{"id":15599,"date":"2019-09-14T13:43:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T09:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=15599"},"modified":"2019-09-14T13:43:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T09:43:36","slug":"tech-startup-rizek-raises-1-5m-seed-investment-in-45-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/tech-startup-rizek-raises-1-5m-seed-investment-in-45-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech-Startup &#8220;RIZEK&#8221; Raises $1.5M Seed Investment In 45 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIZEK, a tech startup aimed at creating more jobs across the MENA region, has announced $1.5m in seed funding. The financing has come from some of the most prominent and high-profile investors in the region, including early backers of some of the region\u2019s most successful start ups.<\/p>\n<p>The seed round will be used to build RIZEK\u2019s operational team across key market segments and create innovative features within its technology platform. RIZEK was founded by Abdallah Abu-Sheikh, a successful Jordanian entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>Abu-Sheikh has extensive experience in raising capital and building high-growth businesses. Having enjoyed early success in closing more than $500m in Aviation, Energy, Real Estate and Infrastructure projects, he is now solely focused on leading the growth of RIZEK to become a market leader in its domain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/18-1-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/18-1-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/18-1-768x943.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/18-1-834x1024.jpg 834w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/18-1.jpg 977w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIZEK, a tech startup aimed at creating more jobs across the MENA region, has announced $1.5m in seed funding. The financing has come from some of the most prominent and high-profile investors in the region, including early backers of some of the region\u2019s most successful start ups. The seed round will be used to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15601,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599\/revisions\/15601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}