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Paribu acquires CoinMENA, MENA’s largest local crypto exchange, for $240 million 

Paribu, Türkiye’s leading digital asset platform, acquired the largest digital asset platform of MENA. Türkiye’s leading digital asset platform Paribu announced that it acquired CoinMENA, the largest local crypto exchange in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), for USD 240 million. The deal represents Türkiye’s largest fintech transaction to date and the […]

Workup Entrepreneurship Program marks graduation of 13th Cohort

Sixteen startups graduated from the 13th cohort of the Workup Entrepreneurship Program Sixteen startups graduated from the 13th cohort of the Workup Entrepreneurship Program, an initiative supported by Türkiye İş Bankası and running since 2017, the bank announced. More than 75 Workup alumni have raised […]

EasyCep raises $45 million to expand electronics refurbishment business

EasyCep Co-Founder said the funding will help the company deepen the transformation it has initiated in the used smartphone sector Turkish refurbished electronics platform EasyCep has raised $45 million in a new investment round with participation from Oleka Capital, RePie Portföy and Ziraat Portföy, the […]

Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, Oct. 27-31, 2025

This week’s stories are about tech, AI and autonomous vehicles, coming from Switzerland and the USA Governments struggle to scale Gen AI adoption, study finds A growing number of governments are experimenting with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT and CoPilot, but most […]