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Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in Middle East (September 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 Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Uri Levine
Angel
3 Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$12M
Kushal Shah
Angel
3 United States, Egypt, Singapore Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed eSports, Software, Telecommunications $100k–$60M
Hakan Bas
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps $300k–$1.2M
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$2.7M
Hande Enes
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $29k–$4.1M
Mehmet Fatih Trabzon
Angel
2 Turkey Seed Rental, Boating, Marketplace $350k–$500k
Umur Gencoglu
Angel
2 Turkey Seed Fitness, Apps, Training $600k–$600k
Shimon Eckhouse
Angel
2 Israel Seed, Series A Medical, Biotechnology, Fitness
Emre Eroğlu
Angel
2 Turkey Angel Rental, Travel, Boating $113k–$146k
Musa Kasirga
Angel
2 Turkey Angel Rental, Travel, Boating $113k–$146k
Hacı Ömer Sabancı
Angel
2 Turkey Seed Fitness, Apps, Training $600k–$600k
Efe Duran Sarikaya
Angel
2 Turkey, Germany Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel Fitness, Apps, Shipping $600k–$4.5M
Arda Yigithan Orhan
Angel
2 Turkey Seed Fitness, Apps, Training $600k–$600k
Yaron Samid
Angel
2 United States, Israel, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security $2M–$47M
Kerim Kotan
Angel
2 Turkey, Canada, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $9.9k–$3M
Kıvanç Ünal
Angel
2 Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Fitness, Wellness, Personal Health $100k–$755k
Khalid AlTawil
Angel
2 Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Gaming, eSports $165k–$1.2M
Sertaç Özinal
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $55k–$2.5M
Ertuğrul Konukoğlu
Angel
2 Turkey Seed Fitness, Apps, Training $600k–$600k
Dan Adika
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel SaaS, Software, B2B $1M–$7M
Selin Kiper
Angel
1 Turkey Series A, Convertible Note Soccer, Sports, eSports
Sina Afra
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $15k–$11M
İzzet Zakuto
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Music, AgTech $350k–$1.5M
Mustafa Vardalı
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Fitness, Health Care $112k–$15M
Aaron Stone
Angel
1 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Mobile, Sports $5M–$7.5M
Marc Rowan
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Norway Series A, Private Equity, Seed 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
Ercan Ergül
Angel
1 Turkey Series A, Convertible Note Soccer, Sports, eSports
Nimrod Cohen
Angel
1 Israel, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1M–$28M
Andrey Belozerov
Angel
1 Russian Federation Seed Apps, EdTech, FinTech
Erdem Gezer
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Logistics, E-Commerce $369k–$679k
Rıfat Elhadef
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
İrfan Ündevli
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Emre Gerçek
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Mustafa Emre Gündüz
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Cem Ortabaş
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C Gaming, Mobile, Fitness $440k–$755k
Barış Before
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Avi Meir
Angel
1 Spain, United States, Israel Seed, Series A SaaS, Software, Gaming $6M–$9M
Firat Isbecer
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed SaaS, Internet, Software $20k–$3.8M
Kaan Kalıpçı
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel Recipes, eSports, Delivery
Fethi Ahmet Özbulut
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel
1 Turkey Series A, Convertible Note Soccer, Sports, eSports
Kaan Kayabalı
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel Gaming, Mobile, eSports
Jochen Engert
Angel
1 Germany, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Rental, Travel $1.5M–$30M
Danny Leshem
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, B2B, Artificial Intelligence $570k–$27M
Kaan Kural
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Daniel Krauss
Angel
1 Germany, Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Rental, Information Technology $1.4M–$30M
Josh Sutton
Angel
1 Israel Pre-Seed SaaS, Sports, E-Learning
Gizem Nilay Tuna
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Çağrı Emre Korkmaz
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Fitness, Wellness, Personal Health
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Uri Levine
Angel · 3 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Uri Levine is the Founder, Chairman and Board member of Waze. He previously worked at HERE Technologies as a Board Member. Uri Levine attended Tel Aviv University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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 is an "Intelligence Platform for Trees" providing per-tree intelligence to growers to track their trees’ health and productivity. Using rich sources of information such as drones, satellites, IoT sensors, weather information and more, we can scan and analyze hundreds of millions of trees!
  • 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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Kushal Shah
Angel · 3 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Kushal Shah is a Co-Founder of Dubai Angel Investors. He was a Board Member at Airalo. He studied at the University of Cambridge.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Software, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series B $20M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Derq — Derq built an award-winning platform powered by AI and predictive analytics helping eliminate crashes, save lives, and create safer and smarter roadways. Our real-time analytics platform feeds a live dashboard available to road owners and operators and sends alerts to connected vehicles and infrast
  • 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).
  • 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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Hakan Bas
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Hakan Bas is the Founder and CEO of Ace Games. He previously worked at Raymond James as a Sr. Analyst. Hakan Bas attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • 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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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: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $233k–$2.7M; Angel $100k–$800k
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
  • Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
  • ya da multicosmetics — ya da multicosmetics is a cosmetics brand and aims to accelerate its R&D efforts, support its growth.
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Hande Enes
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Hande Enes

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.1M; Angel $50k–$280k; Pre-Seed $29k–$430k
  • 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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Mehmet Fatih Trabzon
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Mehmet Fatih Trabzon serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors at FTR Makina Kimya Metalurji A.Ş.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Rental, Boating, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TatildeKirala.com — TatildeKirala.com offers a platform for making reservations from the comfort of their home. It has 500 business partners (villa rental agencies) with whom it works directly to ensure guest satisfaction, as well as holiday consultants who provide continuous support before and after booking. Since 2018, it has safely delivered its guests to theirhomes and villas.
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Umur Gencoglu
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Umur Gencoglu is a Board Member at Gencoglu Grup.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Apps, Training
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$600k
  • 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.
  • Urban Active — Workouts Everywhere, live, on-demand.
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Shimon Eckhouse
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Shimon Eckhouse

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • 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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Emre Eroğlu
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Emre Eroğlu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Rental, Travel, Boating
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Angel $113k–$146k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Viravira — Choose among 12,000 yacht charter, boat rental & gulet holidays. Yachts, boats & gulets for charter with the lowest prices are at Europe's #1 platfom viravira.
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Musa Kasirga
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Musa Kasirga

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Rental, Travel, Boating
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Angel $113k–$146k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Viravira — Choose among 12,000 yacht charter, boat rental & gulet holidays. Yachts, boats & gulets for charter with the lowest prices are at Europe's #1 platfom viravira.
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Hacı Ömer Sabancı
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Apps, Training
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$600k
  • 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.
  • Urban Active — Workouts Everywhere, live, on-demand.
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Efe Duran Sarikaya
Angel · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Efe Duran Sarikaya

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Apps, Shipping
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$4.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $715k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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.
  • FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
  • NoExit Games — We create mobile hyper-casual games, you don't want to exit :)
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Arda Yigithan Orhan
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Entrepreneur, Cloud Architect, Public Speaker, Angel Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Apps, Training
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$600k
  • 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.
  • Urban Active — Workouts Everywhere, live, on-demand.
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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, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$20M; Pre-Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $7M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
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Kerim Kotan
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Kerim Kotan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $9.9k–$2M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1M; Venture - Series Unknown $715k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Buluttan — Buluttan delivers AI-powered hyper-local weather intelligence for energy, aviation, agriculture, logistics, and insurance. Accurate forecasts, severe-weather alerts, and operational decision support.
  • Werover — AI & IoT solutions for predictive maintenance
  • Innovasion Labs PINC — Next Generation of Energy Storage
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Kıvanç Ünal
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Kıvanç Ünal is the Co-Founder and CPO of Orphex. He previously worked at iyi yaşa as a Board Member. Kıvanç Ünal attended Boğaziçi University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Personal Health
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$755k; Pre-Seed $120k–$300k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Beynex Technologies — Beynex provides AI-driven cognitive health solutions for early detection, smart monitoring, and individualized care.
  • Popile — Popile is a celebrity engagement platform that allows users to get unforgettable memories with celebrity shout-out videos and video calls. It may look like just a basic shout-out video platform at first look but the main benefit that Popile offers to users is being able to create unforgettable memories. The outcomes of each order are stories worthtelling and great memories. Popile gives people the opportunity to make a birthday different than the others, spread the news in the best possible way, or make a moment worth celebrating.Both the biggest Turkish TV - music celebrities and digital creators are in Popile. Lots of active and former athletes are in Popile. Even stars of viral Tiktok videos are in Popile. There are more than 400 celebrities in Popile, we are pretty sure that there is -at least- a celebrity for everyone. Their vision is to be the biggest celebrity engagement platform in the MENA region in 2 years.
  • Astopia — Discover yourself guided by the stars! With Astopia, explore birth chart analysis, zodiac insights, and astrological interpretations.
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Khalid AlTawil
Angel · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Khalid AlTawil is a Board Member at Saudi Chemcial Company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Gaming, eSports
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $165k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% 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).
  • Glamera — Glamera B2B2C: SaaS platform to power beauty salons, spa, Gym and barber shops, to optimize sales, booking, marketing, inventory and HR. Glamera White Label: Every service provider can create his own website, to help his customer in pre-booking his services. Glamera B2C: Mobile application for end user to book beauty and wellness appointment.
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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, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $63k–$123k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brix — Tokenized emerging markets yield. Trade the Macro.
  • Interactive Loan — Interactive Loan provide financial assistance by providing trainings about credit, bond trading, or leasing methods.
  • Defy — The cryptocurrency space's #1 most-trusted DeFi mobile app platform.Welcome to the space of decentralized finance. Use to earn feature is waiting for you. Connect/Create your wallet and start to earn! We support the future of finance. Buy, sell, swap, transfer cryptocurrency; track all cryptocurrency movements on networks.The TraderBag platform is the Easiest & Most Reliable Way to manage your DeFi portfolio and make copy-trade. You don't need to spend hours drawing graphs to be able to analyze.Reach all cryptocurrencies from a single platform. You can trade on all major networks(support multi-chain).Manage your crypto portfolio easily. Buy, sell, convert, transfer…You don't need to be an expert in the crypto space.Make your transactions securely with other wallets thanks to the Anti Money Laundering (AML) service.Track Talented Traders and Cryptocurrency wallets instantly with TraderBag!Thanks to TraderBag, get instant notification when there is a trade in the trader or whale wallets you follow and do not miss the opportunities.Easily see what coins are in crypto wallets; Search with WEB3 wallet address or wallet QR code and see cryptocurrencies, track wallet.Connect or Create your own crypto wallet 100% securely with WEB3 and Get 500 TRBAG. Keep earning TRBAG from the transactions you make with your wallet.Artificial intelligence robots research the market and give you instant news about the newly listed cryptocurrencies.Secret crypto wallets of popular people in the Trader Bag app.Trader Bag prepares daily cryptocurrency market analysis for you. You can instantly follow the most bought and sold cryptocurrencies daily, hourly, weekly. You can instantly see which crypto billionaires are investing in from the market analysis.You will not miss the market with the news it creates for you by examining the analyzes produced by artificial intelligence robots.You can easily access the purchase and sale price details of digital assets in the crypto bags of the people you follow.If you think that you are doing a very good analysis and following the market, you can start earning TRBAG through Trader Bag.
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Ertuğrul Konukoğlu
Angel · Inegol, Bursa, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Ertuğrul Konukoğlu is a Board of member at ISKO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Apps, Training
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$600k
  • 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.
  • Urban Active — Workouts Everywhere, live, on-demand.
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Dan Adika
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Dan Adika Before co-founding WalkMe, Dan was a software engineer at HP. Prior to that, Dan completed with honors a 6 year tenure in the Army’s elite computing unit.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$7M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enso — Go-to-market with enso in places only agents can find demand. We deploy AI agents across the channels your buyers use to growth hack your way to customers.
  • CareBestie —
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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, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • 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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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Sina Afra is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting technology-driven companies.He is best known as the founder of Markafoni, one of Turkey’s first large-scale digital commerce companies and a defining success of the country’s early internet economy. In 2011, Naspers Groupacquired a majority stake in Markafoni in one of the landmark transactions of the Turkish internet sector.Over the course of his career, Sina has founded more than 20 companies, completed 12 exits, and angel-invested in over 60 early-stage startups across Europe, Africa, and the United States.He is a Founding Partner at Founder One, an impact venture capital fund, and the Founder and Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Foundation (Girişimcilik Vakfı), which focuses on developing entrepreneurial talent and strengthening the long-term infrastructure of the startup ecosystem in Turkey.Earlier in his career, Sina worked at KPMG and held leadership roles at eBay, where he gained first-hand experience in operating and scaling global internet platforms.His work has been recognized with more than 20 international awards and honors, including being named Internet Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Angel of the Year, and Forbes’ Brightest Minds Alive in Turkey, with features in Wired and Forbes.Sina holds a degree from the University of Münster and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages and is actively engaged in the European and Turkish technology and venture ecosystems.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Odeal — Oedeal is a developer of an app designed for companies to take payments via mobile. With the help of the company's platform, shops can do away with cash registers and accept payments from customers using tablets, smartphones, or point-of-sale devices, allowing them to finish their purchases right away. Making it simpler for all entrepreneursto access financial services is central to their mission of boosting the competitiveness of both enterprises and the nation.
  • Faturalab — Faturalab is a mobile app that provides supply chain financing, payments, financial benefits, and capital management services.
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
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İzzet Zakuto
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 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–$1.5M
  • 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 — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
  • WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
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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, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M; Series A $250k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations. Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
  • 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.
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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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: 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.
  • Wonder Sciences — The first frontier model of the human mind. Built with clinicians and researchers, starting in the clinic.
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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, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $7M–$9M; 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: 7
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $80k–$430k
  • 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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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, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • 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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Nimrod Cohen
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Nimrod Cohen is based out of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv and is the Founder and Managing Partner of TAU Ventures. Nimrod previously worked at PLUS VENTURES as a Partner. Nimrod Cohen attended the Reichman University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M; Series A $3.7M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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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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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Erdem Gezer
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Erdem Gezer

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $369k–$679k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Git Kargo — Git Kargo; Yeni Nesil Kargo #gitkargo
  • Healmeup — Evimdekipsikolog.com is a digital platform that provides accessible, easy, and cost-effective expert support to anyone who wants to get psychological counseling while struggling with the difficulties of life. Evimdekipsikolog.com works with a large number of experienced Psychologists and Psychological Counselors who are licensed and trained invarious fields.
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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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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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Emre Gerçek
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Emre Gerçek

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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 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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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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Barış Before
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Barış Before

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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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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, United States, Israel

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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Firat Isbecer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $727k–$3.8M; Angel $20k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$430k
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
  • Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
  • Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
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Kaan Kalıpçı
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Kaan Kalıpçı

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recipes, eSports, Delivery
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.
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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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Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Orkun Saitoğlu is based out of Istanbul, Istanbul and is the Chief Executive Officer of iyzico. Orkun previously worked at PayPal as a Startup Lead. Orkun Saitoğlu attended the University Of Montpellier. Orkun Saitoğlu has received Prosus 10X Silicon Valley Leadership Program certification.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • 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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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: Gaming, Mobile, eSports
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya — Wudya is a social gaming company developing social and mobile games. Wudya developed 8 social games on Facebook like Magnificent Millennium and The Message, playable globally in Turkish, English and Arabic. In total 1.2 million users played these games.Our next product, a unique game, specially designed for smartphones and tablets offers a wholenew way of gaming experience combined with the old school methods. Whole story, design documents and a playable prototype is ready for the game.
  • Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
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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: 32
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$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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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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $3.1M–$23M; Pre-Seed $570k–$2M; Series A $17M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Draftt — The official account of Draftt
  • Reindeer AI — Turn your operations into your AI strategy
  • Wonderful — AI for the Bold Enterprise
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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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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: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$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 enables travel companies to grow faster and run leaner by turning existing platforms into fully AI-powered booking ecosystems.
  • 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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Josh Sutton
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Josh Sutton is the Founder and CEO of USIL Capital is a parent company to several startups and brands. Real Estate, healthcare, Tech and Fashion.

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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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Gizem Nilay Tuna
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Gizem Nilay Tuna

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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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Çağrı Emre Korkmaz
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Sports startups

Çağrı Emre Korkmaz

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Personal Health
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • CRwizard —
  • 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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