Arabic language Jordan based education platform Adam wa mishmish has raised $475,000 in a seed funding round. This ed-tech platform uses educational cartoons to teach young children Arabic for the ages of 0-5 through music, art and interactive learn to play methods. Launched in 2016 due to the lack...
A real estate platform, Mubawab, that has its base in Morocco, has received funding of $10M from its parent company, the (EMPG), Emerging Markets Property Group.
Mubawab, which was founded by Toni Puig and Kevin Gormand in 2011, gives users the ability to utilize its platform to purchase, rent, and...
NOW, the Dubai-based fintech has already raised about $7M in a fresh fund round which was announced today. The round was led by Anthemis Exponential Ventures and was joined by investors including Wamda Commercial Bank of Dubai, Accion Venture Lab. Hambro Perks’ Oryx Fund, Knuru Capital, DIFC FinTech Fund,...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming one of the dominant forms of technology in the world. So it shouldn’t come as a massive surprise that Hazen.ai, a company which specializes in creating intelligent traffic technology which utilizes AI to improve safety on the roads has gotten more investment in...
Telda, a Cairo-based advanced banking application has raised a $5M Pre-Seed subsidizing round, drove by Sequoia Capital with support from Global Founders Capital and Class 5 Global. This denotes the primary venture for Sequoia in North Africa and GCC and the main speculation by Global Founders Capital and Class...
Pakistan’s popular B2B eCommerce platform Dastgyr announced that they’ve managed to raise about $3.5M in a seed round. The round was led by SOSV and it brings the total sum as of now to $4M and that’s not all. The round was joined by Asian Development Bank’s VC arm...
The QSTP, Qatar Science & Technology Park which is a part of QFR and QF RDI has recently signed an MoU with Innovation Café. The Café provides a lot of innovation related to development and configuration thinking studio arrangement which intends to give the correct chances, direction, and backing...
e&, the telecommunications giant based in the United Arab Emirates, has entered into a $1 billion partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) aimed at enhancing cloud adoption and digital transformation across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
The six-year agreement will focus on delivering essential cloud services, including...
Sawari Ventures has closed their startups in their Egyptian-focused fund with about new commitments of $28M which roughly 440M in EGP. The commitments were from Kuwait Investment Authority’s Ekuity, Banque Misr, Suez Canal Bank, Misr Insurance Group, National Bank of Egypt, and Banque du Caire. In the previous round,...
Iraq, often dubbed one of the last major untapped economies in the Middle East, is poised for a digital revolution. Despite a large, young, and increasingly connected population, its startup ecosystem remains in its nascent stages, fragmented, and largely informal. Enter EQIQ, an innovative venture capital (VC) fund operating...
