TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The round, led by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), follows last year’s $170 million raise. The company is also set to spread into more Asia-Pacific markets and the Middle East. In 2018, Crop One announced a 130,000-square-foot farming facility set to open in the UAE. Canada, Japan and additional parts of Europe.

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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. Dostavista, the ‘crowdsourced’ same-day delivery service, raises $15M Series B. They have succeeded in going global; becoming competitive in 10 new international markets.”.

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TechCrunch

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. million seed funding it has raised. million seed funding it has raised. Qureos raises $3M to grow its learn to earn platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Dubai-based Zywa, a neobank for Gen Z, plans to fuel its growth in the United Arabs Emirates (U.A.E), and to kick-start its expansion to Saudi Arabia and Egypt after raising $3 million seed funding at over $30 million (110 million AED) valuation. The new funding follows the $1 million pre-seed backing it secured in February this year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

One Impression, an Indian influencer marketing platform that does business in markets including Indonesia, Dubai, Europe and the U.S., has raised $10 million in a funding round led by the South Korean gaming company Krafton. It also plans to unlock it for LinkedIn and Moj in India and TikTok for global markets over time.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

European fintech Klarna has confirmed that it has raised $800 million at a pretty hefty valuation drop. Rumors have been circulating for at least the past month that Sweden-based Klarna, best known as a “ buy now, pay later ” service provider, was seeking to raise new funds. billion valuation exactly a year ago.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

On top of a $62 million round that closed last year, the company has now raised a $35 million Series C to improve shipping of temperature-sensitive drugs — including COVID-19 vaccines. . The biopharma industry uses more optimistic numbers. So far, SkyCell’s temperature excursion rate is less than.1%,

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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

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 , a startup out of India that has built an app and website for selling used cars and motorbikes, has raised $400 million: a Series G of $300 million in equity and a further $100 million in debt.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

E-commerce roll-up play Opontia launched in June, raising $20 million in debt and equity to acquire older, small e-commerce brands in the Middle East and Africa. Roll-up plays are generally known to secure more debt than equity when they raise mega-round deals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Jordan-based online learning platform Abwaab has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round (following a $5 million seed round in March of this year), making it one of the most funded edtech startups in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENAP), a region that encompasses 160 million students.

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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 CEO Aahan Bhojani and Ashmin Varma founded Silkhaus last year after identifying a $13 billion market opportunity for asset owners across emerging markets, particularly MENA, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

MENA-based buy now, pay later startup Tabby has raised $58 million, led by Sequoia Capital India and STV, at a valuation of $660 million. The fintech has raised more than $410 million in equity and debt since its 2019 launch. . Now, the economy’s structure is different for some of the markets we [Tabby] are in today.

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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

APRIL 6, 2022

Qureos , a UAE-based edtech and remote work marketplace that is changing how people upskill and get jobs across the globe, plans to grow the uptake of its platform by 10 times this year in its race to create 100 million jobs over the next few years. Qureos says it’s creating new learning and work opportunities for millions of youth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. One such partner is the newly rebranded UAE-based telecom operator, e&; its VC arm, e& capital , launched a $250 million fund this week.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

the corporate spend space is getting increasingly competitive, with several startups clamoring to gain market share. But in the Middle East, the market is far less crowded. For the unacquainted, Ramp is a spend management startup that last August raised $300 million at a $3.9 and the UAE. Here in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Being an enthusiast of the food tech space, El Daly began to explore market gaps and saw an opportunity in using technology to help restaurants and food brands make a return on investment while maintaining their quality of service. Following two years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $4.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Autio, a location-based audio entertainment app co-founded by actor Kevin Costner and formerly known as HearHere, has raised $5.9 A growing market : Christine writes that Italy’s ban on cultivated meat could set the industry back. Founders are invited to apply using a one-minute form that asks for a deck, memo and region.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. million , and Aurora Solar raising $250 million. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

The company, founded by Manar Mahmassani, Rami Tabbara, and Ricardo Brizido in 2020, has raised $8 million in a pre-Series A round from investors like BY Ventures, MEVP, and Vivium Holdings to expand its portfolio and launch in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The company first raised a $4 million seed round last year. with an additional 0.5%

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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 The company, which allows e-commerce businesses to scale and grow by targeting businesses with limited bank or venture financing access, is announcing that it has raised $3.6 Wayflyer raises $150M on a $1.6B

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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. The company has over 1.1

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Koinz charges subscriptions to the brands for its engagement and feedback platform and collects commission whenever an order is made via its platform, which varies across its markets. Since launching in Egypt, Koinz has expanded to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Like Egypt, these markets have similar dynamics and demographics.

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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 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

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Nigeria-based health tech startup Helium Health has acquired Meddy , a Qatar-headquartered and UAE-based doctor booking platform for an undisclosed amount. If they do, they’re doing it at a price point that’s so high that they’ve already priced out the market in that sense,” Olubusi said to TechCrunch. Helium Health.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

So instead of going out and raising venture capital, we decided that we were going to bootstrap because we could convince some landlords to list their homes on this platform that we had built and derisk some of their problems.”. But there’s recent activity suggesting that growth is imminent in the African proptech space.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Summer batch graduate ShipBlu is the latest on that list and confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $2.4 Over 100 million people live in the North African country compared to Saudi Arabia’s 30 million+ people, yet the e-commerce market in Egypt is a third of Saudi Arabia’s. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

The company just raised $27 million to continue fertilizing and watering its own growth trajectory. “Our main markets — that is, where most of the sales teams are located — are Australia, Mexico, South Africa and Argentina. Our solution enables the UAE to save 70% of its water consumption. That comprises 2.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Volopay , a Singapore-based fintech startup, raised a $29 million Series A in debt and equity financing as it seeks to further expand its footprint in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa. . To date, Volopay has raised approximately $31.4 In addition, Volopay will hire aggressively in each of its new markets. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Indian startup FreshToHome, which sells fresh fish and meat to consumers in the South Asian market and the Middle East region, has courted a new backer: Amazon. The new round takes FreshToHome’s all-time raise to over $250 million. Most Indians are not vegetarians, but the current market is run on an age-old system.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Bloom , a Sudan-based fintech that offers a high-yield savings account and adjacent digital banking services, has raised a $6.5 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

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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. The payment solution for consumers in restaurants has now raised $17 million in seed financing in a round co-led by Berlin’s Cherry Ventures and Point Nine Capital of Germany.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

In announcing the deal, they said: “DeFi-enabled B2B payment networks that are on chain can unlock transformative working capital efficiencies, and make financial services more fair and open, especially in developing markets like LATAM.”. We are starting to see some of the public market valuations impact private market valuations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Kikoff is hiring for 10 roles (a mix of hybrid and remote), including senior product manager, associate product manager, senior product designers, engineers and a growth marketing manager. The consumer fintech company is focused on helping people build credit and raised $30 million in June 2021. million Series A raise back in 2020.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2022

It’s an extensive process that has seen some Big Tech companies build dedicated teams to manage different connections, data and cycles with the payments gateways in the markets where they are present. This extension becomes their connection to the entire payment ecosystem in the markets they operate. In the U.S.,

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