Wamda

U.A.E

Wamda co-leads BitOasis $30 Million Series B round

UAE-based cryptocurrency exchange BitOasis has raised $30 million in a Series B round co-led by Wamda and US-based VC Jump...

BitOasis crypto

Egypt

AFIIP announces winning financial inclusion innovators for 2021

Egypt-based fintech Stryve, which offers unbanked businesses financial products, has won first place at the Arab Financial...

AFIIP Stryve Ahmini

Bahrain

Bahrain’s Investcorp acquires British fintech MIR Limited

Bahrain-based Investcorp Technology Partners (ITP) has acquired all of the business and assets of UK-based fintech MIR Limited, for an...

Investcorp MIR Limited Fintech

Egypt

Egyptian fintech Kashat raises $1.75 million Bridge round

Egypt-based fintech Kashat has raised $1.75 million in a Bridge funding round, led by Launch Africa, with the participation of several...

Kashat Fintech financial inclusion

Egypt

Egypt’s super app MNT-Halan raises $120 million

Egypt-based super app and Wamda portfolio startup MNT-Halan has raised $120 million from major global and regional growth investors:...

MNT-Halan Fintech

Saudi Arabia

Saudi fintech CashIn secures $1.6 million Seed round

Saudi Arabia-based fintech CashIn has secured $1.6 million in a Seed round led by Investor Mine with the participation from BIM V...

Fintech CashIn BIM Ventures

Morocco

Moroccan fintech Lacaisse.ma secures funding from WitaMax

Morocco-based Lacaisse.ma has received funding from WitaMax, the amount raised was undisclosed. Founded in 2016 by Said Belkhayat...

Lacaisse.ma WitaMax

U.A.E

Pollen Street acquires majority stake in Ding

Mobile top-up services company Ding has sold its majority stake to the London-based alternative investment management company, Pollen...

Ding Pollen Street acquisition

Regional

Can data regulation be Mena's competitive advantage?

Khaled Lababidi is vice president and general manager of the Middle East, Africa and Turkey, for InCountry – a data...

Fintech Data regulation

Egypt

Arab Bank launches fintech accelerator in Egypt

Arab Bank has launched the AB Accelerator in Egypt, a fintech-focused corporate acceleration programme. The accelerator, which was...

AB Accelerator Fintech

Regional

Fintech is poised for consolidation in the Middle East

Mahmoud Hamouda is a strategy and operations consultant at Dell Technologies. He is also the head of Dell for Entrepreneurs in Egypt. In...

Fintech

U.A.E

Sarwa closes $15 million Series B round led by Mubadala

UAE-based fintech Sarwa has closed a $15 million Series B funding round, led by Mubadala Investment Company with participation from...

Fintech sarwa series B

U.A.E

tabby closes $50 million Series B round

UAE-based buy now pay later (BNPL) startup tabby has raised $50 million in a Series B round, valuing the fintech at $300 million. The...

Buy now pay later Fintech Tabby

U.A.E

SimpliFi launches after closing Seed round led by Raed Ventures

UAE-based fintech SimpliFi has emerged from stealth mode to launch its “cards as a service” platform in the Middle East and...

SimpliFi Fintech CaaS

Saudi Arabia

Saudi fintech Forus secures Series A funding

Saudi Arabia-based fintech Forus Capital has secured an undisclosed Series A funding round co-led by Yazeed Alrajhi and Brothers...

Forus Fintech

Egypt

CreditFins raises pre-Seed round for its credit card management platform

Cairo-based fintech startup CreditFins has raised a Pre-Seed funding round led by Flat6Labs, AUC Angels, TA Telecom Holding, and other...

CreditFins Fintech

Regional

How we pivoted our startup with grace

Walid Daniel Dib is the co-founder and CEO of hala, a UAE-based insuretech startup Spoiler: There was absolutely no grace...

Pivot Hala

Qatar

Spendwisor raises $1 million and secures $50 million capital commitment from Global Emerging Markets

Qatar-based fintech startup Spendwisor has raised $1 million in a pre-Seed round led by Erhama Nasser Al-Kaabi and...

Spendwisor Fintech

Regional

Want economic prosperity? Help women become more financially capable

Dina Alnabulsi is a business analyst at Globitel, a Jordan-based telecommunications company Financial exclusion is a universal issue,...

financial inclusion Women empowerment

Egypt

What can open banking do for Egypt?

Akram Abdou is the founder of Egypt-based Underlie, an open banking platform offering application programming interfaces (APIs) to...

Open banking

Morocco

Y Combinator acquires 7 per cent of Morocco's B2B e-commerce startup Chari

US-based Seed investor and accelerator Y Combinator has acquired 7 per cent of shares in Morocco-based B2B e-commerce startup Chari,...

Chari B2B e-commerce Y Combinator

Global

Global Ventures participates in Nigeria-based teamApt's Series B funding round

UAE-based venture capital firm Global Ventures has participated in Nigeria-based fintech startup teamApt's Series B funding round,...

Global Ventures TeamAPT

U.A.E

Postpay secures $10 million investment from AP Ventures and Afterpay

Dubai-based buy now pay later (BNPL) startup Postpay has secured $10 million in equity investment, led by AP Ventures and...

BNPL Postpay Fintech

U.A.E

UAE’s Cashee raises $1 million pre-Seed

UAE-based fintech startup Cashee raised a $1 million pre-Seed funding round. Founded by Smeetha Ghosh and Brad Whittfield, Cashee...

Cashee EdTech Fintech

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