Wamda

Lebanon

Agri-logistics wins Lebanon's first agritech hackathon

A logistics idea called Sou2 Baladi won Lebanon’s first agritech hackathon on Sunday, taking home $3,000 and a place in the new...

Agrytech Accelerator Berytech agritech

Lebanon

What I know about bad investments: Walid Mansour [Know your VC]

In a debate in 2016 Walid Mansour was keen to shed the image of VCs as “cigar smoking fat cats”. “We have investors...

MEVP Know your VC What I Know

Lebanon

Lebanon sets sights on being R&D hub for the Middle East

It’s all about sharing. That is what former Nokia Technologies president, Ramzi Haidamus, thinks when it comes to a country...

UK Lebanon Tech Hub Knowledge Economy lebanon

Lebanon

Lebanon’s Smarke takes a second look at MENA

After a strongly MENA-backed crowdfunding campaign, Lebanese smart lock maker Smarke is reconsidering their target market. Smarke...

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Lebanon

Beirut gets to experiment with VR [Wamda TV]

Can a short VR movie be produced in just two days? This was the bet taken by the 48h VR Film Jam in Beirut last weekend. It seems...

VR video production beirut

Lebanon

ArabWIC 5th Annual International conference on Arab Women in Computing [Call for Applications]

The ArabWIC 5th Annual International Conference on Arab women in computing will be taking place on August 10 - 12 at the American...

Technology women in tech women entrepreneurs

Lebanon

Innovate Education

Innovate Education is a 3-day social entrepreneurship competition. In this competition, Lebanese and Syrian university students will...

Education refugees Technology

Lebanon

Jusoor Entrepreneurship Competition

Registration for Jusoor’s third annual Entrepreneurship Competition has opened to all Syrian entrepreneurs looking to develop...

syria entrepreneurship competition

Lebanon

Agrytech Hackathon

Berytech's Agrytech Hackathon calls on innovators to develop and build working prototypes for agri-food solutions, which...

agrytech hackathon Technology

Lebanon

Lebanese entrepreneurs, move out of the city

Hellish rush hour is nothing new to those who live or work in Beirut. However, road traffic fatalities, which reached 1,088 in 2015,...

tripoli entrepreneurs club Shouf Entrepreneurs Neopreneur

Regional

New startups on the block: March

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

new startups blinkapp instacar

Lebanon

IoT-Leb: Internet of Things Made for Lebanon

IoT in Lebanon has the potential to cause a paradigm shift in several industries, including agriculture, healthcare, urban planning, and...

lebanon IoT Technology

Lebanon

ourMENA Beirut Hackathon

ourMENA Beirut hackathon is your opportunity to play a more active role in helping build a smarter, healthier, and more prosperous...

hackathon aub American University of Beirut

Lebanon

Carrying the Lebanese flag, one export at a time

Many Lebanese companies could pass as coming from anywhere – in technology, services, and even food. But a handful of them are...

lebanon Semsom Ksara

Lebanon

Big deals announced at Arabnet Beirut

At Arabnet Beirut this week Flat6labs, a regional incubator, announced that it was accepting applications for a $20 million local...

Arabnet ArabNet Beirut ArabNet Beirut 2017

Lebanon

How to organise a robotics competition

On a drizzly Sunday afternoon in a Beirut sports hall, 18 teams of students competed for the title of ‘best self-driving...

AUB robotics club self-driving car aub

Lebanon

Entrepreneurship: an unequal playing field

The message aspiring business leaders get when they go to conferences and listen to motivational speeches by their role models, urging them...

lebanon world bank Abdullah Jabbour

Lebanon

5 things to know when mixing data science with startups

Click ‘CC’ for English subtitles. Is it ethical to ask for phone location as part of your app permissions? Will you go out...

Women in Data Science aub AUBWIDS

Lebanon

Agritech sprouts among Lebanon’s startups

In the mountains of Broummana above Beirut, an entrepreneur is growing vegetables through his hydroponics invention that he hopes will...

agritech hydroponics lebanon

Egypt

New startups on the block: February

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

new startups Jarra Carriage

Lebanon

Innovation Factory fills Lebanon’s hardware development gap [Wamda TV]

There aren’t many startups whose entrance is preceded by a long and winding dirt road, an army station across the street, and a...

lebanon Innovation factory Hardware

Lebanon

ArabNet Beirut 2017

ArabNet Beirut returns with its 8th edition this year, expecting over 1,300 corporate executives, marketing industry leaders, entrepreneurs...

beirut Arabnet conference

Lebanon

Proximie’s AR tool delivers healthcare to war zones

The idea came about during a 2012 mission to El Salvador. As a volunteer with the Global Smile Foundation, Boston-based Lebanese...

healthtech Augmented Reality Proximie

Lebanon

Crowdfunding products: pressure does not make perfect

One of the most painful examples of delayed promises of crowdfunding is Palestine-based Bold Knot, a great-looking bank-charger-cable on a...

Crowdfunding kickstarter zoomaal

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