Startups

Talabat is doubling down on grocery delivery. The UAE-based delivery giant has acquired InstaShop, a Dubai-born on-demand grocery platform, from...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has rapidly emerged as a hub for fintech innovation in recent years, fueled by the...

Dubai-based startup OZZ Technologies has introduced OZZ, a secure digital contact wallet designed to help individuals and businesses manage and...

Al Nashmiah Farms, committed to aiding women burdened by debt and facing the threat of incarceration, offers a novel solution...

Lendo, a Saudi Arabia-based shariah-compliant debt crowdfunding marketplace, has raised SAR 105 million ($28 million) in Series B funding led...

TFK, the leading curated fashion marketplace in Egypt has acquired OPIO, a direct-to-consumer (D2C) fashion brand. By joining forces, TFK...

Cairo-based fintech startup Money Fellows has raised $31M in its Series B round led by CommerzVentures, Middle East Venture Partners...

Saudi-based SaaS startup Glamera has raised a Seed round of $1.3 million, led by Riyadh Angels Investors (RAI), with participation...

Egyptian startup PraxiLabs offers people equal opportunities to access an enhanced science education by providing 3D interactive virtual simulations that...

Egypt's Fashion and Beauty Marketplace, The Fashion Kingdom (TFK), has released a week-long campaign leveraging data for women's empowerment in...

Russian fintech Companies have recently been struggling with regulatory challenges due to some economic, social, and political factors. The pressure...

Dubai-based car rental tech startup Udrive has secured $5 million in fresh funding from Cultiv8 and Oman Holding International to...

Egyptian Publishing Platform Kotobna has announced its expansion to major convenience stores across Egypt with a 26 location collaboration with...

Jordanian dental tech startup Eon Dental has successfully secured $26M in its Series B funding round. The round was led...

Cairo-based startup 'Sympl' has raised the first funding round from A15 with a regional focus. This first investment marks the...

BasharSoft the parent company of "Wuzzuf and Forasna" recruitment platforms, has announced that the founder, Ameer Sherif has stepped down...

Cairo-based PropTech startup Nawy has raised an oversubscribed seven-figure Seed round led by the Sawiris family office. Also participating in...

Cairo-based grocery and one-stop app Breadfast is donating scrumptious kahk boxes to the Egyptian Food Bank in the startup’s CSR...

Access Bridge Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital fund supporting budding entrepreneurs across MENA region & Pakistan. With...

Ureed.com offers an unprecedented view on how to incorporate freelancers in your hiring strategy. As a business owner, taking on...

Today, ElCoach, MENA's premier on-demand fitness, and nutrition app released its Year in Review 2020 and we are seriously impressed....

Cassbana, a financial identities' startup, announced raising a pre-seed round of 6 digits USD to revolutionize the financial service industry in...

As its first investment in the market, Lorax Capital Partners Fund II has announced today that it has acquired a...

Cairo – Foundation Ventures (FV) is a regional venture capital firm founded in 2019 and is managed by Mazen Nadim,...

The pre-acceleration program, StartEgypt, hosted its first virtual forum for female entrepreneurs, the Female Founders Forum. The one-day virtual event...

Comscore’s white paper “The COVID-19 Impact on Small Business Credit Card Applications in 2020” revealed that small business card application...

In this age, technology can literally be injected into your skin. So don’t expect this to be a far topic....

Cairo-based FinTech startup NowPay, a financial-wellness platform for employees in emerging markets, has announced today that the company has raised...

dreevo, a last-mile delivery-focused startup has raised 6 digits USD figure in a bootstrap, pre-seed fund from EF Logistics, a...

US-based fintech Tribal Credit has won Juniper Research's Best B2B Payment Platform Gold Award, recognizing its efforts in helping startups...

Facebook has launched a new initiative to offer digital support to local small and medium businesses in the MENA region,...

For early-stage startups, having cash is essential to staying afloat. But it’s one thing to have money and another to...

Amber Solutions, a technology innovator creating a modern hyper-intelligent electrical architecture, announced the completion of a $5.5-million Series B and...

The auto parts market in Mexico has seen tremendous growth over the past five years, redefining how the automotive industry...

Virtual credit cards are quickly gaining traction around the world in the B2B payment space. Created for online transactions, they...

In this day and age, there is literally a digital tool for everything. But when you’re a startup with limited...

Lezzoo, the Iraqi startup for delivery and payment on-demand, is geared to become the troubled nation’s first super app, following graduation from...

Using SEO to build an online presence is an essential need these days. Apart from putting your brand in the...

Egyptian fintech startup MoneyFellows has raised US $4 million in a Series-A investment round from venture capital (VC) firms Partech and...

Egyptian chatbot startup WideBot witnessed a surge of Arabic chatbot building requests during the first half of 2020, amounting to...

Brex founders Pedro Franceschi and Henrique Dubugras wrote in a blog post published yesterday that 62 people would be let go....

US-based startup Tribal Credit, which raised $9.1 million in a series of seed rounds, announced that it had joined Visa’s...

Abwaab, MENA’s latest online learning platform, today announces the closing of its $2.4M pre-seed funding round. The round was kicked...

Aside from the never-ending ancient archeological discoveries, Egypt is one of the fastest-growing startup ecosystems in MENA. A Magnitt report...

Gemini Enterprises Africa, part of Orascom Group, and RiseUp LLC, the MENA region’s connector of startups to local and global...

RiseUp Summit 2019, MENA’s leading entrepreneurship event, kicked off Thursday at the American University in Cairo (AUC) New Cairo Campus,...

Tribal Credit closed a $5.5 million Seed round led by BECO Capital and Global Ventures to bank startups in emerging...

The leading tech investor A15 has capitalized on its investment in Ireland-based retail personalization platform Intouch by doubling down on...

RiseUp has completed its selection of 15 startups from seven cities across the Middle East and North Africa to pitch...

Marketing has always been a subtle companion of trade and e-commerce. It started with word of mouth and later grew...

Facebook announced on Tuesday its partnership with RiseUp to bring ‘Boost with Facebook’, its global program designed to help small...

The global cloud-based market is forecasted to nearly double from US$29.9 billion in 2019 to US$58.9 billion by 2024, driven by...

Did you know that Arabic is the fifth most spoken language globally? Doing one for the language is Jamalon, the...

Silicon Valley-based Tribal started private beta testing with MENA startups and is closing a funding round that includes some of...

A big part of having a successful business is having happy and content employees. And while it’s true you can’t...

Career180, a centralized and comprehensive career advising platform in Egypt that aims to qualify youth to the job market, has...

Good People, the region’s leading creative production house, joined forces with the region’s leading digital agency and 2019’s Independent-Agency-of-the-Year, Kijamii, to form...

Egyptian fintech startup NowPay has raised $600,000 in seed funding from Endure Capital and 500 Startups to grow its salary...

The number of new startups in the Middle East has risen by more than 42% in the past three years,...

Online dating giant Match Group has acquired "Harmonica", an Egyptian online dating startup. Financial details were not disclosed. Announced Flat6Labs...

Seedstars World, the largest startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes will land for the first time in...

In the midst of calls to break up Facebook, struggling IPOs, and some fan drama over the Game of Thrones...

Egypt's homemade food service Mumm has launched "Mumm Prime", Egypt's premium online chef subscription service on Sunday. For an affordable...

Egypt’s Direxiona matching platform for women drivers and instructors has won the first prize in the AFD Digital Challenge competition...

It is necessary for every company to hold a workplace meeting every once in a while. The meetings are essential...

Starting your digital marketing agency sounds like an exciting thing to do; however, it can also seem a little bit...

​Brimore​, the direct-selling distribution platform that connects manufacturers with consumers, announced that it has raised $800k in a seed funding...

Wouldn't it be nice if growing your business was as simple as taking two aspirin? When you wake up the...

Algebra Ventures​, Egypt’s leading venture capital fund, has partnered with Ezdehar Management​, an investment management firm focused on high-growth Egyptian...

A few weeks ago, my friend Hendrik Jandel wrote an article about the potential he saw in the Beirut startup...

​GoodsMart​, the household shopping app that has transformed the shopping experience using unattended delivery, has announced that it has secured...

Productivity at the workplace depends on several elements one of which is a flexible working environment. This has been confirmed...

The hardest part of running a small business is using the right software to help it run. The right software...

There are many employees that have been forced to work the same mundane job day in and day out. An...

Vodafone Egypt held the first Hackathon of its kind in Egypt and in the region, inviting developers to innovate in...

Al Ahli Holding Group (AAHG) has partnered with Sony Professional Solutions MEA on the development of the media sector and...

Connect Ads launched “Villa30 Studio” - its own creative digital studio, a move that will further enhance the dynamics of...

Flat6Labs Cairo, the leading Startup Accelerator in Egypt, now offers startups joining its 12th Accelerator Cycle launching in January 2019...

​​HolidayMe​, the Middle East’s leading Online Travel Agency, has raised $16m in Series C funding from Gobi Partners, Algebra Ventures,...

Snappy, the company revolutionizing corporate gifting, announced that it had secured $9.7 million in funding to date after raising $8.2...

Accept for payments and technology has announced that it has extended its services to the Jordanian market, in partnership with MEPS,...

​POSRocket​, the cloud based point of sale platform has released the beta version of its developer portal and marketplace, to...

Dawar app is a new initiative that aims to solve Egypt's garbage dilemma with the help of technology. The app enables...

Cairo-based buss booking startup Buseet has successfully raised an undisclosed amount of investment in a seed funding round by Cairo Angels,...

Young social impact startup TheSocialMedwork, which works to solve access to medicines across the world, has signed new funding and...

​iCommunity​, Egypt’s mobile community platform for the real estate industry, has announced $600K in Series A funding from Algebra Ventures....

Egyptian digital healthcare startup Vezeeta has raised a $12 million Series C funding round led by Saudi Technology Ventures (STV)....

A15, a leading tech investment fund based in the Cayman Islands; announced today that it has successfully sold 76% stake...

Startups Galaxy is currently on a journey of “Road to 500 Startups” and we think this is a great chance...

Mobile apps are detecting skin cancer. Drones are delivering aid across continents. Artificial intelligence is disrupting every aspect of our...

Crowd Analyzer, the Arabic-focused social media monitoring tool, has received pre-Series A funding of $1.1 million from a group of...

Jordanian startup Mawdoo3.com, the world's most visited Arabic website with more than 45 million unique users per month, has completed a...

It’s time to revamp your wardrobe, alright! Specially curated by the fabulous fashion team at Namshi, this season’s trend edit...

Silicon-Valley based 500 Startups, the most active early-stage Venture Capital Fund in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region,...

La Reina, Egypt’s first online fashion rental platform, announced $1 million in a Series A funding round led by Egypt’s largest...

WUZZUF, Egypt’s number one online recruitment platform is revealing its newly revamped platform during "Unlock’18", an exclusive event that gathers...

Famous TV celebrity Chef Manal Al Alem has become the latest investor in the Cairo-based food tech startup Yumamia. The...

Today, Facebook in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) announced the launch of the Facebook Community Leadership programme, a...

The two top challenges facing today’s leaders are employee engagement and effective strategy execution, according to a survey of 1248...

Ajar's Online has closed its second round of investment since 2016, led by Dubai-based venture firm BECO Capital, and follows...