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Hikma Ventures makes second US investment

Hikma Ventures made their second investment announcement in just over a month with their contribution to a $21.5 million series C round of...

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Wamda went to GITEX and met some startups

Dubai’s annual tech trade fair, GITEX Technology Week, is huge. We’re talking 15-minute walks from end-to-end...

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Startup Watch: Quit the social, call your angel, and cut down on the hype

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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The wrong way to introduce people over email

This is an edited crosspost from Harvard Business Review. When I was young and just starting out in my career, one of the...

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R2-D2 and Ayah Bdeir share the spotlight at Disney Demo Day

Littlebits founder Ayah Bdeir announced a new partnership with Disney on Thursday for a children’s online video series encouraging...

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Startup Watch: How to get more dates on Tinder, why Egyptian investors must unite, and VR Facebook emojis

Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been reading this week on how to get more dates on Tinder, VR spreading its Ocu-pus legs across...

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Hello Tomorrow Global Summit #HTSummit

A perfect storm of good things. That’s what they call the Hello Tomorrow Global Summit, an intimate, invite-only forum that gathers...

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Startup Watch: Who's reading your emails, the UAE mission to Mars and has power corrupted you yet?

Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been reading this week on those new Pixel phones that do stuff with the flick of a wrist,...

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Braci capitalizes on Europe’s growing hard of hearing market

Anwar Al Mojarkesh has built up a long list of inventions that he sought to one day realise. One was a “dancing pillow” that...

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Startup Watch: It pays to listen, no to networking and solar for Lebanon?

Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been reading this week on how to approach networking in the most effective way possible, how we...

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Branding outside the box [Wamda TV]

When design consultant Ashley Shaffer and her team were asked to help a long established US insurance company to appeal to a younger...

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Startup Watch: Elon Musk feels fear, US startups declining, and Saudi teen wants hijabi emojis

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complicated one to navigate. To help, here’s our roundup of what we’re reading on Elon...

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4 ways human data can help plan a city

If you can overcome the paranoia of your online data being collected and mined by companies like Google or Facebook, and instead focus on...

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From droid farmers to gamer therapists: why we can’t prepare students today for the careers of 2030 [Opinion]

This article is a crossposted with Medium. I recently reread To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. There’s one...

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Vinli, now part of the US vehicle supply chain

Just 10 months after Vinli started shipping their connected car platform, the connected car startup has announced a partnership with a...

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What I know about bootstrapping hardware: Luke Iseman

For years now the Lean methodology has been all the rage: bootstrap, get a viable minimum product, ship it without further ado, see the...

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US digital health startup gets Hikma Ventures funding

Hikma Ventures announced today their participation in a $47.6 million Series B round for Chrono Therapeutics. Chrono is a US-based...

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Startup Watch: a Skype ‘Slack’, lazy leaders, and investors’ reading habits

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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Learning from failure? Jordan teens ready to launch again [Wamda TV]

It’s been a long time coming, but according to their latest statements the app Aidmaid is soon to launch. Aidmaid, which...

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Startup watch: a tyranny of experts, cash burns, and Algeria who?

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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8 ways electric vehicles will change the way we live

Electric vehicles, or EVs, haven't really reached MENA yet. But when they do, the impact will be as destructive as everywhere else in...

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$900M sale for a Dubai HQ’d company

Serial entrepreneur Divyank Turakhia's Media.net has been sold for approximately $900 million. Media.net, who have their global...

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Startup Watch: 5 years of Tim Cook’s Apple, and Gandalf won’t do your wedding

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, but not when you have to explain the difference between AR and VR, that’s easy....

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What I know about going to Silicon Valley: Muyesser Taqi Eddin

A Google search of this woman won’t yield much, and yet she has been intrinsic in building bridges between Silicon Valley and...

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