Funding

Bookr, SaaS-enabled personal care marketplace raises bridge round from Plus VC

Bookr, MENA's leading cloud-based SaaS-enabled personal care marketplace has recently raised an undisclosed bridge round from Plus VC.

Bollywood star Ranveer Singh reportedly invested an undisclosed sum in boAt, one of India's leading audio wearable brands.

Spare, a Bahrain-based pioneering open banking services provider, recently announced the close of a $3 million funding round led by Vision Ventures

Mumbai-based ed-tech platform, Offee has secured funding of INR 5.25 crore from a group of investors.

Elon Musk has donated $10 million to a fertility and population research project called Population Wellbeing Initiative (PWI).

Kanishka explains that 50% of investors surveyed by Redseer in June are positive the funding spring would return in the next 6-12 months.

UDENZ, an innovative digital dental health platform based in Dubai, has successfully completed a $5 million Series A funding round.

Mohit Rana, Partner at Redseer, speaking at Ground Zero 8.0, offers an insightful perspective on Indian startups as they go through a funding winter.

Newly launched GenZ-focused social media platform Slick last week raised $1.6 million in a funding round led by WEH ventures.

Sergey Tokarev, who heads the Roosh company explained what Ukrainian Tech Circle is and how Ukrainian startups and projects can get support.

The news of Microsoft's investment in OpenAI started circulating after the company made the announcement on its own blog.

Hope Ventures, and producers of the Beban TV show co-invest $160k in 2 local businesses: Steel Masters, and Frozen Nutrition.