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| 12.11.2025 | Tech Leaders Slam Rumoured 20% ‘Exit Tax’ Ahead of Budget | Rumours of an ‘exit tax’ targeting entrepreneurs leaving the UK are gaining momentum ahead of this month’s looming Budget, triggering a wave of criticism and warnings to the Chancellor that such a move could have a chilling effect on Britis... |
| 26.09.2025 | From Lagos to Munich: 5 acquisitions and 1 exit – African startups expanding into Europe | I have dedicated my work to building bridges between continents, connecting ecosystems, creating opportunities for exchange, and developing new business ties between startups across Africa and Europe.
We cannot deny that, compared to Europe... |
| 27.08.2025 | AI for Good in Africa: Promise or digital dependence? | Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast becoming the world’s most transformative technology. From diagnosing diseases to predicting climate shocks, its potential to solve real-world problems is immense. Across Africa, global tech giants are ru... |
| 11.08.2025 | Funding is flowing North, and Enza Capital is paying closer attention | After landmark acquisitions like InstaDeep and Expensya, proof of the region’s growing ecosystem maturity, North Africa has drawn increased investor attention over the past two years. Its proximity to Europe’s vast consumer market and acces... |
| 10.07.2025 | Made in the MENA Region: How Local Innovation is Going Global "Made in MENA" no longer suggests a localized copy of something else. It's becoming a mark of originality for products built for... | The most exciting new tech no longer needs to come from Silicon Valley. Across the Middle East and North Africa, startups are building smart, scalable solutions to urgent problems, gaining the attention of investors and global partners alik... |
| 08.06.2025 | BioNTech's Bold Bet: A £1 Billion Investment in UK Innovation | BioNTech is making waves in the UK. The company, known for its groundbreaking mRNA technology, has announced a staggering £1 billion investment over the next decade. This move comes through a partnership with the UK government, aiming to en... |
| 27.05.2025 | BioNTech To Invest £1 Billion In UK Expansion Through Government Partnership | BioNTech announced that its subsidiary BioNTech UK Ltd. signed a grant agreement with the UK Government to broaden the company’s R&D activities for innovative medicines in the UK. And as part of the agreement, BioNTech is committed to i... |
| 28.04.2025 | How to address Africa’s AI challenges, the BRAIN way | As AI takes off globally, Africa has struggled to keep up. The challenges contributing to this struggle are aplenty but can be summed up into three main troves: lack of data/infrastructure, and capital funding. Addressing these challenges i... |
| 26.02.2025 | Tunisia’s Dabchy raised Pre-series A funding to support expansion plans | The pre-Series A funding round for Dabchy, an online marketplace for used clothing, was led by Janngo Capital and included angel investors Karim Beguir, the founder of InstaDeep.
The investment will be used by the startup to increase its pr... |
| 22.02.2025 | MENA's Startup Surge: A New Wave of Innovation and Investment | The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is buzzing. Startups are sprouting like wildflowers after a rain. The latest funding rounds reveal a landscape rich with potential. From fintech to fashion, innovation is the name of the game. ... |
| 21.02.2025 | MENA Digest: UAE’s Blum, Tunisian startup Dabchy, Egypt’s Qme get funding | Maged Negm (right) founded Qme in 2022
Startup fundraising activity in the Middle East and North Africa region slowed this week compared to the previous week, when fintech unicorn Tabby had grabbed $160 million in fresh funding.
Some key st... |
| 16.09.2024 | Wattnow, a Tunisian energy management firm, has raised multi-million dollar in a funding round | Wattnow, a Tunisian startup that provides IoT-based smart energy management solutions, has announced the completion of a multi-million dollar funding round to help accelerate its already spectacular development.
Following a US$1.3 million p... |
| 14.05.2024 | What’s the more sustainable path to Africa’s AI participation? | During the closing ceremony of the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy Workshop in April, Nigeria’s minister of technology, Bosun Tijani, announced that the project has received $3.5 million in funding from interested partners. This A... |
| 23.04.2024 | French startup FlexAI exits stealth with $30M to ease access to AI compute | A French startup has raised a hefty seed investment to “rearchitect compute infrastructure” for developers wanting to build and train AI applications more efficiently.
FlexAI, as the company is called, has been operating in stealth since Oc... |
| 31.01.2023 | InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global | This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had agreed to acquire Tunisian-born and London-headquartered AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million, including a performance-tied £200 million tranche investment.... |
| 16.01.2023 | Weekly Economic Index: Competition for Safaricom, salary increase in Ghana, and a gloomy future for SSA | Competition for Safaricom in Kenya
For years, mobile network provider, Safaricom, has dominated the telecoms market in East Africa’s most technologically advanced country, Kenya. Now, it has not one but two new viable competitors entering t... |
| 13.01.2023 | Top AI startup news of the week: InstaDeep, DeepL, Pachyderm and more | Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here.
There were a couple of key artificial intelligence (AI) startup acquisitions this week — in machine learning (ML) decision-making and AI translation — as well a... |
| 11.01.2023 | BioNTech to Acquire InstaDeep, for Approx. £362M | BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX), a Mainz, Germany-based immunotherapy company, acquired InstaDeep Ltd., a London, Uk-based technology company in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
The transaction includes a total upfront ... |
| 10.01.2023 | BioNTech to acquire British AI startup InstaDeep for £562M to speed up drug discovery and bolster its drug development | Over the years, AI and machine learning have been getting better and smarter in speeding up drug discovery. That’s why BioNTech, a German biotech company known for the development of covid vaccines with Pfizer, has decided to scoop up Briti... |
| 10.01.2023 | BioNTech to acquire Instadeep in £562 million deal | BioNTech has announced a planned acquisition of London-based InstaDeep in a deal that will see £362 million in cash and BioNTech shares, excluding the shares already owned by BioNTech with InstaDeep shareholders eligible to receive addition... |
| 04.02.2022 | InstaDeep, a Tunisian artificial intelligence startup, has received $100 million in Series B funding | InstaDeep, a Tunisian artificial intelligence start-up, announces the successful completion of a $100 million Series B funding round led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB Capital International.
The funding round also included BioNTech,... |
| 26.01.2022 | INSTADEEP RAISES $100M TO RAMP UP REAL WORLD' AI TECHNOLOGY | London-based AI firm InstaDeep yesterday announced a $100m funding injection which it will use to fuel a global expansion and ramp up development of its "real-world" decision making technology. The Series B round was led by Alpha ... |
| 26.01.2022 | InstaDeep raises $100M Series B | InstaDeep has raised $100 million in a round led by Alpha Intelligence Capital with CDIB. The startup, based in London and Tunisia, develops decision-making AI systems.
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| 26.01.2022 | London-based InstaDeep raises €88.5M to scale its decision-making AI tool | InstaDeep, a London-based AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, announced on Monday that it has raised $100M in a Series B funding round led by Alpha Intelligence Capital together with CDIB.
BioNTe... |
| 26.01.2022 | UK-based AI startup InstaDeep raises USD 100 million in Series B | - |
| 26.01.2022 | Norebase’s solution for African expansion, InstaDeep’s $100M Series B | Share this article:
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| 25.01.2022 | InstaDeep Raises $100M to Scale Decision-Making AI Products that Solve Real-World Problems | InstaDeep, a leader in advanced AI decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, announced today it has raised $100M and closed a Series B round led by Alpha Intelligence Capital together with CDIB.
Investors in the round include... |
| 25.01.2022 | InstaDeep raises $100m to advance enterprise AI decision-making | InstaDeep, a London-based startup that provides AI decision-making tools for enterprises, has raised $100m ($£74m) in a Series B funding round. The round was led by venture capital firm Alpha Intelligence Capital and private equity firm CDI... |
| 25.01.2022 | Tunisian enterprise AI startup InstaDeep raises $100M from AI Capital, BioNTech, Google | A recent survey carried out by CNBC reported that 81% of executives worldwide say AI will play a prominent and critical role in how their businesses operate this year.
Companies are phasing from the first generation of AI, which deals with ... |
| 25.01.2022 | Alpha Intelligence Capital leads $100M InstaDeep Series B | Tunisian artificial intelligence start-up InstaDeep announced that it raised $100 million and closed a successful Series B funding round led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB Capital International. The firm is focused on decision-makin... |
| 25.01.2022 | InstaDeep raises $100M to inject enterprise decision-making with AI | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
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| 25.01.2022 | InstaDeep raises $100M to inject enterprise decision-making with AI | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
AI has the potential to generate meaningful returns for the enterprise. Responding to a 2018 PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, 54% of busi... |
| 25.01.2022 | InstaDeep, creator of AI-powered decision-making systems, raises $100M
Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community that includes... | InstaDeep Ltd., a Tunisian artificial intelligence startup that’s making advanced decision-making systems to solve real-world problems, said today it has closed on a $100 million funding round.
The Series B round was led by Alpha Intelligen... |
| 25.01.2022 | Alpha Intelligence Capital leads $100M InstaDeep Series B | Tunisian artificial intelligence start-up InstaDeep announced that it raised $100 million and closed a successful Series B funding round led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB Capital International. The firm is focused on decision-makin... |
| 25.01.2022 | InstaDeep raises $100m to ramp up development of ‘real world’ AI technology | London-based AI firm InstaDeep has today announced $100m funding injection which it will use to fuel a global expansion and ramp up development of its “real-world” decision making technology. |
| 24.12.2019 | Are these the 10 biggest deals by African tech startups in 2019? | Big money. That’s what African 86 tech startups raised this year.
While not every startup wanted to disclose how much they raised, those that did made a ton of it — almost $290-million going on data from 88 venture capital (VC) disclosed de... |
| 24.12.2019 | Are these the 10 biggest deals by African tech startups in 2019? | Big money. That’s what African 86 tech startups raised this year.
While not every startup wanted to disclose how much they raised, those that did made a ton of it — almost $290-million going on data from 88 venture capital (VC) disclosed d... |
| 06.08.2019 | AI Expo Africa 2019 to showcase 17 startups at dedicated innovation cafe | At least 17 artificial intelligence (AI) startups are set to showcase their solutions at this year’s AI Expo Africa, the event’s organiser have revealed.
AI Expo Africa claims it’s the largest business-focused AI trade event on the contine... |
| 06.08.2019 | AI Expo Africa 2019 to showcase 17 startups at dedicated innovation cafe | At least 17 artificial intelligence (AI) startups are set to showcase their solutions at this year’s AI Expo Africa, the event’s organiser have revealed.
AI Expo Africa claims it’s the largest business-focused AI trade event on the continen... |
| 17.05.2019 | Founded in Tunisia, London-based Instadeep raises €6.3 million for its AI-based enterprise decision-making platform | London-based InstaDeep is building an AI-based decision-making platform for enterprises. The startup’s platform leverages deep reinforcement learning, machine learning, and predictive analytics to optimise decisions to improve efficiency in... |
| 10.05.2019 | InstaDeep raises $7m in round led by Tunisia’s AfricInvest | Enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) startup InstaDeep has raised a $7-million Series-A round led by Tunisian private equity firm AfricInvest.
Endeavor Catalyst — the co-investment fund of Endeavor, a non-profit organisation that suppor... |
| 10.05.2019 | InstaDeep raises $7m in round led by Tunisia’s AfricInvest | Enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) startup InstaDeep has raised a $7-million Series-A round led by Tunisian private equity firm AfricInvest.
Endeavor Catalyst — the co-investment fund of Endeavor, a non-profit organisation that support... |
| 19.12.2018 | Endeavor selects eight African entrepreneurs to join organisation | Endeavor, a non-profit organisation that supports high-impact entrepreneurs around the world, has selected eight African entrepreneurs to join the prestiguous organisation.
The selection was made at Endeavor’s 84th International Selection ... |
| 19.12.2018 | Endeavor selects eight African entrepreneurs to join organisation | Endeavor, a non-profit organisation that supports high-impact entrepreneurs around the world, has selected eight African entrepreneurs to join the prestiguous organisation.
The selection was made at Endeavor’s 84th International Selection P... |
| - | InstaDeep, a Tunisian artificial intelligence startup, has received $100 million in Series B funding | InstaDeep, a Tunisian artificial intelligence start-up, announces the successful completion of a $100 million Series B funding round led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB Capital International.
The funding round also included BioNTech,... |
