Startup Inc.Arabia Staff SpaceX And Meta Dominate The Century’s Biggest Startup Payoffs. But... A new scorecard from Founder Collective tracks $10 trillion in startup value—and reveals the problem with the ‘unicorn or bust’ mentality.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff San Francisco-Based Uber To Acquire Berlin-Based Delivery Hero For... The acquisition is expected to nearly double the number of markets where Uber operates its mobility and delivery services.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Maalexi Secures US$2.8 Million To Transform Agricultural... Founded in 2021 by Rohit Majhi and Dr. Azam Pasha, Maalexi is building the world’s first regulated real-world asset (RWA) agricultural exchange, MAATEX.
Money Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Proptech Keyper Secures US$11 Million Series A Led By Aus... Inc. Arabia spoke with Keyper co-founder and CEO Omar Abu Innab to learn what's driving the proptech startup's growth—and the opportunity he sees ahead.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Dubai-Based Takeem Secures Strategic Backing From The UAE's Dubizzl... Inc. Arabia spoke to Takeem co-founder and CEO Rakesh Mavath to learn how the deal with Dubizzle Group came to be.
Sustainability Inc.Arabia Staff Dubai-Headquartered Planno Secures Investment From UAE-Based Incuba... Inc. Arabia spoke with Planno founder and CEO Daniel Domingues to learn more about his “prospecting platform for commercial solar.”
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff The Head Of Claude Code Says Your Startup Needs These 5 Employee Ar... Job titles like "engineer" and "designer" are melting into something new. Here’s how to build your hiring plan around the roles that actually matter, not the resume.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based AVELIN AI Pockets US$3.7 Million In A Pre-Seed Funding Round In an interview with Inc. Arabia, AVELIN founder and CEO Yury Akinin discussed the company’s sovereign AI offering against a backdrop of growing interest in the domain.
Money Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based Revora Bags US$2 Million To Scale Its AI-Native E-Commerc... Revora, which was formerly called MyAlice, was founded by Daniyal Baig and Shuvo Rahman in 2021.
Grow Ahmed Yasseen & Mostafa Yasseen How To Ensure Your Team Remains Intact—Even When Everything Around... Ultimately, teams do not stay because leaders promise certainty. They stay because the company still feels worth building with.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Syria-Based Healthtech Startup Moadna Raises US$50,000 In Angel Fun... Co-founded by Tarek Skheta and Maged Hamdeh, Moadna currently serves more than 550 doctors, clinics, and medical centers across Syria, with a user base of over 8,000 people.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff GCC- and UK-Based Startup 1001 Bags US$30 Million Series A To Expan... Inc. Arabia spoke to 1001 founder Bilal Abu-Ghazaleh to unpack how his enterprise is “building the AI operating system for critical infrastructure.”
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Dubizzle Group Invests In Dubai-Headquartered Proptech St... Inc. Arabia spoke to Tern co-founder Mohammad Shaitou to learn how this deal will see the rental rewards platform get integrated into Dubizzle Group’s online marketplaces, Bayut and dubizzle.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Zuvees Bags US$1.6 Million From India-Based IvyCap Ventur... Founded by Abhishek Daiya and Vijay Ghadge in the UAE in 2025, Zuvees operates a cross-border gifting platform that enables users to discover, customize, and send gifts across international markets.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Morocco-Based Agenz Raises US$5 Million Seed Round To Grow Its Prop... Inc. Arabia spoke to Agenz co-founder and CEO Malik Belkeziz to unpack the opportunities and challenges shaping Morocco's evolving proptech landscape.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based webook.com Acquires Portugal-Based SmartMove To Establish... In an interview with Inc. Arabia, Nadeem Bakhsh, co-founder and CEO of webook.com, discussed the company's global ambitions and the rationale behind the acquisition.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based Foodics Completes Acquisition of Greece’s Norma AI Norma's team will now be joining Foodics' dedicated artificial intelligence (AI) division focused on building the next generation of agentic AI for restaurant operations.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Saudi-Egyptian Investment Firm Edafa Venture Is Backing Specialized... Inc. Arabia spoke with Edafa Venture CEO Essam Aly to understand the strategy behind his enterprise's acquisition of these two Egypt-based startups.
Innovate Aby Sam Thomas Banking 4.0: Inside The Next Chapter Of The MEA's Most Funded Entre... “Mal is here to prove that globally relevant innovation can emerge from the Arab world.”
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Jordan’s Innovative Startups And SMEs Fund Invests US$7 Million In... Through the partnership, the two parties aim to strengthen links between Jordanian startups and international venture capital networks, while helping address funding gaps often faced by companies at later stages of growth.
Money Inc.Arabia Staff Sovra, Founded By Lebanese Entrepreneur Ahmad Wehbi, Raises More Th... Wehbi spoke to Inc. Arabia about how Sovra is using self-custodial technology to help users hold, move, and protect their money without relying on intermediaries.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Algebra AI Raises US$7 Million To Close The GCC Mid-Marke... Inc. Arabia spoke to Algebra AI co-founder and CEO Anis Harb to learn how his enterprise serves a business segment that has long been underserved.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Cairo-Based Blnk Raises US$37.1 Million To Expand Its Consumer Fina... Founded in 2022 by Amr Sultan and Tarek Elsheikh, Blnk provides point-of-sale financing solutions through a network of more than 3,000 merchants across sectors.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff AI-Learning Platform NoNerds Acquired By Fellow Jordan-Based Edtech... Inc. Arabia spoke with the 19-year-old co-founder of NoNerds, Mohammad Alsufi, to learn more about the acquisition and the future of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered education.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Companies Are Hiring People Who Know What Job Descriptions Cannot E... Companies increasingly hire for adaptability, curiosity, and learning ability as AI reshapes work faster than traditional job descriptions can evolve.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Govtech Startup 01Gov Bags AED1.5 Million Credit Guarante... Developed by Ibrahim Ahmed El Badawi, Saeed Al Dhaheri, and Mohamed Elbadawi, the startup will use the funding to accelerate development of its agentic AI system, One, while enhancing the 01Gov platform and expanding support for government clients.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Peekabox Bags US$1.5 Million Seed Round To Expand Its Sur... Founded by brothers Hasan and Omair Sarwar in the UAE in 2025, Peekabox operates a surplus food marketplace that enables food businesses to sell excess meals at discounts of up to 70 percent.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Riyadh-Based Fintech Arib Pockets US$23.5 Million Round Led By Saud... Founded by Mohamed Dessouky and Waleed Talat in Saudi Arabia in 2018, Arib operates a digital marketplace for lending products that acts as an intermediary between banks, licensed finance companies, and their customers.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based RemotePass Nets US$17.4 Million Series B To Deepen Its Fo... Speaking to Inc. Arabia, RemotePass co-founder and CEO Kamal Reggad shared how the company emerged from a need to bridge the operational gaps that often complicate international hiring and workforce management.
Sustainability Inc.Arabia Staff Egypt-Based Circular Economy Platform Dawar Bags Nine-Digit Financi... The company will use the facility to finance the trade of recyclable materials across its network, supported by a traceability platform that documents and verifies material flows across waste supply chains.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff France-Based EYST Technology Secures Six-Figure Investment from Tun... Founded in 2022 by Arnaud Brodzki, Marwen Amamou, Juliette Dusseaux, and Antoine Vanoverberghe, EYST Technology is a Paris-headquartered software-as-a-service insurtech company with a multidisciplinary research and development team based in Tunisia.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff GCC-Based TruKKer Lands Up To US$300 Million Securitization Facilit... Speaking to Inc. Arabia, Gaurav Biswas, co-founder and CEO, TruKKer, highlighted how the company has been shaped by a belief that technology could address long-standing operational challenges across the freight sector.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff 10 Things Most People Misunderstand About Startup Funding Startup funding is often seen as a sign of success, but behind major investments are intense pressure, scaling challenges, and long-term risks.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff 10 Things You Don’t Know About Famous Startups Famous startups look like overnight success stories, but years of restructuring, investor pressure, and operational struggles drive growth globally!
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Saudi Arabia-Based Aumet Nets US$12 Million Series A Led By Emkan C... The new investment is set to support the expansion of Aumet’s artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, enterprise deployments, and regional growth across the GCC and select international markets.
