# Top 10 Angel Investors in Jordan in May 2026

## Samih Toukan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social Media, Mobile, Financial Services

In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.

## Fadi Ghandour
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Software

Fadi Ali Ghandour is Founder & Chairman of Wamda Capital he is a serial entrepreneur mostly known for being the founder and CEO of Aramex, one of the leading global logistics and transportation companies listed on the Dubai Financial Market.

## Zuhair Shammout
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Virtualization, Food and Beverage

Zuhair Shammout

## Mufleh Akel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Virtualization, Food and Beverage

Mufleh Akel President at Akel consulting.

## Mahdi Mwas
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Classifieds, Marketplace

Mahdi Mwas

## Ali Hoja
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Classifieds, Marketplace

Ali Hoja

## Pankaj Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Analytics, SaaS, Mobile

Pankaj Jain is the Managing Partner at Saka Ventures. Previously, he was a Partner at 500 Startups, a California based seed fund and accelerator program. Pankaj focuses on investing in early stage startups across New York City, India, South Asia and has led investments in over fifty companies at 500 Startups across 6 countries.Pankaj spent over12 years in the Financial industry at firms such as JP Morgan, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) and GlobeOp Financial Services in various operational roles including enterprise mortgage risk management, application development, market data infrastructure, trade management, pricing infrastructure and customer service areas.In 2007, Pankaj’s adventures in India began, where he started a company building an on-demand, employment marketplace for the under-served. In 2008, Pankaj became a co-founder of the HeadStart Network Foundation and the led the efforts in Delhi. In late 2010, he began setting up Startup Weekend in India.

## Karim Kawar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amman, Amman, Jordan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, Shopping

Karim Kawar is the president of Kawar Group, and the former ambassador to the United States and Mexico from Jordan. He is also chairman of Kawar Energy and of IrisGuard. As ambassador to the United States, Kawar led the EDAMA Initiative, Jordan's blueprint for a green economy and was appointed by Royal Decree to the Board of Trustees of theKing Abdullah II Fund for Development. Previously, Kawar was appointed to the Economic Consultative Council by His Majesty King Abdullah II. He is the architect of the REACH Initiative, Jordan's blueprint for a knowledge economy, founder and chairman of the Information Technology Association of Jordan, former president of the Jordan Computer Society, and a founding member of several business associations and NGOs, including AmCham and the Jordan Intellectual Property Association.

## Usama Fayyad
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, Lending

Usama is Chief Technology Officer at OODA Health. Before OODA, he was Founder and CEO of Open Insights, where he consulted clients on artificial intelligence, big data strategies and new business models. Usama was the first Global Chief Data Officer at Barclays in London, after he launched the largest tech startup accelerator in MENA as ExecutiveChairman of Oasis500 in Jordan.His background includes Chairman and CEO roles at several startups, including Blue Kangaroo Corp, DMX Group and digiMine (Audience Science). He was the first person to hold the Chief Data Officer title when Yahoo! acquired his second startup in 2004. He has held leadership roles at Microsoft and founded the machine learning systems group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where his work on machine learning resulted in the top Excellence in Research award from Caltech, and a U.S. Government medal from NASA.Usama has published over 100 technical articles on data mining, data science, AI/ML, and databases. He holds over 30 patents and is a Fellow of both the AAAI and the ACM. Usama earned his PhD in Engineering in AI and Machine Learning from the University of Michigan. He holds two BSE’s in Engineering, a MSE Computer Engineering and a MSc in Mathematics.

## Mohammad Farah
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Classifieds, Marketplace

Mohammad Farah

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