Naguib Sawiris's battery-swapping group has built the largest network of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa. Whether each cabinet earns back the batteries it cycles is a question it has not answered.
The company’s managing director in Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Tarek, recently joined Taager after his previous venture, Egyptian fintech Cassbana, faced difficulties.
Led by European venture capital firms Grazia Equity and BACKED VC, the oversubscribed round signals investor appetite for solutions addressing the continent’s persistent financial inclusion challenges .
To date, ANAVA has committed €45 million across 10 venture capital (VC) funds, including those operating out of Nigeria and Senegal. The fund targets up to 13 funds.
The initiative aims to provide early and growth-stage startups with direct access to funding, mentorship, and networking opportunities within one of the world’s most competitive startup ecosystems.
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This announcement follows a year of significant momentum for P1, highlighted by its largest investment to date: a co-investment alongside Accel in Nuitee, a Moroccan AI-powered hotel booking platform, which raised a $48m Series A round.
Naguib Sawiris's battery-swapping group has built the largest network of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa. Whether each cabinet earns back the batteries it cycles is a question it has not answered.
In the space of a fortnight, a handful of browser games built by Nigerian developers has generated more attention, and more argument, than the country’s game industry has seen in years. The question is whether any of it constitutes a market.
