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...
The launching of Al Zayani Venture Capital has been announced by Al Zayani Investment Group. The company has its headquarters in Manama, Bahrain. It has its focus on investment in disruptive technology and start-ups.
In 1977, Al Zayani Investment Group was established in Bahrain. This makes it one of the...
As the world went into lock down a year ago, the vast majority had to look for alternative ways. And they pretty much turned to internet shopping and other web-based services. And that certainly sped things up on web-based business reception. And expanded a lot of absolute US retail...
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...
Ghana's Startup Cafe Africa has dispatched an accelerator program to help African new businesses in developing their organizations and to furnish them with the tools they need for the African market. Upheld by iSpace, HatuaTech, Tribe Capital, GhLondoners organization, InvestPro, and HatuaOnPoint, the accelerator plans to furnish candidates showing...
The popular Cairo-based grocery platform startup, Appetito has raised about $450K on a Seed round from a gathering of Saudi Arabian Angel investor Ahmed Al Alola. He led the entire funding round in a beginning phase who was one of the early sponsors of Nana and Sary along with...
Colendi, the popular Turkey-based micro-crediting and payment solution platform that has managed to successfully raise about $30M in its latest Series A funding round. The funding round was participated by several key international investors. However, the most remarkable investment was made of a $12M investment by previous Getir backers...
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...
It was announced by the DIFC of their most latest investment in Clara which is a UK-headquartered Legal-tech startup. The investment was made through the DIFC fintech fund. It was launched back in 2017 and ever since, the startup has been set to establish, improve and take startups further...
The popular Pakistani trucking marketplace Truck It In has raised about $1.5M in a pre-seed round and was announced today. This Karachi-based popular trucking marketplace has pretty much managed to create one of the largest pre-seed investments raised by a startup in the entire Middle East, Pakistan, and North...
