Open Banking is an Internet-based service that allows small business owners to access their own money. The service is available to businesses of all sizes, but particularly to those in the technology and software industries. Open Banking is based on the Open Source Software concept, which is a form...
The popular Jeddah-based football talent recognizing platform, Grintafy has officially partnered with the English football club West Ham United to provide help and expand their operation. Because of the multi-year organization, the Saudi startup will assist West Ham United with finding football talents on a global scale and that’s...
A talent booking platform for managers and artists, Soul Artists, based in the UAE, has in a Bridge funding round received $350,000 from Wasel and Falak Investment Hub.
Soul Artists is a peer-to-peer platform created by event managers and artists to locate and book musicians and entertainers. It creates a...
Khazna, the popular fintech platform from Egypt has been selected to compete in the inaugural edition of the Last Mile MOney Accelerator program which is managed by IDEO. ANd it’s directly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Khazna has an inclusive financial technology with a goal to enhance...
It was announced that Quix, the popular Saudi Arabia-based on-demand delivery platform has raised SAR 3M which is roughly $800K pre-launch from more than 559 financial backers. The fund was raised through the crowdfunding platform Scooper. This carries the organization's absolute post-evaluation to SAR 10.1M which is roughly $2.7M...
Announced today, Pakistani Lahore-based edtech Edkasa has raised about $320K in a pre-seed funding round. The round was closed a couple of months ago and it was led by i2i Ventures, but the announcement was made today instead. The round was joined by Zayn Capital, Walled City Co along...
It was announced today that the popular Kuwaiti beauty eCommerce platform Boutiqaat has been freed from the money laundering case they’ve been fighting against. The entire case was dismissed after finding pretty much no evidence of any illegal activities regarding money laundering by the public prosecution. They’ve been under...
The Saudi-Arabian accounting and e-invoicing platform VoM has seen their latest funding round come to an end, and secured a tidy profit of $670,000 in the process. Angel investors have allowed the company to close their latest round of Pre-Seed funding, which means that the cloud-based company can focus...
The global payment company Stripe finally executed their expansion in the Middle East and was announced very recently. They’ve officially launched their platform in the UAE with their first office opening in the Dubai Internet City. The private beta of the company was already launched a couple of months...
The popular Karachi-based B2B Ecommerce marketplace Bazaar has launched their fully digital ledger app, ‘Easy Khata’ which will allow retailers to seamlessly manage their accounting and ledger. The app was already debuted its first launch over a month ago having more than 100k active merchants registered across 400 cities...