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Kuwait

Is there a way to create high quality startups in Kuwait?

This is an edited crosspost with Nuwait. We see plenty of buzz around the topic of startups in Kuwait. The 2 billion Kuwaiti dinar...

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Egypt

'VC association wanted, please call Egypt for more details' [Opinion]

There is no doubt the Egyptian startup ecosystem is young. If the startups are young, the investors are as well. As investors, we need...

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Kuwait

Arabnet Kuwait draws crowds, demands action

Entrepreneurship is a top priority for Kuwait’s power brokers who are spending a lot of money on developing an ecosystem, yet only a...

Arabnet Kuwait 2016

Jordan

Nestrom and how to feed the next two billion

Over half a century ago, the introduction of pesticides and modified irrigation systems helped save one billion people from famine,...

Agriculture Nestrom Yousef Wadi

Egypt

Cairo Angels lead angel deal in Egypt's Hire Hunt

Business angels network Cairo Angels has sealed an investment with the Egyptian startup Hire Hunt in September. Cairo Angels...

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U.A.E

Careem v Uber: the local kid is winning

Careem’s flexibility in dealing with governments may give it the edge it needs over Uber and upstarts such as Egypt’s...

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Global

Startup Watch: Who's reading your emails, the UAE mission to Mars and has power corrupted you yet?

Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been reading this week on those new Pixel phones that do stuff with the flick of a wrist,...

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Regional

MITEF Pan Arab awards $150K to refugee aid ideas

Seven startups and NGOs (listed below) were awarded $150,000 in total at the MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab Innovate for Refugees award...

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Global

Braci capitalizes on Europe’s growing hard of hearing market

Anwar Al Mojarkesh has built up a long list of inventions that he sought to one day realise. One was a “dancing pillow” that...

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Lebanon

From Bitcoins to footwear, opportunity drives David El Achkar

If you do a quick Google search of David El Achkar’s name, you’re likely to find the following article headlines:...

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U.A.E

Dubai attracts global tech elite to Future Accelerators program

Dubai officially launched its Future Accelerators program on Sunday, following a $275 million pledge in August to address seven global...

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Morocco

Converting code quicksmart, scalable?

Hunched over his laptop in a hotel lobby, empty coffee cups and water bottles piled up on the table beside him, Jaoued Ahmed’s energy...

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Syria

Artificial intelligence startup wins at Jusoor competition

Arabot, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to build online Arabic chatbots, won first place at Jusoor’s third annual...

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Lebanon

Don't hide your ideas, Andrew Hyde of Techstars [Q&A]

Andrew Hyde, Startup Week director at Techstars, is a globe-trotter with a mission: bridging the gap between community, technology and...

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Lebanon

Making social pay, #MixNMentor Beirut

If you had a choice between having a $10 million business and being on the cover of Forbes magazine, or running a $50 million business and...

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Egypt

Replacing wood with straw, an Egyptian environmental solution

Egypt is brewing a number of entrepreneurial projects seeking to provide sustainable solutions for the manufacture of wooden furniture and...

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Tunisia

Favizone, the Tunisian big data company that's launching in France

What do you do after you’ve found success and sold your startup? Mehdi Khemiri’s answer was to pick a high potential...

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Scopio aims to become the Getty Images of social media

Social media has popularized videography and photography to an extent where 2 to 4 billion images are pushed out every day. Amidst the...

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Egypt

8 lessons for new founders [Opinion]

In August I officially completed my first year of being fully dedicated to my food startup Yumamia. It’s been a year of hard...

Opinion first time founder Yumamia

Palestine

Hackathon seeks to boost tourism in Bethlehem

Nearly 100 people gathered for Palestine’s first tourism industry-led hackathon in Bethlehem on September 22. The three day event...

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Global

Startup Watch: It pays to listen, no to networking and solar for Lebanon?

Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been reading this week on how to approach networking in the most effective way possible, how we...

Startup Watch solar power Uber

Morocco

The Moroccan doctor who wants to rethink medicine

Next year should be the first time a 100 percent Moroccan made medicine will be commercialized. Adnane Remmal, a biology researcher,...

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Regional

10 October events for MENA entrepreneurs

As the MENA region’s entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem blossoms and grows, so do the events, conferences, and competitions....

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Lebanon

Growing organically in Lebanon can be tough

Reema Mansour Maamari challenges you to make your own granola. “Why shouldn’t you make your own granola? It’s so easy. If...

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