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Inside Abhi’s IPO: the bank, the gold book and the logic behind its listing
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (675+ words) 💸 MENA VC Playbook 📘 MENA Founder Playbook Abhi is preparing to list the Pakistani microfinance bank that now accounts for roughly four-fifths of its lending, with gold-backed loans at the heart of the business. We dug into the numbers and spoke…...
Gaia raises $1.5M led by SEEDRA to build sovereign AI layer for Saudi enterprises
6+ day, 9+ 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
1+ week, 3+ 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…...
Usman Gul’s Metal raises $4.5M seed backed by a16z, YC and Phaze Ventures
1+ week, 5+ 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…...
HUMAIN invests in Arabic.AI and Tarjama to expand Saudi enterprise AI offering
1+ week, 6+ 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…...
What VNV’s portfolio marks imply for Breadfast, Baly, Vezeeta and Wasoko
3+ week, 3+ day ago (781+ words) 💸 MENA VC Playbook 📘 MENA Founder Playbook The Stockholm-listed investor’s first-half accounts offer a rare read-through on private-market values across its MENA portfolio, with Breadfast held at its latest funding round, Baly marked higher and Vezeeta, El Basharsoft and Wasoko written…...