Startups across the Middle East, Africa, and Israel raised a combined $224.6 million this week, based on disclosed funding rounds tracked by Techloy, with investor capital flowing primarily into cybersecurity and climate technology. A handful of larger growth-stage deals, particularly in enterprise security, accounted for the bulk of the week's activity.
The Week's Largest Startup Funding Rounds
Here are the biggest disclosed startup funding rounds across the Middle East, Africa, and Israel this week.
/1. Oasis Security, $120M, Cybersecurity, Israel
Oasis Security develops what it calls "agentic access management," a platform built for enterprise environments where machine identities vastly outnumber human users, addressing a structural gap in existing security systems designed primarily to govern human access.
The Series B round was led by Craft Ventures, with participation from existing investors Cyberstarts, Sequoia Capital, and Accel, bringing the company's total funding to $195 million. The funding will be used to accelerate R&D on the platform, expand integrations across AI agent frameworks and enterprise systems, and scale global go-to-market operations.
/2. Sistema.bio, $53M, Climate Tech / AgTech, Kenya
Sistema.bio has closed a $53 million first tranche for FarmCarbon, a carbon finance vehicle built to lower the cost of climate technology for smallholder farmers across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
The round brings in backing from BNP Paribas Asset Management Alts, British International Investment, and the Shell Foundation, and it will fund the rollout of more than 90,000 biodigesters. Biodigesters turn livestock waste into biogas for cooking, heating, and electricity, while the leftover digestate can replace chemical fertiliser — giving farmers a meaningful cost and productivity benefit alongside the climate impact.
/3. Native, $31M, Cybersecurity, Israel
Cybersecurity startup Native has developed a platform that enables organisations to define and enforce cloud security policies, serving as a central control and enforcement layer that leverages cloud providers' own native enforcement mechanisms rather than adding another monitoring layer.
The Series A round was led by Ballistic Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, YL Ventures, and Merlin Ventures; Phil Venables, former CISO of Google Cloud, has joined the company's board. The company has raised a total of $42 million to date and currently employs 41 people across Israel, the UK, and the US, with plans to expand to around 90 employees by the end of 2026.
/4. Niv-AI, $12M, AI Infrastructure, Israel
Niv-AI has emerged from stealth with $12 million in seed funding to solve the GPU power management problem by precisely measuring GPU power use with new sensors and developing tools t o manage it more efficiently.
The Tel Aviv-based company, founded in May 2025 by CEO Tomer Timor and CTO Edward Kizis, has developed an AI platform that manages workloads in real time to unlock "trapped" electrical capacity in data centres, without reducing GPU utilisation or requiring additional physical infrastructure. The seed round was led by Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from Grove Ventures and U.S.-based funds Arc VC, Encoded VC, Leap Forward Ventures, and Aurora Capital Partners.
/5. Utexo, $7.5M, Crypto Infrastructure, UAE
UAE-based blockchain infrastructure startup Utexo has closed a $7.5 million seed funding round led by Tether, with participation from Big Brain Holdings, Portal Ventures, Franklin Templeton, Maven11 Capital, and Fulgur Ventures.
The investment aims to accelerate Utexo's mission of enabling direct stablecoin payment processing across the Bitcoin network, particularly for USDT transactions, while simplifying integration for financial institutions and payment providers.
/6. Kudwa, $1.1M, AI Fintech, UAE
UAE-USA-based finance SaaS platform Kudwa has raised $1.1 million in a funding round backed by 1818 Venture Capital, F6 Ventures, Sparked VC, IM Fndg, and IVP. Founded in 2023 by Karl Nasr and Sam Arif, the company develops an AI finance manager that automates financial reporting, analysis, forecasting, and insights for businesses. The capital will support product development, expanded integrations, and go-to-market scaling across the Gulf and beyond.
Other startups that announced funding this week include South Africa's Yazi, an AI-powered WhatsApp-based market research platform that closed its first institutional round from 3 Capital Ventures, as well as Miftah, which raised pre-seed funding ahead of a Syria launch, and Infobrim, which secured angel backing at a $3.5 million valuation. Funding amounts for these rounds were not disclosed.
Conclusion
With $224.6 million in disclosed funding this week, investor attention across the Middle East, Africa, and Israel remains heavily concentrated in cybersecurity — with three Israeli security startups alone accounting for more than $170 million of the total — while climate tech made a strong showing through Sistema.bio's landmark FarmCarbon raise. Early-stage activity appears active but modest compared to the larger growth-stage rounds dominating the week's totals.
Damilare Odedina
