Wamda

Jordan

Mejuri raises $23 million Series B

Source: MenaBytes Toronto-based direct-to-consumer jewelry startup Mejuri has raised $23 million in Series B led by New Enterprise...

Investment jewelry series B

Jordan

PointCheckout raises $600,000

UAE-based PointCheckout, an online payment method for reward points, has closed a seed round of $600,000 led by Arzan VC, 500 Startups,...

seed Seed funding seed investment

Jordan

Amman based Oasis500 announces partial exit from Little Thinking Minds

Source: Menabytes Amman-based accelerator and seed investor Oasis500 has announced partial exit from Jordanian edtech startup Little...

EdTech Jordan Exit

Jordan

Little Thinking Minds raises $1.26 million in Series A

Jordan-based Little Thinking Minds has raised $1.26 million in a Series A round led by Egypt’s Algebra Ventures with participation...

EdTech Education Series A

Iraq

Jusoor Startup Roadshow

The Startup Roadshow is Gathering Syrian Entrepreneurs Across 5 Cities to Support Refugee-Led Startups The Startup Roadshow, a...

Jordan

Mix N’ Mentor is back with a new format

The 2018 roadshow for Wamda's flagship event, Mix N' Mentor, is about to kickoff starting with Amman on August 16th. The...

Mix N' Mentor 2018 amman

Egypt

Jordan's POSRocket raises $1.5 million in a round led by Algebra Ventures

POSRocket, a cloud-based POS Jordanian startup, has announced $1.5 million in a funding round led by $50 million Cairo-based venture...

Algebra Ventures KISP Ventures Arzan VC

Jordan

Jamalon to launch express personalized photo albums service in the Middle East in partnership with Taopix

Jamalon, the Middle East region’s largest online book store with a catalogue of over 10 million titles, announced a strategic...

Jordan uae Jamalon

Jordan

Teaching coding will lead digital jobs, and this Jordanian startup is seizing this opportunity

Even though digital talent is still scarce globally, and in the Middle East particularly, the fast-growing digital economy is leading an...

Jordan usa Y Combinator

Jordan

Partnerships between Jordan’s Central Bank and the private sector are integral to financial inclusion

The Central Bank of Jordan has made financial inclusion a priority and is working with the Jordanian private sector to expand financial...

Jordan central bank of jordan Private sector

Jordan

Humanizing e-learning as a response to crises in the MENA

The need for humanitarian aid in the MENA region has been on the rise since the breakout of the Arab revolts and more specifically the...

Kaya MOOC content

Jordan

Jordanian addressing startup raises $100K from GMS Ventures & Investments

NavCode is a Jordanian smart addressing app that contains user information such as name, phone number, building number and others. It...

NavCode Addressing VC

Jordan

Reasons behind the mushrooming of electric cars on Jordan’s roads [Q&A]

In 2016, electric car sales hit a new record with over 750,000 sales worldwide. The same year also witnessed the highest number of electric...

Jordan uae Electric vehicles

Jordan

Geeks focuses on automation to scale business operations

Time flies when you're having fun! Dubai-based startup Geeks, launched in December 2014 by the Jordanian partners Mousa Yassin and...

Geeks it b2b

Jordan

Jordan’s POSRocket raises $650K from Jabbar Internet Group, Arzan VC, and Propeller Inc.

POSRocket, the Amman-based startup that sells cloud-based point-of-sale solutions to SMEs raised $650,000 as seed investment from Jabbar...

posrocket Point of sale Cloud Computing

Jordan

When refugee kids’ drawings inspire a new social enterprise in Jordan

Similar to many millennials, Jordanian Zaid Souqi gets bored very quickly; within several years he changed jobs around four times, but it...

Jordan Social Entrepreneurship The Orenda Tribe

Jordan

Refugee Learning Accelerator [Call for applications]

The Refugee Learning Accelerator supports engineers and computer scientists from the Middle East to create technologies for refugee...

accelerator Refugee MIT

Jordan

Are Arabs tuning in to podcasts? [Q&A]

In 2006, only 22 percent of the adult population in the United States were aware of the term ‘podcast’, but this figure rose to...

podcast Sowt

Global

How to face the fear of missing out in the workplace [Podcast]

Whether we like it or not, we are constantly being affected by the ‘fear of missing out’ or ‘FoMO’, a term coined...

Patrick McGinnis entreprenership workplace

Jordan

This is how Jamalon brought print-on-demand to the MENA

Ala Alsallal was still a university student when he perceived a need for high-quality published content in the Arab world. While he was...

Jordan Jamalon e-books

Jordan

Ashyaat: The perks of ‘social selling’ in Jordan and beyond

We’ve all seen TV ads promoting gadgets that make you look better or make your life easier. Think of that enthusiastic man sitting...

Jordan Ashyaat ecommerce

Jordan

Innovation in the humanitarian aid sector helps Jordan’s Syrian refugees

Humanitarian organizations are increasingly focusing on innovation, including venture arms, innovation labs, and accelerators, as a means...

Jordan Humanitarian Aid Innovation

Jordan

Lost in translation: How this Jordanian startup is helping the deaf

The translation of speech to text in real-time naturally enhances communication between people with hearing impairment and those without...

Mahmood Darawsheh Jordan Mind Rockets

Jordan

How this chatbot is facilitating food ordering

At some point in 2014, Mark Zuckerberg was disliked by many. Forcing all Facebook app users to migrate to a separate chatting app...

Eila Mindhub Cafe chatbot

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