TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

After its Egypt launch, Swvl expanded to Kenya, Pakistan, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The company also moved its headquarters to Dubai as part of its strategy to become a global company. In the Middle East, Swvl joins music-streaming platform Anghami as the second startup to go public via a SPAC merger. billion on the NYSE.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Beco Capital led the five-month-old startup’s seed round, while A15 and Global Ventures participated. The platform is an evolution of customers’ checkout experience. Henna also mentioned that Sympl is growing 25% week-on-week in terms of the number of transactions made on the platform. Saudi Arabia. . “It

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Appetito , the Egyptian platform that delivers groceries and household products to customers from 11 dark stores across three cities in the North African country, is acquiring Lamma , an identical startup with operations in the Maghreb regions of Tunisia and Morocco. . The deal is expected to close by the end of Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Recent research suggests that the e-commerce market in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt account for a combined $21.4 FlapKap , using its revenue-based financing platform (RBF), is helping these stores solve the growth-destructive challenges emerging online stores encounter when trying to meet customer demands.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

and Middle East VC firm Silicon Badia led the round , with participation from 4DX Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures, Wealth Well VC, Khwarizmi VC, as well as other regional and global investors. . He also claims that more than 2,200 businesses use its platform daily and achieve a 95% delivery success rate.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Volopay’s platform provides startups and enterprises flexibility by issuing virtual and/or physical prepaid multicurrency corporate cards in their local currency (SGD, AUD, INR, IDR, PHP, etc) with up to 5% cashback on all card transactions. In addition, Volopay will hire aggressively in each of its new markets. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

The global management consulting industry is worth billions of dollars but to this day it’s been tough to disrupt with technology. so far from Fatima Gobi Ventures and angels including Gokul Rajaram (DoorDash board member), the former Global CFO of PepsiCo and two managing partners of large consulting firms.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Vezeeta’s business has evolved from the “Uber for Ambulance” model it launched in 2012 to what it is now: a subscription-based doctor booking and consultation platform. Other platforms globally, as reported by Layoffs.fyi , include the likes of PharmEasy, Sami and Truepill. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Prosperity7, the venture capital arm of Saudi Arabia’s state oil company Aramco, led the new capital infusion. The fund has been actively scouring for opportunities in and around China that can scale globally and particularly in the Middle East.

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TechNode

APRIL 28, 2024

Chinas food delivery giant Meituan is hiring Arabic- and English-proficient talent for its likely entry into Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, as the company puts expansion beyond China on its agenda as domestic consumption falls.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

PayPal Ventures, the global corporate venture arm of PayPal, is one of the participating investors (this marks its first investment in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) but second in the MENA region after Egyptian fintech Paymob ). Dubai-based buy now, pay later platform tabby raises $50M at $300M valuation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The rest of the round came from investors including iGlobe Partners, Alkemi, Global Brain, KDV and Infocom. The funding will be used to grow Docquity in its existing markets, like Indonesia and the Philippines, and enter new ones, including Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. million CME credits.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

The startup hopes that the Series A funding will drive its presence in 12 countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and Saudi Arabia. While there are various jobs in every facet of life, tech jobs are currently in high demand in the global economy these days. Students on the platform go through two types of programs.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Selling vehicles in Europe was an explicit goal of Byton, which was also founded in China but fancied itself as a “global automaker,” with offices in Germany and the US. Public offerings, global expansions — these were all goals of startups that faltered. Canoo is just one example.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Last month, Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform Capiter made headlines after founders Mahmoud Nouh and Ahmed Nouh were ousted by its board as CEO and COO. It was one of the largest of that stage, and things seemed to be going well with the company until it laid off multiple employees between June and July, citing global macroeconomic trends.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

Los Angeles–based B Generous , a self-described “fintech for good” platform, has launched Donate Now, Pay Later (DNPL) , a new tool it says allows donors “to make contributions to their favorite nonprofits through a proprietary philanthropic credit product called a Point of Donation Loan (PoDL). Fintech for good? Anita Ramaswamy digs in here.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. Investors on Blossom Finance’s platform pool their money into funds, or cooperatives, which are then managed by microbanks. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6 They must have a solution.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Partner firms also use Servify’s eponymous platform to offer trade-ins, upgrade and financing programs to customers. Canada, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, plans to expand to Latin America this financial year and is also exploring a debut in Japan, said Sreevathsa Prabhakar, founder and chief executive officer of the startup, in an interview.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Following this growth, it is planning on expanding to Egypt and the UAE, while doubling down on Saudi Arabia, against the backdrop of $5 million pre-Series A funding it has raised, in a round led by Europe-based VC Speedinvest, which marked its debut into Saudi Arabia, and RAED Ventures, with participation from MENA focused VC firm Wamda Capital. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And today, the company is announcing that it’s just closed a $6 million seed round led by Global Founders Capital that included participation from firms such as Soma Capital, Graph Ventures, Adapt Ventures and OldSlip group. It is gearing up to formally launch in the UAE and Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks. Sign up here !

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

When it raised in September, Jeeves — which describes itself as “an all-in-one corporate card and expense management platform for global startups” — was valued at $500 million. I don’t think this is a space where you’re going to have just one company globally that owns everything,” Thazhmon added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

An additional $15 million was raised from the same investors led by Dubai-based VC firm Global Ventures. Paymob has a perfect combination of high-quality technology, product customers increasingly cannot do without, and an outstanding management team, “Basil Moftah, general partner at Global Ventures, said of the investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value. It also operates in the corporate spend and expense management space, with more of a global footprint and infrastructure component. In fact, it describes itself as the first “cross country, cross currency” expense management platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

The company has already partnered with Google, which uses Stipop’s sticker library in Gboard, Android Messages and Tenor , a GIF keyboard platform that Google bought in 2018. In East Asia, users tend to prefer simple black and white stickers, but in India and Saudi Arabia, bright, golden stickers top the trends.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Riiid has said it will continue to fuel its global expansion with the funding. . This acquisition is the first step in an inorganic strategy to ultimately apply Riiid’s AI technology to the global market and help more learners around the world.” . Riiid has been actively penetrating the global market since 2020 after it opened the U.S.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 3, 2022

Through a global network operating in nine countries across the MENA region, EFE trains young people with the skills necessary to succeed in work and life and then matches the next generation of ready-to-work talent with businesses in need of qualified employees. . The implementation began with EFE-US and EFE-Jordan.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

India’s online learning platform Unacademy raises $150 million at $1.45 This investment is only the beginning of our journey in creating a new industry ecosystem and we will carry out this mission with global partnerships.” million students in Korea and Japan. billion valuation.

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TechNode

MARCH 5, 2025

Meituan, Chinas local services platform, is accelerating its global expansion with a renewed focus on grocery retail, international markets, and artificial intelligence, CEO Wang Xing announced in a recent internal meeting. This has intensified public scrutiny on how the platform balances growth with social responsibility.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

When Netflix reality show Dubai Bling debuted in 2022, it became a global sensation, garnering viewers across 51 countries. The show has been part of a surge in Arabic content on Netflix attracting global viewership. We were always producing for local platforms and channels. million hours of viewing time in its first week alone.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. Even for one of the richest men in the world, $44 billion is a lot of money to cough up to buy a middling social platform. By October, the platform was his.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

The first season exploded to the surprise of everyone, becoming a global pop culture sensation. Pink Guards popped up at Sydney Harbor and Bondi Beach, the canals of Venice , Bangkoks Chao Phraya river, Saudi Arabias AlUla , and Beco do Batman in So Paulo. This time, there were years of anticipation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Elon Musk’s pursuit to buy Twitter continues to have an impact on Tesla, which is why I’m back here writing about a social media platform. Gerard has more than 20 years of logistics and operational management experience and was most recently Global Customs Director, North America, at Flexport. — Rebecca Bellan.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Here are Bryan Pietsch and Jeff Stein in the Washington Post : The app says it is “America’s ‘Big Tent’ social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology.” First, the news: Truth Social is live in the App Store, and hit No.

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