FII Institute, a Saudi-based investing giant has announced their investment of $500K in Paris-based space technology startup Interstellar Lab. The investment was done as part of their inclusive mission to provide the empowering the most eligible and brightest minds in leveraging scientific innovation for a better future.
The financial equity...
The global payment company Stripe finally executed their expansion in the Middle East and was announced very recently. They’ve officially launched their platform in the UAE with their first office opening in the Dubai Internet City. The private beta of the company was already launched a couple of months...
The popular Arabic conversational AI platform from Jordan, Xina AI has managed to raise a $1M seed round and it was announced today. The seed round was led by Jordanian angel investors and a Qatari family office. The platform works by automating customer support queries with the world’s first-ever...
The popular Dubai-based market leader, iMile in delivery services has recently and officially launched their services in Egypt. Their current operations are based in Cairo and Suez and a goal to expand further in the region.
“We have solid plans for what we want to achieve in 2021 and our...
The GSMA declares its most recent Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services following the accomplishment of three years of centered assets, peering toward African, South Asian, and Southeast Asian new companies that are tending to the critical difficulties in quickly extending metropolitan areas.
Inside a more extensive long haul worldwide...
Supy, the popular UAE-based B2B food marketplace has managed to raise about $1.5M in a Pre-Seed funding round. This latest Pre-Seed Funding round was co-led by UAE-based investor COTU Ventures and US-based Valia Ventures, marking their first investment in MENA.
Supy was founded by CEO Dani El-Zein, previously COO at...
It was announced that UAE-headquartered popular IoT startup iWire has managed to raise a $34M Series A funding round. The round was led by Noor Capital and was joined by Bpifrance. The startup has been building country-wide communication networks to improve and power a huge number of IoT solutions...
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...
Pangea App is presently opening up for candidates for their launch of a new Scale-Up accelerator program, which tries to find the best scale-ups in Africa and develop them from seed to Series A rounds. The program is searching for deft business visionaries who already are in existing foothold...
It is always sad to see whole families forced to leave their houses and roots to strange lands due to wars and disasters. Yet, despite the obvious hardships and upheaval that comes with being a refugee, some have overcome the challenges of their situations and have created platforms, structures...
