Startup Inc.Arabia Staff 216 Capital And Plug And Play Introduce Accelerator To Support Tuni... The six-month program pairs founders with top global investors and VCs, while opening doors to Plug and Play’s worldwide network of mentors, backers, and corporate partners.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based PRYPCO Lands First Middle East Proptech Backing From Gene... Inc. Arabia spoke with PRYPCO founder and CEO Amira Sajwani to discuss the journey from starting up the UAE-based proptech platform to securing one of Silicon Valley’s most influential investors.
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Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Startups To Watch At Money20/20 Middle East 2025 Each of these innovators comes with a story reflecting where money, technology, and innovation are headed in the MENA and beyond.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Startups To Watch At Money20/20 Middle East 2025: Khazna Led by co-founder and CEO Omar Saleh, Khazna offers easy-to-use, technology-driven financial services to underserved segments of the population.
Events Inc.Arabia Staff Startups to Watch At Money20/20 Middle East 2025: Arib Under the leadership of co-founder and CEO Waleed Talat, Arib is reimagining consumer finance in Saudi Arabia.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Startups To Watch At Money20/20 Middle East 2025: Zest Equity Zest Equity co-founder Rawan Baddour explains how, by redefining private market transactions across emerging markets, her startup is replacing fragmented dealmaking with speed and transparency.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Startups To Watch At Money20/20 Middle East 2025: Ejari Led by co-founder and CEO Yazeed Alshamsi, Ejari is redefining housing finance in Saudi Arabia’s US$60 billion market with a rent now, pay later model.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Startups To Watch At Money20/20 Middle East 2025: Valify Valify co-founder and COO Ibrahim Eid explains how his startup’s technology is revolutionizing the way individuals and businesses connect online.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Startups To Watch At Money20/20 Middle East 2025: LenderKit Led by co-founder and CEO Konstantin Boyko, LenderKit redefines how investment firms launch and scale, while being compliant in a fast-moving market.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Startups To Watch At Money20/20 Middle East 2025: Axiology Led by founder and CEO Marius Jurgilas, Axiology develops solutions for the issuance, custody, settlement, and trading of tokenized fixed-income instruments.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Startups To Watch At Money20/20 Middle East 2025: Zeal According to Zeal founder and CEO Omar Ebeid, customer payments are more than just that—they are also growth opportunities.
Events Inc.Arabia Staff Startups To Watch At Money20/20 Middle East 2025: Abwab.ai Led by founder and CEO Baraa Koshak, Riyadh-headquartered Abwab.ai is building the foundation for SME lending, turning months-long loan cycles into near-instant decisions across the MENA and beyond.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based Intella Lands US$12.5 Million Series A For Arabic AI Expa... Founded by Nour Taher and Omar Mansour in Egypt in 2021, Intella develops artificial intelligence (AI) models tailored to Arabic dialects.
News Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Proptech Seraya Closes US$1.8 Million Seed Round Seraya co-founder Ibrahim Shami spoke to Inc. Arabia about the Dubai-based startup’s mission to build the first global brand defining premium serviced living.
Startup Nasri Nada From Silicon Valley to Small Workshops The Future Runs on AI AI evolves from luxury to necessity, empowering small businesses in Middle East to redefine markets and drive growth.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based Spoilz Secures Backing From Merak Capital, Impact46 Inc. Arabia spoke with the Spoilz leadership team—Musab Almalki, founder and CEO, Harvey Parker, Vice President of Creative, and Ameera Salhab, Marketing and Growth Manager—about the studio’s journey, and where they see the industry headed.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff DHL eCommerce Acquires Minority Stake In Saudi Logistics Firm AJEX Inc. Arabia spoke to DHL eCommerce CEO Pablo Ciano and AJEX CEO Mohammed Albayati to learn how the partnership between their entities aims to capitalize on the double-digit growth forecast for Saudi Arabia's e-commerce sector.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Maalexi Lands US$20 Million Credit Facility From Amwal Ca... Founded by Rohit Majhi and Azam Pasha in the UAE in 2021, Maalexi enables SMEs to participate directly in cross-border food and agri-trade by reducing risk, optimizing capital, and improving transaction security.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Holo Bags US$22 Million Series A To Fuel GCC Expansion Inc. Arabia spoke with Holo co-founder and CEO Michael Hunter to understand how the investment—billed as one of the largest Series A rounds in the GCC—came about.
Startup Nadeem Hussain From Vision To Value: How To Make Your Startup Investor-Ready In Th... Securing investment requires more than a brilliant idea—it demands a strategic, investor-ready approach from day one.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Egypt-Based Zaher AI Raises US$150,000 To Advance Generative Engine... Zaher AI founder and CEO Anwar Aly tells Inc. Arabia how his startup is tackling a key issue in the MENA market: the near-invisibility of Arabic websites and brands in AI-generated responses.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE’s CE-Ventures Backs US$100 Million Round in American Nuclear St... Inc. Arabia spoke to Sudarshan Pareek, Senior Vice President of CE-Ventures, to understand the motivation for the firm's inroads into the nuclear energy domain.
Startup Yara Sayed Allo Beirut CEO Charbel Mhanna on Bringing The Brand "Home" To Lebanon Mhanna tells Inc. Arabia how he is bringing the UAE-born Lebanese dining brand to Beirut—balancing nostalgia, authenticity, and local challenges.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based Jahez Secures US$40 Million Facility From The National Ba... The funds will be directed toward capital expenditures for Jahez’s new headquarters, supporting the company’s expansion plans and operational growth across its core markets.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based Fahy Studios Pockets US$1.75 Million From Impact46, Merak... Inc. Arabia chatted with co-founders Owais Alsaour, Hani Hashem, and Fahad Alshibl to delve into their journey from an indie team to an emerging player in the global gaming scene and the challenges of scaling up.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Abu Dhabi-Based Professional.me Nets US$3.1 Million From Raha Beach... Founded by Matt Schmid, Megan Adams, and Ryan Adams, Professional.me is rethinking recruitment with personalized micro–large language models (LLMs)—custom-trained language models for both employers and professionals.
News Inc.Arabia Staff 500 Global Launches Sustainable Innovation Program With An Accelera... With this new initiative, 500 Global is seeking to mobilize mission-aligned capital and support venture development across emerging ecosystems in the Global South.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Proptech Coraly.ai Bags US$2 Million In Pre-Seed Round Inc. Arabia chatted with founder and CEO Fouad Bekkar to delve deeper into the startup’s market strategy, product differentiation, and expansion plans.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff KSA’s Impact46 Invests Over US$6 Million In 5 MENA Gaming Studios The firm invested in a variety of startups that range in style from fantasy console worlds to hybrid-casual mobile hits.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Iraq-Based Boxy Nets US$1.5 Million From EQIQ Co-founded by Mehrshad Pezeshk and Ahmed Baqer in 2024, Boxy aims to unify Iraq’s last-mile delivery market by integrating more than 1,500 couriers into a single, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shipping platform.
News Inc.Arabia Staff F6 Group Debuts In Egypt As Flat6Labs Restructures, Launches F6 Ven... Under the new setup, F6 Ventures, a new launched seed-stage investment firm, and Flat6Labs—which has been operating for nearly 15 years—will become subsidiaries of the newly formed F6 Group.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Abu Dhabi-Based Synervest Group Raises US$4 Million Series A Synervest Group founder Alexander Oelfke spoke to Inc. Arabia about the company’s vision for building the infrastructure layer of global finance.
News Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based Salasa Closes US$30 Million Series B Round Founded by Hasan Alhazmi and Abdulmajeed Alyemni in Saudi Arabia in 2017, Salasa provides end-to-end solutions for e-commerce, including fulfillment, shipping, inventory management, bonded zones, last-mile delivery, and cross-border logistics.
Incubators Inc.Arabia Staff UgaritLabs Officially Launches at SYNC25, Ushering in a New Era of... UgaritLabs launches as Syria's venture catalyst, empowering startups with global opportunities from Damascus.