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Lebanon

Smart money is good money [Opinion]

Recently I was involved in a debate: startups versus venture capital. One particular moment...

Lebanon

SE Factory prepares the next generation of coders in Lebanon

Any tech executive seeking to hire software engineers in Lebanon agrees there is a shortage in talent. To fill that gap, coding boot...

SE factory bootcamp Coding

Lebanon

A first year anniversary and a trip to Silicon Valley

“We’re witnessing a change of mindset, in the banks, the investors, the supporters. You can see the effect, and this has all...

Speed@BDD silicon valley

Lebanon

It’s all about the team, AUB Entrepreneurship Week

Startups are all about the team, this was the simple advice put forward to attendees of AUB’s Entrepreneurship Week, June 27 to July...

AUB Entrepreneurship Week CRinn AEISEC

Lebanon

'How to best leverage Facebook to bring value to your business’

This workshop will cover the different objectives on Facebook and what you need to focus on while running your online...

UK Lebanon Tech Hub Tech Talk Workshop

Lebanon

Tech Talks-‘Infiltrating Silicon Valley: Launching a Business from Scratch’

In this talk, Nagi Salloum will be talking us through his experience of building a company in big ecosystems such...

Tech Talk UK Lebanon Tech Hub Nagi Salloum

Lebanon

SE Factory Summer 2016 bootcamp

Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program and the Nawaya Network are collaborating to launch a new coding academy in Lebanon which...

lebanon bootcamp SE factory

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

Lebanon

AltCity's second fintech meetup – Introduction to P2P lending

AltCity is hosting its second fintech meetup, an “introduction to peer-to-peer (P2P) lending.” Held at their new offices on...

cintech Altcity Workshop

Lebanon

Fransabank to invest $2.5M investment in Lebanon’s Pinpay

Lebanon’s leading fintech startup, Pinpay, is to receive a $2.5 million investment from Fransabank. The mobile payment and...

Bankmed Bank Audi Fransabank

Lebanon

Kwik emergency response sensor wins refugee hackathon

Fire and freezing cold are potentially fatal for refugees, but they are dangers which could be over due to 'emergency sensor'...

Open Source Action Network UNOCHA UNHCR

Lebanon

Applications now open for Speed@BDD's third acceleration program

Speed@BDD is recruiting 10 aspiring startups for their upcoming acceleration program in September, where selected...

application Speed@BDD beirut

Lebanon

Hi-Tech Entrepreneurship and Investment at UC Berkeley and Silicon Valley

University of California and Silicon Valley are offering a course on High-technology Entrepreneurship & Investment that will...

business course UC Berkley

Lebanon

Innovating Refuge: a hackathon to redefine the refugee experience

If you could redesign today's response to a humanitarian crisis, what would it look like? Today, a growing ecosystem of...

tech entrepreneurs Refugee Innovative Response

Lebanon

Lebanese scientist finds a potential treatment for jetlag

A techie bedtime. (Image via Lumos Tech) This article is a crosspost with MIT Technology Review Arab Edition. Jet lag is a temporary...

Sleep Lumos Tech MIT Technology Review Arab Edition

Lebanon

Zoomaal Meetup in Lebanon: Crowdfunding for Social Good

Zoomaal, Lebanon's leading crowdfunding platform, is organizing an informative session about crowdfunding this Saturday at the UK Lebanon ...

session UK Lebanon Tech Hub bdd

Lebanon

FOO's timing curse: when being ahead of the game is a problem

Foo founders Elie Nasr and Ghady Rayess. (Image via Brooke Anderson) Being early to the market can be both a blessing and...

app development Foo lebanon

Lebanon

IM Capital's Masterclass for Business Angels (MBA)

In partnership with GoBeyond, IM Capital is launching a Masterclass for Business Angels (MBA), a one-year program that will take novice...

Masterclass for Business Angels Berytech lebanon

Lebanon

Brate raises $400K in seed funding

Lebanese startup Brate announced yesterday that it raised $400,000 in seed funding from a New York based angel...

brate Seed funding investement

Lebanon

Priority shares and liquidation preference, the lowdown

The number and type of shares a founder owns in a startup is a crucial point to think about in the context of venture capital...

liquidation shares Soumrani Lawyers & Legal Counsel

Lebanon

Deadline for participation at the Femme Francophone Entrepreneure 2016

La cinquième édition de cet appel à candidatures a pour but de soutenir deux femmes francophones entrepreneures dans...

Lebanon

Lebanese entrepreneurs introduce on demand waterless car washing

Blink My car train their Lebanese bikers for their waterless car wash services. (Image via Blink My Car) One cup of water. Apparently...

Drought Waterless car washing greensteam

Lebanon

Lebanon's startup clusters go beyond Beirut

As Lebanon develops its tech startup culture to become a serious player in the region, the capital of Beirut has become the country’s u...

Chouf Entrepreneur Bio Soil Outreach Leadership Academy

Lebanon

Lebanese drones tackling forest fires, NAR

In 2014, when fires started raging through Nicolas Zaatar’s home district of Baabda in Lebanon, an opportunity presented...

Next Automated Robots MEMakersGE NAR

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