Clara, the legal operating system that empowers tech company founders to digitally form, manage and scale their startups, has announced a new partnership with Mintz, a prominent US law firm. More than 4,000 startups around the world have created Clara accounts and the company’s partnership with Mintz marks its entry into the U.S. market. To […]

Themed “Unleash Digital with Everything as a Service”, the second Huawei Cloud Summit Middle East & Africa kicked off in Dubai on March 21. The event brought together over 300 government officers, cloud-native industry experts, and customer representatives from the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa, with the aim of exploring how to make the […]

Tabby, one of MENA’s leading shopping and financial services apps, has raised $58 million from Sequoia Capital India, STV, PayPal Ventures, Mubadala Investment Capital, Arbor Ventures and Endeavor Catalyst in a Series C round which values the company at $660 million. The fundraise will be used to expand Tabby’s product line into next-gen consumer financial […]

Kuwait Telecommunications Company – stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, inked an agreement through the ‘Weyak’ initiative – season 2 with COFE App, the region’s premiere online coffee marketplace. The official signing ceremony of the partnership was attended by executives from stc and […]

The Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center (Sheraa) have announced a partnership with The DMZ, that will foster a new wave of entrepreneurial success for the entrepreneurs of Sharjah and empower 15 startups from the emirate to the DMZ-led soft-landing program. The DMZ is a world-leading startup incubator based at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). The incubator helps to equip the next generation […]

Two foodtech eGroceries startups, Saudi-based Jumlaty and Egypt-based Appetito, announce their merger into a new entity, NOMU. Aiming to become MENA’s leading food-tech supply chain platform, NOMU is currently present in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, with the capacity to cover the existing infrastructure of 25 million people and 100,000 F&B stores including strategic […]

Entrust, a global leader in trusted payments, identities and digital infrastructure, is now offering its cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). […]

Jazz, Pakistan’s leading digital operator, has partnered with Ericsson to boost digital skills for their entrepreneurial community in Pakistan through the Ericsson Educate program with an aim to accelerate local innovation. This year long partnership comes under Jazz xlr8, Pakistan’s premier accelerator program for startups, and aims to solidify Ericsson and Jazz’s mission to enhance […]

With the surging demand of international business travel, leading global fintech platform Airwallex is partnering with Agoda, a global digital travel platform, to make travel planning easier for Hong Kong SMEs and startups. Airwallex Hong Kong customers will be able to enjoy exclusive discounts on accommodation bookings using their Airwallex Borderless Cards.   By booking through […]

Within the course of the Central Bank of Kuwait’s (CBK) continuous initiatives to encourage and develop FinTech in the State of Kuwait and to adopt emerging FinTech startups, the CBK held a workshop on the Regulatory Sandbox for digital transformation and innovation specialists in local banks. The Sandbox is a safe environment for testing FinTech […]