Wamda

Turkey

What I know about building a living lab: Ersin Pamuksüzer

Aside from R&D centers and fablabs, open spaces to test, research, and apply new technological products or services are distressingly...

Living Labs What I Know

Turkey

How this Turkish startup seeks to be a one-stop-shop for waste management

‘Your trash is our pleasure’, was not only an ad that Nihat Kuruüzüm, a Turkish university dropout, fell on when he...

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Turkey

How this Turkish startup optimizes wind energy plants’ production

Green energy is developing towards a mainstream, competitive, and reliable technology. Governments around the globe are investing big...

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Lebanon

Turkish second-hand clothing site raises $2M in Series B, led by MEVP

Modacruz, a leading mobile marketplace of second hand women fashion items in Turkey, announced today that it has raised $2 million in a...

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Turkey

Two winners at GE 36-hour internet hackathon in Turkey

During the past weekend, GE hosted over 30 Turkish entrepreneurs and developers in the country’s first Industrial Internet Hackathon....

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Saudi Arabia

What I know about building a happy company: Alper Celen

You cannot spread happiness without being happy yourself. This tenet is the driving force behind Alper Celen’s aim to build the...

Joi What I Know Employment

Turkey

Seedstars Istanbul

Seedstars World is on a mission to identify the best seed-stage entrepreneurs and provide them with an opportunity to win up to USD 1...

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Turkey

Smart waste management, one bin at a time

Creating waste is what humans seem to do best, and we’re getting better at it. By 2025 it is predicted that 4.3 billion city...

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Global

Startup Watch: Wikipedia under attack, the Ja Rule mess-up and the magic of vinegar

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

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Turkey

Turkey’s Iyzico adds $2M to its Series C round

Online payment and fintech leader Iyzico announced earlier this week that Amadeus Capital Partners, the global technology investor, has...

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Turkey

UX Alive '17

UX Alive ’17 is a user experience and usability conference that will be taking place on May 3-4 at Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel in...

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Turkey

Modest fashion site Modanisa closes new round

Modanisa, the Turkey-based modest fashion site, has closed a fourth round of funding. Led by Dubai-based VC Wamda Capital for an...

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Regional

New startups on the block: March

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

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Turkey

Startup Turkey 2017

Startup Turkey gives startups from Turkey, Eurasia and MENA a chance to pitch their ideas and projects to investors and VCs from...

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Turkey

Turkey’s Sukolay taps water delivery for disruption

Turkey is a country of plastic bottles - in cafes, on the street, and in the home. Although many parts of Turkey do generally have...

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Iran

Turkish payments startup Iyzico closes $13M Series C

On July 15, Barbaros Ozbugutu and Tahsin Isin were celebrating in Istanbul. After years of bureaucracy, their online payment company...

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Turkey

The Pitcher 2017

The Pitcher is an annual pitching event giving entrepreneurs the opportunity to showcase their businesses in front of a large audience of...

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Turkey

A look at Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem [Podcast]

This podcast has been crossposted from Wamda Capital. The Turkish ecosystem has come a long way over the past three to four years. The...

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Turkey

Kiron, educational hope for refugees

The UN refugee agency says that as of 2015 there are 65.3 million individuals that have been forcibly displaced worldwide, most with little...

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Regional

Wamda’s best stories of 2016

2016 was the year of trying new things and testing some ideas on you, our readers. We brought in a weekly series we called Startup...

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Turkey

Turkish ride sharing app Volt raises over $500K

Turkish ride sharing service Volt has raised $550,000 from Lebanon-based investor Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), with participation...

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Turkey

Bridging the Armenian-Turkish divide at Startup Istanbul

From keynote speeches to chatter at the booths, Startup Istanbul was an expo not only for Turkey’s startup prowess, but for its...

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Turkey

Turkish wedding marketplace Dugun sets its sights on KSA with Zafaf.net

Turkish wedding marketplace Dugun sets its sights on KSA with Zafaf.net It was the bras that ruffled some feathers. CEO Emek...

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Turkey

Seedstars Istanbul 2016

Seedstars World is coming back to Istanbul! On October 20, the 10 best startups from Istanbul will be invited to pitch in front of an...

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