Wamda

Regional

Wamda graduates second cohort of its fellowship programme Wamda X

Wamda, the Mena region’s leading entrepreneurship platform, has graduated the second cohort of Wamda X, its grant-based fellowship...

wamda x

Global

Global Ventures invests in African healthtech startup

Source: Zawya Dubai-based Global Ventures has co-led a $7 million investment with AAIC Japan in Helium Health, West Africa's largest...

healthtech covid-19

Egypt

Pravica raises $500,000 pre-seed

Cairo-based Pravica, (previously known as Dmails), has raised US$500,00 in a pre-seed round, led by 500 Startups, with the...

Blockhain Pravica 500 startups

Palestine

Ibtikar Fund invests in Tawazon

Ibtikar Fund has announced a seed investment in the Palestine-based meditation app Tawazon. Tawazon, or “balance” in Arabic,...

Ibtikar Fund Meditation Tawazon

U.A.E

EMPG reaches unicorn status and announces merger with OLX

Source: MenaBytes Dubai-based Emerging Markets Property Group (EMPG) that runs property portals in different emerging markets across the...

OLX EMPG Invesmtment

U.A.E

Faith Capital invests in YouGotAGift’s share offering

Kuwait-based venture capital firm Faith Capital announced its participation in the secondary share offering in Dubai-based online gifting...

yougotagift Faith capital E-gifting

Global

EMPG acquires Thai online retailer Kaidee

Source: Deal Street Asia Dubai-based online classified group Emerging Markets Property Group (EMPG), parent company of Bayut, has...

E-commerce EMPG

Egypt

Mumm raises investment for ongoing pre-Series A

Source: MENAbytes Cairo-based foodtech startup Mumm has raised an undisclosed amount of investment from Alex Angels, the startup...

foodtech Mumm

Saudi Arabia

Taker raises seed funding

Saudi Arabia-based Software as a Service (SaaS) startup Taker, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding in a round led by 500...

foodtech Seed funding

U.A.E

Axeed labs announces $272,000 launchpad for startups, SMEs

Source: Trade Arabia Axeed labs, the UAE-based mobile application and software development firm, has launched its Dh1 million ($272,000)...

smes Launchpad Covid19

Global

Mubadala Capital invests in US-based Unlearn.AI

Source: Techcrunch Unlearn.AI, which has built a machine learning platform that builds “digital twin” profiles of...

Mubadala Capital healthtech UnlearnAI

U.A.E

Anghami pledges $3 million to SMEs

Source: ITP Leading Middle East music platform Anghami has revealed a $3 million budget to help small businesses survive during the...

anghami covid-19

U.A.E

Hubpay raises seed investment

UAE-based Hubpay, a digital wallet for remittances has announced its seed round led by US venture capital firm, Signal Peak Ventures,...

Fintech financial inclusion hubpay

Oman

OTF commits funding support to three online startups

Source: Oman Observer The Oman Technology Fund (OTF), the Sultanate’s leading venture capital investment fund, has announced...

covid-19 Bahraini ecosystem OTF

Kuwait

Baims secures first edtech funding in Kuwait

Kuwait-based Baims has secured a seed round funding, the first education technology (edtech) investment in Kuwait. The round was led by...

EdTech Education

Global

Falcon Eye Drones raises investment from Aerodyne Group

Falcon Eye Drones Services (FEDS) Group Holdings, announced a “major strategic investment” from global drone-based management...

Drones Aerodyne Group Falcon Eye Drones

U.A.E

Sheraa awards Little Thinking Minds $100,000 grant

Source: Khaleej Times The Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center (Sheraa), has awarded its first Access Sharjah winner, 'Little...

Sheraa little thinking minds

Regional

Eventtus secures investment to launch a virtual events platform

UAE-based Eventtus, has secured an investment round to launch a new digital events platform in response to the Covid-19 impact on the...

events Investment coronavirus

Global

Mubadala Capital invests in US-based Wellpay

Source: IBSintellegence California-based Wellpay, a FinTech platform provider for the healthcare industry, has also announced that...

Mubadala Capital Wellpay Fintech

Egypt

Fawry’s founder launches fintech fund

Egypt-based financial technology (fintech) company Fawry has played a pivotal role in providing digital payment capabilities to businesses...

Fintech fawry

Regional

Mena startups raise $277 million in Q1 2020

Source: Arabian Business Startups in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region raised $277 million in the first three months of...

MAGNiTT Q1

U.A.E

HDC raises $350,000 in seed funding

UAE-based startup Hotel Data Cloud (HDC), has raised $350K in seed funding from both local and international investors, to help hotels...

HDC online booking covid-19

U.A.E

ADIO allocates $100 million to four agritech companies

Source: The National Abu Dhabi Investment Office (Adio) invested $100 million (Dh367m) to bring four agriculture technology companies to...

agritech Abu Dhabi Investment Office (Adio)

U.A.E

Mamo Pay raises $1.5 million

UAE-based Mamo Pay, a peer-to-peer payments app has raised $1.5 million in a round led by Global Founders Capital (GFC) with participation...

mamo pay Fintech

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