Flat6Labs, the MENA region’s leading seed-stage program and early-stage venture capital firm, announced it will be making its GITEX Global debut at the 2022 edition of the show. Flat6Labs will use this event as an opportunity to present 24 innovative companies which are under its seed program in the UAE and MENA region.

The news team at LinkedIn creates a yearly rating called “LinkedIn Top Firms” that identifies the best-rising startups to work for. The 850+ million platform users’ billions of interactions are analysed to create the list based on four pillars employee growth, engagement with the business and its present staff, job interest, and luring top talent.

Hatch & Boost Ventures, ADGM, an Abu Dhabi-based venture builder committed to ‘hatching’ startup ideas at the intersection of impact and innovation and boosting them into scalable ventures, has announced the launch of World of Farming, its first agriTech startup in its portfolio (WoF).

Alaan, has announced the launch of an industry-first business cashback card. The startup previously raised $2.5 million in seed funding and developed a platform that allows businesses to spend via modern corporate cards and automated invoice payments.

Ziina, a Dubai-based, YC-backed fintech start-up on a mission to bring money online for Middle Eastern consumers, continues to innovate in the payments space. Its most recent innovation is a payments keyboard, the first of its kind in the digital wallets space, for which Ziina has filed a patent.