Wamda

U.A.E

Careem to invest $100M in R&D

Careem has announced a new strategy, plus their plans for global expansion. According to a statement released today they plan, over the next five years, to invest $100 million into R...

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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 Ousta may be Egypt’s fastest-scaling startup to d...

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Egypt

Egypt's Smart Care secures $1.2M from major foreign donor

A major foreign donor has invested $1.2 million in Smart Care Medical Services, a digital healthcare management startup. The deal, heralded by Wamda earlier this month, is the Egyptian-Am...

U.A.E

Fare share: Uber and Careem set pace and purpose for MENA’s sharing economy

Innovation and regulation can often have a paradoxical relationship. Modern tech history has consistently highlighted the tug of war between regulators and innovators, from Google’s co...

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U.A.E

Balancing act: the UAE treads the line between regulation and innovation

In a 2013 article, internet industry analyst Larry Downes made a strong statement: innovation and regulation simply don’t mix. Regulated industries, he said, operated outside marke...

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Regional

Uber’s getting cuddly with KSA - but it’s not what you think [Opinion]

My initial reaction to Uber’s $3.5 billion round was: great! It is easy to frown upon the deal and question why the Saudi government would do this while there is a perfect...

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Yemen

How one company grabbed 70% market share in Yemen

Amazon, Tesla Motors and Tupperware are amongst some big company names that didn’t turn a profit for years, and are proof that if you forget about profits you can grasp market share i...

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Jordan

A Startup Week first for the Arab World

Salwa Qattan, left, from Careem, Fouad Jeryes from CashBasha, and Rahmeh Abu Shweimeh of She Cab. (Image via Tala El Issa) For its first time in the Arab world, Startup Week launched in...

Mlabbas She Cab Startup Week

Regional

TechWadi's 4th webinar: How to Raise Funds for the Causes You Care About

Whether it’s an innovative new app or a children’s book, most great ideas need funding to get started! TechWadi are holding their fourth webinar next week on May 10 about the stages of crow...

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Egypt

Honeymoon over for Uber, Careem in Egypt?

A sudden surge in higher prices for Uber and Careem has taken Egyptians by suprise. (Image via Careem) The Egyptian honeymoon may be over for Careem and Uber, who are being accused of almos...

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U.A.E

Term sheets at dawn, Step Conference 2016

Joy Ajlouny and fellow startup cofounders Loulou Khazen Baz and Mudassir Sheikha get stuck into the debate. (Image via Wamda) “I work 18-hour days, I’m lucky if I ge...

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Pakistan

Careem acquires Pakistani ride sharing service

Two minds will be better than one when it comes to battling Uber. (Image via Careem) Car-hailing app Careem has acquired Lahore-based car share and cab booking service Savaree. Th...

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U.A.E

Prepping to ‘trep

During the early stages of Careem, cofounder Magnus Olsson saved every single dirham he could and devoted his whole self to the growth of the business. That included taking a bus from his ho...

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Regional

How Nabda Care is creating portable mobile healthcare services [Wamda TV]

Nabda Care is a medical-social platform that aims to link patients, care providers, and personal medical records. It also provides patients with a unified medical record. The app creates ...

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U.A.E

Scale-up survival guides

It’s 4am and the phone is ringing. Noor Sweid picks up, and a voice on the other end tells her the news: a fire has erupted at the Atlantis on Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah, only weeks b...

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U.A.E

Dashroad launches with Careem, seeks to take on MENA

"It's a platform. In short, it's a FitBit for cars" This is how entrepreneur Faheem Gill introduces his product Dashroad, which was launched in February last year, and whose first large cust...

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Regional

Careem's 4 big things for 2016 [Wamda TV]

2015 was certainly a great year for Careem and they say localization was the key. They acquired Saudi-based home delivery Enwani, Taxiii in Morocco, and raised a $60 millio...

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Regional

Sharing our way out of malaise: MENA and the sharing economy [Opinion]

A visual reprensentation of the concept that could transform the Middle East and North Africa. (Image via Meridian-180.org) In ascertaining the future of viable technology businesses in the...

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Maghreb

4 tips for digitalizing your market

Careem, Hmizate/Hmall, Jumia, Uber, and Avito discuss digitalization. (Image via @equartey) Africa is a big continent, yet in spite of all the differences its 54 countries have one thi...

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Regional

Electronic medical services: health risks or new hope?

Checking your online pulse. (Image via Vanguard Communications) As the world commemorates World Cancer Day every February 4, cancer continues to be one of the leading causes of mortality wi...

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U.A.E

Customer experience, who's the best in the Gulf?

The judges with a rep from the Dubai Department of Economic Development. (Images via Awards International) Customer experience. A buzzword that no one really knows the meaning of. That...

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Saudi Arabia

Six winners announced at Saudi's first MITEF competition

B8ak, an application for home maintenance has won first place in the ‘Startups Track’ at Saudi Arabia’s first MIT Enterprise Forum competition. They took home a prize of 100,000 Saudi riyals...

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U.A.E

Flat6Labs Abu Dhabi Fireside Chat with Techstars' Eamonn Carey

Flat6Labs Abu Dhabi is organising a fireside chat with Eamonn Carey, entrepreneur-in-residence at Techstars London. The event will take place on January 20th at In5 Innovation Center in Dub...

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Regional

Egypt’s Noongam wins top prize at The Entrepreneur Day

Egyptian comic book publishers, Noongam, have snagged the biggest prize at DSOA’s The Entrepreneur Day with their platform Magnoon. Founder of Magnoon magazine, Hani Ghaith, defined his...

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