Wamda

Qatar

SkipCash raises $2 million seed round

Qatar-based fintech platform SkipCash, has raised a $2 million (QAR 7 million) seed round from a group of private local investors. The...

Fintech SkipCash seed

Global

Doha venture Capital participates in Cityneon’s $235 million round

Qatar-based Doha Venture Capital has participated in a $235 million funding round for Singapore-based exhibition entertainment...

Cityneon Doha Venture Capital

Qatar

Snoonu raises $5 million in Series A

Qatar-based super app Snoonu, has raised $5 million in the largest Series A round ever raised by a Qatari startup. The round was led...

Snoonu Series A ecommerce

Qatar

Joi Gifts looks to Series A round after raising $750,000 this year

UAE-based e-commerce gifting platform, Joi Gifts has expanded to Qatar, its eighth country after raising $750,000 in a pre-Series A funding...

joi gifts qatar doha

Global

QIA invests $100 million in India-based VerSe Innovation

Source: YourStory Local language tech platform VerSe Innovation, which is the parent company of news aggregator Dailyhunt and...

VerSe innovation Video On Demand Qatar Investment Authority

Qatar

What impact will the restoration of relations with Qatar have on its startups?

The almost four-year blockade of Qatar was lifted last week at the GCC Summit. Now that Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have...

qatar

Qatar

Cwallet secures $220,000 pre-seed

Qatar-based financial technology (fintech) startup Cwallet, has raised a $220,000 pre-seed round from its founders and MBK...

cwallet Fintech

Qatar

Qatar SportsTech launches EntelaQ pre-accelerator programme

Source: Menafn Qatar SportsTech (QST), a leading startup accelerator and hub for innovative sportstech companies in Qatar, has announced...

Qatar Sportstech

Global

QIA invests in Beijing-based Zuoyebang

Source: Tech Crunch Zuoyebang, a Beijing-headquartered startup that runs an online learning app, said on Monday it has raised...

EdTech

Qatar

Meddy raises $2.5 million in series A funding

Doha-based Meddy, a doctor booking platform has raised a $2.5 million in Series A round to scale up its operations in the UAE. The...

Series A Doctor Booking

Qatar

Qatar blocks Uber’s acquisition of Careem in the country

Source: MenaBytes Qatar’s competition authority has blocked Uber’s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of Careem in...

ride-hailing careem Uber

Bahrain

Seedstars GCC

Seedstars World is on a mission to identify the best seed-stage entrepreneurs and provide them with an opportunity to win up to USD 1...

GCC Gulf seedstars

Qatar

QSTP and 500 Startups host Investor Day at the Qatar National Convention Center

Fifteen new startups were given the opportunity today to pitch their business ideas to potential regional and local investors during the...

Qatar Science and Technology Park QSTP 500 startups

Qatar

Qatar startup gives activewear a modesty makeover

Nike has won plaudits for its high-performance sports hijab, but for women wanting ‘modest’ sportswear, that’s as good as...

sportswear Oola modest fashion

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

Bahrain

Middle East newspapers need to get with the digital plan

We’re on our smart devices, all of the time. We know that. What we also know is that the majority of us are getting our news from...

Digital Media Index Newspapers digital transformation

Qatar

How we can create a virtuous innovation cycle [Opinion]

Innovation is a key element of all national transformation agendas in GCC countries, with no less than Vice President and Ruler of Dubai...

3i Innovation Framework microsoft

Qatar

Qatar doctor directory Meddy adds Arabic site

Qatari healthcare directory Meddy has launched its first Arabic version with the expectation that using the region’s native language...

Meddy qatar Healthcare

Qatar

What I know about digital Arabic content: Nawaf Felemban

In 2015 Wamda produced a report that showed 60 percent of Arabs wanted to read online content in Arabic. That would be great...

Kooora Kasra WIK

Qatar

Looking to build an ecosystem, Qatar Foundation

“I met with a Jordanian minister a few years ago and he told me that he wanted the country to have 10,000 PhDs in the next few years,...

ARC'16 Qatar Foundation techwadi

Qatar

The Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference 2016 (ARC'16)

The Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference 2016 (ARC'16) will be held on 22nd and 23rd March at the Qatar National Convention C...

Annual research Qatar Foundation qatar

Qatar

Opportunity (and big bucks) knocks at Qatar's newest incubator

The trend towards entrepreneurship is so popular that it is now at a point of influencing economic policy. Not only is it stimulating the...

qatar Incubator

Qatar

Qatar Business Incubation Center - Demo Day

QBIC, Qatar Business Incubation Center, is organizing its 2nd Demo Day of its “LeanStartup” program, which will be held on December 9th 201...

Demo Day qatar Incubator

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