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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.
Fintech
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Jul 31, 2026
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2 min read
UAE credit reports to include Tabby and Tamara accounts from July
Al Etihad Credit Bureau will add BNPL data from both providers, covering existing and new customers and historical transactions.
Analysis
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Jul 29, 2026
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27 min read
The rise and fall of the B2B e-commerce marketplace
Across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, B2B marketplaces like Wasoko, Sary and MaxAB raised hundreds of millions to digitise informal retail, backed by aggressive growth capital from kingmakers like Tiger Global. But when subsidised expansion collided with razor-thin margins, the category unravelled. Inside the boom, the bust, and the quiet pivot of the survivors.
News
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Jul 27, 2026
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1 min read
Egypt's Fincart raises $2.8M seed to take its e-commerce operations platform across MENA and Africa
The oversubscribed round is co-led by Launch Africa and Antler MENAP, backing a platform that connects merchants to more than 40 couriers and lends against their sales data.
News
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Jul 25, 2026
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1 min read
Notion acquires ZeroEntropy, the AI search startup co-founded by Moroccan CEO Ghita Houir Alami
The whole team joins Notion, with Houir Alami taking over its Model Research group, roughly a year after the YC-backed company raised a $4.2 million Seed.
Fintech
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Jul 17, 2026
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1 min read
Revolut wins in-principle approval from Dubai's VARA to offer crypto services in the UAE
The Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority approval covers broker-dealer, exchange, and management and investment services, and lands a month after Revolut completed its Central Bank licensing for payments, stacking a second regulatory pillar under a UAE launch that has yet to be given a date.
News
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Jul 16, 2026
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1 min read
Vercel acquires Stakpak, the Egyptian-born DevOps agent startup, as it builds out agentic infrastructure
The deal takes a team that bootstrapped out of Cairo for two years, built one of the most popular open-source DevOps agents, and raised a $500K pre-seed just last year into the $9.3 billion company behind Next.js and v0.
Fintech
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Jul 13, 2026
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2 min read
Tabby launches Tabby Cash, its first product on the UAE wallet licence, as it pushes beyond BNPL
The fee-free spending account, offering up to 3% cashback and free local transfers, and arrives alongside a rebrand positioning the $4.5 billion company as an everyday money management platform rather than a BNPL provider.
AI
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Jul 13, 2026
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5 min read
Inside the AI services boom
After nearly a decade leading Deliveroo’s Middle East operation, Anis Harb left to help business make AI work at scale. We sit down with the Algebra AI founder, fresh from a $7M raise, to talk managed AI services, leaner teams and the gap between a promising demo and measurable results.
