Wamda

Jordan

GasNas, Unihance raise $200,000

Jordan-based StartLabz, a pre-seed incubator and the venture arm of Startappz, has secured $200,000 seed funding for two of its startups:...

EdTech StartLabz pre-Seed

Global

Alpha Wave co-leads $40 million Series C round in India's Cuemath

Source: VCCircle Math learning startup Cuemath has raised $40 million (Rs 297 crore) in its Series C round of funding led by...

Alpha Wave EdTech

Global

Mubadala invests in UK-based MEL Science

Source: BusinessCloud MEL Science, a London-based, science-focused EdTech platform, today announces that it has secured $14m...

Mubadala Capital EdTech MEL Science

Lebanon

Online education in Lebanon: Cementing existing inequalities

Laura Jardine Paterson is the head of communications at Codi in Lebanon The challenges faced by Lebanon in the past year have been...

Codi EdTech remote working

Global

Library21 MEA acquires UK's Inspirational Development Group

Source: Arab News Library21 MEA Holdings Limited, a UAE-based education technology (edtech) company, has announced the acquisition of...

Library21 MEA Inspirational Development Group EdTech

Global

UAE's Amanat invests in US-based BEGiN

Source: Gulf Business Dubai’s education and healthcare investment firm Amanat Holdings has made a Dhs18.4m ($5m) investment in...

Amanat Holdings EdTech

Egypt

MARJ3 secures seed funding

Cairo-based education technology (edtech) platform MARJ3 has raised a seed investment round led by Expert DOJO, US-based investment firm,...

EdTech MARJ3 Seed funding

Jordan

IQRA’A raises pre-seed investment

Amman-based educational technology (edtech) startup IQRA’A Audiobooks, has raised $150,000 in a pre-seed funding round. Founded in...

IQRA'A audiobooks EdTech online learning

Tunisia

GOMYCODE raises $850,00 pre-Series A round with participation from Wamda

Wamda has participated in Tunisia-based edtech startup GoMyCode’s $850,000 in a pre-Series A investment round. The investment...

GoMyCode Tunis EdTech

U.A.E

Adopting a blended learning approach for the future

Jamal Al Jassmi is the general manager at Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Studies (EIBFS) As the world resets to...

EdTech

Lebanon

Synkers raises $1.8 million in pre-Series A

Lebanon-based educational technology (edtech) platform Synkers, has secured a $1.8 million pre-Series A funding round, led by Lama and...

EdTech tutoring Dubai Angel Investors

Global

UAE's Alpha Wave invests in India-based ClassPlus

Source: VCCircle Education-technology platform Classplus has raised a little over Rs 75 crore (around $10.2 million) at current exchange...

Alpha Waves EdTech ClassPLus

U.A.E

Spartech Ventures invests in UK-based Bibliu

UAE-based venture capital (VC) investor Spartech Ventures, has participated in UK-based educational technology (edtech) platform...

Spartech Ventures EdTech Bibliu

Saudi Arabia

Social learning crucial to edtech says Noon Academy founder

The coronavirus lockdown shifted attitudes towards education technology (edtech), accelerating its adoption across the Middle East and...

EdTech Noon Academy

Lebanon

Geek Express raises $520,000 in pre Series-A

Geek Express, an edtech startup based in Lebanon and the UAE, has secured $520,000 in a pre-Series A round from National Talents, IM...

Geek Express EdTech

Global

Foundation Holdings invests in India's Toppr

Source: Vccircle Toppr Technologies Pvt. Ltd, which runs an eponymous ed-tech startup, has raised Rs 350 crore ($46 million) in its...

EdTech Toppr

Global

QIA invests in Beijing-based Zuoyebang

Source: Tech Crunch Zuoyebang, a Beijing-headquartered startup that runs an online learning app, said on Monday it has raised...

EdTech

Global

Edtech and its roadmap to new realities

Wamda hosted an online panel discussion in collaboration with Columbia Global Centers Amman, to address the future of education in the...

Education EdTech coronavirus

Oman

OTF invests in Sana e-learning platform

Source: Times of Oman Oman Technology Fund announced investment in the Distance Learning Centre smart educational platform called...

elearning EdTech Oman Technology Fund

Egypt

OTO Courses raises six-figure investment

Source: Afrikanheroes Egypt’s edtech OTO Courses, has raised a six-figure (USD) investment in the form of a bridge round from AUC...

OTO Courses EdTech

Bahrain

Unipal raises seed investment

Bahrain-based Unipal has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from angel investor network Tenmou, as part of the fundraising round...

EdTech

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

Edtech startups: From perk to necessity

Schools and universities were among the first institutions that shuttered their doors around the world in the face of the Coronavirus...

Education online learning E-Learning

Saudi Arabia

In conversation with Mounira Jamjoom of Aanaab

Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia-based teacher training platform Aanaab secured a $1.5 million investment round led by Wamda and Nour...

EdTech Aanaab jeddah

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