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...
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...
Amenli, the YC-backed startup has managed to attract a $2.3M seed round investment for providing insurance services across Egypt and that’s not all. The round had investment from several firms from both local and foreign. The investment firms include GFC, P1 Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, Anim Fund with Costanoa VC,...
Cartona, the popular Egypt-based B2B platform connecting retailers to manufacturers and wholesalers about their successful management of raising about $4.5M in their latest Pre-Series A funding round. This particular Pre-Series funding round was led by Global Ventures. The round was also joined by Kepple Africa Ventures, T5 Ventures, and...
It was announced today that the well-known Saudi Company Tamer Group is to acquire Mumzworld. The group has interests in healthcare, beauty, and FMCG products and Mumzworld is the leading eCommerce platform in the region for mother, baby, and child products. Although they didn’t announce the details on the...
The popular freight marketplace from Lahore, BridgeLinx has managed to raise $10M. And it’s the country’s largest seed round to date and that’s not all. This regional largest seed round was led by Harry Stebbings’ 20 VC, Josh Buckley’s Buckley Ventures, and Indus Valley Capital. The seed round deal...
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 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....
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...
Announced today, Abwaab has raised about $5.1M in a seed round. There were a lot of investors invested in this Amman-based EdTech platform including Beco Capital, Foundation Ventures, Spartech Ventures, 4DX Ventures, EQ2 Ventures, and GSV Ventures. The latest investment came pretty much after a year after they raised...
