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Riyadh-based INVE has raised US$300,000 in pre-seed funding led by Outliers Venture Capital to grow its invitation and event-management platform across Saudi Arabia and the GCC.
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Anthropic has opened a research preview of Claude Duet, a proactive agent app that briefs you each morning, watches your connected apps and finishes tasks in the background. It arrives as OpenAI pushes Dots, Google launches its Gemini agent and Meta’s Muse races past 10 million users.
FINANCE
Ziina has secured Category III Retail Payment Services and Category IV Exchange Business approvals from the Central Bank of the UAE, completing a licence set that spans payments, stored value wallets and currency exchange.
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UAE-founded healthtech Vitalls has secured a US$1.5 million seed commitment from Singapore-based EST Growmore, with an option for a further US$1 million, to develop and roll out its AI-powered digital health passport.
FOUNDER STORIES
Jasmine Ahluwalia founded ASDAV in 2024 to teach practical design skills. Its live courses in architecture, interiors and Vastu now reach eight countries.
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Zain Bahrain revenue rose 12.9% to BD 22.01 million in Q3 2026, with net profit up 3.8% to BD 1.70 million and nine-month profit at BD 4.27 million.
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