RiseUp concludes its first virtual edition

RiseUp is one of the region's biggest startup events, attracting thousands of participants, giving visitors a glimpse into the Egyptian...

Dunya Hassanein • 16 August, 2020

RiseUp Summit Rise Up from Home

Glamera raises seed investment

Cairo-based beauty and wellness service booking platform Glamera, has raised a six-figure seed round from Saudi Arabia’s Dual Gate...

News • 10 August, 2020

Glamera Beauty and Wellness Beauty booking apps

The future of mobility: Buses on demand

This is the first part in a series of features examining the impact of Covid-19 on the region's transport and mobility startups Over...

Dunya Hassanein • 09 August, 2020

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Majid Al Futtaim: The corporate engaging with startups

Corporates are a necessity in the startup journey. They provide entrepreneurs with the work experience required to understand business and...

Triska Hamid • 05 August, 2020

Majid Al Futtaim MAF

Creating a comprehensive model for e-commerce success

Darren Hodgkin, CEO of Digital&Code E-commerce has made massive gains during the Covid-19 pandemic. Consumers were forced to...

Thought Leadership • 03 August, 2020

E-commerce

The audiobook opportunity in education

UAE-based audiobook platform Kitab Sawti was recently acquired by Storytel. In this exclusive piece for Wamda, Kitab Sawti's founder...

Thought Leadership • 30 July, 2020

Kitab Sawti Audiobooks Education

Rology raises investment from Dubai Angel Investors

Egypt-based healthtech startup Rology, has raised investment from Dubai Angel Investors. The amount raised was not...

Dunya Hassanein • 23 July, 2020

Rology Dubai Angel Investors healthtech

elGrocer: The lessons we learned in the era of Covid-19

Nader Amiri is the founder of UAE-based e-grocery startup elGrocer E-commerce is on everyone’s mind. There’s a lot being...

Thought Leadership • 23 July, 2020

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What is the future of events?

Last week, after four long months of coronavirus lockdowns, Dubai hosted its first “in-person” event. AI Everything, held at...

Shaimaa El Nazer • 21 July, 2020

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E-sports and gaming: Mena's new global frontier

Yousef Buhazza is the founder of Unreal Bahrain and vice chairman of the Bahrain Internet Society Growth in Crisis All manner of...

Thought Leadership • 20 July, 2020

Gaming E-sports

Real to virtual: Buying and selling property online

Real estate is one sector that appears to have resisted the indelible disruption that has redefined other, traditional sectors like...

Triska Hamid • 16 July, 2020

Real Estate Proptech

Aumet raises $1.25 million in seed funding

Jordan-born healthcare marketplace Aumet, has raised a $1.25 million seed round from Right Side Capital, TechStars, and Plugs and...

News • 14 July, 2020

Healthcare covid-19 Aumet

Adopting emerging technologies in a post-Covid-19 world

By Jad Hajj, partner, Imad Atwi, Jean Salamat, principals, and Riazul Raquib, senior associate, with Strategy& Middle East, part of the...

Thought Leadership • 14 July, 2020

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Top five investment deals in the second quarter of 2020

The top five disclosed venture capital (VC) deals in the second quarter of 2020 amounted to $244.6 million, largely down to the $150...

Dunya Hassanein • 09 July, 2020

VC investment

In a world of remote work, will control replace culture?

Marilyn Zakhour, founder and chief executive officer of UAE-based Cosmic Centaurs At the height of the pandemic, I started a company...

Thought Leadership • 05 July, 2020

company culture remote work

Will cash on delivery return post Covid-19?

By Faris Fallouh, Senior Global Express Services at Aramex During this pandemic, consumers globally and in the Middle East and North...

Thought Leadership • 28 June, 2020

CoD cash-on-delivery

Edtech and its roadmap to new realities

Wamda, in partnership with Columbia Global Centers, is hosting an online panel discussion, ‘Edtech and its roadmap to...

Wamda • 25 June, 2020

The Middle East's post-pandemic future

A new reality is beginning to emerge as lockdown measures begin to ease amid the Covid-19 outbreak, imposing a dramatic restructure to...

Shaimaa El Nazer • 23 June, 2020

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Building a super app for the Middle East

Before smartphones and mobile app stores, the internet was dominated by a handful of web portals that offered their users several services...

Triska Hamid • 18 June, 2020

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Careem invests $50 million in super app

Careem announced the launch of its super app, combining all of its services like ride-hailing and food delivery onto one platform. The Uber...

Triska Hamid • 15 June, 2020

careem super app

From the valley of death to the oasis wadi

It has become evident that the Covid-19 crisis is like no other. While its persistence and long-term impact on society as a whole remain...

Fadi Ghandour • 14 June, 2020

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A deep dive into the GCC’s cloud kitchen sector [part one]

When Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick sold most of his shares in the mobility giant to launch CloudKitchens, securing a $400 million cheque...

Triska Hamid • 11 June, 2020

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Wamda X Startup Reveal: Cohort II

Over the course of the last 4 months, and through the 3 stages of the programme: XStart, XSolve, and XScale, the second cohort of the...

Wamda • 09 June, 2020

What is the most important lesson we can learn from this pandemic?

Students of history will be familiar with the term “superpower”, countries that wield global influence by means of economic,...

Triska Hamid • 09 June, 2020

Opinion covid-19