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Fintech
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Sep 14, 2026
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Tabby raises $233M Series F at $6.5B valuation as it pushes beyond BNPL
The round comes as new Saudi lending licences and a UAE wallet licence expand it into longer-term credit, SME finance and everyday money management.
Fintech
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Sep 14, 2026
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Tarabut secures $50M from Saudi banks and business groups as it deepens Kingdom focus
Riyad Bank, SAB Invest’s X-Tech Fund and GIB Saudi Arabia are among the backers, three years after Tarabut’s $32 million Series A was itself raised to expand in Saudi.
News
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Sep 11, 2026
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Egypt-born Kareem Amin’s Clay raises $115M Series D at $7.1B valuation
The New York GTM software company has more than doubled its valuation since its CapitalG-led Series C last year, with ARR now on pace to reach about $200 million this quarter.
News
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Sep 11, 2026
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UAE leads $3B Boring Company round at $23B valuation as Musk expands tunnel plans beyond Dubai
The funding roughly quadruples the tunnelling company’s valuation since 2022 and comes with plans for more than 150km of additional underground infrastructure across the UAE.
SaaS
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Sep 10, 2026
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Keep Converting raises $2M pre-seed led by Nuwa Capital and COTU Ventures
The UAE startup has emerged from stealth with an AI platform that generates and tests personalised product pages for individual ecommerce shoppers, claiming an average 64% conversion-rate lift across early deployments.
SaaS
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Sep 10, 2026
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Saudi used-car platform Carly takes Pinnacle investment in primary-secondary deal
The undisclosed transaction is the first investment from Pinnacle’s new growth and secondaries fund, launched last month to back later-stage Saudi tech companies while providing liquidity to existing shareholders.
Fintech
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Sep 7, 2026
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Sav raises $3.5M pre-Series A led by Phoenix Venture Partners for Saudi expansion
The UAE consumer fintech has broadened from a savings app into a regulated personal-finance platform spanning cards, investments and account aggregation, taking total funding to about $6 million.
Fintech
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Sep 7, 2026
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PayTabs agrees $100M-plus deal for Amazon Payment Services’ MENA operations
The Saudi payments company will take over a business that began as PayFort before joining Amazon through its 2017 acquisition of Souq, creating a combined platform expected to process more than SAR 150 billion annually.
Fintech
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Sep 4, 2026
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Alaan gets in-principle UAE approval for SVF and payments licences as it pushes into business banking
Final approval would allow the fintech to hold customer funds, issue corporate cards and run cross-border payments under its own CBUAE licences as it expands beyond spend management into business banking.
