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Top 50 Travel Angel Investors in Middle East (August 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Middle East Travel startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East Travel 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
5 Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Travel, FinTech, Apps $3M–$12M
Elad Kushnir
Angel
4 Israel, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Gaming, Software, Travel $1M–$35M
Burak Gözalan
Angel
3 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Travel, Tourism, Computer Vision
Orkun Samioglu
Angel
3 Turkey Seed, Angel, Series A Travel, Tourism
Genco Alp
Angel
3 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Gaming, Travel, Tourism $250k–$400k
Lior Shiff
Angel
2 Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Travel, Audio, Gaming $1M–$9M
Orkun Tekin
Angel
2 Turkey Angel, Series A Travel, Tourism
Caglar Erol
Angel
2 Jordan, Turkey Seed, Angel Retail, Travel, Fashion
Amit Gilon
Angel
2 Israel, Spain, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $1.2M–$13M
Sinan Düztaş
Angel
2 Turkey Seed SaaS, Mobile, Travel
Tal Shoham
Angel
2 Israel, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Mobile Apps, Gaming, Travel
Nihan Colak Erol
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel Travel, FinTech
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$3M
Hande Enes
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $29k–$4.1M
Dan Adika
Angel
2 Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel SaaS, Software, B2B $1M–$7M
Javad Javad
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Hotel, Travel, Travel Accommodations
Mike Nelson
Angel
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Jamal El Dabal
Angel
1 Egypt Seed Travel, Tourism, Artificial Intelligence
Mehmet Celikol
Angel
1 Turkey, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Dental, EdTech $100k–$420k
Khalid AlTawil
Angel
1 Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Gaming, eSports $165k–$1.2M
Joachim Behrendt
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A SaaS, Software, Social Media $11k–$1.9M
Stephen Ross
Angel
1 United States, United Arab Emirates Series B, Seed SaaS, Hotel, Events $7M–$20M
Soha Nashaat
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Seed Hotel, Travel, E-Commerce
Mohammed Shafik
Angel
1 Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Angel Local, Travel, Leisure
Moshe Rafiah
Angel
1 Israel Travel, Leisure, Tourism
Eilon Reshef
Angel
1 Israel Seed, Series B B2B, SaaS, Software
Talmon Marco
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Travel $10M–$12M
Hayk Tovmasyan
Angel
1 Cyprus Seed, Corporate Round Travel
Mustafa Mert Işık
Angel
1 Turkey Series A Travel, Tourism
Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Travel, Leisure, Internet $18k–$1.3M
Burak Şen
Angel
1 Turkey Angel, Series A SaaS, Beauty, Mobile
Félix Charif Schaal
Angel
1 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Health Care, Fitness, SaaS $274k–$2.9M
Omri Casspi
Angel
1 United States, Israel Series A, Seed, Series D Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $4M–$1B
Matt Higgins
Angel
1 United States, Canada, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing $2.5M–$10M
Daniel Krauss
Angel
1 Germany, Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Rental, Information Technology $1.4M–$30M
Jochen Engert
Angel
1 Germany, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Rental, Travel $1.5M–$30M
Serkan Borancılı
Angel
1 Turkey Series A, Angel, Series B Internet, E-Commerce, Shoes $350k–$2M
Mohamed Aboshanab
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Pre-Seed Legal Tech, Legal, Travel $10k–$100k
Erhan Şatana
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Rental, Travel, Boating
Sharjeel Sohail
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed Travel, Software, Travel Agency
Avi Meir
Angel
1 Spain, United States, Israel Seed, Series A SaaS, Software, Gaming $6M–$9M
Roger Flynn
Angel
1 Israel Travel, Leisure, Tourism
Demirhan Sener
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Customer Service, Artificial Intelligence $18k–$1M
Aviram Jenik
Angel
1 South Korea, United States, Israel Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence $74k–$18M
Alvaro Garcia de Oteyza
Angel
1 Spain Seed B2C, Apps, Mobile $329k–$987k
Murat Bekiroğlu
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Rental, Travel, Boating
Scott Mackin
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Sweden, United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed, Seed, Private Equity Software, Travel, Internet $111k–$532k
Ayal Itzkovitz
Angel
1 Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Quantum Computing, SaaS $3M–$38M
Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Social Media, Apps, Mobile
Sherif Hamed
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed Solar, Energy, Events
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Uri Levine
Angel · 5 investments in Middle East Travel 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: Travel, FinTech, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$3.5M; Series A $3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SeeTree — SeeTree offers you complete transparency into the health and production of each of your trees by leveraging the most powerful innovations available.
  • Oversee — AI growth engine for travel - Increase revenue, maximize savings, automate customer service and streamline operations
  • 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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Elad Kushnir
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 4 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Elad Kushnir

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.4M; Series B $35M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Huuuge Games — Huuuge is a gaming company on a mission to build world's largest real-time social casual gaming platform connecting millions of players to have fun & socialize & play awesome games.They are passionate about transforming mobile casual gaming into massively fun, real-time, social experiences.Their mission is to be the global leaderof real-time free-to-play casual gaming on mobile: re-defining casual arcade, puzzle and casino categories.
  • Luna Labs — Luna Labs is the maker of a creative management platform used to create mobile ads. Luna Labs technology allows app developers from enterprises to indie developers to create, manage and optimize their playable ad and video ads, at a fast speed and on a large scale.
  • Mad Brain Games — Challenge your brain with this fun, free word scapes game!Solve puzzles to save the farm! Word Farm Adventure Game Save...
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Burak Gözalan
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Burak Gözalan - Owner @ Pure New Media

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Tourism, Computer Vision
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 hospital inventory management system automates tracking and replenishment of medical supplies. Real-time tracking. No manual counts. No scanning.
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Orkun Samioglu
Angel · 3 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Orkun Samioglu - Managing Partner @ Ipera Group

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Tourism
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

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.
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Genco Alp
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Genco Alp is the Founder and CEO at Lokum Games.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Travel, Tourism
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • SuperGears Games — SuperGears Games offers mobile game studio with a specialization in racing games. Mobile racing game platform that redefines the mobile gaming experience
  • Chooch — Chooch AI hospital inventory management system automates tracking and replenishment of medical supplies. Real-time tracking. No manual counts. No scanning.
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Lior Shiff
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Lior Shiff is based out of London, England, and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tripledot Studios and also the Board of Director of ZOE. Lior Shiff previously worked at Luna Labs as a Co-Founder and Director. Lior Shiff attended Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Audio, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Born — SLAY is a social gaming company.
  • Froot Pops — Froot Pops brings a household obsession to the freezer aisle with its signature chocolate-dipped fruit. Originally perfected at home to satisfy a best friend's snack cravings.
  • 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!
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Orkun Tekin
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Orkun Tekin is the Co-Founder and CRO at Otelz.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Tourism
  • Stage:Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

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.
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Caglar Erol
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Travel startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Travel, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Jordan, Turkey

Investor stats

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

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.
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Amit Gilon
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Amit Gilon is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, Spain, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ealyx — Ealyx is a B2B SaaS for e-commerce that enables customers to pay for new purchases with old items.Its objective is to make a significant global contribution to the necessary reforms in the existing take-make-waste consumption model.
  • Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
  • Localbird — Explore unique experiences, on-demand services, rentals, you name it.
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Sinan Düztaş
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Sinan Düztaş

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Travel
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Webee — Discover WeBee's high-tech hospitality solutions, ensure a contactless guest experience, improve TripAdvisor scores and maximize revenue.
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Tal Shoham
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Angel investor | Games Industry and Ad-tech Executive | Board Member | Tedooo Co-Founder I PeerPlay Co-Founder

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Gaming, Travel
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PeerPlay — PeerPlay is a casual mobile games powerhouse
  • Localbird — Explore unique experiences, on-demand services, rentals, you name it.
  • Supersonic Studios — SuperSonic designs a mobile advertising technology platform that grows business by building a platform powered by advanced technology. Its mobile advertising technology platform optimizes user acquisition strategy by combining data from other tracking platforms, enabling developers to increase their revenue and find the users for theirapplications.
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Nihan Colak Erol
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Nihan Colak Erol - Founder & COO @ Wingie Enuygun Group

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

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.
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 2 investments in Middle East Travel 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: 57
  • Round size: Seed $233k–$2.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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 Travel 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: 17
  • 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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Dan Adika
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Middle East Travel 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

  • CareBestie
  • Quack — Get your team the power to resolve user issues right away.
  • 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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Javad Javad
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Javad Javad

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hotel, Travel, Travel Accommodations
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • RODIN — Rodin is a travel startup company in hostel industry, managing B2C hostel chain and some accommodation businesses. Also, Rodin is releasing the travel apps for Istanbul called Rodin Istanbul, as well as other travel apps based on Rodin's operational locations. Furthermore, Rodin is planning to penetrate the B2B market by releasing the hostelplatform. Rodin is the company that solves problems of the travelers by providing budget-friendly short-term accommodations, including the travel information and related digital products and services.
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Mike Nelson
Angel · Scottsdale, Arizona, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Mike Nelson, former CEO of Global Travel Insurance at Allianz.

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Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Jamal El Dabal
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Jamal El Dabal

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Tourism, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Egypt

Investor stats

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

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.
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Mehmet Celikol
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Mehmet Celikol

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Dental, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$420k
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% 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.
  • 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.
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Khalid AlTawil
Angel · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in Middle East Travel 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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Joachim Behrendt
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scorp — "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views.
  • Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
  • Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
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Stephen Ross
Angel · Florida, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Hotel, Events
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series B $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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.
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Soha Nashaat
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hotel, Travel, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

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.
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Mohammed Shafik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Mohammed Shafik is the Co-founder and CFO of Go.dayuse.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Local, Travel, Leisure
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

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.
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Moshe Rafiah
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • WeSki — WeSki allows you to compare endless ski holiday combinations, find the best deals and build your perfect ski holiday package, in just few clicks.
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Eilon Reshef
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Eilon Reshef is an entrepreneur, an executive and (to a lesser degree) an investor in the internet and software spaces. Over the years, he has incepted, built and marketed software, carrying out diverse responsibilities (inception, technology, engineering, product management, marketing, and general management) in both hands-on and managementcapacities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Israel

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Demostack — Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.
  • RoutePerfect — Routeperfect is a trip-planning tool that helps you create a perfect trip based on your budget & style.
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Talmon Marco
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Talmon Marco is currently the CEO and co-founder of Juno - a new approach to ride sharing. At Juno, drivers are truly partners by earning ownership in the company with every ride they take​.Prior to Juno, Marco co-founded and sat as CEO of Viber which was sold in early 2014. Talmon​ has​ also co​-​founded and sat as CEO for both ExpandNetworks​ and​ later iMesh. ​Talmon, who was ​born in Israel,​ ​completed a degree in Computer Science and Management from Tel-Aviv University​ and ​later ​moved to the United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $10M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Firmbase — Firmbase is the modern financial planning and analysis platform for tech companies. Our founders have strong leadership, product and software development experience from Facebook, Stanford and Unit 8200. Our group of top-tier investors include unicorn startup founders and senior executives from Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
  • Localbird — Explore unique experiences, on-demand services, rentals, you name it.
  • Waltz — Waltz Makes Buying Property in the USA as a Foreigner Investing in US Real Estate Simple With Various Financing Options for Non-U.S Citizens. Call Us Today!
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Hayk Tovmasyan
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Hayk Tovmasyan is a ceo of Imperia Holding Company Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Cyprus

Investor stats

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

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.
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Mustafa Mert Işık
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Mustafa Mert Işık

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Tourism
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

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.
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Kıvılcım Çaylı is the author of "Startup Investor's Handbook", a technology company investor with 18 investments in 5 countries, management consultant, and private equity professional.He holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration), CPEP™ (Chartered Private Equity Professional), and FMVA® (Financial Modeling & ValuationAnalyst) degrees and a Capital Markets Activities License Level 3. After many years of corporate business experience in global companies and entrepreneurial experience in the companies he founded, he has contributed to the growth journey of nearly a hundred companies in his management consultancy career.He is the CEO of Kanvas Management Consultancy Company and Kılıç Çaylı & Partners Law Office and Private Equity & Venture Capital (PE & VC) Director & Partner at Financial Axis A.Ş. | GGI. He makes his personal investments under the Pareto Ventures brand.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Leisure, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CEOtudent — Founded in May 2015, CEOtudent.com is a content-based website that focuses on providing a rich vision and lifestyle to university and young professionals with content focused on success.On our internet site, we offer numerous contents from personal development to marketing, from career to events, from entrepreneurship to current news.AtCEOtudent.com, we share every piece of information we think that we can provide benefits and inspiration, and we are constantly trying to learn something new.
  • Fonbulucu — fonbulucu is a crowding funding platform that provide innovative financing and investment system benefit to entrepreneurs and investors.
  • Teleporter — California and Istanbul based VR gaming company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of VR medium and creating high-quality experiences that redefine social interaction and gaming.
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Burak Şen
Angel · Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Burak Şen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Beauty, Mobile
  • Stage:Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

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.
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Félix Charif Schaal
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Fitness, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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!
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Omri Casspi
Angel · Holon, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series D
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$8M; Series A $35M–$100M; Series D $300M–$1B
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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, and NAFLD. DayTwo's groundbreaking scientific discovery, published in CELL (2015) and JAMA (2019) determined that people respond differently to the same food, thus knowingwhat food “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. DayTwo virtual care solution is delivered through Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists and Registered Dietitians using a digital app to track progress and communicate with members.
  • Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.
  • Turnout — Turnout Technologies is a technology related company.
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Matt Higgins
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Matt Higgins is based out of New York and is the Co-Founder of Lockchain.ai . Matt previously worked at SkOUT Secure Intelligence as a Co-Owner. Matt Higgins attended Fordham University School of Law.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hatz AI — Hatz AI provides a partner-focused platform for MSPs and resellers to offer AI-as-a-Service, unlocking new business opportunities. Our solution supports MSPs in adopting AI internally and guiding AI adoption for their clients, featuring a secure multi-tenant AI platform, a no-code AI workflows, and Adel, an AI phone agent.
  • DHARMA — Travel-brand-as-a-service
  • Grow Credit — Grow Credit helps consumers with no credit or thin credit files establish or build credit for free using their existing subscription accounts, including Netflix, Disney Plus, Spotify, and many more. Grow is also the first platform to allow consumers to build credit with their cell phone bills. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in SantaMonica, California.
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Daniel Krauss
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Middle East Travel 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 Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
  • BLOCKS — BLOCKS deploys an AI agent to monitor cloud usage patterns continuously. The agent identifies wasteful resource allocations and applies real-time optimizations autonomously. It differs from dashboards by taking direct action instead of just alerting users.
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Jochen Engert
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Middle East Travel 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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Serkan Borancılı
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Shoes
  • Stage:Series A, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $350k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Mohamed Aboshanab
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Mohamed Aboshanab is a cross-border operator and builder who leads Global Expat and a family of ventures at the intersection of international tax, immigration, and company formation. He specializes in turning complex, multi-jurisdictional requirements into clear, productized services for remote entrepreneurs, creators, and globally distributedteams.His experience spans structuring businesses across key hubs, opening compliant banking and payments rails, securing tax residency and immigration pathways, and setting up governance and reporting that withstand regulatory scrutiny. Mohamed works hands-on with founders and investors to design operating models, negotiate with service providers and free-zone authorities, and align legal, tax, and financial workflows so teams can launch and scale across markets.As an operator-investor, he helps early teams validate offers, build distribution, and form durable partnerships. He is known for practical execution: drafting playbooks, assembling specialist counsel, coordinating filings, and moving clients from intent to live operations. Alongside venture building, he creates educational content and executive briefings that demystify cross-border strategy, giving leaders a straightforward path to compliance, resilience, and growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Legal Tech, Legal, Travel
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $10k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NEXAW — Coming Soon NEXAW ™ The Start Up Legal Company Building the next Global Legal Company for the new generation International Firm Turning challenges into Opportunities #NEXAW ™
  • Global Expat Offshore — Global Advisors
  • Global Expat — Global Expat offers services that assist individuals and businesses in managing international mobility, tax optimization, and residency planning. Their offerings include guidance on offshore business structuring, banking, and tax solutions tailored for emerging to mid-sized international and virtual companies. Additionally, they provide support forobtaining second citizenships and navigating global tax strategies. Through their platform, clients can access resources such as strategy consultations, community engagement, and educational content. The company positions itself as a resource for those seeking to optimize their global presence and financial strategies.
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Erhan Şatana
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Erhan Şatana is the former CEO of Garanti BBVA Mortgage.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • 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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Sharjeel Sohail
Angel · Redmond, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Technology and people leader

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Software, Travel Agency
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

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.
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Avi Meir
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 1 investments in Middle East Travel 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 is the system of record for the agentic workforce, agent performance, cost per unit of work, and agentic transformation tracked live.
  • 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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Roger Flynn
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Angel $18k–$1M; Pre-Seed $200k–$530k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Mobiloto — Mobiloto is a fintech-powered mobility platform that enables individual users to manage and pay for everyday vehicle expenses—such as fuel, maintenance, service, and tires—through a single app. By aggregating individual users into a digital fleet, Mobiloto provides access to fleet-level pricing and smarter purchasing advantages that are typicallyavailable only to large companies. The platform simplifies vehicle spending, increases transparency, and helps users save time and money by centralizing payments, service bookings, and expense management in one seamless experience.
  • 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.
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Aviram Jenik
Angel · Cupertino, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $491k–$18M; Angel $250k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $74k–$275k
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
  • Tribe Money Pools — An early stage Seattle-based fintech startup building a digital platform to streamline how groups share and manage their finances.
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Alvaro Garcia de Oteyza
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Alvaro Garcia de Oteyza

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2C, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$987k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dribo — Dribo is the ONLY app that allows you to get your driving license with your mobile easily, comfortably and economically.
  • Mr. Noow — HABANERO88 adalah situs website terbesar ke satu Asia slot gacor resmi dari Thailand dengan akreditas resmi dan terpercaya di indonesia No#1.
  • HiGuests — Property Management Services. - Profile Management - Check in & Check out - Cleaning & Laundry - Guest Care - Real Estate Consulting
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Murat Bekiroğlu
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Murat Bekiroğlu

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • 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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Scott Mackin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Scott George Mackin is based out of London and is the Partner of Denham Capital. Scott previously worked at Covanta Energy Corporation as a CEO. Scott George Mackin attended the University of Michigan Law School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Travel, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Private Equity
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $111k–$532k
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OMA Mind — Connect with qualified mental health practitioners, ready and available round the clock.
  • Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
  • Views For Change — Social Impact SAAS platform transforming marketing performance by harnessing the power of charitable donations as consumer rewards.
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Ayal Itzkovitz
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Ayal Itzkovitz - Managing Partner @ Pitango VC

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Quantum Computing, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $4.5M–$15M; Series A $11M–$30M; Series B $3M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexite — Nexite is an AI platform for physical retail that tracks real-time in-store behavior and tells you exactly what to do to improve conversion.
  • Localbird — Explore unique experiences, on-demand services, rentals, you name it.
  • Quantum Source — Quantum Source is on a clear path to the most powerful, cost-effective, practical photonic quantum computer. Learn more.
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Letz — Letz is a mobile app that lets you find available people for all activities to hang out with.
  • Missafir — Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
  • Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
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Sherif Hamed
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East Travel startups

Chairman & Founder @ TSH Group of Companies LTD

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Events
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • TSH Group of Companies LTD — TSH Group of Companies is a trading and development company that offers commercial, hospitality, Events, FM, and freight services.
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