ANALYSIS DUBAI
e& values its remaining Careem stake at less than half Uber's July price
The majority shareholder's own accounts repriced the super-app stake four months after Uber paid $100M for a slice of it.
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The Big One and Cold Water: will it work, who wins, what it prices in.
November 2026 1
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ANALYSIS DUBAI
MGX talks to join OpenAI's $30B round, putting Abu Dhabi on both sides of the AI race
Abu Dhabi's MGX is in talks on OpenAI's round of up to $30B at a $1.25T valuation while already holding positions in Anthropic's last two rounds.
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ANALYSIS DUBAI
UAE's EDGE Group deepens stake in Israeli drone software maker High Lander in $16M round
EDGE Group increased its strategic stake in Israeli autonomous-aviation firm High Lander as part of a $16M addition completing a $30M funding total.
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ANALYSIS DUBAI
CNTXT AI opens Silicon Valley office and claims $300M in committed revenue
The Abu Dhabi AI and data company is hiring up to 25 US commercial staff, but its headline revenue figure comes with no definition, period or named clients.
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ANALYSIS DOHA
Activate Capital joins QIA's $3B Fund of Funds and plants a flag in Doha
San Francisco growth firm Activate Capital joins Qatar's $3B Fund of Funds program and will open its first international office in Doha.
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ANALYSIS DUBAI
Crescent Enterprises leads $45M into India's myTVS, UAE first MENA stop
Crescent Enterprises' CE-Invests led a $45M Series D into the Chennai automotive aftermarket group, with the UAE named as its first MENA market.
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ANALYSIS TEL AVIV
HyperGuest raises $25M from Apax's AMI in the wider region's biggest fresh round of the window
Tel Aviv hotel-distribution infrastructure player HyperGuest takes $25M in growth capital from Apax Partners' mid-market Israel arm.
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September 2026 1
FIFTY DEGREE ALERT RIYADH
The Big One: LEAP week showed the Saudi capital stack in a single page
A fund bigger than $10B, sukuk stapled to equity, a studio graduate, a listed champion co-leading a Series A and a storefront buying its payment rail. Who wins.
Undisclosed
>$10B planned
May 2026 1
ANALYSIS DUBAI
Cold Water: Comfi's $65M is mostly debt, and that is fine as long as we say so
Headline, actually, so what: decomposing the largest early-stage number of the spring shows why the desk computes heat on equity.
$65M