Tunisia

Tunisian startup Expensya raises $1.10M

The Expensya startup, which digitizes company expenses, offers companies and accounting firms cloud, web, and mobile software to report...

Maya Rahal • 17 May, 2017

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Tunisia

Favizone, the Tunisian big data company that's launching in France

What do you do after you’ve found success and sold your startup? Mehdi Khemiri’s answer was to pick a high potential...

Aline Mayard • 02 October, 2016

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Maghreb

Tunis-based Expensya raises seed round in France

Expensya's team in their office in Cogite coworking space, Tunis. (Image via Expensyia) On Monday, almost a year after their launch,...

Aline Mayard • 25 May, 2016

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Lebanon

Efiester plans parties in Paris with a foot in Beirut

Efiester wants to make organizing parties between friends easier. (Images via Efiester) Robert Harfouche is Lebanese, and lives in France....

Aline Mayard • 06 March, 2016

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Maghreb

From France to the Maghreb: why some Maghrebi entrepreneurs return to the homeland

This view does make a good argument for Tunisia. (Image via West East South North) Sure, many Tunisians and Moroccans have...

Aline Mayard • 03 September, 2015

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Maghreb

Why Maghrebi entrepreneurs are launching in France

Here’s a thought: the Maghreb doesn’t lack entrepreneurs; they simply don’t work in their native region. Many...

Aline Mayard • 26 August, 2015

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Regional

The Big Booster Startup International Competition

The Big Booster competition is a program run in collaboration with the startup accelerator MassChallenge to boost innovative...

Wamda • 01 July, 2015

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Maghreb

Toufik Lerari, the entrepreneur who believes communication is Algeria's future

  Toufik Lerari is one of those Algerian entrepreneurs who are changing the way foreigners and Algerians alike see the oil-producing...

Aline Mayard • 23 October, 2014

Fikra Allégorie communication

Global

Could this unusual investment fund/event organizer be the future of seed funding?

The launch of TheFamily a year ago shook up the French startup scene in a big way. The organization, falling somewhere between...

Aline Mayard • 21 September, 2014

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Here's how Mounia Rkha walks the line between the entrepreneurship and VC worlds

Mounia Rkha is not your average investor or entrepreneur. The former analyst at Ventech, the famous French venture capital fund, has...

Aline Mayard • 11 August, 2014

Mydeal.ma France VC

The startup and digital revolution in the Arab World, Paris, France

It's a fact, the startup ecosystem is blossoming in the Arab world. How did it happen? Who are the main players? How can the Arab diaspora...

Wamda • 13 November, 2013

France Diaspora