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Saudi startups reach final of London Business School competition

DUBAI: Two Saudi startups are among 10 finalists competing at the London Business School MENA Startup Competition, highlighting the range of solutions emerging from the Kingdom. Health tech company SDM and fintech startup NSBH are competing for a share of $45,000 in funding, with the contest's final being held on Oct. 14 in Dubai.

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Startup Wrap: MENA funding hits $1.1bn as Saudi deals drive September rebound

RIYADH: Startups across the Middle East and North Africa raised $1.1 billion through 73 deals in September, marking a 193 percent increase from August, according to Wamda and Digital Digest’s monthly funding report. Despite the monthly recovery, the total remained 68 percent below September 2025. The rebound was heavily concentrated in several large transactions rather than spread evenly across countries, sectors and funding stages.

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How Moove raised over $710 million before exiting Nigeria

Moove, the Nigerian-founded mobility financing company, had raised more than $710 million in global funding before announcing its exit from Nigeria this month, six years after launching operations in the country. The post How Moove raised over $710 million before exiting Nigeria appeared first on Nairametrics.

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These S’poreans built a vending machine that makes cafe-style coffee-& it’s selling 2...

They thought vending machine coffee was terrible, so they built one themselves Vending machine coffee often has a reputation for being watery and bitter-it’s the kind of drink you settle for just because it’s convenient. But Flow Coffee is trying to change that assumption. Over the past year, its vending machines have used real Meiji

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MNT-Halan plans Egypt’s biggest IPO since 2021 at $149m

RIYADH: Egyptian fintech unicorn MNT-Halan is planning a 7.84 billion Egyptian pound ($149 million) initial public offering, making it the country’s largest IPO since 2021. MNT Tech Holding, the Egyptian business of MNT-Halan, has set its IPO price at 24.50 Egyptian pounds per share, with 320 million shares, or about 20 percent of its issued share capital, being offered.

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Sidec’s flagship AI & semicon summit just got a rebrand, and you’re invited this Oct...

[This is a sponsored article written in collaboration with Selangor Information Technology & Digital Economy Corporation (Sidec).] The world is getting hungrier for more chips, and no, not the crispy kind you get at the supermarket. With AI fueling the chip demand, Deloitte projects the global chip marketing will hit US$975 billion in annual sales

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