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EmpowerME’s $6M initiative equips 86,000 regional youth
EmpowerME, in collaboration with the Starbucks Foundation and Alshaya Group, launched a $6 million initiative last year to empower 250,000 young people across nine countries in MENA and Türkiye. Since...
Emirati-founder unveils lifestyle booking platform, iReserved in the UAE
In a significant leap for the UAE’s tech and hospitality sectors, iReserved, the first smart lifestyle booking platform purpose-built for premium venues, is making its market debut. The Emirati-...
Zoom unveils AI Companion 3.0 at Zoomtopia 2025
Zoom Communications introduced a new era of productivity, intelligent collaboration, and connection, unveiling AI Companion 3.0 with powerful new agentic AI innovations across Zoom Workplace and Zoom ...
Upscale AI secures over $100 million in Seed round
Upscale AI, a new high‑performance AI networking company, announced the official launch of the company after being incubated by Auradine, a rapidly growing infrastructure player in the blockchain and ...
Canon provides a big stage for African content creators
Canon Central & North Africa (CCNA) brought together ten regional content creators from Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania to participate in Canon Vision 2025 in Amsterdam. These creators, spanni...
UAE-based Luxury luggage brand Armoir raises $500K
Armoir, the luxury luggage company inspired by the heritage of French wardrobe trunks, today announced the close of a $500K seed funding round led by Salica Oryx Fund, with participation from Plus VC ...
Oncount raises $1.5M to simplify SMB accounting
Oncount, a Dubai-based accounting technology startup, has secured $1.5M in seed funding to accelerate the development and launch of Oncount’s proprietary AI-driven accounting platform, designed ...
Spare raises $5M to scale open banking infrastructure
Spare, a fast-growing open banking infrastructure provider based in Riyadh, has raised USD 5 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by anb Seed Fund, the venture capital fund of ANB Capital —a su...
SEON closes $80 million Series C funding round
SEON, the command center for fraud prevention and AML compliance, announced the close of its $80 million Series C round of funding. The investment was led by Sixth Street Growth with participation fro...