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Oct 23, 2026
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3 min read
The growth investor has deployed more than $3 billion in the Middle East and secured a $500 million commitment from QIA as it broadens its business beyond private equity.
News
+2
Oct 16, 2026
2 min read
The US energy and infrastructure technology investor, which manages more than $1 billion across three funds, becomes the latest firm drawn to Qatar by the sovereign wealth fund.
Funding
+3
Jul 10, 2026
The Abu Dhabi-based platform replaces the static, up-to-$1-million consultant reports underwriting data centre finance with continuous, lender-grade risk intelligence, and marks the first publicised graduate of the Utopia platform's co-build studio model.
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Jun 5, 2026
The filing makes Anthropic the third major AI company to move toward a public listing in 2026, following Cerebras, which listed on the Nasdaq in May at a $70B valuation, and ahead of rival OpenAI.
Startups
The contempt finding relates to a $150 million loan provided by Qatar Holdings, a QIA subsidiary, to Byju's Investments, a Singapore-based entity of which Raveendran was personal guarantor.
Deeptech
May 15, 2026
1 min read
The fund's inaugural cohort of co-investment partners includes Global Ventures, Golden Gate Ventures, White Star Capital, VentureSouq and Builders VC, which is part of QIA's Fund of Funds programme.
Apr 20, 2026
The fund is led by partners Deepali Nangia and Rana Abdel Latif and will invest across fintech, embedded finance, health, climate, AI, consumer and digital infrastructure in markets spanning MENAPT and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Apr 13, 2026
4 min read
Invisible, founded in 2015, claims to have trained data and models for more than 80% of the world's leading foundation model labs and counts Microsoft, AWS and Cohere among its enterprise clients.
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Apr 2, 2026
5 min read
If it goes ahead at anything close to that scale, it would surpass Saudi Aramco's $29 billion IPO in 2019 as the largest public offering in history.
Feb 13, 2026
Abu Dhabi's MGX, absent from Anthropic's $13 billion Series F last year, enters as a co-lead. QIA, which backed the Series F, returns as a participating investor.
Feb 2, 2026
The fund is backed by Qatar Investment Authority alongside other sovereign and institutional investors from the GCC and Asia, with the launch announced at Web Summit Qatar.
The funds are Greycroft, Ion Pacific, Liberty City Ventures, Shorooq, and Speedinvest, all of which are establishing offices in Doha, QIA said in a statement.
The expansion builds on Qatar’s existing $1 billion Fund of Funds, launched in February 2024 to attract international venture firms to Doha and channel capital into local and regional startups.
Fintech
Jan 29, 2026
The round was led by LuLu Alternative Investments, with strategic participation from Qatar Development Bank and KBN Holding, alongside a group of angel investors.
Saudi Arabia
Jan 7, 2026
The upsized $20 billion round highlights a deepening Gulf split in frontier AI, as sovereign funds increasingly pick sides across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Elon Musk’s compute-first platform.
Dec 19, 2025
7 min read
Kushner exits, Trump turns hostile, and the WBD board calls Paramount's financing "illusory." Netflix wins, for now.
Dec 12, 2025
Paramount's $108 billion offer for Warner Bros. Discovery marks a rare moment of Gulf cooperation – and signals the region's ambitions to control, not just consume, American entertainment.
Dec 9, 2025
The Qatar Investment Authority has set up a new AI company to invest in infrastructure, evaluate frontier models and build trusted systems, joining the UAE and Saudi Arabia in pushing for sovereign control over next-generation computing.
SWFs
Sep 3, 2025
The raise, led by Iconiq Capital with co-leads Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners, nearly triples Anthropic’s valuation from just six months ago.
Jul 9, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Jahez has signed a $245 million agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Snoonu, Qatar’s largest on-demand delivery startup, valuing the company at $320 million.
Jun 19, 2025
Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst invests exclusively in Endeavor-selected founders at Series A–C stages, co-investing alongside VCs like Prosus, STV, and General Atlantic.
