The AFD also known as the French Agency for Development has managed to secure roughly about EUR 50 million which is roughly a $58.7M credit line for MSMEDA also known as Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Development Agency. Their aim is to promote women’s entrepreneurship across Egypt and that’s...
Since 2004 Iran has put efforts in launching some version of a domestic search engine within the country, these projects often had significant government funding and backing as they were perceived to help the Iran intranet network of information (which is Iran's local internet of sites often switched on...
Enhance Fitness, the popular Dubai-based on-demand personal training platform has announced today that they’ve successfully managed to raise about $3M in a Series A funding round. This latest Series A funding round was led by Global Ventures which is a UAE-based regional-focused venture capital firm.
Enhance Fitness was founded back...
Despite a significant decline in funding in 2023, Middle Eastern fintech companies demonstrated remarkable resilience; Navigating challenges such as high-interest rates and geopolitical uncertainties, these fintechs are leveraging innovative technologies and pursuing expansion strategies. According to KPMG, fintech funding in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa dropped to its...
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...
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...
Snapp group, the popular Iranian ride hailing and online service super app in a surprising change in tactics has for the first time published statistics about it's business and app for the year 2020. The private held company had long kept it's data close to it's chest, disclosing some...
Zameeli, which is located in Oman, is a platform to connect SMEs to local freelancers who plan to raise their equity crowdfunding with the help of "Mamun '' the Omani fintech.
Tariq Al Habsi and Aysha Alqmashouai founded the Zambezi in 2021. With the support of the Oman Technology Fund...
The Riyadh-Based food subscription app Dailymealz has raised about $2M in Pre Series A round. The fund was led by Seedra Ventures and the round even was even joined by some popular angel investors.
Dailymealz allows customers to order their food with their subscriptions from the app. The subscriptions are...
The ALsaree3 group has closed a 7-figure bridge round at the end of last month. The group consisting of 2 different platforms including Alsaree3 which is a food delivery platform and Al Zajel Express which provides delivery services. The round was coordinated by Innovest ME and Iraq Tech Ventures....
