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Egypt-Based Cybersecurity Firm Buguard Completes Seed Fund

The investment round was led by MENA venture capital firm A15 and will help drive expansion into the GCC later this year.

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3 years ago

August 7, 2023

Nour Nasir

egypt-based cybersecurity firm buguard completes seed fund

Buguard, the Cairo-based offensive security and dark web monitoring company has announced the successful completion of a $500,000 seed funding round.

Fundraising was led by A15, one of the most prominent backers of early-stage startups in the MENA region, with participation from various other angel investors.

The $500,000 sum is Buguard’s first external investment, with the company having been bootstrapped since its launch in 2021. The funding injection will be used to grow the Buguard team and to expand further across the Gulf Coast Countries (GCC) later this year.

Youssef Mohamed, Buguard’s founder and Chief Technology Officer, said: “We are delighted to announce our fundraising, and I thank A15 for its great support. The world of dark web cyber threats is very real, dynamic, and growing. Any company can be a victim, and one must be prepared. We are already a global company, with clients across the world, but our immediate strategy is to grow even stronger in the GCC. We look forward to expanding into Saudi Arabia during 2023 and using our proceeds to help fulfill our significant growth potential”.

Since commencing operations, Buguard has helped many of Egypt’s leading businesses and developed a global client base spanning Saudi Arabia, the United States, France, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

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The startup’s primary role is monitoring dark web marketplaces, hacking forums, underground channels, and private clouds to identify and neutralize data breaches across different venues. Buguard provides a wealth of security services, including penetration testing, phishing simulation, threat intelligence, and more. The company also offers a subscription-based SaaS product known as Dark Atlas that helps businesses prevent data breaches.

Founded in 2021, Buguard’s team comprises highly skilled security researchers and engineers. The company is renowned for exposing critical security vulnerabilities in tech giants, including Yahoo, PayPal, Twitter, Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, and even the U.S. Department of Defense.

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YouTube Rolls Out Supervised Children’s Accounts Across MENA

An industry-first feed timer lets parents cap Shorts scrolling. Access can also be switched off entirely ahead of exam season.

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11 hours ago

July 10, 2026

Dana Saadeh

YouTube

YouTube has launched supervised kid accounts across the Middle East and North Africa, giving parents a way to hand their children the main YouTube app without handing over all of it. Announced in Dubai on July 2, the accounts are built directly into the platform rather than the standalone YouTube Kids app, and are aimed at families who feel a child has outgrown the curated library but isn’t ready for the open feed.

Parents can choose from three content settings, each broadly aligned with international content ratings. Explore covers educational videos, tutorials, arts and crafts, and dance. Explore More adds gaming and live streams. Most of YouTube opens up almost everything except videos rated 18+ or deemed inappropriate for supervised accounts.

The standout tool is an industry-first Shorts feed timer, which lets parents set daily limits on short-form scrolling. Set it to zero and Shorts disappears altogether – a lever YouTube suggests parents might pull ahead of exam season. Other protections are on by default for all users under 18: “Take a Break” and “Bedtime” reminders, no personalized ad targeting, autoplay switched off, and no ability to upload videos or write comments. The accounts are optional, and parents can end supervision at any time.

The kid accounts join supervised teen accounts already available across the region, which notify parents by email when a teenager uploads a video or starts a live stream.

“YouTube has been a huge part of families’ lives across this region for over 20 years,” said Javid Aslanov, head of YouTube Middle East and North Africa, citing Kantar research showing 95% of viewers in Saudi Arabia and the UAE agree YouTube has top content in education and learning.

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“It’s essential that we protect young people in – not from – the digital world,” added Garth Graham, YouTube’s head of health.

The new settings are rolling out gradually across the MENA, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Iraq. The latest features can be set up through Family Center in the YouTube app or via Google Family Link.