Anghami, a top music streaming platform in North Africa and the Middle East now goes public by a merger with an acquisition company (SPAC) with a special purpose. A SPAC, also referred to as a blank-cheque firm, is created to raise funds via an IPO with the purpose of...
Digital Finance Holdings, Inc (DFin) a company based in Egypt, has launched a platform focused on Fintech whose aim is to help build Fintech's next-generation in MENA, together with launching Camel Ventures –a new venture debt fund. Currently, the fund is raising fund and its website announced that they...
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...
Maqsad, the popular Karachi-based Edtech platform on successfully managing to raise about $2.1M in a Pre-Seed round. This particular pre-seed round was led by Indus Valley Capital. The round was also joined by Alter Global, Fatime Gobi Ventures along with several founders of different startups both in Pakistan and...
Egypt’s popular and leading VC firm, Algebra Ventures announced today on launching their second fund of around $90M. The fund was specifically dedicated to startups with the main goal to allocate their firm in the MEA region. They are currently aiming at first closing in 2021 on Q3.
Algebra has...
DUBAI, UAE – Ruya, the pioneering digital Islamic bank, and Ignyte, the government-backed startup ecosystem, have officially forged a strategic partnership. This collaboration aims to accelerate innovation across the UAE by integrating Ruya’s Shari’ah-compliant digital banking expertise with Ignyte’s comprehensive support for entrepreneurs.
The UAE continues to lead the MENA...
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...
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...
Jahez International, a leading Saudi-based food delivery and logistics platform, has announced a landmark agreement to acquire a 76.56% stake in Qatar's Snoonu for a staggering $245 million (SR 919 million). This strategic move, disclosed on the Saudi stock exchange, marks a significant consolidation in the GCC's rapidly evolving...
USA-based REEF Technology Inc. of their acquirement of the popular UAE-based KaaS and cloud kitchen operator, iKcon. REEF is a leading operator of delivery kitchens, logistics, and proximity hubs in North America, marking their debut into the MENA region and that’s not all.
iKcon was founded back in 2019 and...
