TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Convertedin , an Egyptian startup that operates a marketing operating system for e-commerce brands, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Saudi Arabia-headquartered Merak Capital. The three-year-old Egypt-headquartered company also has offices in Saudi Arabia and Brazil; it just recently opened one in the latter.

Saudi Arabia

TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2022

Its two main markets are Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Arab said Saudi Arabia commands the lion’s share of the company’s transaction volume, driven by solid consumer adoption and increasing online transactions. Dubai-based buy now, pay later platform tabby raises $50M at $300M valuation. The company has over 1.1

Saudi Arabia

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

Saudi Arabia

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 ]

Saudi Arabia

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

TechCrunch gathered that Opontia has somewhat switched focus on its target market. Though it launched with eyes on the Middle East and Africa, the company has only made efforts in some parts of the former (the UAE and Saudi Arabia) while making significant headway into Central and Eastern Europe, particularly Turkey and Poland.

Africa

TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

The trio started the company as a bus-hailing service in Egypt and other ride-sharing services in emerging markets with fragmented public transportation. Its services, mainly bus-hailing, enables users to make intra-state journeys by booking seats on buses running a fixed route.

Saudi Arabia

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.

Saudi Arabia

TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Traditional consulting firms provide high-quality services but the cost a lot and have rigid terms. And while there are plenty of portals offering low-quality freelance consulting services, these are generally unsupervised that would never work for corporates and the public sector.

United Arab Emirates

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.

Saudi Arabia

The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Other countries where Private Relay won’t be available include: Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and the Philippines. China is one of ten countries not getting the feature.

China

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.

Japan

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. Think about Amazon; they kept selling books for eight years before adding another category.

Saudi Arabia

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. That has accelerated card acceptance –– with 90% card acceptance rates in the UAE and Saudi Arabia by some estimates — in the region.

Saudi Arabia

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Micro and small businesses in emerging markets still struggle to access digital payments for several reasons. This suite of services is essential in the primary markets in which Nomod is aiming to build a significant merchant base, like Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bangladesh.

Saudi Arabia

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Recent research suggests that the e-commerce market in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt account for a combined $21.4 Aside from the financing solutions we offer our partners, we also give them other value-added services to help them go further. billion and is projected to grow by more than 50% to $33.3

Saudi Arabia

TechNode

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Huawei Technologies has inaugurated a cloud data center in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, according to a September 4 report by Reuters. In the global cloud services market for the first quarter, Huawei held the fifth position with a 2.4% This marks Huaweis 30th cloud data center globally, the report said.

Saudi Arabia

The Verge

JUNE 16, 2021

The Honor 50 series will be able to ship with Google’s apps and services, Honor officially announced today as it launched the Honor 50 and Honor 50 Pro in China. Consumers will be able to experience HONOR smartphones and tablets equipped with GMS”.

Phone

TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

This is where e-commerce fulfillment services come in handy. Today, Flextock , one such company providing this service to businesses and consumers in Egypt, is announcing that it is part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 batch. According to the CEO, Flextock is the first end-to-end fulfillment service in Egypt.

Africa

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We are exploring Saudi Arabia and expanding south into our continent. I think Africa has a lot of markets that feel the same pain points that Egypt does,” said OneOrder co-founder and CEO, Tamer Ame r, who co-founded OneOrder with Karim Maurice (CTO), also founder Cube, an online restaurant-reservation service.

Saudi Arabia

TechNode

MAY 30, 2024

On Wednesday, Chinese PC maker Lenovo announced a strategic partnership with Alat, a subsidiary under Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) focused on transformative technology investments and sustainable manufacturing, with Alat proposing a $2 billion zero coupon convertible bonds investment in Lenovo.

Saudi Arabia

TechNode

APRIL 28, 2024

Chinas food delivery giant Meituan is hiring Arabic- and English-proficient talent for its likely entry into Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, as the company puts expansion beyond China on its agenda as domestic consumption falls.

Saudi Arabia

TechNode

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Chinas Hozon Auto said on Monday that it is partnering with EIH Automotive&Trading, an Abu Dhabi-based car distributor, to help launch its Neta range of electric vehicles and services in the United Arab Emirates in 2024. Geely-affiliated Zeekr signed sales agreements with partners in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain last month.

UAE

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.

Saudi Arabia

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.

Saudi Arabia

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In addition, Volopay will hire aggressively in each of its new markets. . Many of our competitors around the world will opt to integrate with third-party infrastructure suppliers to provide financial services,” Rajith told TechCrunch. “That restricts the type of products you can offer clients.

Singapore

TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

According to a statement shared by the Dubai-based company, the funding will be used to expand Tabby’s product line into a plethora of consumer financial services and support the company’s growing operations that now include Egypt. Now, the economy’s structure is different for some of the markets we [Tabby] are in today.

Paypal

TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

As of 2020, it was operating in 50 cities across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Lebanon and claimed its userbase had grown 3x year-over-year to 4 million patients, with 30,000 healthcare providers using its software-as-a-service solution. There are a few notable examples in the U.S. healthtech space.

Saudi Arabia

TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Abu Dhabi-based mobility startup Fenix has added ride-hail and courier services to its portfolio of mobility products. The company launched “Fenix Taxi” in Manama, Bahrain, on Monday and says it’s planning to add two additional markets this summer. Fenix launches ride-hailing service in Bahrain.

Bahrain

TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

The acquiree, Lamma, launched in Tunisia as a carpooling service two years ago. Its claim is based on the number of markets it currently operates in: Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. “No No other q-commerce player in Africa operates in such big markets,” Mokhtar told TechCrunch. .

Tunisia

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.

Software

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Politician turned venture capitalist Bradley Tusk recently spoke at a TechCrunch Live event on how startups should approach regulation, in a session called “How to launch a startup into a regulated market.” Sarah reports on Twitter Blue’s troubles , namely that the subscription service is feeling blue that it is not bringing in more green.

Saudi Arabia

The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The filing , known as the Form S-1, serves as a sort of ultra-detailed pitch to the financial markets. Some $2 billion has already gone to getting the factory ready in Illinois, while a much smaller sum of around $30 million has been spent on marketing. Perhaps that’s why Rivian is already spending millions of dollars on marketing.

Files

ZDnet

JULY 23, 2025

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Saudi Arabia

TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

The market looked very different in January and February than it did in December.”. Having said that, he believes there will be plenty of different players for different segments of the market. “I In the short term, it’s eyeing Southeast Asia, and potentially Saudi Arabia and Africa. So just what does Jeeves do exactly?

Raise

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. enabling people to buy Bitcoin.

Indonesia

TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

It’s also eyeing Southeast Asia and potentially Saudi Arabia and Africa. Is this market big enough for so many global players? We’re seeing pretty big market changes. after raising $110M for new tech to update capital markets trading. billion in annualized gross transaction volume (GTV).

Technology

TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

As we all know, the housing market goes through cycles. Prospective home buyers, turned off by the rate surge as well as the competitive and overheated housing markets, began to reconsider their plans, as buying was suddenly far less appealing. Low interest rates mean more purchases and refinances. Fintech for good? Weekly News.

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