Wamda

Qatar

Qatari healthtech At Home Doc raises $1.9 million pre-Series A round

Qatari-based healthtech platform At Home Doc, has raised $1.9 million in a pre-series A round led by Elaj Group’s investment arm...

At Home Doc healthtech

Qatar

Qatar’s Sponix Tech receives investment from UK’s Aser Ventures

Qatar-based sportstech Sponix Tech, has received an unknown investment amount from UK-based Aser Ventures, the co-owner of Leeds United...

Sponix Tech Aser Ventures Qatar Sportstech

Qatar

Qatar fintech Karty raises $1.2 million pre-Seed

Qatar-based fintech Karty, has raised a $1.2 million (QR4.3M) pre-Seed round from Visa, Qatar Development Bank (QDB), Qatar Foundation,...

Karty

Qatar

Qatari fintech CWallet raises $875,000 pre-Series A round

Qatar-based fintech CWallet has raised $875,000 in a pre-Series A round led by MBK Holding with participation from Angels.qa, and other...

cwallet MBK Holding W.L.L

Oman

Snoonu acquires Oman’s Akeed

Qatar-based super app Snoonu, has acquired Oman’s food delivery platform Akeed for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2019 by Hamad...

Snoonu Akeed

Qatar

What is holding back Qatar's startup ecosystem?

Qatar’s vast oil and natural gas reserves have served the country’s needs well. It was thanks to these fossil fuels that Qatar...

doha

Qatar

Qatar Investment Authority invests in Checkout.com’s $1 billion Series D round

Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has contributed to the $1 billion Series D round raised by Checkout.com at a valuation of $40 billion,...

Qatar Investment Authority Checkout.com

Qatar

Nigeria-based Helium Health acquires Qatar’s Meddy

Nigeria-based healthtech startup Helium Health has acquired Meddy, a Qatar-headquartered and UAE-based doctor booking platform for an...

Helium Health Meddy

Qatar

Qatar Science and Technology Park invests in Kanari AI

Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP) has invested in US-based Kanari AI's $475,000 in pre-Seed funding round. Founded in 2020...

Kanari AI QSTP

Qatar

Spendwisor raises $1 million and secures $50 million capital commitment from Global Emerging Markets

Qatar-based fintech startup Spendwisor has raised $1 million in a pre-Seed round led by Erhama Nasser Al-Kaabi and...

Spendwisor Fintech

Qatar

Qatar’s Fish.qa closes its Seed round

Qatar-based seafood marketplace Fish.qa raised an undisclosed Seed funding round led by venture builder 360nautica, which will also...

qatar E-commerce

Qatar

Qatar fintech Dibsy raises $300,000 in pre-Seed round

Qatar-based fintech startup Dibsy has raised $300,000 in a pre-Seed funding round, led by Salem Khalaf Al Mannai with participation...

Fintech Dibsy

Qatar

SkipCash raises $2 million seed round

Qatar-based fintech platform SkipCash, has raised a $2 million (QAR 7 million) seed round from a group of private local investors. The...

Fintech SkipCash seed

Global

Doha venture Capital participates in Cityneon’s $235 million round

Qatar-based Doha Venture Capital has participated in a $235 million funding round for Singapore-based exhibition entertainment...

Cityneon Doha Venture Capital

Qatar

Snoonu raises $5 million in Series A

Qatar-based super app Snoonu, has raised $5 million in the largest Series A round ever raised by a Qatari startup. The round was led...

Snoonu Series A ecommerce

Qatar

Joi Gifts looks to Series A round after raising $750,000 this year

UAE-based e-commerce gifting platform, Joi Gifts has expanded to Qatar, its eighth country after raising $750,000 in a pre-Series A funding...

joi gifts qatar doha

Global

QIA invests $100 million in India-based VerSe Innovation

Source: YourStory Local language tech platform VerSe Innovation, which is the parent company of news aggregator Dailyhunt and...

VerSe innovation Video On Demand Qatar Investment Authority

Qatar

What impact will the restoration of relations with Qatar have on its startups?

The almost four-year blockade of Qatar was lifted last week at the GCC Summit. Now that Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have...

qatar

Qatar

Cwallet secures $220,000 pre-seed

Qatar-based financial technology (fintech) startup Cwallet, has raised a $220,000 pre-seed round from its founders and MBK...

cwallet Fintech

Qatar

Qatar SportsTech launches EntelaQ pre-accelerator programme

Source: Menafn Qatar SportsTech (QST), a leading startup accelerator and hub for innovative sportstech companies in Qatar, has announced...

Qatar Sportstech

Global

QIA invests in Beijing-based Zuoyebang

Source: Tech Crunch Zuoyebang, a Beijing-headquartered startup that runs an online learning app, said on Monday it has raised...

EdTech

Qatar

Meddy raises $2.5 million in series A funding

Doha-based Meddy, a doctor booking platform has raised a $2.5 million in Series A round to scale up its operations in the UAE. The...

Series A Doctor Booking

Qatar

Qatar blocks Uber’s acquisition of Careem in the country

Source: MenaBytes Qatar’s competition authority has blocked Uber’s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of Careem in...

ride-hailing careem Uber

Bahrain

Seedstars GCC

Seedstars World is on a mission to identify the best seed-stage entrepreneurs and provide them with an opportunity to win up to USD 1...

GCC Gulf seedstars

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