It had raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Vision Ventures and Raed Ventures in a seed round in 2018. Founded in 2016 by Nawaf Hariri and Salman Butt, Salla’s Shopify-like platform enables users to easily set up their web and mobile-based online stores in Arabic. The merchants can use Salla’s Arabic only platform to set up their online stores. Ahmad Alshammari, a Partner at STV, the VC that led the round, said, “We are incredibly excited to partner with Salla. We will continue to make these bets going forward helping create the future of economy for our region,” he added.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 24, 2020 12:45 UTC