Wamda

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia launches $200 million fund to back local, foreign high-tech startups

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has launched a $200 million (SAR750 million) fund for early-stage investment in...

KAUST Innovation

Saudi Arabia

KAUST launches innovation fund

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has launched a VC fund to invest in seed level deeptech...

KAUST KAUST Innovation Fund

Saudi Arabia

Red Sea Farms raises $10 million to expand across Saudi

Saudi Arabia-based agritech startup Red Sea Farms has received a $10 million investment fund from Wa’ed, the Future Investment...

agritech KAUST

Global

KAUST invests $3.5 million in Estonia's Natufia Labs

Source: The Spoon Natufia Labs, the Estonia-based automated kitchen garden startup, announced today that it is relocating to Saudi...

KAUST Natufia Labs foodtech

Regional

The regional tussle for startups: Is Dubai at risk of being overtaken? [part two]

As outlined in the first part of this feature, startups have become a fundamental pillar of the economy, a means not only for innovation,...

Ecosystem Dubai abu dhabi

Regional

GCC-based entities join forces to launch region's first conscious investor fellowship

Source: Arab News King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has partnered with the investment platform VentureSouq,...

KAUST impact entrepreneurship Venture Souq

Saudi Arabia

Sadeem raises $2.6 million from Wa'ed Ventures

Source: Sadeem Sadeem, a wireless environmental sensing systems spinout company from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology...

Wa'ed KAUST

Saudi Arabia

Taqadam announces six winners

Saudi Arabia’s startup accelerator Taqadam has picked six winners after an intensive eight-month acceleration programme, awarding...

KAUST Taqadam

Saudi Arabia

#MixNMentor unveils entrepreneurs biggest challenges in KAUST

For the first time, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology KAUST Innovation and Monsha’at, a Small and Medium Enterprises...

Mix N Mentor Riyadh Mix n Mentor KAUST

Saudi Arabia

A ‘quattro’ of Mix N’ Mentors coming to Saudi Arabia

Wamda is organizing four rounds of its flagship event, Mix N’ Mentor, in Saudi during the last two months of the year. The...

Mix N' Mentor riyadh Badir

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Aramco licenses NOMADD to create waterless cleaning systems

Saudi Aramco entered into a technology licensing agreement with NOMADD Desert Solar Solutions, the Saudi-based startup that commercializes...

Aramco Solar panels NOMADD

Saudi Arabia

New event in Saudi Arabia to help entrepreneurs develop their ideas

“Right before pitching my idea and going up on stage, I was doubting myself. But, I learned to believe in myself more. I also learned...

Saudi Arabia ksa Techpreneurship Sprint

Saudi Arabia

Taqadam announced the winners at the Saudi university startups program

The six-month long startup program, Taqadam, announced the first showcase winners, at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology...

Taqadam KAUST unversity startup program

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

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

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

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

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

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

Solar panel cleaning startup closes $1M Series A

Saudi-based startup NOMADD has closed a Series A round of $1 million. NOMADD, which stands for ‘no water mechanical automated...

Investment and acquisitions MEMakersGE NOMADD

Saudi Arabia

Ed-tech to the rescue of Saudi Arabia's schools

Saudi Arabia’s education system has many problems. Despite the government allocating 25 percent of its $229 billion budget to education in ...

Alhodhud iRehab Masmoo3

Saudi Arabia

Building Saudi Arabia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, KAUST

A university with plans for the Saudi Arabian knowledge economy. (Image via Globalhighered.wordpress.com) Saudi Arabia has been an...

Beacon I Saudi Arabia KAUST

Saudi Arabia

MaterialSolved helps scientists visualize complex data [Video]

MaterialSolved is a startup that provides visualization software and graphical representations of big data allowing scientists to...

MaterialSolved big data KAUST

Saudi Arabia

KAUST's New Ventures Accelerator open for fall applications

New Ventures Accelerator, the accelerator program run by the KAUST Entrepreneurship Center, is accepting applications for its new batch ...

deadline application accelerator

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