Wamda

Regional

Corporate VCs and VCs: Who wins the battle?

In 2016, Intel Capital and Google Ventures were the most active corporate venture capital (CVC), according to a CB Insights report,...

corporate venture capital Venture Capital CER

U.A.E

GE, MENA startups come together on common ground [Video]

During the last quarter of 2015, Wamda and General Electric (GE) kicked off a new common activity, the ‘GE MEMakers Mentorship Program’. Th...

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Lebanon

Lebanese telco Touch expands its reach with startups

Nadim Khater at his office. (Image via Touch) After indulging in an era of global expansion, telecom operators around the world...

Telcos touch lebanon

Regional

Fast Facts II: 12+ new hubs for MENA startups (2015)

Throughout 2015, support for entrepreneurs in the Arab world continued to grow. As Wamda’s review of the year’s...

Wamda Research Lab accelerator CER

Regional

MEC and Wamda partner to launch Corporate Entrepreneurship Services across MENA

MEC, one of the largest media agencies in the world and Wamda have signed a partnership to give MENA businesses access to innovation from...

MEC CER Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility

Saudi Arabia

Saudi startup Rwaq steps on giants' shoulders to succeed

“Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility”, or CER, are the new buzzwords entering Saudi Arabia’s lexicon, and one startup is making the m...

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Jordan

Zain Jordan’s commitment to entrepreneurship continues

Zain CEO Ahmad Hanandeh, right, works with entrepreneurs at Mix N' Mentor Amman in 2014, hosted at ZINC. Since first signing a partnership...

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Jordan

Zain and Wamda kick off Traxn with 5 Jordanian startups

Five Jordanian startups have been selected to join a new accelerator program designed to bring together young innovators with one of the...

Zain Telecom Traxn Zain Jordan

Regional

Startup-corporate partnerships 2/3: why are there so few?

The second in our series of three articles looking at the intricacies of the startup-corporate relationship, we follow on from the logic...

corporations startups partnerships

Regional

Traxn launches with Zain, call for applications now open for Jordanian startups

In the past few years, MENA startups and corporations kept their distance, holding on to the assumption that corporates are too...

Traxn zinc incubator ZINC

Zain Jordan embarks on CER with a series of activities

Telecom company, Zain Jordan, has taken a big step into actioning its Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility program and helping e...

Zain Jordan Zain CER

Wamda Chairman Fadi Ghandour receives award at World Entrepreneurship Forum

Wamda Chairman Fadi Ghandour was honored yesterday at this year’s World Entrepreneurship Forum in Singapore with the Business Entrepreneur ...

CER Awards Fadi Ghandour

4 simple reasons why a young digital agency in Lebanon is turning a steady profit

Sometimes the startups seeing the most steady returns aren’t the ones that are popping up in the news, but just those with a solid model a...

CER Blog Developers

Global

Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility, by Fadi Ghandour

It is a matter of fact that chronic poverty and unemployment have long been the twin hallmarks of most Arab economies. While poverty...

Social Change Ecosystem Fadi Ghandour

Regional

Fadi Ghandour Announces Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Movement

In a speech today at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Dubai, Fadi Ghandour, CEO of Aramex and Chairman of the Board at Wamda,...

Ecosystem Fadi Ghandour Innovation

Regional

Startup-corporate partnerships 3/3: 6 success stories

Announcing the ShopGo deal In our series on startup-corporate partnerships we've looked at the logic behind the relationships, and why...

corporations startups CER

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