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Funding and backers

Total raised
$1.7M
1 round on record
Latest round
$1.7M
Venture round · Dec 2024 · 22 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
15
open roles
Backers
1
500 Global
The money's age
Due for its next round
22 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
10/100
a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 6, 2025 Released an app Nowlun · App Store Dec 3, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $1.7M 2019 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.19%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Dec 2024 $1.7M — zawya.com
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Nowlun hires

Truth index
D 40/100
Ghost roles
100%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Nowlun scores D on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 100% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Nowlun is an Egyptian logistics technology company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Alexandria. Its platform lets shippers compare and book ocean freight instantly. The service digitises freight forwarding quotations.

News

News VCCircle 2 years ago
MENA Digest: Aanaab, Nowlun, Enakl, Playgama lead funding activity this week
Saudi Arabian edtech platform Aanaab led venture capital fundraising activity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region this week, as it secured...
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Tech stack

The technologies known for Nowlun, by layer.
Languages
JavaScript
Node JS
Python
Ruby
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
Angular
React.js
Databases
MySQL
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Azure
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
15
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
40% ▼
Operations
40% ▼
Backend
7% ▼
Management
7% ▼
Marketing
7% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Jeddah Oct 2026
Added Scrum to stack Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack Sep 2026
New location: Riyadh Sep 2026
New location: Cairo Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
2
Busiest office
Alexandria
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Alexandria Egypt
HQ
You Are Invited To Ship Differently
13 open roles 8% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Operations, Sales, Backend
17 Edgar Ghara Street (Off El Batalasa Street), Bab Sharq, Alexandria.
seen since Nov 2024 company site, job postings
Cairo Egypt
Sales office
5 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales, Operations
seen since Nov 2024 job postings
Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Sales office
3 open roles 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Nov 2024 job postings
Jeddah Saudi Arabia
2 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Nov 2024

Jobs

≈ $73k – $214k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Alexandria
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Financials

Total raised
$1.7M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $1.7M Details