# Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in Middle East in October 2023

## Maniv Mobility
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software

Maniv Mobility is a global venture capital fund investing in the world's leading mobility start-ups.

## MizMaa Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

MizMaa Ventures is a principal investment firm that specializes in investments in technology companies in Israel.

## Nextgear Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles

Next Gear Ventures venture capital firm specializing in early stage. The firm typically invests in the Israel. Next Gear Ventures venture is based in Israel.

## Aslanoba Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.

## F+ Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Transportation, Automotive

F+ Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Fark Holding dedicated to evaluating and investing in technologies and business model innovations that are transforming our transportation systems. We support “A teams” by helping with customer acquisition and smart capital. F+ invests in innovative solutions, early stage disruptive technologies, startupswith technological value proposition and business model innovation. We seek to make late seed and series A investments in ambitious tech savvy teams building businesses.

## Phoenician VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Founded in 2015, Phoenician Funds is at the heart of thriving capitals of digital innovation and startup ecosystems in the Middle East and North Africa ...

## Firstime Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Firstime Ventures is investing in companies who are building a sustainable & accessible future for all.

## OurCrowd
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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## Mirai Creation Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Robotics, Information Technology, Software

The Mirai Creation Fund invests in companies and projects that use the latest technologies and business models, supporting the growth of value in these companies and projects, wherever they are found around the world.   

## Champel Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Machine Learning

As a young and dynamic company with a spirit of entrepreneurship, we look first and foremost at the vision leading the entrepreneur. We believe that we should be investing in people, before everything else. We want to be investing in companies led by entrepreneurs who are capable of envisioning and growing great companies with products and/or services meeting real market needs in large and growing markets.

## Wamda Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services

Wamda Capital is the MENA region's leading venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs building the region's most promising high growth technology businesses. We invest both at the growth and seed stages with the aim of taking portfolio companies through successive rounds of financing through to exit.

## Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS

MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.

## Hedef Filo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kagithane, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Automotive, Transportation, Public Transportation

Hedef Filo is the leading fleet leasing company.

## iAngels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech

iAngels is a VC and angel investment platform that leverages due diligence and analytics to enable accredited investors around the world the ability to invest in early-stage technology deals in Israel.

## Entrée Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

We're a team of former serial founders managing over $1B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.

## Vertex Ventures Israel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

We partner early with global-minded entrepreneurs seeking to disrupt large markets

## Vertex Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Vertex US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.

## Grove Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software

Grove Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital fund in Israel. It partners early with exceptional Israeli founders who believe th...

## Keiretsu Forum
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 2,500 accredited investor members throughout 47 chapters on 3 continents.

## Istanbul Startup Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment

Istanbul Startup Angels is Turkey’s most active angel investment network with a focus on innovative and fast growing technology startups. Currently in the process of building a micro VC and starting Turkey’s first crowdfunding platform, ISA also partners with corporations to find the most promising and suitable startups for them, by running sectorfocused accelerator programs.

## Uri Levine
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Travel

Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit

## Impact46
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics

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## Maxfield Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS

Venture fund investing in global information technology companies.

## Eyal Ofer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is Chairman of Ofer Global, leading the group’s private portfolio of international businesses in shipping, real estate, energy, technology, banking and investments. In 2017, Eyal launched O.G. Venture Partners, a single LP Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-growth-stage technology start-ups, demonstrating hislong-standing support for tech entrepreneurs.In 2022, O.G. Venture Partners announced Fund II of $400M following the successful $100m Fund I, later expanded to $150m. Fund I has invested in 21 companies since its 2017 launch, with 5 exits already. The Fund I portfolio includes: LendBuzz, WSC Sports, BlueVine, Bringg, Paxos, Connecteam, Elementor, Coralogix, Candivore and SuperPlay.
Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is Chairman of Ofer Global, leading the group’s private portfolio of international businesses in shipping, real estate, energy, technology, banking and investments. In 2017, Eyal launched O.G. Venture Partners, a single LP Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-growth-stage technology start-ups, demonstrating his long-standing support for tech entrepreneurs.
In 2022, O.G. Venture Partners announced Fund II of $400M following the successful $100m Fund I, later expanded to $150m. Fund I has invested in 21 companies since its 2017 launch, with 5 exits already. The Fund I portfolio includes: LendBuzz, WSC Sports, BlueVine, Bringg, Paxos, Connecteam, Elementor, Coralogix, Candivore and SuperPlay.

## J-Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Machine Learning

J- Ventures is a Silicon Valley based group of VC funds with over $60m under management. Backed by 400+ leading Investors ( 140+ Serial founders, 100+ VCs, 170+ Fortune 500 Executives) as LPs. Our active-LP venture fund brings the power of this connected & intellectual capital to add real value to the companies we invest in and create aremarkable difference by helping our founders grow and scale to markets quicker. Based in Silicon Valley with investors from 15 communities - Tel Aviv, NYC, LA, London, Miami, Boston, and more.
Since 2016 the group made over 50 investments, 4 unicorns and over 10 exits.

## Zohar Zisapel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Cyber Security, Information Technology, Security

Zohar Zisapel

## EQ2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail

EQ2 Ventures is an investment firm that invests in Seed to Series B-stage startup companies. It was incorporated as a spin-off of Equitrust, a corporate VC arm launched in 2015 by Choueiri Group to capture opportunities linked to the digital transformation of the Middle East. Relying on a strong network of strategic investors and mentors, EQ2Ventures helps talented entrepreneurs solve major consumers and business problems, build sustainable companies. and create long-term value.

## Taya Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Medical, Automotive, Biotechnology

A seed-stage venture fund that will offer entrepreneurs guidance, knowledge and access to Taya Media’s professional network.

## VectoIQ LLC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Autonomous Vehicles, Automotive, Machine Learning

VectoIQ is an advisory firm helping new companies in the smart transportation space. Reverse merger with Nikola Motor in June 2020.

## North First Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Financial Services

North First Ventures is a Venture Capital Fund, partnering with seed to round A stage companies in Israel that harness innovative technologies, solve real-world problems within large existing markets or create new markets.

## Raed Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dammam, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region

## GoAhead Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS

GoAhead Ventures is an early stage Venture Capital fund based in Silicon Valley. As a startup ourselves, we are always looking to innovate and break the Venture Capital mold. We are a people-first fund and as such we like to cover a lot of ground and meet talented founders from across the globe. Check out our website to submit your pitch to ourmanaging partners, this is the first step for all founders that we meet. All 3 of our managing partners review every submission, and from there we give founders a NEXT DAY decision after a partner pitch! We have begun deploying from our new fund and we lead ~40 deals per year.

## YL Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cyber Security, Security, Network Security

YL Ventures funds and supports brilliant Israeli cybersecurity entrepreneurs from seed to lead. Based in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv, YL Ventures manages over $300 million and accelerates the evolution of portfolio companies via strategic advice and U.S.-based operational execution, leveraging a powerful network of CISOs and global industry leaders.

## Avis Budget Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Parsippany, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series C
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Mobile

Avis Budget Group, Inc. (Avis Budget) operates two brands in the global vehicle rental industry through Avis and Budget. Avis is a rental car supplier positioned to serve the commercial and leisure segments of the travel industry and Budget is a rental car supplier focused primarily on more value-conscious segments of the industry. It operates inthree segments: North America, consisting of its Avis and Budget car rental operations in the United States and its Avis and Budget vehicle rental operations in Canada; International, consisting of its Avis and Budget vehicle rental operations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, South America, central America, the Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand, and Truck Rental, consisting of its Budget truck rental operations in the United States. On October 3, 2011, the Company acquired Avis Europe plc. In July 2013, Avis Budget Group Inc acquired Payless Car Rental.`

## Canaan Partners Israel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Autonomous Vehicles, Mobile, Security

Canaan Partners Israel (CPI) is a venture capital fund focused on early stage technology investments in Israel. Started by experienced entrepreneurs and inv... 

## Glory Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing

Glory Ventures is a cross-border venture capital fund established by a new generation of investors with a global perspective. Already achieving excellent performance, the investment team has plentiful experience in both China and Israel's high-tech and venture capital industries. The unique advantages by which Glory Ventures distinguishesitself from other domestic venture capitalists lie in the fact that it is a research-driven VC that realizes the value of an entire industrial value chain. They integrate industrial resources from the private equity markets and public-listed companies to build strategic synergy. They deliberate exits by both M&A and IPO, taking into consideration both opportunities. Thus, they strive to build an ecosystem across various industries through investment in specific value-chains and providing value-added services that lead to synergetic exits. With a clear multi-industrial positioning backed by their professional and outstanding investment team, Glory Ventures has been highly recognized by Chinese first-class investors and has won the strategic investments of famous organization such as Banyan Capital, major shareholders from various A-share listed companies, founding team of Dianping.com, and many others, making it a top-tier investment ecosystem combining early-stage venture capital investment and the integration of high-end entrepreneurs and industrial resources. Currently, Glory Ventures invests actively in Israel and China, but their global vision encompasses much more. In Israel, Glory Ventures invests in customer-proved, disruptive innovative companies which are synergistic with China’s enormous consumer market, including companies in the field of intelligent hardware, IoT, AI, computer vision. In China, Glory Ventures invests in subsectors such as B2B enterprise service, consumption upgrade, and IoT. Their portfolio includes 20+ stellar companies in the fields of AI, IoT, Fintech and consumption upgrade, over half of which have won the follow-up investment from the industrial capital and famous funds like HTC, Quanta Computer, Alibaba, Shanda Networks, Wind, Crystal Optoelectronics, Join-In Group, and Fortune Capital.

## Canaan Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud,marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health, and medtech.

## Porsche Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Automotive, Transportation, Information Technology

Porsche Ventures is a venture capital arm of Porsche that invests in companies from early-stage through growth. The firm was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.

## iArgento
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Parking, Software, Automotive

iArgento operates as a Multi-Family Office specializing in wealth management and investment banking with its main focus on alternative investment management platforms.



## Nexus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Nexus Ventures is an investment firm that invests in transformational businesses and creates meaningful partnerships with entrepreneurs. They support these ventures through its mentorship, business and technical know-how, vast network, and capital. The firm was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.

## StageOne Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

StageOne Ventures, leads investments in exceptional Israel-related entrepreneurs. We focus on early-stage transformative deep tech startups solving complex enterprise challenges.

## lool Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

lool Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage Israeli startups.

## LETA Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Our goal as an investment firm is to deliver high returns to our investors by financing improvements in the world through IT and new technologies.

## Maven Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Transportation

Maven Ventures invests in software startups that millions of consumers use daily to improve their lives. It makes $750K-$1M Seed investments in founders with a "vision worth fighting for” and the potential to build billion-dollar businesses. Its team identifies future consumer trends—it has already seen its investment predictions come to lifein areas like self-driving cars, the proliferation of mobile, and video communication, the future of retail, and digital health. Notable investments include Zoom (IPO “ZM”), Cruise (acquired by GM), and Chariot (acquired by Ford). As they only make 6 new startup investments each year, they focus on each one, rolling up their sleeves to teach founding teams how to achieve product/market fit, hone their consumer messaging, reach millions of customers with viral marketing, and set them up for success.

## Emre Acikel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Mobile

Emre Acikel

## Connetic Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Covington, Kentucky, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence

Connetic Ventures is an investment firm that provides its services to early stage startup companies.The firm participates with venture capital firms and angel syndicates for companies that are in the seed stage. It focuses on developing core investment strategies and deploying them on startups to build up their portfolios. Connetic Ventures wasfounded by Brad Zapp in 2015. It is headquartered in Covington, Kentucky.

## HATCHER+
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Hatcher+ is a data-driven venture capital firm that uses AI and machine learning-based technologies to identify early-stage opportunities in partnership with leading accelerators and investors, worldwide.

## Fraser McCombs Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Antonio, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software

We are an investment firm dedicated to creating value for our investors, entrepreneurs and the
communities in which we live. We identify trends and partner with teams who are both
reinventing the movement of people and goods as well as redefining how transportation
services are delivered & consumed.

## TA Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

TA Ventures is globally-minded and network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups in Europe and North America shaping the industries of tomorrow. Our ticket size starts from $100k up to $1M.
We offer speed of execution, proactive support, and access to a broad international network. Drawing upon our network, we support our portfoliocompanies by proactively soliciting large, growth-minded co-investors in subsequent rounds. We utilize our industry knowledge and network to give portfolio companies and partner VCs access to the highly skilled and cost-effective R&D outsourcing teams in Central and Eastern Europe.

## Trucks Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Transportation, Autonomous Vehicles, Automotive

Trucks Venture Capital funds the entrepreneurs building the future of transportation.

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