Top 50 eSports Startup Investors in Middle East (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Flashpoint
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $750k–$18M |
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RTP Global
VC Fund
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5 | United States, India, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $1M–$82M |
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Kushal Shah
Angel
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3 | Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series B | eSports, Video, Gaming | $100k–$165k |
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HIMAngel
VC Fund
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3 | Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing | $100k–$350k |
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BITKRAFT Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain | $1.8M–$50M |
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WPP
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, China | Corporate Round, Series B | Advertising, Software, Marketing | $5M–$28M |
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Sertaç Özinal
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Internet, FinTech, Payments | $25k–$2.5M |
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ACT Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Convertible Note, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing | $321k–$2.7M |
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Shaked Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Gaming, eSports, Internet | |
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Aurelia Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $500k–$1.9M |
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AUC Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Software, Finance | $40k–$2M |
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Ercan Ergül
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Series A | Soccer, Sports, eSports | |
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Goal Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Israel | Series A, Series B | Gaming, eSports, Software | $9M–$23M |
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Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Retail, Soccer, Sports | $250k–$1.1M |
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Remagine Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming | $2M–$6M |
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Eureeca
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | SaaS, eSports, Internet | |
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Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Rıfat Elhadef
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Kaan Kalıpçı
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Kaan Kural
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Charlton LTD
VC Fund
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1 | Israel | Pre-Seed | Gaming, eSports, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Emre Gerçek
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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Can Hicbezmez
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Blockchain | $14k–$700k |
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Marc Merrill
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Norway | Seed, Series A | Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Video Games | |
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StartupFon
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, SaaS | $30k–$2.6M |
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DLA Piper
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Cyprus | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $1.1M–$6.4M |
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Sony Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $7.9M–$302M |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, E-Commerce, Software | $250k–$3.7M |
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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $850k–$45M |
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Hande Enes
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media | $35k–$4.1M |
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Khalid AlTawil
Angel
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1 | Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates | Seed | Gaming, eSports, Rental | $165k–$600k |
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twozero Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software | $112k–$2M |
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Selin Kiper
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Series A | Soccer, Sports, eSports | |
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Gaingels
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $1.2M–$70M |
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Oqal
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Marketplace | $80k–$1.8M |
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Brad Kotansky
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, South Korea | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, News | $900k–$1.5M |
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Erdem Gezer
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Digital Disrupt
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Russian Federation, Israel | Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, Information Technology | $50k–$2M |
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NaHCO3
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Biotechnology, Education | $1.7M–$13M |
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Axel Springer
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Software, Real Estate, Internet | $6.5M–$21M |
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Gal Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | AgTech, Recruiting, Information Technology | $4M–$6M |
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Marker
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, India | Series B, Series C, Series A | Software, Video, Enterprise Software | $4.5M–$22M |
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Kaedan Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, SaaS | $750k–$30M |
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Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Series A | Soccer, Sports, eSports | |
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The Chicago Cubs
VC Fund
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1 | Israel | Series A, Series B | eSports, Advertising, Video Games | |
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Andrey Belozerov
Angel
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1 | Russian Federation | Seed | Apps, EdTech, FinTech | |
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HBSE Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | Media and Entertainment, Sports, Broadcasting | $3M–$9M |
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La French Tech
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Software, iOS | $471k–$911k |
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Dylan Collins
Angel
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1 | Israel | Series A | eSports, Advertising, Video Games | |
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Flashpoint is an international technology investment firm that manages venture capital, secondary buy-out and venture debt funds.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.3M; Series A $2.1M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Algori — Improving FMCG growth with the fastest and most granular insights from 45,000 shoppers in Spain
- Hotelmize — Our Big Data Solutions for the booking Industry identifies and takes advantage of booking price volatility, automatically increasing your profitability.
- Welcome Pickups — Book a trusted local driver to pick you up and introduce you to your next destination, pre-order travel essentials.
A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 165
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.6M; Series A $5M–$36M; Series B $8M–$82M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Wiom — Provides affordable and unlimited Internet to Middle and lower middle income households
- Alvys — Alvys is a cloud-based transportation management system with high-tech automation. Specializing in workflow efficiency for small to mid-size carriers. Alvys stands out by saving carriers and freight brokers more time per load than any other TMS! Save up to 30 minutes per load, organize your operations in one place, scale with ease and integrateall your favorite tools. The proof is in the workflows and here's a sneak peek of our popular features:• Driver App • Tracking & Tracing • Source for Truck Capacity • End-to-End Visibility • One Click Accounting • Analytics & Reporting • Safety & Maintenance • Integrations • Benefits for BrokersTRY US FOR FREE! www.alvys.com
- Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
Kushal Shah is a Senior Partner at Roland Berger's Dubai office and a Managing Partner for the Middle East. Prior to joining Roland Berger, he spent 12 years with a leading consultancy in London and Dubai. He studied Economics at Cambridge in the UK and he is a certified Chartered Accountant.
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- Industry: eSports, Video, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $100k–$165k
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
- YaLLa esports — YaLLa Esports was born out of a passion for gaming shared by friends, which ignited a mission to build a community of gamers with an organized structure in the MENA region, championing the gaming culture and building the perfect environment for professional gamers to flourish. We aim to position ourselves as a supportive hub for gamers of alllevels with a future vision of constructing and managing the very best teams in the region, competing on a global scale and showcasing the Middle Eastern & African talent in the international gaming stratosphere.
HIMAngel is a venture capital and private equity firm that supports early-stage startups to grow. It fills the funds' gap as there is an increasing focus on growth-stage VC funds, but little attention and even less money made available for early-stage investments. HIMAngel was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $100k–$350k
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rology — AI-assisted On-demand Teleradiology Platform
- GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
- FreshSource — FreshSource is revolutionizing the agriculture value chain through a tech-based B2B platform that is disrupting the distribution model of horticulture produce.
We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming, esports, and interactive media.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 151
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8.5M; Series A $4.2M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Luda — Lifting people through play
- Spectarium — Spectarium is a remote-first, ambitious new company creating best-in-class cross-platform action RPGs. Spectarium designs at the cutting edge of gaming, always looking for new methods to improve players' gaming experiences.
- Series.AI — Series.AI is a creative company that specializes in the development of games using artificial intelligence.
WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities.
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- Industry: Advertising, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Corporate Round, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Series B $5M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PulPac — PulPac provides the packaging industry with a groundbreaking manufacturing technology for low-cost, high-performance fiber-based packaging and single-use products. By pioneering the technology of cellulose molding we enable our customers to replace single-use plastics with a sustainable and cost competitive alternative globally.
- Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
- Majority — Not a multicultural agency. An agency for the culture. We are built upon a diversity-led talent model. Not just for a more equitable world, but because we know diversity is the ultimate competitive advantage for disruptive creativity that moves culture. And when you move culture, you move product. Not a company with a mission. A mission with acompany: To accelerate the normalization of diverse faces powering the best creative companies in the world. Because when it’s normalized, you can see it. And when you can see it, you can be it. That is a generational legacy that is bigger than advertising. Not another coastal agency. An Atlanta agency. We are founded in the ATL, where the minority is the majority. Where local culture profoundly influences global pop culture. Where the Hollywood of the South collides with the Silicon Valley of the South. Atlanta culture drives black culture, which drives pop culture, which is America’s greatest renewable resource and global export. Not mediums deciding the best ideas. Ideas deciding the best medium. We ignite diverse lived experiences into cultural disruption that can take many forms, including: advertising, strategic planning, digital, branded entertainment, design, product innovation, experiences, art and activism. Our only agenda is that the best idea wins. (Yea this is a lot of site copy, thanks for persevering.)
Sertaç Özinal
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- Industry: Internet, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $25k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artiox — Artiox is an investment company in METU Technopolis Area.
- Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
- Fon Radar — Fon Radar is an online marketplace platform that brings businesses together with financial institutions.
Early stage deep tech investor
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $321k–$2.7M; Convertible Note $964k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Hazy — Hazy is a UCL AI spin out backed by Microsoft and Nationwide. Our core product is synthetic data - data generated artificially using machine learning techniques, that retains the statistical properties of the real data and can be safely used for analytics and innovation without compromising customers privacy and confidential information. We do itby capturing patterns in the raw data to generate completely synthetic 'hazy' data that maintains the statistical value of the original. This means businesses can unlock their data for innovation freely with safer and faster data provisioning on demand and no compliance, security or privacy risks and procurement delays.
- 3E Nano — 3E Nano has developed and is commercializing a low cost, thermally and optically smart, Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating. This nano thin film applied to glass and other transparent media is targeted toward windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar module manufacturers.
- Productive Machines — We create digital twins of the milling process to identify vibrations and then automatically personalize the tool path parameters to eliminate chatter. Our customers get to the best part, faster, the first time.
Shaked Ventures is a private investment fund by the founders of 888 Holdings Investing at seed stage B2B Enterprise Saas startups.
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- User1st — User1st Ltd. provides a cloud-based service designed that enables accessibility professionals, webmasters, content managers, user experience managers, and developers to make any website accessible without changing the existing codebase. This revolutionary product detects, fixes, and monitors any website simply by adding a single line of code– thenthe User1st Code-Fix Editor does the rest.User1st has designed a platform that enables businesses to achieve accessibility compliance in ways never before imagined at a fraction of the traditional time and costs. Not only providing protection from lawsuits but also reaching new customers never before able to engage online.User1st gives your team powerful tools to guide them through enabling all of the various aspects of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 standards including: assistive keyboard navigation, dynamic color contrast, and screen reader compliance. User1st Accessibility Suite is continuously tested across all major browsers and across all major screen readers enabling the largest possible impact to reaching disabled users.User1st is being used everyday by tens of thousands of individuals. With the data collected, User1st continually updates its platform to better assist individuals with versatile disabilities such as: visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, and motor disabilities. Additionally, many in the elderly population that do not self-identify as disabled benefit from the these capabilities improving their Internet experience.
- Reactful — Reactful A.I. and machine learning technology engages and converts your visitors on the web while you have their attention. Boost engagement and conversions by interpreting site visitors’ “digital body language”, and react accordingly in real time. Reactions can be as subtle as gently animating elements on a page, or more directly engagingvisitors with intelligent and timely messages in the form of a reaction or notification. Best of all, Reactful allows marketers to be agile and regain control of their website by launching and updating Reactful campaigns at any time - without ever requiring any coding or technical deployments.
- Inthegame — Discover INTHEGAME platform and learn how our interactive overlay technology increases viewer engagement and monetization on your channels. Our no-code technology works on all CTVs and mobile devices.
Equity-free programs for B2B SaaS founders - 1:1 Coaching with each founder team - Community of 200+ B2B founders - $1.25M+ Perks & Benefits.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GHOSTDRIVE — The Ghostdrive leverages the decentralized nature of P2P networks (IPFS, and Filecoin) to provide unlimited data uploads. Unlike traditional centralized systems, where storage capacity is finite, P2P networks can dynamically expand their storage capabilities as more users join the network.
- Flanksource — Mission Control for Enterprise Software Teams
- SEO Site Checkup — SEO Site Checkup offers webmasters, small business owners, and SEO agencies with SEO tools, software, and articles. It offers users with analysis and monitoring tools to analyze SEO issues of websites, to generate white-label SEO reports, to receive notifications on SEO score changes, and to understand their competitors’ SEO profiles.SEO SiteCheckup is operated from New York, United States.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Egypt, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $40k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- dKilo — dKilo is a technology company in the AdTech space. It offers smart out of home advertising solutions using the internet of things and AI.
- Roboost — Tayar is an enterprise solution using Artificial intelligence and complex Algorithms to facilitate, optimize, and manage the delivery process to any BTC (mainly home delivery) business to increase the delivery speed and performance.
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Ercan Ergül is a Managing Director with SEAF, the manager of Southeast Europe Equity Fund II, L.P. (“SEEF”), a US$320 million private equity fund with investments in Turkey, Albania and Kosovo. Ercan is also a board member of Global Investment Holding, a listed investment group based in İstanbul with operations in ports, energy and financialservices. Prior to joining SEAF, he spent his career as a private equity and investment banking professional and began his career in the corporate credit group of Citibank in Turkey. Ercan received his undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and a Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Finance from the University of Florida.
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- Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
Goal Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Series A $9M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
- Bebopbee — BebopBee crafts exceptional, emotive and enduring casual gaming experiences
- Loupe — LOUPE is the #1 art streaming platform and service on connected TV and web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of home, ad supported on living room TVs or with a commercial license for public display, and allows users to purchase the artwork, select prints & originals. Loupe launched exclusively onApple TV where it is ranked #1 Lifestyle app around the world, now with 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2M monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theater/home entertainment, interior design, art market, music streaming, and hospitality.
Barbaros Serdar Özbugutu worked for FIRSTDATA, and later moved to KLARNA. In 2013, he officially launched Iyzico with his Co-Founder Tahsin Isin. Iyzico is transforming the payment processing experience for businesses through its bank-integrated, fraud-protected payment platform tailored to the nuances of the Turkish market.(https://www.iyzico.com/en)
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- Industry: Retail, Soccer, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fuudy — Fuudy is a new Food ordering app
- Clotie — Clotie offers a brand new shopping experience to its users by offering an online personal styling service. It creates a unique customer experience by combining technology with the personal touches of experienced stylists and sends monthly outfits suitable for its users’ style. Clotie primarily focuses on eliminating online and offline shoppingproblems by providing a personalized, plus accessible styling service for those who do not have time for shopping but still want to be stylish.
- Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
Remagine Ventures is an early stage venture capital investing at the intersection of tech, entertainment, data and commerce.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $2M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- echo3D — echo3D is a cloud-based 3D-first content management system (CMS) and delivery network (CDN) that provides server-side solutions to help scale augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications.
- Munch — Munch allows you to create once. Repurpose to Dozens of pieces on every platform. Analyze engagement. Control Monetization. All On One Platform.
- Piggy — create awesome interactive content on your smartphone - no design skills or coding are needed
Eureeca is the first and most regulated global online crowdinvesting (or Equity Crowdfunding) platform where businesses can source funding from the crowd in exchange for equity in their business. Harnessing the power of the internet and social media, Eureeca’s platform connects Angel and Institutional investors to small & medium enterprises(SMEs) online to pool their funds and resources - creating a game-changing alternative to traditional funding. We operate across 3 continents and over 100 countries. We have pioneered cross border investing; building a digital solution to enable investors to build a portfolio of early growth stage investments from around the globe.From our offices in Dubai, London, Kuala Lumpur, and Amsterdam, Eureeca offers high-yield potential investment opportunities from the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia to its investor network who range from casual and angel investors to institutional firms. Businesses raising funds can leverage this network for capital, strategic connections, and expansion into new markets.Eureeca was recently highly ranked in the MENA Forbes “Top 100 Startups 2017” and won “Innovator of the Year” by Forbes in 2017. Other accolades include “Innovator of the Year” at the 2014 Gulf Business Awards and “Most Innovative Online Platform” by Frost and Sullivan in 2015.
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- Industry: SaaS, eSports, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bhatia Labs — Bhatia Labs provides productized services, platforms and infrastructure at affordable costs to individuals, startups and businesses all over the world.
- Pole Position — Automotive events agency in Dubai with creative new activation ideas and a single source for turnkey automotive event management and delivery
Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Wudya —
Rıfat Elhadef
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Kaan Kalıpçı
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.
Kaan Kural
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Inthegame — Discover INTHEGAME platform and learn how our interactive overlay technology increases viewer engagement and monetization on your channels. Our no-code technology works on all CTVs and mobile devices.
Emre Gerçek
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
Can Hicbezmez
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $20K - $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $14k–$700k; Pre-Seed $25k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Postuby — Postuby is a practical social media management tool.
- Pink Games — Pink Games is a Local hyper-casual game studio.
- For Physician — For Physician offers 24/7 online specialist physician support.
Marc Merrill Co-founded of Riot Games, Inc. in 2006 and serves as its President. Marc Merrill served as Chief Marketing Officer of Riot Games, Inc. He was corporate marketing executive in the exciting world of Business-to-Business media at Advanstar Communications. He has marketing, leadership, and elite gaming skills including Schedule Mastery +9.He held roles in finance with Merrill Lynch and US Bancorp.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
- OpenBCI — OpenBCI is a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with computer access to their brain waves. Their vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development. Behind the many lines of code and circuit diagrams,OpenBCI has a growing community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, and a whole bunch of other people who are interested in furthering our understanding of the brain. We feel that the biggest challenges in understanding what makes us who we are cannot be solved by a company, an institution, or even an entire field of science. Rather, we believe these discoveries will be made through an open forum of shared knowledge and concerted effort by people from many different disciplines. Today, the leading brain-computer interface (BCI) companies distribute fixed devices with limited or closed access to the algorithms that translate raw EEG signals to meaningful data. These devices are powerful and effective for application development but not ideal for R&D requiring adjustable hardware setups and direct control over the signal processing techniques. OpenBCI is fully accessible and powered by an open-source community of hardware and software builders, making it easy for creators of any skill level and ideal for researchers who haven’t yet settled on the perfect system design. The OpenBCI platform is intended to serve as a malleable starting point in the rapidly growing field of brain-computer interfacing.
- Fast Break Labs — Fast Break Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that's building the future of sports gaming and entertainment.
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.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $30k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Neol — Neol is a decentralized and tokenized cohort-based learning and on-demand talent platform, powered by a curated global creative community.
- Hirize — Resume parser and matching AI-powered with GPT-3 Technology, supercharge your hiring with our wide range of recruitment solutions
- Artifica.io — Artifica.io creates products for the requirements of industries by utilizing artificial intelligence technologies.
DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific to help clients with their legal needs around the world.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Cyprus
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.4M; Series B $2.6M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aumni — Master the private capital markets with the most intelligent investment data available.
- Tangibly — Tangibly is a platform for businesses to manage their intellectual property by securing their trade secrets in legally enforceable form.
- Paradox — Meet the AI assistant for recruiting built to save you time & money. She can screen candidates, schedule interviews, answer questions, & more in seconds.
Sony Innovation Fund is investing in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Series A $7.9M–$151M; Series B $14M–$302M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
- FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
- Verity — Our automated inventory tracking system powered by self-flying inventory drones makes the zero-error warehouse a reality.
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.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $250k–$3.7M; Angel $250k–$3M; Pre-Seed $320k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Normod — Normod is a digital brand that provides modular and customizable furniture services.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Rafinera Cloud Kitchen — The Rafinera Cloud Kitchen operates various brand, last-mile satellite restaurants where these are finished once ordered, delivered very quickly, and provided at a very high service level. Our consumers adore the great flavors of the comfort food brands that we own and operate.
Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 729
- Round size: Seed $850k–$7.5M; Series A $1.7M–$26M; Series B $11M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- SigNoz — SigNoz is an open-source observability tool to help you find issues in your deployed applications & solve them quickly. It provides logs, metrics, and traces under a single pane of glass. Built with ClickHouse as datastore, it is designed to handle enterprise scale.
- teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
- Canid — We believe vaccinating shouldn't be hard and it shouldn't be a distraction from what's most important: taking care of the kids.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $125k–$4.1M; Angel $50k–$280k; Pre-Seed $35k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WORDEGO — Wordego is a Programmatic Ad Exchange Platform for Advertisers and Publishers. Wordego provides advertisers to target consumers surfing on the publisher websites, and show them personalized digital ads and coupons. Wordego provides advertisers to acquire, convert, and re-engage customers on the internet, and enables publishers to manage andmonetize their websites’ advertising inventory.
- ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
- Local Greens — Local Greens is an indoor farming company operating in metropolitan cities to grow healthy, premium quality and delicious vegetables.While our combination of natural sunlight, LED grow lights and hydroponic growing methods ensure that we are using the resources as efficient as possible, our "grow local & sell local" approach allowsus to sell our greens without middleman and logistics costs, and deliver our greens as fresh as possible.
Khalid AlTawil is a Board Member at Saudi Chemcial Company.
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Rental
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $165k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
- GBarena — Discover esports tournaments and gaming event all around the world, Compete against other players and gain reward, Engage with your friends, Build your own gaming community.
- RentSher Middle East — RentSher was established in 2016 and is an online platform for renting event furniture and services, electronics, medical and travel essentials. It manages order bookings, payments, deliveries and value added services.
twozero Ventures provides venture investing to technology-driven and disruptive startups in sports, media, and entertainment.
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- Industry: Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $112k–$1M; Series A $133k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
- Cineshort — #1 Short Movie App. Cineshort is created to bring award-winning unique films to you for your short moments.
- Avane Cloud Kitchens — Avane Cloud Kitchens operates restaurants that are only available online. A Turkish FoodTech scale-up developing a unique portfolio of F&B brands delivered through multi-brand cloud kitchens. Avane Cloud Kitchens is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Selin Kiper
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- Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 464
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6M; Series A $4M–$50M; Series B $19M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.1M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
- Paxton AI — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
- Atropos Health — Atropos Health rapidly provides personalized real-world evidence for any clinical decision
A group of young entrepreneurs to connect young people with ideas.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $80k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $340k–$1.1M; Series A $133k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AlGooru — AlGooru is a tutoring network marketplace that connects students with qualified tutors on a mobile app. Our mobile app uberizes the tutoring market. Students can find reliable tutors, and tutors can manage their sessions/price their own rates.
- Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
- Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.
Brad Kotansky has always been a serial investor: while pursuing his undergraduate BComm degree at McGill University, Brad was a member of the finance club and interned at ScotiaMcLeod for a wealth advisor; upon graduation, his passion for investing led him to Wall Street where he spent over a decade working as an investment banker, and later as ananalyst and portfolio manager for various hedge funds; in 2012, he founded Prickly Pear Ventures, a real estate development firm in Phoenix, Arizona, to capture opportunities from fallout of the Real Estate crisis of 2009 (the portfolio of single-family homes he amassed was ultimately sold to ARPI, a publicly traded REIT in 2013). To this day, Brad continues to be very active in the angel and seed investing world having invested in companies such as Coupang, Synchtank, Playsight, New Hive and Jingle Punks. But one thing Brad had always wanted to do was start and operate a business of his own. Ari’s business plan was tweaked, and together the pair embarked on a search for a technical founder.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, News
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $900k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coupang — Coupang offers an e-commerce platform that is powered by innovative technology and operations. It offers its customers possible prices and product selection within a convenient and personalized shopping environment.Powered by technology and operations, Coupang has set out to transform the end-to-end customer experience from revolutionizinglast-mile delivery to rethinking how Customers search and discover on a truly mobile-first platform. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi.
- NewHive — New Hive is the blank canvas of the web. It's mission is to encourage creative expression online.
- PlaySight Interactive — Connecting the next generation of athletes with a cutting-edge video and analysis tools for any sport at any level. Discover the PlaySight SmartCourt and platform
Erdem Gezer
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Git Kargo —
Using our experience, networking and expertise, we help projects grow so that they change life around the world to the best.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Private Equity, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Russian Federation, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2M; Pre-Seed $274k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uplify — Uplify makes it easy for any streamers to monetize their content as their audience grows and create new authentic content your followers will love.
- OverPRO — Next generation eSports platform for players of any level
- Monetizr — Monetizr is a unique in-game advertising platform that enables brand marketers to engage with GenZ and Millennial audiences. Monetizr offers sequential multi-touch brand placements, scalability across hundreds of mobile games, high engagement, and data collection in exchange for valuable rewards.
Helping people rise to their potential.
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- Industry: Gaming, Biotechnology, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OpenBCI — OpenBCI is a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with computer access to their brain waves. Their vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development. Behind the many lines of code and circuit diagrams,OpenBCI has a growing community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, and a whole bunch of other people who are interested in furthering our understanding of the brain. We feel that the biggest challenges in understanding what makes us who we are cannot be solved by a company, an institution, or even an entire field of science. Rather, we believe these discoveries will be made through an open forum of shared knowledge and concerted effort by people from many different disciplines. Today, the leading brain-computer interface (BCI) companies distribute fixed devices with limited or closed access to the algorithms that translate raw EEG signals to meaningful data. These devices are powerful and effective for application development but not ideal for R&D requiring adjustable hardware setups and direct control over the signal processing techniques. OpenBCI is fully accessible and powered by an open-source community of hardware and software builders, making it easy for creators of any skill level and ideal for researchers who haven’t yet settled on the perfect system design. The OpenBCI platform is intended to serve as a malleable starting point in the rapidly growing field of brain-computer interfacing.
- Inworld AI — AI for Metaverse
- Arcturus — Make video come alive.
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Browse database — It's Free!Axel Springer is a media company engaged in publishing newspapers, magazines, and digital sales channels.Axel Springer founded the publishing house in Hamburg in 1946; the editors spent the first year working above a warehouse for tea and spices, often without electricity, and using borrowed typewriters. As a result of consistentinternationalization and digitization, Axel Springer SE today is not only market leader in the German print business, but is also active in more than 40 countries through subsidiaries, joint ventures and licenses. Now it is a question of pressing ahead with digitization even faster and more vigorously. For Axel Springer SE, informative and entertaining journalism is a viable business model also in future on the Internet, along with marketing and classifieds, the other two business segments in which the company is traditionally strong.In the tradition of its founder, who fostered journalistic and technological innovations in his time, Axel Springer SE is breaking new ground. The company is consistently pursuing the objective of building up a fast-growing and profitable digital portfolio and for this reason is networking today more than ever before with the current generation of founders: digital start-ups. Along with the transformation of their established strong media brands, their own new developments online and strategically-oriented acquisitions of web companies, this network is one of the building blocks of the company's international digitization strategy: Axel Springer SE wants to become the leading digital publisher.
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- Industry: Software, Real Estate, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Series A $6.5M–$20M; Series B $14M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cappi — Cappi's mission is to empower the independent people of tomorrow.The Cappi team envisions a future which everyone can make a living by experiencing their authentic self.Today's generation share the unique passions to discover and experience the world. These generation has a craving to do what they love when they want in a happyenvironment and feel the power of living.By leveraging technologies human are able to delegate their financial task to an Artificial Intelligence creating financial freedom. This lifestyle is the foundation for the next generation of ambitious human in the changing world.Cappi is here to pave the way to rise the personnel wealth creation which we believe will cause the largest shift of empowerment in well-being. It will uplift individuality over institutions, enable people to work on their on terms, and lead to a more equitable future.
- Justhome — Discover how much home you can afford with our mortgage calculator. Explore the best mortgage rates in Germany. We're your go-to mortgage broker
- Bluedot — TaskFlow is a premium SaaS Webflow template to help you convert visitors into customers. Attract visitors, share your story and grow your revenue with this professional but friendly template. Customize the template easily and launch your new SaaS website within days, with TaskFlow.
Identify innovation, harness the energy of the founders and provide the commitment and support required for an epic ride
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- Industry: AgTech, Recruiting, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $4M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NOVOS — Hundreds of Fortnite training activities and routines in a personalized schedule that fits your needs and goals. Built for competitive Fortnite players that want to place higher and make earnings.
- FieldIn — Fieldin delivers risk mitigation for high value crops, helping farmers stay competitive against shrinking prices and profits.
- Talenya — Using AI to find both active and passive job seekers, Paycor Smart Sourcing taps into the largest database of candidates and recruits the best for every role.
Marker LLC: Venture Capital. Intelligent investing. Enlightened model. New York, NY and Herzliya, Israel.
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- Industry: Software, Video, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Series A $4.7M–$18M; Series B $4.5M–$22M; Series C $6M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $208M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Overwolf — Overwolf is an all-in-one platform for creating, sharing and monetizing in-game apps and mods
- Wristcam — Wristcam camera for Apple Watch. With the help of a camera on apple watch, you can capture 4K Photos, HD Videos and send Live Video Messages to your friends on any device.
- Illusive — Illusive is now Proofpoint Identity Threat Defense. We have joined forces to protect your organization from identity vulnerabilities and threats.
Kaedan Capital is a private investment group active for over 15 years. We are entrepreneur centric investors with co-founder mentality, focused on Israeli related, seed to early stage ventures in diverse technology areas.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $750k–$6M; Series A $1.6M–$30M; Series B $4.5M–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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!
- NOVOS — Hundreds of Fortnite training activities and routines in a personalized schedule that fits your needs and goals. Built for competitive Fortnite players that want to place higher and make earnings.
- Voyantis — Voyantis game-changing technology helps marketing and growth teams optimize their CAC payback by leveraging AI to acquire the most valuable users, across any platform
Born in Istanbul in 1982, Orkun Saitoğlu graduated from Galatasaray High School and then studied Computer Engineering at Montpellier University and completed his master's degree at Paris Pierre-Marie Curie University in Paris. In the second year of his graduate study, he became part of the team of B2B, B2C sites in the TUI group and startedhis career as a Software Engineer. During the first years of his career, he supported the design and integration of PayPal solution in France and the Benelux and later on became a part of business development and sales team during Scandinavian, Turkish, Middle Eastern and Russian market expansion. Orkun, later on became a part of a global team managing PayPal’s relationship with startups against Stripe and Braintree competition. In 2014, after living abroad for 14 years he decided to move back to Turkey to establish his own startup company. It is during this period that Orkun met with iyzico’s co-founders Barbaros Özbuğutu and Tahsin Isın to become the COO of iyzico knowing that the company would emerge as the payment champion of the region. Orkun is currently in charge of all of iyzico’s sales, marketing and operations teams.
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- Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
The official website of the Chicago Cubs with the most up-to-date information on scores, schedule, stats, tickets, and team news.
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- Industry: eSports, Advertising, Video Games
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
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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- Industry: Apps, EdTech, FinTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
HBSE Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on sports-tech.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Sports, Broadcasting
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $3M–$5M; Series A $6M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
- Arcturus — Make video come alive.
- Proteus Motion — The Proteus system by Proteus Motion Inc. (formerly Boston Biomotion) is a new category of intelligent exercise and rehab equipment designed to strengthen, optimize, and restore movements using patented 3D resistance and 3D measurement. One system is used to train and measure any movement during post-op through peak performance, and enhancemovement efficiency through a unique neuromuscular stimulation that can only be achieved by moving in water or mud. Compared to traditional tools like free weights and cable machines, 3D resistance produces up to 3x more muscle stimulation, lower strain on the joints, and greater neuromuscular stimulation to accelerate "muscle memory" and more efficient movement patterns. Subscription software profiles strength for users using a new and comprehensive way to measure muscle performance, offers personalized insights and recommendations, and tracks progress across a suite of 6 proprietary metrics.The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.
La French Tech is a global initiative that supports and promotes French communities of startups and entrepreneurs around the world. It assists all the professionals working towards startups’ growth and international promotion, including entrepreneurs, investors, engineers, designer, developers, corporate companies, R&D centers, governmentagencies, incubators, co-working spaces, and more.La French Tech was founded in 2013 and is based in Paris, Ile-de-France.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, iOS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Pre-Seed $471k–$911k
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SYLPHAERO — SYLPHAERO is working on a world-first: fully electric plasma-based jet engines, in order to tackle climate change. The reason behind the creation of these new engines is simple: today's electric aircraft can only use propeller-based electromagnetic motors, so they fly at low speeds. The world record is only 623 km/h for an electricaircraft, and the speed limit is about 1000 km/h. Our electric, plasma-based jet engines work differently. Instead of relying on electromagnetism like today's electric motors, they rely on thermodynamics like today's fuel-based jet engines. Usually, fuel is burned into the combustion chamber to heat the air at approximately 1700 °C, which generates CO2. The expansion of air due to the heat accelerates it toward the exhaust, where it generates thrust by leaving the engine at high speed. In our case, we use the same principle of heating the air to accelerate it. However, we heat it using electricity only, and we heat it so much that we generate a plasma, far above 2000 °C, without emitting CO2.
- Smart Immune — Smart Immune is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing the next generation of hematopoietic stem cell-based biotherapies to change the prognosis and life quality of patients with devastating diseases. The company's first cell therapy program is based on T cell progenitors or ProTcellsTM (CD7+/CD34-; CD5- cells)curative power to enable a short, polyclonal, and safe post-transplantation immune recovery. This program be completed by integrative developments from targeted conditioning to gene therapy and genome editing enabling clinicians to access new-generation treatments for a wide variety of inherited blood disorders and blood cancers.
- ØZERS NUTRITION — ØZERS is a French foodtech that designs highly functional sports nutrition using only healthy and vegan ingredients. The company is lead by a professional boxer and engineer, working together with biotech engineers and doctors.Our products are made out of plant-based ingredients like plant proteins, microalgaes, vitamins and minerals.
Dylan Collins is one of Europe’s most experienced digital media entrepreneurs, focusing on games, kids entertainment and the technology which underpins them.He is CEO of SuperAwesome, the #1 kid-safe brand engagement platform. SuperAwesome works with the biggest kids entertainment brands in the world including Disney, Hasbro, Warner Bros andActivision ensuring they connect safely with over a quarter of a billion kids each month.An active investor and advisor across both kids media and technology companies, he is Venture Partner with Hoxton Ventures and sits on the board of the UK’s top-rated marketing technology agency, Potato and Brown Bag Films, Europe’s leading kids animation studio. Previously Collins founded Jolt Online Gaming which became one of the pioneering social games publishers in Europe. Jolt was acquired by GameStop (NYSE: GME), the largest video games retailer in the world in 2009 to spearhead their digital media strategy.As founder and CEO of DemonWare in 2003, he led the company to become the leading online games technology firm in the global console games market. In 2007, DemonWare was acquired by Activision Blizzard (NYSE: ATVI), the world’s biggest video games publisher and is now the multiplayer backbone of the billion-dollar Call of Duty franchise.
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- Industry: eSports, Advertising, Video Games
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
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