Author: Startups Mena

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 […]

A Milestone Moment for Regional Fintech When co-founders Esam Alnahdi and Maher Loubieh launched HALA, their mission was simple but ambitious: give micro, small, and […]

For small and medium businesses across the GCC that can wait months for a bank loan, a Dubai-based fintech is betting that funding should arrive […]

How a PIF-backed “startup” is turning operating systems and infrastructure into Saudi Arabia’s next strategic export. A New Kind of Operating System Out of Riyadh […]

When cafés, clinics, and cloud kitchens across the GCC ask “Can we afford to expand next quarter?”, many still reach for spreadsheets. Metric, an Abu Dhabi–headquartered AI […]