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RiseUp Summit 2016

Mark your calendars! From December 9 to 11, RiseUp Summit 2016 will be happening in Downtown Cairo, Egypt. In recent years, RiseUp...

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EAEF reinvests in Egypt’s Smartcare Medical Services

Smartcare Medical Services in Egypt has secured another 12 million Egyptian pounds (US$762,000) from the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund,...

Smartcare Medical Services Egypt Series A

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Nawart's cleantech startups a silver lining for Egypt's transition

Egypt may have effectively killed off any interest in industrial scale solar, but a group of people passionate about the cause believe...

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'Push' is big business for these Egyptians

2015 was the year of the push notification. App makers discovered that a prompt on a smartphone could remind their users they existed...

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Winners and losers in Egypt’s currency crisis

Two days after this article was published, on November 3 the Central Bank of Egypt has floated the pound, allowing it to move to 13...

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Reclaiming Egypt’s rooftops: Al Bustani reaps urban farm profits

In 2014, Housam Abul-Fotouh was in the Sinai desert building 72,000 square metres of greenhouses. He and cofounder Mohamed Ibrahim had...

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No hoax! Journas sets Arabic news record straight

Discredited news pieces and hoax science articles circulate throughout the web, and Arabic versions are not immune. So in came Journas,...

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Egypt startup trades clicks for cash

To try to defuse an education crisis, ‘clickfunding’ startup Bassita is joining forces with the Misr El Kheir Foundation to...

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Apply for incubation at TIEC

If you have a business plan for your startup and are looking for incubation, be sure to apply to the 13th round of TIEC's...

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The Story of a Startup #2

Started by Morad Edwar and Sarah Abdel Aziz, Alex Geeks Meetup returns with its second session of "The Story of a Startup"....

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Flat6labs signs $1M deal with IFC

Flat6labs has signed a $1 million deal with the World Bank investment arm International Finance Corporation (IFC). The Egyptian...

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The lucky 13: Egypt's incubators

Cairo was - surprisingly - named one of the top 10 cities in the world to found a tech-startup last year, and that is likely partly...

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Can new tech trends advance digital advertising?

'Why did Mandolin create a two-bar pack?’ Mandolin Egypt itself did not know the answer but used the question in its social...

Digital Media Advertising Egypt

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Seedspace Fintech Week Cairo

Seedstars World returns to Cairo for Seedspace Fintech Week Cairo, which will be taking place on October 26 during Seedspace...

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'VC association wanted, please call Egypt for more details' [Opinion]

There is no doubt the Egyptian startup ecosystem is young. If the startups are young, the investors are as well. As investors, we need...

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Cairo Angels lead angel deal in Egypt's Hire Hunt

Business angels network Cairo Angels has sealed an investment with the Egyptian startup Hire Hunt in September. Cairo Angels...

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Replacing wood with straw, an Egyptian environmental solution

Egypt is brewing a number of entrepreneurial projects seeking to provide sustainable solutions for the manufacture of wooden furniture and...

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8 lessons for new founders [Opinion]

In August I officially completed my first year of being fully dedicated to my food startup Yumamia. It’s been a year of hard...

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Alex Geeks Meetup #6

Started by two friends with an ambition to create a local community of software industry enthusiasts, the sixth edition of Alex Geeks...

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Going cashless in Egypt with Paymob

It is no secret that cash and informal transactions are still the norm in Egypt. Cash transactions account for 40 percent of the...

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GE Egypt Digital Innovation Challenge

General Electric, in partnership with the Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and the Technology Innovation and...

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A list of Egyptian startup investors

We have compiled a list of 16 different investors to whom Egyptian entrepreneurs can pitch their product. Since 2015, a number of...

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3 failures and a job: how Bio Energy Egypt hit success

Bio Energy Egypt founder Mahmoud Galal failed three times and took a corporate job before he succeeded at being an entrepreneur. But all...

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Facebook for Developers Partner Workshop - Cairo

You are invited to attend an invite-only full day workshop from Facebook on Monday October 31 in Cairo, designed for our priority...

Egypt Facebook Workshop

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