Global New startups on the block: September Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to watch. Blink Egypt Development... Reine Farhat • 04 September, 2017 Startup List news AI
Kuwait 4 Kuwaiti family businesses using innovation to stay ahead This article is a crosspost from Nuwait. As we enter the age of information, more businesses are now better able to understand and... Hind Al-Ghannam • 03 September, 2017 kuwait Innovation family businesses
Global Startup Watch: Uber’s new era, a computer that can smell and wealth secrets The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Reine Farhat • 31 August, 2017 Startup Watch Uber AI
Saudi Arabia This Saudi entrepreneur wants to bring you the Serviis you need According to data released in the WRL report, supporting organizations in the Kingdom, such as funds, coworking spaces, accelerators and... Maya Rahal • 30 August, 2017 Saudi Arabia ksa Serviis
Regional AI is taking roots in the MENA Even though Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing at a blistering pace, outside academia and engineering, it remains a bit of a... Tarek Faycal • 30 August, 2017 AI Investment Technology
U.A.E Truck service startups are on the rise in the UAE While truck companies have been around for decades to transport large shipments of goods, the UAE is now seeing a rise in truck service... Archana Menon • 30 August, 2017 uae startups Delivery
Regional Will MENA’s on-demand startups become sustainable businesses? On-demand startups, the so-called ‘Uber for X’ of startups, are those that provide immediate service by dispatching someone to... Dina Alnabulsi • 29 August, 2017 On-demand startups Technology entrepreneurship
Lebanon Rebuilding toy models, from Urbacraft to Makerbrane [Wamda TV] When Ayssar Arida and Sabine de Maussion founded in Lebanon Urbacraft, a building blocks startup that allows children to build construction... Berthe El Aya • 28 August, 2017 Makerbrane Urbacraft 3D Makerspace
Regional What I Know about the right time to crowdinvest: Eureeca’s Chris Thomas Chris Thomas, co-CEO and cofounder of equity crowdfunding platform Eureeca, has sat at both ends of the proverbial funding table. He has... Archana Menon • 28 August, 2017 What I Know eureeca Chris Thomas
Saudi Arabia The lifecycle of an app: From an idea to a successful business [slideshow] Daily app downloads have reached 50 million globally, out of which 95 percent get deleted within a month, according to the Digital... Maya Rahal • 27 August, 2017 Digital Leadership in Mobile Apps Innosoft Alsharqia Chamber
U.A.E What the UAE’s new insolvency framework means for entrepreneurs In 2009, it took a MENA company 3.5 years on average to go through the insolvency process, with a value erosion rate of 14 percent. In... Vanessa Khalil • 27 August, 2017 uae bankruptcy Legal framework
U.A.E How these twins made conservative fashion trendier When twin sisters Rawan and Suzan Alsadi began wearing the hijab, they realized that the market does not cater to their fashion needs.... Marina Makary • 24 August, 2017 uae Rozan Designs Fashion
Global Startup Watch: The vampire startup, the era’s new banks and the dark side of entrepreneurship The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Rana Freifer • 24 August, 2017 Startup Watch Facebook Amazon
Regional What MENA entrepreneurs should know before moving to Europe and the US Expanding your business beyond the MENA region is a challenge. People in the know cite such a venture’s costliness, point out... Aline Mayard • 23 August, 2017 Entrepreneur Europe MENA
Global Artificial Intelligence is making mobile apps even smarter Artificial Intelligence (AI) enables computers to do much of what humans have traditionally done, and even to correct our mistakes. AI... Hamad Almuraikhi • 23 August, 2017 AI Mobile Apps Google
Egypt Mobile billing consolidated in Egypt following TPay’s acquisition of DCBEgypt There are over 95 million SIM cards registered with Egypt’s three mobile networks: Etisalat Misr, Orange (Mobinil previously), and... Radwa Rashad • 22 August, 2017 Egypt TPay DCBEgypt