Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s OTO raises $3 million Seed funding

Saudi Arabia-based SaaS startup OTO has raised a $3 million Seed round from MEVP & Derayah Capital. Founded in 2019 by...

News • 11 October, 2021

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Egypt

Trella raises more than $600,000 in pre-seed investment

Source: Menabytes Cairo-based trucking marketplace Trella has raised over $600,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by Algebra Ventures...

News • 24 February, 2019

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi’s crowdshipping platform wants to be in everyone’s luggage

Saudi Entrepreneur Khaled Sehly was a pharmacist before he quit his job to become an entrepreneur. In March 2017, Sehly launched...

Maya Rahal • 11 September, 2017

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi's MyCN makes shopping in China simple

"From China to your doorstep... In just a couple clicks". The MyCN homepage. If you found something you wanted on Amazon for $5, but its...

Safar Ayad • 14 January, 2016

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Friendshippr regulates informal P2P international shipping; secures $670,000 USD Series A round

Asking friends to ship or bring back an item from overseas is a practice as popular as it is tricky. Especially in this region, with its...

Aline Mayard • 29 December, 2013

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Global

This young Jordanian entrepreneur bootstrapped a funky gadget e-commerce site from home

Loay Malahmeh loves funky gifts. While shopping for one recently, he became frustrated with the overpriced products that he found...

Reine Farhat • 29 October, 2013

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Fun logistics game launches in Dubai on a lean budget; can it find distribution?

This piece is part of a new series on the challenges of new entrepreneurs who are bootstrapping their startups.  “This is a game from ...

Glen Dalakian II • 28 October, 2013

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Jordan

Can Jordan's Voga Closet scale its e-commerce store without offering cash-on-delivery?

[Update: Voga Closet is now offering Cash on Delivery] Needless to say, online payment is a serious issue for e-commerce websites in...

Reine Farhat • 06 October, 2013

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Algerian and Egyptian startups help travelers sell products from abroad; is this model scalable?

The Arab world is no stranger to luggage that's filled to almost bursting. Many travelers return from trips abroad with kilos of purchases...

Aline Mayard • 22 September, 2013

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How Namshi is doubling down on operations as it goes from startup to scaleup

“I can't stress how much we're trying to break away from the bubble and hype around our funding rounds, and see ourselves as a startup t...

Glen Dalakian II • 25 August, 2013

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Overcoming failure, Jordan's Wheels Express founder launches logistics startup in Dubai

When we last caught up with Ibrahim Manna, he was just closing down his delivery startup, Wheels Express, one of Jordan’s early s...

Nina Curley • 31 July, 2013

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PayPal Launches Middle East Operations with Aramex Partnership

PayPal, which is already an active payment platform in the region, has announced the official launch of its operations in the Middle East...

Nina Curley • 14 November, 2012

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How Turkish Jewelry Company Hazinem Plans to Enter the Middle East [Wamda TV]

During the Webrazzi Summit, we chatted with Sevgi Soysal from Hazinem, a Turkish jewelry e-commerce company. Soysal told us about the...

Wamda • 12 December, 2012

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