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

LATEST

Funding News2 hours ago

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

Funding News2 hours ago

eVoost AI Raises $2.2M Series A to Scale AI Property-Sales Platform

Funding News2 hours ago

Comfi Raises $65M Pre-Series A to Scale SME BNPL Across MENA

Ecosystem14 hours ago

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

FUNDING

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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

Ecosystem4 days ago

Dubai Accelerator Prepares Game Developers for GameExpo Demo Day

The GameForward accelerator program by Dubai SME and Dubai Culture is mentoring Emirati game developers for a Demo Day at GameExpo, aiming to commercialize their game concepts. This initiative supports local talent development and the growth of Dubai's gaming industry.