Saudi Arabia Wa’ed Ventures earmarks $100 million to invest in Saudi AI sector Aramco’s $500 million VC fund, Wa’ed Ventures, has allocated $100 million for early-stage AI investments to support... News • 28 October, 2024 Wa'ed Ventures Aramco AI
Regional AI redefines MENA corporate travel business An article by Stan Klyuy, a Chief Commercial Officer at Tumodo, an online business travel platform. In 2024, the digital... Thought Leadership • 24 June, 2024 AI Artificial intelligence Travel
U.A.E UAE's CAI Concierge AI raises undisclosed investment round UAE-based AI startup CAI Concierge AI has raised an undisclosed investment, led by Enlightened Minds and VC SILA. Founded in... News • 29 February, 2024 CAI Concierge AI Artificial intelligence
U.A.E UAE’s G42 pledges new investment in newly-born AI startup Analog UAE-based AI and cloud computing giant G42, has allocated an undisclosed investment in the Abu Dhabi-headquartered AI company... News • 18 January, 2024 Analog G42 AI
Regional How to generate value with generative AI Abed Kasaji is the co-founder of US-based Anecdote, an AI-driven customer insights tool. Kasaji was previously the senior product manager... Thought Leadership • 10 April, 2023 Anecdote Artificial intelligence
Regional Does Mena need to pay greater attention to developments in AI? Artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated through almost every industry and sector, changing our daily interactions with technology... Nesma Abdel Azim • 15 September, 2022 Artificial intelligence
Saudi Arabia Saudi AI startup Mozn raises $10 million Series A funding Saudi Arabia-based AI company Mozn has raised $10 million in Series A funding, led by Raed Ventures with participation from Shorooq... News • 04 February, 2022 Mozn Artificial intelligence Raed Ventures
Tunisia Tunisia-born InstaDeep raises $100 million Series B round Tunisia-born InstaDeep has closed its Series B round at $100 million, led by Alpha Intelligence Capital together with CDIB, alongside... News • 26 January, 2022 InstaDeep SAAS Artificial intelligence
Jordan Jordan’s Xina AI raises $ 1 million Seed round Amman-based AI startup Xina AI has raised $1 million in a Seed round, led by Jordanian angel investors. Founded in August... News • 29 September, 2021 Artificial intelligence AI
Regional Should we care about Philosophy of AI in the Mena region? Aliah Yacoub is an AI philosopher and head of techQualia at Egypt-based Synapse Analytics, a data science and AI company The... Thought Leadership • 19 September, 2021 Artificial intelligence AI
U.A.E Can AI work in oil and gas without historical data? In some countries in the Middle East, the oil and gas (O&G) sector contributes as much as 90 per cent to gross domestic product (GDP).... Dunya Hassanein • 05 August, 2021 deeptech Artificial intelligence nybl
U.A.E nybl acquires Mexico-based machine learning startup Nubila UAE-based nybl, an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning startup has acquired Nubil, a Mexico-based visual data mining and... News • 09 May, 2021 nybl Artificial intelligence machine learning
U.A.E Derq raises $500,000 from Wadi Makkah Ventures Derq has raised $500,000 from Wadi Makkah Ventures as part of its pre-Series A round, which included other global investors. The... News • 09 May, 2021 Artificial intelligence Analytics
Saudi Arabia $20 billion investment target set for Saudi national AI strategy Source: Carrington Malin The Saudi national AI strategy was announced at the virtual Global AI Summit by Saudi Data and Artificial... News • 25 October, 2020 Artificial intelligence Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) National Strategy for Data & AI (NSDAI)
Global Abu Dhabi's Alpha Wave invests in Entropik Tech Source: Live Mint Entropik Tech, an artificial intelligence-powered emotional intelligence platform, has raised $8 million (about Rs58.4... News • 02 September, 2020 Artificial intelligence
Global Sanabil Investments invests in US-based Atomwise Source: Venture Beat Atomwise, a startup using AI to accelerate drug discovery, today secured $123 million in funding. A... News • 12 August, 2020 Sanabil Investments Atomwise Artificial intelligence
Regional How AI can help governments in a post Covid-19 world Jad Hajj, partner, and Wissam Abdel Samad, principal, Christian Stechel, senior manager, Gustave Cordahi, senior associate, with... Thought Leadership • 17 May, 2020 Artificial intelligence
Saudi Arabia Quant secures pre-series A investment Saudi Arabia-based Quant, a startup specialised in data science and artificial intelligence (AI), has secured $1.2 million in a pre-series... News • 17 March, 2020 Data Analytics Artificial intelligence
Regional How do we create AI in Arabic? For millions of people across the Middle East and North Africa, interacting with a digital voice assistant like Apple’s Siri or... Wamda • 27 January, 2020 Mawdoo3 Artificial intelligence Siri
Jordan arabot raises $1 million seed funding Jordan-based artificial intelligence (AI) company arabot has raised a $1 million seed round led by Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF), with... Triska Hamid • 02 October, 2019 chatbot Artificial intelligence
Global Can artificial intelligence eradicate death? Ben Goertzel is one of the most prominent artificial intelligence (AI) architects in the world. He is the founder of SingularityNET and the... Triska Hamid • 08 September, 2019 Artificial intelligence AI robot
U.A.E In conversation with Sahiqa Bennett of Searchie Searchie uses artificial intelligence (AI) to determine a candidate’s suitability for a job. The technology monitors 361,000 factors... Triska Hamid • 09 July, 2019 recruitment Artificial intelligence
Egypt WideBot closes pre-Series A round Source: Menabytes Cairo-based Arabic chatbot building platform WideBot has raised six-figure (USD) Pre-Series A investment, the startups... News • 30 June, 2019 widebot Artificial intelligence chatbot
Global Artificial Intelligence: a blessing or a curse waiting to unfold? The notion that computers could one day “think” or supersede human intelligence is not a new one. It was Ada Lovelace, an... Triska Hamid • 02 May, 2019 Artificial intelligence AI machine learning
