U.A.E KBW Ventures invests in US-based Memphis Meats UAE-based KBW Ventures, the venture capital (VC) firm founded by Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed, son of Saudi Arabia billionaire Prince... Yasmeen Nabil • 23 January, 2020 Meat food series B
Egypt Elmenus secures investment from Foodora’s co-founder Egypt-based food discovery and ordering platform Elmenus announced that it has secured investment from Julian Dames, co-founder of Foo... Yasmeen Nabil • 26 June, 2019 food Discovery menu
U.A.E CE-Ventures Leads $11 Million Series A Round in India's FreshToHome CE-Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of UAE-based diversified global business, Crescent Enterprises, announced that it has... Yasmeen Nabil • 11 June, 2019 Fresh food ecommerce
Saudi Arabia KAUST’s Red Sea Farms closes $1.9m investment Source: Arab Net Red Sea Farms, an agriculture technology spinout company from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology... News • 16 May, 2019 WATER irrigation food
Egypt Kuwait’s Carriage expands to Egypt, launches in Cairo after onboarding 600 restaurants Source: Menabytes Kuwait-based food delivery startup Carriage has expanded to Egypt, the startup told MENAbytes today, adding... News • 18 March, 2019 food Delivery Expansion
Kuwait Deliveroo launches in Kuwait with 900 restaurants Source: Arabian Business Deliveroo, the delivery service founded in 2013 by William Shu and Greg Orlowski, has announced its launch in... News • 20 February, 2019 food Delivery Expansion
Regional The Middle East’s technological forte is in the food sector [Opinion] As Gulfood draws to a close in Dubai this week, one of the biggest exhibitions in the region, the appetite for food is palatable [all puns... Triska Hamid • 21 February, 2019 food Food accelerator Innovation
U.A.E Yawmi closes seed round Dubai-based food and beverage (F&B) e-commerce startup Yawmi, has closed a seed round from Shorooq Investments. The amount of... Wamda • 17 January, 2019 Delivery uae food
Global Startup Watch: Game of Thrones’ princess-preneur, food on Mars, and hotel-tech 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... Rana Freifer • 20 July, 2017 Startup Watch Emoji Game of Thrones
Global Startup Watch: How to save your job from a robot, bringing back the cubicle, and meatless shawarma 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... Dana Ballout • 01 December, 2016 Startup Watch Supercomputers Artificial intelligence
Regional Impressions from #MLAbuDhabi: urban food systems track team chat about their solution The MIT Media Lab Abu Dhabi innovation workshop brought together design innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, makers, thinkers, and... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 MIT Innovation urban
Regional From Beirut to the Gulf, Armenian cuisine expands its reach It is no longer a surprise to see successful female entrepreneurs. However, when one comes across them in the food and beverage sector... Abdulghani Kataya • 14 April, 2015 Mayrig food beirut
Saudi Arabia How one tweet inspired one man's mango selling website This article was posted originally on Firnas.org. On April 27th 2012 Abdul Rahman Sahili read a tweet from a man in the coastal... Reine Farhat • 15 December, 2014 food Mango Jazaan ksa