INFOGRAPHIC: Startup Funding in Africa and the Middle East—Week 37, 2025
Here are the venture funding activities we tracked in the Middle East and African region this week – including TERN Group, Hush Security, SunCulture, Orbii, Float, Fitting, 21Doctors, DawaDose, and Jobzyn.
The startup world never stops moving, and this week’s deals show just how diverse innovation has become across Africa and the Middle East. From AI-powered healthcare platforms to solar irrigation for farmers, investors are writing big cheques to back the next wave of tech growth. Let’s break it down.
TERN Group led the way with a massive $24 million Series A. Founded by Dubai-based Avinav Nigam, the AI-powered global talent mobility platform for healthcare professionals is positioning itself at the heart of the Gulf’s push to expand clinical capacity. This round brings its total funding to $33 million after an oversubscribed seed round last year.
Next up is Hush Security out of Tel Aviv, raising $11 million in seed funding. Backed by Battery Ventures and YL Ventures, the cybersecurity startup is building a policy-based access platform for machine-to-machine connections, tackling one of the biggest blind spots in enterprise security.
Kenya’s SunCulture secured $5 million to scale its solar-powered irrigation systems for smallholder farmers. With WaterEquity backing the round, the deal marks the first investment from its new Water & Climate Resilience Fund, aimed at tackling global challenges through sustainable tech.
In Saudi Arabia, Orbii pulled in $3.6 million in seed funding led by Prosus Ventures. The embedded credit infrastructure startup is building tools to expand financial access, with support from VentureSouq, DASH Ventures, Taz Investments, and Sanabil 500.
South Africa’s Float raised $2.6 million in equity funding to fuel growth at home and prep for expansion abroad. The Cape Town fintech lets users turn existing credit-card limits into interest-free instalments at checkout. The round was co-led by Invenfin (Remgro’s VC arm) and SAAD Investment Holdings, with advisory support from Lighthouse Venture Partners.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia saw more early-stage activity. Fitting, a construction-tech startup, closed a $500,000 pre-seed round from a strategic angel investor, giving it the runway to scale and build new partnerships in the construction materials sector.
Two more Saudi healthtech startups also secured pre-seed backing: 21Doctors, an AI-powered healthcare platform, and DawaDose, which is setting up its HQ in the Kingdom to expand across the Gulf. Both rounds came from strategic angel investors.
Rounding things out is Morocco’s Jobzyn, which raised an undisclosed pre-seed round led by Janngo Capital. The AI-driven hiring startup also drew investment from Digital Africa and angels to help it grow across Africa, the Middle East, and North Africa.
From healthcare to fintech, climate-tech to cybersecurity, this week’s mix shows how investors are not just chasing scale, but also solving very real problems in local and global markets.
