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500 Startups closes $140 million fund, rebrands to 500 Global

US-based venture capital firm 500 Startups has closed its largest fund to date at $140 million and has rebranded to 500 Global. The...

500 Global 500 startups

Regional

500 Startups and Sanabil Investments launch accelerator

Global venture capital firm 500 Startups has partnered with Saudi Arabia-based Sanabil Investments, a financial investment company focused...

500 startups Sanabil Investments seed startups

Jordan

Progressive Generation raises pre-Series A investment for its kids-safe streaming platform

Jordan-based production house and investment firm Progressive Generation, has raised an undisclosed pre-Series A funding round from Oman...

Progressive Generation VOD OTF

Egypt

Source Beauty raises pre-seed funding

Egypt-based beauty e-commerce platform Source Beauty, has raised pre-seed funding from 500 Startups. Founded in 2018 by Lydia...

SourceBeauty ecommerce 500 startups

Egypt

Pravica raises $500,000 pre-seed

Cairo-based Pravica, (previously known as Dmails), has raised US$500,00 in a pre-seed round, led by 500 Startups, with the...

Blockhain Pravica 500 startups

Egypt

ElCoach raises six-figure seed

Source: Menabytes Cairo-based fitness startup El Coach has raised six-figure (USD) in seed funding, it told MENAbytes today,...

ElCoach 500 startups covid-19

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

Bahrain

Bahrain's Inagrab closes seed round

Source: Startup MGZN Bahraini startup Inagrab, a platform that helps retail businesses scale their business with the help of A.I...

Bahrain 500 startups Retail

Egypt

Egyptian online fashion rental platform raises $1M from Algebra Ventures and 500 Startups

La Reina, an Egyptian online platform for rental couture, announced receiving $1 million in a Series A funding round led by Egypt’s...

Egypt La Reina Algebra Ventures

Global

500 Startups announces strategic investment from ADFG

Venture capital firm 500 Startups is announcing that ADFG, a global investment firm, has made a significant investment in 500. Through this...

500 startups ADFG

U.A.E

MAGNiTT raised a $1M Seed round

Dubai-based MAGNiTT.com, one of the largest investment data platforms for investors, entrepreneurs, and corporates in the Middle East,...

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Bahrain

Bahrain’s football app Malaeb closes a seed round investment

Bahraini app Malaeb, which helps users match players and book a football field, has recently closed a seed round for an undisclosed amount,...

Malaeb Inspire Ventures Vision ventures

Qatar

QSTP and 500 Startups host Investor Day at the Qatar National Convention Center

Fifteen new startups were given the opportunity today to pitch their business ideas to potential regional and local investors during the...

Qatar Science and Technology Park QSTP 500 startups

Global

Startup Watch: It’s all about the money, money, money and solar power

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch Investment 500 startups

Regional

500 Startups closes $15M on MENA fund

Hassan Haidar, the managing director of the MENA fund for 500 Startups, 500 Falcons, announced Wednesday the closing of their fund at $15...

500 startups falcon fund Investment

Palestine

Social Dice helps navigate rough waters of MENA hiring process

When you ask founder Saed Shela what the secret is to Social Dice’s success, he will say it is about making the hiring process smart...

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Palestine

Mashvisor becomes first Palestinian startup accepted to Silicon Valley's 500 Startups

Real estate analytics platform Mashvisor has been chosen for the 19th round of acceleration at Silicon Valley’s 500 Startups, making...

Mashvisor palestine Ibtikar Fund

Palestine

Borders may lock Gazan techies in, but they don’t lock support out

In a jam-packed hall at Box inc. in the heart of Silicon Valley, Gaza Sky Geeks hosted a startup event atypical of Bay Area...

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U.A.E

Wrappup closes $800K investment round

Wrappup, an app that solves time wasting meetings by recording and flagging the important moments, has closed a seed round of...

Wrappup BECO Capital Investment

U.A.E

500 Startups invests in UAE gifting marketplace

UAE-based gift-giving platform Joi has recieved investment from 500 Startups. With this first round founders Ritesh Tilani and...

500 startups joi gifts Investment

Kuwait

10 startup podcasts you should be listening to today

This article is a crosspost with Nuwait. Despite the short attention span of online readers, good content still ranks...

Lean startups The Week In Startups Menassah

Palestine

Work Factory builds Ramallah startup community

Work Factory hosted the West Bank's most recent Startup Grind. (Images via Work Factory) You can read Wamda's definitive guide to...

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Jordan

Cash before delivery, the COD alternative?

The CashBasha founders. (Images via Cashbasha) According to a 2014 Payfortreport, 80 percent of ecommerce transactions in the region...

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Kuwait

What's most exciting about Kuwait's future? [Video]

This is an edited crosspost from Nuwait. Each entrepreneurship ecosystem has its own story to tell, but failures, success...

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