Foodics
Foodics provides a cloud-based restaurant POS and payments platform serving the MENA food and beverage sector, with over $170 million raised to date.
Based in Riyadh, founded 2014
The numbers
$1bnValuation
$198mTotal raised
1,132Headcount
8.9%Headcount growth
2014Founded
Why it’s on the list
Foodics is the MENA restaurant technology leader, with a $170 million Series C and a payments arm expanding regionally.
Funding history
2017Series A$4m
2019Series A$4m
2021Series B$20m
2022Series C$170m
Backed by
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