{"id":52061,"date":"2025-10-20T17:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/?p=52061"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:05:23","slug":"5-million-invested-in-mena-and-africa-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/2025\/10\/5-million-invested-in-mena-and-africa-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0$5 Million Invested in MENA and Africa Startups\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Middle East and Africa witnessed diverse investment and acquisition activity during the third week of October 2025, with several notable deals across the fintech, logistics, and smart healthcare sectors.<\/p>\n

According to the entArabi report on startup investments and acquisitions covering the period from October 12 to 18, Saudi Arabia led the week\u2019s activity with Tachyhealth\u2019s $5 million funding round, reflecting the growing momentum of the healthtech sector as insurance institutions accelerate their digital transformation.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the fintech sector continued to demonstrate strong presence through new strategic partnerships in Egypt and Bahrain, underscoring the race among financial institutions to adopt AI and blockchain technologies in advancing digital finance models.<\/p>\n

In Qatar, logistics leader GWC strengthened its global expansion through a strategic acquisition of a stake in Austria\u2019s Quivo, in a move that enhances the connectivity between Gulf and European markets.<\/p>\n

Deals by Country<\/h2>\n
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Country<\/th>\nInvestor<\/th>\nInvestee<\/th>\nDeal Type<\/th>\nDeal Value (USD)<\/th>\nSector<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Saudi Arabia<\/td>\nTawuniya Insurance & other investors<\/td>\nTachyhealth<\/td>\nSeries A funding round<\/td>\n5,000,000<\/td>\nHealthTech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bahrain<\/td>\nBahrain FinTech Bay<\/td>\nRipple<\/td>\nStrategic partnership<\/td>\nNot disclosed<\/td>\nFinTech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Egypt<\/td>\ne& money & Contact Financial<\/td>\n\u2014 (App integration)<\/td>\nTech-finance partnership<\/td>\nNot disclosed<\/td>\nFinTech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Qatar<\/td>\nGWC<\/td>\nQuivo (Austria)<\/td>\nPartial acquisition<\/td>\nNot disclosed<\/td>\nLogistics & Supply Chain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n5,000,000<\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Deals by Sector<\/h2>\n
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Sector<\/th>\nNumber of Deals<\/th>\nTotal Disclosed Investment (USD)<\/th>\nKey Highlights<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
FinTech<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nNot disclosed<\/td>\nStrategic partnerships in Bahrain and Egypt accelerating digital finance adoption<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HealthTech<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n5,000,000<\/td>\nMajor funding round led by Tawuniya Insurance to drive AI-powered healthcare innovation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Logistics & Supply Chain<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nNot disclosed<\/td>\nGWC\u2019s international expansion through Quivo acquisition in Austria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/td>\n4 deals<\/td>\n5,000,000<\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Middle East and Africa witnessed a diverse range of startup investments and acquisitions during the third week of October 2025, led by key deals in healthtech, fintech, and logistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":52175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8850],"tags":[9943,9932,9924,9905],"class_list":["post-52061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-venture","tag-contact-financial","tag-e-money","tag-gwc-en","tag-tawuniya-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52061","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=52061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}