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Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in Middle East in October 2023

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Sports startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in Middle East in October 2023

Investor Sports Middle East investments
Kushal Shah 3
Sertaç Özinal 2
Uri Levine 2
Yaron Samid 2
Nevzat Aydın 2
İrfan Ündevli 1
Gizem Nilay Tuna 1
Fethi Ahmet Özbulut 1
Emre Gerçek 1
Cem Büyükkaya 1
Can Hicbezmez 1
Avishai Abrahami 1
Nimrod Cohen 1
Shimon Eckhouse 1
Moshe Gaon 1
Danny Grander 1
Demirhan Sener 1
Roger Flynn 1
Avi Meir 1
Wes Schwalje 1
Cem Ortabaş 1
Noam Hachmon 1
Kaan Kayabalı 1
Hakan Bas 1
Ronald Cohen 1
Gigi Levy Weiss 1
Barbaros Özbugutu 1
Dylan Collins 1
Dan Adika 1
Marc Rowan 1
Mustafa Vardalı 1
Mustafa Sevinç 1
Khalid AlTawil 1
Selin Kiper 1
Orkun Saitoğlu 1
Demirhan Büyüközcü 1
Ali Rampurwala 1
Çağrı Emre Korkmaz 1
Barış Before 1
Brad Kotansky 1
Aaron Stone 1
Rıfat Elhadef 1
Hande Enes 1
Kaan Kural 1
Andrey Belozerov 1
Ercan Ergül 1
Sina Afra 1
Oren Zeev 1
Daniel Krauss 1
Jochen Engert 1

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Kushal Shah
Angel

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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Investment focus

  • eSports, Video, Gaming
  • Seed, Series B
  • Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates

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.
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Sertaç Özinal
Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Sertaç Özinal

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Investment focus

  • Internet, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey

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.
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Uri Levine
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Mobile, Travel
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Engie — Buy Twitch Followers and Buy Twitch Viewers from EngieApp to grow an organic following. Our Twitch followers, viewers are immensely real and authentic. Try Now!
  • SeeTree — SeeTree offers you complete transparency into the health and production of each of your trees by leveraging the most powerful innovations available.
  • WeSki — Experience winter's magic with WeSki. Explore, and compare endless ski holiday combinations and build your perfect ski package holiday in just few clicks.
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Yaron Samid
Angel · Ramat Hasharon, Tel Aviv, Israel

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Apps, Cyber Security
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Israel, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

  • bxblue — bxblue is a marketplace for personal loans in Brazil explicitly targeting pensioners and Government workers because they can they take loans secured by their guaranteed income. Because of that banks can deduct the payment directly from the paycheck, leading to an apr 10x lower than credit cards. Payroll secured loans are the most affordablepersonal loan in Brazil, and they represent 60% of the personal loans in the country. It is a 40bn dollar/year marke, completely offline. We are taking this entire market online.
  • Emedgene — Applying machine learning to genomics. Accelerate NGS data analysis and automate variant classification with evidence curated from the literature. From sample to report.
  • Lumen — Lumen is a device and app that measures your metabolism in a single breath and provides daily personalized nutrition based on your metabolic data. Through the device and app, you can achieve your fitness goals whether they be weight loss, performance optimization, or simply improving your metabolic health.As a company, we are a team ofscientists, researchers, engineers, and designers, aimed at improving the way people understand their metabolism. We believe that a healthy metabolism is a key to better health and that everyone can attain it with a little help from Lumen.At Lumen, we are all about teamwork, friendship, and family. Curious about joining? We are always looking for creative people who share our passion for health and fitness to join our team.
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Internet, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

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.
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İrfan Ündevli
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

İrfan Ündevli

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Gizem Nilay Tuna
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Gizem Nilay Tuna

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Fethi Ahmet Özbulut
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Fethi Ahmet Özbulut

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Emre Gerçek
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Emre Gerçek

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Cem Büyükkaya
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Cem Büyükkaya

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Can Hicbezmez
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Can Hicbezmez

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Avishai Abrahami
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Social Media
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Israel, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • Affogata — Affogata optimizes the digital customer journey by analyzing customer interactions and identifying customer needs in real-time.
  • Connecteam — Communicate, operate and train your non-desk employees with Connecteam's all-in-one employee app. Easy to use, customizable and affordable like no other!
  • The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.
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Nimrod Cohen
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

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).

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Swimm — Internal docs & code knowledge sharing made easy. Available in the IDE and your CI. Now powered by AI.
  • Cyabra — We break down social media so you can understand narratives, detect authenticity and reach true audiences.
  • XTEND — XTEND develops solutions that allow people to interact with drones and other unmanned machine technologies. The company’s technology enables humans to extend themselves into the action by allowing them to virtually sit inside the drone for various tactical missions. Designed for both indoor and outdoor uses, XTEND’s technology can also be used togamify real-life activities.
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Shimon Eckhouse
Angel

Shimon Eckhouse

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Investment focus

  • Medical, Biotechnology, Fitness
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Theranica — Theranica is a medical device company that has combined neuromodulation therapy with modern wireless technology to develop proprietary wearable solutions that address various medical conditions and disease states. The noninvasive and therapeutic 'smart' patches are controlled by a smartphone app to allow for personalized, portable, andaffordable care. The patch consists of a proprietary 'smart' chip that delivers electrical pulses to neuro-modulate the sensory nerves under the skin. The first application of the technology is for treatment of migraine headaches.
  • Epitomee Medical — Epitomee develops paradigm-shifting ingestibledevices that deploy targeted therapies along the GI tract
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Moshe Gaon
Angel

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.

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Investment focus

  • Advertising, Association, Social Media Marketing
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Apester — Supercharge your marketing and funnel with interactive content experiences that generate more leads, engage and convert users, and boost retention
  • Yoocan — Yooocan is an internet company developing the collaborative community-driven marketplace for people with disabilities. The company offers a global collaborative community and technology hub created for and by people with disabilities and their families to share experiences and knowledge. With Yoocan, a person with disabilities or the parent of achild with disabilities can share stories and tips easily explore and find activities, products, services, and innovations; and connect with others to make their lives easier and better.Yoocan is also an assistive technology hub, providing early-stage funding and support for start-ups in the disability-focused ecosystem, with more than 900 organizations, thousands of users from more than 100 countries, and hundreds of partners. They believe that shared experiences and knowledge from around the world can inspire people with disabilities and change their lives, so no one feels alone.Yoocan was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • IndieFlow — IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. The platform provides a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage creative projects, distribute to streaming platforms, collect roylaties, register music with royaltycollection societies, promote music, book gigs, receive payments and more.
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Danny Grander
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Developer Tools
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • MagicYard — Hangout on the TV, play with friends or strangers
  • Permit.io — Easily bake-in access control in minutes regardless of previous experience or expertise. Based on OPA and OPAL. Treat policy as code to make Auth-z easy.
  • deepdub — Deepdub provides an AI-based dubbing service for entertainment content, using AI algorithms and deep learning. Deepdub aims to bridge the language barrier and cultural gap of entertainment experiences to international audiences across TV, Film, Advertising, Gaming, and e-learning. Deepdub decreases the time it takes to complete a dubbing project,allowing content owners and studios to have results in weeks instead of months. Deepdub plugs into the post-production process of content owners and takes complete ownership of all of their localization needs.
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Demirhan Sener
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Demirhan Sener is the Limited Partner at StartupFon. Additionally, Demirhan Sener has had 1 past job as the CEO at Multinet UP.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Rental, Travel
  • Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Capoom — Capoom develops AI tools to automate the creation of photorealistic, lightweight, intelligent and accurate 3D models for all the residential areas of the world, to be used in games, simulations, interactive media, digital twinning and metaverse.
  • kazayaptim — Kazayaptim is an in-vehicle integrated security solution that, with its continuously developed technological infrastructure, can intervene within seconds not only in the event of an accident, but also in all vehicle-related emergency situations, to provide fast, reliable, and closest support point services to people who have had an accident withtheir vehicle. offers.
  • viravira.co — Choose among 12,000 yacht charter, boat rental & gulet holidays. Yachts, boats & gulets for charter with the lowest prices are at Europe's #1 platfom viravira.
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Roger Flynn
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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.

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Leisure, Tourism
  • Funding Round
  • Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • WeSki — Experience winter's magic with WeSki. Explore, and compare endless ski holiday combinations and build your perfect ski package holiday in just few clicks.
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Avi Meir
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Software, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Spain, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Amenitiz — Amenitiz is an all-in-one solutions including a website builder, an intuitive property management system, a native booking engine and a channel manager to centralise your bookings all in one place.
  • Freeverse.io — The home of Living Assets: NFT 2.0. Evolving - Scalable - Multicurrency - Sustainable - Certifiable.Freeverse’s mission is to bring true ownership of 'living' digital assets (such as NFTs) into the mainstream. Born from a simple idea of allowing gamers to trade their in-game assets among themselves, legally, for real money,Freeverse's ambition is to revolutionize the concept of 'digital ownership', where users truly own their digital assets, yet permitting companies and content creators the right to control how those assets are used within their applications.To accomplish our mission, we have created a platform that allows the creation of 'Living Assets' - NFTs that can be traded freely among users, but whose properties are regulated by their initial creators. We go beyond the concept of 'static'-NFTs (collectibles) and permit NFTs to evolve and change according to how they are actually used. We are funded by leading European tech VCs.
  • WeSki — Experience winter's magic with WeSki. Explore, and compare endless ski holiday combinations and build your perfect ski package holiday in just few clicks.
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Wes Schwalje
Angel

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
  • PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
  • Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.
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Cem Ortabaş
Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey

Cem Ortabaş is a Co-Founder at HubX. He attended Koç University during 2012-2017.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Mobile, Fitness
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Biosplice Therapeutics — Biosplice Therapeutics is in the medical research and development for tissue-level regeneration. With their platform's origins in small molecule-based Wnt pathway modulation, they develop therapeutics to address a range of degenerative diseases, regenerative medicine, and oncology.Samumed adopted a fresh operating philosophy from thebeginning — one based on a goal of building a broad technology platform aimed at modulating regenerative pathways to improve patient health.
  • PhotoCup — PhotoCup is an online photography championship.
  • İyi Yaşa — İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops.
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Noam Hachmon
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Noam Hachmon

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Sports, E-Learning
  • Pre-Seed
  • Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Skillset — Skillset is a game-based sports e-learning platform that offers young athletes and sports fans the opportunity to learn from leading professional athletes. Through its app, Skillset offers courses that break down techniques and tactics used by some of the world's top football players into easy-to-follow lessons. The app is designed to behighly engaging, with social and gamification elements that encourage continued viewing and sharing.
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Kaan Kayabalı
Angel

Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc.

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
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Hakan Bas
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Hakan Bas - Founder & CEO @ Ace Games

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Investment focus

  • Marketplace, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
  • Garajyeri — garajyeri offers an online platform that enables its users to find, compare, and obtain car rental services. The services are categorized as economy, family, premium, comfort, and campaigns.garajyeri enables its customers to connect with car owners to obtain information and discounts.garajyeri was founded by Arda Askin in January 2015. And itis based in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Lotus Flow — Lotus Yoga is an online yoga, meditation, fitness, and mindfulness platform that offers both audio and video content in various languages.
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Ronald Cohen
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Ronald Cohen is Chairman of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group and The Portland Trust. He is a co-founder director of Social Finance UK (2007-11), Social Finance USA, and Social Finance Israel, and of Big Society Capital. He was co-founder Chair of Bridges Ventures (2002-2012).He chaired the Social Impact Investment Taskforceestablished under the UK’s presidency of the G8 (2013-2015), the Social Investment Task Force (2000-2010) and the Commission on Unclaimed Assets (2005-2007). In 2012 he received the Rockefeller Innovation Award for innovation in social finance.He co-founded and was Executive Chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide LLP (1972-2005). He was a founder director and Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and a founder director of the European Venture Capital Association.He is a graduate of Oxford University, where he was President of the Oxford Union. He is an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School to which he was awarded a Henry Fellowship.He is a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School and Vice-Chairman of Ben Gurion University. He is a former director of the Harvard Management Company and the University of Oxford Investment Committee. He is a former member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers (2007-2013), former Trustee of the British Museum (2005-2012) and a former trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (2005-2011).In 2007, Sir Ronald published: “The Second Bounce of the Ball – Turning Risk into Opportunity”.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Israel, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

  • Selina — Selina is one of the world’s fastest growing hospitality brands, combining beautifully-designed accommodation with coworking spaces, wellness, recreational offerings and local experiences for today’s nomadic traveler to live, work and explore anywhere in the world.With a design-centric, technology-first and socially-minded approach to travel,Selina currently operates 24 urban, beach, jungle and mountain-side locations across eight countries and is developing a global infrastructure for nomads who want to make the world their classroom, office, and playground.
  • Circles - Online Group Support — Participate in online video meetings guided by an expert facilitator and gain tools for reflection that will help you feel less alone.
  • Masterschool — Masterschool partners with tech industry leaders to help you build your dream career. Learn online, get unlimited career support, and pay no tuition until you find a job.
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Gigi Levy Weiss
Angel

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Shamaym — Continuous Improvement Platform helps teams get better every day and drive better outcomes in product development, sales, support, and more.
  • Lumen — Lumen is a device and app that measures your metabolism in a single breath and provides daily personalized nutrition based on your metabolic data. Through the device and app, you can achieve your fitness goals whether they be weight loss, performance optimization, or simply improving your metabolic health.As a company, we are a team ofscientists, researchers, engineers, and designers, aimed at improving the way people understand their metabolism. We believe that a healthy metabolism is a key to better health and that everyone can attain it with a little help from Lumen.At Lumen, we are all about teamwork, friendship, and family. Curious about joining? We are always looking for creative people who share our passion for health and fitness to join our team.
  • Diagnostic Robotics — Diagnostic Robotic develops a signal-agnostic artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. It allows to build powerful predictive analytics models that will solve a world-wide challenge, strained health budgets, and workforces. Diagnostic Robotic was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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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Investment focus

  • Retail, Soccer, Sports
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey

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)
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Dylan Collins
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

  • eSports, Advertising, Video Games
  • Series A
  • Israel

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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Dan Adika
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

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.

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Investment focus

  • B2B, SaaS, Travel
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Demostack — Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.
  • WeSki — Experience winter's magic with WeSki. Explore, and compare endless ski holiday combinations and build your perfect ski package holiday in just few clicks.
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Marc Rowan
Angel

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.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Finance, Media and Entertainment
  • Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
  • United States, Israel, Norway

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.
  • Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.
  • SpringHill Entertainment — SpringHill is one of the video-production companies created by LeBron James and Maverick Carter. SpringHill develops and produces entertainment in partnership with the biggest brands and platforms in the world. Our films and original series can be found everywhere, from Netflix, HBO, Disney+ and Apple+ to CBS, NBC, ABC and ESPN.
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Mustafa Vardalı
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Fitness, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
  • Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
  • Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
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Mustafa Sevinç
Angel

Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Fitness, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
  • Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
  • Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
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Khalid AlTawil
Angel · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia

Khalid AlTawil is a Board Member at Saudi Chemcial Company.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Rental
  • Seed
  • Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates

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.
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Selin Kiper
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Selin Kiper

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Investment focus

  • Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Series A
  • Turkey

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.
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Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel

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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Investment focus

  • Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Series A
  • Turkey

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.
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Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel

Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
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Ali Rampurwala
Angel

15 years of experience in private equity, venture capital, investment banking, corporate strategy, angel investing, and business development having an MBA from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA and being a CAIA Charterholder.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Egypt, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
  • 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.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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Çağrı Emre Korkmaz
Angel

Çağrı Emre Korkmaz

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Wellness, Personal Health
  • Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • CRwizard
  • İyi Yaşa — İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops.
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Barış Before
Angel

Barış Before

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Brad Kotansky
Angel · Paradise Valley, Arizona, United States

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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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, News
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Israel, South Korea

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
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Aaron Stone
Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Mobile, Sports
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Track160 — Automated football analytics in an all-in-one platform. Highly accurate tracking and performance data, automated event tagging and video clips, and detailed sport science information - all in one intuitive product suite.
  • Gridline — Gridline is the only platform that enables you to invest with top tier fund managers across venture, buyout and real assets.
  • Wonder Sciences — Wonder sciences provides mental health and wellness ecosystem that pioneers innovative approaches to treatment and research.
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Rıfat Elhadef
Angel

Rıfat Elhadef

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Hande Enes
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Hande Enes

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • WORDEGO — Wordego is a Programmatic Ad Exchange Platform for Advertisers and Publishers. Wordego provides advertisers to target consumers surfing on the publisher websites, and show them personalized digital ads and coupons. Wordego provides advertisers to acquire, convert, and re-engage customers on the internet, and enables publishers to manage andmonetize their websites’ advertising inventory.
  • ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
  • Local Greens — Local Greens is an indoor farming company operating in metropolitan cities to grow healthy, premium quality and delicious vegetables.While our combination of natural sunlight, LED grow lights and hydroponic growing methods ensure that we are using the resources as efficient as possible, our "grow local & sell local" approach allowsus to sell our greens without middleman and logistics costs, and deliver our greens as fresh as possible.
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Kaan Kural
Angel

Kaan Kural

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Andrey Belozerov
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

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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Investment focus

  • Apps, EdTech, FinTech
  • Seed
  • Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • Digital Disrupt — Using our experience, networking and expertise, we help projects grow so that they change life around the world to the best.
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Ercan Ergül
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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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Investment focus

  • Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Series A
  • Turkey

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.
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Sina is a Serial Entrepreneur. His latest endeavor is Tiko which he founded and serves as CEO. Before that he was the Founder of Markafoni, the first Online Fashion site of Turkey. Markafoni became also the first Turkish internet company expanding beyond the borders of Turkey: Markafoni launched sites in Australia, Ukraine, Greece and Polandbetween 2009 and 2011. Sina served until 2014 as Chairman and CEO. The Naspers Group acquired in July 2011 a majority stake at Markafoni and signed for one of the biggest deals in the Turkish internet. Sina is also an active Business Angel and invests in early stage start-ups. He is the President of the Entrepreneur Foundation and Endeavor Turkey Board (2013-2017).Sina has been elected as the “Internet Entrepreneur of the Year” and “Business Angel of the Year” in Turkey. Markafoni won several awards: “Best Web Start-up 2011” and “Best Online Fashion Site in 2011, 2012 and 2013”. The Wired UK magazin elected in 2012 and 2013 Markafoni to the hottest 100 companies in Europe. Sina was also selected (2014 & 2015) to the Top 100 most influential tech people Europe. In 2016 he was selected as one of Top 100 most influential tech people in the World (Wired Magazine). Forbes Magazin elected him to the "Brightest Minds" alive in Turkey (2019).Prior to Markafoni, Sina spent more than 5 years with eBay and 12 years with KPMG. Sina received a "Diplom Kaufmann" from Münster University and joined later Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages. His passion goes with his family and esports where he is the President of "1907 Fenerbahçe esports” team - a professional esports team in the TCL. He shares his thoughts on eCommerce in his personal blog www.sinaafra.com and on twitter (sinaafra).

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
  • Mowico — Mowico, an online no-code eCommerce app maker, enables eCommerce businesses to create Android and IOS mobile apps with unlimited customization.
  • Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.
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Oren Zeev
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, FinTech
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Impala — Business Intelligence for the nonprofit world. Powerful insights for grantmakers and fundraisers who want to make more impactful decisions.
  • Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
  • Riverside.fm — Riverside.fm makes it easy for podcasters and media companies to record remote interviews in studio quality. End result? 4k video and WAV audio content.
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Daniel Krauss
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Daniel Krauss was born in 1983 in Neheim-Hüsten.He studied Economic Sciences at the FernUniversität Hagen. Daniel has generally worked in the IT area for Marquardt GmbH, IFS AB and Siemens AG. Before co-founding Flixbus in 2011, he was a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft for three years. Now Daniel is CIO of Flixbus, which was able toestablish Europe’s largest intercity bus network.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Rental, Payments
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
  • Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
  • simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
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Jochen Engert
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

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Investment focus

  • Software, Rental, Travel
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
  • LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.
  • WeSki — Experience winter's magic with WeSki. Explore, and compare endless ski holiday combinations and build your perfect ski package holiday in just few clicks.
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