U.A.E 500 Startups invests in UAE gifting marketplace UAE-based gift-giving platform Joi has recieved investment from 500 Startups. With this first round founders Ritesh Tilani and... Natasha D'Souza • 05 July, 2016 500 startups joi gifts Investment
Regional Startups and VCs: it doesn't have to be complicated The relationship between an investor and an investee is sometimes delicate. One is fronting up with cash and faith that it’ll go... Maya Rahal • 05 July, 2016 due diligence startups VCs
Regional What I know about mentoring: Kathleen Bury Despite having alumni spread across 14 countries the UK-based foundation Mowgli is still having to work very hard to get people to... Lucy Knight • 04 July, 2016 Mowgli relationships
Syria High risk, high reward: Mag Optics wants to change the way we see Biotech is a high risk, high cost, high reward world. It's one that Mag Optics, a London-based startup founded by a Syrian... Rachel Williamson • 04 July, 2016 MAG Optics lasik MEMakersGE
Egypt Ramadan a flash point for Egypt food startups Egyptians’ food spending over Ramadan hit an average of 35 billion Egyptian pounds (US$3.5 billion), or about 15 percent of their... Eman Mostafa • 03 July, 2016 Agrimatic Akla Baity Yumamia
Regional MENA by the numbers: what do they really mean? Internet penetration, media consumption or ecommerce spending rates all tell one piece of a broader story about how the internet is being... Rachel Williamson • 03 July, 2016 Payfort infographics Data
Regional Meet the makers: GE Garages and the future of industrial entrepreneurship As the MENA region grapples with non-hydrocarbon diversification in the aftermath of the oil price shock, a slew of strategic announcements... Vanessa Khalil • 03 July, 2016 MEMakersGE GEMS robotics
Global The future of everything: tech of 2016 [Infographic] The technology you hear about everyday - artificially intelligent robots, self driving cars - are just the tip of science these... Rachel Williamson • 30 June, 2016 Systems Metabolic Engineering open AI perovskite
Jordan For tech’s sake, get out of our way [Opinion] Last October we found out the royal court wanted some major changes to reawaken Jordan’s technology sector. This was no surprise... Laith Zraikat • 30 June, 2016 regulation Opinion Policy
Global Religious readings get innovative This article is a crosspost with MIT Technology Review Arab Edition. It is quite common in religious circles to read Islam’s holy... MIT Technology Review • 30 June, 2016 Brandwise-apps Quran Khatma sawab
Maghreb ‘Tunisian DNA’ essential to major US cloud deal An American success often hides a diaspora success. In the case of Predictix it goes far beyond that. Predictix, a US-based retail cloud... Aline Mayard • 29 June, 2016 acceleration Predictix usa
Europe Aramex leads $8.5M Series B in UK address startup Aramex has led a $8.5 million Series B funding round in British startup What 3 Words, a company that is creating a universal postal code... Rachel Williamson • 29 June, 2016 Eddress what3words Locname
Maghreb AIG becomes Jumia, but is a rebrand a good idea? Few internet services have made as much noise as Africa Internet Group (AIG), and now it’s seeking to make more with a major... Aline Mayard - Rachel Williamson • 29 June, 2016 rebranding Africa Internet Group Kaymu
Egypt Is Ousta Egypt's fastest growing startup ever? [Q&A] [Update July 27: five months after launching Ousta is negotiating a $5.6 million investment round.] Ride hailing app... Radwa Rashad • 29 June, 2016 ride hailing Ousta careem
Regional Big data in health: good for anything yet? Using big data in healthcare, anywhere, might it be true to say no one seems to quite know what they’re doing yet? But Dr.... Lucy Knight • 29 June, 2016 Ver2 Digital Medicine MEMakersGE healthcare analytics
Maghreb The year Morocco's digital economy levels up This is the second of three articles about the state of digital payments in Morocco. Read the first here. Morocco’s financial... Amine Azariz • 28 June, 2016 Regulations fin-tech
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