Regional Wisdom and warnings: Twitter chat with Christopher Schroeder and Marwan Kheireddine “[We] need to stop thinking of MENA as one country - some areas [are] hard, even tragic; some [are] rising,” tweeted... Dana Ballout • 27 July, 2016 Christopher Schroeder Marwan Kheireddine YPO
Maghreb The #KarimJazouani prize's 2016 winner announced For the fourth time, Wamda is rewarding advocates of Moroccan entrepreneurship with the Karim Jazouani Prize. Last month, we asked... Aline Mayard • 26 July, 2016 Kilimanjero youssef Chaqor Endeavor
Regional Wissam Sabbagh: A visionary turning idea to product “Sex and $550.” That was the subject line of an email then 18-year-old Wissam Sabbagh sent to thousands of potential... Dana Ballout • 26 July, 2016 Wissam Sabbagh Dotcom Mangomolo
Jordan Jordanian university breathes life into eco-friendly graduation projects The two most common options for people after they graduate from university are to either join the general workforce or pursue an academic... Tala El Issa • 26 July, 2016 eco friendly green tech Jordan
Regional Fortifying healthcare startups in the Middle East and North Africa This article is a crosspost with the Stanford Social Innovation Review. AlemHealth, an Emirati medical startup, can remotely diagnose... Jamil Wyne - Willam Altman • 25 July, 2016 AlemHealth CardioDiagnostics AlTibbi
Regional Taking a sledgehammer to hierarchy Payfort is implementing a radical new company structure, one where CEO Omar Soudodi is no longer CEO, call center staff have voted to... Rachel Williamson • 25 July, 2016 holacracy Payfort HolacracyOne
Saudi Arabia Saudi startup's device to aid search for oil In an oil-based economy like Saudi Arabia, finding oil and gas is almost as important as finding water. The country’s efforts to... Bérénice Magistretti • 25 July, 2016 Core Echo Saudi Arabia Oil
Maghreb 11 coworking spaces for startups in Maghreb [Wamda TV] For years Maghreb only counted a handful of coworking spaces in Tunis and Casablanca, but things have changed in the last two... Aline Mayard • 24 July, 2016 The Address sylabs Mon Atelier
Regional What the Wamda Research Lab discovered about hiring talent [Infographic] Last week the Wamda Research Lab (WRL) released a report exploring the ways in which MENA’s entrepreneurs hire and the... Teeb Assaf • 24 July, 2016 WRL Access to Talent Programme
Regional The aviation industry, a new frontier for MENA startups [Q&A] In the world of aviation, the Middle East is one of the fastest growing regions in passenger traffic. According to IATA, the rate will... Tala El Issa • 24 July, 2016 aviation Travel Abrar Ahmad
Regional MENA cashes in: new report shows VC money is rising This is an edited crosspost from Medium. I’ve always admired the consistency and nuggets of wisdom that US founders and VCs are... Ramzy Ismail • 21 July, 2016 Venture Capital Flat6Labs
Lebanon Smart money is good money [Opinion] Recently I was involved in a debate: startups versus venture capital. One particular moment... Walid Mansour • 21 July, 2016 MEVP money smart money
Global Startup Watch: Saudi cash, zombie startups, and your how-to-fire guide 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... Rachel Williamson • 21 July, 2016 Startup Watch careem KarmSolar
Turkey Turkish logistics startup raises $1M Kapgel, a Turkish on-demand logistics platform, has announced it's closed a $1 million round from Wamda Capital, Addventure,... Maya Rahal • 20 July, 2016 KapGel Wamda Capital turkey
U.A.E Saving Dubai’s energy one sky rise at a time “It’s like the wild west, codes are lax, and no public records.” These are the comments of engineer Charles Blaschke when... Lucy Knight • 20 July, 2016 Taka Solutions MIT Media Lab community jameel
Maghreb Seducing Dubai: how Morocco's Buzzeff broke in to El Dorado “In Dubai, we lost a lot of money for 18 months,” said Jérôme Mouthon, founder of Moroccan ad agency... Aline Mayard • 20 July, 2016 buzzeff Dubai adtech
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