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Saudi used-car platform Carly takes Pinnacle investment in primary-secondary deal
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (360+ words) 💸 MENA VC Playbook 📘 MENA Founder Playbook The undisclosed transaction is the first investment from Pinnacle’s new growth and secondaries fund, launched last month to back later-stage Saudi tech companies while providing liquidity to existing shareholders. Saudi automotive commerce platform Carly…...
Gaia raises $1.5M led by SEEDRA to build sovereign AI layer for Saudi enterprises
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (399+ words) 💸 MENA VC Playbook 📘 MENA Founder Playbook The Riyadh startup is building a permission-aware search, assistant and AI agent layer across companies’ internal systems, with data kept inside Saudi or deployed on-premise. Saudi enterprise AI startup Gaia has raised $1.5 million in…...
Sav raises $3.5M pre-Series A led by Phoenix Venture Partners for Saudi expansion
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (483+ words) The UAE consumer fintech has broadened from a savings app into a regulated personal-finance platform spanning cards, investments and account aggregation, taking total funding to about $6 million. UAE consumer fintech Sav has raised $3.5 million in a pre-Series A round led…...
Saudi SME lending startup Abwab.ai raises $4M led by Speedinvest and MEVP
1+ week, 2+ day ago (499+ words) 💸 MENA VC Playbook 📘 MENA Founder Playbook The startup says its technology is used by more than 13 financial institutions and has processed over SAR 1 billion in SME loans. Saudi fintech Abwab.ai has raised $4 million in seed funding from Middle East…...
Usman Gul’s Metal raises $4.5M seed backed by a16z, YC and Phaze Ventures
1+ week, 4+ day ago (376+ words) 💸 MENA VC Playbook 📘 MENA Founder Playbook Round follows an earlier investment from Oman’s Phaze Ventures, with the fundraising software startup saying paying customers have raised more than $500M through its platform this year. Metal, the AI fundraising startup founded by former…...
Jordanian edtech Abwaab acquires Egypt’s Eduact in second deal this year
1+ week, 4+ day ago (347+ words) 💸 MENA VC Playbook 📘 MENA Founder Playbook Acquisition adds teacher and learning-centre software to Abwaab’s platform, eight months after it bought university admissions startup Apex. Jordanian edtech Abwaab has acquired Egyptian teacher-focused software platform Eduact for an undisclosed amount, its second…...
HUMAIN invests in Arabic.AI and Tarjama to expand Saudi enterprise AI offering
1+ week, 4+ day ago (434+ words) 💸 MENA VC Playbook 📘 MENA Founder Playbook Undisclosed investment brings Nour Al Hassan’s Arabic language technology business into the PIF-backed AI group’s growing application stack. HUMAIN has made an undisclosed strategic investment in Arabic.AI and Tarjama, partnering with the companies…...
Dubai-based Fasset raises $68M Series C at $1B valuation, only 3 months after previous round
2+ week, 6+ day ago (340+ words) 💸 MENA VC Playbook 📘 MENA Founder Playbook Fasset, the stablecoin-powered digital banking platform, has raised a $68 million Series C led by Japan’s SBI Group at a $1 billion valuation, three months after closing a $51 million Series B. Speedinvest also participated in the…...
Exits MENA acquires Avanz Capital Egypt, adding fund management to its advisory platform
3+ week, 1+ day ago (302+ words) The regulated asset manager will be rebranded Exits Manara and launch a second fund aimed at Egyptian exporters. Exits MENA, the Cairo-based investment advisory platform for startups and SMEs, has signed a multi-seven-figure transaction to fully acquire Avanz Capital Egypt…...
What VNV's marks imply for Breadfast and Baly, new Saudi growth fund
3+ week, 1+ day ago (832+ words) 💸 MENA VC Playbook 📘 MENA Founder Playbook HeyBreez raises $2.5M seed led by Lunara Partners, Saudi edtech AILA raises $3M pre-Series A, Exits MENA acquires Avanz Capital Egypt, plus this week's MENA startup, VC, and tech news round-up. Happy Friday friends 👋 We spent…...