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Calo puts healthy eating on autopilot
The Bahrain-born company turned the daily chore of eating well into a meal subscription. Its retreat from Britain reveals how much work sits behind that simple promise.
The Collective Hub: BD33 buys a desk. The neighbours are the interesting part.
In Bahrain, The Collective Hub puts startups, creatives and investors within talking distance. Its bet is that a modest monthly workspace bill can buy something harder to arrange: useful company.
Ahmed Rawi and the business of wanting more
A wedding photo booth, a football app, and a $2,000 experiment led Ahmed Rawi to Calo. His next lesson arrived after the company crossed into Britain: ambition also needs a return ticket.
Batelco wants more than your phone bill
Bahrain’s familiar telecom brand is tying family plans to a much bigger business in cables and data centres. The ambition runs from the living room to the seabed.
Tarabut
Tarabut (formerly Tarabut Gateway) is the MENA region's first and largest regulated open banking platform, connecting a network of banks and fintechs through a universal API. Founded in Bahrain by Abdulla Almoayed and now headquartered in Riyadh, the company provides banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, account-to-account payments, and data-driven credit tools that let financial institutions and businesses build personalized financial products across Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain.