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... News • 08 March, 2021 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... Wamda • 27 October, 2020 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... Dunya Hassanein • 20 September, 2020 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... News • 30 August, 2020 Drive thru f&b Ordera
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... News • 29 June, 2019 f&b saudi Pre-Series B
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... Wamda • 16 May, 2019 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... News • 16 April, 2019 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... News • 25 February, 2019 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... Wamda • 17 January, 2019 Delivery uae food
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... Rana Freifer • 12 March, 2018 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... Lily Catherine Jabbour • 18 September, 2017 kuwait Nuwait f&b
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... Reine Farhat • 04 September, 2017 Startup List news AI
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... Reine Farhat • 04 June, 2017 new startups f&b SAAS
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... Lucy Knight • 03 May, 2017 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... Lucy Knight • 05 April, 2017 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... Lucy Knight • 08 March, 2016 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.... Aline Mayard • 06 March, 2016 party planner party efiester
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... Lilian Abou Zeki • 19 January, 2016 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... Maya Rahal • 25 January, 2016 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... Raed Khalil • 21 June, 2015 reservations Khalil Shadid ReserveOut
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... Lucy Knight • 21 January, 2015 reservations investment round f&b
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... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 09 February, 2014 jai kitchen f&b beirut
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... Aline Mayard • 21 March, 2013 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... Wamda • 23 September, 2012 f&b restaurants ReserveOut