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Siin Raises $3M To Bring Live, Interactive Commerce to the Gulf

Rebuilding Commerce Around Culture and Interaction Bahrain-born e-commerce platform Siin has raised new funding, bringing its total capital raised to $3 million as it looks to scale live, interactive shopping across the Gulf. The round was led by VentureSouq and Shift Group, with participation from Plus VC, Oqal, and a group of regional investors including […]

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How Ibraz Shaikh Is Using AI and Operational Integration to Address Healthcare’s Invisible Crisis

In healthcare, the gap between clinical excellence and operational efficiency is rarely discussed—but it is consistently felt. Providers trained to deliver care spend significant portions of their time navigating billing systems, managing patient follow-up, and addressing administrative gaps that compound quietly in the background. Revenue is lost not through clinical failure, but through operational friction. […]

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How Urooj Zia and Faizan Laghari Are Building Qaflah to Give MENAP Founders the Infrastructure They Were Never Given

The MENA startup ecosystem raised a record $7.5 billion in 2025, a 225 percent increase on the previous year. Capital is moving. Investor interest is growing. And yet, for the majority of early-stage founders building outside of Dubai or Riyadh, the practical question remains unchanged: where do you actually go to find the tools, the […]

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How Abdulla Hassan Thakur Is Building Connect Souq To Turn Trust Into a Global Economic System

From Corporate Leadership to a Deeper Realization Abdulla Hassan Thakur’s career spans continents and industries, from serving as Head of Business for MENA at British Telecom UK to advising family businesses and engaging at the board level across the GCC. Over the years, his exposure to multiple markets revealed a recurring imbalance. While economies were […]

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How Ali Ahmed Is Building Robomart RM5, An Autonomous Robot Redefining On-Demand Delivery

Solving the Economics of Convenience On-demand delivery has reshaped consumer expectations. What was once a luxury—getting products delivered within minutes—is now increasingly seen as a baseline service. Yet behind this convenience lies a persistent and often overlooked problem: the economics do not work. For Ali Ahmed, Co-founder and CEO of Robomart, this inefficiency was impossible […]