Wamda

Tunisia

Entrepreneurship and marriage don’t mix in Tunisia

“I don’t plan to get married anytime soon,” teased Mohamed Ben Abdellah, 28, founder of ceramics startup El Houch. He...

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Tunisia

Two thirds of women-led startups fail in Tunisia, report

Only a third of startups founded by women in Tunisia will survive compared to over two-thirds of those by men, a new study shows. The...

Tunisie régions entrepreneurs

Tunisia

Tunisian startup Datavora raises $470K

Tunisian startup Datavora, a specialist in ecommerce big data, has raised just over 1 million Tunisian dinars (US$467,000) in seed...

Tunisie Data ecommerce

Tunisia

Bloom Masters Competition

This year the MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab and the BIAT Foundation in Tunisia are organizing one of the largest competitions for...

tunisia competition startup

Tunisia

What 5 Tunisians learned from 4 Finns about their startups

Learn your pitch, include all of the relevant information, and show - don’t tell - how you plan to scale, Finnish coaches told...

startupsauna competition accelerator

Tunisia

Tunisian startups' struggle to scale

Tunisian entrepreneurs often ‘ask the experts’ how to internationalize their startup, and it’s a question that gained...

Tunis internationnalisation Digitalmania

Tunisia

Teaching tech in Tunisia

On a Saturday afternoon, rather than playing video games or going out with some friends, 70 teenagers came to the Cogite coworking space to...

GoMyCode Yahya Bouhlel Wala Kasmi

Tunisia

Travelcar raises $15.8M Series B

Travelcar, a startup that enables you to make your car available for renting at airports when you travel instead of paying for expensive...

car sharing Travelcar fundraising

Tunisia

Sarah Magida Toumi: Tunisia’s top tree-hugger

For almost a decade Sarah Majida Toumi has been thinking about solutions to fight desertification in her country and sustainable...

Sarah Magida Toumi Agriculture acacias

Tunisia

Tunisia startup makes robots, not human substitutes

When Anis Sahbani left his job as a university lecturer in France to start a robot-making startup in Tunisia, half of his friends thought...

Enova Robotics profile robotics

Tunisia

New York startup vibe in Tunisian competition

Houda Ghozzi, the woman behind Tunisia’s Open Startup competition, was tired of programs that taught students how to pitch but then...

Open Startup Tunisia Columbia University BIAT

Egypt

WeMENA Resilient Future [call for applications]

Women Entrepreneurs for a Resilient Future in the Middle East and North Africa (WeMENA) is a business model challenge launched to...

women entrepreneurs MENA Innovation

Regional

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...

Wamda2016 shezlong sympaticus

Tunisia

Left out: Tunisian startups demand attention

Tunisian entrepreneurs think the government should pay more attention to them rather than focusing on megaprojects, after a major...

Tunisia2020 economy startup

Tunisia

Spark Tunisia student geekout bridges social divides

Two members of the winning team at Spark Tunisia came from a high school in Aïn Draham, one of the poorest areas in the country. A...

Innovation Technologie Start-up

Tunisia

The business of art: Tunisian artists-turned-entrepreneurs

Even as the city of Tunis buzzed with excitement over a 50 year old annual film festival, the state of the arts in the country is dire,...

tunisia Art

Tunisia

Follow The Leaders Tunis

Tunis has been witnessing a tidal wave of transformations and changes, with the growth of a new generation of leaders who are pioneering...

tunisia follow the leaders Thinkers and Doers

Tunisia

Feeling Fabulous: Tunisian app helps healthy ‘rituals’

Remember the last time you had a productive stress-free day? Did something you committed to doing a long time ago? I bet you felt fabulous....

Mobile Apps Diaspora Fabulous

Tunisia

Turning pro: Tunisian game makers eye the big time

From the local playrooms to a Tunisian start-up dedicated to the making of video games, the gaming community in Tunisia is growing step by...

Gaming tunisia Polysmart

Tunisia

Favizone, the Tunisian big data company that's launching in France

What do you do after you’ve found success and sold your startup? Mehdi Khemiri’s answer was to pick a high potential...

France Business France big data

Tunisia

What I know about social entrepreneurship: Camille Courtaud

Social entrepreneurship, high impact entrepreneurship, social business, impact investing, so many mysterious words. What do they mean? Do...

Social Entrepreneurship Social Business Yunus Social Business

Tunisia

Can Yallaread make peer-to-peer work in Tunisia?

The peer-to-peer sharing economy never really took off in MENA but some entrepreneurs, like Tunisian Ahmed Hadhri, still believe it’s...

culture yallaread collaborative consumption

Tunisia

Surviving the Ben Ali regime: a Tunisian entrepreneur success story

Badreddine Ouali is a model for the new generation of Tunisian entrepreneurs, but he never planned his career. Today, after blazing a...

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