Startup Minute News May 10, 2019

Searchie, Arabnet's Startup Battle Dubai winner, raised $2M to continue changing the face of recruitment and the way companies retain and develop their talent ; Mashkor, a new app that is now trending in Kuwait and transforming the way local shopping and local courier happens in the region ; Toronto-based direct-to-consumer fine jewelry startup Mejuri, founded by a Jordanian entrepreneur, has raised $23 million in Series B led by New Enterprise Associates, one of the leading and oldest American VC firm ; Ex-Careem GM has raised seed funding for his Saudi-based Sary, an on-demand wholesale grocery platform, to disrupt wholesale market ; Samsung's vertical Sero TV brings Insta Stories to a big screen!! Samsung has unveiled "The Sero," a 43-inch quantum-dot QLED TV with an attention-grabbing gimmick. It can be flipped around 90 degrees, letting you watch Instagram, Snap and other smartphone videos in their native vertical configurations ; The latest trailer for Men in Black: International is almost exclusively moments of Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson goofing around with sci-fi tech. And to keep the movie from (somehow) getting too serious, it seems that a tiny alien voiced by Kumail Nanjiani will be following them around pretty much the entire journey. The film comes out on June 14th.

Watch the full episode and join the conversation at startupminute.co.