Beehive Blog

Keep up to date with the latest news from Beehive and the peer to peer lending industry as well as fintech news, market trends, product updates, expert investment advice from our team and SME success stories from businesses we’ve funded.

Expanding Impact, Empowering SMEs

Quarter after quarter, Beehive continues to power progress across the region. In Q3, our story was defined by expansion, collaboration, and engagement, each milestone reinforcing our role as the MENA’s first regulated digital SME lending platform.


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UAE Manufacturing Growth and Trends Factors

Manufacturing is poised to assume an increasingly pivotal role in the UAE’s economy. Presently, the sector contributes approximately 10% to the nation’s GDP, with ambitious plans to elevate this to 25% by 2031 under the operation 300bn initiative.

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Trust. Transparency. Growth.

All Beehive funds are unsecured, meaning that they are not backed by any form of tangible asset. Instead, funding facilities, such as Beehive, take SMEs through a rigorous credit assessment to ensure they are creditworthy and able to repay their funds using a credit decisioning engine.

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Highway Café

Highway Café was born from a simple idea: to serve great coffee, fast, and with care. Since launching Muscat, the brand has remained true to its mission, evolving in tandem with its customers and utilising only premium ingredients.

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Beehive: The Quarter in Focus

From delivering digital lending solutions faster to empowering the SME ecosystem, Q2 was about pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for businesses in the GCC.

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Desert Chill

Founded in 2008, the brothers Nathen and Dan Furlong were inspired by an experience at the Rugby Sevens event in Dubai. Amidst a 40,000-strong crowd in the desert, they noticed a significant absence of ice cream vendors, leading them to start Desert Chill. 

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