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Visage's fundraising comes at a time when the startup is set to join the Alchemist Accelerator in San Francisco for a six-month program.

MENA-based ride-hailing app Careem has closed 2016 with a bang, with it becoming the latest unicorn in the Middle East tech ecosystem

The MENA-focused game publisher started operations in China, but has had a homecoming recently to establish a base in Beirut, Lebanon.

More than ever, quality in the service industry is essential, and the UAE-based mrUsta, an online marketplace for consumers to find and book service providers founded in 2013, has strived to accomplish this- and now, investors have taken notice.

The net amount of cash moving in and out of your business is the lifeblood of any startup and must be managed with military precision, particularly in the early stages.

Online luxury retail has been shaping up its own identity, heavily driven by digitally-connected millennials with a penchant for high-end brands, and new technology that enables them to exchange goods in a growing sharing economy.

Founded by Geet Bhalla and Digvijay Pratap in 2014, HolidayME.com is available in both English and Arabic and offers customized travel services and curated itineraries for holidays, hotels, flights and activities, integrated with customer reviews from TripAdvisor.

The investment comes from IFC's $30 million commitment towards the Startup Catalyst initiative that backs funds and accelerators in emerging markets.

As the sole investor participating in this round of funding, Souq takes "a significant minority stake" in InstaShop.

The big question is, when is a good time to sell your stake and raise capital?

While it was aiming to achieve US$1 million new funds, the startup managed to surpass its goal and received $2.4 million in its latest round of bridge funding from an array of investors.

The objective of a search fund is to provide a vehicle for young, aspiring entrepreneurs to search for, acquire, manage, and grow a company.

MoveSouq has closed a US$3 million Series A funding round led by AddVenture, a Russia-based global venture capital firm.

Having started operations in early 2016, just few months into its launch, the logistics marketplace has managed to raise an undisclosed amount of seed funding from the region's e-commerce giant Souq.com.

Launched in 2008, Kharabeesh earned accreditation from YouTube in 2014, becoming MENA region's first YouTube multi-channel network to obtain such a certification.

If you are a seed-stage or early-stage startup seeking initial investment to build your product, then there's a new regional VC fund that you can approach!

With Tibba just successfully completing their Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, the startup's co-founders share their experience on the campaign.

When it comes to the relationship between entrepreneurs and private equity (PE) firms, it is, more often than not, tensed and tangled.

Fundraising is one of the hardest and most time intensive processes an entrepreneur will go through.

Collectionair -a curated platform and marketplace for fine art from emerging markets including the MENA region- has just received funding support from both twofour54 and DASH Ventures.

A look into how InstaShop co-founder and CEO John Tsioris managed to secure funding for his startup, and the factors that he looked for in investors.