Global Online food delivery: The disruption heading to destruction Uber Eats has exited the Middle East, or rather passed the baton onto its wholly-owned regional subsidiary, Careem. The publicly listed... Triska Hamid • 06 May, 2020 Food delivery Deliveroo talabat
Regional E-groceries: The fastest growing e-commerce segment In the $8.3 billion e-commerce sector in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena), it is the grocery segment that has perhaps experienced... Wamda • 24 March, 2019 online grocery e-grocery Food delivery
Kuwait How did Kuwait produce some of the Middle East’s largest exits? Out of all the markets that comprise the GCC, Kuwait rarely attracts the same level of interest or attention as its more dominant... Triska Hamid • 18 February, 2019 talabat Carriage entreprenership
Regional How to build a company that will last forever [Opinion] Scale is important for startups to put them on the radar of strategic acquirers, which are a more likely route to an exit in MENA than... Abdulaziz Al Loughani • 18 January, 2017 talabat strategic acquirer Exit
Kuwait Life after Talabat: Interview with Mohammed Jaffar This article was originally published on Nuwait. The acquisition of Talabat by German internet company Rocket Internet was the... Khalid Al-Shammaa • 07 December, 2016 talabat kuwait
Regional 18 Iftar feasts from your phone Typically during Ramadan there is a spike in the region’s food industry. Early mornings and late nights boost take-away food sales... Maysaa Ajjan • 06 June, 2016 Bilbayt Lebanese Food Kitchen 24h.ae
Kuwait Talabat cofounders acquire Q8flowers.com for $3M Cofounders of Talabat.com has accquired florist delivery site Q8flowers.com for one million Kuwaiti dinar (US$3 million). The deal,... Lucy Knight • 18 March, 2016 Q8flowers talabat acquisition
Regional Is ecommerce MENA's biggest digital market? [Infographic] This is an edited crosspost from LinkedIn. Consumers have become smarter and faster in making buying decisions online,... Maher Dosoqi • 14 February, 2016 payment gateway CashU fin-tech
Kuwait The war story behind Rocket Internet's acquisition of Kuwait's Talabat This piece was originally published on February 15th, 2015 on LinkedIn. When 33-year-old Kuwaiti entrepreneur Abdulaziz Al Loughani first... Nina Curley • 16 February, 2015 abdulaziz alloughani talabat kuwait
Kuwait Rocket Internet acquires Kuwait’s Talabat for $170M, largest MENA tech acquisition since Maktoob Since Yahoo! acquired Maktoob in 2009 for $165 million the region has anticipated the next big exit. Today the German ecommerce... Lucy Knight • 11 February, 2015 talabat Food delivery Rocket Internet
Saudi Arabia Hellofood closes big year in Saudi with Mobily Ventures investment Hellofood’s big year in Saudi Arabia just got its cherry on top: investment from the newly launched Mobily Ventures. After its April 2013 ... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 28 October, 2014 otlob talabat foodonclick