Top 10 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in Middle East (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Samih Toukan
Angel
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2 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Jordan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Social Media, Mobile, Financial Services | $500k–$7.1M |
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Atakan Atalar
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States | Angel, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Venture Capital, SaaS | |
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Efe Duran Sarikaya
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Angel | Shipping, Shopping, Software | |
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Mishaal Alireza
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Series A, Seed | Apps, Retail, FinTech | $1M–$2M |
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Yahya Acun
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services | |
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Steven Blumgart
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital | |
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Robert Citron
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital | |
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Rafi Gidron
Angel
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1 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Analytics | $3M–$8M |
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Jamal Fayoumi
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services | |
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Nezih Sipahioğlu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Marketing, E-Learning, Crowdfunding | |
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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.
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- Industry: Social Media, Mobile, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Jordan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $500k–$2.3M; Series A $2.3M–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ola — Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporatetravel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India.
- VUZ — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
- Kitchenful — Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits.
Atakan Atalar is the Founder of Atanova Ventures. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com (acquired by Gusto) as an Investor. Atakan Atalar attended Istanbul Kultur University.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Venture Capital, SaaS
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TRANGELS — Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
- RemoteTeam.com — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
- StartupFon — StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.
Efe Duran Sarikaya
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- Industry: Shipping, Shopping, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- fonbulucu — fonbulucu is a crowding funding platform that provide innovative financing and investment system benefit to entrepreneurs and investors.
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Yollando.com — Yollando.com is a Turkish-based shopping and package forwarding service that facilitates shopping. They offer a variety of services such as Discounted packet forwarding, Buy for me, Package consolidation, Repackaging, Package tracking, Order returns/cancels, and Free storage for orders. They provide lower shipping rates to abroad with discountrates up to 80 percent.Yollando.com was established to contribute to the export of Turkish brands. Apart from shopping consultancy, they are already producing alternative solutions for logistics and product supply to individual persons and companies in Turkey and abroad.
Mishaal Alireza - Board Member @ DokkanAfkar
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- Industry: Apps, Retail, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $1M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Clip the Deal — Save money on grocery brands in UAE with Clip the Deal. Find discount deals, reviews of grocery items of top brands. Download the free app and start saving.
- Stake — Stake is a digital real estate investment platform providing the easiest and most transparent way to invest in income generating properties, starting in Dubai. Our mission is to make investing in real estate accessible and profitable for all.
Yahya Acun
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- Industry: Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
Steven Blumgart is an investor in, and board member of, a number of privately-held businesses. Until January 2012, Mr. Blumgart was Co-director of the aluminum division at Glencore International plc, one of the largest commodity trading firms in the world, valued at $40bn. Mr. Blumgart joined Swiss based Glencore in October 1998, where he served inthe coal commodity department, responsible for its industrial assets, before moving to the aluminum division. Prior to joining Glencore, Mr. Blumgart worked for three years at Grant Thornton in Johannesburg. Mr. Blumgart completed his Bachelor of Commerce (Tax Honours) degree from the University of Witwatersrand, and is a South African Chartered Accountant. In addition, Mr. Blumgart holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
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- Industry: FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
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Robbie Citron brings to OurCrowd over 25 years of experience in financial management, including over a decade of working with start-ups through his role as Partner and CFO of Jerusalem Global Ventures, a leading Israeli venture capital fund. He also serves as consulting CFO for several independent Israeli biotech and medical start-ups, mostrecently with Izun Pharmaceuticals and Molecular Detection, Inc. Earlier in his career, Robbie was Financial Controller and Company Secretary of the Israeli branch of Hanson PLC and worked as a public accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Israel and BDO Stoy Hayward in London. He is a Certified Public Accountant in Israel and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounts in England & Wales. Robbie received an honors degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science and sets aside part of his spare time to work with several Jerusalem-based charitable institutions.
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- Industry: FinTech, Crowdfunding, Venture Capital
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
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Rafi Gidron is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Xperiti. He attended Columbia University.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $3M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Blyp — Blyp is an AI-driven data analytics platform for e-commerce companies.
- CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
- GlossAI — GlossAi turns your impossibly long, but precious content, into an endless source of compelling share-worthy videos for the various uses of your target audience.
Jamal Fayoumi
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- Industry: Marketing, Crowdfunding, Financial Services
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
Nezih Sipahioğlu
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- Industry: Marketing, E-Learning, Crowdfunding
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
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