Dubai Startup Funding News & Ecosystem Intelligence

BREAKING·a month ago

Stitch Raises $25M Series A, Andreessen Horowitz Enters GCC Market

Stitch, an operating system for financial institutions, secured $25 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. This investment marks a16z's first venture into the GCC region.

By DXB Start

SPOTLIGHT

The UAE Bought an AI Future. Now It Needs Builders.

The country secured the compute, the capital and the chips before it had the builders to use them. That looks like a contradiction. It is really a sequence, and it is finally starting to close.

By DXB Spotlight

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Funding News10 hours ago

Kitopi Raises $50M Growth Round Led by EvolutionX to Scale Food Brands Globally

Funding News10 hours ago

Omnispay Raises $2M Pre-Series A to Build an All-in-One SME Finance Platform

Funding News10 hours ago

RemotePass Raises $17.4M Series B to Scale Global Payroll Across Europe and the US

Funding Newsa day ago

Lyrie.ai Exits Stealth With $2M to Secure the Agentic AI Economy

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LONG READS

GUIDE

How has the UAE's startup ecosystem evolved over the past decade

From the Souq.com era to a $7.5 billion annual VC market, the UAE startup ecosystem has undergone a decade of extraordinary transformation. Key milestones include the $3.1 billion Careem acquisition, COP28, the post-pandemic digital acceleration, and the arrival of institutional global investors who now treat the region as a core allocation rather than an emerging market experiment.

ECOSYSTEM

Ecosystem2 days ago

Hub71 Ecosystem Surpasses 390 Companies, Startups Secure $2.7BN in Funding

Hub71, Abu Dhabi's global tech ecosystem, has expanded to 390 companies, with its startups collectively raising over AED9.9 billion ($2.7 billion) in funding. This growth underscores Abu Dhabi's emergence as a significant technology hub in the region.