The collaboration marks SAB Invest’s move into startup-focused investments and SME financing.
Oct 31, 2025
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The firm, founded earlier this year by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), announced that Saudi Aramco will acquire a significant minority stake in the company while PIF retains majority ownership.
Oct 29, 2025
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The deal comes just months after Tabby’s $160 million Series E in February 2025, which valued the company at $3.3 billion
The new facility follows its $17 million Series A extension in February and brings total capital raised to over $52 million.
Oct 28, 2025
Thecommitment from Ares Credit Funds will be used to accelerate regional expansion and product innovation, with spend earmarked for AI-driven solutions, marketing, branding, and strategic partnerships.
Oct 23, 2025
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According to analysts, the delay reflects a mismatch between valuation expectations and investor appetite, underscoring a maturing regional IPO market.
Founded in 2019 by Leila Al Marashi, CADO combines creativity, logistics, and technology to modernise corporate gifting, with the goal of making it more intelligent and emotionally meaningful.
Oct 21, 2025
The move comes alongside the appointment of Rakhil Fernando as Head of CE-Creates, signalling a more aggressive build-out of the platform.
Founded by Muhamed Ashhar and Faizy Ahmed, Astra Nova develops tools that allow creators to launch interactive blockchain-based experiences without technical expertise.
The acquisition comes shortly after Qashio raised approximately $19.8 million in fresh funding in May.
Founded by Bilal Abu-Ghazaleh, 1001 AI is developing an AI-native operating system designed to automate operational decision-making in aviation, logistics, construction, and oil & gas.
Founded in 2024 by Mohammed Jaber, Mohammad Khleifat, Shadi Daboor and Mohamad Ababatain, TabSense develops a platform that uses autonomous AI agents to act like digital employees
Founded by Akeed Azmi and David Reche, former operators at Careem, Cercli develops AI-driven tools for payroll, compliance, and human resources management.
Gyssels previously spent four years at talabat as COO and Interim CEO, where he helped scale operations across MENA, launched Q-commerce and cloud kitchen verticals, and strengthened the platform’s logistics network.
Oct 17, 2025
The fund will focus on sectors including consumer, healthcare, logistics, and business services. It targets established companies with scale and maturity, with a clear path to IPOs or strategic exits within three to five years.
Founded in 2020 by Ismael Belkhayat and Sophia Alj, Chari began by digitising procurement for Morocco’s ubiquitous mom-and-pop shops, streamlining FMCG supply chains through its mobile app.
Oct 15, 2025
This week on VC React, we unpack BECO’s $370M twin funds and what it signals for full-stack venture in MENA, dig into aydi's $7.5M seed to bring AI to agritech, debate the PIF–Silver Lake $55B take-private of EA, and track the fintech migration as Revolut’s CEO relocates to Dubai.
Dubizzle intends to offer about 30.3% of its share capital, roughly 1.25 billion shares, consisting of both new shares and existing shareholder sales. Prosus N.V., its largest shareholder, has committed to invest $100 million in the IPO.
G42 accounted for 87% of the company’s revenue in the first half of 2024, a customer concentration flagged as a material risk in its IPO filings.
Oct 10, 2025
The deal is tied to a landmark AI agreement signed in May that pairs US chip shipments with reciprocal Emirati investment.
The royal approval places Kalanick among a select group of scientists, innovators, and business leaders who have received citizenship under a program tied to Saudi Vision 2030.
The move, first reported by the Financial Times, was disclosed in updates to Storonsky’s family office records.
Oct 8, 2025
MGX will join Oracle and Silver Lake as co-investors, each taking an equal stake.
Oct 3, 2025
PIF will be the largest equity contributor in the $36 billion financing package, securing a controlling stake.
