A recently launched venture capital platform, DisrupAD has set to launch $32.7M on a seed accelerator programme by teaming up with Flat6Labs. The platform is based on Abu Dhabi investment firm ADQ and the seed accelerator programme is set to invest and innovate the expansion of about 20 startups...
It was announced that EdVentures, the popular funding wing of the Egyptian Nahdet Misr Publishing Group, has gotten the 'Training Investors of the Year' grant for the MENA area by UK-based web magazine ‘Corporate Vision’ and that’s not all. This particular honorary award for ‘Education and Training' classification tries...
It was announced today that Riyadh-based Ecommerce platform Tamara has brought $110M up in a Series A round. The round was led by the popular leading global payment processor Checkout.com. Tamara is popular because of its "buy now pay later" motto. The round is contained obligation and value and...
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...
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...
Synkers, a Lebanese Edtech platform helps to connect with students with the most qualified and passionate private tutors to help them focus on learning and complete their study sessions along with helping them throughout their academics and that’s not all. They also provide students continuous support starting from their...
The Abu Dhabi-based sovereign investor Mubadala has finally invested about $75M in 5-year pre-IPO convertible bonds of Telegram. Telegram is an open-source popular social media platform mainly known for its security-focused services over other popular social media.
The investment and partnership aimed at creating a new collaboration of opportunities between...
Fintech NymCard which has its headquarters in Abu Dhabi, announced in a statement that it has launched an Open API platform for issuing and processing of payment cards.
The announcement is coming on the heels of NymCard’s $7.6 million Series A which the company had raised the previous month. The...
Ranking Report for 2021 MENA Venture Investor revealed that in 2020, there was a decline in accelerator activity, with ​10%​ of all active investors being accelerators in MENA across all countries for its lowest level in five-years. This indicates a 29% ​reduction from the previous year.
With 2020 bringing a...
It was announced recently that one of the most popular and leading accelerators, Flat6Labs has finally expanded to Jordan with their launch of a $20M seed fund. The providing fund which is Jordan Seed Fund has effectively completed the first close of $7.4M from the International Finance Corporation (IFC),...
