Wamda

Tunisia

Tunisia’s Expensya raises $4.5 million

Source: MENAbytes Expensya, a SaaS for expense management, has raised a little over $4.5 million (€4 million) in its latest funding...

Investment tunisia

Saudi Arabia

Saudi's BIAC tries to bridge funding gap for startups

The Business Incubators and Accelerators Company (BIAC) has launched a new investment initiative in partnership with VentureSouq to bridge...

funding gap

Regional

Wamda launches new programme for budding entrepreneurs

Wamda today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind fellowship programme, Wamda X. The grant-based offering aims to attract promising...

wamda Wamda Capital Wamda News

Egypt

Wasla raises $180,000 pre-seed

Source: Menabytes Cairo-based Wasla has raised $180,000 in pre-seed funding from a group of angel investors led by a Cairo-based...

#mobile #tech #wasla

Kuwait

Kuwait's Agility to invest $100m in Shipa.com

Source: The National Agility, one of the largest logistics firms in the region, will invest $100 million in a digital logistics platform...

Logistics ecommerce

Kuwait

Tabeeby Secures $777,000 From Ground One Ventures

Kuwait-based social health network Tabeeby secured $770,000 in investment from Ground One Ventures, a UK-based private investment...

#healthcare #Kuwait #investment

Jordan

Little Thinking Minds raises $1.26 million in Series A

Jordan-based Little Thinking Minds has raised $1.26 million in a Series A round led by Egypt’s Algebra Ventures with participation...

EdTech Education Series A

Egypt

Saudi’s Vision Ventures invests in Cairo-based bus booking startup Buseet

Source: MENAbytes Khobar-based Vision Ventures has invested in Egyptian bus booking startup, the firm announced today, without...

cairo Buseet ride hailing

Egypt

Careem launches bus service in Cairo

Careem has launched a new service, Careem Bus, with an initial launch in Cairo in a separate application from its ride-hailing...

careem travel tech ride hailing

Egypt

Egypt’s Halan raises multi-million Series A

Source: MENAbytes Cairo-based Halan has raised a multi-million Series A round from international investor Battery Road Digital Holdings...

Series A Investment

Saudi Arabia

Gathern closes undisclosed seed round

Gathern, a Saudi Arabia-based booking platform for chalets and villas, has closed its seed round investment by a group of local and...

bookings seed fund seed investment

Regional

Careem introduces credit transfer

Careem has introduced peer-to-peer (P2P) prepaid credit transfers across all its markets. The closed-loop feature enables users to...

careem

Kuwait

Kuwait launches fintech sandbox

Source: Reuters Kuwait’s central bank has issued regulatory guidelines for companies wishing to experiment with new financial...

Fintech kuwait

U.A.E

CE-Ventures acquires stake in Transcorp

CE-Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of UAE-based Crescent Enterprises, announced on Monday that it has acquired a...

investement Logistics

U.A.E

Property Finder raises $120 million

Source: Reuters Private equity firm General Atlantic has led a $120 million investment and acquired a minority stake in Middle East real...

propertyfinder real esate private equity

U.A.E

Majid Al Futtaim acquires mobile wallet app Beam

Source: Gulf Business Dubai-based mall operator Majid Al Futtaim has acquired Beam Portal, the owner of UAE mobile wallet app, Beam, it...

Fintech mobile payment Dubai

U.A.E

HolidayMe raises $16 million Series C

Source: MENAbytes Dubai-based HolidayMe has raised $16 million Series C in a round led by China’s Gobi Partners and joined by...

Series C ecommerce

Regional

GCC fintech startups to attract $2 billion in investments

Private-funding investments in GCC-based financial technology (fintech) startups is expected to reach $2 billion in the next decade...

Fintech Fintech Hive investement

U.A.E

Shorooq invests in India's Impact Guru

Source: MENAbytes Indian healthcare crowdfunding platform Impact Guru has raised an investment from Shorooq Investments, the Abu-Dhabi...

Crowdfunding abu dhabi India

Regional

The Billion Dollar Fund for Women secures $70 million

The Billion Dollar Fund for Women (TBDF), a global consortium that aims to fight the gender funding gap, has secured $70 million to be...

Women empowerment Women Entrepreneur

Egypt

Egypt is building the region's first GEN hub

Egypt will host the region’s first Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) hub, a physical space designed for the exchange of knowledge...

Innovation Coworking Spaces

Egypt

Fakahany raises $700,000 seed

Source: MENAbytes Fakahany, a Cairo based farm-to-door fresh produce e-commerce platform has raised $700,000 in seed funding, the...

seed fund E-commerce

Kenya

Twiga Foods raises $10 million

Twiga Foods has announced a $10 million investment led by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Global...

Twiga Foods Wamda Capital Funding

Saudi Arabia

500 Startups launches accelerator with Misk

US-based venture capital (VC) firm 500 Startups has partnered with Saudi Arabia’s Misk Innovation to launch an early-stage...

accelerator

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