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Iraq Finance Expo: The future of financial technologies in Iraq

Officially cohosted with Central Bank of Iraq, the 3rd Annual Iraq Finance Expo (IFEX) is dedicated to unlocking the latest...

Iraq

Arabnet Startup Battle - Baghdad

As part of the IBBC Tech Conference happening on April 30 at the Babylon Rotana Hotel, Iraq Tech Ventures and Arabnet are hosting a tech...

Iraq

Iraqis turn to entrepreneurship as corruption hinders economy

Iraq has become more synonymous with war and corruption than entrepreneurship, but things are slowly changing as more people seek...

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Iraq

Jusoor Startup Roadshow

The Startup Roadshow is Gathering Syrian Entrepreneurs Across 5 Cities to Support Refugee-Led Startups The Startup Roadshow, a...

Iraq

New startup academy launches in Erbil

Re:Coded is a new tech entrepreneurship academy which launched in Erbil. Running throughout September 2018, the Academy will focus on...

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Iraq

Careem debuts in Iraq

Careem, the region’s leading ride-hailing service in the MENA, Turkey and Pakistan, expanded its services into the Republic of Iraq,...

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Iraq

Five One Labs Incubator Program [Call for applications]

The Five One Labs incubator is a three-month long program to take your startup business from idea to launch. From October 22 till...

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Iraq

Pitch Bootcamp Erbil

Pitch Bootcamp is a two-day career accelerator program designed for students and fresh graduates. The first edition of Pitch Bootcamp...

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Iraq

Where does entrepreneurship stand in Iraq? [opinion]

Many small things are currently shaping the future of the startups ecosystem in Iraq. Even if the digital shift took some time to occur, in...

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Iraq

First tech map for Iraq launched

This article is a crosspost from Bite.Tech Over the past six months, Bite.Tech, an independent newsletter covering the digital economy...

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Arabnet Dubai promotes investments in the MENA's emerging markets

As Arabnet CEO Omar Christidis took his last strides on the Arabnet Digital Summit stage in Dubai and shared some telling numbers, the...

Aqar Map Astrolabs Oman Technology Fund

Iraq

Building a startup launchpad in Iraq [Opinion]

Iraq’s entrepreneurship scene has a number of players helping startups, such as Fikra Space which was launched in 2014, but they...

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Iraq

US travel ban harms Iraqi entrepreneurs

For an Iraqi makerspace founder, the repercussions of President Trump’s executive order to put a ban on travelers from seven...

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Wamda’s best stories of 2016

2016 was the year of trying new things and testing some ideas on you, our readers. We brought in a weekly series we called Startup...

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Iraq

To dream the impossible dream: an Erbil incubator

When Mashal Sadiq arrived in Erbil after completing her undergraduate studies in the UK she was just looking for a little break from the...

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Iraq

Startup Weekend Erbil 2016

Startup Weekends are 54-hour events designed to provide entrepreneurs with a crash course on the basics and know-hows of starting your own...

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Iraq

Fertile ground for mobile wallets: Iraq

Hussein Kanber agha says his company has built a user friendly mobile wallet that will allow Iraqis to make payments using their...

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Iraq

Home or away? The best market may not be under your nose

Starting in your home market is not necessarily the best way to success, a lesson Iraqi-founded Apps Lab learned the hard way. Apps Lab...

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Iraq

A story of failure, or is it?

Three years ago Wamda interviewed Iraqi Mohammad Al-Samarrai about his venture, the country’s first online food delivery site based...

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Iraq

Iraq's foodie appmakers want to fix the mealtime grind

Sha6bu5 is hoping to profit from the Middle East's foodie trend. (Image via MAHAW) The Middle East’s entrepreneurial newsmakers this year h...

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Iraq

Erbil's startups go quiet

An Erbil panorama. (Images via Rachel Williamson) On three occasions this year Goran Sherko has had to postpone Startup Weekend...

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Iraq

Curing Iraq's coder crisis

Iraqi startups suffer from a critical lack of skilled coders but a new bootcamp in Baghdad called The Week is trying to narrow this talent...

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Iraq

Exchanges are creating Iraqi changemakers

Over the past 10 years some 3,000 young Iraqis have travelled on exchange programs funded by foreign governments, and it's some of...

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Iraq

Iraq's main maker: Nawres Arif

Nawres Arif taught himself digital 3D modelling from a photocopied manual, years before he had a computer. He set up Basra’s first...

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