All posts tagged "Regional"
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5.6KEcosystemQuality of startups graduating from accelerators in MENA remains a serious concern, says Faith Capital’s Abdulaziz Alloughani
Abdulaziz Alloughani, the Managing Partner with Kuwait-based VC firm Faith Capital tweeted earlier this week, saying, “Despite a plethora of early stage...
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8.5KNewsCareem is reportedly planning to spend $150 million on its food delivery business
Careem is planning to spend as much as $150 million to expand into food delivery business, Reuters has reported earlier today citing...
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12.0KNewsUber and Careem are said to be in merger talks
Uber (Middle East) and Careem are in preliminary talks to merge their businesses, Bloomberg has reported citing three people familiar with the...
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3.7KEcosystemTechCrunch’s pitch competition Startup Battlefield is coming to Beirut for startups in MENA this October
TechCrunch’s flagship pitch competition Startup Battlefield is coming to Beirut for startups in Middle East & North Africa. It would be the...
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6.5KEcosystemGoogle is now accepting applications for second class of its Launchpad Accelerator Africa
Google had announced its Launchpad Accelerator Africa last year. The first class of the accelerator that was open to startups from Ghana, Kenya,...
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6.6KNewsGoldman Sachs’ AI predicts Saudi will be only team from MENA to make it out of group stage at the FIFA World Cup
Goldman Sachs, the American financial firm has used machine learning to predict results of the FIFA World Cup 2018 that is set...
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4.0KNewsWe are going to be winning player in the Middle Eastern market: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
Since Uber exited Southeast Asia by selling its business there to the local competitor Grab, the question of Uber’s future in rest...
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15.7KInvestmentsJollyChic, a Chinese ecommerce firm with focus on Middle East raises Series C at billion dollar valuation
Hangzhou-headquartered ecommerce firm JollyChic has raised an undislcosed amount of investment (reportedly hundreds of millions of dollars) in its Series C round...
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23.0KNewsExclusive: Spotify is coming to MENA, launching in UAE this year
Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming service is expanding to MENA with its UAE launch planned for Q4 this year, a source...
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4.1KNewsUber has no plans to leave MENA, says COO Barney Harford
Barney Harford, Uber’s chief operation officer who joined the company in December last year, has said that the company has no plans...