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On speaking terms: Egypt’s investors, entrepreneurs forging a bond [Know Your VC]

The investor-entrepreneur relationship in Egypt has been something of a rollercoaster, but both say they’re finally starting to iron...

investor relations A15 eventtus

Egypt

Stronger together: uniting Egypt’s women entrepreneurs

Egyptian women are entrepreneurial powerhouses, and Rasha Abu AlSaud has been working for the last three years to link them all. In...

GEW Women Entrepreneurs of Egypt Cairo Startup Cup

Egypt

Maker Hackathon 2017

For the third year in a row, Maker Hackathon returns to empower innovators and makers to create functioning prototypes of...

Egypt hackathon Hardware

Egypt

Did this Egyptian company predict the US election?

Donald Trump’s election to the US presidency was a shock for many, but not so much for those who were willing and able to read the...

big data TweetElect MEMakersGE

Egypt

WeMENA Resilient Future [call for applications]

Women Entrepreneurs for a Resilient Future in the Middle East and North Africa (WeMENA) is a business model challenge launched to...

women entrepreneurs MENA Innovation

Egypt

Education startups begin to break through in Egypt

Conservative dress codes hid a highly progressive approach to education during a meeting in Giza during November last year, which was...

self-directed education Egyptian Network for Self-Directed Education Tyro

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...

Vezeeta Egypt BECO Capital

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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...

Wamda2016 shezlong sympaticus

Egypt

Fixing Egypt’s waste crisis one handbag at a time

An Egyptian startup in Aswan is turning palm tree waste into handmade products, and is not only providing jobs but helping to revive...

Napata palm waste waste management

Egypt

Can cleantech be Egypt's greatest wealth generator?

The Egyptian cleantech ecosystem is a few years behind its cousin, pure tech, but the sector is beginning to show signs of consolidation....

Cleantech LACI cleantech Arabia

Egypt

Egypt loosens rules on mobile money

In what will be welcome news to Egypt’s burgeoning fintech startups, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) is starting a bid to formalize...

Fintech Central Bank of Egypt mobile money

Egypt

IFC invests in Algebra Ventures, Flat6labs Cairo funds

New Egyptian venture fund Algebra Ventures has announced the first closing at $40 million. The fund, first announced in June, plans to...

Algebra Ventures Egypt SysDsoft

Egypt

Real-time translation for Europe bound refugees and migrants [Wamda TV]

Refugees and migrants from eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia have been making their way to European Union countries for many years,...

ET Call refugees Egypt

Egypt

Rising Up: Egypt's entrepreneurs as important as ever

The Rise Up Summit, the region’s foremost entrepreneur get-together, closed yesterday on the news of yet another brutal terrorist...

RiseUp Summit Egypt Alexandria Angels

Egypt

Innoventures announces $1.6M fund

Innoventures CEO, Hesham Wahby, announced December 6 the launch of a new 30 million Egyptian pound (US $1.6 million) fund, Innoventures...

Innoventures Reactor VC4Africa

Egypt

Karmsolar unveils product, deals in Apple-style launch

In a presentation that drew considerably on those of an Apple product launch, Egypt off-grid solar power specialist Karmsolar announced new...

KarmSolar solar power solar pumping

Egypt

Egypt's online recruitment platform Wuzzuf acquires Viriphi

Egypt’s online recruitment platform Wuzzuf announced on Thursday its acquisition of job assessment platform Viriphi for an...

Programme jobs assessment Egypt

Egypt

ROVArab Competition

Applications for the upcoming ROVArab competition have recently opened for students of all educational levels, whether university,...

Egypt robot ROV

Egypt

Who's investing in Egypt now anyway? [Know your VC]

Egypt’s economy is in bad shape, so who would want to invest in startups and SMEs in this current gloomy atmosphere? Tarek Fahim,...

Know your VC Endure Capital JuiceLabs

Egypt

Wamda’s Mix N' Mentor meets Rise Up Egypt

There are a handful of giant tech events in MENA every year and they’re often packed with people you want to meet (and some you...

rise up summit Egypt event

Egypt

What’s in store for the digital real estate sector in Egypt?

Real estate is a safe haven for Egyptian investors, a circumstance that helps explain the success of Aqarmap, a real estate search engine...

Real Estate Aqarmap Nozol

Egypt

Can an underground free market save Egypt solar?

As Egypt’s plans for a large-scale renewable energy industry have disintegrated over the last year, small operators have quietly...

Egypt challenge 22 solar energy

Egypt

Alex Geeks Meetup - Story of a Startup #3

Alex Geeks Meetups returns with its third edition of ‘Story of a Startup’. The purpose of these meetups is to...

alexandria Networking alex geeks

Egypt

Hack4Egypt 2016

Hack4Egypt hackathon is bringing together the most daring and innovative designers, programmers, and entrepreneurs to revolutionize...

Egypt hackathon HACK4EGYPT

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