2018 a bumper year for start-up investment in Middle East: Funding soars to $893 million

Dubai: The Middle East and North Africa (Mena) saw a total of $893 million (Dh3.28 billion) invested in start-ups last year, following a record number of deals. Funding was up by 31 per cent on 2017 when excluding the outlier $200 million raised by Careem, distributed among 366 transactions, according to MAGNiTT’s 2018 Mena Venture […]