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Arabnet Riyadh shows regions' rising interest in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is rising fast as an entrepreneurship ecosystem and events like Arabnet Riyadh are providing a platform for those in the...

Arabnet Arabnet Riyadh Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Careem now a unicorn, raising $350M

Careem has become the Middle East’s second ‘unicorn’, after investment from Japan's ecommerce giant Rakuten Inc and...

careem STC Venture Capital

Saudi Arabia

Saudi’s 9/10ths graduates first batch

Saudi’s 9/10ths Start Up Accelerator has just graduated its first batch of six startups. The startups include Polyinspect, Kaspercab,...

9/10th Saudi Arabia ksa

Saudi Arabia

Saudi loves logistics [Infographic]

With increasing populations, new and expanding cities, and greater infrastructure, there is an increasing need for more goods to be...

Logistics Transport Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

What to expect at Arabnet Riyadh 2016

Arabnet Riyadh has proven to be one of the biggest forums in Saudi Arabia: in 2015 it gathered more than a 1,000 participants from all over...

Saudi Arabia ksa riyadh

Saudi Arabia

What I know about social entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia: Muhammad Al-Bakri

Entrepreneurship is now a top destination for youth and governments. It can provide jobs, diversify the economy and encourage its...

YIG Saudi Arabia Social Entrepreneurship

Saudi Arabia

8 things we learned about Saudi at the Misk Global Forum

Outside the world of oil, Saudi Arabia is putting itself on the map. Currently 70 percent of the Saudi population is under the age of...

Saudi Arabia Misk Global Forum ksa

Saudi Arabia

Arabian Venture Forum 2016

Arabian Venture Forum (AVF) is an initiative aimed at supporting the venture capital landscape in Saudi Arabia and the region, by...

KAUST Saudi Arabia Networking

Saudi Arabia

MiSK Global Forum

According to a recent study prepared by the United Nations, by the year 2020, 90% of the world’s population will be below 30, so it...

Saudi Arabia MiSK vision 2030

Saudi Arabia

Challenge 22 Roadshow - KSA

Challenge 22 is an innovation competition administered by the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy in Qatar. This competition aims...

Saudi Arabia

A Saudi startup invents VR glasses that could change books for ever

By 2020, the global virtual reality (VR) market is projected to reach $150 billion. It is expected to reach its first billion this year...

BeThere Saudi Arabia KAUST

Saudi Arabia

Carpooling for the working women of Saudi, a solution? [Wamda TV]

Women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. While there is no official law banning women from the act, it is deeply held religious...

ksa GITEX 2016 Kaspercab

Saudi Arabia

Arabnet Riyadh 2016

ArabNet Riyadh is Saudi Arabia’s leading forum focused on digital business in the Kingdom and Gulf countries. This year’s event...

Saudi Arabia entrepreneurship Arabnet

Saudi Arabia

Moving from oil to knowledge: the angel network with a helping hand

You’ll have heard about Careem’s acquisition of Enwani, the Saudi home delivery service and how it started. But you...

Saudi Arabia ksa Sirb

Saudi Arabia

KAUST launches new accelerator to support entrepreneurship

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) launched Taqadam last week, a new university startup accelerator...

KAUST Saudi Arabia ksa

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, Japan investor create $100B fund

Saudi Arabia and Japan’s Softbank have signed a deal to create a $100 billion technology investment fund, making it one of the largest p...

Saudi Arabia Softbank japan

Saudi Arabia

Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia: challenges and opportunities [Podcast]

This podcast was previously published by Wamda Capital. After the launch of their podcasts in English, featuring talks with...

Wamda Capital Fadi Ghandour ksa

Saudi Arabia

Startup Weekend Taif carries on the Kingdom’s vision 2030

Startup Weekend in Sooq Okadh in Taif ended on August 13 after three days of hard work on entrepreneurial projects. The event falls under...

Startup Weekend Startup Weekend Taif Badir

Saudi Arabia

Foodics: the Saudis taking on Gulf restaurant giants

In Saudi, the food and beverage (F&B) sector is one of the largest in the Gulf. Probably no surprise there, as in MENA food and...

Foodics ksa Alwans

Saudi Arabia

Can solar startups survive in Saudi? [Video]

Saudi is one of the top two markets entrepreneurs want to scale into, but being a primarily oil-based economy it may or may not be right...

KAUST solar energy Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

New non-profit accelerator launches in Saudi Arabia

The small investment ecosystem in Saudi Arabia is forcing startups to either start late or too slowly - so says Ozan Sonmez from King...

KAUST acceleration incubation

Saudi Arabia

Saudi getting smart on flooding?

For the last four years PhD student Mustafa Mousa has been placing nodes (sensors) in various locations in Mecca and Thuwal. He wanted to...

KAUST Saudi Arabia Sadeem

Saudi Arabia

Saudi startup's device to aid search for oil

In an oil-based economy like Saudi Arabia, finding oil and gas is almost as important as finding water. The country’s efforts to...

Core Echo Saudi Arabia Oil

Saudi Arabia

Cura connects Saudis with specialists

When Cura cofounder Abdullah Alswaha wanted to see a specialist about an ear infection, he found out first hand how difficult it was to...

Cura digital health MEMakersGE

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