Wamda

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This Egyptian startup plans on regulating private tutoring

In the Arab world, including Egypt, many students at both public and private schools pay teachers extras for after-class private...

Egypt Tyro EdTech

Egypt

Seedstars Alexandria

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...

Egypt alexandria seedstars

Egypt

Mobile billing consolidated in Egypt following TPay’s acquisition of DCBEgypt

There are over 95 million SIM cards registered with Egypt’s three mobile networks: Etisalat Misr, Orange (Mobinil previously), and...

Egypt TPay DCBEgypt

Egypt

When online groceries delivery reaches new edges in Egypt

Segway and similar transportation options for delivering groceries are increasingly being used in countries such as the US, where one in 10...

Egypt goodsmart Fakahany

Egypt

Egyptian food delivery platform secures $200K investment from 500 Startups

Cairo-based homemade food delivery startup Mumm received a $200,000 investment from 500 Startups. The startup empowers Egyptian women to...

Food delivery work from home Women

Egypt

Building Communities in Virtual Reality

Alexandria Augmented Reality/ Virtual Reality Meetup is a meetup for virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality...

VR ar Meetup

Egypt

Cairo Angels invests in a local logistics company

Cairo Angels, a network of angel investors focused on supporting startup opportunities in Egypt and the Middle East, announced its...

on-demand delivery Logistics cairo angels

Egypt

Careem announces $500K investment in public transportation startup Swvl

This news was updated to include an exclusive interview with Mudassir Sheikha, the cofounder and managing director of...

careem public transport Bus Pooling

Egypt

Egyptian ecommerce platform acquires two phone comparison portals

Egypt-based ecommerce platform Yaoota acquired Mobihall and Mobilesgate, two of the largest phone comparison portals in the Arab world. The...

yaoota Mobihall Mobilesgate

Egypt

She Can

Entreprenelle will be holding their event ‘She Can’ which revolves around women in entrepreneurship, who will be sharing their...

Egypt Women entrepreneurship startup

Egypt

Digital services for cash strapped Egyptian SMEs

Starting a business in Egypt is not easy, in large part because of the hassle involved in registering a new establishment and obtaining the...

Training Cloud Telecommunication

Egypt

Government and private sector team up to support startups in Egypt

In recent years, the Egyptian government has taken on a new, more proactive role by partnering with the private sector to boost...

Egypt Government

Egypt

Automating HR management in Egypt

Focusing on developing a specialized product allowed Egyptian software company HITS Solutions to enter more than 40 countries, working with...

Egypt HITS Solutions HR

Egypt

Algebra Ventures invests $1.5M in Egyptian food discovery platform Elmenus

Elmenus, one of the largest Egyptian food discovery platforms, received a $1.5 million investment in a Series A funding round from Algebra...

Egypt

Egyptian fintech startup digitizes the gameya

‘We can all go further together than we could all alone’, is the promise of the 2,000-year old practice of ‘jameya’...

MoneyFellows Ahmed Wadi Egypt

Egypt

Widebot: building Facebook chatbots gets easier

With over 11 million users engaging chatbots currently functioning on Facebook Messenger, most notably Uber’s ride requesting...

Facebook Messenger Arabnet Battles Cairo chatbot

Egypt

Cairo Angels invests in Orcas

Cairo Angels announced its investment in Orcas, an edtech startup for education, tutoring and caregiving services. Formerly Cairo...

cairo angels Orcas

Egypt

GE Egypt Digital Innovation Challenge announced the winners

Last week, the GE Egypt Digital Innovation Challenge announced three winners, on May 22nd, after reviewing more...

Egypt Egypt Innovate tiec

Egypt

Egypt calls for financial inclusions

The Egyptian online payment sector remains heavily hampered by a wide gap between available solutions and the needs of 91 million...

e-Finance fawry Mostafa Elnahhas

Egypt

Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-Free World

Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-Free World is an international robotics competition that will be held in October 2017 in Kuala Lumpur,...

mines robots tech

Egypt

Arabnet Dubai promotes investments in the MENA's emerging markets

As Arabnet CEO Omar Christidis took his last strides on the Arabnet Digital Summit stage in Dubai and shared some telling numbers, the...

Aqar Map Astrolabs Oman Technology Fund

Egypt

Uber launches UberBoat in a partnership with Nile Taxi

Uber is partnering with the luxury Nile transport company NileTaxi to introduce UberBoat to Cairo starting yesterday (Tuesday, May 16)...

UberBoat Uber Egypt

Egypt

Endeavor Catalyst Fund closes first $500,000 investment in Egypt

Endeavor Catalyst Fund, Endeavor’s co-investment vehicle, concluded its first investment in Egypt contributing 500,000 dollars to...

Investment fund statups

Egypt

What I know about fab labs: Sherry Lassiter

Despite two-decades in science journalism, Sherry Lassiter has become part of the technology story rather than a storyteller. After...

Fab Foundation Maker Faire Cairo Fab Lab Egypt

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