Wamda

Egypt

California calls for 8 ROV robot winners

Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) skimmed underneath the surface of a swimming pool, surrounded by students with joysticks and controllers...

ROV Arab Competition remotely operated vehicles Aquaphoton

Egypt

Cairo’s Maker Faire enchants children, adults, and Minions

Over 11,000 people attended the Maker Faire Cairo over the weekend, making it one of the biggest tech events in the region. The event...

Maker Faire Cairo Fab Lab Egypt makers

Egypt

Rise Up Explore takes 6 startups to Silicon Valley

Rise Up has taken six startups on a Rise Up Explore trip to Silicon Valley that started on April 4 and finishes on April 13. RiseUp...

Rise Up Rise Up Explore

Egypt

Is Egypt finally ready for ride-sharing?

Uber and Careem fares have become unaffordable for many Egyptians, as fuel costs continue to rise following the floatation of the currency...

Buseet Kalax Swvl

Egypt

Egypt launches new startup waste management program

The Leeha 2eema waste management entrepreneurship program launched last month, to support 45 startups with local manufacturing and value...

waste management cleantech Arabia Leeha 2eema

Egypt

Voxera beats roaming bill and VOIP ban

Voxera cofounder Amr El Gebaly arrived home after a holiday with his wife to a menu-like list of roaming charges on his phone bill. That...

Voxera data roaming charge VOIP ban

Egypt

Out of Africa: the Egyptians are coming

Egyptian healthcare startup Vezeeta is expanding into the Levant, the latest of a series of companies from Egypt to start leaving...

Vezeeta Performly Crowd Analyzer

Egypt

Upper Egypt entrepreneurs demand more attention

Luxor entrepreneurs hope they will be the lucky recipients of rising international, if not national, attention after the UN launched two...

UNIDO IMKAN creetova

Egypt

Egypt startup Dr. Weee tackles e-waste with app

Dr. Weee, an Egyptian e-waste business, has launched an app designed to make recycling easier for consumers. The app, launched this...

spear ink Dr. Weee e-waste

Egypt

People still love print, says e-book startup Kotobna

Egyptian e-book platform Kotobna is breaking the stranglehold of traditional book publishers, but they are also finding that people still...

Kotobna Publishing e-publishing

Egypt

Amazon to soon launch logistics center in Egypt

Amazon is in the process of considering a logistics center in Egypt, as the Daily News Egypt reported. Hany Kesis, former chairperson of...

Amazon Expansion news watch

Egypt

Careem sacks Egypt boss

Careem’s Egypt managing director Wael El Fakharany said in a tweet today that he was sacked by the car hailing startup. Egypt...

careem

Egypt

Signed, sealed: deliveries get tech'd in Cairo

Personal transport is easily the most popular sharing economy business in Egypt, as Uber, Careem and Ousta compete hard for market share,...

Bosta Oustaman Ousta

Egypt

UK foreign minister Boris Johnson praises Egypt startups

UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson praised the creativity and originality of Egypt’s entrepreneurs on Saturday during a networking...

Bosta boris johnson

Bahrain

Startup Watch: breaking stuff, pain = gain, and working for the man

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Google Startup Watch Uber

Egypt

Tinder for business: Geomingle wants to send you on a ‘date’

Londoners have embraced the dating app with such passion that an Egyptian entrepreneur has built a spin off, which he hopes will have an...

GeoMingle tinder location-based networking

Egypt

Egypt’s Edfa3ly finds a Kuwaiti safe haven

This article has been crossposted from Nuwait. Egyptian ecommerce play Edfa3ly has achieved the dream - a successful expansion into the...

Nuwait edfa3ly ecommerce

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

Egypt

Jordan's POSrocket turns restaurant registers to a thing from the past

Four years as the cofounder of a successful food delivery company, acquired by Turkey's Yemeksepet in 2012, Zeid Husban was ready for...

posrocket ifood.jo POS

Egypt

AWTAD UP Communities rounds of 2017 [Call for applications]

The Association for Women’s Total Advancement and Development (AWTAD) is an NGO dedicated to the professional and personal...

Egypt entrepreneurship Mentorship

Egypt

What startups should know about Egypt’s IMF reforms

All Egypt is feeling the weight of economic reform, but not all entrepreneurs will feel the impact equally. Last week, the...

IMF reforms bankruptcy

Egypt

On speaking terms: Egypt’s investors, entrepreneurs forging a bond [Know Your VC]

The investor-entrepreneur relationship in Egypt has been something of a rollercoaster, but both say they’re finally starting to iron...

investor relations A15 eventtus

Egypt

Stronger together: uniting Egypt’s women entrepreneurs

Egyptian women are entrepreneurial powerhouses, and Rasha Abu AlSaud has been working for the last three years to link them all. In...

GEW Women Entrepreneurs of Egypt Cairo Startup Cup

Egypt

Maker Hackathon 2017

For the third year in a row, Maker Hackathon returns to empower innovators and makers to create functioning prototypes of...

Egypt hackathon Hardware

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