Top 10 Middle East Startups to Watch in 2022

Alex Mitchell
13 min readDec 29, 2021

Over the past several weeks, I’ve written about two of the fastest-growing startup ecosystems: Pakistan and Africa. In this post, I cover the equally exciting and rapidly maturing MENA (Middle East and North Africa) market.

As you’ll see in my list below, MENA has had many interesting startup developments as it strives to transition from a fossil fuel-funded region to one that exports technology and also provides home-grown tech solutions to its people.

In this region especially, it’s been interesting to see how entrepreneurs mix successful startup ideas from other parts of the world with the unique religious and cultural values of the region.

Let’s dive in!

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Alex Mitchell

Product @Kinsured | 5x Product Leader/Founder | Syndicate: bit.ly/mitchell-ventures | Author: @producthandbook @disruptbook