allows you to compare endless ski holiday combinations, find the best deals and build your perfect ski holiday package, in just few clicks.
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Moshe Rafiah
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Moshe Rafiah is CEO & Founder at Travelfusion. He attended his education at Boston University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Leisure, Tourism
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • WeSki — WeSki allows you to compare endless ski holiday combinations, find the best deals and build your perfect ski holiday package, in just few clicks.
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Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
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Avishai Abrahami
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Era — An AI-based fertility copilot that optimizes time, cost, and the overall experience for both fertility providers and parents on their path to parenthood
  • nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.
  • CustoMED — CustoMed transforms surgical planning and execution. It does this by converting medical imaging into 3D visualizations, planning procedures, and producing customized 3D-printed surgical solutions at scale in a matter of minutes, all while streamlining the process and providing surgical excellence.
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Shimon Eckhouse
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Shimon Eckhouse

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Theranica — Theranica is a medical device company that has combined neuromodulation therapy with modern wireless technology to develop proprietary wearable solutions that address various medical conditions and disease states. The noninvasive and therapeutic 'smart' patches are controlled by a smartphone app to allow for personalized, portable, andaffordable care. The patch consists of a proprietary 'smart' chip that delivers electrical pulses to neuro-modulate the sensory nerves under the skin. The first application of the technology is for treatment of migraine headaches.
  • Epitomee Medical — Epitomee develops paradigm-shifting ingestibledevices that deploy targeted therapies along the GI tract
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Aaron Stone
Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Aaron Stone is based out of New York and is the Senior Partner of Apollo Global Management. Aaron previously worked at AMC Entertainment as a Director. Aaron Stone attended the Harvard College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Mobile, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$5.6M; Series A $5M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Track160 — Automated football analytics in an all-in-one platform. Highly accurate tracking and performance data, automated event tagging and video clips, and detailed sport science information - all in one intuitive product suite.
  • Gridline — Gridline provides an end-to-end platform for wealth management to build, manage, and scale private market investments.
  • Lua — Lua specializes in powering HIPAA compliant messaging for the healthcare industry. It offers a mobile coordination solution that provides immediate access to the people and information needed to get a job done, anywhere. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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Ali Rampurwala
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

15 years of experience in private equity, venture capital, investment banking, corporate strategy, angel investing, and business development having an MBA from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA and being a CAIA Charterholder.

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  • Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $340k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
  • Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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Erdem Gezer
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Erdem Gezer

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Git Kargo
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Ercan Ergül
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Ercan Ergül is a Managing Director with SEAF, the manager of Southeast Europe Equity Fund II, L.P. (“SEEF”), a US$320 million private equity fund with investments in Turkey, Albania and Kosovo. Ercan is also a board member of Global Investment Holding, a listed investment group based in İstanbul with operations in ports, energy and financialservices. Prior to joining SEAF, he spent his career as a private equity and investment banking professional and began his career in the corporate credit group of Citibank in Turkey. Ercan received his undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and a Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Finance from the University of Florida.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
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Oren Zeev
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Oren Zeev is the Founder of and one of the two main early backers respectively, a former board member of Zeev lives in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, FinTech
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$13M; Series A $2M–$35M; Series B $4.7M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Linguana — Linguana builds and monetizes your fully localized YouTube channels in new languages to reach new audiences across the globe and monetize them.
  • Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
  • venn — Venn creates a new way of urban neighboring by managing homes, creating shared spaces, supporting hyperlocal business initiatives and services, programs events, and facilitating community engagement – all on a neighborhood-wide level. Operating by the motto, “If they build it, they will stay,” venn’s platform encourages urbanites to become activecreators and participants in the development of their community and enables developing neighborhoods to become as vibrant and desirable as the downtown core. Founded in 2016 by people raised in the Big City and in cooperative communities, venn is a new movement of neighboring that impacts tens of thousands of people in three cities (Tel Aviv, Brooklyn, and Berlin) with +75 employees
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Nimrod Cohen
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Nimrod Cohen is the Managing Partner of TAU Ventures. He previously worked at Hapoel Ramat-Gan as a Chairman. Nimrod Cohen attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M; Series A $6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swimm — Silos can sneak in to even the most agile of teams and create needless delays on essential projects. Chasing down information keeps teams out of sync. But onboarding, outdated documents, or project switching should never slow a project down. Swimm is a SaaS company built to make the development process fast and smooth with smart docs and continuousdocumentation. Teams use Swimm to create focused and engaging tutorials that help them share knowledge on the codebase. Thanks to Swimm's unique auto-sync technology, tutorials remain fresh and up-to-date even if the code changes.
  • Cyabra — We break down social media so you can understand narratives, detect authenticity and reach true audiences.
  • XTEND — Explore cutting-edge military-grade tactical drones powered by AI, designed to enhance strategic capabilities and mission success in complex environments.
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Selin Kiper
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Selin Kiper

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
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Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Born in Istanbul in 1982, Orkun Saitoğlu graduated from Galatasaray High School and then studied Computer Engineering at Montpellier University and completed his master's degree at Paris Pierre-Marie Curie University in Paris. In the second year of his graduate study, he became part of the team of B2B, B2C sites in the TUI group and startedhis career as a Software Engineer. During the first years of his career, he supported the design and integration of PayPal solution in France and the Benelux and later on became a part of business development and sales team during Scandinavian, Turkish, Middle Eastern and Russian market expansion. Orkun, later on became a part of a global team managing PayPal’s relationship with startups against Stripe and Braintree competition. In 2014, after living abroad for 14 years he decided to move back to Turkey to establish his own startup company. It is during this period that Orkun met with iyzico’s co-founders Barbaros Özbuğutu and Tahsin Isın to become the COO of iyzico knowing that the company would emerge as the payment champion of the region. Orkun is currently in charge of all of iyzico’s sales, marketing and operations teams.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
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Gigi Levy Weiss
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $6.5M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Faireez — Optimizing tenants' lifestyle and convenience through enabling them with a hotel-like home cleaning service
  • BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
  • Diagnostic Robotics — Diagnostic Robotic develops a signal-agnostic artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. It allows to build powerful predictive analytics models that will solve a world-wide challenge, strained health budgets, and workforces. Diagnostic Robotic was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Hande Enes
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Hande Enes

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.1M; Angel $50k–$280k; Pre-Seed $29k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
  • Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
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İzzet Zakuto
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

İzzet Zakuto

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Music, AgTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$788k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
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Andrey Belozerov
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Andrey Belozerov is an entrepreneur and investor. Expert in the field of digital technologies and digital transformation, co-founder Digital Disrupt investment club, United Nations Development Program expert.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, EdTech, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Russian Federation

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Digital Disrupt — Using our experience, networking and expertise, we help projects grow so that they change life around the world to the best.
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Marc Rowan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Mr. Rowan is the CEO and a co-founder of Apollo Global Management, LLC and Managing Partner of, inter alia, Apollo Management, L.P. Mr. Rowan currently serves on the boards of directors of Apollo Global Management, LLC, Athene Holding Ltd., Caesars Entertainment Corp. and Caesars Acquisition Co. He has previously served on the boards of directorsof the general partner of AP Alternative Assets, L.P., AMC Entertainment, Inc., Beats Music, Cablecom GmbH, Culligan Water Technologies, Inc., Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., Countrywide PLC, Furniture Brands International, Mobile Satellite Ventures, LLC, National Cinemedia, Inc., National Financial Partners, Inc., New World Communications, Inc., Norwegian Cruise Lines, Quality Distribution, Inc., Samsonite Corporation, SkyTerra Communications Inc., Unity Media SCA, Vail Resorts, Inc. and Wyndham International, Inc.Mr. Rowan is also active in charitable activities. He is a founding member and Chairman of the Youth Renewal Fund and a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Mr. Rowan also serves on the boards of directors of Jerusalem Online and the New York City Police Foundation. Mr. Rowan graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a BS and an MBA in Finance.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $4.1M–$24M; Private Equity $225M–$1.4B
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CapitalOS — Embedded spend management for vertical SaaS platforms
  • Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.
  • Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.
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Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Barbaros Serdar Özbugutu worked for FIRSTDATA, and later moved to KLARNA. In 2013, he officially launched Iyzico with his Co-Founder Tahsin Isin. Iyzico is transforming the payment processing experience for businesses through its bank-integrated, fraud-protected payment platform tailored to the nuances of the Turkish market.(https://www.iyzico.com/en)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Soccer, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $80k–$380k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fuudy — Fuudy is a new Food ordering app
  • Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • Swipeline Media — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
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Hakan Bas
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Hakan Bas - Founder & CEO @ Ace Games

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
  • Garajyeri — NAGATOTO88 menyediakan link alternatif Nagatoto resmi untuk akses lancar serta update keluaran togel HK terupdate, aman, dan terpercaya setiap hari.
  • Lotus Flow — Lotus Yoga is an online yoga, meditation, fitness, and mindfulness platform that offers both audio and video content in various languages.
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Cem Ortabaş
Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Cem Ortabaş is a Co-Founder at HubX. He attended Koç University during 2012-2017.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $440k–$755k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Biosplice Therapeutics — Biosplice Therapeutics is in the medical research and development for tissue-level regeneration. With their platform's origins in small molecule-based Wnt pathway modulation, they develop therapeutics to address a range of degenerative diseases, regenerative medicine, and oncology.Samumed adopted a fresh operating philosophy from thebeginning — one based on a goal of building a broad technology platform aimed at modulating regenerative pathways to improve patient health.
  • PhotoCup — PhotoCup is an online photography championship.
  • İyi Yaşa — İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops.
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Jochen Engert
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Rental, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gixel — Creating breakthrough AR display technology for AI glasses and spatial computing.
  • Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
  • BLOCKS — BLOCKS deploys an AI agent to monitor cloud usage patterns continuously. The agent identifies wasteful resource allocations and applies real-time optimizations autonomously. It differs from dashboards by taking direct action instead of just alerting users.
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Brad Kotansky
Angel · Paradise Valley, Arizona, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Brad Kotansky has always been a serial investor: while pursuing his undergraduate BComm degree at McGill University, Brad was a member of the finance club and interned at ScotiaMcLeod for a wealth advisor; upon graduation, his passion for investing led him to Wall Street where he spent over a decade working as an investment banker, and later as ananalyst and portfolio manager for various hedge funds; in 2012, he founded Prickly Pear Ventures, a real estate development firm in Phoenix, Arizona, to capture opportunities from fallout of the Real Estate crisis of 2009 (the portfolio of single-family homes he amassed was ultimately sold to ARPI, a publicly traded REIT in 2013). To this day, Brad continues to be very active in the angel and seed investing world having invested in companies such as Coupang, Synchtank, Playsight, New Hive and Jingle Punks. But one thing Brad had always wanted to do was start and operate a business of his own. Ari’s business plan was tweaked, and together the pair embarked on a search for a technical founder.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, News
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $900k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coupang — Coupang offers an e-commerce platform that is powered by innovative technology and operations. It offers its customers possible prices and product selection within a convenient and personalized shopping environment.Powered by technology and operations, Coupang has set out to transform the end-to-end customer experience from revolutionizinglast-mile delivery to rethinking how Customers search and discover on a truly mobile-first platform. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi.
  • NewHive — New Hive is the blank canvas of the web. It's mission is to encourage creative expression online.
  • PlaySight Interactive — Connecting the next generation of athletes with a cutting-edge video and analysis tools for any sport at any level. Discover the PlaySight SmartCourt and platform
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Moshe Gaon
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Business entrepreneur and investor in startups. For the past 20 years developer of new initiatives and ideas. CEO, Chairman of companies, political strategist and advertising expert. Lead public opinion campaigns for people and issues from breast cancer, to national elections to the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Founding Partner atmybulb.vcOwner of the Gaon Holding Group; Executive Director in the group's companies, focusing on development and marketing products and services for the global Water Smart Grid. Member of the AquaAgro Fund Investment committee, a 50 Million dollar Israeli Venture Capital Fund, focused only on developing innovative water and agriculture technologies, as well as other innovative clean technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, SaaS, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Apester — Supercharge your marketing and funnel with interactive content experiences that generate more leads, engage and convert users, and boost retention
  • Yoocan — Yoocan is a global community for people with disabilities and their families, discover empowering stories, find support, and connect with a world that understands you.
  • IndieFlow — IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. The platform provides a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage creative projects, distribute to streaming platforms, collect roylaties, register music with royaltycollection societies, promote music, book gigs, receive payments and more.
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Sir Ronald Cohen
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Ronald Cohen is Chairman of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group and The Portland Trust. He is a co-founder director of Social Finance UK (2007-11), Social Finance USA, and Social Finance Israel, and of Big Society Capital. He was co-founder Chair of Bridges Ventures (2002-2012).He chaired the Social Impact Investment Taskforceestablished under the UK’s presidency of the G8 (2013-2015), the Social Investment Task Force (2000-2010) and the Commission on Unclaimed Assets (2005-2007). In 2012 he received the Rockefeller Innovation Award for innovation in social finance.He co-founded and was Executive Chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide LLP (1972-2005). He was a founder director and Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and a founder director of the European Venture Capital Association.He is a graduate of Oxford University, where he was President of the Oxford Union. He is an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School to which he was awarded a Henry Fellowship.He is a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School and Vice-Chairman of Ben Gurion University. He is a former director of the Harvard Management Company and the University of Oxford Investment Committee. He is a former member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers (2007-2013), former Trustee of the British Museum (2005-2012) and a former trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (2005-2011).In 2007, Sir Ronald published: “The Second Bounce of the Ball – Turning Risk into Opportunity”.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Financial Services, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $8M–$100M; Series A $1.7M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Selina — Stay in stylish accommodations with vibrant spaces, community-driven events, and unforgettable experiences. Book your Socialtel adventure today!
  • Circles - Online Group Support — Join Circles, the leading support group solution for recovery from narcissistic abuse and toxic relationships. Find support and healing today.
  • Glide Identity — Transform your digital security with Glide Identity's AI-powered authentication suite. Our solutions - Magical Auth, Smart Checkout, and That's Me - deliver unmatched security with seamless user experience
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Sercan Akkaş
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, SaaS, Fruit
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lugath — Lugath automates content localization with the power of AI translation.
  • Kidolog — Kidolog provides support to parents with video or messaging on issues they may need about pre-pregnancy and post-pregnancy.
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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Mustafa Emre Gündüz
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Mustafa Emre Gündüz

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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Kaan Kayabalı
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
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Kaan Kural
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Kaan Kural

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Fethi Ahmet Özbulut
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Fethi Ahmet Özbulut

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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İrfan Ündevli
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

İrfan Ündevli

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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Marc Merrill
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Marc Merrill Co-founded of Riot Games, Inc. in 2006 and serves as its President. Marc Merrill served as Chief Marketing Officer of Riot Games, Inc. He was corporate marketing executive in the exciting world of Business-to-Business media at Advanstar Communications. He has marketing, leadership, and elite gaming skills including Schedule Mastery +9.He held roles in finance with Merrill Lynch and US Bancorp.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
  • OpenBCI — OpenBCI is a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with computer access to their brain waves. Their vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development. Behind the many lines of code and circuit diagrams,OpenBCI has a growing community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, and a whole bunch of other people who are interested in furthering our understanding of the brain. We feel that the biggest challenges in understanding what makes us who we are cannot be solved by a company, an institution, or even an entire field of science. Rather, we believe these discoveries will be made through an open forum of shared knowledge and concerted effort by people from many different disciplines. Today, the leading brain-computer interface (BCI) companies distribute fixed devices with limited or closed access to the algorithms that translate raw EEG signals to meaningful data. These devices are powerful and effective for application development but not ideal for R&D requiring adjustable hardware setups and direct control over the signal processing techniques. OpenBCI is fully accessible and powered by an open-source community of hardware and software builders, making it easy for creators of any skill level and ideal for researchers who haven’t yet settled on the perfect system design. The OpenBCI platform is intended to serve as a malleable starting point in the rapidly growing field of brain-computer interfacing.
  • Fast Break Labs — Fast Break Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that's building the future of sports gaming and entertainment.
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Daniel Krauss
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Daniel Krauss was born in 1983 in Neheim-Hüsten.He studied Economic Sciences at the FernUniversität Hagen. Daniel has generally worked in the IT area for Marquardt GmbH, IFS AB and Siemens AG. Before co-founding Flixbus in 2011, he was a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft for three years. Now Daniel is CIO of Flixbus, which was able toestablish Europe’s largest intercity bus network.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$6M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gixel — Creating breakthrough AR display technology for AI glasses and spatial computing.
  • YGO.AI — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
  • BLOCKS — BLOCKS deploys an AI agent to monitor cloud usage patterns continuously. The agent identifies wasteful resource allocations and applies real-time optimizations autonomously. It differs from dashboards by taking direct action instead of just alerting users.
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Dylan Collins
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Dylan Collins is one of Europe’s most experienced digital media entrepreneurs, focusing on games, kids entertainment and the technology which underpins them.He is CEO of SuperAwesome, the #1 kid-safe brand engagement platform. SuperAwesome works with the biggest kids entertainment brands in the world including Disney, Hasbro, Warner Bros andActivision ensuring they connect safely with over a quarter of a billion kids each month.An active investor and advisor across both kids media and technology companies, he is Venture Partner with Hoxton Ventures and sits on the board of the UK’s top-rated marketing technology agency, Potato and Brown Bag Films, Europe’s leading kids animation studio. Previously Collins founded Jolt Online Gaming which became one of the pioneering social games publishers in Europe. Jolt was acquired by GameStop (NYSE: GME), the largest video games retailer in the world in 2009 to spearhead their digital media strategy.As founder and CEO of DemonWare in 2003, he led the company to become the leading online games technology firm in the global console games market. In 2007, DemonWare was acquired by Activision Blizzard (NYSE: ATVI), the world’s biggest video games publisher and is now the multiplayer backbone of the billion-dollar Call of Duty franchise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, eSports, Messaging
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
  • Levellr — Levellr software helps creators & brands to build, manage and monetise messaging communities within existing apps, including Discord & Telegram. Our tools, which sit on top of Discord & Telegram, help our customers to acquire powerful-first party data on superfans, build highly engaged communities & generate tangible revenueopportunities, whilst also providing our customers with community strategy & on-going moderation services to ensure their communities thrive.
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Danny Grander
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Entrepreneur (Snyk), Angel Investor, CTF Player (@pastenctf)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Developer Tools
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $6M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$2M; Series A $17M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Firmbase — Firmbase is the modern financial planning and analysis platform for tech companies. Our founders have strong leadership, product and software development experience from Facebook, Stanford and Unit 8200. Our group of top-tier investors include unicorn startup founders and senior executives from Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
  • MagicYard — Hangout on the TV, play with friends or strangers
  • Wonderful — AI for the Bold Enterprise
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Khalid AlTawil
Angel · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Khalid AlTawil is a Board Member at Saudi Chemcial Company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Rental
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $165k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
  • GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
  • RentSher Middle East — RentSher was established in 2016 and is an online platform for renting event furniture and services, electronics, medical and travel essentials. It manages order bookings, payments, deliveries and value added services.
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Mustafa Sevinç
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
  • Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
  • Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
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Danny Leshem
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

INT3 (Managing Partner); Kidaro (co-founder, acq. MSFT); OpenRest (co-founder, acq. WIX); angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, B2B, Cyber Security
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $3.1M–$23M; Pre-Seed $570k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Draftt — Draftt is a software maintenance automation platform that minimizes availability risks of mission-critical applications.
  • MagicYard — Hangout on the TV, play with friends or strangers
  • Wonderful — AI for the Bold Enterprise
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Wes Schwalje
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $360k–$740k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VC Lab — We help idea-stage entrepreneurs and pre-seed startups get funding, build a team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, and launch impactful businesses.
  • HelpNow — HelpNow Corporate Site
  • OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
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