Cooking oil can run engines as well [Wamda TV]

Thousand of tons of waste cooking oil is produced around the world every year, with large amounts dumped in rivers and...

Abdulghani Kataya • 04 April, 2017

Kilimanjaro Environnment youssef Chaqor Cooking Oil

Biodome fights gas with gas in Morocco

Fatima Zahra Beraich works in agriculture, a sector that’s dominated by men, in rural Moroccan areas rarely accustomed to seeing...

Yassine Bakir • 29 March, 2017

biodome compost morocco

Morocco’s Moteur.ma raises round from Malaysian investor

Moteur.ma is a classified car ads startup based in Casablanca. Launched in 2009, FDV funded 32 percent of the startup’s 2015...

Wamda • 27 March, 2017

cars classified ads morocco

New seed fund Outlierz launches in Morocco [Know your VC]

A new Morocco-based seed fund called Outlierz is looking to provide “smart capital” for early stage Africa startups. The...

Rachel Williamson • 15 February, 2017

Outlierz Hassan Haider seed fund

New startups on the block: February

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

Lucy Knight • 31 January, 2017

new startups Jarra Carriage

Ketabook turns niche market into a Maghreb bookseller’s dream

The story of Ketabook is the one of a historian father and his marketer son. It started 17 years ago when Mohamed El Mansour, a history...

Yassine Bakir • 30 January, 2017

Ketabook Amazon culture

Moroccan 'search engine for sales' Vendo raises seed round

Two-year-old Moroccan ecommerce search engine Vendo.ma has raised 2.7 million dirhams (US$267,000) from a business angel based in...

Lilia Blaise • 24 January, 2017

Vendo Jumia ecommerce

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...

Wamda • 07 January, 2017

women entrepreneurs MENA Innovation

Casablanca gets smart to clean up

Morocco's economic center, the city of Casablanca, has experienced galloping urbanization in recent years and it’s significantly...

Yassine Bakir • 19 December, 2016

smart city morocco NUMA

Moroccan enviro-startups turn their eyes on Africa

This year COP22 succeeded in shifting into a real platform for action for the development of innovation and entrepreneurship - in Morocco,...

Yassine Bakir • 04 December, 2016

Maroc COP22 Start-up

What did Morroco gain with COP22?

A lot was at stake for Morocco with the opening of the 22nd COP (Conference Of Parties) UN Climate Change Conference, which began at the...

Lilia Blaise • 22 November, 2016

COP22 morocco MEMakersGE

Morocco’s Beekast raises $3M for meeting app

Beekast, a Moroccan mobile and web meeting and events app, has raised 2.7 million euro ($3 million) led by Isource, a VC with a 200 million...

Yassine Bakir • 09 November, 2016

Morocco Startup Altitude

Startup Altitude is a global entrepreneurship organisation, hosting international festivals and programmes around the world to inspire and...

Wamda • 28 October, 2016

Converting code quicksmart, scalable?

Hunched over his laptop in a hotel lobby, empty coffee cups and water bottles piled up on the table beside him, Jaoued Ahmed’s energy...

Celeste Hicks • 04 October, 2016

myappconverter morocco

Maghreb Game Conference 2016

Maghreb Game Conference is the first Moroccan conference and exhibition dedicated to the video game industry, taking place on October...

Wamda • 04 October, 2016

morocco game development Conferences

SIGEF 2016 [Exclusive discount!]

Do you have a project to make the world a better place? If yes, then you should definitely plan on attending this year’s Social...

Wamda • 28 September, 2016

morocco Social innovation entrepreneurship

The Moroccan doctor who wants to rethink medicine

Next year should be the first time a 100 percent Moroccan made medicine will be commercialized. Adnane Remmal, a biology researcher,...

Yassine Bakir • 28 September, 2016

biotech drugs Medical

Afrimarket raises $11M for regional expansion

Moroccan entrepreneur Rania Belkahia has raised 10 million euros (US$11 million) for ecommerce platform Afrimarket, which targets the...

Aline Mayard • 06 September, 2016

fundraising africa Afrimarket

New Work Class trains Morocco's aspiring entrepreneurs

Each ecosystem has its quirks and setbacks. One of Morocco’s was that it lacked a training program for entrepreneurs outside of...

Aline Mayard • 14 August, 2016

New Work Lab NWL Training

How Morocco's Highness beat tall poppy syndrome

What to do when your team is too qualified, and too expensive, for your own country? Highness, a Moroccan user experience agency,...

Aline Mayard • 09 August, 2016

Highness morocco User Experience

Credit cards, internet access, and online bill pay: Moroccan e-commerce is booming

Without a doubt, e-commerce in Morocco is experiencing a peak of interest. Over the last seven years, we’ve seen, at my startup...

Mehdi Reghai • 10 July, 2014

morocco E-commerce