Wamda

Regional

Creating a comprehensive model for e-commerce success

Darren Hodgkin, CEO of Digital&Code E-commerce has made massive gains during the Covid-19 pandemic. Consumers were forced to...

E-commerce

Regional

The audiobook opportunity in education

UAE-based audiobook platform Kitab Sawti was recently acquired by Storytel. In this exclusive piece for Wamda, Kitab Sawti's founder...

Kitab Sawti Audiobooks Education

Egypt

Rology raises investment from Dubai Angel Investors

Egypt-based healthtech startup Rology, has raised investment from Dubai Angel Investors. The amount raised was not...

Rology Dubai Angel Investors healthtech

Regional

elGrocer: The lessons we learned in the era of Covid-19

Nader Amiri is the founder of UAE-based e-grocery startup elGrocer E-commerce is on everyone’s mind. There’s a lot being...

e-grocery elGrocer covid-19

Regional

What is the future of events?

Last week, after four long months of coronavirus lockdowns, Dubai hosted its first “in-person” event. AI Everything, held at...

STEP Step Conference eventtus

Bahrain

E-sports and gaming: Mena's new global frontier

Yousef Buhazza is the founder of Unreal Bahrain and vice chairman of the Bahrain Internet Society Growth in Crisis All manner of...

Gaming E-sports

Regional

Real to virtual: Buying and selling property online

Real estate is one sector that appears to have resisted the indelible disruption that has redefined other, traditional sectors like...

Real Estate Proptech

Global

Aumet raises $1.25 million in seed funding

Jordan-born healthcare marketplace Aumet, has raised a $1.25 million seed round from Right Side Capital, TechStars, and Plugs and...

Healthcare covid-19 Aumet

Regional

Adopting emerging technologies in a post-Covid-19 world

By Jad Hajj, partner, Imad Atwi, Jean Salamat, principals, and Riazul Raquib, senior associate, with Strategy& Middle East, part of the...

digital transformation

Regional

Top five investment deals in the second quarter of 2020

The top five disclosed venture capital (VC) deals in the second quarter of 2020 amounted to $244.6 million, largely down to the $150...

VC investment

Regional

In a world of remote work, will control replace culture?

Marilyn Zakhour, founder and chief executive officer of UAE-based Cosmic Centaurs At the height of the pandemic, I started a company...

company culture remote work

Regional

Will cash on delivery return post Covid-19?

By Faris Fallouh, Senior Global Express Services at Aramex During this pandemic, consumers globally and in the Middle East and North...

CoD cash-on-delivery

Regional

Edtech and its roadmap to new realities

Wamda, in partnership with Columbia Global Centers, is hosting an online panel discussion, ‘Edtech and its roadmap to...

Regional

The Middle East's post-pandemic future

A new reality is beginning to emerge as lockdown measures begin to ease amid the Covid-19 outbreak, imposing a dramatic restructure to...

coronavirus sme economy

Regional

Building a super app for the Middle East

Before smartphones and mobile app stores, the internet was dominated by a handful of web portals that offered their users several services...

super app careem Halan

Regional

Careem invests $50 million in super app

Careem announced the launch of its super app, combining all of its services like ride-hailing and food delivery onto one platform. The Uber...

careem super app

Regional

From the valley of death to the oasis wadi

It has become evident that the Covid-19 crisis is like no other. While its persistence and long-term impact on society as a whole remain...

SME support sme

Regional

A deep dive into the GCC’s cloud kitchen sector [part one]

When Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick sold most of his shares in the mobility giant to launch CloudKitchens, securing a $400 million cheque...

cloud kitchen Kitopi ghost kitchen

Regional

Wamda X Startup Reveal: Cohort II

Over the course of the last 4 months, and through the 3 stages of the programme: XStart, XSolve, and XScale, the second cohort of the...

Regional

What is the most important lesson we can learn from this pandemic?

Students of history will be familiar with the term “superpower”, countries that wield global influence by means of economic,...

Opinion covid-19

Egypt

Seedstars: It's Easier Online Hackathon

Digital & Financial inclusion have transformative power on the economy, community and employment. Digital transformation...

Regional

What happens when things don't go to plan?

At the start of this year, Wamda launched the second cohort of its fellowship programme, Wamda X. The 13 startups selected embarked on a...

wamda x

Regional

Beyond Incubation: Universities as agents of startup development

In the 1990s, professors Henry Etzkowitz and Loet Leydesdorff, put forward the idea of the Triple Helix framework, which highlighted...

Education Taqadam startAD

Regional

TiE Dubai offers $100,000 to winning startup

TiE Dubai, a chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), announced the launch of a regional Women 2020 pitch competition as part of its...

Women entrepreneurship competition

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