Wamda

Saudi Arabia

Wamda invests in Arabic teacher training platform Aanaab

Wamda has invested in Jeddah-based Aanaab, an education technology (edtech) platform that has raised $1.5 million in its seed round. The...

Education EdTech wamda

U.A.E

The UAE is the perfect launchpad for edtech solutions

Katia Al-Kaisi is the founder and chief executive officer of Education House Finland which focuses on introducing Finnish education...

Education EdTech

Egypt

Career 180 raises $100,000 in seed funding

Egypt-based Career 180, a career advising platform, has raised $100,000 in a seed funding round from EdVentures. The startup will...

EdTech seed Egypt

U.A.E

Shorooq Partners invests in Teacherly

Shorooq Partners has invested in UK-based, education technology (edtech) platform Teacherly in seed funding for an undisclosed...

EdTech seed fund

Egypt

COLNN raises $100,000 in seed round

Egypt-based education technology (edtech) startup, COLNN has received $100,000 in seed funding from EdVentures which focuses its...

EdTech seed fund Investment

Saudi Arabia

Noon Academy raises $8.6 million

Source: MenaBytes Riyadh-based online learning platform Noon Academy has raised $8.6 million Series A co-led by Raed Ventures and Saudi...

Investment EdTech fund

Jordan

Jordanian edtech startup Little Thinking Minds raises $500,000 to close its Series A with ~$1.8 million

Source: MenaBytes Amman-based edtech startup Little Thinking Minds has raised another $500,000 to close its Series A with $1.765...

EdTech Investment children

Lebanon

In conversation with Audrey Nakad of Lebanon's Synkers

Synkers is an online peer-to-peer education platform connecting private tutors with students. Founded in Lebanon by Audrey Nakad, Zeina...

EdTech ceo entrepreneurship

Jordan

Amman based Oasis500 announces partial exit from Little Thinking Minds

Source: Menabytes Amman-based accelerator and seed investor Oasis500 has announced partial exit from Jordanian edtech startup Little...

EdTech Jordan Exit

Jordan

Little Thinking Minds raises $1.26 million in Series A

Jordan-based Little Thinking Minds has raised $1.26 million in a Series A round led by Egypt’s Algebra Ventures with participation...

EdTech Education Series A

Regional

Today’s edtech for tomorrow’s innovators

Educational technology (edtech) is filling a gap where traditional models have become obsolete. As innovation becomes a key pillar in...

Education EdTech

Egypt

Egyptian e-learning platform raises over $800,000 from UK and US angel investors

Knowledge Officer, an e-learning platform, raised £600,000 (US$ 833,500) from UK and US angel investors Ian Hurlock from Fox and...

Egypt uk Knowledge Officer

Global

The rise of the Arab MOOCs. Will education in the Arab world ever be the same?

In the past 10 years alone, tech invaded classrooms and played a crucial role in disrupting the way knowledge is consumed worldwide....

EdTech MOOC AI

Global

Online media platforms are facilitating the production of Arabic science

We’ve all struggled with the tedious task of memorizing the functions of the brain and the heart to pass our science exams. Egyptian...

Science E-Learning EdTech

Egypt

This Egyptian startup plans on regulating private tutoring

In the Arab world, including Egypt, many students at both public and private schools pay teachers extras for after-class private...

Egypt Tyro EdTech

U.A.E

How technology is transforming MENA youth’s education

As back-to-school season is approaching, now is the ideal time to reflect on the latest innovations in technology and how they might...

EdTech E-Learning uae

Saudi Arabia

A Saudi teaching platform attracts a million students

One year following the failure of an ecommerce platform they had launched due to the lack of market readiness, Saudi entrepreneurs Mohammed...

ksa Saudi Arabia Noun

Regional

New startups on the block: June

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

new startups f&b SAAS

Jordan

Edtech gives hope to a generation without schooling

Over 200 people gathered last week in Amman with a goal of digitalizing education to better reach the 750,000 Syrian refugee children out...

EdTech Education No Lost Generation Edtech Summit

Jordan

2017 NLG EdTech Summit

The 2017 NLG Edtech Summit is a forum where edtech innovations and projects from the region that support children most impacted by the...

syria refugees EdTech

Global

Artificial Intelligence will make our kids better learners [WamdaTV]

Looking at traditional education, the system is focused on ‘teaching’ rather than ‘learning’. This is what Philipp...

Artificial intelligence MIT Media Lab Philip Schmidt

U.A.E

Education + tech = a whole new world

Education and technology are often a contested pairing because of the latter’s potential to either serve as an aid or, undesirably, a...

GITEX EdTech minecraft

U.A.E

Itworx Education glocalizes e-learning in EMEA and beyond

In 2003 Itworx Education was officially established as a division of its much older parent company, Cairo-based IT service...

itworx education uae EdTech

Regional

Edtech and the future of work in MENA

Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are in the midst of a tremendous inflection point, with the future of the...

Refugee Open Ware Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education Fourth Industrial Revolution

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