Wamda

Maghreb

Big plans in little Djerba: coworking Cogite is heading to the island

In mid-March, after visiting Gafsa and Kairouan, the team behind Tunis-based coworking space Cogite brought their Cogite...

Cogite Coworking Spaces

Maghreb

When the cofounder relationship goes awry, the story of Lioumness

It’s not uncommon for one cofounder to leave a company in its early years. In some cases, the separation goes smoothly, in others, it k...

Lioumness culture morocco

Maghreb

Girls in Tech to launch in Morocco to support women entrepreneurs

When I asked Fatim-Zahra Biaz to give me a name of a Moroccan woman tech entrepreneur, she struggles. “This is why we’re launching Girls ...

Girls in Tech women entrepreneurs New Work Lab

Maghreb

How Droidcon and Google Developers Group are pushing Tunisia's economic development

A few weeks ago, 1,000 geeks gathered for the fourth Tunisian edition of Droidcon, the yearly conference dedicated to Android developers -...

Taher Mestiri Droidcon google developers group

Maghreb

Why crowdfunding isn't easy in North Africa

Following the success of Kickstarter.com and IndieGoGo.com, crowdfunding platforms around the world have taken off. There is big...

Smala & Co Jumpstart Africa zoomaal

Maghreb

How one entrepreneur is bringing new life to traditional Tunisian handicraft

“I am not going to pretend that I had any idea of what I was doing,” Leila Ben Gacem tells me when we meet in the medina, the old quarter o...

Handicrafts Art Social Entrepreneurship

Maghreb

Is localization the key to Genious becoming the GoDaddy of MENA?

Can you name the leading web host or registrar in the Arab world or Africa? Hamza Aboulfeth, founder of Morocco’s only registrar and most f...

Web hosting Genious MENA

Maghreb

Careem shakes things up in Morocco by acquiring Taxiii

Back in January, we were talking about how taxi apps made their entrance in Morocco, and were to become the hot market in the kingdom....

Taxiii careem taxi service

Maghreb

iBDA Social Business Accelerator in Tunis

The African Development Bank (AFDB), in collaboration with Yunus Social Business (YSB) launched the iBDA (‘ibda’ literally means “start” in...

Tunis accelerator

Maghreb

Sawari Ventures tries to fill Egypt funding gap with $50 million VC fund

Sawari Ventures partners: Hany Sonbaty, Ahmed Alfi, Wael Amin. Egyptian venture capital company Sawari Ventures is turning...

Sawari Ventures morocco tunisia

Maghreb

Can social entrepreneurship save Algeria?

For a few years now, a group of optimistic and resilient Algerian students have worked against all odds to introduce the concept of social...

Algerian Center for Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneuriat social

Maghreb

With great popularity comes great responsibility: Maroc Web Awards

The Maroc Web Awards (MWA) have come a long way since their launch in 2007. This year however, the competition, which...

Marocco maroc web awards

Maghreb

9th edition of Tremplin Maroc program

Maroc Entrepreneurs launches the 9th edition of its incubation program "Tremplin Maroc" which will be held in France. Tremplin Maroc is a ...

morocco Incubator

Maghreb

Startup MENA expands its network to Tunisia

After favorable outcome in Egypt, where the Startup MENA team engaged over 400 entrepreneurs in 2014, designing tailored workshops...

Cogite startup mena tunisia

Maghreb

A Moroccan answer to BuzzFeed is expanding into the Arab world

Young Arabs never cease to amaze us. After Ouedkniss in Algeria, EMC in Morocco and Saily in Lebanon, it’s n...

Arabic Content

Maghreb

Fresh faces at StartUp Cup Maroc 2015: SafeDemat wins first place

There’s more to Morocco than Casablanca and Rabat. At least, that was Startup Maroc’s message when it organized the finale of the second ed...

startup cup startup maroc

Maghreb

Cogite Coworking Camp in Kairouan

Cogite is organizing its second stop in Cogite Coworking Camp series in Kairouan, Tunisia this February 28th and March 1st, 2015. Cogite...

Cogite tunisia Coworking Spaces

Maghreb

2015, the year Moroccan startups start tackling transportation

Transportation issues have always been a source of inspiration when it comes to Arab tech entrepreneurs searching for problems to...

taxi service carpooling Transportation

Maghreb

Monetizing street art: the entrepreneurial journey of a Tunisian gallerist

Last September, the Tunisian island of Djerba was at the heart of discussions of art lovers across Europe and elsewhere. The island, known...

tunisia Art

Maghreb

Arabic sport outlet Elbotola raises $400,000 to expand to Middle East

Good things come to those who wait. Elbotola, the Arabic sports platform, has raised 4M dirham ($400,000) from Maroc Numeric Fund,...

Maroc Numeric Fund elbotola MNF

Maghreb

5 Maghrebi entrepreneurs share their secrets to making money last [Wamda TV]

When you’re a Maghrebi startup, seed funding is never easy; you have to be ready for a pretty intense period of bootstrapping. We’ve asked a...

azur systems mescadeaux.ma messtagiaires.ma

Maghreb

Inside Endeavor's process to finding North Africa's entrepreneurial diamonds in the rough

It’s been several years now since Endeavor set foot in the Arab world, with the goal of identifying – and supporting – companies that stand...

Endeavor amine hazzaz morocco

Maghreb

13 must-read media sites on emerging startup economies

Not a week goes by without an international outlet mentioning how the startup scene is booming in emerging countries and...

emerging economies entering emerging markets Media

Maghreb

How 5 Maghrebi entrepreneurs met their business partners [Wamda TV]

One question often leads to another, especially when the answer is not what you expected. A couple of months ago, we asked Tunisian and...

mescadeaux.ma messtagiaires.ma abweb

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