UAE · Jan to Aug
$1.59bn▲ 55% on last year, 71% of all the money raised.

▲ 55% on last year, 71% of all the money raised.

























Fasset is a Dubai-headquartered stablecoin-powered neobank offering USD accounts and cross-border settlement, valued at $1 billion after its Series C led by SBI Group.
Dubai-based multi-brand restaurant group that began as a cloud kitchen platform
eyewa is the MENA region’s largest omnichannel eyewear retailer, and its $100 million Series C led by General Atlantic reinforced its position.
AppliedAI builds Opus, an agentic AI workflow platform for regulated industries, headquartered in Abu Dhabi and backed by G42 and Mubadala.
Huspy is a UAE proptech platform for home buying, selling and mortgage financing, expanding across Saudi Arabia and Europe.
Sharia-compliant investing app offering halal portfolios, ETFs and property investments
SellAnyCar.com is the Middle East’s largest car buying service, offering instant valuations and 30-minute guaranteed purchase across the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
YAP is a UAE-based digital banking and payments platform that lets consumers manage money, cards and payments through a single app.
NymCard builds MENA payments infrastructure including card issuing, lending and money movement, with a $33 million Series B led by QED Investors.
FlapKap provides revenue-based financing for MENA SMEs, with a $34 million pre-Series A led by BECO Capital.
UAE autonomous delivery platform running driverless last-mile, middle-mile and long-haul freight
Arabic music and video streaming platform, first Arab tech company listed on Nasdaq
Crypto options and futures exchange, headquartered in Dubai and owned by Coinbase since 2025
Dubai-based cosmetics brand that grew from false lashes into a global make-up line
31 CONCEPT is a UAE-based company that describes its platform as deep packet inspection built from a clean slate.
Base is building AI infrastructure for business operations that connects a company's tool stack and resolves it into one queryable company brain, built on a knowledge graph.
AI-native Islamic digital bank being built in Abu Dhabi
Climate-controlled greenhouses growing fresh fruit and vegetables in the Gulf
Mifta is an AI-powered rental brokerage in Dubai.
Ride Skipper is a UAE chauffeur service providing vetted professional drivers who drive customers in their own cars.
Dubai burger brand that began as a beach food truck, now part of the Independent Food Company
RSA XB is a spin-out building software-first logistics for cross-border e-commerce, starting with routes from India to the UK, Europe and the GCC.
Orbii is an intelligent lending infrastructure company that helps financial institutions and merchant platforms in MENA launch and scale lending programs.
Nabta Health, headquartered in Sharjah, blends digital tools with conventional care for women.
Dubai gymwear brand selling premium performance clothing online and in GCC stores
Dubai deep tech company developing a smart contact lens for extended reality and health data
AI credit scoring that lets mobile operators lend airtime and small loans to the unbanked
UAE healthy snack and protein brand founded by radio host Kris Fade
Prop-AI is a real-estate AI startup, co-founded in 2023 by Christian Kunz and Ranime El-Skaff.
Retailhub is a Dubai-based company bringing AI to grocery retail, helping retailers, FMCG brands and aggregators fix product availability and out-of-stock problems.

Grew talabat ninefold and took it public, now runs autonomous delivery platform CargoX

Saudi food entrepreneur who co-founded SALT after opening Switch in Bahrain

Left a decade in Fortune 500 HR to co-build Squatwolf, a Dubai gymwear brand sold worldwide

Amsterdam options trader who co-founded the world's biggest crypto options exchange

Early Bitcoin investor who co-founded Deribit with his brother John

Beauty blogger who turned a $6,000 lash launch into a $1.2bn brand, then bought it back

Virgin Radio Dubai host who turned his #FadeFit fitness posts into a snack brand

Serial founder behind Lux, Rizek, Barq and Astra Tech, now building Islamic bank Mal

Confectionery entrepreneur turned Kitopi co-founder who built a UAE restaurant unicorn

Emirati designer who co-founded SALT and the Independent Food Company

Nigerian-born Lebanese founder who turned airtime top-up data into credit for the unbanked

Former tech investor who co-founded Pure Harvest to grow fresh produce in Gulf greenhouses

Ex-digital marketer who co-founded Squatwolf in a Dubai flat and took it to 120+ countries

Former AECOM project director who left to build an app for booking lorries

Left Wall Street banking to build a halal investing app now backed by Saudi Aramco

Serial founder building a smart contact lens, now valued at $1.35 billion

Former Accenture consultant whose Nabta Health blends digital tools with conventional care…

Started Ride Skipper, a UAE chauffeur service using customers' own cars, after a C-section

Scaling executive; former Moove President and Calo COO, now Co-Founder and CEO of Base, AI…

Technology executive building UAE-based 31 CONCEPT to see inside encrypted network traffic

Former McKinsey associate partner and DIFC strategy chief who co-founded real-estate AI…

Former venture capitalist and Antler founder co-building Mifta, an AI rental brokerage in…

Built a grocery delivery startup acquired by X5, now turning shelf photos into retail…

Seafood Souq co-founder now running RSA XB, a software-first cross-border logistics spin-out

Computer scientist building credit infrastructure that helps lenders originate and manage…

















