A round of applause for Woopra and ArabCrunch


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A group hug and general hip-hip hooray for two members of the Middle East startup community:

, in my opinion the most exciting internet startup coming out of the Middle East today, have taken their real-time web traffic monitoring system out of beta and unleashed it on the big wide world. Until now the service has been in trial mode, open only to beta testers on free accounts (more than 85,000 web publishers signed up, with a long waiting list). But as of last night, Woopra is now open for business -

And

, a great resource for the regional startup community, has also reached something of a milestone, launching a new Arabic-language site. Aside from being a translated version of the original site, it will cover international startup / dotcom news in Arabic, targeting an audience that still has plenty of room to grow. It is also open to contributions from the community.

PROFILE OF CURE.FIT

Started: July 2016

Founders: Mukesh Bansal and Ankit Nagori

Based: Bangalore, India

Sector: Health & wellness

Size: 500 employees

Investment: $250 million

Investors: Accel, Oaktree Capital (US); Chiratae Ventures, Epiq Capital, Innoven Capital, Kalaari Capital, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Piramal Group’s Anand Piramal, Pratithi Investment Trust, Ratan Tata (India); and Unilever Ventures (Unilever’s global venture capital arm)

Padmaavat

Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Starring: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor, Jim Sarbh

3.5/5