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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Cabinet approves the residency permit for skilled expatriates, investors

Source: Alarabiya Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet approved on Tuesday the special residency permit for entrepreneurs, investors, and...

residence permit investors

Saudi Arabia

KAUST’s Red Sea Farms closes $1.9m investment

Source: Arab Net Red Sea Farms, an agriculture technology spinout company from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology...

WATER irrigation food

Saudi Arabia

Careem starts bus service from Jeddah to Makkah

Source: The National Careem, the Dubai ride-hailing platform that was bought by Uber for $3.1 billion (Dh11.39bn), has launched...

ride hailing bus

Tunisia

Tunisia’s InstaDeep raises $7 million in Series A funding

Source: Disrupt Africa Enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) startup InstaDeep has raised US$7 million in Series A funding from...

news Investment AI

Egypt

Cairo-based ArqamFC gets acquired by UK’s StatsBomb

Source: MenaBytes Cairo-based sports data startup ArqamFC has been acquired by English football analytics company StatsBomb, the...

football Statistics acquisition

Egypt

Cairo-based Odiggo raises $180,000 in seed funding

Source: MenaBytes Odiggo, a Cairo-based ecommerce marketplace for auto spare parts has raised $180,000 as seed funding at the valuation...

spare parts cars

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi Investment Office launches Dh535 million fund

The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) announced today that it has launched the Dh535 million Ghadan Ventures Fund to support Abu...

fund Venture Capital startups

Oman

Oman’s eMushrif raises $1 million pre-Series A

Source: MenaBytes Muscat-based eMushrif has raised $1 million in a pre-Series A funding round, the startup announced today. The...

pre-Series A Investment smart

Regional

Kitab Sawti raises $6 million in Series A

Sweden-based Kitab Sawti, the world’s largest Arabic audiobook platform, has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round from...

audio books arabic

U.A.E

Souq becomes Amazon.ae in the UAE

Source: The National Amazon and Souq on Wednesday announced the launch of Amazon.ae, which replaces souq.com in the UAE nearly two years...

news Amazon Souq.com

U.A.E

Dubai-based Kerning Cultures raises $460,000 in seed funding

Source: MenaBytes Dubai-based Kerning Cultures has raised $460,000 as seed funding, becoming the first ventured backed podcast network...

seed-fund podcast Investment

U.A.E

Dubai-based Searchie raises $2 million

Source: MenaBytes Dubai-based recruitment platform Searchie has raised $2 million in seed funding led by two family offices who have...

Investment news Dubai

Saudi Arabia

Saudi-based Sary raises six-figure in seed funding

Source: MenaBytes Saudi-based wholesale grocery platform Sary has raised seed funding, the startup announced today. Sary did not...

grocery Investment seed

U.A.E

Dubai-based Jump The Q secures a Pre-seed funding round

Source: Magniit Jump the Q, a Dubai based tech startup has successfully secured a pre-seed funding round of an undisclosed amount from...

pre-Seed Funding tech

Jordan

Mejuri raises $23 million Series B

Source: MenaBytes Toronto-based direct-to-consumer jewelry startup Mejuri has raised $23 million in Series B led by New Enterprise...

Investment jewelry series B

Bahrain

Inagrab secures funding from Faith Capital

Source: StartUp Bahrain The Bahraini startup, Inagrab, a company with a vision to help as many businesses scale using innovative...

kuwait Seed funding

Saudi Arabia

Foodics closes bridge round

Source: MenaBytes Foodics, a Saudi startup that provides cloud-based point of sale solutions to food and beverage businesses...

f&b Bridge round

Bahrain

Property Finder acquires Bahrain Property World

Source: MenaBytes Dubai-based Property Finder’s shopping spree of regional property websites doesn’t seem to be ending...

Acqusition property

Egypt

MerQ closes its seed funding round

Egypt-based artificial intelligence (AI) company MerQ has closed its seed financing round from Ahmed Kamal Selim, a financial investor,...

chatbot AI Investment

Global

Jumia shares “pop” 75 per cent on NYSE debut

Jumia, Africa’s largest e-commerce player, went public today on the New York Stock Exchange with a closing price of $25.46 per...

africa

Saudi Arabia

Saudi-based Haseel raises investment

Source: Menabytes Riyadh-based mobile-only fresh fruits and vegetables ecommerce platform Haseel has raised an undisclosed sum of...

E-commerce Investment Fruits

U.A.E

BECO Capital invests in Shedul's Series B

Source: Menabytes Shedul, a London-headquartered salon and spa booking platform that has a big presence in the region through one its...

Investment Booking Dubai

Kuwait

Faith Capital and 500 Startups invest in CaptainPanel

Source: MENAbytes California-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) startup CaptainPanel has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from...

Seed funding seed investment seed round

U.A.E

UAE’s Bayut acquires real estate portal Lamudi

Source: The National UAE property listings and research company Bayut acquired Lamudi, a rival portal owned by Middle East Internet...

acquisition Real-estate tech

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