Dilasha, based in Dubai, reports on the Middle East and Africa's investment ecosystem, focusing on LPs, private equity, and venture capital. With 12+ years in New Delhi, she specialized in macroeconomic policy and broke significant stories on international trade and taxation.
Finance
Nigerian VC firm Ventures Platform to get returning LP for new fund
Ventures Platform, an early-stage African venture capital firm that has supported over 90 tech-enabled companies across the continent, is preparing ......
TMT
MENA Digest: UAE's Flow48, Saudi Arabian CQR, Bahrain's Lola get funding
United Arab Emirates-based fintech startup Flow48 led fundraising activity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region this week, ......
Others
South African PE firm Summit Africa onboards returning LP for second fund
Summit Africa, a South Africa-based alternative investment firm that backs small and medium enterprises, has launched its second private equity ......
Healthcare
Leapfrog Investments set to mark full exit from healthcare portfolio firm
Leapfrog Investments, an emerging markets-focused private equity and impact investment firm, is set to fully monetize its eight-year-old investment in ......
TMT
MENA Digest: UAE's Blum, Tunisian startup Dabchy, Egypt's Qme get funding
Startup fundraising activity in the Middle East and North Africa region slowed this week compared to the previous week, when ......
Finance
Oman investor comes onboard for Singapore VC Golden Gate Ventures' debut MENA fund
Golden Gate Ventures, a Singapore-based early-stage venture capital firm that expanded to the Middle East and North Africa region last ......
Manufacturing
DPI-owned Solevo set to get funding from another offshore investor
Solevo Holding BV, a specialty chemicals and farm inputs distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa that is owned by private equity firm ......
Finance
Criterion Africa Partners to onboard returning LP for third private equity fund
Criterion Africa Partners, an American private equity firm that backs assets across the forestry value chain in sub-Saharan Africa, is ......
TMT
BECO Capital outlines new fund's AI investment strategy
BECO Capital, a UAE-based venture capital firm that is currently deploying from its fourth investment vehicle has outlined its AI investment strategy ......
TMT
MENA Digest: Tabby, AppliedAI get big cheques; Saudi firms Salla, Mush Social ink M&As
Saudi Arabian startups largely dominated early-stage funding activity in the Middle East and North Africa region this week while buy-now-pay-later ......















