About

The MENA startup story,
told properly.

Anecdoted reports on the founders, funding and businesses being built across the UAE and the wider MENA region — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Jordan and Morocco included, not just the Gulf's biggest rounds.

Report the deal, not the press release

Funding announcements get rewritten in our own words with the actual terms — round size, investors, valuation where it's public — not a copy-paste of the company's own framing.

Regional by default

The UAE and Saudi Arabia lead the numbers, but Egypt, Qatar, Jordan and Morocco get covered on their own terms, not as a footnote to Gulf funding rounds.

Attribution stays honest

Every wire story credits its original source internally. What you read is our own reporting and rewriting, never a silent republish.

The desk

Layla Haddad

Founders & Leadership

Omar Farouk

Funding & Investment

Nadia Mansour

Fintech

Karim El-Sayed

Startups & Regional Coverage

Yasmin Al-Rashid

Policy & Regulation

Tariq Benali

Analysis & Opinion

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