Wamda

Bahrain

Skip ahead: Skiplino wants to put queuing behind us

According to a Lebanese Central Bank official at the Arabnet Beirut summit this year, the Lebanese enjoy queuing in banks and use the...

Skiplino LevelZ SAAS

Maghreb

Propertyfinder buys Morocco-based Selektimmo

The list of Moroccan platforms looking to benefit from the online real estate boom is long. Over a year ago, we wondered if...

Regional

Share the love with a stock option pool [Opinion]

Building a startup is a team effort, so it’s only fair that the team you share your entrepreneurial journey with also shares in some...

SOP Stock options A15

Lebanon

Lebanon’s Pinpay, ready for the big time

In 2013 mobile bill payment platform Pinpay had to make a decision: shut up shop or start again from scratch. They went with the latter....

Lebanon Central Bank Regulations Bankmed

Syria

Syrians seek refuge in tech

For a while, it seemed that the Syrians were running out of options. For the fourth year in a row since 2012, the UN reported a steep...

community jameel MIT Media Lab syria

Maghreb

For a night, Maghreb joined forces to solve their social problems

What if Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia joined forces to solve their social problems? It’s a germ of an idea that a small number of...

algerian startup initiative espace bidaya Lab'Ess

Palestine

Scarcity fuels Gaza hardware invention boom

Following the successful Bold Knot crowdfunding campaign* in 2015, Gazan entrepreneurs have started pursuing their own hardware...

Sketch Engineering The Explorer Robot Taawon

Egypt

Egypt's Smart Care secures $1.2M from major foreign donor

A major foreign donor has invested $1.2 million in Smart Care Medical Services, a digital healthcare management startup. The deal,...

Regional

How can startups build successful collaborations with corporations?

This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. Collaborative entrepreneurship initiatives are trending and an...

Coentrepreneurship Expo 2020 Dubai CE

Regional

What I know about investing in robotics: Jose Berengueres

To obtain his PhD in bio-inspired robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Jose Berengueres studied the movement of a gecko in...

Adasi pal robotics robotics

U.A.E

Fare share: Uber and Careem set pace and purpose for MENA’s sharing economy

Innovation and regulation can often have a paradoxical relationship. Modern tech history has consistently highlighted the tug of war...

RTA Regulations careem

Egypt

Egyptian selfie drone wins $26K Swiss investment

Egyptian drone startup Drofie has attracted the attention of the Swiss, securing a 25,000 Swiss francs (US$26,000) investment and a spell...

Fame monster Latvia Kickstart Accelerator

Egypt

Rubber a hot commodity for Egypt startup Retyres

Driving Cairo’s ring road or through one of its many poorer outskirts, one often encounters the distinct smell of burned rubber:...

tyres rubber Retyres

U.A.E

Community Jameel and Wamda host MIT Media Lab Dubai workshop #MLDubai

Cities are rising at a fast pace. The MENA region has seen this with Dubai, and shortly after, Masdar City. In the meantime,...

Redefining Cities MIT Media Lab MIT

Maghreb

Karim Jazouani Prize 2016: nominate the advocates of Moroccan entrepreneurship

One step forward, two steps backward? Or is it two steps forward, one step backward? If we take a look at the tech sector in Morocco,...

Karim Jazouani morocco

Regional

Don’t ask for change, create change [Opinion]

I was asked to give a commencement speech at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Doha on May 1. Below is an edited version of what I said. I...

change The power of yalla Habib Haddad

Regional

MENAT accelerators invest $3.5M, lag global averages

Accelerators have become a “rite of passage” for entrepreneurs around the world, and a report on the state of global programs...

business acclerator Global Accelerator Report central bank of jordan

Maghreb

Ubisoft Casablanca closes: is this good news for Morocco game devs?

After 18 years of activity French gaming giant Ubisoft has announced it will close its Casablanca studio, leaving 48 developers looking for...

Rym games Moroccan Game Developers The Wall Games

Regional

Visualizing corporate-startup engagement in MENA [Infographic]

This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. During the Collaborative Entrepreneurship (CE) Summit held last month,...

Expo 2020 Dubai Collaborative Entrepreneurship WRL

Global

Do startups really create lots of good jobs?

This article is a crosspost with Harvard Business Review. Eskimos have 50 words for snow. Humans only use 10 percent of...

Employment jobs Policy

Egypt

15 Egyptian fashion startups for your sartorial radar

Ecommerce is a driving force for economic growth in the Middle East. And with this growth of ecommerce has come a slew of ...

Maison Saedi ZAAM UpFuse

Global

How to do a Google design sprint: 10 things to know

Google Ventures' design sprint tries to take teams from problem to solution in five days. (Image via Fastcodesign) Do you want to...

agile Daniel Burka Design Sprint

Maghreb

Tunisian teens start thinking like entrepreneurs

Students putting themselves in an entrepreneur’s shoes. (Images via Spark) The time is long gone when starting a business as a teenager m...

BIAT foundation Spark teenagers

Egypt

Building a biogas empire in Upper Egypt

Mona El Khodairy receiving the Ecotaqa award at The Impact bootcamp in Dubai. (Images via Ecotaqa) In 2014 Mona El Khodairy, an...

Sustaincubator Eco Taqa Mona ElKhodairy

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