MARJ3 secures seed funding

MARJ3 secures seed funding

Cairo-based education technology (edtech) platform MARJ3 has raised a seed investment round led by Expert DOJO, US-based investment firm, and joined by a number of angel investors. The amount of the funding was not disclosed.

MARJ3 was founded in 2016 when CEO and co-founder Sami Al-Ahmad was working on an initiative encouraging Syrians to complete their education. The platform works to help students across the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region to find and connect with educational opportunities and access internationally-accredited courses. It currently attracts 2.4 million monthly visits from students eager to explore the opportunities listed on MARJ3 which reached more than 10,000.

"Covid-19 caused a forced transformation to learning, accelerating it to advanced learning. Universities that did not have the infrastructure to transform faced challenges,“ Al-Ahmed told Wamda.

"Overall, universities