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...
Fintech giant FlexxPay, a Dubai-based payment platform has announced raising about $3M. The fund was raised in a pre-Series A round and it was comprised of equity debt. The investors include a lot of popular names from different regions. They include DIFC Fintech Fund, Arzan VC, Nuwa Capital, VentureSouq,...
A tech start-up based in Riyadh, Azom, which designs, develops, and sells computer software and electronics, has raised a Series A funding round worth $9.5M (36M Saudi riyal), from Assr AlJawal and an anonymous individual investor.
Azom was established to develop and provide electronics and technologies such as phones and other...
It was announced that the Innovative Startups and SMEs Fund (ISSF) has made a direct investment of $150K in Jordan-based online marketplace Matrix. The fundraising was started back in January this year and they’ve managed to raise a seed fund of $300K by teaming up with Select Ventures Holdings,...
RentUp, a PropTech startup in Egypt, has raised a Pre-Seed funding round in six-figures from Luqman Weise Capital, a Japanese private equity firm that specializes in Fintech innovation and technology development.
RentUp is a property rental platform founded last year that makes use of AI-powered technology that allows homeowners to...
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...
ISSF aka The Innovative Startups and SMEs Fund from Jordan is known mostly for making strategic investments in startups. They also invest in early-stage largely innovative SMEs as well. ISSF has recently announced a direct investment of $150K in a Jordan-based startup Decapolis. The startup provides feature-rich solutions for...
CE-Ventures, the corporate funding foundation of UAE-based Crescent Enterprises, has reported that it is multiplying its investment interests in new businesses to arrive at $272M which is roughly AED 1B by next year and that’s not all. Since its initiation in 2017, CE-Ventures has effectively contributed more than $136M...
Kenz, the Ramallah-based platform aims at helping women to find their preferable fashion and style that suits them. The platform is popular for launching the first Arabic calculator for getting bra and shapewear sizes. Lingerie being the most difficult product category that needs accurate measures, over 80 percent of...
Retalio, the popular Saudi-based B2B E-trade commercial center startup has raised a $6.7M seed venture round very recently making them the biggest seed round speculation on record for a Saudi startup and that’s not all. The startup was led by Shorooq Partners and Abercross Holdings, and with the interest...
