Wamda

Egypt

Talents Arena raises $750,000 pre-Seed round

Egypt-based AI recruitment company Talents Arena, has raised a $750,000 pre-Seed funding round from UI Investments, alongside several...

Talents Arena HR solutions AI

Regional

Advice for investors: what to bear in mind when looking at AI startups

Ayman Alashkar, is the founder of UAE-based proptech startup OVERWRITE.ai There are those who are calling AI a bubble....

overwrite.ai generative AI AI

U.A.E

MBZUAI partners with OurCrowd Arabia to accelerate AI growth in UAE

The UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) has signed an MoU with Israeli VC fund OurCrowd, to...

MBZUAI OurCrowd AI

Egypt

Can Mena adopt AI at the same speed and scale it is recommended to?

Aliah Yacoub is an AI philosopher and Farah Ghazal is an AI social scientist at Egypt-based techQualia Emerging technologies...

ChatGPT AI

Global

How can investors use data science?

Dmitry Kaminskiy is the general partner at Deep Knowledge Group, a UK-based consortium of commercial and non-profit organisations active in...

big data AI

U.A.E

OurCrowd expands Abu Dhabi investment operations

Israel-based VC firm OurCrowd has announced the expansion of its Abu Dhabi operations with a new VC office and AI tech hub enabled by...

OurCrowd ADIO ADGM

Bahrain

Faceki raises Seed round from Nama Ventures

Bahrain-based identity verification platform Faceki has raised an undisclosed amount in a Seed funding round led by Nama Ven...

Faceki Nama Ventures AI

Bahrain

Bahrain’s Faceki raises undisclosed Seed round from Tenmou

Bahrain-based AI startup Faceki, has raised an undisclosed Seed round from Bahraini business angel network Tenmou. Founded in...

Tenmou Faceki AI

Egypt

AI startup Synapse Analytics raises $2 million pre-Series A round

Egypt-based AI tech startup Synapse Analytics, has raised $2 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by Egypt Ventures, with...

Synapse Analytics Egypt Ventures AI

Egypt

DXwand raises $1 million pre-Series A round

Egypt-based AI startup DXwand has closed a pre-Series A investment round of $1 million, led by Huashan Capital, US-based VC firm SOSV,...

DXwand AI Huashan Capital

Jordan

Jordan’s Xina AI raises $ 1 million Seed round

Amman-based AI startup Xina AI has raised $1 million in a Seed round, led by Jordanian angel investors. Founded in August...

Artificial intelligence AI

Regional

Should we care about Philosophy of AI in the Mena region?

Aliah Yacoub is an AI philosopher and head of techQualia at Egypt-based Synapse Analytics, a data science and AI company The...

Artificial intelligence AI

Saudi Arabia

Saudi AI startup Intelmatix secures investment from STV and Sultan Holdings

Saudi Arabia-based AI startup Intelmatix has raised an undisclosed investment round, led by STV and Sultan Holdings. Founded...

deeptech AI

Global

Your next great app idea will be built by software, guided by AI and humans

Sachin Dev Duggal is the co-founder and CEO of Builder.ai, a UK-based human-assisted artificial intelligence (AI) platform to...

Software AI machine learning

U.A.E

Mohamed Hilal Group invests in Spain’s VirtuE through SAIN

UAE-based Mohamed Hilal Group has signed an investment agreement with Spanish Startup VirtuE R&D, through the newly-launched Sharjah...

Virtue R&D AI Mohamed Hilal Group

Morocco

ATLAN Space raises $1.1 million in Series A

Morroco-based ATLAN Space has raised $1.1 million (MAD 10 million) for its Series A funding round from Maroc Numeric Fund II, with...

ATLAN Space AI UAVs

U.A.E

Hub71 chooses startups for third cohort

Abu Dhabi-based accelerator Hub71 has chosen the 19 startups that will partake in the third cohort of its accelerator...

Hub71 AI big data

Global

Group 42 invests in US-based Beyond Limits

Source: Crunchbase Artificial intelligence company Beyond Limits has landed $133 million in its Series C round. The...

Beyond Limits AI Group 42

Palestine

Liquid assets: Conserving Palestine’s water supplies

In the Palestinian territories, severe water shortages have become an unfortunate norm – while Israelis living in nearby Jewish...

palestine IoT AI

U.A.E

Wamda boosts investment in automotive platform Seez

Wamda, the Middle East region’s leading startup ecosystem enabler, has boosted its investment in UAE-based startup Seez, which raised...

Seez AI

U.A.E

Hikma Ventures invests in Winterlight Labs

Source: Prn newswire Hikma Pharmaceuticals announced that its venture capital arm, Hikma Ventures has led...

AI Healthcare Dubai

Egypt

A15 doubles its investment in Intouch

Source: Daily News Egypt Leading tech investor, A15, has capitalised its investment in the Ireland-based retail personalisation...

AI Retail Investment

Egypt

Botme raises six-figure in seed funding

Source: MenaBytes Botme, a Cairo-based chatbot building platform has raised six-figure seed investment, the startup...

chatbot AI seed

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

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