# Where Startups in Middle East and North Africa Are Based: 2026 Map of 921 Companies

> Map of where 921 funded startups in the Middle East and North Africa are based, city by city: Istanbul, Dubai and Riyadh lead. $20B raised between them.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/geo-maps/where-mena-startups-are-based (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

Each circle is a city, sized by how many startups are based there. Countries are shaded by their count.

## Leading cities

- Istanbul 166 $1.9B
- Dubai 126 $3.3B
- Riyadh 55 $1.6B
- Cairo 49 $393M
- Ankara 17 $25M
- Amman 14 $75M
- Philadelphia 12 $10M
- Casablanca 11 $39M
- Abu Dhabi 10 $282M
- Jeddah 9 $18M
- Çankaya 9 $1.0B
- Sariyer 9 $185M
- İstanbul 7 $78M
- Giza 6 $469M
- Beirut 6 $4.9M

## By country

- Türkiye 380 $4.4B
- United Arab Emirates 196 $7.0B
- Egypt 109 $1.6B
- Saudi Arabia 99 $6.1B
- Morocco 33 $234M
- Jordan 33 $106M
- Lebanon 20 $14M
- Qatar 10 $38M
- Kuwait 10 $27M
- Algeria 9 $405M
- Tunisia 8 $12M
- Bahrain 6 $85M

## Best-funded

- [*T* **Tamara** Saudi Arabia · $2.4B](https://millionrounds.com/company/tamara)
- [*B* **Binance** United Arab Emirates · $2.0B](https://millionrounds.com/company/binance)
- [**Dream Games** Türkiye · $1.3B](https://millionrounds.com/company/dream-games)
- [*H* **Humain** Saudi Arabia · $1.2B](https://millionrounds.com/company/humain)
- [**TANAP** Türkiye · $1.0B](https://millionrounds.com/company/tanap)
- [*C* **Careem** United Arab Emirates · $622M](https://millionrounds.com/company/careem)
- [**AMEA Power** United Arab Emirates · $570M](https://millionrounds.com/company/amea-power)
- [**Five Holdings** United Arab Emirates · $460M](https://millionrounds.com/company/five-holdings)
- [**MNT-Halan** Egypt · $425M](https://millionrounds.com/company/mnt-halan)
- [*M* **Miro** Algeria · $400M](https://millionrounds.com/company/miro)
- [**Telegram** United Arab Emirates · $330M](https://millionrounds.com/company/telegram)
- [**barq** Saudi Arabia · $330M](https://millionrounds.com/company/barq)

**How this map is made.** Every startup here has raised money in rounds we track. Each is placed at the city we hold for it, matched to that city's position in GeoNames (cities of 15,000 people or more; geonames.org, CC BY 4.0); startups without a city on record count in the totals but not on the map. Rebuilt nightly; updated 15 November 2026.

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