Wamda

Regional

A look at Kitopi's three-year journey

When Kitopi launched in January 2018 in Dubai, few were familiar with the concept of cloud kitchens. Now, three years later, cloud kitchens...

Kitopi cloud kitchen

Regional

Kitch launches in Saudi Arabia and the UAE

Cloud kitchen and store-front operator, Kitch, has officially launched in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, after privately raising $15...

Cloud kitchens Food & Beverage Investment

Bahrain

India’s FreshToHome receives funding from ADIO

India-based online fresh fish and poultry marketplace platform FreshToHome, has raised financial and non-financial incentives from the Abu...

FreshToHome ADIO Investcorp

Regional

The future of agritech in Mena

Across the Middle East, agriculture plays a pivotal role in transforming economies, alleviating poverty and fostering economic growth, but...

agritech Pure Harvest Smart Farms

Regional

The unstoppable growth of e-grocery

E-grocery remains the fastest growing segment of e-commerce in the Middle East according to new research from RedSeer Consulting, growing...

e-grocery

Saudi Arabia

FOODICS launches micro-lending fund to support SMEs in F&B sector

Saudi Arabia-based food and beverages (F&B) retail and restaurant management platform FOODICS, has officially launched its micro...

Foodics f&b Micro-lending

Regional

The future of Agritech in Mena

Wamda is hosting an online panel discussion on Wednesday, November 4th at 3:00 PM (GMT+4), ''The future of Agritech in...

U.A.E

Restaurant chain to cloud kitchen: Man'oushe Street's evolution to kaykroo

Cloud kitchen and virtual brands operator kaykroo has launched today with 15 locations in the UAE following a $4 million pre-Series A...

cloud kitchen kaykroo

U.A.E

Sweetheart Kitchen CEO leads its €15 million Series C round

Dubai-based cloud kitchen operator Sweetheart Kitchen, today announced the raise of €15 million ($17.7 million) in Series C funding, a...

cloud kitchen Series C

Egypt

Foodics expands to Egypt and hopes to become micro-loan lender

Saudi Arabia-based food and beverages (F&B) retail and restaurant management platform Foodics, has expanded to Egypt. The...

Foodics f&b POS

U.A.E

InstaShop’s acquisition and the growing significance of e-grocery

There is always a sense of pride, excitement and relief when a startup in the Middle East exits for a high valuation; pride for the...

instashop Delivery Hero Exit

Regional

Delivery Hero acquires UAE-based InstaShop

UAE-based e-grocery startup InstaShop today announced that it has been acquired by Germany’s Delivery Hero in a deal worth $360...

Delivery Hero instashop acquisition

Regional

elGrocer: The lessons we learned in the era of Covid-19

Nader Amiri is the founder of UAE-based e-grocery startup elGrocer E-commerce is on everyone’s mind. There’s a lot being...

e-grocery elGrocer covid-19

Global

A deep dive into the GCC’s cloud kitchen sector [part two]

Cloud kitchens are the backend equivalent of the food courts found in malls - several offerings all under one roof. They emerged as a...

cloud kitchen Food delivery

U.A.E

GrubTech raises $2 million seed

UAE-based GrubTech, a foodtech startup has raised $2 million in seed funding to fund its growth and product development. The...

foodtech GrubTech

Saudi Arabia

Munch:On - Going beyond lunch

Most food delivery platforms witnessed a slowdown in business once lockdown came into effect. Working from home gave people enough time to...

Lunch:On Munch:On

U.A.E

KBW Ventures invests in TurtleTree Labs seed round

UAE-based KBW Ventures, the venture capital (VC) firm founded by Saudi Arabia’s Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed, has participated in a...

KBW Ventures

Regional

A deep dive into the GCC’s cloud kitchen sector [part one]

When Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick sold most of his shares in the mobility giant to launch CloudKitchens, securing a $400 million cheque...

cloud kitchen Kitopi ghost kitchen

U.A.E

Mustafa Koita: Your modern-day milkman

The majority of entrepreneurs work in the corporate world for several years before something triggers their decision to leave and start...

Koita E-commerce

Global

Online food delivery: The disruption heading to destruction

Uber Eats has exited the Middle East, or rather passed the baton onto its wholly-owned regional subsidiary, Careem. The publicly listed...

Food delivery Deliveroo talabat

Egypt

Mumm raises investment for ongoing pre-Series A

Source: MENAbytes Cairo-based foodtech startup Mumm has raised an undisclosed amount of investment from Alex Angels, the startup...

foodtech Mumm

Saudi Arabia

Taker raises seed funding

Saudi Arabia-based Software as a Service (SaaS) startup Taker, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding in a round led by 500...

foodtech Seed funding

Regional

The e-grocery map of Mena

The online grocery market has grown rapidly since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, with other food delivery platforms like...

e-grocery

Regional

How startups beat the supermarkets in online grocery surge

The 24-hour lockdowns that have become commonplace in several cities across the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) has resulted in such a...

el grocer instashop e-grocery

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