It was announced by the Innovative Startups and SMEs Fund (ISSF) and Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) have set up their obligation to secure the launch of Amam Ventures, which is Jordan’s first SME gender lens fund.
Amam Ventures is an investment group that is aimed at making impact investments...
Despite decreasing funding in the African continent, Nigerian startups succeeded in raising their funding to $160 million in the first Q1. Four countries including Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and Egypt accounted for %87 of startup investments during Q1, and the founding breakdown showed, Nigeria is leader with $160 m...
Since 2004 Iran has put efforts in launching some version of a domestic search engine within the country, these projects often had significant government funding and backing as they were perceived to help the Iran intranet network of information (which is Iran's local internet of sites often switched on...
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...
Enhance Fitness, the popular Dubai-based on-demand personal training platform has announced today that they’ve successfully managed to raise about $3M in a Series A funding round. This latest Series A funding round was led by Global Ventures which is a UAE-based regional-focused venture capital firm.
Enhance Fitness was founded back...
Koinz develops technological tools to help assist different sizes of restaurants in the Middle East to speedily increase profit via rewarding, meaningful, and interactions with their customer base that is data-driven.
The tool enables restaurants to reach new customers that make use of its mobile application for delivery and takeout...
The popular Silicon Valley FinTech startup Tribal Credit managed to raise about a $34.3M Series A financing round which was announced today. The round was led by QED Investors and Partners for Growth (PFG) and that's not all. The round was also joined by existing financial investors like BECO...
Despite a significant decline in funding in 2023, Middle Eastern fintech companies demonstrated remarkable resilience; Navigating challenges such as high-interest rates and geopolitical uncertainties, these fintechs are leveraging innovative technologies and pursuing expansion strategies. According to KPMG, fintech funding in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa dropped to its...
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...
The ALsaree3 group has closed a 7-figure bridge round at the end of last month. The group consisting of 2 different platforms including Alsaree3 which is a food delivery platform and Al Zajel Express which provides delivery services. The round was coordinated by Innovest ME and Iraq Tech Ventures....
