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| 02.09.2026 | Startup Funding News Today, September 2, 2026: Félix, HyImpulse, Lasso, PeopleX & More | Venture capital is flowing into financial infrastructure, sovereign space, enterprise AI, and the physical bottlenecks behind computing this morning. The largest verified financing in the latest 16-hour window comes from WhatsApp-based remi... |
| 02.09.2026 | Enhance Raises $18.2M in Funding | Enhance, a Dubai, UAE-based provider of a SaaS platform for multi-site gym operators to manage and scale personal training operations, raised $18.2M in equity and venture debt funding.
Backers included Global Ventures (equity) and Stride Ve... |
| 28.07.2026 | PIF-backed Jada bets on Saudi PE firm's maiden fund | Bandr Mohammed Alhomaly, CEO and managing director, Jada FoF
Jada Fund of Funds, an investment vehicle created by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund (PIF), has signed on as a limited partner to the debut vehicle of ... |
| 21.07.2026 | Saudi Arabia's state fund SVC strikes an LP bet | Nora M Alsarhan, CEO, Saudi Venture Capital
The Saudi Venture Capital Company (SVC), Riyadh’s state-owned investment firm that commits capital to venture capital, private equity, venture debt and private credit funds, has made a limited par... |
| 11.07.2026 | Maalexi secures $2.8 M in oversubscribed round from Tawuniya | Maalexi, the company behind the Maalexi Agricultural Assets Token Exchange (MAATEX), today announced the close of an oversubscribed funding round led by Tawuniya, a Saudi joint-stock company listed on the Saudi Exchange (Tadawul: 8010), and... |
| 04.05.2026 | Antimatter Launches as the World's First Vertically Integrated Neocloud for AI Inference, Plans to Establish Global Headquarters in Hong Kong | Combining over 1GW of secured power capacity across distributed micro-power sites in the US, Europe and GCC, Antimatter will deploy a global network of 1,000 distributed micro data centers to serve the growing AI inference market — 5 times ... |
| 24.10.2025 | Moniepoint Announces Successful Completion of US$200 Million Series C Round to Power Financial Inclusion | Share this:
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| 22.10.2025 | Moniepoint Achieves Unicorn Status with Over $200M Series C Funding | Moniepoint, an African fintech powerhouse, has achieved a major milestone. The company closed its Series C funding round, securing over $200 million in equity financing. This substantial capital infusion propels Moniepoint's valuation past ... |
| 21.10.2025 | Moniepoint Raises Over US$200M in Series C Funding | Moniepoint Inc., a Nigerian provider of a financial platform for businesses and their customers across Africa, raised over US$200m in equity financing in a recently closed Series C funding round.
The round was led by Development Partners In... |
| 29.08.2025 | Proptech firm Holo gets SWF Mubadala on board; Cointel, Zetta, Maalexi too bag funds | Dubai Future District Fund-backed proptech startup Holo was ahead in the startup fundraising activity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region this week, securing eight-digit growth capital from new and existing investors. Its new ... |
| 31.07.2025 | VC Voices: Noor Sweid, Author and Founder and Managing Partner at Global Ventures Insider tips from Noor Sweid, author and founder and Managing Partner at Global Ventures, on how to stand out, secure ... | This article is part of VC Voices: Insights to Help Startups Succeed by Entrepreneur Middle East - a series where the MENA region's leading venture capitalists share practical advice to help founders navigate the challenges of building and ... |
| 10.07.2025 | Pre-Series A funding raised to $8 M by BioSapien, Globivest joins as an investor | BioSapien, the pioneering biotech company behind MediChip™, a revolutionary localised cancer treatment platform, announces a new extension to its pre-Series A funding round and the appointment of new talent across the business, including Jo... |
| 28.05.2025 | Tarjama's Bold Leap: $15 Million Series A Funding to Transform Arabic AI Landscape | In the heart of the Middle East, a revolution is brewing. Tarjama, a Dubai-based language solutions technology company, has secured $15 million in Series A funding. This significant investment, led by Global Ventures, marks a pivotal moment... |
| 26.05.2025 | Tarjama Closes $15M in Series A Funding | Tarjama, a Dubai, UAE-based language solutions technology company, raised $15M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Global Ventures with participation from Wamda Capital, TA Ventures, Phaze Capital, Golden Gate Ventures, and Endeavor C... |
| 01.02.2025 | The Financial Frontier: How Strategic Investments are Shaping the Future of Fintech | In the ever-evolving landscape of fintech, strategic investments are the lifeblood of innovation. Recent moves by major players like Itaú Unibanco and Visa illustrate this trend. These investments are not just about capital; they are about ... |
| 30.01.2025 | Biotech firm BioSapien raised $7 M Pre-series A funding | The pre-Series A funding round for BioSapien, the innovative biotech company that created the ground-breaking localized cancer treatment platform MediChipTM, has been successfully expanded to $7 million. This milestone marks its first deplo... |
| 30.01.2025 | Moniepoint: Strategic Investment Raised From Visa To Advance Financial Inclusion For African SMEs | Moniepoint – one of Nigeria’s leading business payments and banking services platforms – announced it had secured an investment from Visa, a global leader in digital payments. This funding marks a significant milestone in Visa’s commitment ... |
| 15.01.2025 | The Rise of Tech Subscriptions: A New Era in Consumer Electronics | The world of consumer electronics is evolving. Traditional ownership is being challenged by a new model: technology subscriptions. This shift is not just a trend; it’s a revolution. Companies like Zension Technologies are leading the charge... |
| 10.01.2025 | Wa’ed Ventures leads $30m funding for Zension Technologies Wa’ed Ventures, the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco, has led a $30 million Series A funding round for Zension Technologies, a c... | Wa’ed Ventures, the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco, has led a $30 million Series A funding round for Zension Technologies, a consumer electronics startup based in Riyadh. Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo and Dubai-based Global Ventures a... |
| 25.11.2024 | Saudi VC Vision Ventures onboards Jordanian LP for second fund | Kais Al Essa, founding partner and CEO, Vision Ventures
Vision Ventures, a Saudi Arabia-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs tech-led startups in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has secured a limited partner comm... |
| 21.08.2024 | Fueling An Ecosystem: Meet 10 Of Egypt's Most Active Venture Capitalists The most active investors in Egypt, purely based on the number of deals, are primarily local. | Egypt boasts over 160 venture capital (VC) firms and investors supporting its startup ecosystem.
These include both local and international investors, which have collectively participated in over 800 deals in the five years between 2019 to ... |
| 22.07.2024 | Jordan's ISSF raises LP-style bet on early-stage VC fund | Premium
Jordan’s Innovative Startups and Small and Medium Enterprises Fund (ISSF) made a limited partner-style follow-on investment in an existing portfolio fund that backs early-stage tech startups in the region. ISSF, a $98 million fund, ... |
| 12.07.2024 | To assist Jordanian startups, ISSF contributes $5 M to Global Ventures’ Fund III | Global Ventures’ Fund III will receive a $5 million investment from the Innovative Startups and SMEs Fund (ISSF), Jordan’s largest investment fund of its kind. Global Ventures, a renowned venture capital firm that specializes in growth-stag... |
| 24.06.2024 | A New Report By Lucidity Insights In Partnership With Entrepreneur Middle East Takes A Deep Dive Into Egypt's Startup And Investor Ecosystem Egypt is the MENA's most populous country, Africa's third m... | This month, Lucidity Insights partnered with Entrepreneur Middle East to publish a comprehensive special report looking at Egypt's startup and investor ecosystem titled, Investing in Egypt's Startup Ecosystem in 2024. The special report loo... |
| 13.03.2023 | Il mercato del Venture Capital a febbraio 2023 | Come è andato il mercato del Venture Capital a febbraio 2023? Partiamo subito da qualche dato. Gli investimenti in VC (venture capital) in Europa a febbraio 2023 ammontano a 423 milioni di euro, registrando una leggera flessione rispetto ai... |
| 21.06.2022 | Building community-powered systems lands $5.2 million for Neol | London-based decentralised and tokenised cohort-based learning and on-demand talent platform, Neol has raised $5.2 million in funding. The seed round was co-led by kyu Collective and Global Ventures. Also participating in the round were Lea... |
| 05.05.2022 | AlphaWave Global, 8i Ventures led $3.5 M funding received by Revise | Revise, a programming layer for nonfungible tokens (NFTs), has secured $3.5 million in a round-headed by AlphaWave Global and 8i Ventures. Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon, Utsav Somani, partner at AngelList, and Rahul Chaudhary, co-f... |
| 23.02.2022 | Why The Future of Healthcare Interfaces is Fluid | Sajjad Kamal, Healthtech Partner at Global VenturesNazmus Saquib, HCI & Interfaces Expert
Tools we use to do our daily work have rapidly evolved following deep human-computer interaction (HCI) research. However, when it comes to healthc... |
| 19.01.2022 | How Arab Women Are Making Waves In Tech | multi-ethnic businesswomen getty |
| 14.12.2021 | Dubai's Global Ventures close to raising $100 million target for second fund | - |
| 14.12.2021 | Bupa Arabia Invests in Second Fund of Global Ventures | Global Ventures, a Dubai, UAE-based international venture capital firm investing in emerging market founders, technology and ideas scaling across MEA and the world, received a new investment from Bupa Arabia, a Saudi Arabia based health ins... |
| 17.11.2021 | LAMF Global Ventures Corp. I Announces Completion of Upsized $253 Million Initial Public Offering | LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- LAMF Global Ventures Corp. I (the "Company") today announced the closing of its upsized and oversubscribed initial public offering of 25,300,000 units, including 3,300,000 units issued pu... |
| 11.11.2021 | LAMF Global Ventures Corp. I Announces Pricing of Upsized $220 Million Initial Public Offering | LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- LAMF Global Ventures Corp. I (the "Company") today announced the pricing of its upsized initial public offering of 22,000,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit. The units will be listed... |
| 03.11.2021 | Bypa-ss raises $1M pre-seed to expand health tech product across Egypt | Digital healthcare continues to thrive globally following the effects of the pandemic last year, but venture capital inflows differ regionally with Africa lagging behind the rest of the world.
However, investors have paid attention to a few... |
| 03.11.2021 | Bypa-ss raises $1M pre-seed to expand health tech product across Egypt | Digital healthcare continues to thrive globally following the effects of the pandemic last year, but venture capital inflows differ regionally with Africa lagging behind the rest of the world. |
| 21.09.2021 | #VCViewpoint: Global Ventures' Basil Moftah And Noor Sweid On What Entrepreneurs Need To Know About Startup Exits In The MENA Region | September 21, 2021 4 min read
You're reading Entrepreneur Middle East, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media.
How far along should entrepreneurs think about exit strategies? Should MENA startups aim for an exit or an IPO? What do... |
| 16.08.2021 | Saltwater ag startup Red Sea Farms raises $16m from AppHarvest, Aramco | Red Sea Farms, a controlled environment agriculture (CEA) startup developing saltwater-fed farming facilities, has closed its Series A round at $16 million.
The Saudi Arabia-based company just secured a $6 million second tranche of Series A... |
| 16.08.2021 | BREAKING: Saltwater ag startup Red Sea Farms raises $16m from AppHarvest, Aramco | Red Sea Farms, a controlled environment agriculture (CEA) startup devleoping saltwater-fed farming facilities, has closed its Series A round at $16 million.
The Saudi Arabia-based company just secured a $6 million second tranche of Series A... |
| 01.07.2021 | Egypt-based social media startup Minly has raised $3.6 million | Share this:
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| 22.04.2021 | Egypt fintech secures $18.5-million in series funding round | Cairo-based fintech startup Paymob has secured $15-million in a Series A funding round led by Global Ventures, the UAE-based venture capital firm with participation from A15, a leading tech investment fund, and FMO, the Dutch entrepreneuria... |
| 22.04.2021 | Egypt fintech secures $18.5-million in series funding round | Cairo-based fintech startup Paymob has secured $15-million in a Series A funding round led by Global Ventures, the UAE-based venture capital firm with participation from A15, a leading tech investment fund, and FMO, the Dutch entrepreneuria... |
| 21.04.2021 | Proximie Raises $38M to Expand Augmented Reality Surgical Platform in U.S. & European Markets | What You Should Know:
– Proximie, a health technology platform company focused on digitizing operating and diagnostic rooms, announced the completion of its $38 million Series B equity financing led by F-Prime Capital, with participation fr... |
| 21.04.2021 | Virtual Healthcare collaboration platform Proximie secures US$ 38 million | Proximie, a London (United Kingdom) based Medtech startup, announced on 21st April 2021 that it has raised US$ 38 million in its series B funding round. The round was led by F-Prime Capital along with participation from Global Ventures, Mav... |
| 14.04.2021 | How emerging market startups can dominate the future of global technology growth | The impact of innovation from the technology sector permeates our everyday lives.
No sooner has one technology gone mainstream, but speculation begins on where the next big thing will come from, or what it will be
Speculation about where na... |
| 14.04.2021 | How emerging market startups can dominate the future of global technology growth | The impact of innovation from the technology sector permeates our everyday lives.
No sooner has one technology gone mainstream, but speculation begins on where the next big thing will come from, or what it will be
Speculation about where ... |
| 10.04.2021 | Accenture and Global Ventures Establish Partnership | Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Global Ventures, an Abu Dhabi, UAE-based venture capital firm, announced a strategic partnership.
The two companies have identified three areas of collaboration to create long-term value within the regional innovat... |
| 09.04.2021 | Egyptian fintech startup Paymob secures US $ 15 million in Series A | Paymob, a Cairo based Egyptian digital payments enabler, announced on 8th April 2021 that it has raised US $ 15 million in its series A round. The round was led by Global Ventures along with participation from FMO and A15. |
| 08.04.2021 | Paymob raises $18.5m in largest Series A for an Egyptian fintech | In August 2020, Egyptian fintech Paymob announced that it raised $3.5 million to improve its capacity and acquire more merchants to use its payments services. That mission has now received additional funding, bringing the startup to a forma... |
| 15.12.2020 | DOB Equity invests in Ilara Health to provide affordable technology powered diagnostics for Africa | Ilara Health raises $3.75m Series A from TLcom, DOB Equity, Global Ventures and Chandaria Capital to accelerate data driven healthcare for peri-urban clinics
Ilara Health, a healthtech start-up focused on bringing essential, affordable and... |
| 14.12.2020 | Capria Ventures Invests in Global Ventures | Capria Ventures, a Seattle-based global investment fund-of-funds, has invested in the second fund of Global Ventures, a UAE-based venture capital firm.
Led by Noor Sweid and Basil Moftah, Global Ventures is a UAE-based venture capital firm ... |
| 13.08.2020 | Egyptian digital payment provider Paymob raises USD 3.5M | Cairo-Egypt based Paymob, a digital payment provider announced on 11th August 2020, that it has secured a funding of USD 3.5M in a round. The round was led by Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank FMO and Global Ventures with a follow on i... |
| 07.05.2020 | Nigeria’s Helium Health raises $10m in Series-A round | Nigerian healthtech Helium Health has raised $10-million in a Series-A funding round co-led by UAE-based investor Global Ventures and Singapore and Nairobi headquartered Africa Healthcare Masterfund (AAIC).
The startup made the announcemen... |
| 07.05.2020 | Nigerian healthtech startup, Helium Health, raises $10m in Series A funding | Share this article:
Nigerian electronic medical records startup, Helium Health, has announced the conclusion of its Series A round of $10 million.
The round was co-led by Asia Africa Investment & Consulting (AAIC) and Dubai-based, MENA-... |
| 07.05.2020 | Nigeria’s Helium Health raises $10m in Series-A round | Nigerian healthtech Helium Health has raised $10-million in a Series-A funding round co-led by UAE-based investor Global Ventures and Singapore and Nairobi headquartered Africa Healthcare Masterfund (AAIC).
The startup made the announcement... |
| 14.04.2020 | Global Ventures closes $50m MENA-focused fund | Dubai-based venture capital (VC) company Global Ventures, has closed its first fund, of $50-million, to invest in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
This, according to tech publication Menabytes which revealed the close of the ... |
| 14.04.2020 | Global Ventures closes $50m MENA-focused fund | Dubai-based venture capital (VC) company Global Ventures, has closed its first fund, of $50-million, to invest in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
This, according to tech publication Menabytes which revealed the close of the... |
| 04.02.2020 | Egyptian food discovery and ordering platform Elmenus raises $8m Series-B round | Egyptian food discovery and ordering platform Elmenus has raised $8-million in a Series-B round.
Elmenus provides users with digitised restaurant menus from food carts to hotel restaurants.
Tech publication Menabytes reported in an article ... |
| 04.02.2020 | Egyptian food discovery and ordering platform Elmenus raises $8m Series-B round | Egyptian food discovery and ordering platform Elmenus has raised $8-million in a Series-B round.
Elmenus provides users with digitised restaurant menus from food carts to hotel restaurants.
Tech publication Menabytes reported in an articl... |
| 22.10.2019 | Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala to invest $250m in MENA startups | Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi government’s investment company has announced that it will invest a total of $250-million in startups from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
The firm explained in a statement yesterday on LinkedIn that ... |
| 22.10.2019 | Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala to invest $250m in MENA startups | Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi government’s investment company has announced that it will invest a total of $250-million in startups from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
The firm explained in a statement yesterday on LinkedIn that... |
| 24.10.2013 | SparkLabs Global Ventures launches $30m seed fund | SparkLabs Global Ventures has launched a $30m seed-stage fund to help startups expand into international markets. The ne |
| 24.10.2013 | SparkLabs Global Ventures launches $30M seed fund to help startups go global | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
SparkLabs Global Ventures raised a $30 million se... |
| 26.03.2008 | Granite Global Ventures expands to $600M for Chinese investment | Citing the need for consumer market investments in China, Granite Global Ventures has raised another $200 million for its third fund, which was originally closed off at $400 million in 2006.
Granite has traditionally invested in technology ... |
| 17.10.2006 | US firm Granite Global Ventures closes $400m venture capital fund | The partnership plans to invest the fund primarily in technology-based companies, including software, new media, computi |
| - | Building community-powered systems lands $5.2 million for Neol | London-based decentralised and tokenised cohort-based learning and on-demand talent platform, Neol has raised $5.2 million in funding. The seed round was co-led by kyu Collective and Global Ventures. Also participating in the round were Lea... |
