Wamda

Pakistan

Pakistan's eye on MENA

Pakistan is as misrepresented in the media as the Middle East and has an equally thriving startup ecosystem, but there is not much...

Zameen Rozee.pk incubation

Egypt

Egypt's next meal ticket in tech

Egypt birthed the Middle East's first delivery website with Otlob.com in 1999; today its digital food and beverage sector is finally...

Aklni Mumm Engezni

Egypt

Many challenges still facing Egypt’s startups

Startology cofounders from L to R: Ayman Saeed, Mahinaz El-Aasser, and Mahmoud Wasfy. Egypt's startup ecosystem...

Global Entrepreneurship Index Entrepreneurship in Egypt From Revolution To Evolution Startology

Saudi Arabia

Saudi launches $133M fund for ICT startups

Saudi Arabia has seen the launch of a new ICT venture worth 500 million riyals (US$133 million). Saudi riyals are plenty for...

Riyadh Taqnia Capital Riyad Capital Taqnia

Palestine

What I know about developing hardware and software in Palestine: Ayman Arandi

Ayman Arandi and his partners launched Iris Solutions with $15,000 of their own capital in the West Bank in 2012, with a plan to provide...

Ayman Arandi Sensory room Touch screens

U.A.E

Expo 2020 and Wamda partner to drive collaborative entrepreneurship #Expo2020xWamda

Expo 2020 Dubai has announced that it will partner with Wamda, the leading platform for entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North...

CE Collaborative Entrepreneurship Dubai Expo 2020

Lebanon

Lebanese telco Touch expands its reach with startups

Nadim Khater at his office. (Image via Touch) After indulging in an era of global expansion, telecom operators around the world...

Telcos touch lebanon

Regional

Digi-teens' online spending habits [Infographic]

The teens love their brands. (Image via International Digital Marketing) Today's teens are the market for many ecommerce...

mobile shopping Payfort teenagers

Jordan

Space: the next tech frontier for MENA?

An art installation in Amman that could soon have a real-life counterpart. (Image via Sam Wendel) Watch out Elon Musk, a new force is...

Oasis Space Ventures Jordan Space Ventures SpaceX

Lebanon

Speed@BDD sends two startups off to Silicon Valley

Two of Speed@BDD’s first six startups are off to Silicon Valley. The accelerator’s CEO Sami Abou Saab said Rational Pixels...

NAR Rational Pixels Speed@BDD

Maghreb

Tunisian incubator Esprit aims to turn engineers into entrepreneurs

The first promotion of engineers-entrepreneurs presented health and safety-related startups at Esprit's demo day. (Images via Esprit) If...

Esprit engineering school

Saudi Arabia

Saudi's MyCN makes shopping in China simple

"From China to your doorstep... In just a couple clicks". The MyCN homepage. If you found something you wanted on Amazon for $5, but its...

WorldShip MyCN china

Regional

Opportunities in the risk intelligence market [Opinion]

A map of countries facing the greatest risk of terrorism. (Image via The Telegraph) One basic law of economics dictates a...

Risk intelligence data analysis MEMakers

U.A.E

Bahrain’s Eat app on fast thinking and changing course

The team behind Bahraini startup Eat had a solid plan when they launched in 2014, but when they heard a global player was about to enter...

Eatapp zomato reservations

Maghreb

Tunisia’s media monitoring service, WebRadar, is targeting the Arab world

The Innova team is changing Arabic big data. Here they pause at Cogite coworking space's garden. (Images via WebRadar) Upon discovering...

online alerts WebRadar tunisia

Jordan

Will e-sports be the next industry to level up in MENA?

The next generation of star athletes from the Middle East and North Africa recently gave spectators a glimpse of the future of...

AFKG Viva Algeria esports

Maghreb

Impact of the VoIP ban in Morocco on the economy and entrepreneurship

Skype, WhatsApp calls and Viber are gradually becoming unavailable in Morocco. (Image via The Huffington Post) It was hard to miss the...

SmartVPN Genious morocco

Jordan

University of Jordan launches entrepreneurship innovation center

A look the University of Jordan's Innovation Center. (Image via UJ News Press Release) The University of Jordan recently announced that it...

Injaz UJIC University of Jordan

U.A.E

Propertyfinder.ae raises $20M from Swedish investors

Dubai-based Propertyfinder Group has raised $20 million in capital from Sweden-based Vostok New Ventures, a transaction that Propertyfinder...

Propertyfinder.ae vostok new ventures Investment

Global

Entrepreneurship contagion: how it spreads

Entrepreneurship spreads thanks to a network, and that network pushes each player in three different ways. (Image via Mancef.org) This is...

crosspost networks istanbul

U.A.E

Laundrybox expands its services

At the end of 2015 Laundrybox’s business model, and solid teamwork, secured them the third place at Forbes Middle East’s 15 Most Promising ...

Forbes Laundry Box Funding

U.A.E

The pursuit of ‘appy-ness’

Founder Dinesh Lalvani with some of his characters. (Images via AppyKids) Before becoming the Samsung Galaxy Tab regional ambassador for...

AppyKids samsung edutainment

Global

Entrepreneurship contagion: the birth of networks

Networks are what make an entrepreneur ecosystem work. (Image via Entrepreneur Ideas) This is part one of an edited crosspost from...

crosspost networks istanbul

Regional

Media matchmaker app links brands and journalists

WePress founder Mohamed Parham Al Awadhi and his moustache. (Image via Eduard Cousin) “Nice moustache!” one of the visitors at the Rise Up ...

Mohamed Parham Al Awadhi journalism platform WePress

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