Melltoo expands to Saudi with new funding
SOURCE: WAMDA - Melltoo expands to Saudi with new funding 23rd January 2017
The Dubai-headquartered peer-to-peer marketplace Melltoo has said they are ready to expand to Saudi Arabia now they have acquired new funding.
The company said on Sunday it raised a $1 million bridge round. They have raised money various times since their seed round in April 2015.
Their new investors Raed Ventures, MEVP and Nomadic Capital, will join existing seed investors Dubai Silicon Oasis, Turn8 and Womena. Since its launch in March 2014 the startup has now raised a total of $1.2 million.
Raed Ventures, a Saudi corporate VC firm founded by Omar Al Majdouie (and also part of Al Majdouie Group), said in a statement they were looking forward to helping Melltoo scale to Saudi. Al Majdouie said Saudi was “where the product is particularly suited given the cultural tendencies”.
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