Regional Logistics company secures $41M in Series B funding Fetchr, a tech company disrupting the traditional logistics sector in the MENA region, secured 41 million dollars in a Series B... Staff writer • 16 May, 2017 Fetchr New Enterprise Associates Inc. Idriss Al Rifai
Jordan Digitizing financial transactions in the region: go startups! The rise of the fintech industry in the region throughout the years, proves that this sector has a big impact on emerging markets despite... Maisa Khudair • 16 May, 2017 Fintech online payment Oasis 500
Syria Arageek: the reader comes first, even at our expense ‘Arabic content worth reading’ is the motto many Arabic content platforms hold to against the rise of poor online Arabic... Maya Rahal • 15 May, 2017 arageek raseef22 Arabic Content
Regional What do MENA telcos want to be when they grow up? Part II This is the second article of two about telecom companies in MENA and how they should be adapting. The first is here. In this part we are... Staff writer • 11 May, 2017 Telcos du anghami
Regional 500 Startups closes $15M on MENA fund Hassan Haidar, the managing director of the MENA fund for 500 Startups, 500 Falcons, announced Wednesday the closing of their fund at $15... Staff writer • 10 May, 2017 500 startups falcon fund Investment
Regional SOCAP 17 SOCAP17 is a conference on impact investment and social enterprise. Held in San Francisco, SOCAP17 will bring together innovators in... Wamda • 09 May, 2017 entrepreneurship conference San Francisco
U.A.E What do MENA telcos want to be when they grow up? Part I This is the first article of two about telecom companies in MENA and how they should be adapting. In the opening sequence of... Staff writer • 09 May, 2017 Telcos du anghami
Regional IFLIX launches in MENA IFLIX’s service is now available to over 1 billion consumers in 18 countries across Asia and the Middle East and North... Wamda • 09 May, 2017 IFLIX TV on demand SVoD
Regional How to make a good digital media strategy for your business [Wamda TV] In a region where internet penetration is rapidly growing (60 percent in 2017), having a good digital strategy for your business is... Maya Rahal • 09 May, 2017 Jad Yammine content strategies content
Regional What's your share of the company? [Opinion] The Souq.com deal was great for the news media cycle, but was it so great for the investors? In tech, these types of events are fraught... Tammer Qaddumi • 08 May, 2017 Souq.com investments VCs
Jordan Startup with Purpose Startup With Purpose has recently announced that it will be hosting its first week-long entrepreneurship bootcamp at King’s Academy... Wamda • 04 May, 2017 Jordan entrepreneurship startup
Regional Half of Arab youth visit Youtube every day [Report] According to the Arab Youth Survey 2017, published by ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller this week, 35 percent of young people in the Arab... Maya Rahal • 04 May, 2017 Arab youth Report YouTube
Regional New startups on the block: May Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to... Lucy Knight • 03 May, 2017 new startups Healthcare Travel
Regional ArabNet Digital Summit 2017 The fifth edition of the ArabNet Digital Summit will be back on May 16-17, at the Madinat Jumeirah Conference and Events Center in... Wamda • 02 May, 2017 Dubai Arabnet summit
Regional Cohort 4 Acceleration Program The U.S. hardware accelerator, "Make in LA", is recruiting International and MENA hardware startups for the Cohort 4 Program in... Wamda • 02 May, 2017 LA acceleration accelerator
Regional 5 steps to startup video stardom [Opinion] I see everyday how online video can be an efficient and effective way for entrepreneurs and small businesses to develop their brand and... Jad Abi-Esber • 27 April, 2017 YouTube Vidéo Online video
Regional Where does MENA really do business? [Infographic] Even as entrepreneurs look to the Gulf to expand their sales, they look to the Levant to expand their back office operations. Wamda... Teeb Assaf • 26 April, 2017 Wamda Research Lab WRL backoffice
Regional 5 AI advertising startups to watch This edited article was originally published on Centric. Using AI in marketing has been the new kid on the street for some time. With... Hamna Anwar • 26 April, 2017 Artificial intelligence Marketing Advertising
Regional 4 startups that are changing Maghreb healthcare A woman fainting at a railway station in Morocco, while waiting for the train that would take her three hours away for dialysis treatment,... Lilia Blaise • 25 April, 2017 tunisia morocco Medtrucks
Regional Online talent platforms: labor market connectors for the digital era in the GCC Youth unemployment is one of the Middle East’s biggest challenges. Even as unemployment remains high and people are unable to land... Ola Aboukhsaiwan • 24 April, 2017 recruitment Job Creation onegcc
Regional #Shabab2030 #Shabab2030 by MBC Hope is a global movement giving Arab youth a powerful platform to succeed as leaders and... Wamda • 24 April, 2017 MBC Shabab2030 Social Entrepreneurship
Regional Seamless Middle East 2017 Seamless Middle East 2017 will be bringing some of the most influential names from the region in the sectors of payments, ecommerce and... Rami Deeb • 10 April, 2017 payment solutions ecommerce Retail
Regional 10 steps corporations must take before investing in startups [Opinion] Corporations want to innovate, but issues such as tighter R&D budgets and organizational bureaucracy can make tapping outside sources -... Kamal Hassan • 09 April, 2017 corporate venture capital the cribb
Regional What we learned about the media industry at #STEP2017 The reader is king. After an era of praising content as the supreme power in media, the focus today is shifting towards the... Maya Rahal • 07 April, 2017 Step Conference Step 2017 Media