U.A.E MBZUAI partners with OurCrowd Arabia to accelerate AI growth in UAE The UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) has signed an MoU with Israeli VC fund OurCrowd, to... News • 09 May, 2023 MBZUAI OurCrowd AI
Egypt Can Mena adopt AI at the same speed and scale it is recommended to? Aliah Yacoub is an AI philosopher and Farah Ghazal is an AI social scientist at Egypt-based techQualia Emerging technologies... Thought Leadership • 20 February, 2023 ChatGPT AI
Global How can investors use data science? Dmitry Kaminskiy is the general partner at Deep Knowledge Group, a UK-based consortium of commercial and non-profit organisations active in... Thought Leadership • 12 December, 2022 big data AI
U.A.E OurCrowd expands Abu Dhabi investment operations Israel-based VC firm OurCrowd has announced the expansion of its Abu Dhabi operations with a new VC office and AI tech hub enabled by... News • 16 November, 2022 OurCrowd ADIO ADGM
Bahrain Faceki raises Seed round from Nama Ventures Bahrain-based identity verification platform Faceki has raised an undisclosed amount in a Seed funding round led by Nama Ven... News • 15 August, 2022 Faceki Nama Ventures AI
Bahrain Bahrain’s Faceki raises undisclosed Seed round from Tenmou Bahrain-based AI startup Faceki, has raised an undisclosed Seed round from Bahraini business angel network Tenmou. Founded in... News • 07 August, 2022 Tenmou Faceki AI
Egypt AI startup Synapse Analytics raises $2 million pre-Series A round Egypt-based AI tech startup Synapse Analytics, has raised $2 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by Egypt Ventures, with... News • 22 June, 2022 Synapse Analytics Egypt Ventures AI
Egypt DXwand raises $1 million pre-Series A round Egypt-based AI startup DXwand has closed a pre-Series A investment round of $1 million, led by Huashan Capital, US-based VC firm SOSV,... News • 12 June, 2022 DXwand AI Huashan Capital
Jordan Jordan’s Xina AI raises $ 1 million Seed round Amman-based AI startup Xina AI has raised $1 million in a Seed round, led by Jordanian angel investors. Founded in August... News • 29 September, 2021 Artificial intelligence AI
Regional Should we care about Philosophy of AI in the Mena region? Aliah Yacoub is an AI philosopher and head of techQualia at Egypt-based Synapse Analytics, a data science and AI company The... Thought Leadership • 19 September, 2021 Artificial intelligence AI
Saudi Arabia Saudi AI startup Intelmatix secures investment from STV and Sultan Holdings Saudi Arabia-based AI startup Intelmatix has raised an undisclosed investment round, led by STV and Sultan Holdings. Founded... News • 03 August, 2021 deeptech AI
Global Your next great app idea will be built by software, guided by AI and humans Sachin Dev Duggal is the co-founder and CEO of Builder.ai, a UK-based human-assisted artificial intelligence (AI) platform to... Thought Leadership • 14 February, 2021 Software AI machine learning
U.A.E Mohamed Hilal Group invests in Spain’s VirtuE through SAIN UAE-based Mohamed Hilal Group has signed an investment agreement with Spanish Startup VirtuE R&D, through the newly-launched Sharjah... Dunya Hassanein • 19 January, 2021 Virtue R&D AI Mohamed Hilal Group
Morocco ATLAN Space raises $1.1 million in Series A Morroco-based ATLAN Space has raised $1.1 million (MAD 10 million) for its Series A funding round from Maroc Numeric Fund II, with... Wamda • 03 November, 2020 ATLAN Space AI UAVs
U.A.E Hub71 chooses startups for third cohort Abu Dhabi-based accelerator Hub71 has chosen the 19 startups that will partake in the third cohort of its accelerator... Wamda • 02 November, 2020 Hub71 AI big data
Global Group 42 invests in US-based Beyond Limits Source: Crunchbase Artificial intelligence company Beyond Limits has landed $133 million in its Series C round. The... News • 24 September, 2020 Beyond Limits AI Group 42
Palestine Liquid assets: Conserving Palestine’s water supplies In the Palestinian territories, severe water shortages have become an unfortunate norm – while Israelis living in nearby Jewish... Alicia Buller • 10 March, 2020 palestine IoT AI
U.A.E Wamda boosts investment in automotive platform Seez Wamda, the Middle East region’s leading startup ecosystem enabler, has boosted its investment in UAE-based startup Seez, which raised... Wamda • 17 February, 2020 Seez AI
U.A.E Hikma Ventures invests in Winterlight Labs Source: Prn newswire Hikma Pharmaceuticals announced that its venture capital arm, Hikma Ventures has led... News • 19 November, 2019 AI Healthcare Dubai
Egypt A15 doubles its investment in Intouch Source: Daily News Egypt Leading tech investor, A15, has capitalised its investment in the Ireland-based retail personalisation... News • 18 November, 2019 AI Retail Investment
Egypt Botme raises six-figure in seed funding Source: MenaBytes Botme, a Cairo-based chatbot building platform has raised six-figure seed investment, the startup... News • 18 November, 2019 chatbot AI seed
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... Yasmeen Nabil • 10 October, 2019 Investment saudi AI
Global Can artificial intelligence eradicate death? Ben Goertzel is one of the most prominent artificial intelligence (AI) architects in the world. He is the founder of SingularityNET and the... Triska Hamid • 08 September, 2019 Artificial intelligence AI robot
Saudi Arabia Hazen.ai closes seed round Source: Startup MGZN Hazen.ai, a Saudi startup focusing on artificial intelligence-based traffic analytics and monitoring solutions,... News • 01 August, 2019 AI traffic Investment