Foodics Partners With Kaso To Promote A Digitalize MENA's F&B Industry One of the leading restaurant management platforms in UAE and MENA at large, Foodics, has gone into partnership with Kaso, a top B2B platform that provides digitalized procurement solution that links restaurants to groceries suppliers across MENA. This strategic partnership was announced via a press release made available by Kaso.
Kuwait Tech Expo Summit Set For Feb 8th-11th 2023 The annual technology development event, The Kuwait Tech Expo and Summit (KTE), is set to hold on the 8th-11th of February 2023. The event will be taking place in the MENA country, Kuwait, with the intention to provide a platform for tech companies and startups to showcase their innovations. The
Wa’ed Ventures Invests $18M In PASQAL's Series B Round One of Suadi Arabia’s most active VCs, Wa’ed Ventures, has made a participatory investment of $18 million into the Series B round of $108 million raised for PASQAL, a French quantum computing startup. Although this is not the VC’s highest investment, this is the VC’s first
Road To Inclusion: How Fintechs In Egypt Are Serving The Unbanked And Underbanked Population Although it might seem impossible to people who enjoy the luxury of mobile banking free transactions and many more privileges that come with being banked, There is still a large population of the world who are yet to be banked. The unbanked population refers to individuals who do not have
Quick Dive Into VC Activities in Saudi Arabia Venture capital (VC) plays an important role in the success of startups in Africa. VC investments provide entrepreneurs with the capital they need to launch their businesses, purchase equipment, hire staff, and develop their products the investment of these organizations also provides entrepreneurs with access to a network of experienced
Isreali AI Startup, Autobrains, Hilla Tavor Announces As CBO An Israeli AI mobility startup, Autobrains, has made an important development in its executive position as it appoints business development expert, Hilla Tavor, as its Chief Business Officer (CBO). Autobrains specializes in developing AI technology and self-learning tools for autonomous driving. The AI startup has a wide range of investors
Pagaya Layoff 20% Staff To Save Annual $30M Obviously, the layoff season is still upon us. Between late 2022 and the 3rd week in January 2023, a significant amount of tech employees have lost their jobs, as startups either shut down or cut down on staff. Just in the 1st month of 2023, about 122 startups have laid
The Developing Trends Of The Moroccan Agritech Ecosystem In recent years, digital Africa has seen recognizable development in various sectors. From launching amazing innovations, and raising tremendous amounts of funding, to expanding within and outside the continent, digital innovations that keep spectators in awe have sprung from Africa, and Agritech is not excluded. For Africa, the introduction of
Insider Acquires MindBehind To Provide Intelligent Customer Experience Insider, the global media and technology startup based in UAE, has acquired MindBehind, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) platform. The acquisition will add to Insider’s suite of products and services and will allow the company to expand its reach in the AI space. MindBehind is a platform that uses
The Dubai Digital Asset Law, A Step Towards Achieving The UAE Dream It is evident that the attributes of vision, mission, and goals are not limited to people alone but also to nations. The United Arab Emirates, Dubai, has made sure the world knows that it has a set mission when it comes to technology, one of which is being a national
Algerian Startup Exit; Potential Benefits For The Ecosystem One of the recent highlights in the North African ecosystem is InstaDeep’s exit via acquisition. The news broke when the Tunisian AI startup announced that a German biotech/bio-pharmaceutical company, BioNTech, was in motion for its total acquisition. The deal had already gone through as the company already paid
Tech4Good Declares Algerian AI Startup, FARM AI, Silver Level Competition Winner FRAM AI, an Algerian-based startup has been announced to come in second place (Silver Level) in the notable global competition, Tech4Good by Huawei. The startup reportedly provided innovative solutions to agricultural challenges through the use of Artificial Intelligence. To stand out in the competition, the AI startup presented its project
artificial Intelligence Bio Meets AI As BioNTech Set To Acquire Tunisia's InstaDeep Completely Artificial Intelligence is not becoming just a trend but also a norm. From learning assistance, work assistance, health crisis detection, and now to pharmaceutical development, AI is claiming its space in every sector. It is in this light that BioNTech is set to acquire Tunisian AI startup, InstaDesp.The Biopharmaceutical
How Egyptian Startups Are Leveraging Technology in the Ad-tech Space Trad-Ad To Ad-Tech An interesting part of evolution is adoption. Usually, humans will adopt traits, actions, and services that make their lives or day-to-day activities easier, and most of the time, technology provides ease in every sector it is being integrated into, in this case, Advertising. Advertising, the act of
Catalyst Fund Africa Invest $2M in CimateTech Startups. In a bid to combat climate change, many organizations have been established, while some formally in existence, have initiated activities to help “save the planet.” In the tech space, many startups, companies, and VCs have set up certain solutions to help the climate situation. Following the same trend, The Catalyst
MENA's $1billon funded E-commerce,Noon VS it's Untold Losses With vast access to the internet, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been a considerable partaker and beneficiary of the e-commerce boom. This is a system that allows users to purchase goods on various online platforms either in bulk or in retail bits. Such avenues have been
Crypto Cryptocurrency In Morocco; If You Can't Ban Them, You Join Them Over many publications, it is evident that the government is intertwined with tech activities within a given society. Nothing has the ability to scale without the approval, development and openness of a government. There have been various instances where the rules and regulations of a given nation propelled the scalability
Falak, EBRD Trains Over 50 VC Participants in 2 days Masterclass There are various reasons for joining an association or group. Naturally, people join associations for their own benefit, for example, to come to their aid or to help their development in the long run. This could be one of the reasons Egypt joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Sudan On Recovery Path With Health-tech One of the most important sectors in any community is the health sector. Why? anyone can be a victim of an unexpected health epidemic or accident. Without a functioning and capable health sector, the threat to the lives of citizens has the tendency to increase. There are several countries in
Fawry Collaborates With Classera To Promote Digital Payments Within The educational sector Fawry, one of Egypt’s leading fintech startups has announced its fresh collaboration with Classera and Egyptian ed-tech. The announcement was made on Thursday via a Press Release. The full press release reads,“Fawry” cooperates with “Classera” to promote digital payments for the educational sectorFawry offers electronic payment services to
Can Prop-tech Save The Day In Morocco? The Property Challenge An industry without a problem does not exist. Without a challenge, there is no need for existence, as all will seem too smooth, uninteresting and in fact boring. There won’t be a need to task the brain, there is no thrill or hunt for a solution. In all honesty,
Checkme Acquires DoctorOnline To Shake Up Egypt's Health-tech Ecosystem Often times delays have proven to be dreadful. An action almost related to procrastination has in most cases provided a negative result in a given situation, especially health-related. Delayed diagnosis is known to cause irreversible harm to affected individuals. The situation that would follow in such a case would be
Business Migration; Egyptian Startups Seeking The Dubai Green Pasture Humans are usually insatiable. For this species of living things, there is always a thought that there is a better version of what they have in possession somewhere else. This thought has often led to migration, change of life partners, change of jobs and many switches in lifestyles. Sometimes they
Vodacom Group Pursues Continental Growth With Vodafone Egypt Passion, Purpose, Plan and pursuit are pretty important in starting up and sustaining the growth of an idea. Many businesses have come to acknowledge the factors and run with them thereby resulting in amazing feats. Recently there has been an irresistible buzz in the media. A relatively big company seems
Appetito Strategic Movement; Scaling Within A Short-Time Frame Things take time, and so do businesses. Some businesses take 1 year to succeed, while others might take 5 years. It is always best to work patiently and strategically within the business. Although it is currently witnessing speedy growth, Appetito is also taking its time to operate strategically. Appetito Takes
