Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Middle East in September 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Web3 startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Middle East in September 2025
Investor | Web3 Middle East investments |
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Sandeep Nailwal | 4 |
Anton Bukov | 2 |
Ameet Patel | 2 |
Con O'Donnell | 2 |
Mark Ransford | 2 |
Meni Rosenfeld | 2 |
Yaron Lemelbaum | 2 |
Sebastien Borget | 2 |
Winslow Strong | 2 |
Jaynti Kanani | 2 |
Ivo Georgiev | 2 |
Karim Hussein | 2 |
Khaled Alashmouny | 2 |
Deniz Devrim Cengiz | 2 |
Patrick Dai | 2 |
Shunsuke Oyu | 1 |
NFTboi | 1 |
n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault | 1 |
Michael Shaulov | 1 |
Afzal Shaikh | 1 |
Chinni Yasovardhan | 1 |
Ilker Sozdinler | 1 |
Valentine Baudouin Barbelivien | 1 |
Evan Van Ness | 1 |
Elena 🌸 | 1 |
Hys Sevim | 1 |
Private Private | 1 |
Kunal Shah | 1 |
Alex Svanevik | 1 |
Akın İdil | 1 |
Amir Sarhangi | 1 |
Yusuf Sevim | 1 |
Jason Gardner | 1 |
Paul Taylor | 1 |
christopher | 1 |
Dennis Porto | 1 |
Varol Civil | 1 |
Yuval Tal | 1 |
Mike Dudas | 1 |
Cristóbal Conde | 1 |
Martin Köppelmann | 1 |
Emmanuel Schalit | 1 |
Konstantin Richter | 1 |
Philipp Zentner | 1 |
Evan Luthra | 1 |
Musaab Hakami | 1 |
Jon Oringer | 1 |
Snowy August | 1 |
John Wright | 1 |
Cihan Demir | 1 |
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Defx — Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon.
- Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
- RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
I am a philosopher, concept generator, and innovator with a deep fascination for technology, simplicity, and innovation, stemming from my software engineering journey that began in 2002. I have a profound curiosity in diverse domains such as algorithms, space exploration, blockchain technology, virtual and augmented reality, artificialintelligence, emerging energy sources, and new material sciences. My holistic and interdisciplinary approach propels me towards harnessing technology and innovation to conceive and create a future that surpasses the conventional boundaries of imagination
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Portugal, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
- Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
- Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
CTO//Investor//Whisperer to Leading Enterprise Companies
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Acopia Networks, Mimosa Systems, Integrien, Cyvera, Librato, Caspida, BlueBox Security, Nodeprime, APIGEE, SkyHigh, Solinea, Cask, Zscaler (TPG-IPO), Anaplan (IPO)
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Tracebit — Tracebit generates and maintains bespoke decoy resources in your cloud environments, closing gaps beyond stock protection without time- and cost-intensive detection engineering
- Patlytics — Patent discovery, analytics, comparison, and workflow. Simplified via Artificial Intelligence.
- Restate — Restate build workflows, event-driven applications, and distributed services in a fault-tolerant manner with durable async/await.
Con O'Donnell is Founder & Advisor at ElWafeyat.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Hardware, Software
- Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Elk — Elk is a development board for the blockchain and the decentralized web. It combines the simplicity of Arduino along with native support for decentralized networks. With only a few lines of code you can build IoT that interfaces with Ethereum, IPFS, Whisper, and more.
- Elkrem — Elkrem provides hardware and software tools for developers to build Blockchain connected IoT products. The software and hardware tools allows anyone with minimal technical background, to build internet connected products that accept cryptocurrencies and communicate with different blockchain and decentralized protocols including Bitcoin,Ethereum, Swarm, Whisper, IPFS, IOTA and others.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Damisa — Highly Secure Business to Business Transactions. Smarter, Safer, and Cost-Effective Global Payments. Eliminating delays, reducing costs, and simplifying global transactions with stablecoins.
- Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.
- Little John — Little John creates a platform using generative AI to empower insurance brokers.
Meni Rosenfeld - Chairman @ Israeli Bitcoin Association
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Privacy, Computer
- Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
Mr. Lemelbaum is an experienced Film Producer. Since 2007 Mr Lemelbaum is also involved in Investment Research and Managment, and serves on the Board of Directors of Israeli listed public companies AMS Electronics and BSR Europe.
Mr. Lemelbaum holds a BA in Computer Science from IDC, and MBA from Columbia University
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Homeis — Checkout the full domain details of Homeis.com. Click Buy Now to instantly start the transaction or Make an offer to the seller!
- Simplex — Buy crypto instantly with credit card, bank transfer, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more. Simplex provides a fast, secure fiat-to-crypto onramp.
- Rewire — Secure financial services designed to help migrants make cross-border money transfers. Rewire offers great rates, fast delivery, multilingual customer support
Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
- Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
- Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.
Winslow Strong
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Privacy
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- BEAM — Beam offers privacy, confidential assets, DeFi, NFTs, DEX, and a seamless user experience in a secure, decentralized environment.
- Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
- Altitude — Actively managed collateralised loans
Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
- Mythik — Mythik operates as an entertainment company with a vision to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales.
- NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.
Ivo Georgiev - Co-Founder & CEO @ Ambire AdEx
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Investment focus
- Privacy, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Funding Round
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- BEAM — Beam offers privacy, confidential assets, DeFi, NFTs, DEX, and a seamless user experience in a secure, decentralized environment.
Karim is a technology veteran with deep experience in product and innovation management and rapid business growth and scaling – particularly in the healthcare and financial services markets. Karim has been an active investor and mentor to a number of technology businesses in Egypt and the US. He is founder and Chairman of D-Kimia DiagnosticSolutions developing fast, affordable, and accurate medical diagnostics using nano-technology and focused on controlling the Hepatitis C epidemic in Egypt and globally. Karim has served on the board of D-Kimia, Integreight, Shezlong.com, Prognos.ai, and Simplex Arabia CNC Solutions. He is also Chairman of the entrepreneurship committee of the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council, a mentor to high impact entrepreneurs through the Endeavor network, and a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Previously, Karim was SVP, Products and Engineering at WebMD, Inc., directing product management, technology strategy and engineering. Prior to WebMD, Karim was co-founder and CTO of Riskclick, Inc., a software firm specializing in commercial insurance applications. He also was a senior associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton where he was a member of the Global e-Commerce team.Karim received his PhD in Information Systems from MIT and a dual BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He has over 40 publications and a patent for his work on distributed computing.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Internet, Blockchain
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, Jordan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Elk — Elk is a development board for the blockchain and the decentralized web. It combines the simplicity of Arduino along with native support for decentralized networks. With only a few lines of code you can build IoT that interfaces with Ethereum, IPFS, Whisper, and more.
- Elkrem — Elkrem provides hardware and software tools for developers to build Blockchain connected IoT products. The software and hardware tools allows anyone with minimal technical background, to build internet connected products that accept cryptocurrencies and communicate with different blockchain and decentralized protocols including Bitcoin,Ethereum, Swarm, Whisper, IPFS, IOTA and others.
- Shezlong — Talk to your therapist online privately anytime anywhere!
Khaled Alashmouny is the AMS IC Design at Apple.Khaled Alashmouny attended University of Michigan.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Hardware, Software
- Seed
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Elk — Elk is a development board for the blockchain and the decentralized web. It combines the simplicity of Arduino along with native support for decentralized networks. With only a few lines of code you can build IoT that interfaces with Ethereum, IPFS, Whisper, and more.
- Elkrem — Elkrem provides hardware and software tools for developers to build Blockchain connected IoT products. The software and hardware tools allows anyone with minimal technical background, to build internet connected products that accept cryptocurrencies and communicate with different blockchain and decentralized protocols including Bitcoin,Ethereum, Swarm, Whisper, IPFS, IOTA and others.
Deniz Devrim Cengiz
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Apps
- Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
- Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
- Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
Patrick is graduated from Draper University and dropped out of his doctoral degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Previously employed by Alibaba, and committed to the blockchain technology development, with abundant blockchain industry development experience.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Privacy, Computer
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bodhi — Bodhi is a decentralized prediction market platform focusing on Chinese market.Bodhi prediction market will be built on top of the Qtum blockchain. Qtum combines Bitcoin Core infrastructure with Ethereum Virtual Machine to provide stability, modularity and interoperability for dApps build on its platform. Bodhi aims to be one of the earliest andlargest dApps run on Qtum.
- BEAM — Beam offers privacy, confidential assets, DeFi, NFTs, DEX, and a seamless user experience in a secure, decentralized environment.
- RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.
Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc.
Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016.
Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.
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Investment focus
- Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
- Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
NFTboi is the founder of BoiLabs.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Media and Entertainment
- Angel
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Liquidium — Liquidium is a peer-to-peer lending solution that leverages the power of Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs) and Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBTs) to enable users to borrow and lend native Bitcoin against native Ordinals as collateral. Ordinal Inscriptions are a new form of digital assets created by inscribing data on Satoshis, the smallestunit of Bitcoin. Liquidium allows Ordinal owners to lock inscriptions as collateral to borrow Bitcoin, while retaining ownership and exposure to their Ordinal. The platform operates solely on the Bitcoin blockchain in a trust-minimal and custodian-free solution. The lending process is facilitated through PSBTs, and the loan outcomes are validated by DeepLake oracles. Liquidium is the biggest Bitcoin NFT lending protocol by volume on the Stacks blockchain for users to borrow against their Bitcoin NFTs.
- Tokyo Beast — Tokyo Beast is powered by a diverse range of content, including gaming, cryptocurrency generation and management, and betting. At its heart is a cryptocurrency-based betting system.
n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Undeads Metaverse — Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. Feature-rich gameplay never seen in Web3 space before. Join the Undeads Metaverse!
Michael is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, a secure digital asset infrastructure company. Prior to Fireblocks, he co-founded Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point, and was then appointed the Head of Products, Mobile and Cloud Security for Check Point. Michael is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and investor. He is alsoa recognized industry speaker, delivering talks at RSA Conference, BlackHat and Infosec. Before his commercial endeavors, Michael pioneered the mobile security field in an elite military technological unit (8200), where he received the Israeli Presidential Excellency Honor for his contributions. He holds a BSc in Computer Sciences and Physics from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Station70 — Station70 provides scalable and resilient disaster recovery solutions.
- Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.
- Borderless.xyz — Borderless.xyz is a global payments infrastructure startup that enables transactions using internet-native money, such as stablecoins and real-world assets.
CEO of HFM Global
• Entrepreneur with 3 decades of experience across India, Middle-East and South East Asia
• Have been in Gold trading business for more than a decade.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- GoldFin — Reshaping cryptocurrencies for the public.
Chinni Yasovardhan is the Founder and Managing Director of Nan Lian Ship Management. He previously worked at Ship Management & Operations as a Technical Superintendent. Chinni Yasovardhan attended Narottam Morarjee Institute.
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Investment focus
- Web3, Blockchain, Financial Exchanges
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- ShipFinex — Discover ShipFinex, the innovative blockchain platform revolutionizing ship ownership. Access, trade, and own fractional shares of marine assets securely and transparently
Ilker Sozdinler is the Founder, CEO of United Payment.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Big Data
- Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ELYT — Revolutionize customer loyalty with our modern solution; secure, scalable, and straightforward. Experience the future of customer interaction and, if you wish, open the doors of the Web3 era to your community.
- EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
- ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
Valentine Baudouin Barbelivien
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Farming, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round
- France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Nilos — Pay, track and reconcile your crypto wallets and fiat accounts in one platform.
- finres — finres is a science-based firm that uses artificial intelligence, big data, and research to increase food system resilience in the face of climate change by making investment decision-making robust and quick, as well as providing a comprehensive algorithmic solution for recognizing and assessing climate risks in order to prioritize adaptationefforts.
- Jungle France — Jungle France is a France company engages in vertical farming and hydroponics.
Evan Van Ness
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Open Source
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
Elena is researching and investing NFTs/ DeFi News.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Cryptocurrency, Media and Entertainment
- Angel
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Tokyo Beast — Tokyo Beast is powered by a diverse range of content, including gaming, cryptocurrency generation and management, and betting. At its heart is a cryptocurrency-based betting system.
Hys Sevim
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Investment focus
- Apps, FinTech, Software
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Metatime — Metatime is building the world's most comprehensive digital ecosystem by maximizing the efficiency of blockchain technology.
Private Private
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Investment focus
- Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- FCUK Ecosystem — A startup aimed at building an ecosystem based on Bitcoin and the Ordinals protocol and creating infrastructure for BRC20 / BRC21 / DRC20 / LTC20 tokens.
Kunal Shah
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mugafi — Create captivating stories, iconic characters, and legendary universes for the world to witness.
- Spense — Hi there, we understand creating a fintech is hard. It involves intricate processes, considerable expenses, and extensive time to launch. Our apis & platforms will enable your groundbreaking financial idea to materialize in a few months.
- Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.
Alex Svanevik is a Co-Founder & CEO of Nansen.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Singapore, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.
- Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.
- Uranium Digital — Uranium Digital is astartup that uses tokenization to target the uranium market. The business represents uranium ore with blockchain tokens, facilitating smooth transactions in this highly regulated and initially underfunded industry.
Akın İDİL is a Co-Founder at Veacon.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- ELYT — Revolutionize customer loyalty with our modern solution; secure, scalable, and straightforward. Experience the future of customer interaction and, if you wish, open the doors of the Web3 era to your community.
Amir Sarhangi is the Founder and CEO of Skyfire Systems. He previously worked at Ripple as a VP of Product and Services. Amir Sarhangi attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed
- United States, United Arab Emirates
Yusuf Sevim
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Investment focus
- Apps, FinTech, Software
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Metatime — Metatime is building the world's most comprehensive digital ecosystem by maximizing the efficiency of blockchain technology.
Jason Gardner is the Founder, Executive Chairman of Marqeta. He previously worked at MoneyGram International as a Vice President of PropertyBridge. Jason Gardner attended Arizona State University.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
- Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
- ClearGrid — Revolutionize your debt recovery with AI and advanced analytics. Our platform delivers faster, more personalized collections that benefit both your business and your customers.
Paul Taylor is an angel investor and advisor to 100+ companies in the web3 industry. He was the most active angel investor based in the US for crypto in 2024 (Crunchbase). He previously worked at Fancy Studios as a Core Contributor. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock on the Private Equity Partners team. Paul attended Emory University where hereceived his BBA degree. He is also a 4-time national chess champion, international best-selling author, and mined Bitcoin back in 2011.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- HackQuest — HackQuest is a Multichain Web3 developer and founder platform, with education, community events, hackathons, and accelerators at its core. HackQuest helps over 20 leading ecosystems such as Mantle, Solana, Arbitrum, and Linea onboard quality developers and supports developers to jumpstart their careers in Web3.
- Bloom — Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from.
- Silhouette Exchange — Silhouette is a privacy-focused decentralized trading protocol integrated with the Hyperliquid ecosystem.
christopher is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
Portfolio highlights
- Rork — Rork is an AI-powered platform that lets you build complete, cross-platform mobile apps in minutes by simply describing what you want. It uses AI and React Native to generate fully functional apps-examples include visual novel games, Airbnb-style apps, meditation timers, and more. You can export these apps, use them on your phone, and even sharethem via QR codes or links.
- Byzanlink — Byzanlink: Access Institutional Grade Yield On-chain Bridging TradFi and DeFi with RWA Tokenization for stable, institutional-grade yields
Dennis Porto is a seed-stage investor in tech companies leveraging frontier technology like bitcoin, AI, and IoT.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Financial Exchanges, Bitcoin
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Bahrain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Rain — Rain is a licensed and trusted crypto exchange in the Middle East with customers worldwide. Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies on Rain.
- SparkSwap — SparkSwap is the first cryptocurrency exchange built on the Lightning Network. It reduces counterparty risk by combining the best of both centralized and decentralized exchanges. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Varol Civil - General Manager @ Türk Ekonomi Bankası
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Investment focus
- Baby, Cloud Storage, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Dusyeri — Dusyeri is an edutainment platform that focuses on children.
- KolayBi — KolayBi' is a new generation cloud based bookkeeping and financial application platform with online bank account aggregation for SMEs. People can manage accounting processes, register data, and generate reports by recording its financial records . People can also add bank accounts to the system and convert their payments into a one-clickinvoice. KolayBi' was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Istanbul.
- Usersdot — Usersdot uses data science and AI solutions to improve customer experience, increase operational efficiency and maximize sales performance
Yuval Tal has made quite a difference in the world of business online thanks to the creation of various e-commerce companies, many of which have successfully developed through his co-creation or his additional expertise. He has over 20 years of experience in technological startups, prepaid card applications, and security technology. CurrentWork Experience: Yuval Tal is the president of the NYC-based Payoneer, the private company he founded in 2005 an served as CEO during 2005-2010. Payoneer establishes viable solutions for payments in prepaid MasterCard® credit cards through the Internet via their prepaid Payoneer credit card. Instead of using typical banking services, Payoneer allows its members (including many online businesses) to sell products, but pay for their own supplies through an online service. Their technology system is secure, but assures privacy for its customers. The company is composed of over100 technology and finance expert employees. While based in NY, it also has research and development locations in Israel.Tal also provides consultation to Payments-r-us, a company started by four e-commerce experts who provide payment processing, merchandising and assorted payment solutions to their customers. The company helps their members find appropriate and free payments solutions.Past Work Experience: Before the creation of Payoneer, Tal was a co-founder for E4X Inc., technology and e-commerce payments provider worldwide. The company was established in 1999 but later changed its name to FiftyOne as it became a global market and e-commerce leader. The company allows its businesses to develop their online sales, marketing, delivery, stock, and transaction capabilities. Its current value is upwards of $500 million. Tal was the acting vice president as part of the business and development sector. FiftyOne is an innovative e-commerce solution because it's one of the pioneers of the e-commerce movement, allowing online retailers from the US to promote, market, and sell their merchandise using the monetary means of their native country. This is still significant today in terms of global money orders, payment processes and the international flow of goods from one point to the other. It's no wonder that market retailers like the Anthropologie clothing store, luxury and electronic gift store Brookstone, and Overstock.com have worked with the company. The company is based in New York, with its research and development operations unit in Israel.Tal also shined in leadership positions for companies such as R-U-Sure, where he was the chief executive officer, and vice president of business development at Radware, a publically traded company on NASDAQ.Summits and Conferences:Yuval Tal has participated in a plethora of affiliate, marketing, and digital-related conferences connected to his kind of work. At many of the conferences, he was featured as a speaker. The most recent conference was the impressive "Apps World," which was held in London in October 2012. The conference is noted to be the leading venue for those involved in the apps industry where they network and collaborate on international projects. He was a guest speaker at the conference and he explained the concept of Payoneer to the participants detailing how it fits into the newest e-wallet technologies. Through Payoneer, companies distribute branded cards that enable them to send direct payments into the recipient's account. He also shared his thoughts on the shape of the future mobile industry and responded to a series of general questions regarding the e-commerce industry.When he was invited to participate in a panel discussion at Israel's Afeka College, he had the opportunity to address many issues that were unclear to the attendees. Among others, the subjects ranged from discussions on the topic of Israel as a “hotbed” in the area of financial innovation, how web based financial start-ups differs from the more traditional start-ups on the web, as in social and media networks, and how the mobile will shape the future. He also dealt head-on with such questions as to the leaders in fintech space, the coming big trends that will take place in the financial tech space, how government and foreign regulations affect business and how to manage the pace of change without being snowed under. Since Tal works with clients at online affiliate networks as part of Payoneer, it's no surprise that the hi-tech head shared his knowledge and experience at both the 2009 and 2012 Affiliate Summit conferences. The Affiliate Summit established by Affiliate marketing experts is recognized as the most important event in affiliate marketing. The 2012 Affiliate Summit West Conference event was held last January in Las Vegas. The 2009 Affiliate Summit East Conference was held in New York. At that conference Tal spoke about his affiliate experience working with affiliate agents, heightening Payoneer's prowess in e-commerce, and establishing various payment methods through the company. Tal was a keynote speaker at two important e-commerce conferences in Israel. First, he spoke at the one-day Take Charge 2011 Digital Commerce Summit in September 2011, which offers innovative ecommerce concepts for digital companies, vendors and affiliates. He also spoke at the Track N' Pay Summit in Tel Aviv, which was hosted by Payoneer. This one-day conference is based on concepts in Internet and mobile affiliate tracking and payment services. For both conferences, Tal spoke on behalf of his veteran online, selling, affiliate marketing, and e-commerce work at Payoneer as related to the concepts of each conference. Personal Experience: Yuval Tal was born in August 1965 in Israel and still resides there in his home country in a suburb called Ramat HaSharon, located about 20 minutes from the country's central city Tel Aviv. It was in Tel Aviv where he received university education after serving in an elite unit in the Israeli Defense Forces. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Tel Aviv University in 1992. He went on to earn his Masters at Tel Aviv University where he studied biomedical engineering, minor in business administration.Tal has many hobbies outside the business and e-commerce realm. He likes photography and took five courses in it at the New School for General Studies and the Parsons School of Design, both in New York City. He has also been active in the Tel Aviv Nike Run, a 10 kilometer marathon throughout the city and has participated in a triathlon, which included running, biking, and swimming.
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- FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
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- Humanz — We help brands & creators build long-lasting, rewarding relationships backed by cutting-edge technology & expertise. Sign up with Humanz
- Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
- ReturnGO — Easy-to-use self-service return management portal that allows customers to return and exchange products increases revenue and customer retention.
Mike Dudas is the founder and former CEO of The Block: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-block-crypto. Previously, he was the CRO and co-founder of from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management.
Mike Dudas was born on June 1, 1979.
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- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Armenia, Austria
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- Kintsu — Kintsu provides superior liquid staking solutions that boost your staking benefits and flexibility in DeFi ecosystems.
- Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.
- Inversion — Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology.
Cristobal is an active investor in early-stage companies, and a senior member of the Partnership for NYC’s FinTech incubator for software companies. His current investments include True Office, where he serves as executive chairman, Calastone, where he serves as chairman, Centripetal Networks, where he is a board member, and Digital Reasoning,where he is a board member.
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- Lab 1 — Lab 1 gathers hacked and exposed data from the dark web, messaging services, and secret groups to give the best perspective of risk throughout the supply chain.
- Venari Security — Venari is an encrypted traffic analysis (ETA) platform that detects threats hidden within encrypted traffic and helps deliver cryptographic and regulatory compliance for enterprise organisations without the need for decryption. Acting as an automated early warning system for security teams, Venari's ETA platform detects threats hidden withinencrypted traffic reducing the overall response time.Headquartered in London with a Development Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Tunis, Venari fundamentally changes the way encrypted traffic is analysed using a combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and behavioural analytics. To date, Venari has been recognised by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) cyber accelerator programme and Barclays TechStars accelerator program. The organisation has won various industry awards in 2019 and 2020.
- Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.
Martin Köppelmann - Co-Founder & CEO @ Gnosis
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Serial entrepreneur and global CEO with more than 25 years of experience in building high performance teams, leading business through fast growth and digital transformation:
• Proven ability to frame strategic vision and accelerate transformation by coaching & challenging executive teams
• Best-in-class expertise in transformative technologiesAI/Robotics, SaaS, Cybersecurity
• Built and led teams through hypergrowth
• Track record of raising capital from top tier institutional investors
• General Management roles in publicly traded and privately held VC backed companies with strict governance
• Successful bi-cultural executive career (French and American bi-national)
• Extensive experience with M&A transactions (Buy & Sell side) and post-merger integration
• Frequent speaker at top technology conferences on Data Regulation, Privacy, Digital Rights
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Konstantin Richter - CEO & Founder @ Blockdaemon
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- Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
- Tres — Crypto Accounting and Web3 Treasury - Enable financial workflows such as reconciliation, balance calculation, audit and reporting. Now businesses can monitor, manage and account for their Web3 assets from on-ramp to off-ramp.
Founder & CEO of LI.FI
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- United Arab Emirates, Cayman Islands
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- STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
- OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
- RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.
EvanLuthra is an angel investor.
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- SaaS, Software, Blockchain
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
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- GGEM — GGEM develops a gaming platform with a Web3 game launcher. It enables the onboarding of traditional gamers into Web3 games by eliminating all steps of the user journey that might be difficult for non-crypto natives, allowing users to start playing blockchain games within seconds.
- Rewardable — Turn your spare time into extra cash with simple online tasks and micro-jobs. Earn money whenever and wherever you like.
GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
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- Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
- Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs with worldwide investors for sharia-compliant investments with 15% yearly income through small business debt crowdfunding.
- Groundfloor — Building the infrastructure for IRL community
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- SLUSHY — Quench your thirst with scroll stopping Slushy action!
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.
Snowy August
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- SaaS, Internet, Software
- Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, United Arab Emirates
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- Upflex — Work Flexibility Starts Here
- Create Protocol — A Creator-Owned Multichain Protocol with Creators at Its Forefront and Its Core Powering A Create To Earn Revolution. The future of creation is distributed. We at Create are creators building web 3.0 technology and products for the creator community and helping them maximise revenue from the decentralised economy. We are on a mission to integrateblockchain into the real lives of artists so that they get the value they deserve. CREATE is an ecosystem where creators are at the core that revolves around art, music & entertainment.
John Wright is a Vice President of Mobile Publishing at Kwalee
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- Gaming, Software, Blockchain
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Mixer Games — Pioneers who shape the entertainment of the future
Cihan Demir is the Founder & CEO of Finartz. He previously worked at mypat as a Co-Founder. Cihan Demir attended Maltepe University.
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- Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Turkey
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- ELYT — Revolutionize customer loyalty with our modern solution; secure, scalable, and straightforward. Experience the future of customer interaction and, if you wish, open the doors of the Web3 era to your community.
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