On a work trip to Austin, Zakir H. was looking for something simple: a way to meet other Muslims and…
Fasset, the AI-powered stablecoin neobanking platform founded by Mohammad Raafi Hossain and Daniel Ahmed, has raised $68 million in a…
MENA-born enterprise voice AI startup HeyBreez has raised $2.5 million in an oversubscribed Seed round, as demand grows for infrastructure…
Saudi EdTech AILA has raised $3 million in a Pre-Series A funding round led by RUA Growth Fund, marking a…
Iraq-based e-commerce startup Rozenama has raised $150,000 in a pre-Seed funding round from Iraqi entrepreneur and Aljasmi Perfumes CEO Mohammed…
UAE-based taxtech startup Tax Star has raised $1.75 million in a Seed funding round, backed primarily by angel investors, as…
From Student Leadership to Reinventing Payments The idea behind Kanam Pay began with a problem that sounds almost trivial: a…
From Software to the Physical World For nearly two decades, Shamoon Siddiqui built software companies. He founded and worked across…
The Malaysian entrepreneur turned years of frustration with property and legal transactions into a platform now used by hundreds of…
From Investor to Founder For Nurmukhammad Ismoilov, the origins of entrepreneurship did not begin with a startup idea. They began…
Berlin-based digital mental health startup Arab Therapy has raised $2 million in a Pre-Series A funding round to expand access…
Saudi Arabia-based game development studio Majestic Mind Games has raised $1.45 million in a funding round co-led by Merak Capital…
Saudi Arabia-based construction technology startup Fitting has raised $1.1 million in its second Seed funding round, securing backing from an…
From Frontier AI Research to Building CreativAI’s “SQL Layer” for the Physical World For most of his career, Mohamed Elhoseiny…
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.
Saudi Arabia-based operational AI startup RIME has raised more than $2 million in a Seed funding round led by SEEDRA…
Entrepreneurship often begins with identifying a gap in the market. For Dheema Fakir, however, it began with identifying a gap…
Saudi Arabia-based enterprise AI company MOZN has secured a strategic investment from HUMAIN, the Public Investment Fund (PIF)-backed artificial intelligence…
Mustafa Khan left accounting to build Draper with Sakib Ahmed. The agency now works with more than 50 founders and executives and says its clients have generated over 350 million LinkedIn views.
For decades, businesses have relied on discounts, cashback, and promotional offers to attract customers. Yet customer acquisition costs continue to…