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U.A.E

Jisr Venture Partners like to look outside MENA [Know your VC]

Jisr Venture Partners founder and chairman Waleed Albanawi is making another investment into the food and beverage (F&B) space by...

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Regional

Tech drives MENA to a crossroad

Fourteen years ago a group of Arab scholars drew a sobering picture of the Middle East: that it would need 140 years to just double its per...

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Regional

Wamda’s best stories of 2016

2016 was the year of trying new things and testing some ideas on you, our readers. We brought in a weekly series we called Startup...

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Regional

Entrepreneurship could be worth $700B for MENA

Every month, someone opines that MENA has a “relatively nascent” startup ecosystem, while others spot the “next Silicon...

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Egypt

Fixing Egypt’s waste crisis one handbag at a time

An Egyptian startup in Aswan is turning palm tree waste into handmade products, and is not only providing jobs but helping to revive...

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Syria

Wikilogia to raise the bar in Damascus ecosystem

On December 10, Damascus-based Wikilogia launched Startup Technology Trends Program (STTP) with the aim of injecting confidence and...

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Regional

6 WRL reports in 2016 to highlight ecosystem opportunities #Wamda2016

This year was an interesting one, not just from a geopolitical angle, but also a technological one that saw some great advancements, not...

Wamda2016 Healthcare Cleantech

Regional

30k people were at MENA’s top 3 startup events in 2016 #Wamda2016

The startupper calendar gets busier every year. In 2016 there have been more than 200 events related to entrepreneurship, startups,...

Wamda2016 Roundup Ecosystem

Jordan

Harnessing the power of Jordan's wind [Q&A]

Solar panel units, satellite dishes and water tanks are no longer the only trademarks of residential rooftops. Two-meter high wind turbines...

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Regional

Social entrepreneurship in MENA: always the bridesmaid, never the bride [Opinion]

You go up to the stage to pitch a social enterprise with the hope that tomorrow is better than today. You hit all the right spots:...

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Global

Startup Watch: Careem the unicorn, Nile farmers learning farming, and AI wars

This year is coming to a close but there is no ‘slowly’ in the complex world of entrepreneurship news, with people ever ready...

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Saudi Arabia

How will Saudi’s diversification affect startups?

Just a few days into 2016, Saudi Arabia deputy crown prince Muhammad bin Salman made waves when he said the kingdom was exploring a public...

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Tunisia

Left out: Tunisian startups demand attention

Tunisian entrepreneurs think the government should pay more attention to them rather than focusing on megaprojects, after a major...

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Saudi Arabia

Sihatech jumps on the Saudi Arabia health tech opportunity

Saudi Arabia has a shortage of healthcare startups, throwing the sector wide open for companies like online medical platform...

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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...

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Regional

What's happening to innovation in the GCC? #Wamda2016

Stagnant oil prices mean the GCC’s economic situation today does not look rosy, and the 2016 Global Innovation Index (GII) shows the...

Wamda2016 MENA startups

Morocco

Casablanca gets smart to clean up

Morocco's economic center, the city of Casablanca, has experienced galloping urbanization in recent years and it’s significantly...

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Global

What I know about the future of work: Claire Haidar

“People spend 90 percent of their time at work and yet so many people are unhappy at their jobs. There is still this reality that...

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Saudi Arabia

Arabnet Riyadh shows regions' rising interest in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is rising fast as an entrepreneurship ecosystem and events like Arabnet Riyadh are providing a platform for those in the...

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Saudi Arabia

Careem now a unicorn, raising $350M

Careem has become the Middle East’s second ‘unicorn’, after investment from Japan's ecommerce giant Rakuten Inc and...

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Regional

15+ MENA accelerators launched in 2016 #Wamda2016

Throughout 2016, the startup ecosystem for the Middle East and North Africa continued to grow as over 15 new accelerators opened their...

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Jordan

Babil Games acquired for $17M

In what could be the largest exit in the region’s gaming industry, Middle East-based game publisher Babil Games has been...

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Egypt

Can cleantech be Egypt's greatest wealth generator?

The Egyptian cleantech ecosystem is a few years behind its cousin, pure tech, but the sector is beginning to show signs of consolidation....

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U.A.E

Mentors to startups, 13 ways to build your brand #Mixnmentor

“What is your purpose in life?” might seem like a grand question to be asked at a job interview but it is one that Careem...

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