# Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in Middle East in October 2023

## Mark Ransford
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Angel Investor

## Meni Rosenfeld
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Privacy, Computer

Meni Rosenfeld - Chairman @ Israeli Bitcoin Association

## Con O'Donnell
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Hardware, Software

Con O'Donnell is Founder & Advisor at ElWafeyat.

## Deniz Devrim Cengiz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Apps

Deniz Devrim Cengiz

## Karim Hussein
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Blockchain, Health Care, Medical

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.

## Khaled Alashmouny
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cupertino, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Hardware, Software

Khaled Alashmouny is the AMS IC Design at Apple.Khaled Alashmouny attended University of Michigan.

## Hande Enes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media

Hande Enes

## Cem Tüfekçi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Machine Learning, Analytics, SaaS

Cem Tüfekçi

## Ofir Shalvi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Security, Software, Compliance

Ofir Shalvi was the Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of ParallelM.

## Eddy Shalev
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Eddy Shalev is an angel investor. Eddy is one of the best-known figures in the Israeli business community. Since the beginning of Israel's venture capital industry, Eddy has focused on private-equity investments in the high-tech sector, and has played a key role in several high-profile success stories, including Fundtech, ParadigmGeophysical and Orbot Instruments. Eddy is currently on the board of Aternity, Profitect and Sensible Medical.Eddy has been an active private equity investor in Israel since 1992, when he began a private equity investment program that invested in early-stage Israeli high-tech companies. Beginning in 1985, Eddy led the Israeli affiliates of Oscar Gruss and Sons Inc., and then later CIBC-Oppenheimer, where he directed the firm’s corporate banking, sales and trading, and equity research for Israeli companies traded on NASDAQ.

## Ron Gross
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Sales, Dating, Internet

Ron Gross

## Valentine Baudouin Barbelivien
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, FinTech

Valentine Baudouin Barbelivien

## Ilker Sozdinler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Big Data

Ilker Sozdinler is the Founder, CEO and Managing Partner of Birleşik Ödeme.

## Akın İdil
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Akın İDİL is a Co-Founder at Veacon.

## Sebastien Borget
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

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.

## Raza Beig
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Art, Blockchain, Marketplace

Raza Beig is the CEO of Splash and Iconic and Director at Landmark Group.

## Guillaume Houzé
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Blockchain

Founder of Motier Ventures. Executive Board member of the Galeries Lafayette Group. President of ANDAM and Lafayette Anticipations.

## Gal Gadot
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Financial Exchanges

Gal Gadot-Varsano is an Israeli actress and model. She is famous for portraying Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe, starting with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and then the solo film Wonder Woman and the ensemble Justice League. 

## Suniel Shetty
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Fitness

Sunil Veerappa Shetty is an Indian film actor, producer and entrepreneur who is predominantly active in Bollywood films.

## Ameet Patel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

CTO//Investor//Whisperer to Leading Enterprise Companies
Exits
Acopia Networks, Mimosa Systems, Integrien, Cyvera, Librato, Caspida, BlueBox Security, Nodeprime, APIGEE, SkyHigh, Solinea, Cask, Zscaler (TPG-IPO), Anaplan (IPO)

## Cihan Demir
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Cihan Demir is the Founder & CEO of Finartz. He previously worked at mypat as a Co-Founder. Cihan Demir attended Maltepe University.

## Konstantin Richter
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Accounting, Blockchain, Enterprise Software

Konstantin Richter - CEO & Founder @ Blockdaemon

## Winslow Strong
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Privacy, Internet

Winslow Strong

## Andre Cronje
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Finance

Andre Cronje is the founder at Yearn. He attended CTI Education Group and Stellenbosch University.

## n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Bitcoin, Finance

n0b0dy.eth Nobody Vault

## Onur Umut
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain

Faik Onur Umut is an Angel Investor. He joined the Fiba Group in 1988 and currently serves on the boards of directors of Fibabanka, Credit Europe Bank Russia, and Credit Europe Bank Romania.

## Hys Sevim
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Software

Hys Sevim

## Philippe Suchet
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Philippe Suchet joined Spider Capital as Venture Partner in 2015.

## Ivo Georgiev
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Privacy, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Ivo Georgiev - Co-Founder & CEO @ Ambire AdEx

## Scott Moore
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Scott Moore is the Co-Founder at Gitcoin. He attended the University of Toronto from 2015 to 2016.

## Ihsan Elgin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Content

Ihsan Elgin is the Co-Founder of Startups.Watch. He was a Co-Founder and Executive VP, EMEA at ClimateMinder. He attended Koç University.

## Varol Civil
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Baby, Marketplace, Artificial Intelligence

Varol Civil - General Manager @ Türk Ekonomi Bankası

## Lyndon Babtiste
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: mHealth, Blockchain, Health Care

Lyndon Babtiste

## Ehud Weinstein
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Security, Software, Compliance

Ehud Weinstein - Co-Founder and CEO @ Tensera Networks

## Linda Xie
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Linda Xie is co-founder and Managing Director of Scalar Capital. Previously she was a product manager at Coinbase which she joined in June 2014. At Coinbase, Linda has worked with regulators and law enforcement on compliance for digital assets. Prior to Coinbase, she was a portfolio risk analyst at AIG. Linda holds a B.A. in Economics from theUniversity of California, San Diego.

## Faruk Eczacıbaşı
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Energy, Podcast

Faruk Eczacıbaşı - Deputy Vice President of Eczacıbaşı @ KWORKS Koç University Entrepreneurship Research Center

## Didier Valet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Didier Valet

## Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Art, Blockchain, Marketplace

Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi, family of Sharjah

## Nicolas Julia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services

Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods
enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.

## Snowy August
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: SaaS, Internet, Software

Snowy August

## Jaron Varsano
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Financial Exchanges

Jaron Varsano

## Alp Ihlamur
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain

Alp Ihlamur is an Angel Investor

## Vitalik Buterin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Solar

Vitalik Buterin is the Founder & Developer of TOKENEO. He previously worked at NextThought, LLC as a Developer Intern. Vitalik Buterin attended the University of Waterloo.

## Ofer Rotem
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Privacy, Computer, Blockchain

Ofer Rotem, Founding Partner at Collider Ventures (https://www.collider.vc/) and an active Israeli angel investor in blockchain-related startups since 2013. Co-founder of the Israeli Bitcoin Association & the Israeli Blockchain Forum.

## Yusuf Sevim
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Software

Yusuf Sevim

## Rafi Gidron
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Analytics

Rafi Gidron is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Xperiti. He attended Columbia University.

## Bilge Algul
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Bilge Algul - Co-Founder @ Veacon

## Fred Ehrsam
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Fred Ehrsam is the Co-Founder of Paradigm.

## Elad Gil
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Cristóbal Conde
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

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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