Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia makes tourist visa easy for GCC residents
The Saudi Tourism Authority announced the expansion of the GCC residents visa which now is open to all professions for those wanting to apply for a tourist visa. According to the Ministry of Tourism, ...
Codebase Technologies and SBM to drive innovation in the financial sector
Codebase Technologies has partnered with Saudi Business Machines (SBM) to drive innovation in the financial sector in Saudi Arabia and MENA region, providing ready-to-market digital enablement solutio...
Generation Z most entrepreneurial in Saudi Arabia
Generation Z (Gen Z, ages 18 to 24) consumers in Saudi Arabia are two times more likely than any other age group to send cross-border remittances in support of their business interests at home, accord...
UnifonicX SaaS accelerator program empowers startups
UnifonicX, the investment arm of Unifonic, successfully concluded the second edition of its entrepreneurial Accelerator Program recently. The participants of the Accelerator Program underwent a varie...
Saudi VC Emkan launches $31 million fund to back early-stage startups
Emkan Capital, a leading Saudi venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology start-ups across GCC and broader MENAP has announced the close of its inaugural $31 million fund, Emkan Capital Fu...
Saudi Arabia’s largest SME conference BIBAN hosts final round of Entrepreneurship World Cup
Biban, Saudi Arabia’s largest startup, SME, and entrepreneurship conference, takes place between March 9 and March 13, 2023, at the Riyadh Front Exhibition & Conference Center.
Ygii raises pre-seed investment round
Saudi Arabia-based social commerce platform Ygii, announce the successful closure of a pre-seed investment round. The funding was led by Flat6Labs and participated in by a group of prominent angel inv...
Aramco and droppGroup to promote Web3 technology in Saudi Arabia
droppGroup today announced the signing of an industry-first Web3 Technology Memorandum of Understanding with Aramco, to explore how the parties may collaborate together to apply dropp’s propriet...
FOODICS and SEA Ventures to empower F&B entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia
FOODICS has partnered with SEA Ventures to digitally empower entrepreneurs in the F&B sector by providing technical solutions for startup projects, which will help to upgrade the entrepreneurship ...