Aldar Properties has launched its six-month entrepreneurship incubator program on its second round of the Manassah program. Their program is mainly aimed at attracting exceptional talents from all over the GCC and advance them under their wings. Aldar had held their partnership with startAD before and this global startup...
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...
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...
Egypt’s popular and leading VC firm, Algebra Ventures announced today on launching their second fund of around $90M. The fund was specifically dedicated to startups with the main goal to allocate their firm in the MEA region. They are currently aiming at first closing in 2021 on Q3.
Algebra has...
A recently launched venture capital platform, DisrupAD has set to launch $32.7M on a seed accelerator programme by teaming up with Flat6Labs. The platform is based on Abu Dhabi investment firm ADQ and the seed accelerator programme is set to invest and innovate the expansion of about 20 startups...
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...
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,...
Mind the Bridge, the International Chamber of Commerce and innovation advisory firm has teamed up to launch their CSS competition awards for the second year in a row and that’s not all. As a respective part of the MENA Digital Scaleup Summit, this team is to identify and expand...
The FSRA of Abu Dhabi Global market has already introduced their latest innovative regulatory system for different fintech firms available for supervising and authorizing them who provide various third-party services to clients from other financial platforms.
TPPs are firms that play an important role as a medium between fintech firms...
One of the most popular ways marketers gain customers is by letting them test their products first. And that is done by giving them a sample product for them to test first and admire. And it’s still one of the most used methods to understand what their target consumers...