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Jordan
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Aug 19, 2026
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2 min read
HeyBreez raises $2.5M seed led by Lunara Partners as call volumes pass one million a month
The oversubscribed round brings in Jabbar Group alongside returning backer DASH Ventures, seven months after the company's $1.3 million pre-seed.
Analysis
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Aug 12, 2026
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20 min read
A terrible business, but an amazing Trojan horse
As SILQ closes $100 million for its embedded finance arm Fina, the survivors of the B2B marketplace crash are out to parlay their order data into fintech empires.
Fintech
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Aug 11, 2026
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3 min read
Tamara’s Saudi Q2 revenue more than doubles as new lending book closes in on BNPL
Q2 revenue more than doubled to SAR 707 million as consumer-financing receivables reached SAR 3.14 billion, just behind the SAR 3.36 billion held in pay-in-instalments.
Funding
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Aug 11, 2026
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1 min read
UAE customer intelligence startup Cobi raises $1M pre-seed led by Lunara Partners
The new capital will be used to expand enterprise deployments across the Middle East and internationally, and to further develop Cobi’s recommendation and decisioning capabilities.
Fintech
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Aug 10, 2026
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3 min read
Tabby's Saudi unit Q2 profit falls 54% as revenue grows 21% year on year
The Riyadh-headquartered BNPL lender's repayments outpaced new lending by roughly SAR 360 million between April and June, as its new SAMA licence opens a push into longer-term consumer and SME lending.
Analysis
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Aug 5, 2026
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24 min read
Digging into Travis Kalanick’s $2B Gulf food computer
Inside the cloud-kitchen infrastructure bet once headed for Tadawul, which survived the bust, expanded across the Gulf and now sits beneath Kalanick’s $1.7B a16z-backed Atoms comeback.
VC
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Aug 5, 2026
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2 min read
Moove raises $250M at $2.1B led by Abu Dhabi's Mubadala to build the depot layer for robotaxis
The Dubai-headquartered company's valuation is 2.8x the $750 million it commanded in its $100 million round Uber led in 2024.
Startups
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Aug 4, 2026
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1 min read
Saudi's Rime raises $2M+ seed to run AI agents on-site for retail chains
Seedra Ventures led again after backing the pre-Seed, in a round joined by Athlah Investment and Unity Invest Partners, behind a platform that runs decisions on-site through edge computing rather than sending footage to remote data centres.
Jordan
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Jul 31, 2026
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2 min read
Brookfield to buy Aypa Power for $7B, the battery storage platform built by Jordan's Moe Hajabed
The Amman-raised founder started the business in Canada as a behind-the-meter storage developer, sold it to Blackstone in 2020 when it had around 200 MWh contracted, and has grown it into North America's largest standalone battery platform at 6.5 GW, with a pipeline above 20 GW.
