{"id":48743,"date":"2025-07-10T21:58:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/?p=48743"},"modified":"2025-07-10T22:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:11:38","slug":"airalo-closes-220-million-funding-round-led-by-cvc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/2025\/07\/airalo-closes-220-million-funding-round-led-by-cvc\/","title":{"rendered":"Airalo closes $220 million funding round led by CVC"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Airalo announces closing of new $220 million funding round<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">CVC led the funding round to help expand the eSIM sector in MENA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Airalo, headquartered in the United States and operating as a digital platform for electronic SIM (eSIM) services, announced the closing of a new $220 million funding round led by global investment firm CVC.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Funding round details<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">With this round, Airalo\u2019s market valuation has exceeded $1 billion, making it the first company in the eSIM sector to reach this milestone.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Previous funding rounds saw participation from several international investors, including e&amp; capital, Antler, Plug and Play, LG Technology Ventures, and Orange Ventures.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">In 2023, e&amp; capital, the investment arm of Emirates Telecommunications Group (e&amp; UAE), led a Series B funding round for Airalo worth $60 million.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Founded in 2019 by Ahmet Bahadir Ozdemir and Abraham Burak, the company provides services to over 20\u202fmillion users across more than 200 countries and regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airalo, headquartered in the United States and operating as a digital platform for electronic SIM (eSIM) services, announced the closing of a new $220 million funding round led by global investment firm CVC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":48735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8850,1772],"tags":[8963,8965,8962,8964,8252,8961,4090],"class_list":["post-48743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-venture","category-startups","tag-abraham-burak-en","tag-ahmet-bahadir-ozdemir-en","tag-airalo-en","tag-antler-en","tag-e-capital-en","tag-lg-technology-ventures","tag-plug-and-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}