It was announced today by the popular South Korea government-backed funds of funds, KVIC aka Korean Venture Investment Company has recently started being committed to investing in VC Shorooq Partners’ Bedaya Fund which is an Abu Dhabi-based early-stage and that’s not all. It’s also notably the first fund from...
AlgoDriven, the UAE-based automotive data platform that has successfully managed to raise about $2M in its latest Series A funding round. The funding round was led by Global Ventures, the Dubai-based international VC, and recorded participation from Automotive Ventures, an Atlanta-based venture capital firm making their first international investment,...
Gazal was founded and established back in 2020 with a goal to help innovate, improve and redesign the entire future of transportation in GCC and the KSA region. Their aim is to use it for short-distance travel and innovate the use of sustainable and healthier alternatives for the transportation...
The popular freight marketplace from Lahore, BridgeLinx has managed to raise $10M. And it’s the country’s largest seed round to date and that’s not all. This regional largest seed round was led by Harry Stebbings’ 20 VC, Josh Buckley’s Buckley Ventures, and Indus Valley Capital. The seed round deal...
It was announced today that the popular Sydney-settled fintech platform Zip has procured Middle Eastern ‘buy now pay later’ platform Spotii for a venture worth $20M. The cash will be paid in Zip's shares, cash, or a bit of both. As a feature of the arrangement, Spotii investors will...
Aramco’s Wa’ed, Saudi’s entrepreneurship arm of oil and petroleum giant that they’ll be doubling their investment in and support of startups by the year 2023.
Wa’ed was launched back in 2011 and ever since they’ve been supporting over 90 startups via venture capital investments and loans. But they did vow...
A start-up based in UAE, XPLOR, which seeks to bring about massive change in the real estate and construction industries in MENA, has raised $3 million from Ayana Holding in a seed funding round.
The start-up was founded in 2015. It is a digital twin, 3D tech, and master planning tool which...
Saudi Arabia-based insurance as a help (IaaS) stage that Eltizam has raised SAR2.5M which is roughly $666K through the crowdfunding platform ‘scopeer’. Established by Hani Al Malki (CEO) and Khaled Al Ahmadi (CTO), Eltizam hopes to digitize the nearby insurance business industry AI innovation. It offers insurance-related items crossing...
Abu Dhabi announced that they’d be reducing business setup fees for the private sector. The decision was also made of license renewal fees to DHS 1K. This new fee policy will be effective from July 27, 21. And the entire reduction of the fee is over 90 percent less...
The global fintech and fund manager Liquidity Capital has announced its latest joint venture with Yas Investments from Dubai. While being focused on financing Tech startups from the MENA region, this latest partnership will culminate in a Venture Debt Fund of $100 Million in Abu Dhabi’s global markets.
Venture Debt...
