Wamda

U.A.E

STEP gets $2M Series A, plans a digital media empire

STEP Group has closed a Series A funding round with a $2 million investment from regional investors, including Wamda Capital,...

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U.A.E

Using big data and AI to fill the digital Arabic content void

When it comes to digital content there’s not much out there in Arabic. In fact, according to data released in the 2016 Media in...

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Saudi Arabia

Melltoo expands to Saudi with new funding

The Dubai-headquartered peer-to-peer marketplace Melltoo has said they are ready to expand to Saudi Arabia now they have acquired new...

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U.A.E

Hidden gold mines for MENA’s air tech entrepreneurs

If Paul Papadimitriou’s realistic air tech projections can be summed up in one piece of cautionary advice for startups, it is that in...

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U.A.E

Holidaying with Holiday ME

“Whenever you're booking a holiday…there’s a lot of discussion happening for the family or solo traveler,”...

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U.A.E

Startup Emirates: the most well-funded tech startups in the UAE in one infographic

This article is a crosspost from CB Insights. All of the companies in our infographic are based in the Emirate of Dubai....

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U.A.E

Etisalat Digital Challenge call for applications

It’s 2017 and new challenges are ahead of the region’s innovators, entrepreneurs & startups. Etisalat Digital and Dubai...

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Palestine

Social Dice helps navigate rough waters of MENA hiring process

When you ask founder Saed Shela what the secret is to Social Dice’s success, he will say it is about making the hiring process smart...

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Egypt

Egypt’s Vezeeta gets $5M Series B

Vezeeta, an Egypt-based automated physician, clinic and hospital bookings platform received $5 million in series B funding led by...

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U.A.E

Jisr Venture Partners like to look outside MENA [Know your VC]

Jisr Venture Partners founder and chairman Waleed Albanawi is making another investment into the food and beverage (F&B) space by...

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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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U.A.E

Serving the underserved at IBM's Smartcamp, Dubai

Serving the underserved was very much the theme last week as two startups providing services to migrant workers in the UAE took the top...

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Saudi Arabia

Careem now a unicorn, raising $350M

Careem has become the Middle East’s second ‘unicorn’, after investment from Japan's ecommerce giant Rakuten Inc and...

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Jordan

Babil Games acquired for $17M

In what could be the largest exit in the region’s gaming industry, Middle East-based game publisher Babil Games has been...

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U.A.E

Mentors to startups, 13 ways to build your brand #Mixnmentor

“What is your purpose in life?” might seem like a grand question to be asked at a job interview but it is one that Careem...

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Qatar

How we can create a virtuous innovation cycle [Opinion]

Innovation is a key element of all national transformation agendas in GCC countries, with no less than Vice President and Ruler of Dubai...

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U.A.E

Big data, food for thought at Dubai’s Smartcon

‘Big data’ is an increasingly cited buzzword but not always completely understood in relation to the planning and optimization...

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U.A.E

OPCDE 2017 [Call for Papers]

The UAE and the region as a whole needs a platform for security researchers and academics to present their work on cyber-security in a...

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U.A.E

Silicon Oasis TechForum: Science Fiction to Science Fact

If it can be dreamed, it can be made. This is the theme for the 25th Silicon Oasis TechForum, where the discussion will revolve around how...

Dubai dtec Technology

U.A.E

Aviation industry startups take off at Intelak incubator in Dubai

After an intense day of pitching, four startups with aviation industry-centric business ideas got to walk away with 50,000 Emirati dirhams...

Intelak aviation EMIRATES

U.A.E

What I know about drones: Matt Karau

Drones, or more accurately unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are proliferating in our skies. No longer simply surveying suspicious people...

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U.A.E

Melltoo’s secondhand story

Growing up in France as one of 13 children meant Morrad Irsane’s clothes, shoes, and books, were hand-me-downs. Irsane has since...

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U.A.E

What I know about building a sharing economy business: Debbie Wosskow

Debbie Wosskow comes from a family of entrepreneurs, particularly female entrepreneurs. She launched her first business at 25 followed by...

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U.A.E

Mix N’ Mentor is returning to Dubai, MENA’s startup capital

Wamda’s flagship event, Mix N’ Mentor, is finally returning to the uncontested MENA capital for anyone with a startup and the gusto to thr...

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