Wamda

Saudi Arabia

TVM Capital Healthcare launches $250 million Saudi-focused Afiyah Fund

UAE-based healthcare private equity firm “TVM Capital Healthcare” has closed a $250 million Afiyah Fund LP, led by JADA,...

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi healthtech Labayh acquires Nafs app

Saudi Arabia-based mental health app Labayh has acquired UAE’s counterpart, Nafas. Founded in 2018 by Basim Albeladi,...

Labayh Nafs healthtech

U.A.E

KLAIM raises $1 million in its Seed round

UAE-based fintech platform, KLAIM has raised $1 million in Seed investment from TechStars and a group of strategic regional investors,...

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Egypt

EBRD supports Badia Impact Squared first closing

Source: EBRD New technology companies in the southern and eastern Mediterranean (SEMED) region will benefit from additional sources of...

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Global

Aumet raises $1.25 million in seed funding

Jordan-born healthcare marketplace Aumet, has raised a $1.25 million seed round from Right Side Capital, TechStars, and Plugs and...

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U.A.E

Hikma Ventures invests in Winterlight Labs

Source: Prn newswire Hikma Pharmaceuticals announced that its venture capital arm, Hikma Ventures has led...

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Regional

Vezeeta secures $12m in series C

Egypt-based healthcare company Vezeeta has raised $12million in a Series C round led by Saudi Technology Ventures (STV). Launched in...

Healthcare Series C

Global

Tragedy spurs Nigerian entrepreneur to combat scourge of fake medicines

After a friend died from taking a fake malaria pill, Nigerian entrepreneur Vivian Nwakah vowed to help fight the threat of counterfeit and...

Medsaf Healthcare

Regional

Ureed partners with Altibbi to provide medical and health content online

Editing and linguistic startup Ureed has recently signed a strategic partnership agreement with medical website Altibbi to produce medical...

Ureed AlTibbi Arabic Content

Lebanon

Improving electricity and fake news detection through data #AUBWiDS2018

Data desert is a term often used to describe certain areas, whether unprivileged or not, where data is not regularly collected to form a...

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Lebanon

5 new trends at ArabNet Beirut 2018

Lebanon is a small market that is often described in the news as an unstable country full of corruption and problems on all levels. While...

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U.A.E

UAE dental app Udenz raised $200,000 in crowdinvesting

Udenz, a Dubai-based app that offers dental services for both users and dentists, has raised $203,000 with 33 investors from 10...

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Bahrain

Tackling the region’s growing problem, diabetes

For years, Hussain Albar watched his mother suffer from diabetes. Each day, she would prick herself several times in order to log in a...

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Lebanon

AUB and UKLTH to fund diabetes solution

UK Lebanon Tech Hub (UKLTH) announced today that it will fund the research and development of Ediamond (electromagnetic diabetes monitoring...

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Global

Hikma Ventures co-leads $11M Series A round in US startup

Hikma Ventures has participated in a $11 million round of financing for Lemonaid Health. The Series A funding round was led by Novartis...

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Global

Startup Watch: It’s all about the money, money, money and solar power

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch Investment 500 startups

U.A.E

Why telehealth is so attractive to investors [Opinion]

In his book ‘Healthcare Disrupted’, Jeff Elton comments that ‘until recently, the world changed and healthcare –...

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Regional

New startups on the block: May

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

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Global

Startup Watch: VCs and renewables are never, ever, ever getting back together

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch Women Healthcare

Lebanon

Proximie’s AR tool delivers healthcare to war zones

The idea came about during a 2012 mission to El Salvador. As a volunteer with the Global Smile Foundation, Boston-based Lebanese...

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Global

Startup Watch: disruption might get you, AI making the diagnosis and so long Yahoo!

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch yahoo! AI

Regional

New startups on the block: January

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to watch. German Medical Reference...

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Regional

6 WRL reports in 2016 to highlight ecosystem opportunities #Wamda2016

This year was an interesting one, not just from a geopolitical angle, but also a technological one that saw some great advancements, not...

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Saudi Arabia

Sihatech jumps on the Saudi Arabia health tech opportunity

Saudi Arabia has a shortage of healthcare startups, throwing the sector wide open for companies like online medical platform...

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