BRKZ secures $30M growth debt from Stride Ventures, new $250M Saudi biotech growth fund, first casualty in Saudi food-delivery price wars, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Oct 31, 2025
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15 min read
Property Finder secures $250M in debt financing; backs Stake, Cercli raises $12M Series A to build AI-native HR stack for MENA, 1001 AI raises $9M to build sovereign AI, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Oct 24, 2025
16 min read
Chari raises Morocco's largest-ever Series A, Dubizzle kicks off $2B Dubai IPO process, Investcorp closes $750M Golden Horizon Fund, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Oct 17, 2025
14 min read
Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick granted Saudi citizenship, Cerebras withdraws IPO filing after $1B raise amid G42 scrutiny, Egypt-based agtech Tagaddod raises $26.3M Series A, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Oct 10, 2025
12 min read
UAE’s MGX to take 15% stake in TikTok US under White House deal, Aydi raises $7.5M seed to launch AI agronomy assistant Orth, Careem takes minority stake in Swapp to expand car rental play in UAE, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Oct 3, 2025
Ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick lines up banks for Middle East IPO, Saudi stocks post biggest gain since 2020, erad secures $33M debt facility, PayPal to deploy $100M in MENA, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Sep 26, 2025
All things Money20/20, a staggering 23 funding announcements, HALA raises $157M Series B, inDrive launches in Riyadh, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up
Sep 19, 2025
Amir Farha on Property Finder and the last mile of venture investing, a new $200M growth-stage fund, Revolut gets UAE nod, Noon eyes $10BN dual Saudi-UAE listing, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Sep 12, 2025
17 min read
Overseas clients drive 99% of HUMAIN AI infra demand, Impact46 invests $53M in Saudi gaming studio Kammelna, proptech Holo raises $22M Series A to fuel Saudi expansion, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Aug 29, 2025
The largest ever round for a female-led GCC startup, Dubai’s VARA fines Fuze over anti-money laundering failures, even more funding for Saudi gaming startups, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Aug 22, 2025
Breaking down H1 earnings for Talabat, Valu, Jahez and Presight, HUMAIN to launch Arabic-centric LLM by end of August, Impact46 invests $6.6M+ across five gaming studios, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Aug 15, 2025
Alaan raises $48M Series A to scale AI finance agents, Egypt-born founder's startup jumps to $3.1B valuation, Salasa closes $30M Series B, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Aug 8, 2025
Calo closes $39M Series B extension, MENA’s new playbook for non‐dilutive funding, Breadfast valuation jumps 31% to $382M in six months, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Aug 1, 2025
500 Global launches $300M Sustainable Growth initiative, Qlub raises $30M Series B, foreign startups flock to Saudi Arabia as VC funding hits $860M in H1, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Jul 25, 2025
Meta acquires US-based PlayAI, founded by Egyptian engineer Mahmoud Felfel, Elon Musk’s xAI targets Saudi Arabia for its next wave of data centre expansion, Lucidya lands a $30M Series B, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Jul 18, 2025
Jahez enters Qatar with $245M Snoonu deal, Egypt’s Valu secures go-ahead for Jordan entry, and Huspy lands $59 for Saudi expansion, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Jul 11, 2025
What led to Ninja's Ebrahim Al-Jassim’s exit from HungerStation, Dubai lures SpaceX challenger, Iraq’s next-gen digital bank emerges from stealth, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Jul 4, 2025
Valu surges 852% on EGX debut as Amazon joins the cap table, AppliedAI closes oversubscribed $55M Series A, Impact46 backs Spekter Games from $40M gaming fund, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Jun 27, 2025
Why Careem’s exiting Pakistan, Endeavor Catalyst targets $300M fifth fund, Replit and HUMAIN team up to localise AI in Saudi, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Jun 20, 2025
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Talabat CEO on why the company isn’t rushing into Saudi Arabia, Stargate UAE AI campus deal far from finalised, Kuwait releases Open Banking framework, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Jun 13, 2025
Expensya founders return with Thunder Code, raise $9M to automate software testing with AI, Khwarizmi Ventures eyes $100M+ Fund II to back early-stage startups, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
Jun 6, 2025
HUMAIN to launch $10B VC fund for global AI startups, Elon Musk tried and failed to blow up Stargate UAE, what you need to know about Saudi SPACs, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
May 30, 2025
G42 partners with OpenAI, Nvidia & Cisco to launch Stargate UAE, Tarjama raises $15 million Series A funding to scale Arabic AI, QIA-backed unicorn Builder.ai files for insolvency, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
May 23, 2025
STV launches $100M AI fund backed by Google, Egypt’s proptech Nawy secures $75M to scale, and nsave opens access to secure financial accounts for Syrians, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
May 16, 2025
A rare MENA cybersecurity startup exit, Money Fellows raises $13M pre-Series C, and Nama Ventures becomes first foreign VC licensed by Saudi CMA, plus this week’s MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up.
May 9, 2025
