Wamda

Global

Floward raises $27.5 million in Series B

Kuwait-based flowers and gifts marketplace Floward, has raised $27.5 million in a Series B funding round led by STV with participation...

Floward Floral markerplaces ecommerce

Egypt

MNT enters share swap deal with super app Halan

Netherlands-based MNT Investments BV has entered a share swap agreement with Egypt-based super app Halan. The deal is expected to...

Halan super app BNPL

Regional

Navigating a post-pandemic edtech market

The inescapable need for online learning last year provided a boom for the education technology (edtech) sector that many expect to be...

Education EdTech

Regional

Teachers, technology and tortoises

Nafez Dakkak is the managing director and CEO of the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development. It all seems so...

EdTech Nafez Al Dakkak

Regional

Watheeq launches $26.7 million proptech fund

Saudi Arabia-based investment management and financial advisory company Watheeq Financial Services, has launched SAR 100 million ($26.7...

Proptech Watheeq

Global

Localized raises $2.2 million Seed round

US-headquartered Localized, a platform that connects job seekers in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region with local and...

Localized Job listing seed

Regional

Startup advice: Building an efficient sales engine for a growth-stage startup

Sakshi Tulsian is the co-founder and chief revenue officer (CRO) at India-based POSist Technologies, which offers cloud-based restaurant...

POSist

Regional

Is Mena the next big market for micromobility?

Transportation is often described as the lifeblood of an economy. For any major city, the ability to transport goods and people along a...

mobility e-scooter micromobility

Lebanon

BASMA raises $3 million Series A round to scale operations in Mena and GCC

Lebanon-founded direct-to-consumer (D2C) digital dental startup BASMA, has raised a $3 million Series A funding round, led by...

Basma digital healthcare Series A

Regional

An evolving landscape: The state of open banking regulations in Mena

Abdulla Almoayed is the founder and CEO of open banking platform Tarabut Gateway. Here, he discusses how government regulations are shaping...

Fintech Open banking Regulations

Regional

Mena startups raised $110 million in May 2021

Startups in Mena raised almost $110 million across 35 deals in May. While it is a marked drop when compared to April, it is still an...

Investment

Regional

Clean disruption: The rise of clean beauty marketplaces in Mena

It was personal need that pushed Amina Grimen and Ayat Toufeeq to launch an e-commerce site dedicated to skincare. The pair were struggling...

clean beauty

Regional

Mena startups raised $175 million in April 2021

Growth in investment continued last month as 44 startups across the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) raised more than $175 million in...

Investment

Regional

What is growth hacking?

It took Nader Sabry 139 attempts before he launched a prayer mat designed to alleviate pain using NASA technology. Once the prototype was...

Growth hacking

Regional

The importance, potential and impact of the circular economy

Earlier this year, the UAE established a federal circular economy council to generate new economic opportunities, reduce the use of natural...

re-commerce circular economy

Regional

E-commerce's next wave of growth is in B2B

When Sultan Alasmi co-founded Zid, an e-commerce enablement platform based in Saudi Arabia back in 2017, he was repeatedly met with...

E-commerce B2B ecommerce

Regional

Has blockchain found a place in the mainstream?

Amid the hype around Bitcoin and its soaring value, there is one underlying technology that is usually mentioned as an afterthought -...

Blockchain

Global

BECO Capital and Global Ventures participate in US-based Tribal Credit's $34.3 million Series A round

Source: Pymnts Silicon Valley FinTech startup Tribal Credit closed a $34.3 million Series A funding round led by QED Investors...

Tribal credit Fintech BECO Capital

Regional

The startups tackling food waste in Mena

A third of all the food produced for human consumption is wasted every year around the world. That is roughly 1.3 billion tonnes of food...

food waste Sustainability

Regional

The future is in STEM – but only men benefit right now

The KIP Index is the first Middle East and North Africa (Mena) sector-based measure of women-inclusive policies and practices in local...

STEM gender gap

Regional

Chicken nuggets in Mena: A guide to market segmentation

Nafez Dakkak is the managing director and CEO of the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development. On a recent trip to the...

Nafez Al Dakkak

Regional

Mena startups raised $170 million in March 2021

Startups in Mena raised $170 million in March, a 6 per cent rise month on month, across 43 deals. This takes the total amount raised in the...

investments

Regional

Is the Mena region ready for femtech?

Amid the boom in healthtech over this past year, there is one sector that is now experiencing greater interest - femtech. This sector...

femtech healthtech

Regional

Localization: The Future of E-commerce

Did you know that you lose 40% of your potential global customers if you don’t communicate in their native language? If...

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