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DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX ) is planning to enter more markets across Africa as it races towards formalizing the continent’s transportation sector after securing $31 million in Series B funding. Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. ( Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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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 million seed round before Demo Day.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

General Atlantic, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Princeville Capital and sovereign wealth funds, ADQ (UAE) and Qatar Investment Authority co-led the round. . Trendyol , an e-commerce platform based in Turkey, has raised $1.5 billion in a massive funding round that values the company at $16.5 The deal marks SoftBank’s first in the country.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

With supply chains in the automotive industry continuing to be disrupted due to Covid-19, demand has surged in the used-car market. Cars24 claims to have a 90% share of India’s used-car market, and it’s gotten there by way of technology. It plans to add to that list with its next markets in Southeast Asia, Jangid confirmed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

At the same time, it has raised $35 million in a Series C funding round led by UAE-based investor Mubadala. In a statement, Mike Alexandrovski, founder of Borzo, said: “With the new round closed we continue to move toward our goal of becoming one of the top courier delivery companies in every market we operate in.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The round, which is a combination of equity and debt financing, lists investors from the Middle East, including DisruptAD and (the VC arm of ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund), and SHUAA (a major UAE asset management and investment banking firm). The biopharma industry uses more optimistic numbers.

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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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Nvidia kicked off the AI race by providing the computing power with its market-dominating graphics processing units (GPUs). is the first mass market AI model that is natively multimodal, meaning that it can process and generate images, video, audio, and computer code the same way it does text. enterprise market during 2024.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Mylerz , a Cairo-based e-commerce fulfillment startup, plans to enter three new markets in North Africa and expand across Egypt over the next three months against the backdrop of the $9.6 Our immediate plan is expanding across Egypt, opening new markets and facilitating cross-border trade for our customers.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

based VCs Global Founders Capital (GFC) and Goodwater Capital and UAE-based early-stage firm VentureSouq. The plan is to scale in the country and then expand to other markets,” Ismail stated. “We We anticipate being in at least one market before the end of the year and a couple more early next year.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

and EMEA-based investors, will be pivotal to its international expansion. One such partner is the newly rebranded UAE-based telecom operator, e&; its VC arm, e& capital , launched a $250 million fund this week. Seven existing investors participated as well. Asia, and Europe.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2022

Now Qlub is emerging from a period of stealth to tackle a similar area, but aiming at markets outside the USA. Qlub has so far launched in UAE, KSA and India, with additional international markets set to follow in the weeks and months ahead.

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TechNode

AUGUST 8, 2023

Cross-border logistics company iMile Delivery has recently entered the Italian market and established its European headquarters in Germany, becoming the first Chinese express delivery startup to enter Europe, according to an August 7 report by Chinese media outlet LatePost. The company targets the Middle East delivery market.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The cash from Gogoro is an extension of a strategic partnership between the two companies, and a signal of Gogoro’s continued commitment to the Indian market. “I don’t think that one player can address the entire market. The startup is eyeing Southeast Asia, the UAE and Europe as its first potential global markets.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

There’s a large voluntary market for carbon credits beyond the traditional and rather outdated carbon credits. There’s a large voluntary market for carbon credits beyond the traditional and rather outdated carbon credits. “It makes things a lot easier on us when we’re measured on impact rather than financials.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Zenda is digitizing school pay in Africa : As someone preparing to send my oldest to college in two short years, I was intrigued by Annie ’s coverage of how UAE-based Zenda is helping parents on the other side of the world, with its sights now set on Africa, pay school fees online rather than having to provide bank deposit slips as proof of payment.

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

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