Qatar's one and only popluar fish commercial center Fish.qa has declared its successful seed round. The startup has made it simple for clients to buy several varieties of fish in only a couple of clicks and have them delivered to their doorstep through its online platform. Having been established...
Only as a side project of the Milken-Motsepe Innovation Prize program, a multi-year procedure to channel enterprising personalities and financial backers towards creating various innovative solutions with a focus on Africa, the agri-tech prize is currently accepting applications. The Milken-Motsepe Prize is a worldwide competitive program for providing solutions...
Jugnu, the Pakistan-based B2B eCommerce startup, and the online marketplace about their successful management of raising an undisclosed amount in its latest funding round. The latest funding round was led by Sarmayacar which is the Pakistan-based VC investing in Early Stage startups in the region. The round however marks...
Egypt's Information Technology Institute (ITI) has joined forces with Google to dispatch the Machine Learning Developer, which hopes to qualify 30K programmers, college students, and software engineering graduates on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning backgrounds to make the team even greater. With literally a horde of APIs, Google...
Raqamyah, a Riyadh-based crowdlending platform has raised about $2.3M in just one investment deal. They announced that the investment round was managed and led by Impact46 later that day. There were other investors included such as Mad’s investment, Al Yusr and Fadeed Investment. Another round of participation was made...
Led by Salem Khalaf Al Mannai and regional investors the popular Doha-based Fintech startup Dibsy has raised about $300K Pre-Seed round. Established back in 2020 by Ahmed Isse, Anouar El Mekki, and Loyan Farah, Dibsy means to make handling transactions more straightforward. The startup is additionally upheld by the...
Flat6Labs in Bahrain has provided seed investment to UAE based HR platform Knack. This B2B platform was founded in Sharjah, UAE in 2020 by Divesh Lachhwani and Amna Aljarwan in effort to provide coaching, mentor ship and other HR related services to companies; and at times individuals.
At the time...
A new website was set up by The Egyptian-Saudi Joint Committee with a goal to develop MSMEs aka micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. The website is to help intermediaries to acquire funding along with highlighting their activities and that’s not all. IT’ll also help them showcase their achievements in...
It was announced that one of the UAE’s leading institutional investors EDB aka The Emirates Development Bank has signed an agreement with the country’s first peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform, Beehive. While allocating just over $8M which is roughly AED 30M in funding for the platform to distribute to creditworthy...
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...
