{"id":516756,"date":"2025-10-21T10:33:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516756\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:33:05","slug":"startups-in-middle-east-raised-1-2-billion-in-fundraising-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516756\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups in Middle East Raised $1.2 Billion in Fundraising Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Startups in the Middle East raised a record $1.2 billion last quarter, defying a collapse in broader emerging market funding, as international investors wrote bigger checks for growth-stage companies, according to data platform Magnitt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Funding rose by about 60% in the third quarter from the second and almost quadrupled from a year ago, fueled by so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-08\/dubai-startup-raises-250-million-for-night-vision-contact-lens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">mega deals<\/a> worth more than $100 million, the firm said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Startups in the Middle East raised a record $1.2 billion last quarter, defying a collapse in broader emerging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3094],"tags":[2740,51,3620,27422,3134,23703,839,46,2443,15848,3322,53,16,15,3623],"class_list":{"0":"post-516756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-chief-executive-officer","11":"tag-emerging-markets","12":"tag-entrepreneurship","13":"tag-ipos","14":"tag-middle-east","15":"tag-policy","16":"tag-regulation","17":"tag-southeast-asia","18":"tag-startups","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-wealth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}