Wamda

U.A.E

PepsiCo, SABIC, AstroLabs launch Mega Green Accelerator to support cleantech startups

PepsiCo, SABIC, AstroLabs, and their strategic partners have announced the launch of the Mega Green Accelerator to invest in startups...

Astrolabs Pepsico

U.A.E

Majid Al Futtaim launches new accelerator to support regional SMEs

UAE-based retail group Majid Al Futtaim and AstroLabs have launched Majid Al Futtaim Launchpad, an accelerator programme that aims to...

Majid Al Futtaim Astrolabs accelerator

Saudi Arabia

AstroLabs Showcase series launches in Riyadh

UAE-based technology ecosystem builder AstroLabs has launched its first edition of the ‘AstroLabs Showcase’ series in Riyadh...

Astrolabs

Regional

What are the most in-demand skills among startups in Mena?

Talent remains one of the biggest challenges facing startups in the Middle East. Good talent is difficult to find and can be very costly....

recruitment talent Astrolabs

U.A.E

Astrolabs launches its second Dubai tech hub

Dubai’s tech startup hub AstroLabs, officially opened its second coworking space in the Emirate yesterday, more than doubling its...

Astrolabs AstroLabs Dubai

Egypt

Arabnet Dubai promotes investments in the MENA's emerging markets

As Arabnet CEO Omar Christidis took his last strides on the Arabnet Digital Summit stage in Dubai and shared some telling numbers, the...

Aqar Map Astrolabs Oman Technology Fund

U.A.E

Serving the underserved at IBM's Smartcamp, Dubai

Serving the underserved was very much the theme last week as two startups providing services to migrant workers in the UAE took the top...

IBM now money smart labour

U.A.E

Astrolabs: diversifying innovation in Dubai [Q&A]

This is an edited crosspost from Knowledge@Wharton. Muhammed Mekki is well equipped for his mission to promote a robust startup culture...

Astrolabs Google Dubai

U.A.E

In5 Media Hub, latest incubator with industry approach

Dubai-based incubator In5 is finally putting the finishing touches to its media-focused hub. First announced in November 2015 they...

in5 In5 media hub Payfort

U.A.E

Startups, compete at your own risk

Be it money, equity, consultation, incubation or simply a platform to fine-tune the elevator pitch, startup competitions have manufactured...

Arab Start Up competition Startup MENA GCC Pitch Challenge Dubai+Acumen Business Plan Competition

Regional

Your definitive list of MENA coworking spaces

This piece has been updated from its original publishing date on July 2013. Without external support, building a successful startup can...

Dubai Technology Entrepreneurship Centre (DTEC) The Coworking Café Startup Haus

U.A.E

IoT devices winning big

The Mosaikx team with their giant cheque. (Image via Future Technology Week) A Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry...

The hive future technology week MEMakersGE

U.A.E

Challenge Cup: a two minute pitch for $1M

Challenge Cup winners together. (Image via Shaffi Mather) Two minutes. That’s all the time 25 teams at the 1776 Challenge Cup had to c...

Cowlar Smart Detection Bra MUrgency

U.A.E

What I know about design thinking: Johannes Comeau Milke

Johannes Comeau Milke with workshop attendees. (Image via Better today) Having planted the initial seeds of design thinking at...

What I Know User Experience work practices

Global

How important is the patent?

A patent. ‘Have you got one?’ It’s a question that one startup tells Wamda is asked a lot, too much in fact. So, are...

Band Industries Saba IP Patents

U.A.E

AstroLabs and Google officially open their coworking space

AstroLabs audience during the launch. (Images via AstroLabs) Just over a year since AstroLabs first announced they would be...

DMCC Astrolabs Academy Astrolabs

Regional

Silicon Valley investor on MENA’s road to startup success

Bern Shen at Flat6Labs mentoring a startup team working on children education. Investor Bern Shen is optimistic about the MENA region’s a...

MENA ecosystem Bern Shen MENA

U.A.E

Silicon valley’s 500 Startups is organizing a pitching workshop in Dubai

500 Startups is organizing a pitching workshop hosted by AstroLabs in partnership with Nestle and TOP. The event allows entrepreneurs and...

Nestle 500 startups TOP

U.A.E

AstroLabs Dubai sign on 30 startups ahead of Google tech hub launch

Ahead of its official opening of the Google Tech Hub Space, AstroLabs Dubai has launched a temporary coworking space in the city with 30...

Google Tech Hub Dubai Astrolabs

Astrolabs launches pilot course for its Academy

U.A.E

Regional

Preventing a dangerous rise of penny auction sites in MENA

This article is a crosspost with Astrolabs. This note is meant to outline the danger of penny auction sites and prevent a potentially...

bidaffairs fancybid penny auctions

Thought Leadership

PepsiCo, SABIC, AstroLabs launch Mega Green Accelerator to support cleantech startups

Majid Al Futtaim launches new accelerator to support regional SMEs

AstroLabs Showcase series launches in Riyadh

What are the most in-demand skills among startups in Mena?

Astrolabs launches its second Dubai tech hub

Arabnet Dubai promotes investments in the MENA's emerging markets

Serving the underserved at IBM's Smartcamp, Dubai

Astrolabs: diversifying innovation in Dubai [Q&A]

In5 Media Hub, latest incubator with industry approach

Startups, compete at your own risk

Your definitive list of MENA coworking spaces

IoT devices winning big

Challenge Cup: a two minute pitch for $1M

What I know about design thinking: Johannes Comeau Milke

How important is the patent?

AstroLabs and Google officially open their coworking space

Silicon Valley investor on MENA’s road to startup success

Silicon valley’s 500 Startups is organizing a pitching workshop in Dubai

AstroLabs Dubai sign on 30 startups ahead of Google tech hub launch

Astrolabs launches pilot course for its Academy

AstroLabs+Google announce plans for Dubai coworking space

What did startups learn at Astrolabs' recent workshop in Amman?

Dubai startups bond at Astrolabs' first Scaling Online Startups workshop

Preventing a dangerous rise of penny auction sites in MENA

Thought Leadership

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