It was announced today that the popular Sydney-settled fintech platform Zip has procured Middle Eastern ‘buy now pay later’ platform Spotii for a venture worth $20M. The cash will be paid in Zip's shares, cash, or a bit of both. As a feature of the arrangement, Spotii investors will...
It was announced by the popular Pakistan-based Sarmayacar VC that it has helped dispatch their shipping marketplace center TruckSher. The VC firm didn't unveil the size of capital it has infused into the startup. It didn't share the specific insights concerning how much stake it possesses in TruckSher however...
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...
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 QSTP, Qatar Science & Technology Park which is a part of QFR and QF RDI has recently signed an MoU with Innovation Café. The Café provides a lot of innovation related to development and configuration thinking studio arrangement which intends to give the correct chances, direction, and backing...
Elkaso, the popular UAE-based B2B marketplace has managed to successfully raise about $2.1M in its latest funding round was led by Global Founders Capital and MSA Capital. Although it was joined by key strategic global and regional investors including former and current leaders of Careem, Delivery Hero, Apple, Faith...
KUBE has been attracting some of the world’s foremost entrepreneurs and disruptors in the hospitality space ever since its establishment. It was both inspired and created by Michael Levie and David Keen and they have a single purpose which is to drive transformation by incubating and accelerating hospitality start-ups....
One of the most popular ways marketers gain customers is by letting them test their products first. And that is done by giving them a sample product for them to test first and admire. And it’s still one of the most used methods to understand what their target consumers...
Starting a company is an exciting time and for those in UAE, the chance to have your own start-up is remarkably high. Hundreds of start-ups are started each year in the Emirates. UAE actually leads Singapore, Norway, Japan, Sweden, Germany, and New Zealand in how many start-ups find life...
Khazna, the popular fintech platform from Egypt has been selected to compete in the inaugural edition of the Last Mile MOney Accelerator program which is managed by IDEO. ANd it’s directly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Khazna has an inclusive financial technology with a goal to enhance...
