It was announced today that Stake, the Dubai-based real estate venture platform has brought $4M up in a seed round which was led by Combined Growth Real Estate. A regional family office Vivium Capital, European VC Verve Ventures, Riyadh-based Lama Holding, Saudi private backer Mishaal Alireza, and the investors...
It’s been four months since Falak Investment Hub, the Saudi-based startup has accepted the application of eight of the most popular tech startups within the MENA regions into their acceleration program. The program consists of three new companies from Egypt along with three from KSA, and one each in...
The popular hyper-developing Dubai-based eMarketplace, Tradeling zeroed in on business-to-business (B2B) exchanges across the MENA region and that's not all. They already have proceeded with an arrangement with the Chinese online business leading platform, JD.com. The coordinated effort will give every business across MENA to get access to take...
The powers in Saudi Arabia have recently announced they have established a bank for the small and medium enterprises in the country. They made the announcement during the weekly meeting of the cabinet, which is where the elected officials in Saudi Arabia discuss developments on a regional, global, and...
The popular UAE-based healthy snack brand for children Koala Picks has managed to raise about $408.4K which is roughly 1.5M in AED in their first external funding round. The funding round was led by friends and family investors. The funding round didn’t have any institutional investors and all funding...
Sakneen, a property tech startup based in Egypt, recently announced that it had raised $1.1 million in a seed round led by Algebra Ventures. Sarwa Capital and Foundation Ventures also contributed significantly to the round. Hem + Spire, a real estate private equity firm based in the United States,...
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...
Abu Dhabi announced that they’d be reducing business setup fees for the private sector. The decision was also made of license renewal fees to DHS 1K. This new fee policy will be effective from July 27, 21. And the entire reduction of the fee is over 90 percent less...
The Nuwa Capital, a Gulf venture capital fund has announced their first close debut fund of $75 million pretty much after a year of their lunch. This Dubai and Riyadh-based capital fund also known as ‘Nuwa Ventures Fund I’ (NVFI) has become one of the largest ones in the...
The popular Silicon Valley FinTech startup Tribal Credit managed to raise about a $34.3M Series A financing round which was announced today. The round was led by QED Investors and Partners for Growth (PFG) and that's not all. The round was also joined by existing financial investors like BECO...
