INFOGRAPHIC: Startup Funding in Africa and the Middle East—Week 41, 2025
Here are the venture funding activities we tracked in the Middle East and African region this week – including Tagaddod, Engagesoft, Nuxera AI, REasy, POZI, EMMA Systems, and Sabika
The African and Middle Eastern startup ecosystem has refused to take a pause, and Week 41 proved it. From feedstock dominance in Egypt to AI-powered fintechs in Saudi Arabia, and aviation SaaS from Qatar, the region showed once again how diverse and ambitious its innovation story has become.
Week 41 was headlined by Egypt’s Tagaddod, which bagged a whopping $26.3 million Series A to accelerate its expansion across Africa, Asia, and Europe. The renewable feedstocks platform is quietly becoming one of the region’s most exciting sustainability plays, showing how Egyptian startups are scaling beyond borders with serious global intent.
Saudi Arabia kept the AI wave rolling. Engagesoft, an AI-powered employee engagement platform, locked in $3.5 million pre-Series A led by Silicon Badia, while Nuxera AI, a health-tech startup building Arabic-first clinical AI tools, raised $2.5 million pre-seed from Sanabil Venture Studio. Both highlight how Saudi founders are leaning on AI to transform work and healthcare in ways deeply tailored to the region.
In Cameroon, REasy stepped into the spotlight with a $1.8 million pre-seed funding to support its West African expansion and strengthen its trade infrastructure. This has increased the platform’s offerings for cross-border payments, logistics, and compliance services to SME importers. Also, POZI secured $755k seed funding to expand its business services.
Qatar’s EMMA Systems secured seed backing from Plus VC to scale its aviation SaaS platform, which brings real-time operational data together for airports and airlines to run more efficiently. And rounding out the week, Egypt’s Sabika quietly attracted a six-figure undisclosed investment to grow its Sharia-compliant gold and silver investment platform — a niche but culturally significant fintech play for Egypt and the Gulf.
This week’s deals have revealed that the diversity of deals tells its own stories: from renewables and rural internet to AI and fashion, the region’s startups are tackling global challenges with local genius.
