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Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Plug and Play invest in Odiggo’s $2.2M seed round

TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2021

Then for the suppliers, it increases their sales and reaches more customers without necessarily spending on marketing. Over 50,000 car owners across three markets — Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia — use Odiggo. Odiggo is part of the current YC Summer batch and has secured a $2.2

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Grocery delivery firm Dingdong Maicai becomes latest Chinese company to enter Saudi market

TechNode

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Dingdong Maicai, a New York-listed Chinese e-commerce company specializing in fresh groceries, has officially launched its international expansion with Saudi Arabia as its first overseas market. Some roles are based in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Sina.com, in Chinese ]

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Sequoia Capital India, STV back Dubai-based BNPL provider tabby in $54M extension round

TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2022

The BNPL provider has raised $104 million in total Series B funding and plans to use this extension round to expand its consumer product offering and facilitate its international expansion, it said in a statement. Its two main markets are Saudi Arabia and the UAE. What’s your BNPL startup really worth?

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Dragos raises $110M Series C as demand to secure industrial systems soars

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The round also saw participation from Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, as well as return investors Allegis Cyber, Canaan Partners, DataTribe, Energy Impact Partners and Schweitzer Engineering Labs. But the country has faced extensive criticism for its human rights record by international rights groups.

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Korea’s Riiid raises $175M from SoftBank to expand its AI-based learning platform to global markets

TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

The funding is coming at a high-watermark moment for edtech — with the shift to remote learning in the last year of pandemic living highlighting the opportunity to build better tools to serve that market, and a number of startups in the category subsequently raising hundreds of millions of dollars to tackle the opportunity.

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Palm.hr raises $5M, embarks on MENA growth

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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SoftBank-backed Korean edtech startup Riiid acquires Langoo, expands in Japan

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

By leveraging this investment, we will capture broader Japanese market opportunities. 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.” . The company expects to address local remote learning and education in the market.

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MaxAB, an Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform for food and grocery supplies, nabs $40M

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The moves signaled MaxAB’s ambition to dominate Egypt’s and North Africa’s B2B retail and e-commerce market, which includes Cartona and the troubled Capiter , other players that have raised significant capital to compete within the past year. Silver Lake invested through its Long-Term Capital strategy with Mubadala Investment Company.

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Chinese automaker GAC Group plans to accelerate international expansion

TechNode

AUGUST 30, 2023

On August 29, Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC Group) announced a new goal of selling 500,000 vehicles annually in its overseas market by 2030. In the coming years, GAC will introduce its electric vehicle models to Europe, with a focus on Western European markets. GAC statement, in Chinese ]

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Bosta raises $6.7M to expand e-commerce delivery business across Africa and MENA

TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

As co-founder and COO at Lynks, Ezzat was responsible for logistics, international clearance and last-mile delivery. And to be a market leader when it comes to e-commerce on the continent and be profitable. This is the main target for us now and also to start operations in Saudi Arabia.” China and the U.K.

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Short video platform Kuaishou to bet on the Middle East, North Africa, and Brazil markets: report

TechNode

MAY 11, 2024

Chinas second-largest short video platform Kuaishou is planning to open an office in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, soon, according to a report by the South China Morning Post quoting Kuaishous chief financial officer Jin Bing.

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ShipBlu bags $2.4M for its e-commerce and fulfilment service in Egypt

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2021

It delivers packages of all kinds for merchants and retailers — ranging from mom and pop stores and social media to fashion retailers who make thousands of shipments and international brands — to customers in Egypt. But Egypt is an entirely different market compared to these developed regions.

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Chinese EV maker Hozon moves into UAE market

TechNode

OCTOBER 30, 2023

EIH Automotive&Trading is a subsidiary of investment conglomerate Ethmar International Holding (EIH), chaired by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan, a son of the countrys founding sultan, according to its website. Geely-affiliated Zeekr signed sales agreements with partners in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain last month.

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Singapore-based Volopay accelerates APAC and MENA expansion with $29M Series A

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In addition, Volopay will hire aggressively in each of its new markets. . The platform also processes domestic and international bank transfers with low foreign exchange rates and transaction fees. . “That restricts the type of products you can offer clients.

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Honor confirms Google’s apps will return to its phones with new 50 series

The Verge

JUNE 16, 2021

The device will be available for preorder in China on June 25th and will come to international markets such as France, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the UK at a later date at a price that’s to be announced. Internally, they’re powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G processor. inches compared to 6.57

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Apple, Samsung partner Servify raises $65 million for its devices after-sales and management platform

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Servify, a startup that manages lifecycle of devices for several popular smartphone vendors including Apple and Samsung in many markets, has raised $65 million as it eyes becoming a public company in two years. India, the world’s second largest smartphone market, accounts for 60% of Servify’s business, he said.

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Lucid Motors strikes SPAC deal to go public with $24 billion valuation

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The combined company, in which Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund will continue to be the largest shareholder, will have a transaction equity value of $11.75 The Gravity performance luxury SUV is expected to come to market in North America in 2023. The Air will come to Europe in 2022, followed by China in 2023.

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Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises $8M to expand across Africa and the Middle East

TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Within this timeline, he interned at several companies in Palo Alto, California. The startup hopes that the Series A funding will drive its presence in 12 countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and Saudi Arabia. There are a lot of impact and mass market players. Yahya Bouhlel started coding in his early teens.

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With ride-hail and delivery launch, Fenix wants to be the Bolt of the Middle East

TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The company launched “Fenix Taxi” in Manama, Bahrain, on Monday and says it’s planning to add two additional markets this summer. Couriers deliver goods using a combination of Fenix’s shared e-scooters and internal e-mopeds. “I think market selection is also important.

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Docquity, a community for healthcare professionals, raises $44M Series C

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

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. It has also set up internal compliance and pharma co-vigilance team to ensure privacy and security.

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Morocco’s Freterium grabs $4M to scale its freight trucking software across MENA

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But SaaS solutions to manage the flow of these shipments, collaborate internally with different departments within the company such as sales, customer service, finance and accounting, and aggregate data from multiple ERP systems are few and far between. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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Electric vehicle startups hit speed bumps after raising tons of cash

The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

That money — billions of dollars, collectively — was supposed to be enough to help each of them start fighting for space in a market dominated by Tesla. billion to the sizable war chest it started building when Saudi Arabia pledged some $1.3 Not all of the side effects of this rush to market have been so frivolous, though.

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JETOUR: China’s Jeep and Land Rover looks for a way forward

TechNode

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The company has bucked an industry-wide weakening market this year, posting an 89.3% The journey usually starts in developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and the Pacific region, and ends in Europe and the US, despite geopolitical uncertainties still the most competitive auto markets in the world.

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Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom

TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. So he started researching markets with large populations of Muslim people. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. After initially soft-launching in the U.S.,

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The Lucid Air is a luxury electric sedan with the speed and power to rival Tesla

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Under direction of the former Tesla Model S lead engineer Peter Rawlinson — then Lucid Motors’ CTO, now its CEO — there is a sense in the automotive world that Lucid has the internal knowledge and technical chops to tease Tesla’s grip as maker of the ultimate electric luxury sedan. And it will benefit Saudi society.”.

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Egypt’s Paymob closes $18.5M Series A to expand payments services across MENA

TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

“ Their market opportunity is also huge; Egypt’s transformation to a cashless society is being enabled by the unique products Paymob has built.” However , that will come after focusing on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to gain a large market share. million initially.

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The program is managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented with a coalition of leading new media experts and local and international partners from the public and private sectors. E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen.

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Meituan paid $11.3 billion to millions of delivery riders in 2023, averaging less than $0.52 per order

TechNode

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Details: In the internal letter, Wang mentioned that approximately 4.5 For the companys international-target operation KeeTa, the CEO revealed its service was No.1 KeeTa recently launched in Saudi Arabia, and Wang said previously that Gulf countries, Europe, and Southeast Asian markets are all under consideration for future expansion.

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Meituan’s next decade: expands global footprint with focus on retail and AI

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. Among the three priorities Wang Xing has set, international expansion is progressing the fastest.

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What ‘Squid Game’ reveals about Netflix’s marketing strategy

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

When Netflix was finally ready to bring back its massive international hit TV series Squid Game for Season 2 after a three-year hiatus, it had a unique marketing challenge: remind people why they fell in love with a Korean action drama that revolves around a murderous contest. marketing organization to the rest of the world.

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Tim Cook’s Apple, ten years later

The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2021

Needless to say, Cook had some big shoes to fill: Jobs is remembered as the visionary CEO and marketer behind the Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod, iTunes, and the App Store. It’s more profitable than Saudi Aramco, too. Tim Cook smiles in a Mission: Impossible-esque marketing video where he infiltrates Apple to plant an M1 chip in the iPad.

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Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Plug and Play invest in Odiggo’s $2.2M seed round

Grocery delivery firm Dingdong Maicai becomes latest Chinese company to enter Saudi market

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Sequoia Capital India, STV back Dubai-based BNPL provider tabby in $54M extension round

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Dragos raises $110M Series C as demand to secure industrial systems soars

Korea’s Riiid raises $175M from SoftBank to expand its AI-based learning platform to global markets

Palm.hr raises $5M, embarks on MENA growth

SoftBank-backed Korean edtech startup Riiid acquires Langoo, expands in Japan

MaxAB, an Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform for food and grocery supplies, nabs $40M

Chinese automaker GAC Group plans to accelerate international expansion

Bosta raises $6.7M to expand e-commerce delivery business across Africa and MENA

Short video platform Kuaishou to bet on the Middle East, North Africa, and Brazil markets: report

ShipBlu bags $2.4M for its e-commerce and fulfilment service in Egypt

Chinese EV maker Hozon moves into UAE market

Singapore-based Volopay accelerates APAC and MENA expansion with $29M Series A

Honor confirms Google’s apps will return to its phones with new 50 series

Apple, Samsung partner Servify raises $65 million for its devices after-sales and management platform

Lucid Motors strikes SPAC deal to go public with $24 billion valuation

Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises $8M to expand across Africa and the Middle East

With ride-hail and delivery launch, Fenix wants to be the Bolt of the Middle East

Docquity, a community for healthcare professionals, raises $44M Series C

Morocco’s Freterium grabs $4M to scale its freight trucking software across MENA

Electric vehicle startups hit speed bumps after raising tons of cash

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Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom

The Lucid Air is a luxury electric sedan with the speed and power to rival Tesla

Egypt’s Paymob closes $18.5M Series A to expand payments services across MENA

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