Wamda

Egypt

Lessons from the Tahrir Academy shutdown

Tahrir Academy first announced their closure earlier this summer. News that Egyptian online learning center Tahrir Academy was...

nafham legislations close down

Egypt

Egypt pill reminder app sets sights on Germany

Despite having perfect health, Ahmad ElKaragy always dreaded having colds for one reason: he often forgot to take his medication...

MEMakers Healthcare Egypt

Egypt

Fawry sells major stake for $100M

A consortium of international investors has taken an 85 percent stake in Egyptian electronic bill presentment and payment platform Fawry...

fawry Egypt Investment

Egypt

Incubators prompt entrepreneurship in Upper Egypt

Hemma encouraged students at Assiut University to apply with innovative ideas. (Images via Hemma) Cairo often takes all the attention of...

Holol Techno-Falah Upper Egypt

Egypt

This Egyptian fashion startup has its eyes on Europe

Online luxury sales are projected to grow by an unprecedented 20 to 25 percent over the next five years, according to a Boston Consulting...

maria munoz slickr Clothing

Egypt

Renac Oasis Renewable Energy offers PV Off-grid Course

The Renac Oasis Solar Academy in Egypt is offering a PV Off-grid course. The course is tailored for engineers, consultants, and...

course solar academy Renac Oasis

Egypt

How to make social entrepreneurship work in MENA

JP Morgan's Ali Idrissi, Droomzaken's Martijn Blom and Accion Venture...

Misr El Kheir Social Entrepreneurship Egypt

Egypt

Egypt's Otlob sold for a bargain to Rocket Internet

Egyptian food-ordering website Otlob has been snapped up by Rocket Internet, but at an almost firesale price. The acquisition by...

online food ordering otlob Rocket Internet

Egypt

Egypt’s El Noor Geh takes part in GE’s first Minds+Machines event in the region

As Egypt suffers from frequent power cuts, programmers, makers and builders keep trying to find ways to prevent their work from being...

El Noor Geh Minds+Machines MEMakers

Egypt

Egypt's VoIP block to make the startup life harder

At the start of October news broke on social media websites that Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications such as Skype, WhatsApp...

voice over internet protocol Mobinil Viber

Egypt

KarmSolar, first Egyptian company to get license for off-grid solar power plant

Update: This article has been updated to include KarmSolar's largest deal to date, announced on October 18. Solar energy...

solar power MEMakers KarmSolar

Egypt

Egyptian social entrepreneurship incubator aims to help the neediest

A year ago the Misr El Kheir foundation launched GESR, an Egyptian incubator for social entrepreneurship, with the...

Gesr Egypt Social Entrepreneurship

Egypt

TechWadi MENA Roadshow: Cairo

The TechWadi Roadshow, a ten-day traveling roadshow powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, is coming to Cairo on October 22 -23. The Roa...

Roadshow MENA techwadi

Egypt

Yaoota raises $2.7M Series A from UAE's KBBO

Yaoota cofounders Sherif ElRakabawy and Mohamed Ewis (Image via Rachel Williamson) Egyptian startup Yaoota has landed a $2.7 million...

yaoota Series A Egypt

Egypt

The Egypt teen cracking the fuel crisis

Azza Faiad’s passion for science started in a taxi ride late in 2010, a ride which sparked a potentially multibillion dollar idea to create ...

pyrolysis EPRI alternative energy

Egypt

What Egypt's local investors want

Egypt has made headlines lately for attracting a series of high-level venture investments from foreign players, but local investors are...

KI angels Tennra ideavelopers

Egypt

e-health and Egypt: the who's who [Infographic]

Egypt’s health sector is in dire need of an overhaul, but it has yet to attract much attention from the country’s tech...

Nano Ebers D-Kimia Diagnostics Vound

Egypt

Dubai classifieds platform dubizzle acquired by OLX

[Update: September 17th - Dubizzle has invested $1 million in fashion marketplace app Shedd] Dubai’s classified ads website dubizzle has b...

OLX acquisition Dubizzle

Egypt

Egypt startups attract wave of foreign VCs

Egyptian entrepreneurs are finally beginning to attract foreign investors, with jobs site Wuzzuf the latest to close a major Series A...

piton capital vostok new ventures instabug

Egypt

InfoMed digitizes Egypt's family doctors

A spate of high-profile deaths in Egypt from medical misdiagnosis has highlighted the need for better all-round medical care in...

family medicine ehealth InfoMed

Egypt

Dopay does banking for unbanked Egyptians

Dopay, one of the early startups to get involved in Egypt's financial technology sector, is hoping to build a web of clients among the...

unbanked Dopay financial services

Egypt

Egypt's makers mark out industry roadblocks [WamdaTV]

Egypt's tech startup sector includes a surprisingly large number of 'makers': entrepreneurs such as Integreight CEO...

MiniMakerFair Hardware

Egypt

Alex Agenda aims to develop Egypt’s media [Q&A]

Egypt’s media has dramatically shifted since the January 25 revolution four years ago. Citizen journalists spread through the streets and l...

Media training Alex Agenda alexandria

Egypt

Shahbander weaves online network for Egyptian textile makers

Less than a year after graduating from the AUC Venture Labs accelerator, Egyptian startup Shahbander is looking to take on the...

digitize textiles shahbander

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