Wamda

Egypt

Shift EV to expand beyond Egypt after raising Series A round

Egypt-based electric mobility startup Shift EV, has raised an undisclosed Series A round, led by the startup's existing...

Shift EV

Global

The 10 pitch deck slides you need to wow investors

Dr. Mussaad M. Al-Razouki is the chief investment and business development officer of Kuwait Life Sciences Company. He has over 15 years of...

pitch deck Advice

U.A.E

What are the implications of the UAE's tax reforms?

Dr Robert Mogielnicki is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington The Ministry of Finance in the United...

tax

Global

The realty of the metaverse

Amash Malik is director of performance marketing at Bayut & dubizzle From the moment Facebook rebranded to Meta, the concept of...

metaverse

Saudi Arabia

What we learned at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Riyadh

For the past few years, Saudi Arabia has done an exceptional job of reforming its business processes and boosting entrepreneurship in the...

GEC GEN

Libya

Presto: Building Libya’s first super app

Over the past decade, Libya has been mired in a civil war that has decimated its economy and put paid to foreign direct investment (FDI)....

super app

Saudi Arabia

The digital payment opportunity in Saudi Arabia

When Muhannad Ebwini launched payment gateway HyperPay in Jordan back in 2014, e-commerce accounted for just 1.5 per cent of total retail...

hyperpay

Egypt

Do cloud kitchens stand a chance in Egypt?

The meteoric rise of cloud kitchens in the UAE is beginning to permeate through to other parts of the Middle East. Across the region, new...

cloud kitchen Cloud kitchens

Regional

This is the year cryptocurrency will come of age in the Middle East

Areije Al Shakar is the senior vice president at Bahrain Development Bank & director at Al Waha Venture Capital Fund of Funds Banks...

crypto cryptocurrency Al Waha Fund of Funds

Regional

Mena startups raised $375 million in February 2022

Startups in the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena) raised $375 million across 81 deals in February 2022, a 51.6 per cent increase...

investments

Regional

Why is there a lack of investment in startups founded by women?

In January and February of 2022 alone, startups in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) raised $622 million. To have broken the half a...

women entrepreneurs Investment

Regional

Mena’s startup euphoria is more fragile than it looks

Tarek Sakr is a former investment banker and CEO of Kuwait’s largest classifieds company – 4Sale Market participants are now...

valuations

Regional

How have NFTs impacted the Middle East’s art world?

Rarely a day goes by without the announcement of a new NFT [non-fungible token] project, artwork or even a culinary digital...

NFT crypto

Egypt

FreshSource raises Seed round to cut food loss in Egypt

For Egypt, agriculture is one of its most critical sectors, accounting for more than 11 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) and 28...

FreshSource food waste agritech

Regional

What we learned at Step's tenth show in Dubai

It has been 10 years since Step held its first startup conference and festival in Dubai, a time when the entrepreneurship sector in the...

STEP

U.A.E

Nabta Health raises $1.5 million as femtech gains ground worldwide

Fertility rates across the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) are in decline, partly for socio-economic reasons and increasingly due to...

Nabta Health femtech

Regional

A breakdown of Mena exits in 2021

Last year, 39 startups based in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) exited, through both acquisitions and mergers. Most were based...

exits

Regional

Mena startups raised $247 million in January 2022

Startups in the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena) raised $247 million across 46 deals, a 20 per cent increase month-on-month and a...

Investment

Regional

Anghami: Success built on localisation

When Eddy Maroun was skiing in a Lebanese mountain resort back in 2011, accessing music was a cumbersome affair. Music players like the...

anghami

Regional

Wamda works with The Financial Times to bring global insights in English and Arabic to Mena’s technology ecosystem

Wamda’s knowledge platform integrates global publisher The Financial Times’s content into its thought leadership strategy...

wamda FT

Iraq

An investor's outlook on Iraq in 2022

Pat Cline is an investment advisor at Five One Invest in Iraq Although the past two years have been tumultuous economically, the Iraqi...

Kurdistan Region Iraq Five One Labs

Pakistan

Wamda participates in Truck It In’s $13 million Seed round

Wamda has participated in Pakistan-based Truck It In’s $13 million Seed round which was was co-led by Global Founders Capital and...

Logistics Truck It In

Global

How did Cuemath expand to 50 countries?

Stereotypes are often problematic if not outright racist, but there is one India-based startup that is happily embracing the stereotype of...

EdTech

Regional

Key exits of 2021 and what they mean for Mena's startup ecosystem

The year 2021 witnessed a major fillip to the region's tech ecosystem, both in terms of the amount of money raised and the number of...

exits

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