Wamda

Regional

Investcorp leads $11.2 million investment in Bewakoof

Source: Yourstory Global alternative asset manager Investcorp has led a $11.2 million investment in Mumbai-based...

U.A.E

BulkWhiz raises multi-million Series A

Source: MENAbytes Dubai-based e-commerce grocery platform BulkWhiz has closed its Series A, the startup announced today in a...

E-commerce Series A Investment

Saudi Arabia

UnitX raises $2 million

Saudi-based UnitX, an artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing startup spin-out company from King Abdullah University of Science and...

Investment saudi AI

Regional

Start-up City at The Big 5

The construction industry’s needs are rapidly evolving. The market is hungry for new ideas and solutions to address these...

Regional

C3 Social Impact Accelerator

The C3 Social Impact Accelerator program addresses key milestones in the journey of a social entrepreneur and focuses...

Egypt

RiseUp acquires StarterHub

Egypt-based RiseUp, the organiser of the biggest entrepreneurship summit in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena), has acquired...

acquisition online platform

Egypt

Hive raises $400,000 in seed funding

Source: MenaBytes Hive, a Cairo-based ride-hailing platform for kids has raised $400,000 in seed funding, the startup...

seed fund ride hailing

Regional

Wamda X applications to close 20 October

Wamda X, the grant-based fellowship programme for budding entrepreneurs and early-stage startups, is now accepting applications for its...

wamda wamda x Wamda Capital

Egypt

ExpandCart raises $150,000 in funding

Source: Disrupt Africa Egyptian e-commerce startup ExpandCart has secured US$150,000 in funding after being selected into the Hong...

fund accelerator E-commerce

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

Kuwait

Cofe raises seven figure Series A funding

Source: finsmes Cofe App, a Kuwait-based coffee-centric marketplace app, raised a seven figure Series A funding. The exact amount of...

Coffee Series A Funding

Egypt

Sprint raises six-figure in seed funding

Source: MenaBytes Cairo-based logistics startup Sprint has raised six-figure (USD) seed funding from an angel investor, the startup...

Egypt seed fund

U.A.E

Almentor raises $4.5 million in series A funding

Source: Startup MGZN Dubai-based e-learning platform almentor.net has announced that it closed a $4.5 million Series A investment round...

E-Learning Funding Series A

Global

VentureSouq invests in US gaming company Rune

Source: TechCrunch Rune, a company out of Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 class, wants to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help you...

VentureSouq

Jordan

arabot raises $1 million seed funding

Jordan-based artificial intelligence (AI) company arabot has raised a $1 million seed round led by Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF), with...

chatbot Artificial intelligence

U.A.E

BECO Capital closes second fund

Dubai-based venture capital (VC) firm BECO Capital has closed its second fund at $100 million. The VC will continue investing in early...

Venture Capital venture capital fund BECO Capital

Egypt

PrintX raises $150,000

Source: Ventureburn PrintX, a Cairo-based online print shop, has raised $150 000 from Saudi angel investor Mohamed Elbazz. Tech...

news Investment Egypt

Tunisia

International Finance Corporation invests $1 million in Flat6Labs Tunis

Source: MENAbytes International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group has announced that it is investing $1...

news fund tunisia

Regional

Top five VC deals in the third quarter of 2019

Venture Capital (VC) investments in the third quarter of 2019 have not made as much fanfare compared to the second quarter of this...

TOP VC Deals

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

Egypt

Glamera raises $250,000 seed

Source: MENAbytes Cairo-based beauty services booking platform Glamera has raised $250,000 in a seed round, the startup announced today...

seed seed investment bookings

U.A.E

Mubadala invests in Embark

Source: Forbes Embark Trucks, a self-driving tech firm created by two twenty-something Canadian computer scientists, just landed $70...

news trucks Investment

Egypt

MaxAB closes $6.2 million seed round

MaxAB, an Egypt-based business to business (B2B) e-commerce marketplace has secured seed funding of $6.2 million, in one of the largest...

Egypt FMCG Investment

Saudi Arabia

Saudi-based Daal invests in PromoRepublic

Source: MenaBytes Daal, a Khobar-based VC firm has invested an undisclosed amount of money in $2.2 million seed round of social media...

Social Media management

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