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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...
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Koinz develops technological tools to help assist different sizes of restaurants in the Middle East to speedily increase profit via rewarding, meaningful, and interactions with their customer base that is data-driven. The tool enables restaurants to reach new customers that make use of its mobile application for delivery and takeout...
Qatar Qstp
The QSTP, Qatar Science & Technology Park which is a part of QFR and QF RDI has recently signed an MoU with Innovation Café. The Café provides a lot of innovation related to development and configuration thinking studio arrangement which intends to give the correct chances, direction, and backing...
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Zid has successfully raised about $7M in a Series A funding round. This KSA-based eCommerce platform was able to raise 26M SAR which was led mainly by Global Ventures along with other existing investors that includes Arzan VC and Elm. But this wasn’t the first investment Zid had received. In...
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It was announced that Taager, the popular Egypt-based social eCommerce platform has managed to raise about $6.4M in a seed round. The round was led by 4DX Ventures which was also joined by Raed Ventures, Beco Capital, Breyer Capital along with the individual investor, Careem’s Magnus Olsson. This leads...
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The Egypt-based online platform 'Masr Afdal' has already made its way into advancing and exporting Egyptian-made products to the worldwide market along with other plans. The founder and Egyptian business visionary Hamed El Ghool plans on putting Egypt on the worldwide online business map by interfacing with the local...
Siwar Saudi Arabia
Saudi-based on-demand marketplace and foodtech platform Siwar has successfully managed to raise about $7.5M in its latest funding round. The funding round was led by  Riyadh-based travel services company Seera Group with the participation of key investors in the region. The platform was launched back last year and it’s been...
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The Nuwa Capital, a Gulf venture capital fund has announced their first close debut fund of $75 million pretty much after a year of their lunch. This Dubai and Riyadh-based capital fund also known as ‘Nuwa Ventures Fund I’ (NVFI) has become one of the largest ones in the...
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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...
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Pakistan’s popular B2B eCommerce platform Dastgyr announced that they’ve managed to raise about $3.5M in a seed round. The round was led by SOSV and it brings the total sum as of now to $4M and that’s not all. The round was joined by Asian Development Bank’s VC arm...