The popular UAE-based healthy snack brand for children Koala Picks has managed to raise about $408.4K which is roughly 1.5M in AED in their first external funding round. The funding round was led by friends and family investors. The funding round didn’t have any institutional investors and all funding...
Abu Dhabi announced that they’d be reducing business setup fees for the private sector. The decision was also made of license renewal fees to DHS 1K. This new fee policy will be effective from July 27, 21. And the entire reduction of the fee is over 90 percent less...
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...
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,...
A real estate platform, Mubawab, that has its base in Morocco, has received funding of $10M from its parent company, the (EMPG), Emerging Markets Property Group.
Mubawab, which was founded by Toni Puig and Kevin Gormand in 2011, gives users the ability to utilize its platform to purchase, rent, and...
The popular Jeddah-based football talent recognizing platform, Grintafy has officially partnered with the English football club West Ham United to provide help and expand their operation. Because of the multi-year organization, the Saudi startup will assist West Ham United with finding football talents on a global scale and that’s...
Egypt-based Contactcars, the lead automotive marketplace has announced their acquisition of Sa4ar Technology Solutions which is known for providing car valuation technology and a dealer-specific auction platform.
Contactcars.com is a subsidiary of Contact Financial Holing and they’ve been constantly evolving and looking for new opportunities to arise which will provide...
The Finance house of Kuwait along with the holders of KFH VISA ATM are providing cards the transaction methods using NFCs locally and around the world just as Mastercard cards use which is very convenient right now. The Group Acting Deputy General Manager Cards, at KFH, Talal AL-Arbeed, said...
The Egyptian eCommerce SaaS solution supplier zVendo has effectively raised a seven-figure Pre-Series A financing round from Mobica and Gratus Holding. The platform was established back in 2018. zVendo was made by Egyptian entrepreneurs to oblige the developing E-trade market in Egypt, Middle East, and Africa meaning in the...
CE-Ventures, the corporate funding foundation of UAE-based Crescent Enterprises, has reported that it is multiplying its investment interests in new businesses to arrive at $272M which is roughly AED 1B by next year and that’s not all. Since its initiation in 2017, CE-Ventures has effectively contributed more than $136M...
