Archive for the ‘Enterprise’ Category


Screenshot Around 10 days ago ArabCrunch  had a meeting with Barig Seraj the CEO of ICT Ventures a Saudi based Venture capital firm. Barig Seraj informed us about his company and his recent investments, ICT Ventures is a growth based VC that focus in the IT sector. The VC firm made 3 investments so far. First in Mobidiv an Egyptian mobile app develope...
Screenshot I am happy to have Spirula Systems as our servers admin partner, I recommend them to anyone, here is the press release for immediate publishing: Amman, Jordan - Alexandria, Egypt. ArabCrunch - the number one tech, startup social media and mobile a English & Arabic blog, social network, and events in the Arab world - announces today formi...
Screenshot After Yahoo acquired  Maktoob last year, many of Maktoob group companies were merged under one independent brand called Jabbar. Somehow similar precedence happened with Orascom Telecom's LinkDotNet 150 million USD buyout to Mobinil, but at a larger scale. Orascom Telecom which is one of the largest tech and telecom groups in the Arab world, ha...
Screenshot Capinnova Investment Bank, the Shari’a compliant investment banking arm of BBK (Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait), announced 2 days ago a minority investment of $20 million in EBLA Computer Consultancy. EBLA was established in Kuwait in 1993, and currently has subsidiaries in Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt and branch offices in Syria, Jorda...
Screenshot Another Investemnt round made recently in the tech sector in Arabia as Intel Capital, Intel Corporation's global investment subsidiary, announced yesterday an investment in NeuString, a UAE-based telecommunications analyst software company. With this investment Intel Capital total investment in Arab based companies this year, totals to six, fro...
Screenshot Sakhr one of the oldest Arabic software companies, founded in 1982 has acquired Silicon Valley based startup, Dial Directions , a voice-activated phone service for driving directions. I remember the first PC I used in my life was from Sakhr back in the late 80s, running its own property Arabic Operating system, where I used to play games. But du...
Screenshot Post updated. I am sorry for not posting much on AC during the last week because I was -and still- busy with multiple projects, however today’s post is about my recent interview with an interesting and successful Arab serial entrepreneur, Kamal Nasser, CEO of Dubai, UAE, based, Conservus International winner of the Red Herring 100 Europe in ...
Screenshot Last March we reported that CIApple, the startup that works in the field of computational intelligence, won the first place in ASTF ‘s technology business plan competition -seed category-, yesterday I recorded a video interview using my mobile with its founder and general manager, Hussein Al-Natsheh to track the startup progress since then. In...
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