News Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based CPX Acquires Cyber-AI Firm SpiderSilk Inc. Arabia spoke with CPX's Hadi Anwar and spiderSilk's Mossab Hussein to explore what the acquisition signals for the future of cybersecurity innovation from the UAE.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Disney To Open New Theme Park And Resort In Abu Dhabi The waterfront resort, which will be located on Yas Island, is being built in partnership with UAE developer Miral.
AI Everything Inc.Arabia Staff Foras Acquires Minority Stake In Canater For US$1 Million Foras, an Abu Dhabi-based investment firm, has acquired a 10 percent stake in the Dubai-based logistics and supply chain startup Canater.
Grow Inc.Arabia Staff DoorDash Acquires Deliveroo For US$2.9 Billion The combined company will have a global presence in more than 40 countries, serving approximately 50 million active monthly users.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Win AED100,000 For Your Art On Dubai's Burj Khalifa The contest, which is being run by Dubai-based global property developer Emaar, is offering artists, designers, and creatives in the UAE a chance to leave their mark on one of the world’s most celebrated landmarks.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Astra Tech Unveils Palm Pay Technology Dubai Fintech Summit is taking place at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai on May 6th and 7th.
News Inc.Arabia Staff KSA's STV Closes US$100 Million Non-Dilutive Capital Fund The platform aims to bridge the funding gap for tech startups in Saudi Arabia by providing vital Sharia-compliant, non-dilutive capital to support their growth in the fast-evolving tech landscape.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Nahda Tech Launches Tech Bootcamp in Damascus to Bridge Skills Gap and Attract Regional Employers
News Inc.Arabia Staff KSA’s Miran, Egypt’s Welnes Merge To Build Wellness Platform The new company will be headquartered in KSA, with Eslam Ali appointed as its CTO and Amr Saleh as its CEO.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Social Media Addiction Leading to Decline in Mental Health Arab Youth Survey Reveals in 15th Year Edition
News Inc.Arabia Staff Qlik Launches New AWS Cloud Region In The Middle East “This is about making AI real for businesses in the Middle East,” said Tejas Mehta, SVP and GM for the MEA at Qlik.
News Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based iMENA Group Raises US$135 Million Ahead Of Its IPO The new investment will allow iMENA to boost its ownership stakes in its three top-performing companies — OpenSooq, SellAnyCar, and Jeeny — while also supporting vertical and geographic expansion and enhancing collaboration across its platforms.
AI Everything Inc.Arabia Staff Dubai Future Foundation, Antler Renew Strategic Partnership The two entities are coming together to support emerging entrepreneurs and promising startups by offering early-stage funding, mentorship, and access to global markets.
News Inc.Arabia Staff GCC to Roll Out Unified Tourist Visa by Year's End This visa will allow travelers to explore many destinations within the GCC for over 30 days.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Lucidya To Be NextGen AI Summit 2025's AI-Powered CX Partner Lucidya is an AI-powered, fully-compliant unified customer experience platform (CXM) designed to support CX and marketing leaders in large enterprises, governments, and SMEs across the Arab world.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Abu Dhabi’s Hub71 Hits US$2.17 Billion in Startup Funding Hub71's 2024 Impact Report also revealed that its startups were able to generate revenue of $1.2 billion in 2024, up from $1 billion the year before.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Resolv Labs’ Ivan Kozlov On His Startup's US$10 Million Seed Ivan Kozlov, co-founder and CEO of Resolv Labs, views the investment as a key step in scaling the enterprise's yield-generating stablecoin protocol and expanding its presence in the growing MENA crypto market.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Manara Partners With AWS To Develop Cloud Talent In The MENA Manara co-founder Iliana Montauk expects the partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to empower local tech talent, driving innovation and growth across the MENA and beyond.
News Inc.Arabia Staff UAE's M42 Invests In UK-Based Biotech Juvenescence The partnership will support the development of a pipeline of AI-powered therapeutics to promote healthy longevity and improve treatments for serious diseases.
News Inc.Arabia Staff UAE's Sunset Hospitality Group Bags US$25 Million Investment Sunset Hospitality Group Chairman and Group CEO Antonio Gonzalez sees the investment from Goldman Sachs Asset Management as indicative of its confidence in the segment SHG operates in.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Arab National Bank Launches Fintech Accelerator In The KSA The program, launched in partnership with Plug and Play, is designed to fast-track the development of high-potential fintech startups and entrepreneurs in the Kingdom.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Visa Invests In North African Fintechs Konnect And PayTic The digital payments provider also announced a partnership with Morocco-based B2B platform Chari to advance the digitization of SMEs.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Your Story Matters: Publish and Shine with Jalees Today Join a vibrant community of storytellers across the Arab world — publish your content, grow your audience, and get discovered by leading media platforms.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Hong Kong-Based Encor Acquires UAE-Based Creative Zone Creative Zone Group CEO Lorenzo Jooris and Encor Group CEO Joe Wan expect the acquisition to unlock cross-border business opportunities that will propel long-term growth.
Technology Inc.Arabia Staff US-Based Seesaw Acquires Jordan-Based Little Thinking Minds Seesaw’s Matt Given and Little Thinking Minds’ Rama Kayyali spoke to Inc. Arabia about how the acquisition shall make high-quality bilingual education more accessible to students across diverse school systems.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Art Dubai Returns To Madinat Jumeirah For Its 2025 Edition Among the headline commissions at Art Dubai 2025 are a new series of performances and site-specific interventions by Mexican artist Héctor Zamora, and a major digital installation by Emirati artist Mohammed Kazem.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Dubizzle Group Acquires Property Monitor “As a trusted and respected brand in the UAE, Property Monitor complements our market-leading platforms, Bayut and Dubizzle," said Haider Ali Khan, CEO of Dubizzle Group.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Stakpak Wraps Up US$500,000 Pre-Seed Round We spoke with the co-founder and CEO of the Egypt-born, US-based DevOps startup about how the company is using artificial intelligence to power innovation in software development.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Bahrain’s Sellou Bags US$3 Million In Seed Funding Founder Salman Al Khalifa spoke to Inc. Arabia about how Sellou is facilitating the growth of video-first social commerce across the region.
News Inc.Arabia Staff KSA's Sary, Bangladesh's ShopUp Merge To Launch SILQ Group ShopUp co-founder and CEO Afeef Zaman (right) is now founder and CEO of SILQ Group, while Sary co-founder and CEO Mohammed Aldossary (left) is now CEO of SILQ Financial.
AI Everything Inc.Arabia Staff Rentify Secures US$500,000 To Scale In The UAE Inc. Arabia spoke to the UAE-based proptech and fintech startup’s co-founders to explore how Rentify is using AI to solve rental market gaps for both tenants and landlords.
News Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Lumi AI Secures US$3.7 Million In Seed Round The funding will help expand its engineering and customer success teams, fast-track product development, and better support its expanding global client base managing complex supply chain data.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Valeo Health Pockets US$12 Million In Series B Funding Valeo COO Nadine Karadag spoke to Inc. Arabia about the factors behind the UAE-based healthtech company's growth as well as its plans to scale across the region.