During the final week of February, the Middle East and Africa witnessed notable momentum in startup investments and acquisitions, driven by new funding rounds as well as regional and strategic expansions across key sectors, including artificial intelligence, fintech, logistics, and crowdfunding, spanning Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to EntArabi\u2019s<\/em> weekly report tracking the most prominent startup investment and acquisition deals between February 22 and 28<\/strong>, total disclosed investments surpassed $101 million<\/strong> during the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Total disclosed investments exceeded $101 million<\/strong>, excluding undisclosed deal values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Total disclosed investments by sector also exceeded $101 million<\/strong>, excluding undisclosed amounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During the final week of February, the Middle East and Africa witnessed notable momentum in startup investments and acquisitions, driven by new funding rounds as well as regional and strategic expansions across key sectors, including artificial intelligence, fintech, logistics, and crowdfunding, spanning Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Iraq. According to EntArabi\u2019s weekly report tracking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":60621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8850],"tags":[4233],"class_list":["post-60626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-venture","tag-moneyhash-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60626","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=60626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60631,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60626\/revisions\/60631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Investments by Country<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Country<\/th> Number of Deals<\/th> Companies<\/th> Total Investments<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Saudi Arabia<\/td> 1 deal<\/td> Presight\u2013Shorooq Fund I (investment portfolio)<\/td> $100 million<\/td><\/tr> United Arab Emirates<\/td> 2 deals<\/td> Paquik \u2013 NodeShift<\/td> $1.085 million<\/td><\/tr> United States<\/td> 4 deals<\/td> Candid \u2013 Blue \u2013 Crunched \u2013 Hebbia<\/td> Undisclosed \/ within the fund<\/td><\/tr> Egypt<\/td> Operational expansion<\/td> Beban (pending license)<\/td> \u2014<\/td><\/tr> Iraq<\/td> Strategic partnership<\/td> MoneyHash \u00d7 Wayl<\/td> \u2014<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Investments by Sector<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Sector<\/th> Number of Deals<\/th> Companies<\/th> Total Investments<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Artificial intelligence & deep tech<\/td> 5 deals<\/td> NodeShift \u2013 Candid \u2013 Hebbia \u2013 Blue \u2013 Crunched<\/td> $100 million<\/td><\/tr> Logistics & delivery<\/td> 1 deal<\/td> Paquik<\/td> $85,000<\/td><\/tr> Financial technology (FinTech)<\/td> Expansion \/ partnership<\/td> Beban \u2013 MoneyHash<\/td> \u2014<\/td><\/tr> E-commerce & digital payments<\/td> Partnership<\/td> MoneyHash \u00d7 Wayl<\/td> \u2014<\/td><\/tr> University-backed acceleration & venture investment<\/td> Initiative<\/td> Riyadh Valley \u00d7 SparkLabs<\/td> \u2014<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n