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family office in MENA region
When significant wealth is generated, whether from a company sale, a major asset liquidation, or a successful IPO, a common question arises for newly liquid families: "What's next for our capital?" For many family offices, the immediate answer often leans towards direct investments in startups, bypassing traditional funds. This...
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Pakistan’s popular logistic ad fintech startup PostEx has managed to finally raise about $1.5M in a seed round. This particular seed round was led by MSA Capital. The deal was also joined by Shorooq Partners, Zayn Capital, VentureSouq, PNO Ventures, +92 Ventures, and Arbisoft’s CEO Yasser Bashir. PostEx was founded...
Raqamyah Investment
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...
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Knuru Capital, a Venture Capital firm based in Dubai, has signed an agreement to handle a venture portfolio in its early-stage from an investment vehicle - DP Ventures Holdings - set up by Delta Partners senior executives to invest in technology companies in early-stages around the world. The portfolio which...
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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...
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The popular Robo-advisor fintech startup StashAway has recently brought $25M up in its Series D financing round and that’s not all. The round was led by one of the most popular and leading funding firms, Sequoia Capital India. StashAway is a Singapore-based advanced wealth managing platform that conveys customized...
Middle east food delivery apps
Last March, while cities around the world went into lock down, most companies were forced to close their doors and forego revenue for a few weeks. Given that restaurant owners collaborated with food aggregators to power the on-demand food economy, you'd think they'd have an easier time. You'd be...
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Sotech, the popular Egypt-based IoT solutions, and Health-tech startup about their successful raising of $1M in their latest Pre-Seed funding round. The pre-seed funding round was led by Innlife investments and key corporate investor Al Raya Kuwaiti. Sotech was founded back in 2020 in the middle of the pandemic. Ever...
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It was announced that the Dubai Headquartered logistic SaaS group, Zip24 has raised about $1.2M in a pre-series round. The round was led by Sturgeon Capital, a unique investment fund from the UK. The round was joined by Hayaat Group, Teqvisory, Robert Kay and that’s not all. Some other...
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Egypt-based investment company EFG Hermes has announced their investment of $725M in Ignis Energia, a Spanish renewable energy specialist via the company’s private equity arm’s Vortex Energy Fund as a series of capital injections. And it will be deployed over the next few years under some conditions of course. It’s...