TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Summer batch graduate ShipBlu is the latest on that list and confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $2.4 According to him, ShipBlu is one of the few e-commerce fulfilment companies that offers that service to customers in the country. “We The company says the investment will help grow its service offering and coverage across Egypt.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The company has raised $3.4 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. In the UAE, it can take nearly six months to set up a business bank account.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

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. It’s not the only one: a month ago, Spinny , another startup in the used-car space raised $280 million. billion, versus $1.84

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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

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

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. . Dubai-based buy now, pay later platform tabby raises $50M at $300M valuation.

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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

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. The company could have built out these services but acquiring Meddy presented a better option due its expansion play. Helium Health.

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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. BNPL payment startup Alma raises another $130 million round.

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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. . Another major step forward is the company’s expansion from flying into trucking services. .

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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.”. “So So we’re getting a lot of that type of data.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The company offers a new service called ChatGPT Pro that provides unlimited access to o1 proper for $200 per month. The Gemini model is also notable for being able to control other Google services such as Maps and Search. In June, the company raised a $640 million funding round, led by the venture capital firm General Catalyst.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai by setting up an additional 100 dark stores to offer 15-minute delivery services. The instant delivery service will use the $2.3 million it has raised in the pre-seed round to fund expansion within the U.A.E. The instant delivery service will use the $2.3

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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. million seed round. Visa is taking the lead as a first mover in digital payments in Sudan.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Detroit-based Airspace Link has positioned itself as a provider of increasingly important infrastructure in the burgeoning drone services space, letting operators get local and federal approval quickly. ’ You’re not proving your safety case to the FAA there — the state is providing that service,” he explained. .

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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 million since its inception in 2019, which includes its $2.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The pre-seed round is an extension of an undisclosed six-figure raise MoneyHash announced last June from investors Ventures Platform, Kepple Africa Ventures, LoftyInc Capital and lead COTU Ventures. Egypt, the UAE, Nigeria and some parts of Europe — and hire mid-level and senior software engineers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Invygo, a startup operating in UAE and Saudi Arabia, has raised $10 million in its Series A funding as it works to scale its car rental service in the region. The Middle East–based startup has raised $14.3 The event is embedded here and is both free and very worth watching. million to date, Ivan reports.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The consumer fintech company is focused on helping people build credit and raised $30 million in June 2021. In June of 2021, the company raised $150 million at a $2.17 In June of 2021, the company raised $150 million at a $2.17 The B2B payments company raised $200 million at a unicorn valuation in 2021. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Freterium , a startup based in Morocco, is one such company providing this software, and it has raised $4 million in seed to scale across the country and into surrounding regions. . Only B2B e-commerce startup Chari and proptech Mubawab has raised more recently. San Fransisco-based investor Partech led the round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. By the end of last year, the annual Israeli Tech Review 2020 showed that Israeli tech firms had raised a record $9.93

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Peridotite is normally found miles below sea level, but on the easternmost tip of the Arabian peninsula, specifically the northern coast of Oman, tectonic action has raised hundreds of square miles of the stuff to the surface. There’s a large voluntary market for carbon credits beyond the traditional and rather outdated carbon credits.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

At the same time, as the venture market slowed dramatically and suddenly, raising capital was much harder. In a press release , co-founder and chairman Amit Haller said “the challenging real estate and financial market conditions and unfavorable capital-raising environment” led to the decision to wind down operations. Ahem, Brex).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Zypp Electric, an Indian startup that offers an EV-as-a-service platform catering to e-commerce companies and gig workers, has received a $25 million investment led by Taiwan’s battery-swapping giant Gogoro. The fresh funding brings Zypp Electric’s total raised to $37.5 6x from the last round. million, including $7.5

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The Verge

JULY 24, 2020

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund already owns a majority stake in fellow EV startup Lucid Motors, and the UAE and Kuwait have even bigger sovereign funds. food service, housekeeping, insurance, and utilities).”. lining up a similar route to go public , and even Karma Automotive pulling down $100 million. .

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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.”. Klarna recently raised $800 million at a $6.7 As a result, they may have to sell.”.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

For the unacquainted, Ramp is a spend management startup that last August raised $300 million at a $3.9 Other prominent players in the space include Brex, which last month announced a $300 million raise at a $12.3 It is gearing up to formally launch in the UAE and Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks. and the UAE.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In Japan, Riiid will offer its services, ranging from the TOEIC to English speaking and tutoring services, to broaden its customer base. . 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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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

In this case, it’s the drivers of SafeBoda, a Ugandan motorcycle ride-hailing service that we’ve written about previously. Japan’s Terra Drone raised a $70 million Series B led by Mitsui Corporation. Skyports , an electric air taxi infrastructure provider, raised $23 million in a Series B. . Other deals that got my attention….

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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

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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 15, 2025

The partnership will see Jobys services integrated into Virgins app and website, and connect passengers at Heathrow and Manchester airports. The announcement did not say when service is expected to begin. We look forward to working together to bring Jobys service to the U.K. and to deliver greater connectivity for our customers.

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