Evidence over adjectives. Analysis of education technology and the future of work in this region, with every figure sourced.
We searched twelve MENA EdTech companies by name against four days of LEAP 2026 and found no coverage of any of them. Then we checked our own calendar: two of us had been at a Classera gala dinner inside the official LEAP evenings programme. The category was there. The record does not show it, and that turns out to be the more interesting finding.
September 3, 2026
Saudi Arabia's national tech academy held its annual ceremony at LEAP again this week and announced more than 250 new camps. It runs on vendor certification, it charges the trainee nothing, and it has just moved into the school system. If you are selling skills training into this market, that is your competitor — and we have never once seen it named in a deck.
September 3, 2026
Across nine public EdTech companies, the two that ever spent under a fifth of revenue on sales are the only two that reached profitability. The other seven lost more than $3.3 billion between them.
August 28, 2026
Regional investors supplied 81% of the capital deployed in MENA in the first half of 2026, up from 58% a year earlier. The share rose mostly because the foreign investors left, and a share is a ratio with two moving parts.
June 3, 2026
We searched twenty-four months of regional reporting for a MENA EdTech company that shut down, and found none documented. That is not a survival rate. It is the absence of a measurement, and it is costing the region more than the failures would.
May 21, 2026
Three MENA EdTech acquisitions in the last two years are documented well enough to name both sides and a date. Not one of them has a disclosed price, and the two largest buyers are American.
May 14, 2026
The region's most-watched EdTech cohort is 44% K-12. In the same year, K-12 slipped to second place in global EdTech deal volume, behind workforce training. The region and the money are pointed at different segments.
May 6, 2026
The Kingdom's own FY2026 budget statement records education at SAR 204bn actual in 2024, SAR 199bn estimated actual in 2025 and SAR 202bn allocated for 2026 — three years in which the line went sideways while the programmes underneath it expanded.
March 24, 2026
MAGNiTT published it once, in November 2021: EdTech raised more than 30% of all venture funding in Jordan and closed 17% of its deals. No equivalent figure has been published in the five years since, by anyone.
March 17, 2026
