The powers in Saudi Arabia have recently announced they have established a bank for the small and medium enterprises in the country. They made the announcement during the weekly meeting of the cabinet, which is where the elected officials in Saudi Arabia discuss developments on a regional, global, and...
Mindshift Capital, the popular UAE-based funding firm has put resources into FORTË, an exclusive answer for digitizing wellness offered at fitness centers for the most convenience. Both innovation and membership-based streaming platform, FORTË introduces equipment and programming into studios, which empower classes to be streamed live to FORTË 's...
It was announced today that Kitopi, the popular cloud kitchen startup from Dubai has managed to raise about $415M in a Series C round. The round was led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2. The round is notably one of the biggest financing rounds led by a venture-back company in...
Capiter, the popular Cairo-based eCommerce marketplace has managed to raise about $33M in a Series A funding round. The series A funding round was co-led by Quota Capital and MSA Capital. The deal had the participation of Saudi-based FMCG and retailer conglomerate Savola, Shorooq Partners, Foundation Ventures, Accion Venture...
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...
Open Banking is an Internet-based service that allows small business owners to access their own money. The service is available to businesses of all sizes, but particularly to those in the technology and software industries. Open Banking is based on the Open Source Software concept, which is a form...
Sakneen, a property tech startup based in Egypt, recently announced that it had raised $1.1 million in a seed round led by Algebra Ventures. Sarwa Capital and Foundation Ventures also contributed significantly to the round. Hem + Spire, a real estate private equity firm based in the United States,...
Savola Group is a publicly listed group in Saudi Arabia, and operates companies in both the food and retail industries. They have recently announced the launch of a Corporate Venture Capital Program.
The program is for the purpose of distributing innovative technologies, providing food and retail opportunities on a global...
The all-in-one digital school and learning management providing edtech company from Jordan ‘Edunation’ has managed to raise about $3M in a funding round. The round was led by Rubix, a US-based investor. Edunation has already partnered up with some of the most notable leading academic institutions in the MENA...
The popular customer engagement platform from Riyadh, Unifonic has managed to raise about $125M in a Series B round. The series B funding round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Public Investment Fund’s subsidiary Sanabil Investments. The announcement didn’t share any specific details on valuation. This specific...
