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APRIL 24, 2022

Zenda , a UAE-based startup looking to change how parents pay school bills, and the way educational institutions manage fee collection, is eyeing Africa as its next frontier for growth. Qureos raises $3M to grow its learn to earn platform. million seed funding it has raised.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

Alpha Wave Global (which co-led the last round under its previous brand , Falcon Edge Capital) is leading this Series G, with participation from other existing investors. Launching in more developed markets like Australia and UAE has seen Cars24 adjusting its approach based on different market factors, he added. billion, versus $1.84

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

The latest funding round that was led by global private equity platform, Lightrock, which is making its first investment in the African mobility space. Njoya said the startup is working towards becoming the go-to vehicle subscription and financial services platform for millions of transport operators across the continent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

As the restaurant industry across different cities was massively hit by the pandemic-induced lockdowns last year, food aggregator platforms helped by driving online customers to them. Here’s how the platform works. Since launching in Egypt, Koinz has expanded to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Koinz is one such startup in Egypt.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Trendyol , an e-commerce platform based in Turkey, has raised $1.5 General Atlantic, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Princeville Capital and sovereign wealth funds, ADQ (UAE) and Qatar Investment Authority co-led the round. . Trendyol founder Demet Suzan Mutlu said the new capital will go toward expansion within Turkey and globally.

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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

MARCH 6, 2022

Tabby , the Dubai-based buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform that lets users shop, pay later and earn cash from over 3,000 global brands, including Adidas, IKEA and Bloomingdale, has completed a Series B extension of $54 million. Its two main markets are Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The company has over 1.1

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Founder and chief executive officer Khaled Zaatarah launched VUZ, formerly 360VUZ, as a platform to bridge the gap between physical and virtual worlds by offering premium immersive content to a global audience. The web3 platform claims to have reached over 1 billion screen views from over 10 million users since its launch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Alpha Wave Global (formerly called Falcon Edge Capital), which led the seven-year-old startup’s previous funding , has returned alongside Tiger Global to co-lead a $250 million Series F financing round, the startup said. Moglix has more than doubled its valuation to about $2.6

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Silkhaus , a Dubai-based platform for short-term rentals coming out of stealth, has raised $7.75 Venture capital firms that participated in the round include Nuwa Capital, Nordstar, Global Founders Capital, Yuj Ventures, Whiteboard Capital and VentureSouq. Businesses had traditionally always stayed in hotels.

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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

JULY 19, 2022

based VCs Global Founders Capital (GFC) and Goodwater Capital and UAE-based early-stage firm VentureSouq. The investment from Visa came as one of the incentives for Bloom’s participation in the global card scheme’s Fintech Fast Track Program. This investment is coming after the startup’s undisclosed pre-seed round last year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2018, he and Akintola Adesanmi — who was no stranger to how rent worked in Nigeria and also desired to effect change — brainstormed Spleet , a platform that partners with apartment owners to list their properties and offers renters options to pay rent monthly, quarterly and biannually.

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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

MARCH 24, 2021

The global travel and mobility industries have suffered, with several players struggling between drastic cuts, hibernation or ceasing operations. The company said that the investment is coming from existing investors German automotive giant Daimler, the UAE’s ALFAHIM Group and btov Partners.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Zypp Electric, an Indian startup that offers an EV-as-a-service platform catering to e-commerce companies and gig workers, has received a $25 million investment led by Taiwan’s battery-swapping giant Gogoro. This round included $5 million in debt from global impact fund IIX and an undisclosed national bank.

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JULY 4, 2022

Indian fitness platform Ultrahuman is expanding its wearable portfolio by launching a smart ring to boost its ability to provide tech loving ‘biohackers’ — and, it hopes, health-concerned Boomers — with more insightful metabolic insights. “Different platforms optimize for different things.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Today, it has about 850 clients and over $4 trillion in client assets on its platform. Collective , an all-in-one back-office finance platform for the self-employed, which has raised over $28 million in funding, is hiring for five roles across engineering, marketing and member services (tax, accounting). billion valuation.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2021

And four startups passed the $1 billion valuation just last year: mobile game developer Moon Active; Cato Networks, a cloud-based enterprise security platform; ride-hailing app developer Gett got $100 million ahead of its rumored IPO; and behavioral biometrics startup BioCatch. cyber company; and Kenshoo acquired Signals Analytics.

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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. and the UAE.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. based companies as customers already, Alloy announced it has now expanded its platform to 40 countries across North America, EMEA, LatAm, and APAC. Kenyan insurtech Lami raises $3.7M

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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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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Finally, i f you, like me, are curious about how micromobility platforms are unlocking profits, and what tech is enabling this, you’re going to want to pay attention to this one. It also announced the next generation of Hyperion, which will include a more robust sensor platform and more compute power. Miscellaneous .

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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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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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