The AFD also known as the French Agency for Development has managed to secure roughly about EUR 50 million which is roughly a $58.7M credit line for MSMEDA also known as Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Development Agency. Their aim is to promote women’s entrepreneurship across Egypt and that’s...
It was announced that Arrow Labs, a popular Dubai-based software startup has managed to raise $5M in Series A from Tim Draper’s Draper Associate. There were participation in the round by Global Ventures and B&Y Ventures. The investment is notably the first investment ever made in the Middle East...
ClearGrid, a fintech company based in the UAE, has raised $10 million in funding after coming out of stealth mode. The funding is split into two rounds: a pre-seed round of $3.5 million, led by Raed Ventures and Beco Capital, and a seed round of $6.5 million, co-led by...
The popular hyper-developing Dubai-based eMarketplace, Tradeling zeroed in on business-to-business (B2B) exchanges across the MENA region and that's not all. They already have proceeded with an arrangement with the Chinese online business leading platform, JD.com. The coordinated effort will give every business across MENA to get access to take...
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...
The popular stock analysis platform from Saudi Arabia, National Building and Marketing aka NBM has gained a 9% stake in DIGGIPACKS and that's not all. DIGGIPACKS is a Delivery and Logistics startup situated in the Kingdom and operates there as well. The gets return off of a new $400K...
The popular Saudi-based FinTech and digital POS provider CashIn has managed to successfully raise about $1.6M in a funding round. The funding seed round was led by some of the most popular key investors including BIM Ventures along with a wide number of angel investors as well.
In the first...
A tech start-up based in Riyadh, Azom, which designs, develops, and sells computer software and electronics, has raised a Series A funding round worth $9.5M (36M Saudi riyal), from Assr AlJawal and an anonymous individual investor.
Azom was established to develop and provide electronics and technologies such as phones and other...
It was announced in a statement today that the popular Kuwait-based online flowers and gifting platform Floward have managed to raise $27.5M in a Series B round. The round was led by STV and that’s not all. Impact 46 also joined the round alongside as well. As of now,...
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,...
