Wamda

U.A.E

Verofax raises $1.5 million in pre-Series A round

UAE-based blockchain provider Verofax Limited has raised $1.5 million in its pre-Series A round, led by Benson Oak Ventures, with 500...

Verofax Blockchain

U.A.E

GrubTech raises $13 million Series A round

UAE-based foodtech startup GrubTech has raised a $13 million Series A investment led by Addition, alongside BY Ventures and Hambro...

GrubTech foodtech

U.A.E

UAE’s ZIWO raises pre-Series B round

UAE-based SaaS startup ZIWO has raised a seven-digit pre-Series B investment round from its current investors. Founded in 2010 by...

ZIWO Telecommunication

Kuwait

Kuwait's Bnchr+ raises Seed round

Kuwait-based automotive startup Bnchr+ has raised its Seed round for an undisclosed amount, backed by ZGI partner Brilliant Labs in...

Bnchr+ automotive

Saudi Arabia

Saudi NFT platform Nuqtah closes pre-Seed

Saudi Arabia-based NFT marketplace Nuqtah has closed its pre-Seed round led by Shorooq Partners and joined by strategic angel investors....

Nuqtah NFT

U.A.E

Dubai-based HyperSpace raises $11 million Seed round

Dubai-based blockchain-enabled extended reality startup HyperSpace has raised $11 million in equity and development Seed funding, led by...

HyperSpace Blockchain

U.A.E

Tarjama raises investment from Amethis to fuel global expansion

Amethis, an investment fund focused on Africa and Mena has acquired a minority stake in UAE-based Tarjama. Founded in...

Tarjama Amethis

Saudi Arabia

3D printing startup Immensa raises $7 million Series A round

Saudi Arabia-based 3D printing startup Immensa has raised $7 million in a Series A funding round, structured by Gate Capital, and led by...

immensa 3d printing

U.A.E

Farmin, Kanari AI win GITEX Supernova Challenge

UAE-based Farmin and Kanari AI have won the 2021 GITEX Future Stars’ Supernova Challenge for their achievements in the artificial...

Farmin Kanari GITEX 2020

Global

Tech hegemony: Friend or foe?

Salwa F. Darraj is a senior consultant at Ernst and Young (EY), where she is the Women’s Network Champion. Darraj is a Member of the...

Technology

Saudi Arabia

The slow rise of deeptech in Saudi Arabia

As the Saudi startup scene continues to set records, business models around advanced technologies or deeptech, are beginning to take...

deeptech

Tunisia

Tunisia’s Biware raises $1.2 million Seed round

Tunisia-based data management and analysis startup Biware, has raised $1.2 million (MAD3.5 million) in its Seed funding round from CDC...

Biware CDC Gestion Zitouna Capital

Egypt

Blockchain platform Pravica raises investment from Crypto Valley VC

Cairo-based blockchain startup Pravica has raised an undisclosed direct investment from the Swiss venture capital firm and...

Pravica Blockchain Security

Regional

Mena's mental health startups support fellow entrepreneurs' mental health and wellbeing

Wamda and Microsoft for Startups have published a research report on the impact of Covid-19 on the state of mental health and...

U.A.E

Can AI work in oil and gas without historical data?

In some countries in the Middle East, the oil and gas (O&G) sector contributes as much as 90 per cent to gross domestic product (GDP)....

deeptech Artificial intelligence nybl

Global

Deepfakes: Who can we trust?

Deepfake technology has rapidly developed over the past few years and while many will have experienced it through fun apps designed to edit...

deepfakes podcast

U.A.E

Arab Financial Inclusion Innovation Prize

The Arab Financial Inclusion Innovation Prize (AFIIP) 2021 is well underway and scouting for solutions that can improve access to and...

U.A.E

nybl acquires Mexico-based machine learning startup Nubila

UAE-based nybl, an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning startup has acquired Nubil, a Mexico-based visual data mining and...

nybl Artificial intelligence machine learning

U.A.E

Derq raises $500,000 from Wadi Makkah Ventures

Derq has raised $500,000 from Wadi Makkah Ventures as part of its pre-Series A round, which included other global investors. The...

Artificial intelligence Analytics

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

Global

TechWadi ‘21: the virtual tech conference bridging Silicon Valley & the MENA region

TechWadi, the leading non-profit organization building bridges between Silicon Valley and the MENA region to support the growth and...

Global

Predicting the future with analytics

Professor Mohamed Salem is the president of the University of Wollongong in Dubai Analytics is one of the most critical tools in...

data analytics

Global

The basics of IP: Patents and utility models

Ludwig Lindermayer is a patent and trademark attorney at PAUSTIAN & PARTNER. In a series of thought leadership pieces, he...

Patents

Lebanon

Can Lebanon become the next global outsourcing hub?

This article was written by the team at B.O.T - Bridge. Outsource. Transform All eyes have been on Lebanon over the past year, but...

Outsourcing

Thought Leadership

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