Egypt Egypt’s Vezeeta gets $5M Series B Vezeeta, an Egypt-based automated physician, clinic and hospital bookings platform received $5 million in series B funding led by... Lucy Knight • 30 December, 2016 Vezeeta Egypt BECO Capital
Regional Way to grow: 4 vital skills for 2017 [Opinion] With 2017 around the corner, it’s time to learn a new set of strategies, sharpen your skill-sets, and get ready for the challenges... Ehsan Jahandarpour • 29 December, 2016 Growth hacking white hat links content marketing
Regional Startup Watch: why cats like boxes, 2017 predictions, and the big trillion 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 • 29 December, 2016 Startup Watch 2017 predictions cats in boxes
Lebanon Lack of local talent drives Lebanese entrepreneurs abroad Despite a deep desire by Lebanese entrepreneurs to hire local and base their startups at home soil, lagging skills within the labor force... Dana Ballout • 28 December, 2016 Endeavor lebanon talent
U.A.E Jisr Venture Partners like to look outside MENA [Know your VC] Jisr Venture Partners founder and chairman Waleed Albanawi is making another investment into the food and beverage (F&B) space by... Elias Jabbe • 28 December, 2016 Investment jisr venture partners ReserveOut
Regional Tech drives MENA to a crossroad Fourteen years ago a group of Arab scholars drew a sobering picture of the Middle East: that it would need 140 years to just double its per... Jonas Feller • 28 December, 2016 Knowledge Economy undp AHDR
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... Rachel Williamson • 27 December, 2016 Wamda2016 shezlong sympaticus
Regional Entrepreneurship could be worth $700B for MENA Every month, someone opines that MENA has a “relatively nascent” startup ecosystem, while others spot the “next Silicon... Jonas Feller • 27 December, 2016 Wamda Research Lab WRL policies
Egypt Fixing Egypt’s waste crisis one handbag at a time An Egyptian startup in Aswan is turning palm tree waste into handmade products, and is not only providing jobs but helping to revive... Nayrouz Talaat • 27 December, 2016 Napata palm waste waste management
Syria Wikilogia to raise the bar in Damascus ecosystem On December 10, Damascus-based Wikilogia launched Startup Technology Trends Program (STTP) with the aim of injecting confidence and... Yahya Saleh • 26 December, 2016 syria Wikilogia Al Amjad Isstaif
Regional 6 WRL reports in 2016 to highlight ecosystem opportunities #Wamda2016 This year was an interesting one, not just from a geopolitical angle, but also a technological one that saw some great advancements, not... Tarek Faycal • 26 December, 2016 Wamda2016 Healthcare Cleantech
Regional 30k people were at MENA’s top 3 startup events in 2016 #Wamda2016 The startupper calendar gets busier every year. In 2016 there have been more than 200 events related to entrepreneurship, startups,... Edoardo Giorgetti • 25 December, 2016 Wamda2016 Roundup Ecosystem
Jordan Harnessing the power of Jordan's wind [Q&A] Solar panel units, satellite dishes and water tanks are no longer the only trademarks of residential rooftops. Two-meter high wind turbines... Tala El Issa • 25 December, 2016 Taqetna solar Wind
Regional Social entrepreneurship in MENA: always the bridesmaid, never the bride [Opinion] You go up to the stage to pitch a social enterprise with the hope that tomorrow is better than today. You hit all the right spots:... Ola Aboukhsaiwan • 22 December, 2016 Social Entrepreneurship social impact Build Palestine
Global Startup Watch: Careem the unicorn, Nile farmers learning farming, and AI wars This year is coming to a close but there is no ‘slowly’ in the complex world of entrepreneurship news, with people ever ready... Dana Ballout • 22 December, 2016 Startup Watch careem Egypt
Saudi Arabia How will Saudi’s diversification affect startups? Just a few days into 2016, Saudi Arabia deputy crown prince Muhammad bin Salman made waves when he said the kingdom was exploring a public... Jeremy Paduano • 21 December, 2016 Wamda2016 Saudi Arabia Aramco
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