e&, the telecommunications giant based in the United Arab Emirates, has entered into a $1 billion partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) aimed at enhancing cloud adoption and digital transformation across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
The six-year agreement will focus on delivering essential cloud services, including...
Open Banking is an Internet-based service that allows small business owners to access their own money. The service is available to businesses of all sizes, but particularly to those in the technology and software industries. Open Banking is based on the Open Source Software concept, which is a form...
The company announced that the goal of this investment, which is a mix of equity and financing, is boosting the Saudi market's home advertising.
dKilo, an ad tech startup that is located in Egypt, during the Leap 2024 conference in Riyadh, made a public statement to inform that the company...
The popular Qatar-based mobile wallet platform, SkipCash has drawn one stage nearer towards its grandiose objective to turn into the most popular and used mobile application on the Peninsula, subsequent to uncovering that it has raised around $2M which is roughly QAR 7M in a seed round led from...
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...
Start-ups in Iraq hardly get sufficient media coverage. As a result, only a few people know of their existence. Challenges like lack of basic infrastructure, payment solutions, and business registration complications make it difficult for start-ups to succeed. Even with these challenges, small businesses are evolving and maneuvering Iraq’s...
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...
Pakistan’s popular logistic ad fintech startup PostEx has managed to finally raise about $1.5M in a seed round. This particular seed round was led by MSA Capital. The deal was also joined by Shorooq Partners, Zayn Capital, VentureSouq, PNO Ventures, +92 Ventures, and Arbisoft’s CEO Yasser Bashir.
PostEx was founded...
The US-based global digital media investor NBM aka North Base Media of their investment in Majarra which is an Abu-Dhabi-based Arabic online content provider. The investment included other strategic GCC individuals which were said in a statement.
“We’re delighted to have a high quality and specialized investor like North Base...
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,...
