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,...
Sotech, the popular Egypt-based IoT solutions, and Health-tech startup about their successful raising of $1M in their latest Pre-Seed funding round. The pre-seed funding round was led by Innlife investments and key corporate investor Al Raya Kuwaiti.
Sotech was founded back in 2020 in the middle of the pandemic. Ever...
UAE-based BaaS supplier of integrated financial platform NymCard reported that it has joined Visa's Fintech Fast Track program. The association will permit NymCard's organization of fintech accomplices to locally available onto Visa's worldwide organization through the last's Fintech Fast Track Program. This move will give NymCard's fintech accomplices, optimized...
Logistic and supply chain company, Trukkin has raised it's series A investment round of $7 million from Saudi based Emkan Capital.
Trukkin, founded in 2017 by Janardan Dalmia who used to work as a financial executive brands itself as a leading aggregator platform which matches shipping with trucking for a...
The popular tech disruptive solution company Ireland's RegTech startup has been pretty busy at tech dealing with the lead growing local financial market DX Compliance. And it has officially extended its activities in the MENA area with its new base in Abu Dhabi, UAE which was announced very recently...
The MCIT aka Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has teamed up with the Raed Ventures Investment Fund for the Riyadh Techstars Accelerator program. The program was established back in May and will proceed in the same region for about 4 months. The Riyadh Techstars Accelerator program...
Iranian start-ups have certainly endured a difficult time with 4 years of sanctions, currency devaluations, economic problems and COVID-19. Some companies still operating and thriving in the digital ecosystem founded by women worth noting.
Takhfifan
This start-up initially started as a clone of Groupon and over time has come to it’s...
It was announced on Monday that the popular Dubai-headquartered buy-now-pay-later startup Postpay has managed to raise about $10M from the global leading buy-now platform Afterpay along with AP Ventures which is an Australia based platform. This fresh round has summed up Postpay’s total financing about $35M as of now....
It was announced that the Egyptian advertising platform Connect Ads was acquired by the Miami-based digital media company Aleph Holding by an 86% stake. The deal was comprised of both cash and stock and that’s about it from the announcement. It didn’t share the exact financial details thoroughly but...
Egypt’s Paymob inspires and provides different and underserved SMEs with convenient and more accessible digital payments along with improved experience to the clients. These offerings are a part of Egypt’s Central Bank that provides their full efforts as initiative digital financial solutions over the nation.
Their mobile wallets’ main base...
