Egyptian startup WideBot raises six-figure pre-series A funding

STARTUP WATCH- WideBot raises six-figure pre-series A funding: Egyptian chatbot building platform WideBot raised a six-figure sum in its pre-series A round, CEO Mohamed Nabil told Menabytes, without disclosing further details. The funding was led by Business Valley, a “regional angel group network.” According to Nabil, the funding will be directed towards developing the platform and to launch WideBot.AI, “which will give data scientists and developers access to WideBot’s AI engine to build their own Arabic [natural language processing] models.”