Wamda

Saudi Arabia

Wa’ed Ventures earmarks $100 million to invest in Saudi AI sector

Aramco’s $500 million VC fund, Wa’ed Ventures, has allocated $100 million for early-stage AI investments to support...

Regional

AI redefines MENA corporate travel business

An article by Stan Klyuy, a Chief Commercial Officer at Tumodo, an online business travel platform. In 2024, the digital...

AI Artificial intelligence Travel

U.A.E

UAE's CAI Concierge AI raises undisclosed investment round

UAE-based AI startup CAI Concierge AI has raised an undisclosed investment, led by Enlightened Minds and VC SILA. Founded in...

CAI Concierge AI Artificial intelligence

U.A.E

UAE’s G42 pledges new investment in newly-born AI startup Analog

UAE-based AI and cloud computing giant G42, has allocated an undisclosed investment in the Abu Dhabi-headquartered AI company...

Analog G42 AI

Regional

How to generate value with generative AI

Abed Kasaji is the co-founder of US-based Anecdote, an AI-driven customer insights tool. Kasaji was previously the senior product manager...

Anecdote Artificial intelligence

Regional

Does Mena need to pay greater attention to developments in AI?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated through almost every industry and sector, changing our daily interactions with technology...

Artificial intelligence

Saudi Arabia

Saudi AI startup Mozn raises $10 million Series A funding

Saudi Arabia-based AI company Mozn has raised $10 million in Series A funding, led by Raed Ventures with participation from Shorooq...

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Tunisia

Tunisia-born InstaDeep raises $100 million Series B round

Tunisia-born InstaDeep has closed its Series B round at $100 million, led by Alpha Intelligence Capital together with CDIB, alongside...

InstaDeep SAAS Artificial intelligence

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...

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...

Artificial intelligence AI

U.A.E

Can AI work in oil and gas without historical data?

In some countries in the Middle East, the oil and gas (O&G) sector contributes as much as 90 per cent to gross domestic product (GDP)....

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U.A.E

nybl acquires Mexico-based machine learning startup Nubila

UAE-based nybl, an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning startup has acquired Nubil, a Mexico-based visual data mining and...

nybl Artificial intelligence machine learning

U.A.E

Derq raises $500,000 from Wadi Makkah Ventures

Derq has raised $500,000 from Wadi Makkah Ventures as part of its pre-Series A round, which included other global investors. The...

Artificial intelligence Analytics

Saudi Arabia

$20 billion investment target set for Saudi national AI strategy

Source: Carrington Malin The Saudi national AI strategy was announced at the virtual Global AI Summit by Saudi Data and Artificial...

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Global

Abu Dhabi's Alpha Wave invests in Entropik Tech

Source: Live Mint Entropik Tech, an artificial intelligence-powered emotional intelligence platform, has raised $8 million (about Rs58.4...

Artificial intelligence

Global

Sanabil Investments invests in US-based Atomwise

Source: Venture Beat Atomwise, a startup using AI to accelerate drug discovery, today secured $123 million in funding. A...

Sanabil Investments Atomwise Artificial intelligence

Regional

How AI can help governments in a post Covid-19 world

Jad Hajj, partner, and Wissam Abdel Samad, principal, Christian Stechel, senior manager, Gustave Cordahi, senior associate, with...

Artificial intelligence

Saudi Arabia

Quant secures pre-series A investment

Saudi Arabia-based Quant, a startup specialised in data science and artificial intelligence (AI), has secured $1.2 million in a pre-series...

Data Analytics Artificial intelligence

Regional

How do we create AI in Arabic?

For millions of people across the Middle East and North Africa, interacting with a digital voice assistant like Apple’s Siri or...

Mawdoo3 Artificial intelligence Siri

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

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...

Artificial intelligence AI robot

U.A.E

In conversation with Sahiqa Bennett of Searchie

Searchie uses artificial intelligence (AI) to determine a candidate’s suitability for a job. The technology monitors 361,000 factors...

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Egypt

WideBot closes pre-Series A round

Source: Menabytes Cairo-based Arabic chatbot building platform WideBot has raised six-figure (USD) Pre-Series A investment, the startups...

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Global

Artificial Intelligence: a blessing or a curse waiting to unfold?

The notion that computers could one day “think” or supersede human intelligence is not a new one. It was Ada Lovelace, an...

Artificial intelligence AI machine learning

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