Top 35 Travel Angel Investors in Middle East in May 2026
Top 35 Travel Angel Investors in Middle East in May 2026
| Investor | Travel Middle East investments |
|---|---|
| Orkun Samioglu | 3 |
| Burak Gözalan | 3 |
| Genco Alp | 3 |
| Uri Levine | 2 |
| Nihan Colak Erol | 2 |
| Orkun Tekin | 2 |
| Hande Enes | 2 |
| Elad Kushnir | 2 |
| Lior Shiff | 2 |
| Caglar Erol | 2 |
| Demirhan Sener | 1 |
| Stephen M. Ross | 1 |
| Serkan Borancılı | 1 |
| Nevzat Aydın | 1 |
| Dan Adika | 1 |
| Mustafa Mert Işık | 1 |
| Mehmet Celikol | 1 |
| Burak Şen | 1 |
| Sharjeel Sohail | 1 |
| Felix Schaal | 1 |
| Roger Flynn | 1 |
| Soha Nashaat | 1 |
| Avi Meir | 1 |
| Mehmet Celikol | 1 |
| Mohammed Shafik | 1 |
| Moshe Rafiah | 1 |
| Jochen Engert | 1 |
| Mehmet Onarcan | 1 |
| Jamal El Dabal | 1 |
| Hayk Tovmasyan | 1 |
| Khalid AlTawil | 1 |
| Aviram Jenik | 1 |
| Omri Casspi | 1 |
| Erhan Şatana | 1 |
| Daniel Krauss | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!Orkun Samioglu - Managing Partner @ Ipera Group
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- Travel, Tourism
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- otelz.com — Otelz.com, part of the Zonline Turizm ve Ticaret Aş, owns and operates Otelz.com™, The Turkish market leader in booking accommodations online. The otelz.com website attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.Established in 2013, Otelz.com, guarantees the best prices for any type of property, from small, family-run bedand breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star luxury suites. As for now offers over 3.000 properties in Turkey. Day by day it is increasing.Over 50 people in Turkey are dedicated to serving otelz.com customers and property-owning partners.Our Mission; " To help leisure and business travelers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy best places to stay."Our Vision; " Otelz.com is an informative, user-friendly website – that guarantees the best available prices. Our goal is to provide business and leisure travelers with the most accessible and cost-effective way of discovering and booking the broadest selection of accommodations, in every corner of Turkey.
Burak Gözalan - Owner @ Pure New Media
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- Travel, Tourism, Computer Vision
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- otelz.com — Otelz.com, part of the Zonline Turizm ve Ticaret Aş, owns and operates Otelz.com™, The Turkish market leader in booking accommodations online. The otelz.com website attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.Established in 2013, Otelz.com, guarantees the best prices for any type of property, from small, family-run bedand breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star luxury suites. As for now offers over 3.000 properties in Turkey. Day by day it is increasing.Over 50 people in Turkey are dedicated to serving otelz.com customers and property-owning partners.Our Mission; " To help leisure and business travelers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy best places to stay."Our Vision; " Otelz.com is an informative, user-friendly website – that guarantees the best available prices. Our goal is to provide business and leisure travelers with the most accessible and cost-effective way of discovering and booking the broadest selection of accommodations, in every corner of Turkey.
- Chooch — Chooch AI healthcare inventory management system automates tracking and replenishment of medical supplies. Real-time tracking. No manual counts. No scanning.
Genco Alp - Founder & CEO @ InGame Group
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- Travel, Tourism, Computer Vision
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- otelz.com — Otelz.com, part of the Zonline Turizm ve Ticaret Aş, owns and operates Otelz.com™, The Turkish market leader in booking accommodations online. The otelz.com website attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.Established in 2013, Otelz.com, guarantees the best prices for any type of property, from small, family-run bedand breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star luxury suites. As for now offers over 3.000 properties in Turkey. Day by day it is increasing.Over 50 people in Turkey are dedicated to serving otelz.com customers and property-owning partners.Our Mission; " To help leisure and business travelers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy best places to stay."Our Vision; " Otelz.com is an informative, user-friendly website – that guarantees the best available prices. Our goal is to provide business and leisure travelers with the most accessible and cost-effective way of discovering and booking the broadest selection of accommodations, in every corner of Turkey.
- Chooch — Chooch AI healthcare inventory management system automates tracking and replenishment of medical supplies. Real-time tracking. No manual counts. No scanning.
Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit
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- Apps, Mobile, Travel
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Israel
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.
Nihan Colak Erol - Founder & COO @ Wingie Enuygun Group
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- Travel, FinTech
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Wingie Enuygun Group — Wingie Enuygun Group is a technology company helping modern consumers save time and money, mostly in travel, but in insurance and financial products too. Located in Istanbul and Berlin, WEG currently serves customers in 6 languages, 10 countries.
Orkun Tekin is the Co-Founder and CRO at Otelz.com.
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- Travel, Tourism
- Angel, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- otelz.com — Otelz.com, part of the Zonline Turizm ve Ticaret Aş, owns and operates Otelz.com™, The Turkish market leader in booking accommodations online. The otelz.com website attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.Established in 2013, Otelz.com, guarantees the best prices for any type of property, from small, family-run bedand breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star luxury suites. As for now offers over 3.000 properties in Turkey. Day by day it is increasing.Over 50 people in Turkey are dedicated to serving otelz.com customers and property-owning partners.Our Mission; " To help leisure and business travelers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy best places to stay."Our Vision; " Otelz.com is an informative, user-friendly website – that guarantees the best available prices. Our goal is to provide business and leisure travelers with the most accessible and cost-effective way of discovering and booking the broadest selection of accommodations, in every corner of Turkey.
Hande Enes
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- Software, E-Commerce, Social Media
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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.
Elad Kushnir
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- Gaming, Software, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Israel, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- PeerPlay — PeerPlay is a casual mobile games powerhouse
- Travelier — Digitalizing ground & sea transportation
- Celery — Celery is an internal auditing and control platform, designed to automate critical and time-consuming processes and prevent costly mistakes.
Lior Shiff is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tripledot Studios. Took up Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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- Travel, Audio, Gaming
- Seed, Angel
- Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Odeeo — People play casual games to relax and have fun. So it’s no wonder the world’s 2.7bn free2play mobile gamers find aggressive full-screen ads annoying. Odeeo’s audio ad platform gets gamers. It’s built to amplify the in-game experience by overlaying contextual audio ads that players actually want to hear. For game developers, that meansmonetizing untapped in-game real estate and boosting incremental ad revenue—without hurting retention.For leading brands, it means cutting through the noise to target an attentive audience at ultra scale in an immersive brand-safe environment. And gamers? They can just play on!
- Bookaway — Search and compare bus, train, and ferry tickets across Europe, Asia, and South America. +1000 travel companies to help save you time and money.
- Shard X — Shard X, a London-based startup that develops technology for crypto custodians, in order to boost the security of its services. It is a multi-Party Computation technology, ensuring private keys never exist License MPC libraries for Hardware Secure Modules and for Hot & Cold Wallets.
Caglar Erol is the co-founder of cember.net, a Turkish online business networking platform acquired by XING AG in January 2008.Erol is an angel investor and serial entrepreneur in Turkey. His first investment after cember.net was doktorsitesi.com, a health site in Turkey. He also invested in Tasit.com, Gelirortaklari affiliate network, andCivicSolar.Erol currently serves as the co-founder and CEO of Enuygun.com, a service comparison site on bank loans, insurance, flight tickets, ADSL, and mobile phone tariffs.
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- Retail, Travel, Fashion
- Seed, Angel
- Jordan, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- MarkaVIP — Markavıp is an exclusive, invitation-only online shopping community focused on the Middle Eastern market. The website specializes in offering flash sales to its customers.Markavıp was founded by Ahmed Alkhatib, who previously spent 12 years in Silicon Valley working in the e-commerce industry. The website enjoys memberships from over 3 millionexclusive members across eight Arabic speaking countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Oman.
- Wingie Enuygun Group — Wingie Enuygun Group is a technology company helping modern consumers save time and money, mostly in travel, but in insurance and financial products too. Located in Istanbul and Berlin, WEG currently serves customers in 6 languages, 10 countries.
Demirhan Sener is the Limited Partner at StartupFon. Additionally, Demirhan Sener has had 1 past job as the CEO at Multinet UP.
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- Gaming, Rental, Travel
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Capoom — SaaS website template for an AI code assistant that helps you write code faster with less work. It caters to the business of the AI code industry for programmers and developers. Showcase AI coding capabilities with a Webflow template designed for artificial intelligence code.
- Kazayaptim — Kazayaptim is an in-vehicle integrated security solution that, with its continuously developed technological infrastructure, can intervene within seconds not only in the event of an accident, but also in all vehicle-related emergency situations, to provide fast, reliable, and closest support point services to people who have had an accident withtheir vehicle. offers.
- 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.
Stephen M. Ross is based out of Florida, New York and is the Co-Founder of Lit Thinking. Stephen attended the University of Michigan.
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- SaaS, Architecture, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Homebound — Homebound is a modern homebuilding concept delivering a better, more personal way to build homes.
- DHARMA — Travel-brand-as-a-service
- Healthe — Healthe is a developer of circadian and biological lighting products intended to help regulate the body's circadian clock. For over 20 years its scientists have been adapting technology from NASA and the ISS to engineer products that use the natural power of the sun to sustain, protect and optimize indoor environments. The company wasfounded in 2018 and is based in Melbourne, Florida.
Serkan Borançılı is the founding partner of GittiGidiyor, Turkey's leading consumer-to-consumer marketplace, which was acquired by eBay in 2011 for $220 million dollars. Born in 1971 in Ankara, Borançılı graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a degree in Architecture. After working as a freelance architect, he founded ARKInformation Technologies with Burak Divanlıoğlu in 1999. Up to 2004 GittiGidiyor was administered by ARK. Borançılı is also the co-founder of UzmanTV, a video website specializing in curated content by experts, and Istanbul.net, Turkey's largest online dating platform. Borançılı is also the first investor in BiTaksi, Turkey's leading taxi-hailing app. Since, he has also invested in Modacruz, a marketplace for secondhand luxury fashion.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Shoes
- Series A, Angel, Series B
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- BiTaksi — BiTaksi is a mobile application that enables its users to book taxis. It enables its users to locate a taxi through its online map and provides traffic data and turn-by-turn directions for drivers. BiTaksi is available for iOS and Android operating systems.
- Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
- 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
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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- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
- Shark Guitar — Premium electric guitars manufactured with robotic precision. Shark Guitars mean freedom of versatility, customization and portability.
- A.M.A Selections — Exclusive luxury holiday villa rentals in Europe, Africa & The Caribbean with A.M.A Selections. Some of the best & most luxurious villas to rent in Europe & across The World.
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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- B2B, SaaS, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Demostack — Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.
- 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.
Mustafa Mert Işık
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- Travel, Tourism
- Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- otelz.com — Otelz.com, part of the Zonline Turizm ve Ticaret Aş, owns and operates Otelz.com™, The Turkish market leader in booking accommodations online. The otelz.com website attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.Established in 2013, Otelz.com, guarantees the best prices for any type of property, from small, family-run bedand breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star luxury suites. As for now offers over 3.000 properties in Turkey. Day by day it is increasing.Over 50 people in Turkey are dedicated to serving otelz.com customers and property-owning partners.Our Mission; " To help leisure and business travelers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy best places to stay."Our Vision; " Otelz.com is an informative, user-friendly website – that guarantees the best available prices. Our goal is to provide business and leisure travelers with the most accessible and cost-effective way of discovering and booking the broadest selection of accommodations, in every corner of Turkey.
Mehmet Celikol
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- Rental, Travel, Boating
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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.
- YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.
- Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
Burak Şen
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- SaaS, Beauty, Mobile
- Angel, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Yeniben.com — Yeniben brings transparency to the elective medical & aesthetic treatment market which represents a wide range of services—from a simple skin treatment to cosmetic surgery. At the heart of Yeniben is a community of people sharing personal experiences, unbiased stories, and candid advice. Hundreds of medical experts also participate onYeniben. Doctors and clinicians have posted over one thousand answers to questions and routinely upload educational videos, special offers, and patient before & after photos. The company is an Istanbul based startup and has achieved profitability.
- Webee — Discover WeBee's high-tech hospitality solutions, ensure a contactless guest experience, improve TripAdvisor scores and maximize revenue.
Technology and people leader
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- Travel, Software, Travel Agency
- Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Tripotap — Tripotap is a revolutionary travel-tech platform dedicated to providing personalized and sustainable travel experiences. Leveraging advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Tripotap transforms the way travelers discover, plan, and book their journeys.Our platform curates tailoredtravel itineraries based on user preferences and behaviors, offering a seamless experience from exploration to booking. Key features include immersive AR/VR previews, allowing users to virtually explore destinations before committing, and AI-driven recommendations for eco-conscious excursions and cultural events.Tripotap is committed to sustainability, promoting environmentally responsible tourism options and supporting local businesses. By prioritizing eco-friendly tours and authentic cultural experiences, we aim to enrich travelers’ journeys while fostering a positive impact on communities and the environment.Based in Dubai, Tripotap is positioned at the intersection of innovation and tourism, targeting tech-savvy millennials, Gen Z travelers, and environmentally conscious adventurers. With a mission to make travel seamless, memorable, and responsible, Tripotap aspires to become a global leader in the sustainable travel industry.Whether you're planning a weekend getaway or a cross-continental adventure, Tripotap simplifies the process and ensures every journey is unique and meaningful.
Felix Schaal is an engineer and angel investor based out of Europe.He co-founded the German direct marketing company Felix has been also the chairman of the advisory board ofPrior to starting his entrepreneurial career, Felix has worked at His investments include Berlin-based startups such as Felix is also an active supporter of non profit organizations, e.g.
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- Health Care, Fitness, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Feedr — Probieren Sie Deutschlands Top Catering Service | EatFirst
- HealthUnlocked — We are the world's largest online support network. Ask questions. Get answers. Talk to others who've been there before. #UnlockYourHealth
- Circle Medical — Circle Medical is an online medical clinic that provides a better primary care experience. Book a telehealth appointment with one of our doctors today!
Roger is a Chairman and investor in travel, media and technology businesses that have the potential to disrupt their markets. He is also a recognised public speaker on transformational change, disruption, leadership, culture and innovation. Roger is Chairman at Luxtripper, D R Communications, Clearvac Group, Decisive Media and NED at CookeOptics. Roger was Chairman of Loveholidays from 2011 to 2018, during which the business grew from launch to £500m in revenues and was sold to private equity investor Livingbridge for £180m. Roger was Chairman of Olive Communications which was sold in February 2021 to OneCom backed by LDC and Masstech Innovations Inc., which was sold in March 2021 to Telestream.Previous roles have included Chief Executive at BBC Ventures Group, Commercial Director at Virgin Communications, Head of World Sales and Distribution at British Airways, Managing Director of Prudential Retail and President International at SDI Media Group, a Warburg Pincus backed management buyout.
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- Travel, Leisure, Tourism
- Funding Round
- Israel
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.
Soha Nashaat served as Strategic Advisor To The Executive Chairman of SHUAA Capital psc since January 20, 2014. Nashaat served as a Senior Advisor of Barclays Bank (Suisse). She is a high-calibre leader with global, multi touch experience and expertise in building client-centric financial organizations. She has private and institutional clients.Nashaat served as Chief Executive Officer of Wealth Middle East & North Africa at Barclays PLC. Nashaat served as Head of Middle East of Barclays Private Bank Limited. Nashaat joined Barclays Bank in June 2006. Nashaat served as Managing Director and Head of Middle East Team of Barclays Bank plc, United Arab Emirates. Nashaat served as the Chief Executive Officer of Middle East and North Africa of Barclays Wealth Management. She established the footprint and operations for the wealth management business. Prior to Barclays, Nashaat had a distinguished career at Merrill Lynch, where she served leadership positions in New York, Buenos Aires and London, including responsibility for the offshore Middle East business for London, Geneva and Monaco as well as creating the Institutional Client Group serving small and mid-size institutions across Europe and the Middle East. She serves as a Member of the Board of Barclays Bank (Suisse). She serves on the Board of the Foundation for Renewable Energy & Environment and on the International Committee for Barnard College, Columbia University. Nashaat is widely recognized as a Leader in financial services and a leading Business Woman, including "Woman Banker of the year 2007" by Businesswomen and Leaders Achievements Awards, "Leading Business Women in the Arab World" by the Financial Times in 2007 and 2008, "Top 100 women in Finance" by Financial News (Dow Jones) and was ranked 23rd among the "100 Most Powerful Arab Women" in 2011 by Arabian Business.
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- Hotel, Travel, E-Commerce
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- TravelerVIP — TravelerVIP.com is a unique curated hotel booking website that turns ordinary online reservations into a VIP experience. The website is the world's largest coll The website initially gained popularity for its private sales, offering members discount on luxury hotels. It has since expanded its model to include a collection of over 1,000hand-picked hotels that are curated by its Arabic and English editors and come with free perks.
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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- SaaS, Software, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Spain, Israel, United States
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.
Mehmet Celikol
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- Dental, Rental, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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.
- Dentalpiyasa — Dentalpiyasa connects dentists and dental warehouses, enabling direct procurement from manufacturers and importers.
- Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
Co-founder & CFO of Go.dayuse.
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- Local, Travel, Leisure
- Seed, Angel
- Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Godayuse — Godayuse is world's first portal specializes only in featuring day activities to help people break their routine without having to travel
- HyperSpace — Hyperspace is a permanent ticketed experiential attraction developer that creates, builds, operates, and funds attractions. Founded in 2020 and is based inDubai, AE.
Moshe Rafiah is CEO & Founder at Travelfusion. He attended his education at Boston University.
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- Travel, Leisure, Tourism
- Funding Round
- Israel
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.
Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus
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- Software, Rental, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, Israel
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.
- 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.
Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.
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- Apps, Internet, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
- Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
- Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
Jamal El Dabal
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- Travel, Tourism, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Tripdizer — Tripdizer is a travel tech startup based in Egypt. Tripdizer offers an end to end solution by offering personalized itineraries to travelers that resonate with their budget and interests, using a homegrown algorithm integrated with AI, to ensure an optimized travel experience based on the inputs of thousands of other travelers.
Hayk Tovmasyan is a ceo of Imperia Holding Company Group.
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- Travel
- Seed
- Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- eTOLLs EU — The eTOLLs EU app is a convenient way to pay tolls and avoid cash lanes on toll roads. It also provides helpful alerts about toll prices and helps you plan your route by giving you cost estimates for your trip. This way, you can get to your destination smoothly and without any unexpected surprises.
Khalid AlTawil is a Board Member at Saudi Chemcial Company.
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- Gaming, eSports, Rental
- Seed
- Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates
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- 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.
Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies
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- Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, South Korea, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
- SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
- Adversa AI — Autonomous AI red teaming platform that continuously tests AI agents, LLMs, and GenAI apps. 300+ attack techniques. OWASP & NIST mapped. Trusted by Fortune 500
Omri Moshe Casspi is the founder of Swish Ventures. He is a former NBA athlete who last played for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association. He plays the small forward position but can play also at the power forward position.
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- SaaS, Cloud Management, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- DayTwo — DayTwo is a precision nutrition company that uses food as medicine to enable a path to remission for metabolic diseases including diabetes, prediabetes, clinical obesity, NAFLD. DayTwo's groundbreaking scientific discovery, published in CELL (2015) and JAMA (2019) determined that people respond differently to the same food, thus knowing whatfood “works” for each person is crucial to an effective care plan. DayTwo uses gut microbiome sequencing (stool sample, akin to Cologuard) to create Food Prescriptions™ for each patient which balance blood sugar levels, improve energy, manage hunger, and help members lose weight. The DayTwo virtual care solution is delivered through Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists and Registered Dietitians using a digital app to track progress and to communicate with members. DayTwo uses A1C and Time In Range as the primary clinical outcomes, and weight as a secondary outcome. For those who implement the DayTwo protocol, DayTwo offers up to 100% fees-at-risk.
- Applied Compute — Applied Compute is an AI startup that builds custom AI models and Specific Intelligence solutions for enterprises.
- Faye — Whole-trip travel insurance that goes the distance to cover you at every step of your journey with incredible coverage, 24/7 travel care, instant claims processing and more.
Erhan Şatana is the former CEO of Garanti BBVA Mortgage.
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- Rental, Travel, Boating
- Seed
- Turkey
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- 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.
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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- Software, Rental, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Israel, United States
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.
- feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.
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