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Egypt

Koinz raises $4.8 million seed funding

Egypt-based food ordering and restaurant aggregator platform Koinz, has raised a $4.8 million seed funding round, led by Tinder founder...

Koinz f&b seed round

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

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

Egypt

Ordera raises six-figure seed funding

Cairo-based Ordera has raised a six-figure seed round from Alexandria Angels in Egypt and DAAL VC from Saudi Arabia, with participation...

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Saudi Arabia

Foodics raises $4 million pre-series B

Source: MenaBytes Foodics, a Saudi cloud-based point-of-sale system for F&B businesses has raised $4 million in fresh funds, the...

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U.A.E

Snooze notification: How LUNCH:ON copes during Ramadan

For a lunch delivery company in the UAE, Ramadan is the seasonal dip that LUNCH:ON needs to contend with. So how does the company adapt to...

f&b food tech Lunch:On

Saudi Arabia

Foodics closes bridge round

Source: MenaBytes Foodics, a Saudi startup that provides cloud-based point of sale solutions to food and beverage businesses...

f&b Bridge round

Kuwait

Kuwait-based Jumla Club raises pre-Series A

Source: Menabytes Kuwait-based B2B food and beverage platform Jumla Club has raised seven-figure pre-Series A, the startup...

f&b pre-Series A

U.A.E

Yawmi closes seed round

Dubai-based food and beverage (F&B) e-commerce startup Yawmi, has closed a seed round from Shorooq Investments. The amount of...

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Saudi Arabia

Niche e-grocery stores are gaining momentum and this Saudi startup is taking note

A research led by Think with Google, found that millennials are very much concerned about their health. If they’re going to live...

Saudi Arabia ecommerce f&b

Kuwait

Kuwait’s path towards becoming a food capital

This article is a crosspost from Nuwait. As the GCC looks to diversify their revenue streams away from the oil and gas sector, Kuwait is...

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Global

New startups on the block: September

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to watch. Blink Egypt Development...

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Regional

New startups on the block: June

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

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Regional

New startups on the block: May

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

new startups Healthcare Travel

Regional

New startups on the block: April

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

new startups IoT ecommerce

Iraq

A story of failure, or is it?

Three years ago Wamda interviewed Iraqi Mohammad Al-Samarrai about his venture, the country’s first online food delivery site based...

Easy Bites Erbil Kurdistan

Lebanon

Efiester plans parties in Paris with a foot in Beirut

Efiester wants to make organizing parties between friends easier. (Images via Efiester) Robert Harfouche is Lebanese, and lives in France....

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Egypt

Egypt's next meal ticket in tech

Egypt birthed the Middle East's first delivery website with Otlob.com in 1999; today its digital food and beverage sector is finally...

Aklni Mumm Engezni

Kuwait

Passion for food and design brought Basil AlSalem back to Kuwait

This article is a crosspost with Nuwait. Kuwaiti entrepreneur Basil AlSalem discovered his passion for food and design when...

Cocoa Room B+F Nuwait

Regional

ReserveOut announces aggressive expansion campaign

ReserveOut, an online restaurant reservation platform announced plans for an aggressive geographical expansion in the Middle East and...

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Bahrain

Bahrain's answer to OpenTable announces $300,000 second investment round

Bahrain’s newest table reservation application, eatapp.co, has just announced a second funding round, totaling $300,000. The r...

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3 lessons in startup culture from Beirut's sudden success, Jai Kitchen

This is the first in a series on the business of starting a food & beverage company in the Middle East. Check back periodically for...

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U.A.E

Can Indian Review Site Zomato Satisfy the Gulf?

India's market of over 1 billion has been enough to sustain most of its tech startups, including success story FlipKart, the online book...

f&b Reviews Expansion

Jordan

Reserving a Seat at the Table: Bashar Saleh of ReserveOut [Wamda TV]

Bashar Saleh, co-founder of ReserveOut.com, discusses how his company provides restaurant owners with an online web portal to facilitate...

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