Revibe, a Dubai-based marketplace for certified refurbished electronics, raised $17 million in November 2025 led by Partech. Co-founders Hamza Iraqui and Abdessamad Ben Zakour are proving that trust, not newness, is the product that wins in emerging markets. With every device put through a 50-point inspection and backed by a 12-month warranty, Revibe is changing how millions of people across the Gulf and Africa buy their next phone.

Hamza Iraqui and Abdessamad Ben Zakour built Revibe in Dubai to fix a broken market: a region that kept buying new devices when millions of refurbished ones were already good enough. With every phone passing a 50-point quality check and a 12-month warranty, Revibe has served hundreds of thousands of customers. Now $17 million from Partech and a group of regional investors is funding expansion into every major consumer electronics category.

Serial entrepreneur Abdallah Abu-Sheikh closed the largest seed round in Middle Eastern history for Mal, an AI-native Islamic digital bank betting big on a market traditional fintech ignores.

Rita Huang solved the last-mile delivery problem that defeated the world's largest logistics networks: she built iMile to connect 2 billion emerging market buyers and sellers.

Rita Huang solved the last-mile delivery problem that defeated the world's largest logistics networks: she built iMile to connect 2 billion emerging market buyers and sellers.

Jeremy Crane founded Yellow Door Energy in Dubai to deliver affordable, reliable solar energy to emerging markets. His company has become the leading distributed solar developer in MENA, generating 1 billion kilowatt-hours of clean energy while solving real business problems around energy costs.

Jalil Allabadi transformed his father's medical dictionary into Altibbi, MENA's largest digital health platform serving 20M users across the Arab world.

Hosam Arab built Namshi into the Middle East's largest fashion retailer, then started Tabby. The fintech startup became the region's only independent unicorn by solving a problem traditional banks ignored: giving young Muslims access to interest-free installment payments.