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Cairo Accelerator Flat6Labs Seeks Diverse Startups

Flat6Labs, the Cairo-based start-up Y Combinator-style accelerator, is looking for new start-ups. No surprises there. But as...

Accelerators

Egyptian Accelerator Flat6Labs Graduates First Cycle of Tech Startups

Egypt’s newest seed stage accelerator, Flat6Labs, has graduated its first group of startups, culminating in a Demo Day at their Cairo c...

Accelerators Flat6Labs

A Look at Seedcamp, Europe's Hottest Accelerator

As venture incubators sprout up around the globe, pledging to nourish the next generation of startups in a period of global recession, they...

Accelerators

New Startup Accelerator Flat6Labs Launches in Cairo

Flat6Labs, the newest startup accelerator in Egypt, launched its first round of startup investment and training today. Last night, its...

Accelerators Flat6Labs

Top 10 Accelerators in the Middle East and North Africa

So you’ve written a quick pitch of your idea, sketched out your market, come up with some monetization options, taken stock of y...

Accelerators

Watch the livestream of Flat6Labs' 6th Demo Day

Check back at 6:30pm Cairo time! Want to see the latest round of startups coming out of Cairo's accelerator Flat6Labs? Tune in to this...

Incubator Flat6Labs Pitching

Watch the Livestream of Flat6Labs' 4th Demo Day

Curious about the latest round of startups coming out of Cairo's accelerator Flat6Labs? Tune in to the Livestream from their Demo Day,...

Accelerators Angel Investment Flat6Labs

Gaza Sky Geeks bootcamp prepares entrepreneurs to pitch to investors [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Last week, MercyCorps Gaza and Oasis500 partnered to organize their first week long bootcamp in Gaza, in collaboration with Gaza ...

Accelerators Investment Oasis500

What's dangerous about the hype in the Middle East startup ecosystem [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting on the Middle East and North Africa in Dead Sea, Jordan this May, we chatted with Usama Fayyad, E...

Hype World Economic Forum Incubator

Gazan entrepreneur builds online platform to unite Palestine's professionals [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] One new startup in Gaza is looking to unite all of Palestine’s professionals in one accessible online network. Entrepreneur I...

Incubator Networking Accelerators

Is 3 Months of Startup Acceleration Enough? We Ask the Crowd [Wamda TV]

At Arabnet Beirut's first panel, titled “The Entrepreneurship Ecosystem - Measuring Our Progress”, panelists discussed the challenges that e...

Accelerators Arabnet

Lebanese Startup Kactus Reinvents the Mobile To-Do List [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, we chatted with Nadi Chemali, the co-Founder of Kactus, an iPhone app in Lebanon that...

Scaling Accelerators Angel Investment

Creating a Digital Arabic Comics Market from Egypt [Wamda TV]

During the Flat6Labs Cycle 3 Demo Day, Mahmoud Ghoz, founder and CEO of Rawy, discusses his startup, a digital publishing marketplace and se...

Egypt Media Accelerators

How to Nurture Global Ambition: A Chat with John Bradford of Springboard [Wamda TV]

Springboard is an intensive 13-week mentor-led business accelerator program based in London and Cambridge that offers entrepreneurs office...

Accelerators Advice Scaling

From Silicon Valley to Jordan: A Chat with Mentor Kyle Wild of Keen-io [Wamda TV]

After our Mix n' Mentor event in Amman, we caught up with Kyle Wild, the founder of Keen.io, an analytics platform for developers, and a...

Accelerators Advice Mentorship

A Chat with Dave McClure of 500 Startups and Geeks on a Plane in Amman [Wamda TV]

In the bus on the way back from our first Mix n Mentor event in Amman, we chatted with Dave McClure of Silicon Valley-based accelerator and...

Accelerators Advice Ecosystem

Bringing Order to Cairo's Taxis: Booking Service 2ogra [Wamda TV]

Tamer Fathi, the CEO & Co-Founder of 2ogra, a Cairo-based startup that recently graduated from accelerator Flat6Labs, discusses his...

Accelerators Mobile Apps Taxi + Traffic

Selling Musical Instruments Online in Jordan: Feesheh [Wamda TV]

Fahed Farraj and Nur Alfayez of Amman-based online musical instrument store Feesheh, which is incubated by Jordanian accelerator...

Accelerators

How KAUST Entrepreneurship Center Works to Incubate Startups in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV]

Ahmed Abdulwahab, Manager of the the KAUST Entrepreneurship Center, explains what the newly-launched center and seed fund is doing to...

Accelerators Ecosystem MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

What Oasis500 Looks for in a Startup [Wamda TV]

Usama Fayyad of successful Jordanian accelerator and early stage investment vehicle Oasis500 chats with Wamda at the World Economic Forum...

Accelerators Investment Mentorship

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