Ranking Report for 2021 MENA Venture Investor revealed that in 2020, there was a decline in accelerator activity, with ​10%​ of all active investors being accelerators in MENA across all countries for its lowest level in five-years. This indicates a 29% ​reduction from the previous year.
With 2020 bringing a...
Fintech NymCard which has its headquarters in Abu Dhabi, announced in a statement that it has launched an Open API platform for issuing and processing of payment cards.
The announcement is coming on the heels of NymCard’s $7.6 million Series A which the company had raised the previous month. The...
The first companies to have been granted a digital banking license in Saudi are STC Pay along with another local firm. The license was issued by Saudi’s finance minister which was approved by The Saudi Cabinet. And it was announced by the state news agency that day. Now it’s...
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...
Flat6Labs Bahrain has concluded its 6th Cycle, in which eight startups participated in a 4-month acceleration program and received a $32,000 investment fund each.
Flat6Labs Bahrain is the latest Tamkeen-backed startup accelerator whose mission is to promote and launch both local and international startups in Bahrain.
Through its massive, far-reaching channel...
The Finance house of Kuwait along with the holders of KFH VISA ATM are providing cards the transaction methods using NFCs locally and around the world just as Mastercard cards use which is very convenient right now. The Group Acting Deputy General Manager Cards, at KFH, Talal AL-Arbeed, said...
It was announced today that Kitopi, the popular cloud kitchen startup from Dubai has managed to raise about $415M in a Series C round. The round was led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2. The round is notably one of the biggest financing rounds led by a venture-back company in...
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...
It was announced by the popular Pakistan-based Sarmayacar VC that it has helped dispatch their shipping marketplace center TruckSher. The VC firm didn't unveil the size of capital it has infused into the startup. It didn't share the specific insights concerning how much stake it possesses in TruckSher however...
