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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Obviously, there was a lot of buzz about the financial meltdown, especially in a place like Dubai that has built itself up as a major international business center (Dubai as an emirate has relatively little oil compared to some of the other gulf emirates).

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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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AUGUST 22, 2021

Over 50,000 car owners across three markets — Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia — use Odiggo. He adds that since Odiggo taps into a mix of data sources — including car metrics and internal software, it will use that same information to provide more product offerings. The company also works directly with over 300 merchants.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

At the same time, it has raised $35 million in a Series C funding round led by UAE-based investor Mubadala. They have succeeded in going global; becoming competitive in 10 new international markets.”. Now the Amsterdam HQ-d startup is rebranding as “ Borzo ” to bring its operation in 10 different countries under one.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

It will also be continuing to add more countries to its international footprint, with its next launches expected in Southeast Asia. A number of outsized startups have emerged in India with massive coffers of funding to grow domestically, with little in the way of international strategy. And with nearly 1.4

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MAY 24, 2021

The ACT development comes after Riiid said that the former CEO of ACT, Marten Roorda, was joining its international arm Riiid Labs as its “executive in residence,” so that could point to more ACT prep applications for other markets, too. What is notable here is that Riiid has also been anchoring a lot of its R&D in IP.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

After penetrating the Japanese market, Riiid will gear up to enter other international regions, including Central and East Asia, the spokesperson added. . Beyond the TOEIC mobile app, the company launched an ACT prep mobile app with ConnectMe Education in early 2021 in Egypt, Turkey, UAE, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

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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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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The platform also processes domestic and international bank transfers with low foreign exchange rates and transaction fees. . With APAC and MENA churning out several unicorn level enterprises every year, it is indeed making a big wave on the global frontier,” said Shaji.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A few international family offices and proptech founders also joined this round. . Silkhaus’s engineering team, split across the UAE city and Bangalore, is currently building out its technology stack, the company said in a statement. Sequoia Capital India and Founders Fund back UAE-based proptech startup Huspy in its $37M round.

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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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MAY 10, 2022

Ashraf Sabry, CEO of Fawry, said the investment in Mylerz is part of its strategy “to build an integrated commerce ecosystem in Egypt and explore international expansion opportunities with strong partners like Mylerz and Lorax.”.

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JULY 19, 2022

based VCs Global Founders Capital (GFC) and Goodwater Capital and UAE-based early-stage firm VentureSouq. This investment is coming after the startup’s undisclosed pre-seed round last year. This financing welcomed participation from fintech giant Visa, Y Combinator, U.S.-based

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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. On the fulfilment side, ShipBlu stores merchants’ products in warehouses it leases.

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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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JANUARY 31, 2022

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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AUGUST 8, 2023

In 2017, iMile was founded by Rita Huang, a former employee of Chinese tech giants Huawei and Alibaba Cloud, in Dubai, UAE. The company targets the Middle East delivery market. In 2021, TikToks parent company ByteDance participated in the companys Series A funding round with an investment of $10 million. LatePost, in Chinese ]

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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). But it’s not the core of their business.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In 2024 the company launched its AI Security Platform, which protects enterprise data by securing, auditing, and monitoring all active generative AI models a company may be using, regardless of the model vendor or whether the model is hosted internally or externally. The market is responding to Calypsos shift toward AI observability.

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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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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The startup is eyeing Southeast Asia, the UAE and Europe as its first potential global markets. The startup, which currently has a workforce of 620 people, is also looking to widen its headcount and hire more engineers and operation teams as it plans expansion, first in India and then internationally.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Li said the brand will extend its competitive advantage by going electric, thanks to its parent companys three-decade history of making internal combustion engines and Chinas lead in electrification. The plug-in hybrid version has two electric motors to handle tough terrain with a maximum torque of 610 Nm and travels 15.8

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AUGUST 10, 2021

It’s an evolving and highly complex overlapping area of international regulations, taxes, and corporate policy.). There’s a large voluntary market for carbon credits beyond the traditional and rather outdated carbon credits. For now, however, the goal is simply to prove that the system works as expected at the scales hoped for.

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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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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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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Agency for International Development. ” There are “times the United States has been kind of pushy in international affairs, which may resonate with some members of the audience,” Musk said, speaking to the crowd in the UAE, an autocratically ruled nation of seven sheikhdoms. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

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