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Gaia raises $1.5M led by SEEDRA to build sovereign AI layer for Saudi enterprises
5+ day, 4+ 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…...
PayTabs agrees $100M-plus deal for Amazon Payment Services’ MENA operations
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (640+ words) 💸 MENA VC Playbook 📘 MENA Founder Playbook The Saudi payments company will take over a business that began as PayFort before joining Amazon through its 2017 acquisition of Souq, creating a combined platform expected to process more than SAR 150 billion annually. Saudi…...
FlyAkeed raises $25.2M across Sanabil-led equity round and Artal sukuk
1+ week, 3+ day ago (380+ words) The Saudi corporate travel platform is adding a deferred-payment layer to its software, with the new financing split between equity and Shariah-compliant debt. Saudi corporate travel platform FlyAkeed has secured SAR 94.3 million ($25.15 million) in growth funding, combining an equity investment…...
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…...
HUMAIN invests in Arabic.AI and Tarjama to expand Saudi enterprise AI offering
1+ week, 5+ 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…...
Too small to hack? The cybersecurity threat facing UAE startups
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1721+ words) 💸 MENA VC Playbook 📘 MENA Founder Playbook A fake recruiter, a compromised laptop and a 574% surge in regional attacks. Inside Dynova's all-in-one approach to startup cybersecurity in the UAE. In partnership with Dynova. The engineer looked up at what seemed like…...
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, 2+ 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…...
Saudi edtech AILA raises $3M pre-Series A led by Rua Growth Fund
3+ week, 4+ day ago (334+ words) 💸 MENA VC Playbook 📘 MENA Founder Playbook Jordanian edtech Jo Academy also joins the cap table as a strategic investor alongside 500 Global, Bunat Ventures and Fikr Ventures, backing a platform whose AILA Tests product runs personalised exam preparation in Saudi schools....
HeyBreez raises $2.5M seed led by Lunara Partners as call volumes pass one million a month
3+ week, 4+ day ago (463+ words) 💸 MENA VC Playbook 📘 MENA Founder Playbook The oversubscribed round brings in Jabbar Group alongside returning backer DASH Ventures, seven months after the company's $1.3 million pre-seed. HeyBreez, the enterprise voice AI company formerly known as Breez AI, has raised an oversubscribed…...