# Top 20 Sports Angel Investors in Israel in May 2026

## Uri Levine
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Travel

Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit

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

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

## Marc Rowan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Media and Entertainment

Mr. Rowan is the CEO and a co-founder of Apollo Global Management, LLC and Managing Partner of, inter alia, Apollo Management, L.P. Mr. Rowan currently serves on the boards of directors of Apollo Global Management, LLC, Athene Holding Ltd., Caesars Entertainment Corp. and Caesars Acquisition Co. He has previously served on the boards of directorsof the general partner of AP Alternative Assets, L.P., AMC Entertainment, Inc., Beats Music, Cablecom GmbH, Culligan Water Technologies, Inc., Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., Countrywide PLC, Furniture Brands International, Mobile Satellite Ventures, LLC, National Cinemedia, Inc., National Financial Partners, Inc., New World Communications, Inc., Norwegian Cruise Lines, Quality Distribution, Inc., Samsonite Corporation, SkyTerra Communications Inc., Unity Media SCA, Vail Resorts, Inc. and Wyndham International, Inc.Mr. Rowan is also active in charitable activities. He is a founding member and Chairman of the Youth Renewal Fund and a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Mr. Rowan also serves on the boards of directors of Jerusalem Online and the New York City Police Foundation. Mr. Rowan graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a BS and an MBA in Finance.

## Gigi Levy Weiss
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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

## Moshe Gaon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Advertising, Association, Social Media Marketing

Business entrepreneur and investor in startups. For the past 20 years developer of new initiatives and ideas. CEO, Chairman of companies, political strategist and advertising expert. Lead public opinion campaigns for people and issues from breast cancer, to national elections to the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Founding Partner atmybulb.vcOwner of the Gaon Holding Group; Executive Director in the group's companies, focusing on development and marketing products and services for the global Water Smart Grid. Member of the AquaAgro Fund Investment committee, a 50 Million dollar Israeli Venture Capital Fund, focused only on developing innovative water and agriculture technologies, as well as other innovative clean technologies.

## Danny Leshem
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, B2B, Small and Medium Businesses

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

## Brad Kotansky
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paradise Valley, Arizona, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, News

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.

## Dylan Collins
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: eSports, Advertising, Video Games

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.

## Oren Zeev
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, FinTech

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

## Avi Meir
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Mobile

Avi Meir is the Co-Founder & CEO of TravelPerk, a
ground-breaking business travel platform offering
companies of any size a one-stop-shop to book &
manage all their travel in one place. TravelPerk is one
and one of the fastest-growing tech startups in Europe
and raised $14m from some of the world's leading
investors including SparkCapital, famous for Twitter,
Trello and Slack• Prior to founding TravelPerk, Avi was Co-Founder of
Hotel Ninjas, which was acquired by Booking.com in
2014, and VP Product at Budgetplaces.com, which
was acquired by Palamon in 2011• Avi is started writing code when he was 12 years old,
holds an MBA from IESE, and is a frequent speaker
about travel technology in industry events• He lived in three countries and speaks English,
French, Spanish, Hebrew and Klingon

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

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

## Roger Flynn
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Travel, Leisure, Tourism

Roger is a Chairman and investor in travel, media and technology businesses that have the potential to disrupt their markets. He is also a recognised public speaker on transformational change, disruption, leadership, culture and innovation. Roger is Chairman at Luxtripper, D R Communications, Clearvac Group, Decisive Media and NED at CookeOptics. Roger was Chairman of Loveholidays from 2011 to 2018, during which the business grew from launch to £500m in revenues and was sold to private equity investor Livingbridge for £180m. Roger was Chairman of Olive Communications which was sold in February 2021
to OneCom backed by LDC and Masstech Innovations Inc., which was sold in March 2021 to Telestream.Previous roles have included Chief Executive at BBC Ventures Group, Commercial Director at Virgin Communications, Head of World Sales and Distribution at British Airways, Managing Director of Prudential Retail and President International at SDI Media Group, a Warburg Pincus backed management buyout.

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

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

## Marc Merrill
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Video Games

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.

## Nimrod Cohen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS

Nimrod Cohen is the Managing Partner of TAU Ventures. He previously worked at Hapoel Ramat-Gan as a Chairman. Nimrod Cohen attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

## Shimon Eckhouse
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Biotechnology, Fitness

Shimon Eckhouse

## Moshe Rafiah
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Travel, Leisure, Tourism

Moshe Rafiah is CEO & Founder at Travelfusion. He attended his education at Boston University.

## Aaron Stone
- Type: Angel
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Mobile, Sports

Aaron Stone is a Senior Partner of Apollo Global Management, LLC having joined the firm in 1997. He oversees the firm's investments in the media and entertainment sectors. Prior to 1997, Mr. Stone was employed by Smith Barney Inc. in its Investment Banking division. Mr. Stone currently is a member of the board of directors of Endemol ShineGroup, AMC Entertainment, Audish, CORE Media Group, Great Wolf Resorts, and Open Road Films; and has previously served on the boards of Connections Academy, Educate, Hughes Communications, Hughes Telematics, Intelsat, Mobile Satellite Ventures, Parallel Petroleum, SkyTerra Communications, and Telemundo Group. Mr. Stone is also involved in several non-profit organizations and is a member of the board of directors of The Jewish Community Project Downtown and The Civilians, and is a trustee of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Mr. Stone graduated with an AB in Social Studies from Harvard College.

## Dan Adika
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Travel

Dan Adika Before co-founding WalkMe, Dan was a software engineer at HP. Prior to that, Dan completed with honors a 6 year tenure in the Army’s elite computing unit.

## Noam Hachmon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Sports, E-Learning

Noam Hachmon

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