The SMEs Bank will bring together all the financial solutions and services an SME might need, with the ultimate aim of helping foster stability and growth.

The documents will go some way to helping founders navigate a blackhole of lengthy negotiations, expensive legal fees and complications in rights.

Using a revenue-sharing model, the studio aims to help entrepreneurs get their startups on their feet, through pre-seed funding, expert mentorship and other perks - all the while allowing them to retain full ownership.

Already being utilised in the UK, US, Spain and Peru, Hazen.ai’s latest investment puts it in perfect position to offer its life-saving tech to more places across the world.

Founded in the fourth quarter of 2020, VoM is poised to lead the line for KSA’s plans to impose e-invoicing on all commercial establishments by December 2021.

The startup behind the celebrated machine-learning-powered hydroponic kitchen garden will look to expand its R&D capabilities with its movies to the KAUST Research and Technology Park.

After a pandemic-forced hiatus Tamkeen is set to resume its programmes, starting with the Business Development Programme, with applications opening this month.

Over one year, 150 applicants and a pandemic later, the winners of the first edition of the competition have been crowned - but this is just the beginning of what’s planned as a long and fruitful new focus on Egypt’s growing pool of innovators.