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

## Danny Leshem
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, B2B, Small and Medium Businesses

INT3 (Managing Partner); Kidaro (co-founder, acq. MSFT); OpenRest (co-founder, acq. WIX); angel investor.

## Nevzat Aydın
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.

## Omer Erkmen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics

Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet

Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak,read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish.
Hesham is a founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 40 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups.
During his work at FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded:
- co-founded Edunoor.com: online learning platform with social components.
- invested in Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content.
- invested in Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization
- invested in abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered.
- invested in Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer
- invested in Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators.
- invested in TVlize.com: a platform for social and engaging TV
- He also cofounded and invested in Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services. He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000th participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS.

## Bashar Hamood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps

Bashar Hamood is a result oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. He is well versed in the development of marketing strategies, branding, direct marketing, new products/brands launches, analysis, reporting, and positioning.He is an entrepreneur and self-starter with expansive experience in brandawareness and development, community outreach.Bashar is a versatile business manager with proven competencies in optimizing team dynamics uniting diverse agenda to common goal and harnessing strategic and operational drivers to deliver results.He has a strong analytical mind with rigorous study for each case and the output of each variation for each parameter.Bashar loves to take risk and new challenges.

## Gigi Levy Weiss
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.

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

Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit

## Yoav Amit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Herseliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce

Yoav Amit is an angel investor. Attended Tel Aviv University.

## Abdulaziz Alyabis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Electronics

Abdulaziz Alyabis

## Mickey Boodaei
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Network Security, Cyber Security, Security

Founder and CEO of Transmit Security.Previously Founder of Trusteer (now IBM Security) and Imperva. Early stage investor in cyber security startups including Armis, RiskRecon (now Master Card), and FireGlass (now Symantec).

## Sina Afra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

Sina is a Serial Entrepreneur. His latest endeavor is Tiko which he founded and serves as CEO. Before that he was the Founder of Markafoni, the first Online Fashion site of Turkey. Markafoni became also the first Turkish internet company expanding beyond the borders of Turkey: Markafoni launched sites in Australia, Ukraine, Greece and Polandbetween 2009 and 2011. Sina served until 2014 as Chairman and CEO. The Naspers Group acquired in July 2011 a majority stake at Markafoni and signed for one of the biggest deals in the Turkish internet. Sina is also an active Business Angel and invests in early stage start-ups. He is the President of the Entrepreneur Foundation and Endeavor Turkey Board (2013-2017).Sina has been elected as the “Internet Entrepreneur of the Year” and “Business Angel of the Year” in Turkey. Markafoni won several awards: “Best Web Start-up 2011” and “Best Online Fashion Site in 2011, 2012 and 2013”. The Wired UK magazin elected in 2012 and 2013 Markafoni to the hottest 100 companies in Europe. Sina was also selected (2014 & 2015) to the Top 100 most influential tech people Europe. In 2016 he was selected as one of Top 100 most influential tech people in the World (Wired Magazine). Forbes Magazin elected him to the "Brightest Minds" alive in Turkey (2019).Prior to Markafoni, Sina spent more than 5 years with eBay and 12 years with KPMG. Sina received a "Diplom Kaufmann" from Münster University and joined later Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages. His passion goes with his family and esports where he is the President of "1907 Fenerbahçe esports” team - a professional esports team in the TCL. He shares his thoughts on eCommerce in his personal blog www.sinaafra.com and on twitter (sinaafra).

## Ariel Maislos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Ariel has been leading technology innovation and entrepreneurship for over 30 years, leading teams, founding companies and mentoring entrepreneurs.
He is an active angel investor in startups, and supports technology education as a philanthropist.
Ariel is a graduate of the prestigious Talpiot program, and holds a BSc from the Hebrew University ofJerusalem in Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science (Cum Laude) and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

## Joachim Behrendt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Social Media

Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.

## Rakesh K. Loonkar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Cyber Security, Network Security, Security

Rakesh is the President and Co-Founder of Transmit Security. At Transmit, Rakesh is responsible for the sales team, services, support, and pre-sales engineering.
Prior to Transmit, Rakesh was the Co-Founder of Trusteer, the market leader in fraud prevention, protecting billions of transactions per day from malware based threats. Trusteer wasacquired by IBM in 2013 and is now the basis of IBM’s risk management and anti-fraud product lines. Prior to Trusteer, Rakesh was the CEO and Co-Founder of OneSecure (co-founded with Nir Zuk, the founder of Palo Alto Networks), the first inline intrusion prevention system, which was acquired by Juniper Networks and is the basis of all application layer security in the Juniper network security product line. Rakesh is also a very active cyber security investor and was an early investor in many cyber-security leaders such as Palo Alto Networks, zScaler, Armis Security, Imperva, and many smaller companies such as Aorato (acquired by MSFT), Hyperwise (acquired by CHKP), RiskRecon (acquired by MasterCard), FireGlass (acquired by Symantec), and others. Rakesh earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

## Oren Zeev
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, FinTech

Oren Zeev is the Founder of and one of the two main early backers respectively, a former board member of Zeev lives in San Francisco, California, United States.

## Ofir Ehrlich
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, B2B

Ofir Ehrlich is the VP of Research & Development at CloudEndure. An exceptional technologist, Ofir has a proven record in the software industry, including companies such as Digicash, AcceloWeb, and Limelight Networks. He also served with distinction in an elite unit of the Israeli Intelligence Corps. This is the third company in which Ofir is aCo-Founder.

## Yaron Samid
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ramat Hasharon, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Cyber Security

Yaron Samid is an Israeli-American technology entrepreneur, investor, and startup community builder. Yaron is the founder of TechAviv, the 3K-member global Israeli startup founders club, and is the managing partner of TechAviv Founder Partners, a pre-seed venture fund, backed and powered by over 100 of the world’s most successful company builders.Previously, Yaron was the founder and CEO at BillGuard (Acq. by Prosper), founder & CPO at Pando (Acq. by Microsoft), and a founding board director at CloudLock (Acq. by Cisco) and Pond5.Yaron lives in Tel Aviv with his family and is a regular guest lecturer at Stanford and Columbia Business School. He attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland.

## Danny Hadar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

For the last 10 years, I have been active within the Israeli and US startup ecosystems where I completed 20+ seed investments in companies such as Geoforce (acquired by LLR), Bonobo (acquired by Salesforce), Optitex (acquired by Efi), Keeprz (acquired by Como), Drippler (acquired by Soluto), Snyk (Unicorn) and few others. I am passionate for seedinvestments, creative ideas, risk taking and supporting entrepreneurs.Prior to that, I founded 2 companies, Blue Sky (Energy) and Sinusafe (Medical) after working as a software engineer for 7 years.I grew up in Israel, and lived in the US for 5 years while completing my MBA from Duke. I love all kinds of extreme sports, and particularly kite surfing and snowboarding.

## Zohar Gilon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Medical Device

Mr. Zohar Gilon is a Managing Partner at Tamar Technology Ventures. He has personally invested in over 45 start-ups and has achieved 13 exits. Mr. Gilon has also served as the Transaction Manager for some of Israel's most highly recognized exits and has managed each deal from inception through completion, including pricing and distributions.He has extensive investment experience including activity as an angel investor and an Investment Advisor to the Gilon Group. Mr. Gilon is a private investor in numerous high-technology companies, including affiliates of Radcom Ltd. in Israel. From 1974 to 1993, Mr. Gilon served as the President of various companies representing major U.S. aerospace and electronics corporations. From November 1993 to August 1995, he served as the President of W.S.P. Capital Holdings Ltd. Previously he served, as the Managing Director of Shaked Technologies Ltd. He serves as a Director of HCL CleanTech Ltd., RIT, AVT Ltd., Oberon Media, Inc., Edge Medical, Exlibris, OrSense Ltd., and WisAir Ltd. He served as a Director of RAD Ventures. Mr. Gilon served as a Director of RiT Technologies Ltd. since 1995, Ceragon Networks Ltd. since June 1999, Radware Ltd. from October 2006 to July 2009 and Radcom Ltd. since June 1995. He served as Member of the Supervisory Board of Advanced Vision Technology (AVT) Limited. He served as an Outside Director of Silicom Ltd. since 1994.

## Murat Balcı
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, mHealth

Murat Balci is an angel investor.

## Onur Topac
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Hardware

Onur Topac was born in 1990 in Istanbul. He graduated from Istanbul’s Austrian High School in 2009 and went on to receive a Bachelor’s degree from Koç University, Department of Industrial Engineering in 2013. Currently, he is pursuing a Master’s degree in Financial Engineering at Ozyegin University. Mr. Topac started his career in finance in 2008as a web site specialist at Gedik Investment; subsequently, he interned at FXCM in London in 2012. The following year, he participated in the establishment of the Investment Banking Department at Gedik Investment, leading the way in the Department’s technological transformation. Since April 2015, he has served as CEO at Gedik Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Ortaklıgı A.S (Gedik Venture Capital Investment Partnership).
Onur Topac started to provide support to technology investments and ventures as an individual investor before obtaining the necessary certification to operate as an angel investor in 2015.

## Marius Nacht
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv-yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Health Care

Marius Nacht, one of Check Point’s founders, has served as Chairman of our board of directors since 2015. Nacht has also served as one of our directors since we were incorporated in 1993. From 1999 through 2005, Nacht held Senior Vice President roles at Check Point.
Nacht earned a B.S. (cum laude) in Physics and Mathematics from the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem in 1983, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Communication Systems from Tel Aviv University in 1987.

## Bedii Can Yucaoglu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Mobile, Big Data

Bedii Can Yucaoglu - Advisor @ Hesapkurdu

## Eyal Gruner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Computer, Cyber Security, Security

Eyal Gruner is the co-founder and CEO of Cynet.
He is also co-founder of BugSec. Member of Cyberstarts.

## James Packer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: iOS, Music, Android

James Packer

## George Gogolev
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

George Gogolev - General Manager Severstal Ventures @ Severstal North America

## Ray Nissan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Robotics, Electronics

Mr. Ray Nissan, is a prominent angel investor

## Avishai Abrahami
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Social Media

Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communicationtechnology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company's sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces' elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.

## Aviram Jenik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cupertino, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security

Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies

## Muhammad Ismail
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ras Al Khaimah, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: CRM, Hardware, Software

Muhammad Ismail is the Managing Director at Amtec Links International. Muhammad Ismail attended University of Derby.

## Amichai Shulman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Cyber Security, Software, Computer

Amichai Shulman - Co-Founder, CTO @ AirEye

## Romain Afflelou
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Software

Romain spearheaded the digital strategy of Alain Afflelou Group before becoming an investor in numerous start-ups. He uses his fine-tuned analysis skills to support and invest in innovative start-ups. In addition to being a major shareholder and Co founder of Cosmo Connected a French start-up specialized in connected objects related to security andmobility.Romain is Director and Board member of Multiwave Technologies /develops breakthrough metamaterial technologies to improve people's lives.Serial investor in +50Tech companies6over6 (Acquired by 1-800 contacts)
Cityscoot
Clay Inc VR
Cowboy Bike
Epicery
Everoad (Ex Convargo)
Fithouse
Fré Skincare
Fokoya
Guillotine Vodka
Klassroom
Laminate Technologies
MeetFabric
Molotov TV
Multiwave Technologies
Nestor
Octopus
Officeriders
Onoff telecom
Pledg
Quiqup
Universal Standard
Shapr
Spendesk
Zipdrug...(Acquire by Anthem Pharmacy)

## Shai Morag
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ra'anana, HaMerkaz, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Computer, Hardware

Shai Morag is the co-founder and CEO of Ermetic.

## Fabrice Grinda
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

## Leonard Speiser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Altos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Video, Big Data

Leonard Speiser is the Founder of Horizon 3.

## Chaim Chizik
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Jewelry, 3D Technology, Computer Vision

Chaim Chizik is an individual investor.

## Sergey Vassilyev
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Health Care, Consumer Electronics

Sergey Vassilyev - COO @ DSU Project

## Ariel Lebowits
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Music, Mobile Devices, Developer Tools

Ariel Lebowits

## Nancy Spielberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wearables, Health Care, Machine Learning

Nancy Spielberg - Advisory Board Member @ The Elegant Monkeys

## Muzaffer Akpınar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Consumer Electronics

Mehmet Muzaffer Akpinar is a businessperson who is associated with organisations like Penta Tekstil, MV Holding, Kvk Teknoloji Urunleri Ve Ticaret AS, Penta Textile, etc. He is an alumni of Bogazici University.

## Arda Turan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fashion, Jewelry, Shopping

Arda Turan is a Turkish footballer.

## Majed Alkhan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Furniture, Manufacturing

Majed Alkhan is the vice chairman of Infracorp.

## Yaniv Tal
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Computer, Cyber Security, Internet of Things

Yaniv Tal is a Project Lead at Graph Protocol.

## Abhishek Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Retail, Fashion

Abhishek is the Co-Founder and COO of Fashinza, a global tech-enabled manufacturing company helping Fashion brands source apparel using data and cloud that is more sustainable, ethical, inclusive, fast, and efficient. Fashinza is funded by leading VCs, Accel Partners, Elevation Capital, Prosus Ventures (Naspers), Westbridge, and ADQ UAE.He hasextensive experience in product & technology, building start-ups like Flipkart (India’s leading eCommerce platform acquired by Walmart), LimeRoad, Curofy (acquired by RoundGlass USA) & BharatPe. He is also a writer and guest author for ProductSchool, Hackernoon, Prototypr, and Noteworthy

## Emre Kurttepeli
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Mobile Apps

Emre Kurttepeli is a Serial Entrepreneur & Investor and is the Founder & Chairperson of Mynet Group, Turkey’s leading internet company with over 32 million users and Founder & CEO of Mynet Games, a global mobile gaming company.Columbia University/NY graduate, he has been the founder or the investor of over 50 internet andtechnology companies, mostly leaders in their own categories that ranges from e-commerce companies to vertical social network sites, mobile and gaming companies, including Trendyol, Insider, Iyzico, RemoteTeam and vc fund that invests in the internet and technology space. Additionally he is an investor in C24 Gallery, a prominent contemporary art gallery in Chelsea/New York.He is the President of Endeavor Turkey and Galata Business Angels (GBA), that are non-profit organizations helping to grow the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He serves on the Board of Endeavor Global, TOBB Turkish Venture Capital Industry Council and TOBB Turkish Entrepreneurs Council. Besides being on the advisory board member of Columbia University Global Center in Istanbul, he also is a member of YPO and is an Ashoka fellow.

## Idan Plotnik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Computer, Analytics

Idan has more than a decade of experience in the security industry. He has a rich and versatile technological background related to the security and IT of mission critical systems. Prior to founding Aorato, Idan was the co-founder and CEO at Foreity – an MS security subcontractor acquired by Aman Group in 2012. Idan also holds the MicrosoftMost Valuable Professional (MVP) award for enterprise security.

## Danny Grander
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Developer Tools

Co-founder of Snyk; Investor attended The Open University of Israel.

## Ahu Serter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Baby, Information Services

Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.

## Mark Gerson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Travel, Enterprise Software, Music

Mark Gerson is a co-founder of GLG. He is the Chairman of United Hatzalah, the network of first responders that treat victims of pre-hospital trauma in Israel, and the co-founder and Chairman of the Africa Mission Healthcare Foundation, which supports the work of medical missionaries performing clinical care throughout Africa. In addition, Mr.Gerson is a co-founder and co-Chairman of Thuzio, Chairman of Axial Markets and author of The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to the Culture Wars (Madison Books: 1996) and In the Classroom: Dispatches from an Inner-City School That Works (Free Press: 1997).He graduated summa cum laude from Williams College and received his JD from Yale Law School.

## 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.

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