Wamda

Egypt

Gameball raises $3.5 million Seed round

Egypt-based marketing CRM platform Gameball, has closed a $3.5 million Seed round led by 500 Global, Africa-focused funds P1 Ventures...

Gameball 500 Global

Egypt

Career180: Helping plug the skills gap for professionals in Mena

Unemployment remains perilously high across the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena), where 70 per cent of the 283 million youth aged...

Career180 unemployment

Egypt

Egypt’s MNT-Halan raises $400 million at valuation of $1 billion

Egypt-based fintech MNT-Halan has raised up to $400 million in equity and debt financing from local and global investors. The round...

MNT-Halan Fintech Chimera Capital

Egypt

Egypt’s GBarena acquires Tunisia’s Galactech in a $15 million share swap deal

Egypt-based esports platform GBarena has acquired Tunisia’s Galactech for $15 million, in the form of a share swap. This...

Gbarena Galactech

Egypt

KarmSolar secures $3 million from HSBC to fuel Farafra Solar Grid

Egypt-based cleantech KarmSolar has received $3 million (EGP83 million) in debt financing from HSBC to finance the development of its...

KarmSolar solar energy Farafra Solar Grid

Egypt

Mahaseel Masr raises funding from EIIC

Egypt-based agritech Mahaseel Masr, has raised funding from Emirates International Investment Company (EIIC). Founded in 2020 by...

Mahaseel Masr

Egypt

Fintech Galaxy acquires Egypt’s open banking platform Underlie

UAE-based open finance platform Fintech Galaxy has acquired Underlie, an Egypt-based open banking platform offering application...

Underline Fintech Galaxy

Egypt

CheckMe acquires DoctorOnline

Egypt-based healthtech platform CheckMe has acquired a majority stake in DoctorOnline, a doctor appointment booking app. The deal was...

CheckMe Doctoronline

Egypt

Muqbis raises pre-Seed round from Nama Ventures

Egypt-based Muqbis, an online marketplace for handicrafts, has raised an undisclosed amount in pre-Seed funding from Nama...

Muqbis Nama Ventures

Egypt

B2B startup Suplyd raises $1.6 million pre-Seed round

Egypt-based restaurant logistics startup Suplyd, has raised a $1.6 million pre-Seed round led by Endure Capital, Seedstars, Camel...

suplyd

Egypt

Saudi-based Jumlaty and Egypt’s Appetito merge into new entity, NOMU

Saudi-based grocery delivery startup Jumlaty and Egyptian counterpart Appetito have announced their merger to create a new company,...

Jumlaty Appetito

Egypt

PTS Investments Holdings partially acquires Egypt’s EDAM

US-based PTS Investments Holdings has partially acquired Egypt-based healthtech EDAM through its operating company in Egypt. The value...

EDAM

Egypt

Morni invests $10 million in Egypt to acquire mobility startups

Saudi Arabia-based mobility solutions platform Morni is planning to invest $10 million to target new acquisitions in Egypt in the...

Morni Exists.me

Egypt

SIDEUP raises $1.2 million Seed, relocating HQ to Riyadh

Egypt-based logistics platform SIDEUP, has raised a $1.2 million Seed round from Launch Africa VC, 500 Global, Riyadh Angels, Alex...

SIDEUP 500 Global E-commerce

Egypt

OneOrder raises $3 million Seed

OneOrder, an Egypt-based B2B marketplace that connects restaurants to suppliers, has raised a $3 million Seed round led by Nclude as...

OneOrder

Egypt

Brito joins Egypt’s growing list of cloud kitchens after raising $1.25 million

For Egyptians, ordering food from a local restaurant is nothing novel. The country’s restaurant market is thought to be worth $17...

cloud kitchen Brito

Egypt

500 Global opens an office in Egypt, partners with ITIDA to launch support programmes for local startups

US-based venture capital firm 500 Global is set to open an office in Egypt and has recently partnered with Information Technology...

500 Global

Egypt

CyberTalents wins Black Hat’s $25,000 prize

Egypt-based cybersecurity platform CyberTalents, has won a $25,000 prize in the Cyberseed Start-Up Global Competition, organised by the...

CyberTalents cybersecurity Black Hat

Egypt

Flat6labs, Dar Al Handasah, SIAC launch 'Makers' to support contech startups in Egypt

Egypt-based early-stage VC and accelerator Flat6Labs has partnered with construction company SIAC and engineering consultancy Dar Al...

Flat6Labs

Egypt

Modus partners with USAID to launch venture builder in Egypt

US-based and Mena-focused VC firm Modus, has partnered with USAID to launch a venture builder (MV Builder II) in Egypt, to build and...

Modus USAID MV Builder II

Egypt

Grinta raises $8 million Seed round

Egypt-based B2B marketplace Grinta, has raised $8 million Seed funding co-led by Raed Ventures and Nclude, alongside other investors...

Grinta Raed Ventures Nclude

Egypt

Egyptian fintech Blnk raises $32 million in equity, debt funding

Egypt-based fintech Blnk, has raised $23.7 million in equity and debt funding, and $8.3 million in securitised bond issuance. The...

Blnk Fintech Sawari Ventures

Egypt

Egyptian foodtech Brotinni raises $600,000 Seed to expand “dark butchery” network

Egypt-based foodtech startup Brotinni, has raised a $600,000 Seed round led by Innlife investments. The startup, founded by Dalia Abou...

Brotinni

Egypt

UAE-based X-ERA acquires Egypt’s B2B marketplace SPEED

UAE-based logistics services provider X-ERA, has acquired Egypt’s B2B marketplace SPEED, as part of its international expansion...

SPEED

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