Startup

Abu Dhabi based start-up Dharma and football legend Cantona partners for themed travel platform

Dharma, an Abu Dhabi-based business-to-business travel management platform, is teaming up with French actor and football superstar…

Google and Microsoft start-up accelerator programs enter next phase

Technology companies Google and Microsoft listed new developments in their respective start-up accelerator programs for the region as they…

Dubai start-up Shorages secures $700,000 in new funding to fuel expansion

Shorages, a Dubai-based e-commerce fulfillment start-up, raised $700,000 in a seed funding round that it…

Saudi foodtech start-up Foodics acquires Jordan’s POSRocket

Saudi technology start-up Foodics that serves the retail and food and beverage industries acquired Jordan’s…

Kenyan mobile money application Alvin raises $740k in pre-seed funding

Kenyan startup Alvin, a smart money manager app that helps people align their daily spending…

Jumia expands its digital payment services with JumiaPay

As part of its strategic partnership with the National Bank of Egypt (NBE), the leading…

Egyptian VC EdVentures announces three new local edtech investments

Egyptian edtech venture capital fund, EdVentures, has announced three new investments with The Academy of…

AIMMO raises $12M Series A to advance data labeling technology

Most artificial intelligence models are trained through supervised learning, meaning that humans must label raw…

Smarter Health startup raised $5.15M SGD to reduce healthcare costs in Southeast Asia

Organizing information from providers, insurers, and patients not only takes a lot of time but…

India: Unicorns in the spotlight amid startup, technology boom in 2021

In 2021, 44 Indian unicorns – privately-held startups valued at more than $1bn – were…