Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Middle East in October 2023
Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Middle East in October 2023
| Investor | Education Middle East investments |
|---|---|
| Rami Lipman | 2 |
| Ugur Ethem AYDIN | 2 |
| Eilon Tirosh | 2 |
| Zohar Gilon | 2 |
| Erdal Asim Durukan | 1 |
| Burak Günsev | 1 |
| Lamiaa Abdelmonem | 1 |
| Amit Gilon | 1 |
| Ahmet Bilgen | 1 |
| Kelly Smith | 1 |
| Scott Banister | 1 |
| Barış Conger | 1 |
| Ethan Lowry | 1 |
| Abdulaziz Al Loughani | 1 |
| Dana Messina | 1 |
| Udi Netzer | 1 |
| Hesham Zreik | 1 |
| Bashar Hamood | 1 |
| Chris DeVore | 1 |
| Eli Manning | 1 |
| Andrey Belozerov | 1 |
| Abdullah Alzabin | 1 |
| Roy Rodenstein | 1 |
| Shaula Alexander Yemini | 1 |
| David Milch | 1 |
| Ali Partovi | 1 |
| Kivilcim Cayli | 1 |
| Abdulla Elyas | 1 |
| Hadi Partovi | 1 |
| Nir Zohar | 1 |
| Ivanka Trump | 1 |
| Melih Odemis | 1 |
| Guy Gamzu | 1 |
| Ayberk Kuday | 1 |
| Hande Enes | 1 |
| Boris Wertz | 1 |
| Dan Shapiro | 1 |
| Joe Heitzeberg | 1 |
| Josh Sutton | 1 |
| Nezih Sipahioğlu | 1 |
| Michael Eisenberg | 1 |
| Patrick O'Donnell | 1 |
| Jeff Swartz | 1 |
| Eran Shir | 1 |
| Chris DeVore | 1 |
| ONUR BAYINDIR | 1 |
| Craig Sherman | 1 |
| Arya Bolurfrushan | 1 |
| Rıza Kaya | 1 |
| Mustafa Sandal | 1 |
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Rami Lipman is an angel investor.
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- SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Matics Manufacturing Analytics Ltd. — Matics real-time manufacturing analytics provides a digital toolbox for factories' production floor management and dramatically increases the production efficiency.
- Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
- NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
I am the Art and Code Director at Metromedya Digital Ad Agency. In addition to my role as director, I am also a skilled programmer, designer, and musician. I have expertise in iOS and MacOS development and enjoy snowboarding in my free time. As a self-proclaimed geek, I am always seeking to learn and grow in my field. I am passionate about creatinginnovative and visually appealing designs and using my coding skills to bring them to life.
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- iOS, Software, macOS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
- Notes.io — A free note-taking app. Online Notes on everywhere.
Eilon Tirosh is a Startup Helper at SpearHealth. He attended Tel Aviv University.
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- Apps, FinTech, Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- zooz — Manage and optimize multiple payment providers through a single platform.
- Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
- Thumzap — Thumzap reconnects people in the digital world by making the process of paying for someone else's purchases simple, fun and safe.Sometimes we need or just want someone else to pay for our purchases, either because we don't have a credit card or enough money, or because we're just not that tech-savvy and need some help.Thumzapmakes it easy to send friends and family a request to pay for us. All they have to do is approve the payment and they can pay with their own credit card or paypal account, in just one click. Not only does that make it completely safe and secure, but also familiar. No one has to share a password, set up a digital wallet, or input their credit card information, it’s a simple way to help fulfill a digital request.
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.
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- Software, Internet, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
- Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
- Everafter.ai — Build personalized hubs for every customer - from POC and onboarding plans to success plan and monthly communications. And the best part - embed it inside your product.
Erdal Asim Durukan
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- EdTech, Education, E-Learning
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
Burak Günsev - Advisor @ manibux
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- FinTech, Finance, Education
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Lamiaa Abdelmonem
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- Education, Health Care, Real Estate
- Series A
- Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Al-Jannat Real-Estate — Al Janat is a real estate investment company, an Egyptian joint stock company engaged in real estate investment and real estate development in Egypt, which has a new concept for residential projects.
Amit Gilon is an angel investor.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Developer Platform
- Seed, Series A
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
- Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
- daily.dev — daily.dev is the fastest growing online community for developers to stay updated on the best developer news. Together we supercharge developers' knowledge and empower better software.
Ahmet Bilgen Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur and angele investor. He lives in Famagusta-North Cyprus. He finished primary school and high School in Famagusta. He has been a very active person all throughout his life, he received a Black Belt II. Dan in TaeKwon-do, played in the local soccer team while studying at Canbulat high school. Ahmet was alsohelping his family with their farming business by selling the produce to shops, making some money in the meanwhile which he used to buy his first bicycle, first ball or his first pair of sneakers. Ahmet graduated with Bsc in Applied Marth and Computer Science from Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 he got his Masters degree in Computer Science. Right after he started his PhD degree in Computer Science but decided to quit academia after his first semester. During his masters and PhD degrees, he took part in developing intelligent user interfaces and inmemory data concepts for mobile devices. After leaving academic life, Ahmet worked in various IT companies for about 2 years and then joined SAP where he had his first professional work experience. Ahmet joined SAP Turkey as the Technology Consultant, and therefore took part in the implementation of more than 100 SAP projects with companies like Yaşar, Koç, Sabancı, Havelsan, Arena etc. as these were the first implementers of SAP ERP in Turkey. During his tenure at SAP, he worked in various roles such as technical consultant, business analyst, project and team manager and architect. Ahmet, after working at SAP for 2 years and getting enough project experience and honing on his technical skils, he decided to set up FIT “Future Information Technology” Solutions together with 3 of his friends in 1999. By the end of 1999 FIT had already made its first million USD revenue. FIT has integrated Turkey’s most important e-commerce platform named “Arena Computer Supplier Portal” with SAP. This was featuted as an international success story by SAP Inside magazine in 2001. FIT Solutions(lately became Foriba) has a lot of experience from completing many software integration projects. Working with the top 250 companies also gives the company the advantage to have a more extensible, scalable, sustainable and supportable product. These experiences and know-how attained over the years put the company in an advantageous position to achieve end-to-end e-invoicing solutions. in 2019 Ahmet Bilgen exited from Foriba. Foriba did: - Series A With Revo Capital - Series B With Revo, IFC, Endeavor Catalyst - Exit
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- Artificial Intelligence, Education, Sharing Economy
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Aposto — All-in-one media service currently based in Istanbul, Turkey.
- admarket.co — Outdoor,Billboard,Taxi,Bus,Print,sms Advertising,book ad spaces in The USA-admarket
- Community — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
Kelly is a "Designer Founder" of several start-ups and is the founder of Curious Office, a Seattle seed stage incubator and investment firm. As a designer and product development expert, Kelly takes an active interest optimizing around the development/design intersection. He is aTechStars mentor, a co-founder of a YCombinatorcompany and an occasional speaker on the subjects of design, start-ups and company building. He is most recently the founder of Zapd, which is venture backed by Madrona Venture Partners and Second Avenue Partners. Zapd was twice Apple's App of the Week, was an Editor Staff Pick and was a top 10 lifestyle app in several countries. He co-founded MadRaces which was sold to BetaWorks and also Scoutzie which was accepted as a 2012 YCombinator company. He was also the founder and designer of Inkd.com and Imagekind, which is the largest market for buying and selling art (acquired by CafePress in 2007). In 2000 he founded an online video company called RocketVox which was acquired by thePlatform (a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast). Previously, Kelly served as VP Product Marketing for Myrio (Siemens Nokia IPTV division) and worked at RealNetworks from 1994-1999 in various marketing and business development roles. Curious Office has invested in SEOmoz, Bonanza, Sparkbuy, Buuteeq, ooBible, Imagekind, Wishpot, CoolSpotters, Shelfari (acquired by Amazon) and FeedDigest. He is a board member or advisor for PressPlane, NetConcepts, SEOmoz and Rouxbe.
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- Advertising, Software, SEO
- Series A, Angel
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Inkd.com — Inkd (formerly Pressplane) has two main products: Inkd, a true "buy & sell" community (rather like CafePress, Zazzle, Etsy and even stock image companies) wherein designers upload print creative and businesses can download and use the content as a cost effective alternative to hiring a designer, and Zapd, an app that allows users tocreate instant, themed websites straight from their iPhones.
- Smore — Cut through the noise and communicate effectively with Smore. Create interactive newsletters that parents and staff actually read. Get started with free school newsletter templates.
- Fanzter — Fanzter Inc. is an American software company that designs and develops consumer-focused mobile and web products. Fanzter's best-known products include Coolspotters.com and the popular iOS applications CoolPapers, Streaks, and Summizer. Fanzter's corporate headquarters are located in Unionville, Connecticut.
Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- TipTop — Buying stuff is easy, selling it is hard. But maybe there is a world where you don't have to sell things any longer? Curious?
- Together — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
- Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.
Barış Conger - Advisor @ manibux
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- FinTech, Finance, Education
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Ethan Lowry is co-founder of the award-winning restaurant guide Prior to Urbanspoon Ethan helped start a number successful web companies. Most recently he was the VP of Product for Jobster, a recruiting site. Before that he ledthe design team at the mobile start-up Avogadro which was later acquired by mobile-web pioneer Openwave. He also helped start Drugstore.com.Ethan has a bachelor’s degree in Product Design from Stanford University.
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- Computer, Internet, Software
- Angel
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Smore — Cut through the noise and communicate effectively with Smore. Create interactive newsletters that parents and staff actually read. Get started with free school newsletter templates.
- SparkToro — Our mission is to make it easy to discover the websites, blogs, podcasts, social accounts, and publications that reach your audience.
Abdulaziz is co-founder & CEO of Floward, a full-fledged flowers & gifts ecommerce solution servicing the largest customer base in the MENA region. Abdulaziz is also co-founder & Managing Partner at Faith Capital, a venture capital practice that is focused on the MENA region. Previously, Abdulaziz was the founding Executive ViceChairman of the Kuwait National Fund for SMEs Development, a USD7bn independent public institution responsible for developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Kuwait (2013-2017). Prior to this role, he was a co-founder and Managing Partner of Talabat.com<http://Talabat.com> until 2010, and has since then been investing in technology startups and involved in a number of local and regional entrepreneurial initiatives. Abdulaziz has also previously served as Director at Global Capital Management, the alternative investments arm of Global Investment House “Global” where he has played a major role in managing key investments within the Private Equity Group of Global by handling various assignments on corporate restructuring, business planning, deal structuring, due diligence and managing portfolio companies' to exit. Abdulaziz has served as an executive and member of board on a number of companies within the MENA region in the technology, banking, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer finance, food & beverage and real estate sectors.Abdulaziz holds a Bachelor's degree - double major in Information Systems and E-Commerce from University of Toledo, and an MBA degree from London Business School.
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- E-Commerce, Apps, Music
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ghinwa — A mobile app for anonymous self-broadcasting and Karaoke.
- Snapbook — Visit the Snapbook store to customize you're gifts, photo prints, unique phone cases, and wall art with Snapbook.
- Yougotagift.com — YouGotaGift offers a range of online card gifts from more than 400 brands through email, SMS and its app. It operates across three major business verticals including consumer gifting and employee and customer rewards.
Dana Messina
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- Music, EdTech, Software
- Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Simply (formerly JoyTunes) — Feel the joy of playing piano and guitar, or discovering your singing voice, with Simply. The best apps for learning musical instruments.
Udi Netzer is the Private Investor at Joonko.
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- EdTech, Software, Education
- Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Lingua.ly — Founded by Cambridge and Stanford graduates Dr. Jan Ihmels and Dr. Orly Fuhrman, Lingua.ly is a brand new way to learn a language. Collect new words from across the web with Lingua.ly's smart dictionary. Use your new vocab as you read real articles you choose. Immersion is the ultimate way to learn a language, and Lingua.ly’s free, onlinelearning platform uses “digital immersion” to give you all the same benefits no matter where you learn. Do you like to read about science and technology in your spare time? Prefer French recipes or travel magazines? Perhaps following business updates from the Middle East is key to your company’s success? Our patent pending algorithm understands your vocabulary to fill your feed with real articles from the web to suit both your level and interests. Better still, we let you practice your new words through fun games and quizzes. So, give your vocabulary a boost, create some colorful flashcards, keep your mind engaged and explore the web in a new language with Lingua.ly! Learn English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, German and Russian. Lingua.ly’s blended learning solution can be used as a stand-alone product or to complement language classes and self-study course-ware. It is cloud synced and operable via desktop or mobile and supports 18+ dictionary languages. Website: http://lingua.ly App Store: http://bit.ly/1pyL1bb Google Play: http://bit.ly/1s04YuK
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.
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- Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- TVlize — TVlize is a company specialized in improving and socializing TV experience. At TVlize we change the viewing experience from lean backward to lean forward.
- AIR AGRO — MarketPlace para o mercado de Pulverização Áerea por drones, aviões ou helicópteros agrícolas. Auditoria em tempo real. Certificação dos fornecedores. Analise agronômica tempo real. Boas práticas e compliance que o mercado exige. Segurança Alimentar. Moeda Agro Cash Back que o produtor rural escolhe uma entidade da sua comunidade para ajudar oualguma cadastrada no nosso banco de dados. Produzir mais, com menos, de maneira sustentável e contribuindo com sua comunidade.
- Dietfoodi — Dietfoodi is a cloud kitchen idea is essentially a kitchen space meant for production of food for delivery-only purposes. Since this food can be ordered online, hence, the name, Cloud kitchen. In this pandemic time cloud kitchen is a very supportive & positive business idea where we want to mix international cuisine cultural with very vastway.This commissary kitchen are also known as ghost kitchens, shared kitchens, or virtual kitchens with the delivery-only food brands operating within them called virtual restaurants. But moving to a delivery-only model has been made possible recently by advances in technology and changes in consumer habits. It offers certain advantages over offering delivery from a traditional brick-and-mortar restaurant.
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.
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- Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Safedeploy — Fault free software update platform for tracking your software reliability in real time for every device and every software application
- Event Arena — Event Arena organizes events, corporate events, conferences, sales promotions, and presentations.
- Palacio Inc. — Palacio Inc. aims to inspire every living space through innovation in art and technology. Our first product Canvia is a revolutionary content platform for art and photography, which utilizes patented technology for a seamless and authentic experience in any environment. We bring content from leading contemporary creators and world class culturalinstitutions into our living spaces like never before.
Chris DeVore has been an investor, operator and executive at both public and private companies.Prior to Founders Co-op, Chris co-founded of Judy's Book and served as the company's COO and member of the board of directors. Previously Chris was a Vice President at Sapient Corporation (NASDAQ: SAPE), where he built and led thecompany's strategy consulting practice and was also a core member of the M&A and corporate venturing teams. Chris arrived at Sapient via the 1999 acquisition of Adjacency, an e-Commerce consultancy he and his partners bootstrapped into a profitable, 50-person, $15MM revenues firm serving clients like Apple, Nordstrom, Virgin, Land Rover and Steelcase. Prior to Adjacency, Chris served as Patagonia's Director of eCommerce, building that outdoor retailer's first online retail presence, and also led and managed six of the company's product lines. Pre-Internet, Chris held senior product management and strategic planning roles at McCaw Cellular (acquired by AT&T) and at AT&T (NYSE: T).Chris is currently an investor and board / advisory board member for: Appature, AppStoreHQ, Bonanzle, Colligent, Cooler Planet, Frugal Mechanic, Nearlyweds!, LookStat and Urban Airship.
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- E-Commerce, SaaS, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Smore — Cut through the noise and communicate effectively with Smore. Create interactive newsletters that parents and staff actually read. Get started with free school newsletter templates.
- Tindie — Tindie is a marketplace for maker made products. From Raspberry Pi to Arduino to drones, Tindie's goal is to bring innovation to the masses faster than ever before.
- Shippable — The only platform for DevOps automation that covers the complete pipeline, end-to-end, JFrog, now also with Shippable inside.
Eli Manning was chosen first overall in the 2004 NFL draft out of Ole Miss by the San Diego Chargers. He was immediately traded to the New York Giants and went on to lead the team to Super Bowl victory in the 2007 season, and into Super Bowl XLVI in the 2011 season.College Football CareerEli Manning was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in1981. In 2000, he enrolled at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), where both his father and brother Cooper went to college. He played quarterback for the Rebels for four years while at Ole Miss, and put up outstanding numbers, including 10,119 passing yards (fifth on the SEC career list), 81 touchdown passes (third on the SEC career list), and a passer rating of 137.7 (tied for sixth on the SEC career list). During his senior year he won several awards, including the Maxwell Award as the nation's best all-around player and the SEC Player of the Year award.
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- Ediscovery, Sports, EdTech
- Series B, Seed, Series E
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Spren — Spren powers digital health, wellness, and fitness experiences with unique, heart rate variability based biomarker insights.
- ZOE — ZOE analyzes your unique gut, blood fat and blood sugar responses. So you can take back control of your health & weight
- Toya Pioneering Women — Toya is developing multilayer games for girls on a Minecraft platform. The playful learning experience enables girls to become the heroes while revealing the life stories of exceptional women.
Andrey Belozerov (born 17 November 1980) is a Russian manager, entrepreneur and investor with a portfolio including SpaceX, Momentus, Pitchme and others. Expert in the field of digital technologies and digital transformation, co-founder Digital Disrupt investment club, United Nations Development Program expert.
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- Apps, EdTech, FinTech
- Seed
- Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Digital Disrupt — Using our experience, networking and expertise, we help projects grow so that they change life around the world to the best.
Abdullah Alzabin
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- Education
- Seed
- Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- CODED — CODED is the Middle East's First Coding Bootcamp. Learn everything you need to become a professional programmer.
Roy Rodenstein is Co-founder at SocMetrics.
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- Software, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Seedscout — Seedscout is a professional network that connects founders, investors, and job seekers together across the global startup universe.
- Troy Medicare — Troy Medicare is an AI-driven, pharmacy-powered Medicare Advantage company. The company presents a Medicare advantage plan that uses data and technology, enabling people to get access to the fair, transparent, and personalized health plan as well as pharmacies and health care providers to truly impact each patient's health and get rewarded forthose results.Troy Medicare was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Hackers/Founders — Hackers/Founders serves technology entrepreneurs by equipping founders, encouraging vibrant tech ecosystems and sharing Silicon Valley insights with the world.
Dr. Shaula Alexander Yemini is a startup mentor, board member and advisor to several technology companies. She is also an angel investor. Until 2007, Shaula was a Vice President at EMC. She joined EMC in 2005 with the acquisition of SMARTS (System Management Arts), a developer of network and system management software that she founded and led asCEO from inception. SMARTS counted among its customers the leading global telecoms, global banks, and multi-national enterprises, as well as thousands of others. Shaula was named as 1 of 10 “Leaders Among Leaders” in Information Technology by Information Week Magazine, and selected as an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Her company SMARTS was an INC 500 company, a Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 company, and won other prestigious awards.
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- iOS, Apps, EdTech
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
- Canvs AI — Canvs AI is an emotion and behavior insights platform that understands how consumers feel, why they feel that way, and the business impact those feelings and behaviors create for brands. Through identifying a massive number of expressions and analyzing more than 10 billion conversations, Canvs’ patented AI and machine learning platform and APIsquickly turn open-ended text from unstructured data, social media comments, marketing campaigns and customer surveys into powerful insights that can improve product and brand experiences. Brands like Disney and AMC, and research companies like Triangulum Insights and Luma Research use Canvs to create research efficiencies, unlock marketing opportunities and increase revenue with the power of emotion and behavior insights. Canvs was recently named to the Inc 5000 list for a second year straight. Canvs' TV solution is powered by Talkwalker’s Social Content Ratings Twitter data. The company is also an official Facebook Media Solutions partner. Start understanding your customers better at canvs.ai.
- Semperis — Semperis is the industry's most comprehensive Active Directory security and recovery platform, protecting hybrid AD environments from identity-based attacks.
David Milch
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- PaaS, EdTech, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Quonder — Quonder offers a cloud based intelligent learning platform aimed at both the education and training technology sectors. Its aim is to empower instructors to create, manage and support large amounts of students taking personalized journeys towards a shared goal both synchronously and asynchronously. By utilizing machine learning technology, Quonderis able to increase learning and training efficacy while cutting the time spent by its users. This leads to considerable advantages for businesses training employees and customers, as well as the academic environment.
Ali Partovi is the CEO and Founder of Neo and was a Founding partner at linkexchange. Ali attended Harvard University.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Spain, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Zentail — All in one SaaS platform for Multi-Channel Online Retailers.
- Expedock — Delivering Powerful Data Infrastructure for the Global Supply Chain. Experience AI technology that streamlines all logistics workflows with Expedock.
- Skiff — Everything on Skiff is end-to-end encrypted. Your most sensitive data is private, decentralized, and truly owned by you.
Cayli began his career in 2000 and held various positions for Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, and Turev. Founded and led two healthcare companies (Idea and Invivo) and two consultancy companies (Kanvas and Biovenka).He holds a BSc and an MBA, both from Middle East Technical University (aka ODTU).As a seasoned investor, he has 8personal investments including British, Irish, American, Swedish, and Turkish companies, and serves on the Board of some. He also consults startups on behalf of TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific & Technological Research Council). He is a member of BIC Angels and GAIN Global.
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- Travel, Property Management, Leisure
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Yourkeys — With Zoopla for Housebuilders, listings your plots is just the start. Our software & marketing tools help at every stage of your developments
- Adalethanim — Adalethanim is a legal platform working with AI that analyzes, understands, interprets, and produces results to help with legal research, allowing the person working on the case to save time and access more information about a case. The company's vision is to make justice fast, cheap and accessible to everyone.Adalethanim was founded in 2018and is headquartered in Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Turkey.
- UnderTheDoormat — UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation.
Abdulla Elyas founded Careem on June 15, 2012 alongside Magnus Olsson and Mudassir Sheikha.
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- EdTech, Tutoring, Education
- Series A
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Noon - The Social Learning Platform — Why Study Alone Again? Start study groups with your friends and access the best teachers on demand!
Hadi Partovi is an entrepreneur and investor, and CEO of the education non-profit Code.org. In 2013 Hadi and his twin brother Ali launched the education nonprofit Code.org which Hadi continues to lead full-time as CEO. Code.org has established computer science classes in 15% of US classrooms, created the most popular curriculum platform for K-12computer science, and launched the global Hour of Code movement that has reached over 100 million students.A computer science graduate of Harvard University, Hadi began his career during the browser wars in the 1990s, when he was Microsoft’s Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer. In a second stint at Microsoft, he was General Manager of the MSN portal, delivering its first year of profit. As an entrepreneur, Hadi was on the founding teams of Tellme Networks and iLike, which were acquired by Microsoft and MySpace, respectively. Hadi has served as an early advisor to numerous startups including Facebook and Dropbox, and as a tech investor his portfolio also includes airbnb, Uber, Zappos, IndieGogo, Change.org, and others. Aside from his investments, Hadi also serves as a Director on the boards of TASER International and Convoy.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Israel, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Statsig — Statsig is a modern feature management and experimentation platform that empowers teams to 10x their experimentation velocity, shipping every feature in a data-driven way.
- Clearbrief — Do Justice to the Facts. Select any sentence in your Word doc, and our AI instantly finds the best evidence you have to support your argument. 1-Click TOA.
- Saturn Technologies — The best way to share time with friends
Nir has been with Wix since 2007 and he’s been the driving force behind the successful scaling of the company's operations from a small start-up into an international company serving tens of millions of users. Nir spearheads all efforts to develop and implement Wix' strategic plans geared towards accommodating the company's growthobjectives and business goals.Prior to joining Wix, Nir was the Budget and Production Manager for two years at M.B. Contact Ltd., a private Israeli event production company. Before that, Nir worked for The Jewish Agency and the Israeli Scouts. Nir’s experience stems from his position as Lieutenant Commander and Chief Engineer in the Israeli Navy.On his day off you catch him reading or avidly following the NBA scores.
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- Software, Publishing, Social Media
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
- Villiger — Villiger provides an app that unites parents and their support network within a private social network where they can share stories, recommendations, and resources, as well as book and pay for services.Users can download the app and upload friends to their Village via Facebook Connect or their address book.The platform allows parents to sharetheir support network within a “Trusted Village,” then receive recommendations, advice, requests and contacts within the Village. The platform provides direct booking and payment for a variety of support providers including sitters, tutors, music teachers, housekeepers, coaches, and more.
- Demostack — Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.
Ivanka Trump
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- Education, Farming, CleanTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Twigtale — Twigtale is the first company to provide parents with personalized, high-quality, accessible expert advice for every major transition a child undergoes, such as welcoming a new baby, moving, even experiencing death or cancer. The personalized stories are scripted by child development experts, then personalized by parents. The books are engaging forkids and a powerful playbooks for parents. Customers are parents, groups, partners & sponsors.
- HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
- University of The Community/ Indigenous Cultural Arts Museum — UNIVERSITY FOR SELF LEARNING
Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
- HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
Guy Gamzu currently works as an Entrepreneur for Guy Gamzu. He previously worked at Yeloha as a Director & co-founder. Guy Gamzu attended City University London.
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- Software, Mobile, Advertising
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Zoog — Be part of their story
- Motion AI — Visually build, train, & deploy chatbots to do just about anything. We have joined the HubSpot family!
- Atlas Invest — A platform for institutional investors to invest in real estate backed bridge loans at scale with reduced risk.
Ayberk Kuday - Advisor @ manibux
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- FinTech, Finance, Education
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Hande Enes
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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.
Boris Wertz is the Founder & General Partner of Version One Ventures. He previously worked at Ether Capital as a Lead Independent director. Boris Wertz attended the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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- Mobile, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Helcim Inc. — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
- Kobalt — Kobalt assesses, develops and runs cyber security programs for small and mid-sized businesses. We conduct security gap assessments, penetration testing, security awareness programs and security monitoring as-a-service. Our security programs help organizations develop their security programs to combat the risks unique to their business.
- Syndicate — Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network.
Dan Shapiro is the CEO and primary turtle wrangler at Robot Turtles, a company created when he accidentally launched the bestselling board game in Kickstarter. He has previously spent time leading a Google subsidiary that operates comparison shopping products. Dan Shapiro joined Google when they bought his previous company, Sparkbuy, a comparisonshopping website, where he was founder and CEO.Before Sparkbuy, Dan Shapiro was founder and CEO of Ontela, a pioneering mobile imaging company, where he was named CEO of the Year by MobileBeat. Ontela was frequently recognized including the Dow Jones Top 10 in Wireless list, the CTIA award for Best Social Networking Application, and Breakthrough Startup of the Year by the WTIA.Prior to founding Ontela, Dan Shapiro managed development of the RealArcade service at RealNetworks, enabling thousands of end-users to play classic games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, and Rollercoaster Tycoon on their desktops. He arrived at RealNetworks by way of Wildseed, where he managed software development for the Identity Cellular Phone. Dan Shapiro started his career at Microsoft working on Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.Dan Shapiro's articles have been published in the Washington Post, Wireless Week, and the Seattle PI, and he is a frequent speaker at conferences and events. He serves on the board of the non-profit Washington Technology Industry Association. He is a mentor for the Founder's Institute, 500 Startups, and Techstars. Dan Shapiro has been awarded eleven U.S. patents, and received his B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College.
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series B
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Skilljar — Improve your customer onboarding, engagement, and retention with the #1 Customer Education Software and Training Platform. Request a demo from Skilljar today!
- SparkToro — Our mission is to make it easy to discover the websites, blogs, podcasts, social accounts, and publications that reach your audience.
- Apptentive — Measure shifts in customer emotion and gather actionable feedback across your mobile customer journey.
Joe Heitzeberg previously founded In 1998 he incubated and sold a hosted ecommerce startup, JoeMart, to Infoseek.comthat subsequently became the basis for GO.com's Auctions and Stores services. Between 2001 and founding SnapVine, Heitzeberg has worked at a leading mobile software company, Openwave Systems, as principal product manager of client software. Heitzeberg holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Software, Education, Email Marketing
- Seed, Angel
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Smore — Cut through the noise and communicate effectively with Smore. Create interactive newsletters that parents and staff actually read. Get started with free school newsletter templates.
- Glue — Engage and retain employees with deep insights and data-backed morale strategy.
Josh Sutton is the Founder and CEO of USIL Capital is a parent company to several startups and brands. Real Estate, healthcare, Tech and Fashion.
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- SaaS, Sports, E-Learning
- Pre-Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Skillset — Skillset is a game-based sports e-learning platform that offers young athletes and sports fans the opportunity to learn from leading professional athletes. Through its app, Skillset offers courses that break down techniques and tactics used by some of the world's top football players into easy-to-follow lessons. The app is designed to behighly engaging, with social and gamification elements that encourage continued viewing and sharing.
Nezih Sipahioğlu
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- Marketing, E-Learning, Crowdfunding
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
- Edurey Eğitim, Danışmanlık, Bilişim ve Yazılım Hizmetleri A.Ş — A Learning Experience Platform where you can include users' experience and participation in processes while offering a social learning environment with different features. You can include the learner experience in all your training processes with EDUREY LXP. Or You can choose Edurey LMS which is The training management system, where you canmake your training management processes in the corporate or academic field, offers a unique experience to the users.
Michael is a General Partner at Aleph, an early stage venture capital fund with $850M under management. Aleph focuses on partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs to build large, meaningful companies and impactful global brands. Since its founding in 2013, Aleph has invested in over 50 companies (not all announced) including Lemonade (NYSE:LMND), Frank (acquired JPM), Melio, Healthy.io, JoyTunes, Fabric, Honeybook and Bringg. Prior to Aleph, Michael was a General Partner at Benchmark Capital, which he joined in July 2005, and where he continues as the partner responsible for Benchmark’s Israeli portfolio. Michael has focused on internet and software-enabled service investments since 1995. He has invested in and served on the boards of some of Israel’s leading companies and startups, such as Conduit, Gigya (Acquired SAP), Picturevison (acquired: EK), SeekingAlpha, Shopping.com (Nasdaq: SHOP, acquired: EBAY), Tradeum (acquired: VERT), and Wix (Nasdaq: WIX), and Wework (NYSE: WE). Since 2006, Michael has been writing the blog “Six Kids and a Full Time Job,” on topics ranging from politics to technology, Judaism and macroeconomics. He was a contributor to TheMarker, a Hebrew-language daily business newspaper, and is the author of the “Hummus Manifesto,” the seminal piece on Israel’s innovation scene. Michael has also published numerous books, including The Vanishing Jew, Ben Barukh, and The Tree of Life and Prosperity. He has published two additional books in Hebrew which are due out in English in the coming years: Everyone Can Be Moses and Roaring Tribe. Michael also lectures frequently on venture capital, Israel and entrepreneurship. He is the Chairman of HaShomer Hachadash and sits on the board of Yeshivat Har Etzion. Michael founded the Nevo network, a professional network organization that integrates immigrants to Israel into the high tech ecosystem and serves as the organization's active Chairman. Michael lives in Jerusalem with his wife and eight children.
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- Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series C, Series A
- United States, Israel, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
- Beewise — Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey.
- Floodlight — Track finances, make smarter decisions, and increase revenue. Think business accounts, cards, payments and cashback, all-in-one.
Patrick O'Donnell is a Co-founder at Spare5.He is founder of Urbanspoon. He holds Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science from University of California, Santa Cruz.
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- Computer, Internet, Software
- Angel
- Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Smore — Cut through the noise and communicate effectively with Smore. Create interactive newsletters that parents and staff actually read. Get started with free school newsletter templates.
- SparkToro — Our mission is to make it easy to discover the websites, blogs, podcasts, social accounts, and publications that reach your audience.
Jeff Swartz
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- Software, Recruiting, Social Impact
- Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
Eran is the CEO and co-founder of Nexar. Prior to Nexar, he was an entrepreneur in residence at Tel Aviv venture fund, Aleph and ran the global Creative Innovation Center for Yahoo!. Eran received his bachelor’s and master’s in physics from Technion-Machon Technlogi Le’ Israel and his PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from TelAviv University.
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- Music, EdTech, Software
- Seed
- Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Simply (formerly JoyTunes) — Feel the joy of playing piano and guitar, or discovering your singing voice, with Simply. The best apps for learning musical instruments.
Chris DeVore has been an investor, operator and executive at both public and private companies.Prior to Founders Co-op, Chris co-founded of Judy's Book and served as the company's COO and member of the board of directors. Previously Chris was a Vice President at Sapient Corporation (NASDAQ: SAPE), where he built and led thecompany's strategy consulting practice and was also a core member of the M&A and corporate venturing teams. Chris arrived at Sapient via the 1999 acquisition of Adjacency, an e-Commerce consultancy he and his partners bootstrapped into a profitable, 50-person, $15MM revenues firm serving clients like Apple, Nordstrom, Virgin, Land Rover and Steelcase. Prior to Adjacency, Chris served as Patagonia's Director of eCommerce, building that outdoor retailer's first online retail presence, and also led and managed six of the company's product lines. Pre-Internet, Chris held senior product management and strategic planning roles at McCaw Cellular (acquired by AT&T) and at AT&T (NYSE: T).Chris is currently an investor and board / advisory board member for: Appature, AppStoreHQ, Bonanzle, Colligent, Cooler Planet, Frugal Mechanic, Nearlyweds!, LookStat and Urban Airship.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Smore — Cut through the noise and communicate effectively with Smore. Create interactive newsletters that parents and staff actually read. Get started with free school newsletter templates.
- Tindie — Tindie is a marketplace for maker made products. From Raspberry Pi to Arduino to drones, Tindie's goal is to bring innovation to the masses faster than ever before.
- Shippable — The only platform for DevOps automation that covers the complete pipeline, end-to-end, JFrog, now also with Shippable inside.
ONUR BAYINDIR
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- Software, Marketing, Consulting
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Babiot — Babiot develops electronics online tools to access control and tracking systems. It offers indoor navigation, wireless technologies, and location-based services to safely track people. Babiot is based in Essen, Germany.
- PlusDisc — PlusDisc provides tools for Candidate Assessment and Personality Tests.
- Volans Video Agency — Volans Video Agency is full-service creative video agency for brands and agencies. Explainer Videos, 3D Videos, Promotion Videos, Testimonial Videos!
Craig Sherman is a Partner and Managing Director at Meritech since 2011. Craig focuses primarily on digital media and consumer services. Craig has led the firm's investments in Evernote, Zulily, Lynda.com and Ariosa Diagnostics. Prior to Meritech, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Gaia Interactive, which he grew from a 1/2 millionto over a 20 million monthly visitor pioneer in social games and online communities. Prior to joining Gaia, Craig served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. Previously, Craig was Chief Operating Officer of Ancestry.com (ACOM), where he helped lead the company’s pivot from a free family social network to a family history subscription service and grew the company from under $10 million to $150 million in sales and from tens of millions in losses to tens of millions in profits. Before Ancestry.com, Craig held senior positions at AIG: he was Head of Marketing and Internet for all of AIG's Japanese and Korean divisions totaling over $5 billion in sales; and the General Manager of AIG's property management software subsidiary, a $90 million sales company whose growth rate quadrupled during Craig's tenure. Previous to AIG, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Cendant Japan, a joint venture startup he founded with Cendant and Mitsubishi Corporation that he helped grow from inception to over $20 million in sales and profitability. Before that, Craig worked in product, marketing, finance and operations roles at Cendant during its growth from less than a $1 billion to over a $40 billion public company. Craig has personally invested in over a dozen startups including Ancestry, SurveyMonkey, Zillow and Zipcar. In addition, Craig has held independent board and advisory roles with Homestead (prior to its sale to Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Logoworks (Hewlett Packard), Netquote (BankRate), and Photobucket (Fox). Craig graduated magna cum laude with A.B. degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University. Craig spends his 'free' time with his son and daughter - hiking, playing soccer, doing puzzles and even some musical theater. After they go to sleep, he loves to meditate and read classic (AKA “old”) novels.
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- Software, Health Care, Medical
- Series C, Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Glystn — Glystn is a reliable platform for creator analytics and insights of any scale. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in SAN FRANCISCO, California.
- GENETICA® US — Originated from San Francisco, Genetica® is a leading and the fastest growing gene testing company in Asia with leading-edge proprietary technology.
- Toya Pioneering Women — Toya is developing multilayer games for girls on a Minecraft platform. The playful learning experience enables girls to become the heroes while revealing the life stories of exceptional women.
Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Education
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Oliv — Oliv.com is a career marketplace based in Dubai, made for the youth of the Middle East. We connect students and graduates to employers for internships, part-time & graduate jobs. Launched in 2013, we set out to tackle a huge problem - a 30% youth unemployment rate in the MENA region. Oliv helps university students and graduates launch theircareers. And we're pretty good at it.Today, Oliv is home to thousands of students and graduates where their ambitions are aligned to opportunity. More than 1,000 businesses from startups to Fortune 500s use Oliv to hire top emerging talent to maintain a healthy talent pipeline and grow their business for the future.Our goal is to make launching careers simple, personal and rewarding. That's Oliv.
- The Applied AI Company (AAICO) — AAICO is a leading AI technology company with a team of renowned Silicon Valley-based engineers, applied AI experts, and seasoned entrepreneurs.
- Jingle Pay — Join now and get your ZERO fees, forever FREE account.
Rıza Kaya
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- E-Learning
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Voltran — Voltran is a subscription-based digital platform for high school students.
Mustafa Sandal - Advisor @ manibux
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- FinTech, Finance, Education
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
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