Getir has become one of the most valued grocery delivery apps right now that has achieved unicorn status. Headquartered in Istanbul, this ultra fast grocery delivery platform already tripled its valuation to $2.6B in less than 2 months. Co-led by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital, their valuation was increased...
The popular student-centric edtech and AI-based company GoLearn Education has landed down in the MENA region. The Strategic Board Advisor naming Nada Ali Reddha has announced this about GoLearn’s expansion to MENA. Her career includes being Founder & Chairperson of SEED Group in UAE, membership of Nama Women Advancement...
Vogacloset is an online retail platform specializing in fashion, based in the UK. What sets them apart from other platforms is that their main area of catering is for the Middle East. They have recently been acquired by Alhokair, a franchise retail company in Saudi Arabia. The venture is a...
UAE-based BaaS supplier of integrated financial platform NymCard reported that it has joined Visa's Fintech Fast Track program. The association will permit NymCard's organization of fintech accomplices to locally available onto Visa's worldwide organization through the last's Fintech Fast Track Program. This move will give NymCard's fintech accomplices, optimized...
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...
The popular full-service law firm ‘Al Tamimi & Company’ has launched their Venture Capital & Emerging Companies Law Review. It’s notable that they specialize in a number of practice areas and this launch is a major impact on the platform.
It also digs deeper into the venture capital world along...
Zeew, the Egypt-headquartered E-commerce platform has managed to raise about $170K from Sanabil 500 MENA Seed Accelerator and it was announced today. Sanabil 500 MENA Seed Accelerator is a joint initiative of Sanabil Investments and 500 startups. And that makes the startup with a total sum of $400K which...
Raqamyah, a Riyadh-based crowdlending platform has raised about $2.3M in just one investment deal. They announced that the investment round was managed and led by Impact46 later that day. There were other investors included such as Mad’s investment, Al Yusr and Fadeed Investment. Another round of participation was made...
16 of the top 100 companies in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) are led by extraordinary Women. Egypt had the majority closely followed by Saudi Arabia. Here are the 50 of the most Powerful Arab Women who are highly successful the business world in MENA primarily in the...
It was announced that the UAE-based Edtech and Fintech startup Cashee has managed to raise about $1M in a Pre-seed funding round. The startup offers a digital platform along with providing prepaid cards to teens and kids that have a lot of useful features. It includes access for parents...
