Category: Startups

With Tym, Mohamed Khalil Ben Chebil Reinvents Workplace Collaboration in Tunisia

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Mohamed Khalil Ben Chebil develops digital tools to help employees communicate better with their employers. He focuses on improving work organization and the flow of information inside Tunisian companies. Ben Chebil, a Tunisian entrepreneur, co-founded and leads Tym, a start-up that builds digital solutions for human resources management. Tym, launched in 2023, created a platform that aims to modernize HR practices in Tunisia. The platform lets employers collect team feedback and analyze employee expectations and needs. This system helps companies listen more effectively to their staff and adjust internal policies…

Tunisia’s Kumulus Water closes $3.5 million seed round

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Tunisia-based WaterTech startup Kumulus Water, which turns air into safe drinking water, has closed a $3.5 million seed funding round to accelerate the development of its atmospheric water generation technology and support expansion into key markets, including France, Spain, and Saudi Arabia. The round saw participation from Bpifrance (through France 2030 SGPI and Île-de-France Region), PlusVC, Khalys Venture, Flat6Labs, several European and North African family offices, and European bottled water leader Spadel. The new funds will support the launch of the Kumulus Boks line—high-capacity, off-grid water units designed for industrial…

Tunisia’s regional startup roadshow: Bringing innovation closer to home

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In a country where innovation is often concentrated in the capital, Tunisia’s first regional roadshow on innovative startups and SME financing marks a new chapter in inclusive entrepreneurship. For the first time, the national startup ecosystem left Tunis behind and traveled across the country—north, center, south, and southeast—to meet entrepreneurs where they are. The roadshow made stops in Bizerte, Kairouan, Sfax, and Gabès, connecting with entrepreneurs, incubators, investors, and support organizations. A national recap event in Tunis concluded the regional outreach on February 25th, 2025, featuring a press roundtable to amplify…

Tunisian startup turns olive waste into clean energy

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Photos credit AFP In a northern Tunisian olive grove, Yassine Khelifi’s small workshop hums as a large machine turns olive waste into a valuable energy source in a country heavily reliant on imported fuel. For generations, rural households in Tunisia have burned olive waste for cooking and heating, or used it as animal feed. The International Olive Council estimated Tunisia will be the world’s third-largest olive oil producer in 2024-2025, with an expected yield of 340,000 tonnes. The waste generated by the oil extraction is staggering. Khelifi, an engineer who…

Tunisian legal-tech startup Juridoc secures funding round

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Photo credit disruptafrica Tunisian legal-tech startup Juridoc has raised an undisclosed amount of funding to help it accelerate the digitalisation of legal services in Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2021, Juridoc simplifies access to legal resources through a comprehensive database that includes legislation, case law, doctrine, and legal monitoring, disruptafrica reports. Its intelligent search engine, powered by generative AI, enables legal professionals, businesses, and institutions to optimise their work by quickly accessing reliable and up-to-date information. Already established in Tunisia and Senegal, Juridoc has over 252,000 documents available, 325,000 successful…

Tunisian Startup Flouci Among 50 Most Influential Fintechs in MENA in 2025

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Tunisian startup Flouci has been ranked among the 50 most influential fintech companies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2025. This annual ranking, compiled by Forbes Middle East, highlights the region’s most impactful fintechs based on their growth, expansion, and influence between February 2024 and February 2025. Founded in 2020 by Anis Kallel and Nebras Jemel, Flouci offers a financial services application designed for individuals in Africa. The app enables users to open bank accounts with an international bank account number (IBAN) and savings accounts. It…

Tunisia injects $2.5 million to boost African technology startups

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Tunisia reinforces its commitment to technological innovation by investing $2.5 million in the pan-African venture capital fund “LoftyInc Alpha Fund I”. This initiative, led by the ANAVA fund of funds, financed by Tunisia’s Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) and managed by Smart Capital, aims to support African technology startups in the seed phase, thereby strengthening the digital infrastructure across the continent. The ANAVA fund of funds is a key component of the national “Startup Tunisia” initiative, which aims to position Tunisia as an innovation hub at the intersection of…

A spiritual journey that only Liberta can offer

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Liberta Travel and Tourism, a pioneer in the field of organizing Hajj and Umrah trips, has managed to win the trust of Tunisians, thanks to its great efforts in organizing, good management and the ability to work under all conditions, in addition to its very reasonable prices for the high-end services it provides. It is not easy for a Hajj and Umrah company to gain the trust of all segments of society and all categories, as it won the bet after it was able to be the number one in…

1,146 startups have been accredited

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Nejia Gharbi, CEO of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations CDC, announced that 1,146 startups had so far been accredited under the national “Startup Tunisia” program, with remarkable regional variations in the number of accreditations. She added: “The regional roadshow for the Startups and Innovative SMEs Project revealed two main findings This announcement was made at the closing event of a regional tour of the Startups and Innovative SMEs Project, organized on Tuesday in Tunis by the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC). TunisianMonitorOnline (NejiMed)

Dabchy, Tunisia’s fashion e-commerce company, raises seven-figure pre-Series A funding round

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Tunisian circular fashion marketplace Dabchy has raised a seven-figure USD pre-Series A round of funding led by Janngo Capital, with participation from Renew Capital, Village Capital, and angel investors including Karim Beguir, the founder of InstaDeep. While the exact amount was not disclosed, the funding marks a significant milestone for the growing secondhand fashion platform. Founded in 2016 by Ameni Mansouri, Ghazi Ketata, and Oussama Mahjoub, Dabchy has built a community of more than 1.3 million users across Tunisia and Egypt, and currently serves more than 10 percent of the…