OpenSooq with its HQ in Jordan raised $24 million funding lead by Saudi Jordanian Investment Fund (SJIF), FJ Labs, and iMENA Group.
Open Sooq allows consumers and SME's to trade across a MENA level geography offering categories in prime sectors such as property, electronics, fashion, local crafts and interior decoration....
The Saudi-Arabian accounting and e-invoicing platform VoM has seen their latest funding round come to an end, and secured a tidy profit of $670,000 in the process. Angel investors have allowed the company to close their latest round of Pre-Seed funding, which means that the cloud-based company can focus...
The popular Protech startup Huspy from Dubai has managed to raise a funding round. The round was joined by B&Y Ventures, Amir Farha (Cotu), Plug and Play along with other regional family offices and the round was led by VentureFriends.
The platform was founded back in August last year by...
2021 MENA Venture Investment Report offers a complete comparison of the top 5 countries in MENA. This comparison is based on the number of registered deals in 2020. As we approach the second quarter and more investment rounds are announced in 2021, we bid farewell to 2020 by taking a...
The corporate funding foundation of UAE-based Crescent Enterprises, CE-Ventures has promised to pretty much increase its VC interests in new companies to reach $272M by next year and that’s not all. CE-Ventures has put more than $136M out of 32 new businesses and VC assets across the MENA locale,...
Saudi Fintech Nayla Finance Secures $4M to Expand Digital Lending for Small Businesses
Nayla Finance, a Saudi Arabian fintech platform specializing in digital lending solutions, has raised $4 million in seed funding to expand its services for micro and small businesses across the Kingdom. The funding round was led by...
The QSTP, Qatar Science & Technology Park which is a part of QFR and QF RDI has recently signed an MoU with Innovation Café. The Café provides a lot of innovation related to development and configuration thinking studio arrangement which intends to give the correct chances, direction, and backing...
Egypt-based investment company EFG Hermes has announced their investment of $725M in Ignis Energia, a Spanish renewable energy specialist via the company’s private equity arm’s Vortex Energy Fund as a series of capital injections. And it will be deployed over the next few years under some conditions of course.
It’s...
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...
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...
