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TMT
Gulf Digest: ZainTech buys cloud firm Adfolks; Baytonia, Lifemost, Clara get funding
Dealmaking in the Middle East during the week was led by the acquisition of the UAE-based cloud engineering services company ......
TMT
QIA leads $250-mn funding in British-Indian entrepreneur's Builder.ai
Qatar Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund of the Middle Eastern nation, is leading a $250 million Series D funding ......
People
BlackRock promotes Italy head to chief of southern Europe
BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, has named Giovanni Sandri, its current head of Italy, as head of southern Europe, ......
Finance
After slashing size of Africa PE fund, Helios adds another asset class
Helios Investment Partners, one of the largest private equity firms in Africa that was eyeing a record corpus for its ......
Finance
How Dubai Future District Fund's LP portfolio is different from direct bets
The Dubai Future District Fund (DFDF), an evergreen venture investment and fund of funds that was created a year and ......
Consumer
Exclusive: RMB Corvest in another club deal with Umoya Capital
Private equity firm RMB Corvest, a part of FirstRand Bank that strikes on-balance-sheet transactions and was one of the most active ......
TMT
Exclusive: Gulf Islamic Investments topping up India exposure
The UAE-based Gulf Islamic Investments (GII), which manages assets of more than $3 billion in private equity, venture capital and ......
General
Metier Capital raising third growth capital PE fund for sub-Saharan Africa
South African PE investment house Metier Capital that brought in Nairobi-based private equity manager Catalyst Principal Partners under its umbrella ......
Consumer
Exclusive: AfricInvest set to ink another PE deal in Morocco
AfricInvest, a pan-African mid-market asset management platform that has exposure to multiple asset classes, is close to striking what would ......
Consumer
Gulf digest: Middle eastern startup Chatfood gets acquired; fintech player Twig raises funds
Big ticket pre-seed funding rounds dominated the startup deal making activity in the Gulf region this week, led by a ......