{"id":557086,"date":"2021-09-06T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/09\/06\/4-egyptian-startups-secure-usd-125k-seed-funding\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T04:00:17","slug":"4-egyptian-startups-secure-usd-125k-seed-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/09\/06\/4-egyptian-startups-secure-usd-125k-seed-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Egyptian startups secure USD 125k seed funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"content-anchor\" id=\"tldr-story-04\"><\/a> <strong>Four Egyptian startups secured USD 125k each in seed funding by US accelerator<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ycombinator.com\/\">Y Combinator<\/a><\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/magnitt.com\/news\/mena-based-startups-125k-seed-52854\">Magnitt<\/a> reports. The funding came either following the companies closing pre-seed rounds, or as boosters to companies that are looking to expand and complete acquisitions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The startups: <\/strong>The Egyptian startups include Cairo-based delivery service <a href=\"https:\/\/shipblu.com\/\">ShipBlu<\/a>, ins. marketplace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amenli.com\/\">Amenli<\/a>, SaaS startup <a href=\"https:\/\/pylonump.com\/\">Pylon<\/a> and online auto-marketplace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odiggo.com.eg\/\">Odiggo<\/a>, which had secured <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/967b83f3-412b-4d4c-8170-950dfcf95128\">USD 2.2 mn<\/a> in seed financing from Y Combinator just last month. An additional two startups from Morocco, the B2B e-commerce platform for FMCG products, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chari.ma\/\">Chari<\/a>, and supply-chain platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freterium.com\/\">Freterium<\/a> also received funding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The funding came as part of <\/strong><strong>Y Combinator\u2019s<\/strong> <strong>second cycle of the year, which took place from June to August. <\/strong>The company runs two annual funding cycles over a period of three months, during which startup founders meet with partners and present their project to a group of investors. The seed accelerator company then takes small stakes in many of the startups. This year\u2019s summer batch included 377 startups from 47 countries, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YCombinator\/posts\/10158736075444107?__tn__=-R\">record of 15 African<\/a>companies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Over the first half of the year Egyptian startups <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/39a79643-d62d-4e57-b59e-19d1050a83a2\">landed USD 194 mn<\/a><\/strong><strong> in venture capital finance<\/strong>, which represented 26% of all MENA fundraising during the half. The 194 mn figure was led by a <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/85f214d3-40dd-4236-b156-ddf241385e11\">USD 42 mn contribution<\/a> to Egyptian digital trucking platform Trella.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO FROM PLANET STARTUP-<\/strong> <strong>Proptech startup Nawy will launch new rental <\/strong><strong>services by 2022, <\/strong>as part of its plans to expand into the brokerage market, co-founder Mostafa El Beltagy told <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3yOOU5n\">Hapi Journal<\/a>. The company\u2019s eventual expansion plans include entering Saudi Arabia, UAE, and South Africa. Nawy <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/2e8fcedc-3d55-445b-937a-f7bb87bca505\">raised an undisclosed seven-figure seed round<\/a> led by the Sawiris family in July, which it will use to improve its tech and expand its team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Egyptian startups secured USD 125k each in seed funding by US accelerator Y Combinator, Magnitt reports. The funding came either following the companies closing pre-seed rounds, or as boosters to companies that are looking to expand and complete acquisitions. The startups: The Egyptian startups include Cairo-based delivery service ShipBlu, ins. marketplace Amenli, SaaS startup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":557087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7258],"tags":[329,72,345,316,95,123,698],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-557086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-startup-watch","tag-didi","tag-enterpriseam","tag-mena","tag-morocco","tag-startup-watch","tag-startups","tag-y-combinator","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"6f3963a2-11fe-4a9e-9660-3e084040d7e9","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2021\/9\/76.jpg","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[557075],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>4 Egyptian startups secure USD 125k seed funding - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/09\/06\/4-egyptian-startups-secure-usd-125k-seed-funding\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"4 Egyptian startups secure USD 125k seed funding\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Four Egyptian startups secured USD 125k each in seed funding by US accelerator Y Combinator, Magnitt reports. 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