Wamda

Kuwait

Kuwait’s Bookr raises Bridge round from Plus VC

Kuwait-based SaaS-enabled marketplace for beauty services, Bookr, has raised a bridge round at an undisclosed amount from Plus...

Bookr Beauty marketplace

U.A.E

YallaHub raises $6 million pre-Series A round

UAE-based marketplace aggregator and quick commerce startup YallaHub has raised $6 million in a pre-series A funding round, co-led by...

YallaHub E-commerce marketplace

Oman

Carzaty: The realistic exit

The used car market is worth over $16 billion in the GCC alone, but it is a highly fragmented sector, with mostly small resellers and...

Carzaty Oman marketplace

Egypt

The pain of selling furniture online in Egypt

Furniture is one of the oldest and the largest industries in Egypt, employing over 13 per cent of the country's industrial workforce,...

Homzmart furniture marketplace

U.A.E

NorthLadder raises $10 million in a convertible note

UAE-based marketplace NorthLadder has raised a $10 million convertible note, led by CE-Ventures, with supporting investment from BECO...

NorthLadder CE-Ventures marketplace

Egypt

Egyptian marketplace Shiphaly raises six-figure investment

Cairo-based startup Shiphaly has raised an undisclosed six-figure round, led by Faisal Abdulsalam, the founder of Purity, with the...

Shiphaly marketplace

Iraq

Iraq’s Miswag raises $1.6 million pre-Series A

Iraq-based B2C marketplace Miswag, has raised $1.6 million in a pre-Series A round. This funding closely follows its six-figure...

Miswag E-commerce marketplace

Regional

Floral marketplaces: Does the future look rosy?

The retail industry across the Middle East has undergone a sea of change, with online purchases becoming a central part of the...

Floranow Floward marketplace

Jordan

ISSF invests $150,000 in Trteeb

Jordan’s ISSF has invested $150,000 in Jordan and Saudi Arabia-based Trteeb. The investment was made in January 2021. Trteeb is...

marketplace

Saudi Arabia

Penny Software raises $1.35 million Seed with participation from Wamda

Saudi Arabia-based Penny Software has raised $1.35 million in a Seed investment round from Wamda, Class 5 Global, Outliers VC, Plug and...

b2b marketplace Penny

Saudi Arabia

Speero secures pre-series A funding

Saudi Arabia-based marketplace Speero has raised its pre-series A investment round from 500 Startups, Impact46 and Derayah Ventures. The...

marketplace

Saudi Arabia

Dokkan Afkar closes $5 million Series B

Saudi Arabia-based Dokkan Afkar, an e-commerce site dedicated to selling homegrown and innovative gadgets, gizmos and gifts has closed...

E-commerce marketplace Riyad TAQNIA Fund

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

U.A.E

Dubizzle stake acquired for $190 million

UAE-based online classifieds website dubizzle has been fully acquired by Naspers, a South Africa-based investor through its subsidiary OLX...

Dubizzle classifieds marketplace

U.A.E

Dubai-based certified car marketplace raises another $1M

CarSwitch.com, the UAE’s first marketplace for certified cars, has secured an additional $1 million investment led by Dubai Angel...

uae carswitch.com marketplace

Morocco

Morocco’s Waystocap raises $3M in seed funding

According to Techcrunch, Moroccan startup Waystocap has raised $3 million to expand its reach in Africa. The platform is a marketplace...

ecommerce marketplace Casablanca

Tunisia

How this Tunisian channeled fashion into a startup

When Arbia Smiti founded Carnet de Mode (Fashion Diary) in 2011, the crowdfunding platform captured the attention of the French media,...

startup Mode Fashion

Global

You created a store within a marketplace. Now what? [Opinion]

A very common approach for brands and retailers that want to start selling online is to set up a ‘shop-in-shop’, or a branded...

ecommerce marketplace Souq.com

Regional

Rebranding? 12 steps to doing the tech right [Opinion]

After closing a $3 million funding round in September our online home services marketplace Movesouq rebranded to Servicemarket. The...

ServiceMarket movesouq uae

U.A.E

StudentCart: integrating technology and the school marketplace

The Hammadi brothers at their Flat6Labs demo day earlier this year. (Image via Flat6Labs) When a child begins the year at a private...

schools StudentCart flat6labs abu dhabi

Egypt

Mix N' Mentor Cairo 2016: Marketplace Edition

During one of the group mentorship sessions at Mix N' Mentor Dubai in 2015. (Image via Wamda) Cairo’s 20 million-strong population...

2016 Mix N'Mentor Cairo cairo

Egypt

Wamda starts off 2016 with Mix N’ Mentor Cairo

During one of the group mentorship sessions at Mix N' Mentor Dubai in 2015. (Image via Wamda) Cairo’s 20 million-strong population has long ...

Mix N'Mentor Cairo cairo marketplace

Maghreb

Inside Hmall's plans to scale

Moving from a 150m2 office to a 750m2 office is every startup’s dream. For Hmizate, it’s a dream come true. Earlier this month, the Mor...

Hmall marketplace Scaling

Maghreb

Could Jumia be the Alibaba of Africa?

Alibaba’s successful IPO fixed everyone’s attention firmly on e-commerce in fast-growing markets, and especially on marketplaces, like eBa...

Jumia marketplace Rocket Internet

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