The Licorne Gulf-advised fintech company Spendwisor of their investment commitment from GEM Global Yield LLC SCS. The investment was roughly $50M from GGY which is a Luxembourg-based private alternative investment group worth $3.4B. With this facility, Spendwisor plans on tapping the full potential of the growing fintech market in...
The popular Cairo-based Health-tech startup and tele-consultations platform Estshara has managed to raise about $500K in a Seed Funding round. The round was led by Egypt Ventures. This fresh fund has put the startup on the list of promising Healthcare Startups in Emerging Venture Markets.
The platform was founded by...
Saudi Fintech Nayla Finance Secures $4M to Expand Digital Lending for Small Businesses
Nayla Finance, a Saudi Arabian fintech platform specializing in digital lending solutions, has raised $4 million in seed funding to expand its services for micro and small businesses across the Kingdom. The funding round was led by...
The UAE-based healthcare platform Smileneo has raised about $2 million in a seed round. The round is one of the biggest seed rounds that was raised in the MENA region by any teeth-straightening direct-to-consumer business. The round also included a lot of different anchor investments from several leading international...
Supy, the popular UAE-based B2B food marketplace has managed to raise about $1.5M in a Pre-Seed funding round. This latest Pre-Seed Funding round was co-led by UAE-based investor COTU Ventures and US-based Valia Ventures, marking their first investment in MENA.
Supy was founded by CEO Dani El-Zein, previously COO at...
The Abu Dhabi-based sovereign investor Mubadala has finally invested about $75M in 5-year pre-IPO convertible bonds of Telegram. Telegram is an open-source popular social media platform mainly known for its security-focused services over other popular social media.
The investment and partnership aimed at creating a new collaboration of opportunities between...
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...
Multiply-Group which is an Abu Dhabi-based International Holding Company’s subsidiary is set to launch a new joint venture with Firefly. Firefly is a US ride-share advertising startup and it’s popular for dynamic advertising. The new project on this joint venture will be based in Abu Dhabi along with bringing...
Investcorp Technology Partners aka ITP from Bahrain of their acquisition of all of the business and assets of MIR Limited which is the UK-based FinTech startup company. The startup works with innovative and award-winning payment platforms along with operating with e-wallet solutions as well.
Founded back in 2016, MIR Limited...
It was announced this Thursday that the popular Tunisiansp-French SaaS startup Expensya has brought $20MÂ up in new assets from Paris-based MAIF Avenir and Amman-based Silicon Badia. This particular Series B round takes Expensya's absolute raise to date to more than $25M. And it makes it the best-subsidized Tunisian...