Tag: Leadership

Wamda

Basata Holding to deploy $7 million investments in Egypt

Press release: Basata Holding for Financial Payments S.A.E., the leading e-payment services company in Egypt, announced plans to invest approximately USD 7 million in 2026 as […]
September 3rd, 2025
TechCabal

OurPass’s pivots, frozen deposits, and bid for a second act

OurPass once promised to be a game-changer—a one-click checkout platform that would smooth the path for online commerce. But in three years, after three pivots, the […]
September 3rd, 2025
Wamda

Justyol raises $1 million funding to drive regional growth

Press release: Justyol, the pioneering cross-border e-commerce platform transforming digital commerce across North Africa, today announced the successful completion of a $1 million strategic funding and […]
September 2nd, 2025
Wamda

Intella bags $12.5 million in oversubscribed Series A

Press release: Intella, the market leader in dialectal Arabic speech intelligence, today announced it has closed $12.5 million in an oversubscribed Series A round led by […]
September 2nd, 2025
Wamda

The balancing act of innovation and growth for scale-ups

An article by Daniel Bryant, CTO of iyris. In the GCC, scale-ups — SMEs that have proven their business models and are targeting rapid growth — […]
September 1st, 2025
Rest of World

Why China has a tech manufacturing advantage over the U.S.

China is good at making things and is getting better. Since launching economic reforms in the early 1980s, it has become the world’s hub for producing […]
August 29th, 2025
Techpoint Africa

Delayed launch casts doubt on Nigeria’s open banking rollout

Nearly a month after Nigeria’s open banking framework was expected to go live, silence hangs over the rollout. Despite earlier reports pointing to August 1 as […]
August 27th, 2025
EU-Startups

Irish MedTech startup ProVerum raises €68.6 million to advance new treatment for urological conditions

ProVerum, a MedTech startup based in Dublin, has secured €68.6 million in Series B equity financing to advance the commercialisation of its minimally invasive solution for […]
August 26th, 2025
TechCabal

Karl Toriola takes on additional role as Francophone VP in MTN Group leadership reshuffle

MTN Group has appointed Karl Toriola, CEO of MTN Nigeria, as Vice President (VP) of Francophone Africa, effective November 1, 2025, amid a broader restructuring to […]
August 18th, 2025
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