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News and Trends

MAGNiTT's MENA Funding Evolution Report Traces Growth Of Regional Startup Ecosystem

Titled MENA Funding Evolution- How Has The MENA Investment Landscape Evolved, the study analyzes investments made in MENA's top 200 funded startups during the period of 2005-2017.

Finance

Global Fintech Startup TreasuryXpress Closes US$5 Million Funding From MEVP And Others

TreasuryXpress, an on-demand treasury management solutions provider, has closed a Series B investment of US$5 million from an investor consortium that includes Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), iSME Capital, The Luxury Fund, and others.

Finance

Here's How You Can Attain The Financial Independence You Want For Yourself

Is your morning latte costing you your retirement?

Entrepreneurs

Partnering For A New Future: Fintech In the MENA Region

A growing number of fintech startups are seeking collaborations with larger, better-established corporations.

Entrepreneurs

Digitizing Payments: Kuwait's Ajar Online Gears Up To Take Its Platform To The Rest Of The GCC

As anyone in the GCC can attest, paying rent in this region can often be a strenuous task for both landlords and tenants. Ajar Online is a platform offering a seamless and hassle-free way to digitize rent payment and collection.

Finance

Bahrain-Based Football Community App Malaeb Raises Seed Funding

If you are one of those football fans who often has an itch to play a quality game, but just can't seem to find enough people to get a match started or a good enough space in your city, here's help at hand.

Finance

Saudi Arabia-Based Foodtech Startup Foodics Raises US$4 Million Series A Funding

The Foodics software manages sales, transactions, inventory, employee schedules, and customer relationships among other F&B operations using iPads as a point of sale (POS) device at restaurants.

Business News

5 Tips for Financing Your Startup

In any economic climate, it is challenging to find the funds to set up a business.

Growth Strategies

#5 Strategies This Refurbishing Goods Startup Followed to Raise Funds

The company saw refurbish industry as an opportunity but did not venture out without a litmus test

Finance

UAE Exchange Group Invests In US-Based Digital Gifting Platform Swych

Currently available only in the US market, Swych looks to leverage the reach of UAE Exchange to grow its digital gifting services in emerging global markets.

Fundraising

VCs Are Starving -- Starving! -- for Solid Investments: 5 Ways to Take Advantage

Believe it or not, it's a founder's market right now.

Finance

We Got Funded! Online Travel Marketplace Wego Finds A Strategic Investor In MBC Group

Online travel marketplace Wego has entered into a strategic partnership with Middle East media conglomerate MBC Group, with the latter making a "significant amount" of investment in the online travel marketplace.

Finance

AI Startup Narrativa Raises Funding From UAE's Twofour54 And Other Investors

Narrativa's Artificial Intelligence (AI) product known as GabrieleAI translates data into narrative/descriptive content- a feature, which, for instance, simplifies the creation of mass content like financial reports and e-commerce product descriptions among others.

Technology

GCC Startup PayTabs Aims To Go Global With A US$20 Million Raise

MENA-based payment processing startup PayTabs has raised a US$20 million in funds in a Series A round from undisclosed private investors.

Finance

UAE Startup NOW Money Raises US$700,000 From Accion Venture Lab And Newid Capital

NOW Money plans to extend the reach of its services across the UAE, and also expand to other GCC nations with the latest financial boost.