Saudi Arabia Barakah raises $300,000 pre-Seed round Saudi Arabia-based food delivery startup Barakah has secured $300,000 in a pre-Seed round from Alriyadah Investments. Founded in 2021... News • 03 August, 2022 Barakah Alriyadah Investments Food & Beverage
Regional Kitch launches in Saudi Arabia and the UAE Cloud kitchen and store-front operator, Kitch, has officially launched in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, after privately raising $15... News • 01 February, 2021 Cloud kitchens Food & Beverage Investment
Egypt FOODICS raises $20 million in Series B Saudi Arabia-based food and beverage (F&B) retail and restaurant management platform FOODICS, has raised $20 million in a Series B... Dunya Hassanein • 01 February, 2021 Foodics Sanabil Investments STV
Egypt Zeew raises six-figure seed round Egypt-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup Zeew, has raised a six-figure investment seed round from Estonia-based angel... Dunya Hassanein • 26 January, 2021 Zeew Food & Beverage food ordering
Bahrain Eat raises $5 million in Series B funding Bahrain-based restaurant booking application Eat has raised $5 million in Series B funding, led by 500... Dunya Hassanein • 12 February, 2020 Eat App Food & Beverage foodtech
U.A.E The bakery that finds clients on Instagram The food and beverage sector is incredibly competitive in the Middle East, something that Rami Badawi and Amber Haque know only too well.... Triska Hamid • 18 August, 2019 Food & Beverage foodtech Social Media
Regional Digital Dining: How food delivery is forcing restaurants to change Food delivery apps have been a catalyst for change throughout the restaurant industry. What started as a response to the... Annie Bricker • 28 January, 2019 Food & Beverage Food delivery ride hailing
Egypt Ramadan a flash point for Egypt food startups Egyptians’ food spending over Ramadan hit an average of 35 billion Egyptian pounds (US$3.5 billion), or about 15 percent of their... Eman Mostafa • 03 July, 2016 Agrimatic Akla Baity Yumamia
Maghreb Yuzu helps Moroccans cook and eat better with less effort Dinner is ready! (Images via Yuzu) Everybody agrees: cooking at home is the easiest way to eat healthy and cheaply. But how many of us... Aline Mayard • 09 November, 2015 Yuzu morocco Food delivery
Lebanon How Lebanon’s food scandal spurred startup solutions The Lebanese are all over the world, and more often than not their cuisine acts as the ultimate ambassador for the tiny Middle Eastern... Reine Farhat • 10 August, 2015 Beirutista ChefXchange Bibayti
4 tips for cracking the F&B market The Arab region is teeming with local and international restaurants offering various types of cuisine to match the increasingly demanding... Pamela Kesrouani • 17 July, 2014 franchise list Food & Beverage
How Elmenus is leveraging the trend of Egyptian food going digital Egyptians are increasingly combining their love of food – the product on which they the majority of their yearly incomes – with the sur... Eman Mostafa • 23 June, 2014 ElMenus Food delivery Delivery
3 lessons in startup culture from Beirut's sudden success, Jai Kitchen This is the first in a series on the business of starting a food & beverage company in the Middle East. Check back periodically for... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 09 February, 2014 jai kitchen f&b beirut
Looly's crowdfunds to bring its ethically made Moroccan couscous to the global market In Morocco, there’s no need to introduce couscous. But it’s a different story in the US and UK. Lamiaa Bounahmidi wants to change that, mak... Chadi Nanaa • 16 December, 2013 couscous looly's Crowdfunding
Women's portal HawaaWorld spins out new iPad recipe magazine HawaaWorld is one of the oldest and most popular user-generated content portals targeting women in the Arab region. The platform,... Maya Rahal • 31 October, 2013 Food & Beverage
What are Saudi consumers hungry for? A look at search trends in the Kingdom [Infographic] The online ordering sector is heating up this year with Foodonclick, the Arab arm of Turkish online delivery giant Yemeksepeti, announcing e... Maya Rahal • 30 October, 2013 Food & Beverage
Foodonclick enters Saudi and Lebanon. Can they replicate their success in Turkey and UAE? Who will own online food delivery in Saudi Arabia? With Foodonclick, the Arab arm of Turkish giant Yemeksepeti, announcing expansion into... Aline Mayard • 22 October, 2013 Food delivery Food & Beverage
A look at Just Falafel's recipe as it (potentially) readies for an IPO Fadi Malas of Just Falafel is working overtime lately. “We’re finishing work these days quite late, I think around midnight,” he expla... Nina Curley • 02 October, 2013 IPOs Franchising Scaling
The challenges of bootstrapping a mobile app as a single female founder in Lebanon This piece is part of a new series on the challenges of young entrepreneurs who are bootstrapping their startups. If you know someone who's... Glen Dalakian II • 09 September, 2013 Incubator Competitions Mobile
Will the new MAKE Business Hub kill business by charging for WiFi? After founder Leith Matthews left MAKE Business earlier this year, (under what many say were difficult circumstances), the... Nina Curley • 04 September, 2013 Cafe Coworking Coworking Spaces
3 startups tackling grocery e-commerce in Egypt Over the past decade, online grocery stores have been popping up in the U.S. and around the world with relative success. Even Amazon.com... Hanan Solayman • 07 August, 2013 Food & Beverage E-commerce
Meet the family business supporting food & beverage startups in Egypt [Wamda TV] While it's easy to think 'tech' when you think about startup incubation, supporting non-tech startups is also critical for making an... Nina Curley • 21 July, 2013 Incubator Accelerators Food & Beverage
Challenges to scaling in Dubai: A look at Wild Peeta [case study] This is the third post in our new case study series, in partnership with the El Khazindar Business Research and Case Center (KCC) at the A... Wamda • 07 July, 2013 Scaling Food & Beverage
Lebanon Organic juice startup targets Beirut's high society Swaying palm trees, sun-dappled sidewalks, image-conscious ladies who lunch; sometimes, at certain angles, especially during traffic jams,... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 27 June, 2013 Food & Beverage
![What are Saudi consumers hungry for? A look at search trends in the Kingdom [Infographic]](https://cdn.wamda.com/thumbnails/b185effaf2c3816.jpg)
![Meet the family business supporting food & beverage startups in Egypt [Wamda TV]](https://cdn.wamda.com/thumbnails/9ef9bc8fa4d7fcf.png)
![Challenges to scaling in Dubai: A look at Wild Peeta [case study]](https://cdn.wamda.com/thumbnails/83adafa16cbe34d.png)
