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    She Worked at the Pentagon, NASA and Google. Now Almeena Shaikh Is Building AI’s Second Set of Eyes for Pilots

    August 25, 2026

    How Zakir Is Building MeetPure Events Into a Values-Driven Operating System for Community Events

    August 24, 2026

    How Shamoon Siddiqui Is Building Human Friendly Robotics to Give Construction Workers Superpowers

    August 17, 2026

    From First-Generation Graduate to LegalTech Founder: How Hafiz Hasan Built Simplifi.my

    August 13, 2026

    How Nurmukhammad Ismoilov Built Akinda to Bring Transparency and Shariah-Compliant Investing to Muslim Investors in Uzbekistan & Beyond

    August 13, 2026
  • Funding

    Swvl Secures $13 Million PIPE Investment to Accelerate U.S. Expansion and Launch Transport Lending

    August 26, 2026

    Saudi Retailtech Startup Raff Raises $1.7 Million Pre-Seed Round to Simplify Physical Retail Expansion

    August 25, 2026

    UAE’s Stellaria Raises $6.8 Million Seed Round at $114.4 Million Valuation to Scale AI-Powered Geospatial Intelligence

    August 25, 2026

    Fasset Raises $68 Million Series C at $1 Billion Valuation, Enters Global Fintech Unicorn Club

    August 24, 2026

    MENA-Born HeyBreez Raises $2.5 Million to Build the Operational Layer for Enterprise Voice AI

    August 21, 2026
  • Tech

    Inside Qaf: How Abdellatif Abdelfattah Is Building Islamic AI Around Trust, Scholarship and 8,000+ Books

    August 25, 2026

    How Aarif Mohamed Konnon Tiama Is Building Côte d’Ivoire’s Kanam Pay Into Africa’s Next Biometric Payment Platform

    August 18, 2026

    How Dheema Fakir Turned Personal Adversity Into Taskin App, the Maldives’ Growing Gig Economy Platform

    August 5, 2026

    He Left KPMG To Ghostwrite For CEOs. Now His Agency Has Driven 350 Million LinkedIn Views By Betting Against “AI Slop.”

    August 5, 2026

    How a Young Bangladeshi Entrepreneur Ishraq Khan Built an AI Platform Used by More Than 5 Million Developers Worldwide

    July 25, 2026
  • Halal

    From a Simple List to a Global Platform: How Shahed Amanullah Built Zabihah Into the World’s Largest Halal Restaurant Guide

    April 17, 2026

    From Corporate Supply Chains to Global Trade: How Khalid Zia Farooqui and Farazuddin Are Building a Bridge Between Indian Producers and Global Markets

    March 30, 2026
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Tax Star Raises $1.75 Million Seed Round to Scale AI-Powered Tax Compliance Across the GCC

Funding, Mergers & AcquisitionsAugust 19, 20260

UAE-based taxtech startup Tax Star has raised $1.75 million in a Seed funding round, backed primarily by angel investors, as…

Tech

How Aarif Mohamed Konnon Tiama Is Building Côte d’Ivoire’s Kanam Pay Into Africa’s Next Biometric Payment Platform

Mohammed AbubakrAugust 18, 20260

From Student Leadership to Reinventing Payments The idea behind Kanam Pay began with a problem that sounds almost trivial: a…

Founders

How Shamoon Siddiqui Is Building Human Friendly Robotics to Give Construction Workers Superpowers

Mohammed AbubakrAugust 17, 20260

From Software to the Physical World For nearly two decades, Shamoon Siddiqui built software companies. He founded and worked across…

Founders

From First-Generation Graduate to LegalTech Founder: How Hafiz Hasan Built Simplifi.my

Amina MirzaAugust 13, 20260

The Malaysian entrepreneur turned years of frustration with property and legal transactions into a platform now used by hundreds of…

Founders

How Nurmukhammad Ismoilov Built Akinda to Bring Transparency and Shariah-Compliant Investing to Muslim Investors in Uzbekistan & Beyond

Mohammed AbubakrAugust 13, 20260

From Investor to Founder For Nurmukhammad Ismoilov, the origins of entrepreneurship did not begin with a startup idea. They began…

Funding

Arab Therapy Raises $2 Million Pre-Series A to Expand Arabic-First Mental Healthcare Across MENA

Funding, Mergers & AcquisitionsAugust 12, 20260

Berlin-based digital mental health startup Arab Therapy has raised $2 million in a Pre-Series A funding round to expand access…

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Saudi Game Studio Majestic Mind Games Raises $1.45 Million to Build Original IP for Global Markets

Funding, Mergers & AcquisitionsAugust 11, 20260

Saudi Arabia-based game development studio Majestic Mind Games has raised $1.45 million in a funding round co-led by Merak Capital…

Funding

Saudi Construction Tech Startup Fitting Raises $1.1 Million to Digitize the Industry’s Supply Chain

Funding, Mergers & AcquisitionsAugust 10, 20260

Saudi Arabia-based construction technology startup Fitting has raised $1.1 million in its second Seed funding round, securing backing from an…

Founders

How Mohamed Elhoseiny and Waleed Shaarani Are Building CreativAI – The SQL Layer for Physical and Visual AI

Mohammed AbubakrAugust 10, 20260

From Frontier AI Research to Building CreativAI’s “SQL Layer” for the Physical World For most of his career, Mohamed Elhoseiny…

Founders

How Amin Aaser Built Noor Kids Into the “Sesame Street” for Muslim Families

Amina MirzaAugust 10, 20260

Amin Aaser once struggled to show his Muslim identity. Through Noor Kids, he is now building the “Sesame Street” for Muslim children—a global education platform the company says served nearly 1.7 million families in 2024.

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Swvl Secures $13 Million PIPE Investment to Accelerate U.S. Expansion and Launch Transport Lending

August 26, 2026

She Worked at the Pentagon, NASA and Google. Now Almeena Shaikh Is Building AI’s Second Set of Eyes for Pilots

August 25, 2026

Inside Qaf: How Abdellatif Abdelfattah Is Building Islamic AI Around Trust, Scholarship and 8,000+ Books

August 25, 2026

Saudi Retailtech Startup Raff Raises $1.7 Million Pre-Seed Round to Simplify Physical Retail Expansion

August 25, 2026

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