INFOGRAPHIC: Startup Funding in Africa & the Middle East — Week 52, 2025
Here are the venture funding activities we tracked in the Middle East and African region this week – including Promamec, Lucid Capital, Woliz, Newera.ai, Kayko and Croptimus
This week, venture capital continues to flow toward startups that are solving real operational problems and scaling in their markets. AfricInvest, through its healthcare-focused blended-finance vehicle, the Transform Health Fund (THF), committed $8.5 million to Promamec, a leading Moroccan provider of medical equipment and consumables. The financing will strengthen Promamec’s working capital, enabling it to scale deliveries of critical healthcare products nationwide and improve availability across hospitals and clinics.
UAE-based fintech Lucid Capital raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by Tharawat Holding, with participation from Singular Link, alongside $200 million in capital commitments from institutions and accredited investors. Founded in the US in 2022, Lucid Capital specializes in algorithmic trading and quantitative investment strategies. The funding will support the expansion of trading strategies, infrastructure, and AI research while deploying its solutions across US equities and digital assets.
Moroccan startup Woliz raised $2.2 million in a pre-seed round led by insurance giant Sanlam Maroc, marking its first venture into the startup ecosystem through a long-term private equity approach. The investment will accelerate the development of Woliz’s platform, which digitizes neighborhood retail and modernizes a vital segment of the local economy.
Saudi-based Newera.ai secured $2.1 million in a pre-seed round led by Embark with participation from angel investors. The generative AI startup plans to scale its solutions across the Kingdom, strengthen research and development, and launch products tailored to the Saudi market.
Kigali fintech Kayko closed a $1.2 million seed round to scale its micro-ERP product, which turns informal merchants’ daily activity into the kind of digital evidence banks need to lend. Investors in the round include Burrow Capital, the Luxembourg Development Agency LuxDev, Hanga Ignite from the Development Bank of Rwanda, and develoPPP Ventures. The funding comes as East African fintechs shift from pure payments to data-driven platforms that feed credit decisions and working capital products.
Egyptian agritech startup Croptimus secured an undisclosed investment from venture capital firm Venture X. The strategic funding will accelerate Croptimus’ mission of transforming agricultural waste into valuable bio-products, highlighting a growing regional commitment to solutions that address food security and environmental sustainability.
Taken together, this week’s deals show that investors are backing startups with clear traction, operational value, and deep market understanding. While capital may be selective, it is still moving toward businesses built to scale, solve problems, and endure.
