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A shop in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Barakah helps restaurants, bakeries and grocers to sell their surplus inventory through its app. Bloomberg
A shop in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Barakah helps restaurants, bakeries and grocers to sell their surplus inventory through its app. Bloomberg
Saudi Arabia's Barakah raises $1.5 million in seed-funding round
FoodTech start-up will use the investment to expand its presence in the kingdom