{"id":86758,"date":"2025-10-18T18:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/86758\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T18:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:12:45","slug":"startups-in-middle-east-raised-1-2-billion-in-fundraising-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/86758\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups in Middle East Raised $1.2 Billion in Fundraising Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Startups in the Middle East raised a record $1.2 billion last quarter, defying a collapse in broader emerging market funding, as international investors wrote bigger checks for growth-stage companies, according to data platform Magnitt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Funding rose by about 60% in the third quarter from the second and almost quadrupled from a year ago, fueled by so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-08\/dubai-startup-raises-250-million-for-night-vision-contact-lens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">mega deals<\/a> worth more than $100 million, the firm said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Startups in the Middle East raised a record $1.2 billion last quarter, defying a collapse in broader emerging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[190,138,19983,34288,336,40365,5107,111,139,69,7254,640,4426,1046,145,3912],"class_list":["post-86758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-africa","tag-business","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-emerging-markets","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-ipos","tag-middle-east","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-policy","tag-regulation","tag-southeast-asia","tag-startups","tag-technology","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}