The Middle East witnessed notable momentum in venture capital investments and acquisition deals between December 7 and 14, reflecting strong diversification across targeted sectors.<\/p>\n
These included proptech, AI-powered regulatory compliance, gaming, digital fashion, digital assets, industrial automation, AI infrastructure, and fintech.<\/p>\n
According to the weekly investment and M&A report issued by “entArabi”<\/strong>, the announced transactions during the week injected more than $1.21 billion into the market, driven by major deals in Qatar, Turkey, and the UAE, alongside rising activity in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Egypt.<\/p>\n This momentum underscores sustained investor confidence in scalable technology-driven business models across the region.<\/p>\n Weekly data highlights the clear dominance of artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, and financial services, which captured the largest share of investments, supported by mega-deals in Qatar and Turkey.<\/p>\n This came alongside early\u2014but steadily growing\u2014activity in sectors such as gaming and proptech in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.<\/p>\n The data also indicates a continued investor shift toward sovereign-grade models and technologies aligned with local regulatory frameworks, particularly in compliance and financial regulation.<\/p>\n At the same time, interest is increasing in solutions that address structural gaps in financing and supply chains.<\/p>\n The Middle East witnessed notable momentum in venture capital investments and acquisition deals between December 7 and 14, reflecting strong diversification across targeted sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":54097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8850],"tags":[5840,10537,2507,10534,10615],"class_list":["post-54091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-venture","tag-brookfield","tag-byit-capital","tag-coinmena","tag-qadi","tag-qai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54091","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=54091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Investments and M&A by Country<\/h2>\n
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\n \nCountry<\/th>\n Company \/ Deal<\/th>\n Transaction Type<\/th>\n Deal Value<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n Qatar<\/td>\n Brookfield \u00d7 Qai<\/td>\n Joint venture (AI infrastructure)<\/td>\n $20 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Turkey<\/td>\n Baribo \u00d7 CoinMENA<\/td>\n Majority acquisition<\/td>\n Up to $240 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n UAE<\/td>\n Zelo (IHC subsidiary)<\/td>\n Funding round<\/td>\n $715 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n UAE<\/td>\n Byit Capital<\/td>\n Investment round<\/td>\n $1.1 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n UAE<\/td>\n Qadi<\/td>\n Pre-seed round<\/td>\n Undisclosed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n UAE<\/td>\n Bloom Network<\/td>\n ADGM license<\/td>\n \u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Egypt<\/td>\n tpay<\/td>\n Government payments license<\/td>\n \u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Saudi Arabia<\/td>\n Qwacks<\/td>\n Pre-seed round<\/td>\n $476,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Kuwait<\/td>\n Trendl (\u201cMasaha\u201d app)<\/td>\n Second Seed round<\/td>\n $1.5 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n International*<\/td>\n Mujin<\/td>\n Series D round<\/td>\n $233 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Total disclosed<\/strong><\/td>\n \u2014<\/td>\n \u2014<\/td>\n ~$21.19 billion<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Investments and M&A by Sector<\/h2>\n
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\n \nSector<\/th>\n Companies \/ Deals<\/th>\n Investment Value<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n AI infrastructure<\/td>\n Brookfield \u00d7 Qai<\/td>\n $20 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Digital assets & cryptocurrencies<\/td>\n Baribo \u00d7 CoinMENA<\/td>\n Up to $240 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Fintech & supply chain finance<\/td>\n Zelo<\/td>\n $715 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Industrial automation & robotics<\/td>\n Mujin<\/td>\n $233 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n PropTech<\/td>\n Byit Capital<\/td>\n $1.1 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Gaming<\/td>\n Qwacks<\/td>\n $476,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Digital fashion & retail<\/td>\n Trendl (Masaha)<\/td>\n $1.5 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n AI-powered regulatory compliance<\/td>\n Qadi<\/td>\n Undisclosed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Government digital payments<\/td>\n tpay<\/td>\n License (no funding)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Tokenization of real-world assets<\/td>\n Bloom Network<\/td>\n License (no funding)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Total disclosed<\/strong><\/td>\n \u2014<\/td>\n ~$21.19 billion<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"