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Bahrain’s Brinc, Tamkeen, Batelco invest in Turkey-based smart city startup AREYtech

Bahrain-based internet of things (IoT) and hardware accelerator Brinc Mena, Tamkeen Fund and Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco),...

AREYtech Brinc Mena tamkeen

Global

The basics of IP: Patents and utility models

Ludwig Lindermayer is a patent and trademark attorney at PAUSTIAN & PARTNER. In a series of thought leadership pieces, he...

Patents

Global

Alpha Wave co-leads $9 million Series A round in Singapore's Raena

Source: YourStory Raena, a startup that enables micro beauty entrepreneurs, said it will use the funding to grow its team from 15 to 100...

Alpha Wave RAENA Beauty startups

Global

Prepaid is the future of financial inclusion

Rupert Shaw is the chief commercial officer at Ding, a mobile top up and airtime transfer company based in Ireland Among all the...

financial inclusion

Global

Forgetting the M in MVP: Are founders launching in a lean way?

Leen Ashqar is a senior associate at Propeller, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Amman, Jordan As an active pre-seed and...

Global

Kuwait’s UEC leads $4.1 million Series B round in India-based Eupheus

Source: Times of India Eupheus Learning, a Delhi based leading B2B edtech company has raised $4.1 million in Series B funding...

UEC EdTech Eupheus

Global

KAUST invests $3.5 million in Estonia's Natufia Labs

Source: The Spoon Natufia Labs, the Estonia-based automated kitchen garden startup, announced today that it is relocating to Saudi...

KAUST Natufia Labs foodtech

Global

What can Mena learn from the African experience in fintech?

Mahmood Ahmadu is the chairman of Innovate 1 Pay, a Nigerian financial technology (fintech) company established in 2012, providing online...

Fintech financial inclusion africa

Global

Will Bitcoin valuations drop this year?

Khurram Shroff is the chairman of UAE-based private equity firm IBC Group which has invested in over 4000 different Blockchain products....

Bitcoin

Global

Your next great app idea will be built by software, guided by AI and humans

Sachin Dev Duggal is the co-founder and CEO of Builder.ai, a UK-based human-assisted artificial intelligence (AI) platform to...

Software AI machine learning

Global

QIA invests $100 million in India-based VerSe Innovation

Source: YourStory Local language tech platform VerSe Innovation, which is the parent company of news aggregator Dailyhunt and...

VerSe innovation Video On Demand Qatar Investment Authority

Global

The basics of intellectual property [part one]

Ludwig Lindermayer is a patent and trademark attorney at PAUSTIAN & PARTNER. In a series of thought leadership pieces, he...

Intellectual property Patents

Global

KBW Ventures invests in BlueNalu

UAE-based KBW Ventures has increased its stake in US-based BlueNalu, participating in its newly-raised $60 million convertible note...

BlueNalu KBW Ventures

Global

Derayah VC invests in Pakistan’s Bazaar

Saudi Arabia-based Derayah Venture Capital has invested in Pakistan-based business to business (B2B) e-commerce platform Bazaar’s...

Bazar b2b ecommerce

Global

VentureSouq invests in Singapore-based Volopay

Source: TechCrunch Volopay, a Singapore-based startup building a “financial control center” for businesses, announced today...

VentureSouq Volopay Volopay

Global

Alpha Wave leads $2.5 million seed round in India’s Udayy

Source: YourStory Udayy, the Gurugram-based edtech startup, has raised $2.5 million in a seed round led by Alpha Wave Incubation (AWI),...

Global

Checkout.com to open office in Riyadh after raising $450 million

Checkout.com, the UK-based payments company is expanding its presence in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) after securing a $450...

Saudi Arabia

Global

Alpha Wave leads $5 million Series A in India's edtech platform Kyt

Source: The Financial Express Edtech platform Kyt on Wednesday said it has raised USD 5 million (about Rs 36.5 crore) in funding led by...

Alpha Wave EdTech Kyt

Global

Why are governments hoarding Bitcoins?

Khurram Shroff is the chairman of UAE-based private equity firm IBC Group which has invested in over 4000 different Blockchain products....

cryptocurrency Bitcoin

Global

Interstar, DPS invest in India's Countingwell

Source: VCCircle Illuminati Learning Solutions Pvt. Ltd, which operates the mathematics-focussed education-technology startup...

Countingwell EdTech Delhi Private School

Global

What are the four phases of leadership?

Sri Shivananda is the senior vice-president and chief technology officer at PayPal SVP I have benefitted significantly in my career...

Leadership

Global

UAE-based Zenith Global invests $1 million in India's TaxBuddy.com

Source: YourStory TaxBuddy.com, a Mumbai-based fintech startup, on Monday raised $1 million in early-stage funding from UAE-based fund...

Fintech TaxBuddy.com Zenith Global

Global

Global Ventures invests in Kenya’s Ilara Health

Source: Disrupt Africa Kenyan e-health startup Ilara Health has raised a US$3.75 million Series A funding round to expand its diagnostic...

Global Ventures African Startups healthtech

Global

KBW Ventures invests in TurtleTree Labs’ $6.2 million pre-Series A

UAE-based KBW Ventures, has participated in the $6.2 million pre-Series A funding round for Singapore-based TurtleTree Labs, a...

KBW Ventures Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud TurtleTree Labs

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