Investment

The Amman-founded voice AI startup closed an oversubscribed seed round led by Lunara Partners, with the platform already handling over one million calls per

Alipay's full-stack platform lets merchants convert existing digital workflows into AI agent-ready services, with cross-device reach via its Ah Bao super

San Francisco startup Space has closed a $2.4m pre-seed led by a16z Speedrun to build a streaming filesystem that requires zero local disk

UK mid-market finance software firm iplicit has hired Sarah Clancey to lead talent development and an internal AI enablement programme as it targets 330

The partnership gives around 24,000 German e-commerce merchants access to revenue-based working capital through the comrce Hub platform.

The NASDAQ-listed firms will combine Nutanix's hybrid cloud platform with ChronoScale's GPU-as-a-Service and agentic AI foundry for enterprise customers.

Dubai's largest paid parking operator has agreed to explore smart parking and mobility solutions in Egypt, its first market outside the UAE.

Duos Technologies has agreed five-year hosting orders with neocloud firm Axe Compute covering 55 MW of AI data centre capacity across multiple US sites.

Toro Solutions' Katie Barnett argues that AI cost governance is failing as agentic tools and sprawling tool estates drive unpredictable consumption.

Ciklum has joined ClickHouse's House Mates partner programme to help enterprises run agentic AI and real-time analytics workloads at production scale.

Chargebee has secured a Leader position in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Recurring Billing Applications, while launching CPQ and MCP agentic tools.

A new Deep Knowledge Group audit maps 54 quantum organisations across the Gulf, with aggregate commitments exceeding $5bn and the ecosystem tipped to pass 100

The Dubai-based AI tax platform secured pre-approved accredited service provider status for UAE e-invoicing ahead of October 2026 regulatory deadlines.

The UAE tax-compliance software startup has secured pre-approval as an Accredited Service Provider ahead of the country's October 2026 e-invoicing deadline.

NetApp has bought JetStream Software to add VMware disaster recovery and cloud migration capabilities to its data infrastructure portfolio.

Tracxn data shows Bristol accounts for over a quarter of all UK semiconductor investment so far in 2026, outpacing Cambridge and London combined.

CVC DIF has agreed to acquire a significant majority stake in Frankfurt-based firstcolo, backing a 24 MW AI-ready data centre greenfield in Rosbach.

The Experience Fund targets AI, automation and data infrastructure for the restaurant and hospitality sector, with a $500m hard cap.

Hungarian deep-tech startup Edortech is seeking global manufacturing partners for its ONLi tin-alloy anode, targeting 340 Wh/kg and twice graphite's volumetric

The Wellington-based AI startup secured seed funding led by Blackbird to expand its autonomous finance workflow platform into Australia and the US.