Wamda

Qatar

Qatar’s Hydrovest raises $275K to scale agritech production and expand into the UAE

Hydrovest Technology Trading and Contracting W.L.L, a Doha-based agritech company, has closed an investment round worth $275,000 (QAR 1...

Hydrovest agritech

Regional

MENA startups raise $563 million in January 2026

Investment activity across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) startup ecosystem picked up at the start of the year, with 42 MENA-based...

Investment investments

U.A.E

Yozo.ai secures $1.7 million to build AI-native revenue engine for e-commerce merchants

UAE-based e-commerce AI startup Yozo.ai has raised $1.7 million in pre-seed funding, co-led by Access Bridge Ventures and...

Yozo.ai E-commerce Access Bridge Ventures

Morocco

Beltone joins $15 million Series A round in Moroccan proptech Yakeey

Morocco-based proptech Yakeey has raised $15 million in a Series A round, with Beltone Venture Capital joining as a strategic...

Yakeey Beltone Venture Capital

U.A.E

Property Finder secures $170 million investment led by Mubadala

UAE-based proptech Property Finder has raised $170 million in new funding led by Mubadala Investment Company, alongside another UAE...

Property finder Proptech Mubadala Investment Company

Saudi Arabia

Vennre closes $9.6 million pre-Series A in hybrid equity-debt structure

Saudi Arabia-based wealthtech Vennre has raised $9.6 million (SAR 36 million) in a pre-Series A round through a hybrid equity and...

Vennre Vision ventures Plus VC

Saudi Arabia

Flat6Labs backs Juthor in $500K pre-seed round

Saudi Arabia-based e-commerce startup Juthor has raised $500,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by Flat6Labs, with...

Juthor Flat6Labs

U.A.E

Mantas exits stealth with $1.77 million to cover cloud outages

UAE-based insurtech Mantas has emerged from stealth, announcing a $1.77 million Seed funding round to launch parametric insurance...

Mantas Insurtech Plus VC

Egypt

Egypt’s NowPay enters Saudi market with $20 million-backed Tas’heel partnership

Egypt-based fintech NowPay is launching in Saudi Arabia through NowAccess, a joint venture with United International...

NowPay Fintech

U.A.E

AppliedAI raises pre-Series B to scale enterprise AI platform

UAE-based AppliedAI has closed a pre-series B funding round led by Mubadala’s MENA Venture Capital Fund and Arbor Ventures, for an...

AppliedAI Mubadala Investment Company

U.A.E

Eat App raises $10 million Series B extension to accelerate India expansion

UAE-based foodtech Eat App has raised $10 million in a Series B extension, exceeding its original $6 million Series B raised in...

Eat App PSG Equity

Saudi Arabia

GBT closes $1.3 million pre-seed to expand smart city technologies in KSA

Saudi Arabia-based geospatial data company GulfBoost Technology (GBT) has closed a $1.3 million (SAR 5 million) pre-seed round to...

GulfBoost Technology

Morocco

Morocco’s Enakl raises $2.3 million to scale intelligent shared mobility

Morocco-based mobility startup Enakl has closed a $2.3 million Seed round, led by Azur Innovation Fund, Witamax, and MFounders,...

Enakl Azur Innovation Fund WitaMax

U.A.E

OpenCX raises $7 million ahead of Saudi expansion

UAE-based customer communication platform OpenCX has raised $7 million in a funding round led by Y Combinator (participating for the...

OpenCX Y Combinator Shorooq

U.A.E

CE-Ventures joins $55 million Series A round in US biotech Think Bioscience

UAE-based CE‑Ventures, the VC arm of Crescent Enterprises, has participated in a $55 million Series A funding round for US-based biotech ...

Think Bioscience CE-Ventures

United States

Wamda Capital leads Breez AI in $1.3 million pre-seed round

US-Jordanian no-code voice orchestration platform Breez AI has raised $1.3 million in a pre-seed round to scale its voice automation...

Breez AI Wamda Capital

Saudi Arabia

Saudi agritech Grove secures $5 million seed funding led by Outliers VC

Saudi Arabia-based agritech startup Grove has closed a $5 million Seed round led by Outliers VC, with participation from angel...

Outliers VC Grove

Egypt

KNOT Technologies raises $1 million pre-seed led by A15

Egypt- and UK-based online ticketing platform KNOT Technologies has raised $1 million in a pre-seed round led by A15. Founded in...

KNOT Technologies A15

Regional

Record year for MENA startups as funding climbs to $7.5 billion in 2025

Startup investment across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) reached a new high in 2025, marking the strongest funding performance the...

Investment investments Wamda Annual Investment Report

Saudi Arabia

Resquad AI secures $1.5 million Seed to scale AI-powered technical recruitment

Saudi Arabia-based talent management SaaS provider Resquad AI has raised $1.5 million in a Seed round led by SRG, with participation...

Resquad AI SRG

Saudi Arabia

Jadwa Investment launches $200 million GCC private credit fund

Saudi Arabia-based investment firm Jadwa Investment has launched the Jadwa GCC Diversified Private Credit Fund with a target size of up...

Jadwa Investment

U.A.E

Khosouf Studio closes $600,000 Seed from Merak Capital

UAE-based game-developing studio Khosouf Studio has raised a $600,000 seed round from Merak Capital. Founded in 2020 by...

Merak Capital Khosouf Studio

Saudi Arabia

Governata raises $4 million Seed to support enterprise AI adoption

Saudi Arabia-based enterprise data governance and management startup Governata has raised $4 million in seed funding to scale its...

Governata

U.A.E

UAE's Islamic digital bank Mal raises $230 million

UAE-based fintech Mal has raised $230 million in a strategic investment round led by BlueFive Capital, with participation from...

BlueFive Capital Mal Fintech

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