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Restaurant Financing in Saudi Arabia: SPICE Tests Shariah-Compliant Dining Capitalr
SPICE advances Shariah-compliant funding to premium restaurants and returns 20% cashback to their diners, as the Kingdom’s foodservice economy heads toward $58.3 billion and embedded lending costs draw criticism in mature markets
Inside the $35 Billion race to interpret what infrastructure inspections actually reveal
As drone inspection consolidates around larger engineering stacks, Germany’s FlyNex is betting that owning the workflow from data capture through to investment decisions keeps independent software companies relevant.
TheStage AI is betting that the next wave of AI runs on phones rather than servers
With an SDK targeting NPUs on smartphones and laptops, the company is chasing an edge AI market forecast to reach $118.7 billion by 2033 while cutting cloud inference costs for existing customers.
Tax Star raises $1.75 million as accreditation becomes the scarcest asset in tax software
The Dubai company will spend the angel-backed seed round on go-to-market expansion and product development in the ten weeks before every large business in the country must appoint an accredited provider, in a market where the buyer's timetable is written by regulation.
Fuelre4m is selling the fuel industry the one thing it never counted: what it wastes
Rob Mortimer’s team came from telecoms, property, and radio communications, and built a fuel-reforming business on the quarter of every litre that never properly combusts. Holcim UK has rolled it out across 200 sites, and the credibility fight is only starting.
Why a Seoul geriatrician seeing 100 patients a day decided the ward needed an algorithm that could explain itself
AITRICS now runs in more than 190 Korean hospitals and holds clearances across five Asian markets. Its founder still practises medicine, and the product was rebuilt around the users he had not planned for.
The AI data centre is the product: inside MangoBoost’s full-stack bet
Founded out of a Seoul National University laboratory in 2022, MangoBoost has moved from DPU silicon to complete server racks, and now takes its open infrastructure argument into Abu Dhabi.
Featherless AI is betting that open models win, and that AMD is how they get there
Backed by AMD Ventures, Airbus Ventures and BMW i Ventures, the serverless inference platform has grown from an internal pricing experiment into a catalogue of more than 40,000 open models. Chief Revenue Officer Joe Fleming sets out how a $20 Million company intends to compete in a category where rivals carry multi-billion-dollar valuations.
Inside rahd·AI, the company betting decommissioning is a data problem first
With £44 billion still to be spent on the UK Continental Shelf and 500 wells already past deadline, the Aberdeen company argues the savings begin long before a rig is booked.
Why 88% of satellite methane alerts get ignored, and how AIRMO plans to change that
Detection stopped being the hard part years ago. The space company has raised €10 million and built its own laser sensor to produce a number regulators, auditors and operators will all act on, with the first satellite launching in 2027.
Longevium raises $7 million to build a longevity AI research lab at Dubai Science Park
The clinic network will open a dedicated research facility in the fourth quarter of 2026, moving biological age measurement, digital twins and regenerative medicine out of its consultation rooms and into a formal research programme regulated under Dubai’s new longevity law.
How AIM Intelligence Turned a Government Hacking Contest Into an AI Security Business
Sangyoon Yu won Korea's Generative AI Red Team Challenge, hired the runner-up, and built AIM Intelligence into a company backed by Samsung Ventures, LG Electronics and Hyundai.
UAE’s fintech Firm Epic Markets raises $10M in Pre-Seed funding
Epic Markets, a brokerage startup founded by two former Citadel Securities executives, has raised $10 million in a pre-seed round from London-based hedge fund and venture investor Karatage, the sole backer in the deal.
Yango Ventures backs Egypt’s Fincart in $2.8M seed round
The Cairo platform has closed an oversubscribed round from Yango Group’s $20 million corporate venture fund, with expansion into further MENA and African markets planned for 2027.
Ash Games raises $1.5 Million as Saudi gaming money reaches the studio floor
The Riyadh studio behind Nomad has closed a $1.5 Million Seed round co-led by Merak Capital and Impact46, in a market where $38 Billion has mostly gone towards buying companies abroad.
Dubai's property boom outpaced the humans selling it. Rechitta is betting AI can close the gap
A trio of founders has built an AI communication layer for a market that recorded AED917 billion in transactions last year, wagering that the industry's real bottleneck is no longer demand but the ability to move accurate information through 40,000 brokers without distortion.
iCodejr turns an autism coding pilot into a blueprint for accessible ed-tech
The academy’s engagement with Behaviour Enrichment blended Scratch-based coding with therapeutic goals, signalling how inclusion can be engineered rather than invoked
Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin's B Capital Raises $500M to Back AI in Robotics, Defence and Orbit
An oversubscribed close in a selective fundraising market reveals what institutional allocators now believe about the next generation of category-defining companies.
GCC & London based 1001 raises $30M Series A funding
Lux Capital's lead on 1001's $30 million Series A, with Sanabil and a roster of US operators joining, reflects a shift in where applied AI is now proven.
Meta hands WhatsApp to Cred Founder Kunal Shah, and the choice tells you where the app is heading
Mark Zuckerberg has appointed CRED founder Kunal Shah to lead WhatsApp globally and bundled the move with a $900 million investment into his Bengaluru fintech, signalling how decisively the messaging service intends to become a commerce platform