Pre-Seed

Series A

Seed

Series B

Pre-Series A

Unknown Series Round

Pre-Seed to Seed

Others

Grant

Series C

Debt Financing

Non-Equity Assistance

San Francisco

Christine Tsai

Vishal Harnal

Pedro Santos Vieira

Courtney Powell

Paul Yoo

Esat Acar

Amal Dokhan

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Gurugram

Series G

CARS24

E-Commerce

Automotive

CARS24 is a tech-first organization that offers an innovative approach to buying and selling used vehicles, connecting with partners and industry experts worldwide.

Istanbul

Series E

Insider

Analytics

Productivity Tools

Digital Marketing

AI/IoT

Insider is a Growth Management Platform (GMP) that helps digital marketers drive growth across the funnel, from Acquisition to Activation, Retention, and Revenue. They leverage real-time predictive segmentation powered by deep Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities, built on a unified data layer, GMP is easy to implement and simple to use, avoiding the need for complex integrations and dependency on IT teams. Insider simplifies the life of digital marketers and helps them drive growth for their brands, with zero marketing waste.

Riyadh

Lendo

Finance

Fintech

Lending

Lendo is a fintech startup that provides a range of financing products and offers a peer-to-peer lending platform with a core focus on SMEs' debt finance.

Delhi

Shiprocket

Logistics

Shipping

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Supply Chain

Shiprocket is an eCommerce platform providing shipping, order fulfillment, logistics, marketing, and financial tools. It uses machine learning to select couriers, generate labels, COD management, and track orders from a single dashboard, supporting both domestic and cross-border delivery. Shiprocket primarily serves SMEs, D2C brands, and marketplace sellers.

Chipper Cash

Mobile Apps

Payment

Chipper Cash is a fintech platform that offers mobile, cross-border money transfer services.

Dubai

Rain

NFT/Crypto

Rain is an operator and custodian of digital currency exchange intended to make digital transactions.

Foodics

Software Dev/Test

Foodtech

Predictive Analytics

Restaurants

Payments

Software

Accounting

Customer Experience

Foodics is the leading restaurant operations and payment tech in the MENA region, powering the operations of +30,000 restaurants with an all-in-one software ecosystem to manage and scale.

Floward

Flowers

Marketplace

Delivery Service

Internet

Information Technology

Floward is the leading online flowers and gifting company in the Middle East and the UK, delivering ethically sourced, stunning arrangements across nine countries since its founding in 2017.

Eyewa

Retail

Eyewear

Eyewa offers prescription contact lenses, color contact lenses, sunglasses, and eyeglasses.

Cape Town

Stitch Money

Financial Services

Lean Technologies

Lean is a B2B fintech platform that builds developer-friendly APIs. Developers can build and launch cutting-edge financial products to connect to their users’ bank accounts to initiate real time payments and retrieve their account information.

Cairo

MaxAB

Calo

Healthcare

Food and Beverage

Wellness

Calo is Founded in 2019 by Ahmed AlRawi and Moayed Almoayed, Calo serves personalized meal subscriptions.

Gathern

Hospitality

Travel

Technology

Rental

Gathern is a P2P vacation rental platform licensed by Saudi Arabian  Ministry of Tourism. Gathern offers a wide range of advantages for both Guests and Hosts.

Noon Academy

Education

EdTech

E-Learning

Noon Academy is a leading Middle East edtech platform that delivers interactive, gamified peer learning and app-based tutoring to over 12 million students, making education fun and engaging both online and in physical classrooms.

Abuja

ThriveAgric

Farming

Agritech

Agriculture

ThriveAgric leverage technology to empower smallholder farmers across Africa by linking them to finance, data-driven best practices, and access to local & global markets for their commodities; towards ensuring food security for all.

Money Fellows

Credit

Money Fellows is a financial technology company that digitizes traditional money circles (ROSCAs) through a mobile app, allowing users to join flexible saving and lending groups with multiple payment options

Retailo Technologies

Retailo is a digital distribution platform for retailers and restaurants that opens up access to 5000+ SKUs with next-day delivery and a plug-and-play solution for suppliers to distribute their products, leverage Retailo’s huge network of retailers, restaurants, and its distribution muscle across Saudi Arabia.

Brimore

Social Commerce

Consumer Goods

Brimore is a social commerce platform, that enables the local manufacturers to overcome the Go-to-Market challenges and grow on a national scale.

Firefly

Media

Advertising Services

Digital

Firefly is a mobility based advertising and data platform that allows rideshare drivers to make money through digital advertising.

Augmented Reality

Art-Media-Entertainment

Social Network

Digital Media

Virtual Reality

VUZ is a social app that allows users to stream and experience XR and the Metaverse.

Homzmart

Home Decor

Furniture

Interior Design

Shopping

Homzmart is an eCommerce platform that sells home furniture, home décor, lighting and home supplies through a visualized community.

Breadfast

Food Delivery

Delivery Services

Grocery

Breadfast delivers household essentials, bakeries, groceries, fruits, veggies, and more than 3,000 items in minutes.

Salasa

Supply Chain Management

Salasa is a leader in e-commerce fulfillment in the Middle East by striving to offer reliable, cost-effective, and scalable fulfillment for e-commerce businesses.

Lucidya

Marketing/Sales

Enterprise B2B SaaS company that aims to reshape customer experience in the MENA region leveraging proprietary AI & NLP technologies.

Kampala

Asaak

Asaak is a fintech company that provides asset financing to mobility workers across emerging markets.

Qashio

Qashio is a comprehensive spend management platform for businesses to manage expenses, payments with integrated corporate cards and accounts payable automation.

Sarwa

Sarwa is an online platform that makes investing in global markets simple and affordable for investors in the Middle East.

Nawah Scientific

Biotechnology

Medical

Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceutical

Biotech

Life Science

Nanotechnology

Research

Research & Development

Nawah Scientific is an online hub for advanced research in natural and medical sciences that provides on-demand experiment services, supporting industries and academics with world-class pharmaceutical formulation and analysis.

Eat App

SaaS

Mobile

Reservations

Apps

Eat App, founded by Nezar Kadhem and David Feuillard in 2015, is an industry-leading restaurant reservation and table management platform. Eat App provides cloud-based applications to restaurants for increasing efficiency and revenue through real-time restaurant reservations, automation, guest data management, and CRM.

Amman

Tamatem

Gaming

Tamatem is a mobile games publisher that focuses on providing the users with culturally relevant games.

Abu Dhabi

OCTA

Digital Payments

Enterprise Software

OCTA is an a modern platform designed to optimize the collection process through automation, enabling businesses to manage contracts, streamline invoice payments, access financing, and simplify debt recovery.

invygo

invygo app-based car subscription company that gives customers an access to dealership verified cars.

Jeeng

intella

Business Intelligence

Database

PaaS

Artificial Intelligence

Intella is a data-tech company that specialize in unlocking valuable insights trapped within conversations. Intella's  Arabic-first speech-to-text engine can transcribe speech from 25 different Arabic dialects with an impressive 95.7% accuracy rate.

Tel Aviv

Ubeya

Staffing Agency

Employment

Ubeya is the #1 workforce management software that helps with staff scheduling, employee onboarding, payroll integration, and workforce solution temporary. Seamlessly manage your workers, clients and suppliers in one comprehensive staffing operating system.

Morni

Transportation

Morni delivers a fully integrated automotive experience through four key verticals: Assist, Care, Auction, and Claims.

Valeo Health

Fitness

Healthtech

Health Care

Valeo Wellbeing is a personalized health tracking and guided wellbeing app that gives its users control over their health

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