E-commerce in the region is reaching the tipping point, as the market seems more mature to deal with this type of commerce, yesterday LivingSocial one of the leading group buying sites in the world acquired GoNabit.
Earlier this month, Ideavelopers closed a deal with Sherif Nassar, Founder and CEO of nefsak.com, where Ideavelopers will invest 1...


National Net Ventures (N2V), the Internet Holding company, unveiled a new investment in Qaym.com, the Arab portal specialized in rating restaurants.
Investing in qaym.com is the third investment N2V announces during this month, and it aims at diversifying the company’s investments in the Arab website, especially ones that offer new, add-value ...
National Net Ventures (N2V) announced today a joint investment with several Arab executives in AqarMap.com, a real estate portal that is based on interactive Satellite Maps. N2V’s investment in AqarMap.com coincided with the investment of Jamal Al-muttareb, CEO of almuttareb group and Fadi Ghandour, MENA Venture Investments CEO.
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Sawari Ventures a venture capital (VC) firm founded by its chairman Ahmed El Alfi used to be based in LA, CA, USA has moved recently to Egypt in order to invest in Arab tech companies and startups.
Today in a press release Arab Finance got hold of Sawari Ventures has announced that it invested in Vimov Alexandria, Egypt based iPhone and iPad de...
Venture Capital firm Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), has announced three new investments in Lebanese-based companies: Pin-Pay SAL, iLevel SAL, and Multilane SAL. MEVP says the The funding will assist the companies in pursuing regional growth and extending their product offerings. The companies MEVP’s investmented are as follows:
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10 angel investors have attended the pitching presentations of preselected startups last week as part of the first match-making event for the newly launched investors’ network in Jordan “Bedaya”.
The entrepreneurs were given 20 minutes to present their project and explain why they were willing to welcome external investors in their company...
Interactive Ventures Holding Company (“IV Holdings”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelerator Technology Holdings (“ATH”), that invests in Internet and Interactive companies serving the global Arab audience, has become a strategic financial investor in MediaScope Ltd, a pioneering digital marketing and publishing company based in ...
Joining forces with Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) , Intel announced its investment in Dubai-based Sphere Networks, an emerging Arab based software development firm specialized in enterprise management.
Intel Capital did its first investment in the region in 2000, when it poured an undisclosed amount of money into a portal company, Arabia Online, ... 


