# Top 20 Real Estate Angel Investors in United Arab Emirates in May 2026

## Paul Graham
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software

Paul Graham

## Timur Kudratov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, Broadcasting, Property Development

Timur Kudratov

## Viswanathan Shankar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Property Management

Shankar is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gateway Partners. Prior to Gateway, Shankar was CEO – Europe, Middle East, Africa and Americas and a member of the global board of Standard Chartered PLC. Previously he was CEO of BA Asia and Head of Investment Banking for Asia Pacific at Bank of America. Shankar is non-executive director ofDangote Cement PLC (Nigeria), Gateway Real Estate Africa (Mauritius), Vision Blue Resources (Guernsey), Fund for Export Development in Africa (Egypt), and Dangote Industries Limited (Nigeria). He holds a BSc in Physics from Loyola College in Chennai and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore.

## Tarun Khanna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, Medical

Tarun Khanna is the Director at Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute.

## Mishaal Alireza
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Retail, FinTech

Mishaal Alireza - Board Member @ DokkanAfkar

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet

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

## Justin Mateen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. In 2021, Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on thetop 100 list of US Seed Investors. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.

## Rory Mounsey-Heysham
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Property Management

Rory Mounsey-Heysham is the Venture Capital at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

## Mudassir Sheikha
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Mobile, Software, CleanTech

Mudassir Sheikha is the co-founder and CEO of Careem, MENA’s leading car booking service that is based out of Dubai and operates from Morocco to Pakistan.Prior to Careem, Mudassir was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he advised clients on strategy and business building. Before McKinsey, Mudassir spent a decade in the SiliconValley building technology startups, where he was most recently the co-founder of DeviceAnywhere, which was eventually acquired by Keynote Systems. He has an academic background in Computer Science and Economics from Stanford and USC.

## Paul Buchheit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.

## Peter Thiel
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Peter Thiel Is The Member, Board of Directors At Facebook. Founder at Breakout Labs.

## Brian Ma
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Property Management, Real Estate, FinTech

Brian Ma is the Founder and Managing Partner at Iterative Capital.
Co-Founder at Decide.com, recently acquired by Ebay. He is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor at various startups.

## Sudeep Tandon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Property Management

Sudeep Tandon

## Matt Mickiewicz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Human Resources, Internet, Software

Matt Mickiewicz is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of SitePoint. Mickiewicz also co-founded the web companies Flippa, 99designs, and Hired.Born in Kraków, Poland, living in Hameln -Germany, and currently residing in Vancouver, Canada, Mickiewicz created his first website at the age of 14 called Webmaster-Resources.com, whichlater became SitePoint. At 16, Mickiewicz traveled to Melbourne with his mother and met his soon-to-be business partner and co-founder, Mark Harbottle. At 16, Mickiewicz found himself closing $10,000 advertising deals between classes at high school. Mickiewicz barely finished high school and did not attend college.In 2008, Mickiewicz spun off 99designs from SitePoint, which went on to raise $35 million in capital from Accel Ventures, Michael Dearing / Harrison Metal, Dave Goldberg (SurveyMonkey), Anthony Casalena, and Stewart Butterfield (Flickr). In June 2009 Mickiewicz and Harbottle launched Flippa.com, the largest marketplace for buying and selling websites in the world. In the fall of 2012, Mickiewicz co-founded DeveloperAuction.com which raised $2.7 million was later renamed Hired. The company later raised a $15 million Series-A round in March 2014. By December 2014, Hired was reportedly valued at $200m and had raised an additional $15m in the capital in its Series B round.Mickiewicz was named a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur by Forbes and INC in 2011, a Smart Company 30 under 30 in 2012, and frequently speaks at conferences and seminars worldwide.

## Sandeep Tandon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet

Sandeep Tandon Co-founded Accelyst Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2010 and has been its Chief Business Officer since September 1, 2015. Sandeep Tandon serves as Managing Director at Tandon Technology Ventures (Tandon Group).He serves as Managing Director and Chairman of the Board at Infinx Services Private Limited. Sandeep Tandon serves as the Chairman andManaging Director at Infinx Healthcare. He oversees the strategy and operations of all group companies. He has been involved in the technology industry for over 20 years. During this time he has contributed significantly to the growth of Information Technology exports from India. He was co-founder and a former director of IQBackOffice - a leading Accounts Payable Processing company. He was also a co-founder and Director at Freecharge.com - among India’s fastest growing internet commerce ventures. He is active in the Angel Investor community and serves as a mentor to various technology start-ups. He served as Chairman of the Electronics Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) and is a member of Young President Organization (Mumbai Chapter). Sandeep Tandon completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

## Nilesh Ved
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Fuel, Delivery

Nilesh Ved is the Co-founder and Chairman at Apparel Group. He graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor’s degree in Science Business Administration.

## Onur Erbay
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Property Management

Onur Erbay is the Partner at Global Founders Capital (Investing in Turkey, MENA and CEE.

## Bashar Hamood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps

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

## Tarush Awasthi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Property Management

Tarush Awasthi

## Oliver Samwer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Content Delivery Network

Oliver Samwer was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1972. Oliver holds M.Sc. degree in Business Administration from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Upon graduation, Oliver and his two brothers founded Alando.de in 1999. After the sale of Alando.de to eBay Inc., he was Managing Director of eBay, responsible for Germany, Switzerland andAustria. In 2000, Oliver and his two brothers founded Jamba! AG, which was acquired by Verisign Inc. in 2004. In 2007, Oliver founded Rocket Internet. Since 2014, Oliver has served as Rocket’s Chief Executive Officer. Oliver is responsible for strategy development and implementation, business development and investor relations.

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