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Seez is an app that helps you search, shortlist, and negotiate deals on a car of your choice- but it isn't just another cars marketplace.

Online travel marketplace Wego has entered into a strategic partnership with Middle East media conglomerate MBC Group, with the latter making a "significant amount" of investment in the online travel marketplace.

Narrativa's Artificial Intelligence (AI) product known as GabrieleAI translates data into narrative/descriptive content- a feature, which, for instance, simplifies the creation of mass content like financial reports and e-commerce product descriptions among others.

MENA-based payment processing startup PayTabs has raised a US$20 million in funds in a Series A round from undisclosed private investors.

This is the first funding round for the startup, which was one of the 10 graduating startups in the Sheraa accelerator program's inaugural batch.

STARZ PLAY Arabia, a subscription video on-demand service catered toward the Middle East, announced in July that it had raised a third round of funding, which now brings the total amount of investment in the 2015-founded enterprise to US$125 million.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Fund (MBRF) has established a post-funding monitoring services for its portfolio companies.

Dubai-based Shedul's software for the beauty industry has been adopted by over 40,000 merchants in more than 120 countries in a span of just two years.

Currently seeking legal approval from the Dubai government, Space Autonomous Drones estimates the launch date for the service to be "between 2018 and 2019."

Early-stage startups in Egypt, the time is ripe to get your pitch decks ready, and present your venture to Flat6Labs Cairo.

MAGNiTT MENA's H1 2017 (first half) funding report card for the MENA startup world is out, and it would be safe to say that the ecosystem has come through with flying colors.

Imagine having an à la carte sort of fitness model that helps you indulge in any preferred fitness activity in your city without having to commit long-term.

"The job mismatch problem is a universal one, and what we try to do at Bloovo.com is to find the means to solve such a problem through the use of data science and advanced algorithms to make job matching a reality."

Bayzat aims to offer a fairly simple and more efficient alternate to streamline processes such as leave management, payroll, employee record maintenance etc.

blueground uses technology to connect executives, expats, and other travelers with fully furnished apartments for mid- to long-term stays.

Binky app incorporates everything that a social network has today- and yet does nothing.

With a series of startup exits dotting the MENA business ecosystem, MAGNiTT has released today the results of its analysis on technology startup exits in the region, over the last five years (2012-2017).

The startup's technology generates heat maps that help track customer movements and trace their paths, and enables FOV (Field-of-View) tracking for best product placement decisions, besides providing in-store analytics.

While the finer details of the investment remain undisclosed, a spokesperson of MEVP that we reached out to notes that it's "not a majority transaction."

Besides SoftBank Group and Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund (PIF), UAE's Mubadala Investment Company, Apple Inc., Foxconn, Qualcomm, and Sharp Corporation are the other high-profile backers

As momentum picks up in the UAE's hospitality sector, Interact Group plans to utilize the finances in consolidating its Dubai business, and expanding its services to other regions.

While fintech businesses have dominated investor and funding action for a while now, one can't exactly say the same for innovations happening in the insurance space.

The region's startup ecosystem has seen a "moderate and steady" start to the year 2017 with US$36 million raised in the first quarter comprising of 35 deals.

With a proprietary technology, the startup "crawls" websites and marketplaces to collect e-commerce data on a global scale, and analyzes and interprets results in real-time to aid decision-making.

In a large used car market such as that of the UAE, Scout My Car wants to be a service provider that helps buyers differentiate between a reliable used car, and well, a dodgy one before purchase.

Lebanon-based Myki is one such startup that is keen to further simplify the identity management process, condensing access into just a smartphone device.

In January 2017, Enerwhere raised a corporate loan of AED1 million from regional peer-to-peer lending platform Beehive.

CarSwitch.com plans to utilize the funding to develop its technology and take steps to "keep up with surging demand" it has seen for its product.

After unveiling a series of reports shedding light on the key features of the MENA startup ecosystem, and exploring the state of funding for the region's upstarts, UAE-based startup community platform MAGNiTT is back with its third study on MENA entrepreneurship.

With eight companies currently under its umbrella, Plan b is using its in-house expertise to stand out in a competitive market.