تمويل وإطلاقات وتحرّكات في الشركات الناشئة والمستثمرين عبر المنطقة — كل خبر موثّق بمصدره وتاريخه.
DisrupTech Ventures invested in Chari, the Casablanca-based B2B e-commerce and fintech platform for traditional retailers, joining the Moroccan company's Series A financing.
AD Ports Group arranged a $115m project-finance facility led by IFC and NBK-Egypt to develop the ~$200m Safaga terminal, set to be Upper Egypt's first internationally operated port terminal.
Tali Ventures, the corporate venture arm of stc group, led a $6m (SAR23m) Series A in Riyadh-based Bonat to scale its AI-powered customer-engagement and loyalty tools for retailers.
Flat6Labs unveiled a second seed fund for Tunisian startups in partnership with Smart Capital, offering initial tickets up to TND200,000 and follow-on financing to accelerate early-stage founders.
e& sold a 12.5% stake in Careem Technologies to Uber for $100m, cutting its holding to about 37.5% and handing Uber a controlling position in the Dubai-based super-app.
Abu Dhabi's e& sold its full holding of around 16.2% in Vodafone Group to a Niel-family vehicle for about $5.95bn, realising a net cash return of roughly $1.3bn as it sharpens focus on core businesses.
Beltone finalised its acquisition of Baobab Group for about EUR197.6m, its largest deal and first cross-border acquisition, gaining an immediate presence across seven sub-Saharan African markets.
Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority approved the Sukna Fund for Direct Financing, an open-ended, Shariah-compliant vehicle targeting SAR375m in its first year to provide non-dilutive credit to SMEs.
Ibtikar Fund closed its second fund at $25m, above a $15m target and double the size of its first vehicle, to invest in up to 25 early-stage startups founded by Palestinian entrepreneurs.
Dubai-based COTU Ventures unveiled a $54m inaugural fund to back pre-seed and seed founders across the GCC, Egypt and Pakistan, writing checks of $500,000 to $2m with reserves for follow-on rounds.
Nama Ventures secured Capital Market Authority approval to operate as a fully regulated fund manager in the Kingdom, becoming the first foreign venture firm licensed under Saudi capital-markets law.
The UAE firm closed FinTech Fund II at $50m with backers including Jada, SVC, Mubadala and Saudi Awwal Bank, to invest in early-stage fintech and SaaS across MENA.
PIF-owned Sanabil Investments jointly led a $110m round with Valar Ventures for SILQ Group, the B2B commerce platform formed by merging Saudi Arabia's Sary with Bangladesh's ShopUp.
Merak Capital and the Cultural Development Fund unveiled a SAR300m ($80m) fund, described as the Kingdom's first PE fund dedicated to fashion, to back growth-stage Saudi apparel, beauty and supply-chain brands.
Raed Ventures led a $35m Series A round in Rize as the Saudi personal-finance startup looks to scale its savings and investing products for consumers in the Kingdom.
Wa'ed Ventures led a $30m Series A in Riyadh-based Zension Technologies, joined by Global Ventures and Sumitomo Corporation, to launch a device-subscription platform called Zaam in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Investors including HSG and Boyu Capital bought shares from existing Tabby shareholders in a secondary sale that implied a $4.5bn valuation, up from the $3.3bn set at the fintech's $160m Series E eight months earlier.
Avanz Capital Egypt became an LP in Algebra Ventures' second, $100m Egypt-focused fund through a secondary transaction, in one of the first secondary LP deals in the country's venture market.
Bahrain's Investcorp led a $130m pre-IPO investment in Makkah-based Salla, alongside PIF's Sanabil Investments and existing shareholder STV, ahead of a planned listing for the SaaS commerce-enablement platform.
Sawari Ventures said its second fund, structured as a local Egypt vehicle plus an international fund, would extend its reach into West and East Africa while backing fintech, deep tech, edtech, health tech and climate tech.
SVC committed to Global Ventures III, an early-stage fund exceeding $150m targeting supply-chain tech, agritech, enterprise SaaS and AI across Saudi Arabia, the wider MENA region and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Dubai-based venture firm closed BECO Fund IV, a $120m early-stage vehicle, alongside a $250m Growth Fund, lifting assets under management past $820m to fund UAE and Saudi technology companies.
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The September 2025 NCA certification authorises COGNNA to provide managed security-operations services to private and commercial entities across the Kingdom.
The September 2024 round backs the Cairo startup that lets people swap household recyclables for groceries, cash and services, as it grows its network in Egypt.