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The report showed that SVC’s strategy contributed to the Kingdom’s maintaining its first rank in the MENA region for the third straight year in VC funding in 2025, reaching a historic total of US$1.7 billion.

At SuperReturn Saudi, Katja Rieger of Women for Boards GCC explains why the real barrier to women joining boards isn’t talent—it’s trusted access to decision makers, and how the region is accelerating change.

This article forms part of The 100 NRIs, a special edition by Entrepreneur Middle East spotlighting the most influential non-resident Indians shaping business, innovation, and investment across the region. Manish Malhotra is a designer, yes, but he is also a mood the industry keeps circling back to: Indian glamour refined into a kind of quiet […]

This article forms part of The 100 NRIs, a special edition by Entrepreneur Middle East spotlighting the most influential non-resident Indians shaping business, innovation, and investment across the region. Ajay Bhatia is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SOL Properties, a Dubai-based real estate development company renowned for luxury residential, mixed-use, and lifestyle projects […]

Fractionalized tech leaders and engineers provided by MISSION+ can provide AI use-case workshops and empower teams to deliver vision-to-prototype in eight weeks.

Real estate markets in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE expected to maintain upward momentum through the second half of 2025.

Kuwait and Abu Dhabi have also taken the lead in the sovereign wealth fund space.

Business travel seeing significant boost.

The 2025 edition will be held under the theme "From Bold Visions to Concrete Impact: A New Era of Cooperation."

To take advantage, and contribute to the region's growing and diversifying economy, all types of investors need an investment strategy that fits their ambitions and capabilities.

More than 1,200 people came together for Vision Golfe 2024 which was designed to facilitate the creation of new businesses and foster the signing of more contracts.

The MoU records the intention of both parties to pursue areas of mutual collaboration, keeping in mind QFC's target sectors, which include digital, technology, financial services, and professional business services.

The industry enablers that can successfully fundraise and commercialize their technology today will become the Teslas and SpaceXs of the agtech world tomorrow.

Catalyzed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, something more radical than even the unprecedented consumer uptake of financial technologies is taking place in the GCC fintech space.

Webster started her career in the marketing field, which is what got her convinced in the power of relationships. In the midst of Webster talking about her love of building things in new domains, I notice that this part of her story carries a lesson for how to go about making decisions in difficult situations- so, dear reader, pay attention!

Ghaseel, Kuwait's biggest on-demand car wash app, allows its users to get their car washed and have detailing services done anytime and anywhere.

To survive and thrive, consumer-facing businesses in the UAE and KSA will need to be managed much more professionally and tightly than they were in the past.

Amal Dokhan, Director, Babson Global Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (BGCEL) in Saudi Arabia, on the Kingdom's reception to (and aptitude for) change.

What does it take to be a part of the GCC's art gallery scene? Anna Szonyi of AR Gallery + Studio shares her insights.

While the GCC is a small economy, some players in its leading sectors of healthcare, retail, transport and logistics, energy and power and real estate stand proudly on the global scene.

By drawing on lessons learned from other "clusters of innovation" such as those in smaller European countries or Singapore, we found that Kuwait has an opportunity to be strategically focused on areas of local strength.