Wamda

U.A.E

Crescent Enterprises to double investments in startups to $272 million by 2022

UAE-based Crescent Enterprises announced doubling its venture capital investments in startups to $272 million (Dh 1 billion) by...

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U.A.E

Aldar launches second incubator programme

Abu Dhabi-based property developer Aldar launches second edition of its Manassah programme, a six-month entrepreneurship incubator...

Manassah Aldar uae

U.A.E

KLAIM raises $1 million in its Seed round

UAE-based fintech platform, KLAIM has raised $1 million in Seed investment from TechStars and a group of strategic regional investors,...

fin-tech SAAS uae

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

U.A.E

Why are there so few Emirati entrepreneurs?

Earlier this year Wamda published a report on the state of pre-seed startups in the Middle East and North Africa. What emerged from our...

emiratis uae

U.A.E

Group 42 acquires Bayanat

Source: Emirates News Agency Group 42, an Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence and cloud computing company, announced today that it...

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Regional

Gitex: A show dominated by Saudi Arabia and the women of the UAE

Some 100,000 people attend Gitex every year in what is the region’s biggest technology exhibition. Bringing together government,...

Women Saudi Arabia uae

Oman

Omani Society for Education Technology acquires Nadrus.com

Omani Society for Education Technology (OSET) has officially acquired Dubai-based online Arabic courses marketplace Nadrus.com for an...

Acquistion online courses

U.A.E

Melltoo raises pre-Series A from China’s Gobi Partners

Dubai-based online marketplace Melltoo has announced an undisclosed pre-series A funding round co-led by China-based venture capital...

E-commerce Funding ksa

U.A.E

UAE's Masdar, UK government invest $86 million in green technology fund

Source: Zawya Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) together with the UK government have invested £70 million ($86.48 million)...

Technology fund uae

U.A.E

Dubai halts Uber X and Careem's Go ride options

Source: The National Ride-hailing giant Uber and its UAE-based partner Careem have halted their cheapest ride options in Dubai,...

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Regional

Washmen raises $6.2 million Series B

Source: Menabytes Washmen, a Dubai-based dry cleaning and laundry service has raised $6.2 million in its Series B round, the startup...

startup series B Washmen

U.A.E

Dubai-based Oliv expands to Singapore

Source: MenaBytes Oliv, a Dubai-based youth career platform has expanded to Singapore, the startup announced last month. The...

Expansion news uae

U.A.E

Dubai South to invest $545m in new e-commerce zone

Source: The National State-developer Dubai South said on Monday it aimed to spend Dh2 billion ($545 million) to build an e-commerce free...

E-commerce uae Free Trade

U.A.E

Melltoo closes bridge round

Dubai-based secondhand e-commerce platform Melltoo has closed a pre-series A round that it will use to expand its operational capacity...

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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...

Delivery uae food

Saudi Arabia

Maharah acquires a strategic stake in UAE's Bloovo

Source: Entreprenuer Bloovo, one of UAE’s algorithm-based online recruitment platforms, has brought Saudi-based Maharah Human...

acquisition HR saudi

U.A.E

VR in airports: Driving sales, beyond entertainment

In early 2015, the Australian flag carrier Qantas Airways, in partnership with Samsung, brought Virtual Reality (VR) to its first-class...

uae Entertainment tech

U.A.E

Workers’ safety and tracking device WakeCap raised $300K

WakeCap, raised $300,000 from CCC (Consolidated Contractors Company), a construction group with projects across Middle East, Asia and...

uae WakeCap Investment

U.A.E

$33B of lost remittances could be regained through the Blockchain, and this UAE startup is on it

Fintech startups are continuously bringing innovative solutions to cater to the large unbanked population. According to the World...

uae Dinarii Cash Fintech

U.A.E

Four startups from the travel and tourism industry won Intelak’s third cohort

Four Dubai-based startups aiming at transforming the aviation, travel, and tourism industries graduated on April 30 from the...

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U.A.E

Hospitality veteran invests $4M in Dubai-based virtual hotel startup to drive its expansion plan

MaisonPrive, a ‘virtual hotel’ operator that offers luxury apartments and villas to business and leisure visitors to Dubai,...

uae Funding MaisonPrive

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala acquires minority stake in NY-based Phoenician Capital

Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Investment Company acquired a minority stake in the general partner of Phoenician Capital, a New York-based...

uae Mubadala Investment Company acquisition

U.A.E

Endeavor Scale Up 2018

Scale-Up UAE is Endeavor UAE’s annual, scale-up focused conference, where some of the most promising entrepreneurs from the UAE and...

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