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Saudi Fintech Barq Reaches Unicorn Status After Three Hundred Twenty-Nine Million Dollar Funding Round

Saudi digital-payments company barq raised about three hundred twenty-nine point five million United States dollars in Series A financing at a valuation of one point eight five billion dollars, after surpassing fifteen million users and processing more than four hundred forty billion riyals through its platform. ([Arab News][9])
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Saudi Arabia Issues 268 Industrial Licences as 149 Factories Begin Production

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