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RIYADH: Startups in the Middle East and North Africa raised $1.7 billion across 242 funding rounds in the first half of 2026, as investors continued to deploy capital despite heightened geopolitical uncertainty, according to Wamda’s H1 2026 report.  The figure represents an 18 percent decline from the $2.1 billion raised in the same period of…

Prasanna Sankar, founder of 0xPPL and co-founder of HR software platform Rippling, has launched a new AI startup, Vorflux, raising $15 million in a seed funding round led by Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners, Powerset, Alliance, and angel investors including Parker Conrad, Immad Akhund, and Balaji Srinivasan. According to Sankar’s LinkedIn post, Vorflux is building…

In 2017, I bought an old Magnus chord organ off Craigslist for $10. It’s one of my favorite music gear purchases. Electric chord organs let you play full chords with just a press of a button, making them perfect for aspiring singer-songwriters or fooling around at home. But chord organs largely fell out of favor…

Last year, Microsoft’s 13-inch Surface Laptop quickly became one of my favorite thin-and-light Windows notebooks. At $900, it was easy to recommend to anyone wanting MacBook Air–like build quality and battery life on Windows — I even convinced my sister to buy one on sale. But that was last year. This year, thanks to RAMageddon,…

Muscat – An Omani innovation hub backed by Oman Investment Authority’s (OIA) Future Fund Oman is set to give local startups direct access to one of the world’s leading innovation networks in a move aimed at helping entrepreneurs learn from international peers, attract investment and expand into global markets. Terminal 11 has signed a strategic…

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