MENA Industry Venture Report for 2021 has revealed that based on funding amount, the top 7 industries in MENA all together accounts for 74% of all the invested capital in 2020, while 49% of transactions accounted for the top 7 industries by deals.
In spite of the overall reduction in...
The popular Egypt-based furniture marketplace platform Kemitt has raised a six-figure seed round to gather pledges from a gathering of Saudi Angel investors and that's not all. These supports will be effective to work with Kemitt's development all through Egypt. They additionally plan to distribute these assets carefully to...
It was announced that the UAE-based Edtech and Fintech startup Cashee has managed to raise about $1M in a Pre-seed funding round. The startup offers a digital platform along with providing prepaid cards to teens and kids that have a lot of useful features. It includes access for parents...
The popular student-centric edtech and AI-based company GoLearn Education has landed down in the MENA region. The Strategic Board Advisor naming Nada Ali Reddha has announced this about GoLearn’s expansion to MENA. Her career includes being Founder & Chairperson of SEED Group in UAE, membership of Nama Women Advancement...
It was recently announced by the UAE Ministry of Economy that the coming protocol on Commercial Companies Law will happen on the first day of next month, empowering unfamiliar financial backers and business people to set up and completely own inland organizations. With there being 3K+ UAE-based new companies...
The Co-Founder and former Chief Technology Officer, Ahmed Sabbah is back with his new gig Telda after leaving the Egyptian transportation startup last month. Telda is a fintech platform that will innovate ways of spending money for Gen Z in the Middle East. The platform was launched earlier this...
Ranking Report for 2021 MENA Venture Investor revealed that in 2020, there was a decline in accelerator activity, with ​10%​ of all active investors being accelerators in MENA across all countries for its lowest level in five-years. This indicates a 29% ​reduction from the previous year.
With 2020 bringing a...
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...
Arabic language Jordan based education platform Adam wa mishmish has raised $475,000 in a seed funding round. This ed-tech platform uses educational cartoons to teach young children Arabic for the ages of 0-5 through music, art and interactive learn to play methods. Launched in 2016 due to the lack...
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...
