Wamda

U.A.E

C3 Social Impact Accelerator Program

The C3 Social Impact Accelerator program addresses key milestones in the journey of a social entrepreneur and focuses...

U.A.E

Ureed Language Word-A-Thon Day

The competition is centred around the translation competition ‘the language Word-a-thon’ where we will invite students from...

U.A.E

Falling Walls Lab

Dubai is among the 50 international destinations selected to play host to the 2018 edition of ‘Falling Walls Lab’, a global...

U.A.E

World Green Economy Summit

Inspired by the growth of digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in boosting the economy, the annual World Green Economy...

U.A.E

Kidpreneur Award

BizWorld UAE, a social enterprise specializing in entrepreneurship education, and Entrepreneur Middle East announce the...

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi launches digital sandbox for fintech

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the emirate’s financial centre will launch a fintech digital sandbox, to enable financial...

Fintech Sandbox

U.A.E

Fintech Abu Dhabi 2018

FinTech Abu Dhabi Summit 2018 will go ‘live’ in two more weeks with two full days of exciting activities for FinTech...

U.A.E

Meet Magento Dubai

REDBOX DIGITAL BRINGS MEET MAGENTO TO THE MIDDLE EAST FOR THE FIRST TIME An exclusive, invite-only networking and...

U.A.E

EmTech MENA in Dubai

EmTech conferences are held in seven regions of the world including the flagship EmTech MIT conference in the MIT Media Lab in...

U.A.E

Robots can help socialize autistic children and UAE’s Atlab is a practical example

Robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are both revolutionizing all industries, and healthcare has been at the core of their activities....

Autism robotics Atlab

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia and the UAE’s new partnership and what it means for startups

On Wednesday, the UAE and Saudi Arabia have announced a strategic partnership in 44 projects called The Strategy of Revolve. The...

SME Authority Strategy of Resolve

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi unveils a $13.6 billion program to grow public and private sectors and boost SMEs

Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030 has put forward the need to build a resilient infrastructure that supports economic growth and develops a...

smes abu dhabi

U.A.E

VR in airports: Driving sales, beyond entertainment

In early 2015, the Australian flag carrier Qantas Airways, in partnership with Samsung, brought Virtual Reality (VR) to its first-class...

uae Entertainment tech

U.A.E

Workers’ safety and tracking device WakeCap raised $300K

WakeCap, raised $300,000 from CCC (Consolidated Contractors Company), a construction group with projects across Middle East, Asia and...

uae WakeCap Investment

U.A.E

The StartUp Studio, a new partnership venture bringing corporate business and startups together

Media agency Mindshare MENA, and STEP Group announced this week The StartUp Studio, a new program which will facilitate partnerships...

STEP Group Mindshare Startup studio

U.A.E

$33B of lost remittances could be regained through the Blockchain, and this UAE startup is on it

Fintech startups are continuously bringing innovative solutions to cater to the large unbanked population. According to the World...

uae Dinarii Cash Fintech

Saudi Arabia

Insurance startup Aqeed raises $18 million, launches officially

Having raised a USD $18 million from its corporate shareholders in a landmark Series A round of funding, Aqeed.com, an insurance aggregator...

Aqeed Series A

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi-based Krypto Labs Announces the Winner of the Drone Innovation Start-Up Contest 2018

Krypto Labs, the global incubator for startups, announced that Voliro, from Switzerland - a startup focusing on omnidirectional drones for...

Krypto Labs

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi’s travel and tourism leaders award $100k to four Fikra Labs winners

One month after announcing the 12 shortlisted startups to join a four-week training by Fikra Labs, an acceleration programme for the travel...

Fikra Labs acceleration abu dhabi

U.A.E

Apps to locate missing refugees and tackle counterfeit medicine win NYU Abu Dhabi’s International Hackathon

Dawa, an application designed to tackle counterfeit medicine in the region using blockchain based pharmaceutical distribution, and Boosala,...

NYU Abu Dhabi

U.A.E

Four startups from the travel and tourism industry won Intelak’s third cohort

Four Dubai-based startups aiming at transforming the aviation, travel, and tourism industries graduated on April 30 from the...

uae Intelak GE

Lebanon

Could this 3D-printing startup remove one of the biggest construction costs in Dubai?

I met two startups in less than two weeks working in innovating the construction industry. And this is only in Lebanon. One cannot...

Buildink 3d printing Construction

U.A.E

Hospitality veteran invests $4M in Dubai-based virtual hotel startup to drive its expansion plan

MaisonPrive, a ‘virtual hotel’ operator that offers luxury apartments and villas to business and leisure visitors to Dubai,...

uae Funding MaisonPrive

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala acquires minority stake in NY-based Phoenician Capital

Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Investment Company acquired a minority stake in the general partner of Phoenician Capital, a New York-based...

uae Mubadala Investment Company acquisition

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