U.A.E Pure Harvest announces sukuk funding, raises $60 million this year UAE-based, agritech Pure Harvest Smart Farms has raised $50 million in growth funding through a sukuk, an Islamic structured finance... News • 15 March, 2021 Pure Harvest Smart Farms agritech
Regional BRINC MENA invests in Pakistan's Radical Growth Solutions BRINC MENA, the food and agritech venture capital and accelerator firm has invested in Pakistan-based smart farming solutions... Triska Hamid • 15 February, 2021 agritech Brinc HASSAD
Jordan Jordan’s TWIG raises funding from AMC Jordan-based agritech startup TWIG, has raised investment from Miqdadi Agricultural Materials Company (AMC). TWIG works as a... Dunya Hassanein • 21 January, 2021 Home gardening agritech foodtech
Tunisia NewGen, MooMe raise funding from Maxula Seed Fund Source: Disrupt Africa Two Tunisian tech startups have secured investment from the newly-launched Maxula Seed Fund, which aims to... News • 21 January, 2021 Maxula Seed Fund MeMoo NewGen
U.A.E ADIO allocates AED 152 million to agritech startups Source: WAM The Abu Dhabi Investment Office, ADIO, announced individual partnerships with Pure Harvest Smart Farms, Pure Harvest,... News • 11 November, 2020 agritech Pureharvest ADIO
Regional The future of agritech in Mena Across the Middle East, agriculture plays a pivotal role in transforming economies, alleviating poverty and fostering economic growth, but... Dunya Hassanein • 12 November, 2020 agritech Pure Harvest Smart Farms
Turkey Tarfin closes Series A round with participation from Wamda Tarfin, the agriculture fintech startup based in Turkey, has raised $5 million in its Series A investment round with participation from... Wamda • 21 September, 2020 agritech Tarfin
U.A.E KRISPR raises $600,000 pre-seed UAE-based urban indoor vertical farming startup KRISPR, has raised $600,000 in pre-seed funding from Dubai-based family office... Dunya Hassanein • 30 June, 2020 Vertical farming agritech
U.A.E ADIO allocates $100 million to four agritech companies Source: The National Abu Dhabi Investment Office (Adio) invested $100 million (Dh367m) to bring four agriculture technology companies to... News • 09 April, 2020 agritech Abu Dhabi Investment Office (Adio)
Morocco Moroccan investment fund acquires stake in SOWIT The SEAF Morocco Growth Fund has completed its fourth investment with its acquisition of a stake in SOWIT, a France-based company that uses... News • 19 December, 2019 Agriculture agritech
U.A.E Pure Harvest raises $1.75 million Source: The National Pure Harvest Smart Farms, a tech-enabled agribusiness that is growing fruits and vegetables in the desert outside... News • 19 September, 2019 agritech Investment AbuDhabi
U.A.E How do you grow tomatoes in the desert? In the latest edition of our Food Technology podcast series, we spoke with Sky Kurtz, co-founder and chief executive officer at... Wamda • 09 June, 2019 Agriculture agritech podcast
U.A.E In conversation with Sky Kurtz of the UAE's Pure Harvest Pure Harvest Smart Farms is one of the first hydroponic farms in the Middle East region, growing tomatoes in a sensor-filled greenhouse. At... Triska Hamid • 23 January, 2019 hydroponics Agriculture agritech
Turkey Tarfin raises $1.3 million in seed round Tarfin recently completed a $1.3 million seed round led by Turkey-based Collective Spark Fund with co-investment from Wamda Capital. The... Wamda • 23 October, 2018 Agriculture agritech Fintech
Lebanon 5 new trends at ArabNet Beirut 2018 Lebanon is a small market that is often described in the news as an unstable country full of corruption and problems on all levels. While... Reine Farhat • 26 February, 2018 ArabNet Beirut Arabnet Diabetes
Lebanon Agri-logistics wins Lebanon's first agritech hackathon A logistics idea called Sou2 Baladi won Lebanon’s first agritech hackathon on Sunday, taking home $3,000 and a place in the new... Rachel Williamson • 04 April, 2017 Agrytech Accelerator Berytech agritech
Lebanon Agritech sprouts among Lebanon’s startups In the mountains of Broummana above Beirut, an entrepreneur is growing vegetables through his hydroponics invention that he hopes will... Brooke Anderson • 06 February, 2017 agritech hydroponics lebanon
Global Startup Watch: Pac-Man and retreat of the multinational giants 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... Dana Ballout • 02 February, 2017 Startup Watch Souq.com Pac-Man
Global Startup Watch: Careem the unicorn, Nile farmers learning farming, and AI wars This year is coming to a close but there is no ‘slowly’ in the complex world of entrepreneurship news, with people ever ready... Dana Ballout • 22 December, 2016 Startup Watch careem Egypt
Egypt Reclaiming Egypt’s rooftops: Al Bustani reaps urban farm profits In 2014, Housam Abul-Fotouh was in the Sinai desert building 72,000 square metres of greenhouses. He and cofounder Mohamed Ibrahim had... Rachel Williamson • 31 October, 2016 Al Bustani Egypt agritech
Jordan Nestrom and how to feed the next two billion Over half a century ago, the introduction of pesticides and modified irrigation systems helped save one billion people from famine,... Tala El Issa • 09 October, 2016 Agriculture Nestrom Yousef Wadi
Maghreb Tunisian entrepreneurs find success in reviving local traditions Children learning mosaic with Mosaikit. (Image via Neptune Mosaic) When Zied Abbis and Amine Draoui decided to preserve their country’s a... Aline Mayard • 05 April, 2016 Eco Mornag farm neptune mosaic traditions
Egypt 5 startups to watch in Egypt's exciting agritech sector Following last week's agritech overview, we profile five up-and-coming businesses from the startups seeking to revolutionize the way... Rachel Williamson • 03 December, 2014 Schaduf Agrimatic Farms CUBII
Egypt Egypt's agritech entrepreneurs bring the farm to the boardroom For eight millennia the thin strip of land along the Nile, and the green fan of the Delta, supported Egypt's growing... Rachel Williamson • 30 November, 2014 agritech farming Egypt