Amenli, the YC-backed startup has managed to attract a $2.3M seed round investment for providing insurance services across Egypt and that’s not all. The round had investment from several firms from both local and foreign. The investment firms include GFC, P1 Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, Anim Fund with Costanoa VC,...
FOODICS, a Saudia Arabia-based all-in-one restaurant management platform raised about a $20M Series B funding round at the start of the year. The funding round was led by Sanabil Investments and was also co-led by STV earlier this year. Other investors included Derayah, Endeavor Catalyst, and Elm in the...
After Lezzoo acquired a seven-figure financing round, there has been increased activity in Iraq’s fundraising sector. Lezzoo has bought Erbil Delivery while Tech Ventures is dominating the six-figure financing round in Alsaree3/Zajil. These activities are a clear indication of the Iraqi market’s potential. Here are some fascinating takeaways based...
The popular KSA-based B2B marketplace, Sary has raised a $30.5M Series B round. The marketplace associates private companies with an organization of wholesalers and assembling brands through online tools like web interfaces and mobile apps and that’s not all. The round was led by VentureSouq (VSQ), with the support...
Sawari Ventures has closed their startups in their Egyptian-focused fund with about new commitments of $28M which roughly 440M in EGP. The commitments were from Kuwait Investment Authority’s Ekuity, Banque Misr, Suez Canal Bank, Misr Insurance Group, National Bank of Egypt, and Banque du Caire. In the previous round,...
One of the most popular global organizations for private investors, The Cairo Angels zeroed in on supporting startup openings in Egypt, the Middle East, and Africa. They are very excited and charmed to declare their latest interest in the monetary innovation startup Kashat which has been on their plans...
Enhance Fitness, the popular Dubai-based on-demand personal training platform has announced today that they’ve successfully managed to raise about $3M in a Series A funding round. This latest Series A funding round was led by Global Ventures which is a UAE-based regional-focused venture capital firm.
Enhance Fitness was founded back...
It was announced by Mastercard that the Bahrain-based NEC Payments will be the main worldwide accomplice of Mastercard Fintech Express, setting a large group of opportunities for new businesses and fintech players to launch Mastercard-giving administrations and open freedoms inside the economical system.
The platform was dispatched last year and...
It was announced today that Kitopi, the popular cloud kitchen startup from Dubai has managed to raise about $415M in a Series C round. The round was led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2. The round is notably one of the biggest financing rounds led by a venture-back company in...
Under the oversight of the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), Saudi Payments reported the dispatch of Saudi Arabia's instant payment platform 'sarie' in collaboration with IBM and Mastercard and that makes it one of the fastest ways to make transactions in the region.
As of now, 'sarie' upholds all Saudi banks...
