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FundingEnergy🇳🇬Oct 28, 2026 Three Nigerian startups each land $50K in MARL's 14th global cohort

FundingFintech🇦🇪Oct 28, 2026 Cross-chain platform Cancore raises $7.2M seed at $60M token valuation

Investors 🇦🇪Oct 28, 2026 Mubadala's head of ventures exits to launch Noha, seeded by his former employer

M&A 🇺🇸Oct 28, 2026 Upwind raises $400M at $3.8B valuation, rejecting Datadog's buyout bid

Energy🇹🇷Oct 28, 2026 Turkey's Polinas buys control of İmaj Ambalaj for €4.02M

FundingSemiconductors🇺🇸Oct 28, 2026 Quantum Elements, Qarakal land $2.4M BIRD grant for catalyst-discovery quantum platform

🇶🇦Oct 28, 2026 Qatar's Startup Qatar wins 2026 UN award after helping establish 850+ startups

Health🇦🇪Oct 28, 2026 Mediclinic joins Abu Dhabi's Hub71+ Life Sciences to validate healthtech startups

🇦🇪Oct 28, 2026 Dubai AI Campus doubles 2030 goal to 1,000 firms after passing $270M early

Fintech🇹🇷Oct 28, 2026 Proparco lends €75M to Garanti BBVA Leasing for Türkiye's green transition

Products 🇬🇧Oct 28, 2026 Amanat's UK subsidiary buys complex-care firm Cornerstone for £76M

FundingEnergy🇪🇬Oct 28, 2026 NoorNation closes $1.05M seed as top client Linah Farms becomes investor

M&A 🇺🇸Oct 27, 2026 Intel’s Classiq deal (~$2.3B) is the 5th-largest Talpiot exit, Cole Rotman says

IPOs 🇦🇪Oct 27, 2026 Dubai's DIP Holding books $543M IPO within minutes despite Iran war slowdown

InvestorsFintech🇿🇦Oct 27, 2026 Circle Ventures backs South Africa's CrissCross in stablecoin payments push

Funding 🇰🇪Oct 27, 2026 Madica lands $6M to extend African pre-seed pilot to 30 more startups

FundingRobotics🇦🇪Oct 27, 2026 EchoTwin raises $5M seed to turn city vehicles into AI inspectors

Big tech 🇶🇦Oct 27, 2026 QSTP taps Microsoft to give Qatar startups up to $9.4M in cloud credits

Semiconductors🇮🇱Oct 27, 2026 Gix-backed Quantum X Labs starts hardware error-correction tests in Israel

Products 🇪🇬Oct 27, 2026 Egypt's Raya Holding launches venture arm, backs UK AI startup Pidima

InvestorsReal Estate🇦🇪Oct 26, 2026 Abu Dhabi family office targets $1.2B initial close for new LNG fund

M&A 🇮🇱Oct 26, 2026 Intel to acquire Israeli quantum software startup Classiq, reportedly for about $2.3B

M&A 🇦🇪Oct 26, 2026 UAE's EDGE buys controlling stake in Italian engine maker CMD

FundingFood🇳🇱Oct 26, 2026 Ghana's Vitara raises €1.8M to digitise shea supply chain for women farmers

M&ATelecom🇪🇬Oct 26, 2026 Egypt's Xceed buys Indian outsourcer, scales to 500+ staff in Hyderabad

M&A 🇮🇱Oct 26, 2026 Naveen Rao's Unconventional AI buys Israeli chipmaker NeuReality for a reported $150-200M

Investors 🇺🇸Oct 26, 2026 Apollo takes minority stake in Mubadala Capital with $5B in commitments

Investors 🇪🇬Oct 26, 2026 Egypt's Tanmiya closes $130M growth fund, beating its target

Investors 🇿🇦Oct 26, 2026 Absa opens $723,000 grant fund for young Black-owned South African businesses

Security🇮🇱Oct 26, 2026 Pegasus founder Shalev Hulio urges governments to trust him with sovereign AI, ditch US providers

🇮🇱Oct 26, 2026 Israel votes in what observers call the world's first 'AI election'

InvestorsFoodRwandaOct 25, 2026 Luxembourg fund backs four Rwandan agri-food firms with up to €350K each

Enterprise Software🇪🇬Oct 25, 2026 Egypt's Turuq lands Den VC seed after year-long InvestIT pipeline

M&A 🇸🇦Oct 24, 2026 PIF buys into Skyborn, marking its first move into global offshore wind

Funding 🇹🇷Oct 24, 2026 Hayat Kimya secures €40M debt financing from Egypt's CIB

Transportation🇮🇱Oct 23, 2026 REE Automotive lands $4M lifeline as it moves to cancel all shares

Investors 🇸🇦Oct 23, 2026 Capital Partners launches $267M fund for Saudi workforce housing

Health🇪🇬Oct 23, 2026 RMBV takes 50% of Egypt's ATCO Pharma in $50M deal

M&AFintech🇦🇪Oct 23, 2026 House of Doge merges product arm into new Dogecoin Labs for an equity stake

FundingFintech🇦🇪Oct 23, 2026 FAB raises $272M in MENA's first digital green bond

Funding 🇦🇪Oct 23, 2026 Alcazar lands €390 million in debt for 500 MW of Egyptian wind

Marketing🇦🇪Oct 22, 2026 Cervinvest takes minority stake in luxury data firm CXG

Funding 🇸🇦Oct 22, 2026 Saudi event-tech startup INVE raises $300K to expand beyond weddings

Security🇮🇱Oct 22, 2026 Ackman and Schmidt back secretive Israeli AI startup Two Delta in seed round

M&AEnergy🇹🇷Oct 22, 2026 Turkey's Desi Kimya buys UK corrosion-packaging specialist Technology Packaging

M&A 🇺🇸Oct 22, 2026 Datadog reportedly offered nearly $4B for Israel's Upwind, which is raising at $3.8B instead

Energy🇦🇪Oct 22, 2026 KOTUG buys majority of Dubai's Vortex Offshore in Middle East push

FundingSecurity🇮🇱Oct 22, 2026 Mave raises $28M Series A to put AI agents into security operations

M&AHealth🇺🇸Oct 22, 2026 Redesign Health merges with Sheba's ARC Global in tens-of-millions deal

FundingTelecom🇹🇷Oct 22, 2026 Turkey's Arke Telekom raises €1 million for jam-proof drone comms