Top 5 CleanTech Angel Investors in Middle East (October 2023)

Daniel Recanati is the Founder & CEO of Rhodium. a private investment firm whose mission is to identify the most promising entrepreneurs and help them build thriving companies. focusing on Impact, digital, climate tech and space via Earth & beyond ventures. .

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Analytics, Advertising
Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
Geography: Israel, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

Total investments: 32
Round size: Seed $102k–$5M; Series A $612k–$2M; Series B $4.3M–$12M
Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

Yo! Egg — Yo! Egg is a food processing firm that produces and supplies a wide range of plant-based eggs.
Solutum — Solutum is a Cleantech start-up that develops a unique formula for plastic bags to dissolve in water.The company's team of chemical engineers have developed a unique compound that replaces the plastic with a cost-efficient, strong and eco-friendly solution. Solutum biodegradable products are environmentally friendly. These products aim toreplace plastic which is polluting our surroundings, causing devastating harm to nature and our own health.Each year around 350M ton of plastics are being produced around the world. About half of it is single-use products - resulting in mass pollution of the land and sea.The plastic that reaches the sea kills more than 1 million marine animals a year. This plastic also comes back to us in the food and water, causing major health problems. Translated into money - $139 Billion globally is being spent on the overall social and environmental costs of plastic pollution every year.Completely dissolving in water to natural and eco-friendly components, our product is a perfect and cost efficient solution to the plastic pollution.
Helios — HELIOS is developing technologies to extract and utilize metals and oxygen from martian and lunar soil, providing fuel and construction materials for future space missions.

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business in the water industry. By 2005, the company succeeded in the Turkish bottled water industry under his guidance.In 2006, Erikli Water partnered its Turkish operations with Nestle Waters, the global leader of the bottled water industry.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: Turkey, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 108
Round size: Seed $150k–$2.3M; Series A $350k–$2.5M; Series B $825k–$6.6M
Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
RemoteTeam.com — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
Local Greens — Local Greens is an indoor farming company operating in metropolitan cities to grow healthy, premium quality and delicious vegetables.While our combination of natural sunlight, LED grow lights and hydroponic growing methods ensure that we are using the resources as efficient as possible, our "grow local & sell local" approach allowsus to sell our greens without middleman and logistics costs, and deliver our greens as fresh as possible.

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Hande Enes

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media
Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Round size: Seed $125k–$4.1M; Angel $50k–$280k; Pre-Seed $35k–$400k
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

WORDEGO — Wordego is a Programmatic Ad Exchange Platform for Advertisers and Publishers. Wordego provides advertisers to target consumers surfing on the publisher websites, and show them personalized digital ads and coupons. Wordego provides advertisers to acquire, convert, and re-engage customers on the internet, and enables publishers to manage andmonetize their websites’ advertising inventory.
ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
Local Greens — Local Greens is an indoor farming company operating in metropolitan cities to grow healthy, premium quality and delicious vegetables.While our combination of natural sunlight, LED grow lights and hydroponic growing methods ensure that we are using the resources as efficient as possible, our "grow local & sell local" approach allowsus to sell our greens without middleman and logistics costs, and deliver our greens as fresh as possible.

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Melik Arslan

Investment focus

Industry: Farming, CleanTech, Agriculture
Stage:Angel
Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Local Greens — Local Greens is an indoor farming company operating in metropolitan cities to grow healthy, premium quality and delicious vegetables.While our combination of natural sunlight, LED grow lights and hydroponic growing methods ensure that we are using the resources as efficient as possible, our "grow local & sell local" approach allowsus to sell our greens without middleman and logistics costs, and deliver our greens as fresh as possible.

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