Funding, launches and moves across the region's startups and investors — every story sourced and dated.
The pan-African e-commerce group left Algeria and announced a 27,000 sqm warehouse in Egypt, doubling down on Egypt and Morocco as it targets profitability from 2027.
Delivery giant Talabat acquired 100% of InstaShop for $32m, consolidating the UAE- and Egypt-focused grocery marketplace into its grocery and retail vertical while keeping the brand independent.
The immersive-video platform raised $12m from the IFC, AlJazira Capital and Saudi family offices, taking total capital past $35m to fund expansion across Saudi, the UAE, Africa, Asia and the US.
Mubadala led a $170m round in the Dubai-based property portal, with another UAE sovereign fund and BECO Capital participating, following a $525m round in 2025.
The Middle East e-commerce giant raised $500m, including from Saudi Arabia's PIF, to fund logistics and AI as founder Mohamed Alabbar targets a Saudi-UAE dual listing in 2026-2027.
The cloud-kitchen unicorn secured $50m from EvolutionX to scale its homegrown brands across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait and accelerate franchising.
The licensed crypto exchange bought Digital Ma'arefa, publisher of The Finance Memo and Crypto Memo, to expand financial-media reach across the Gulf; the deal closed on 30 March 2026.
UAE residents can now send money to Saudi and Turkish bank accounts within minutes via Careem Pay, taking its remittance network to more than 35 countries.
The pharma-procurement platform, used by 12,000-plus pharmacies across Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, raised a $12m Series A led by Emkan Capital, with Qatar Development Bank and Shorooq participating.
The digital health platform will manage and operate a medical building inside a new Cairo development, marking a shift toward bricks-and-mortar delivery amid a tough fundraising climate for healthtech.
The round was led by Shorooq Partners, Algebra Ventures and SC Holding, funding regional expansion, acceptance network and AI capabilities such as fraud detection.
The round was led by DPI Venture Capital via the Nclude Fund, with Algebra Ventures, Nuwa Capital and Raed Ventures, funding financing, services and dealer verticals.
The Saudi AI hiring platform signed a strategic partnership with the Oman Energy Association (OPAL) to automate and govern recruitment across Oman's energy sector, aligned with Oman Vision 2040.
The gene-therapy startup, developing an AI-designed lipid-nanoparticle delivery platform, won KPMG's Global Tech Innovator competition in Saudi Arabia and will represent the Kingdom at the global final.
The round, with STV, Seedra Ventures, Takamol Ventures and Suhail Ventures participating, will scale Signit's AI-powered contract-management platform in the Kingdom.
The 200,000 sqm Riyadh campus, part of a $2bn strategic partnership, will produce 'Saudi Made' laptops, desktops and servers, with production targeted for 2026.
The round, co-led by TPG's Rise Fund and PIF's Sanabil Investments, funds embedded financial and lending products for Saudi micro and small businesses in one of MENA's largest fintech Series B rounds.
The SAR2.6bn facility, supported by Fintech Saudi, will expand the Shariah-compliant P2P lender's capacity to finance small and medium enterprises across the Kingdom.
The round was led by COTU Ventures with Impact46, Shorooq Partners and Numrah Capital, funding product and AI development and GCC expansion for gyms, salons, clinics and home-service providers.
HUMAIN made its first investment in a Saudi company, backing enterprise-AI firm Mozn to co-build financial-crime, knowledge and GRC solutions, with first deployments due at LEAP Riyadh.
The Saudi-headquartered BNPL firm doubled its valuation to $3.3bn in a round led by Blue Pool Capital and Saudi Arabia's Hassana, ahead of a planned listing in the Kingdom.
The Saudi- and Bahrain-based meal-subscription startup added a $39m Series B extension led by AlJazira Capital, on top of a $25m round, as it eyes a Tadawul IPO by 2027.
The Saudi restaurant-tech leader took 100% of Greece-based Norma AI, building on a stake acquired in Q1 2025, folding its natural-language analytics tools into a platform used by 10,000-plus branches.
Saudi Arabia's first fintech unicorn upsized a prior $500m facility to as much as $2.4bn, backed by Goldman Sachs, Citi and Apollo-managed funds, to expand consumer lending across the Kingdom and region.