Wamda

Saudi Arabia

PIF launches $1 billion fund of funds

Source: Arab News Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has launched a new investment vehicle aimed at boosting small and...

Public Investment Fund

Saudi Arabia

Sabbar raises $1.5 million seed

Source: MENAbytes Saudi-based recruitment technology platform Sabbar has raised $1.5 million in a seed round led by Dubai’s...

MiSK 500 startups Job Recruitment

Saudi Arabia

Wamda co-leads $3M Series A round in online floral marketplace Floranow

Wamda, the Middle East region's leading startup ecosystem enabler, has co-led a $3 million Series A round with Global Ventures in...

Series A Floranow

Saudi Arabia

Dokkan Afkar closes $5 million Series B

Saudi Arabia-based Dokkan Afkar, an e-commerce site dedicated to selling homegrown and innovative gadgets, gizmos and gifts has closed...

E-commerce marketplace Riyad TAQNIA Fund

Saudi Arabia

KBW Ventures invests in US-based pet food startup

KBW Ventures, the venture capital (VC) firm founded by Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed, son of Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin...

pets

Saudi Arabia

Nejree raises $4 million

Source: Arabian Business Saudi-based Nejree, the online sneaker retailer, announced on Wednesday it has raised $4 million in Pre-Series...

Fashion e-com

Saudi Arabia

Riyadh Valley Company leads $6 million series B in South Korea based SecuLetter

Source: Techstartups SecuLetter, a cybersecurity startup that provides advanced persistence threat (APT) response solution to email...

cybersecurity series B Investment

Regional

Arabnet Riyadh

ArabNet is an events, insights and innovation program, focused on tech business and innovation in the MENA region. The event...

Saudi Arabia

ekar expands to Riyadh after closing $17.5m Series B

Carshare startup, ekar has closed a $17.5 million Series B round led by Polymath Ventures with participation from Al Yemni Group and...

ekar car sharing

Saudi Arabia

Nala Raises $1 million in funding

Source: finsmes Nala, a Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based digital health service, raised $1m in its first financing. The round was led...

digital Health Funding

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's PIF invests $400 million in ex-Uber chief's startup

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), has invested $400 million into Uber founder Travis...

PIF Uber

Saudi Arabia

Riyad Bank launches new fintech fund

Source: Asharq Al-Awsat Riyad Bank has announced on Tuesday the launch of its Digital Partnership Program and its association with a...

Fintech fund ksa

Saudi Arabia

Why every investor should be looking at Saudi Arabia

An exponential entrepreneurial shift is underway in Saudi Arabia, and it is attracting substantial venture capital interest, says Luca...

STV Saudi Arabia Venture Capital

Saudi Arabia

UnitX raises $2 million

Saudi-based UnitX, an artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing startup spin-out company from King Abdullah University of Science and...

Investment saudi AI

Jordan

arabot raises $1 million seed funding

Jordan-based artificial intelligence (AI) company arabot has raised a $1 million seed round led by Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF), with...

chatbot Artificial intelligence

Saudi Arabia

Saudi-based Daal invests in PromoRepublic

Source: MenaBytes Daal, a Khobar-based VC firm has invested an undisclosed amount of money in $2.2 million seed round of social media...

Social Media management

Saudi Arabia

Beyond the headlines: Will the Saudi attacks mark the end of drones?

The drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil fields on 14 September managed to cut the country’s oil production by 50 per cent,...

Drones Drones for good Aramco

Saudi Arabia

Who is spearheading digitisation in Saudi Arabia?

Sofana Dahlan is one of the first ten female lawyers authorised to practice law in Saudi Arabia. She is also the president and founder...

E-government digital adoption

Saudi Arabia

In conversation with Sara Sawaf of AYA Animations

Sara Sawaf studied finance and marketing while at university, but her career path took her along a more humanitarian route. Prior to...

content Animation Women Entrepreneur

Regional

FinTech Accelerator

Monsha’at and NCB are collaborating to launch the first FinTech accelerator in KSA. The program supports the...

Saudi Arabia

Hazen.ai closes seed round

Source: Startup MGZN Hazen.ai, a Saudi startup focusing on artificial intelligence-based traffic analytics and monitoring solutions,...

AI traffic Investment

Saudi Arabia

Zid raises $2 million pre-Series A

Source: Menabytes Zid, a Riyadh-based Shopify-like e-commerce management startup that helps people (and businesses) set up their...

ecommerce Saudi Arabia Retail

Saudi Arabia

In conversation with Abdullah Bahabri of Nota Nota

Nota Nota creates bespoke perfumes through a custom-made 3D printer, which enables users to mix their own perfumes according to their own...

3d printing Saudi Arabia Fourth Industrial Revolution

Saudi Arabia

Misk Innovation's growth accelerator to invest $100,000 in Mena startups

Source: Menabytes Misk Innovation, the innovation arm of Misk Foundation, a non-profit established by Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin...

Growth accelerator accelerator Saudi Arabia

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