Author: Startups Mena

With up to $300,000 per startup and a global pool of founders, Saudi Arabia’s flagship gaming accelerator is transforming national gaming ambitions into a real […]

Despite a cautious global investment climate, founders across Riyadh, Cairo, Dubai and Tunis continue to secure deals — and the first week of November reveals […]

A breakout half-year signals the Kingdom’s growing influence in the region’s AI economy. When a Riyadh-based AI startup secured its latest early-stage round this spring, […]

When you land in Dubai today and open a car rental app, the experience is still often the same: high deposits, opaque fees, long counters, […]

By Startups MENA Staff Riyadh / Manama — When Calo began testing an AI “private chef” that talks to users, learns their habits, and quietly […]

A Three-Year Sprint to Unicorn Status Saudi Arabia’s quick-commerce startup Ninja has officially entered the region’s unicorn club after raising $254 million in a major pre-IPO funding round. The […]

By Startups MENA Staff When a small business needs capital, waiting weeks for a bank decision can mean lost growth—or lost survival. For thousands of […]

Riyadh’s newest credit-infrastructure startup aims to make SME lending instant, embedded, and data-driven — transforming a process that has historically been slow, manual, and exclusionary. […]

In an Egypt where families have long trusted gold more than bank deposits to protect their savings from inflation and currency swings, a new type […]

A Problem Hiding in Plain Sight When Tunisian founders Mohamed Anouar Gadhoum and Shaher Abbas launched PAYDAY in 2024, they weren’t chasing a trend — they were solving a chronic and […]