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Egypt

Rology raises investment from Dubai Angel Investors

Egypt-based healthtech startup Rology, has raised investment from Dubai Angel Investors. The amount raised was not...

Global

Abu Dhabi Capital Group invests in China's MissFresh

Source: Reuters Chinese online grocery startup MissFresh said on Thursday it has raised $495 million in its latest round of...

MissFresh Abu Dhabi Capital Group

Global

Insider closes $32 million Series C

Wamda portfolio company Insider has closed a $32 million Series C funding round led by Riverwood Capital and joined by Sequoia India, Wamda...

Insider wamda

Global

Aumet raises $1.25 million in seed funding

Jordan-born healthcare marketplace Aumet, has raised a $1.25 million seed round from Right Side Capital, TechStars, and Plugs and...

Healthcare covid-19 Aumet

Global

A deep dive into the GCC’s cloud kitchen sector [part two]

Cloud kitchens are the backend equivalent of the food courts found in malls - several offerings all under one roof. They emerged as a...

cloud kitchen Food delivery

Global

Storytel acquires Kitab Sawti

Swedish audiobook streaming group Storytel, is acquiring UAE-based Arabic audiobook platform Kitab Sawti. Founded in 2016 by Sebastian...

Kitab Sawti Storytel

Global

How do you build a company to last?

Mudassir Sheikha and Magnus Olsson founded Careem in 2012 initially as a transportation service for the corporate world. It soon became the...

careem Mudassir Sheikha

Global

Privity invests in Verofax

UAE-based advisory firm Privity has invested in Abu Dhabi-based Verofax Limited’s pre-seed investment round. Founded in 2018,...

Verofax Privity Blockchain

Global

Mubadala Capital invests in France's Owkin

Source: Crunsh base Owkin, a French company applying machine learning to medical research, has secured $18 million in funding...

Mubadala Capital machine learning Owkin

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

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

VentureSouq invests in Nigeria's Wallets Africa

Source: Disrupt Africa Nigerian fintech startup Wallets Africa has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from a host of investors as...

Wallets Africa Fintech

Global

Fincasa Ventures invests $50 million in US-based MediSponsor.Inc

Source: Zawya Fincasa Ventures, a UAE Based advisor to Multi-Royal-Family fund Houses has invested 50 million USD into MediSponsor.Inc -...

Fincasa Ventures MediSponser

Global

W3BCLOUD raises $20.5 million

W3BCLOUD, a joint venture between US-based Advanced Micro Devices and ConsenSys, announced today that it has completed its initial close of...

W3BCLOUD ethereum ConsenSys

Global

What is the future of human resources?

By Somaya El Sherbini, co-founder and managing partner at RightFoot With global economies facing challenges for the remainder of 2020,...

human resources HR recruitment

Global

Mindshift Capital Fund invests in Singapore’s Shiok Meats

Source: Tech in Asia Singapore-based foodtech startup Shiok Meats said it has raised $3 million in a bridge funding round from...

Shiok Meats foodtech Mindshift Capital Fund

Global

Should businesses be spending or saving their marketing dollars?

By Anastasiya Golovatenko, account director at Sherpa Communications The economical whirlwind caused by the outbreak of Covid-19...

Marketing Advice how to

Global

PIF invest $1.5 billion in India's Jio Platforms

Source: Techcrunch Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, said on...

PIF Jio Platforms

Global

Fintech has come into its own

Rupert Shaw is the chief commercial officer at Ireland-based Ding, a mobile top-up transfer company As we adjust to a new-normal -...

Fintech remittance

Egypt

CVentures invests in US-based MagicCube

Source: CVentures MagicCube, the creator of the world’s only Software Trusted Execution Environment platform, today announced that...

MagicCube Cventures CIB

Egypt

Orange Digital Ventures launches seed challenge for African, Middle Eastern startups

Source: Disrupt Africa Orange Digital Ventures has launched a seed challenge for startups from Africa and the Middle East, which will...

Orange Digital Ventures Seed funding

Global

Dubai family office invests in India's iNurture

Source: Vccircle Bengaluru-based ed-tech startup iNurture Education Solutions Pvt. Ltd, a provider of formal higher education programmes...

Dubai family office iNurture

Global

Franco-Tunisian startup NextProtein raises $11.2 million in Series A

Source: AgFunder news NextProtein, a French-Tunisian startup working on new ways to produce insect-based animal feed and...

Next Protein investments

Morocco

HSEVEN launches three programmes for African entrepreneurs

Source: Morroco World News Moroccan startup accelerator HSEVEN, the largest startup accelerator in Africa, has launched three...

HSEVEN covid-19 African Startups

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