Samih Toukan

Investment Partner , Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Investment Partner,Angel
Investor Stage
Seed,Venture

In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history of the region.

Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
3
Samih Toukan has made 3 investments. Their most recent investment was on Apr 19, 2020, when VUZ raised $7.09M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Apr 19, 2020 VUZ Series A $7.09M Augmented Reality Detail
Jul 3, 2019 Ola Series J $11.37M Apps Detail
May 24, 2016 BitOasis Seed Bitcoin Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
1
Samih Toukan has 1 current jobs including Board Member at VUZ , .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
VUZ Board Member Detail