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Egypt

E-commerce venture Noon expands operations to Egypt

Source: Arabian Business Noon, the e-commerce venture operating in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday announced its expansion into...

E-commerce Expansion

Egypt

Uber agrees to pay VAT in Egypt

Source: Reuters Uber has agreed to pay value-added tax on its services in Egypt, Egyptian officials said on Monday, a move that may help...

Uber Egypt VAT

Saudi Arabia

Mad'a invests in Family Souk Ventures

Source: Saudi Gazette Mad’a Investment Company, a private equity & venture capital firm headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,...

Investment E-commerce

U.A.E

Dubai-based Mile raises seed funding

Source: Menabytes Dubai-based delivery and logistics management platform Mile has raised seed funding in a round led by Saudi VC Riyad...

Seed funding Delivery Logistics

Egypt

GoodsMart secures funding from Algebra Ventures in pre-Series B

Egypt-based e-grocery company GoodsMart announced that it has secured funding in a pre-Series B round from Algebra Ventures. This...

Funding Pre-Series B E-commerce

Lebanon

Feel22 raises Series A

Source: MENAbytes Lebanese beauty ecommerce startup has raised a Series A funding round, the startup announced in a statement...

ecommerce ecommerce middle east beauty products

Kuwait

Kuwait-based online coffee marketplace Cofe raises $3.2m Pre-Series A

Source: Menabytes Kuwait-based Cofe has raised $3.2 million in Pre-Series A funding for its coffee-centric marketplace app, the...

Investment Coffee marketplace

Saudi Arabia

Saudi startup GetMuv raises $1.5 m to connect users with gyms and sports clubs

Source: Menabytes Jeddah-based fitness startup GetMuv has raised $1.5 million investment from Saudi Aramco’s venture capital arm,...

Investment fitness Sports

Regional

Turkey and Saudi lead in patent applications in the Middle East

Turkey and Saudi Arabia rank the highest in the Middle East for patent applications according to a report from the World Intellectual...

Patents china Intellectual property

Tunisia

Tunisia-founded TravelCar acquired by Groupe PSA

Tunisia-founded mobility solutions platform TravelCar, now headquartered in Europe was acquired by France-based automobile...

Acqusition mobility car

Regional

Dubai-founded Pixelbug gets acquired by American Besomebody

Source: Menabytes Cincinnati-based learning platform Besomebody that specializes in job placement and employer services has...

ar Acquistion news

Tunisia

Tunisian doctor booking platform Med.Tn raises over $650,000

Source: Menabytes Tunisian doctor booking platform Med.Tn has raised little over $650,000 (2 million Tunisian Dinars to be precise) in...

Investment Doctor online

U.A.E

Dubai-based MEVP closes additional $65m in commitments

Source: Menabytes Dubai-based Middle East Venture Partners has closed additional $65 million in commitments for its latest...

news Investment funds

U.A.E

Global video ads marketplace Teads acquires Dubai-based Buzzeff

Source: Menabytes Teads, a New York-headquartered global video ads marketplace has acquired Dubai-based video ads...

Videoads Dubai acquisition

U.A.E

Dubai South to invest $545m in new e-commerce zone

Source: The National State-developer Dubai South said on Monday it aimed to spend Dh2 billion ($545 million) to build an e-commerce free...

E-commerce uae Free Trade

Regional

GetJenny raises $2.3m from Dubai Angel Investors

Source: Menabytes Helsinki-based customer service-focused bot building platform GetJenny has raised $2.3 million (€2 million) as...

Expansion MENA AI

U.A.E

Medicus AI closes first tranche of Series A

Source: Arabnet Medicus AI announced the completion of the first tranche of its Series A funding round at €2.75M (just over...

Artificial intelligence Health healthtech

Jordan

Amman based Oasis500 announces partial exit from Little Thinking Minds

Source: Menabytes Amman-based accelerator and seed investor Oasis500 has announced partial exit from Jordanian edtech startup Little...

EdTech Jordan Exit

U.A.E

Bayut.com’s parent company raises $100 million Series D

Source: MenaBytes Dubai-based property website Bayut.com’s parent company Emerging Markets Property Group (EMPG), also...

investment round Investment property

U.A.E

Yellow Door Energy raises $65m from global investors

Sorce: Zawya Dubai-based Yellow Door Energy (YDE), a provider of solar energy solutions in the Middle East and Africa, has...

solar energy Investment

U.A.E

Melltoo closes bridge round

Dubai-based secondhand e-commerce platform Melltoo has closed a pre-series A round that it will use to expand its operational capacity...

uae ecommerce secondhand

Saudi Arabia

Al Tayyar acquires rest of 40 per cent stake in Almosafer

Source: Menabytes Al Tayyar Group, one of the largest travel and tourism companies in Saudi Arabia with presence almost all over the...

news Investment Travel

Palestine

Ibtikar Fund invests in Palestine's Safra

Palestine’s Ibtikar Fund has announced a new investment in Safra, a Ramallah-based online travel platform for travel agents in the...

travel tech palestine Ibtikar Fund

Bahrain

Bahrain first Business Angels company announces its partial exit from EatApp

Source: Startup MGZN Tenmou, Bahrain’s first ‘Business Angels company’ recently announced its partial exit from...

Bahrain news Investment

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