Announced today, Pakistani Lahore-based edtech Edkasa has raised about $320K in a pre-seed funding round. The round was closed a couple of months ago and it was led by i2i Ventures, but the announcement was made today instead. The round was joined by Zayn Capital, Walled City Co along...
The Jordanian start-up scene has both regional and international recognition. The ecosystem is mostly shaped by young entrepreneurs in the ICT sector with prominent accelerators like Changelabs and IBDA3. Jordan is one of the key players in MENA’s Information and Communication Technology(ICT) forum. Jordanian start-up ecosystem aims to bring brilliant ideas of domestic...
The global payment company Stripe finally executed their expansion in the Middle East and was announced very recently. They’ve officially launched their platform in the UAE with their first office opening in the Dubai Internet City. The private beta of the company was already launched a couple of months...
Sotech, the popular Egypt-based IoT solutions, and Health-tech startup about their successful raising of $1M in their latest Pre-Seed funding round. The pre-seed funding round was led by Innlife investments and key corporate investor Al Raya Kuwaiti.
Sotech was founded back in 2020 in the middle of the pandemic. Ever...
Tranglo, a Singapore-based fintech specialist, announced that it will expand its cross-border payment network for instant and direct transfers to over 30 e-wallets.
Tranglo is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and was established in 2008. It also has offices in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Dubai, and London. This cross-border payment...
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),...
Sprout FZCO, is a company founded by biochemist Oz Erbas and marketing technologist Katerina Papatryfon, the major aim is to usher in a new age of kids' food production focused on science and health improvement. Sprout foods are made entirely of whole plants and heavily rely on locally sourced...
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...
Health-tech start-up MEDZnMORE raised a pre-series A round of $11.5 million from a series of angel and venture capitalist firms. Founded in 2020 based in Karachi Pakistan, in pursuit to solve the medical and wellness delivery service for B2B and B2C clientele of consumers, pharmacies and hospitals.
With the growth...
It was announced on Monday that the popular Dubai-headquartered buy-now-pay-later startup Postpay has managed to raise about $10M from the global leading buy-now platform Afterpay along with AP Ventures which is an Australia based platform. This fresh round has summed up Postpay’s total financing about $35M as of now....
