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Seedstars MENA 2016

Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is returning to Bahrain on...

MENA Seedstars Global Bahrain

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Jordanian innovator, once turned down by Stars of Science, is named its champion

The hottest entrepreneurship prize in the region was awarded to Jordanian innovator Sadeem Qdaisat in a narrow victory at Stars of Science...

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Bahrain

Bahrain’s Eat raises $2M

Editor’s note: this article was updated on October 12 to include a comment from Reserve Out. In what they are labelling...

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Bahrain

Turn8 Pre-Accelerator Program

The Turn8 Hub Pre-accelerator Program is a free 2-week intensive program from October 9 to 18 for technology startups in...

Bahrain accelerator Funding

Bahrain

Skip ahead: Skiplino wants to put queuing behind us

According to a Lebanese Central Bank official at the Arabnet Beirut summit this year, the Lebanese enjoy queuing in banks and use the...

Skiplino LevelZ SAAS

Bahrain

How to reach a million customers in one year

To most entrepreneurs, the road from launch to market-fit is tough. It is filled with bottlenecks and rejections, ranging from "who...

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Bahrain

Vinli launches in Bahrain

Making driving more seamless in a growing market. (Image via Vinli) Connected car platform Vinli is launching in Bahrain, its first stop...

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Bahrain’s Eat app on fast thinking and changing course

The team behind Bahraini startup Eat had a solid plan when they launched in 2014, but when they heard a global player was about to enter...

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Bahrain

Bahrain wants startups to call it home

As almost every country in the Middle East begins to focus on attracting and developing an entrepreneur market, Bahrain is setting itself...

BIM Bahrain Investment Market Cloud Accelerator

Regional

The ‘ease’ of doing business in MENA [Infographic]

Starting a business and running it isn’t easy. It becomes less so when the economy in which you want to start the business...

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Bahrain

How one Bahraini jeweler sparkles in a competitive market

Making her mark with jewels. (Images via Curve Jewellery) If you want to find jewelry traders operating in the Arabian Gulf, a simple...

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Bahrain

Bahrain gets its first official angel investor network courtesy Tenmou

An entrepreneur pitches his augmented reality app to investors. (Images via Tenmou) An annoyance for the growing startup scene of the...

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Bahrain

MENA Angel Investors Summit 2015 in Bahrain

Bahrain’s second MENA Angel Investors Summit 2015 will take place on May 11th to bolster the investment ecosystem and endorse...

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Regional

Bahraini wearable could add a new dimension to social interaction

The Feelix is another wearable that may reach the market. The bracelet syncs with a user's smartphone and sends him or her...

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Bahrain

How entrepreneurs are shedding light on Bahrain's underground music scene

Aalaat performed at Malja Bahrain last month. (Image via Malja's Facebook page.) Tiny Bahrain has been making a lot of noise lately. The...

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Regional

Global VCs investing in MENA are like pink diamonds: rare but existent

Though it might seem quiet, some VCs are on the prowl. Towards the end of 2014 Wamda published an interview with Lebanese VC Khaled Nasr....

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Bahrain

The startup shrink: Tenmou's Hasan Haider

Back in 2009 when Netflix was offering a collection of 100,000 titles on DVD and had surpassed 10 million subscribers, Hasan Haider, a...

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When looking for investment, you need the law on your side

At the dawn of a new year, and potentially a new era of investment in the Middle East, startups and entrepreneurs would do well to take...

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Bahrain

Third edition of Social Media Masters Forum

The third edition of the Social Media Masters Forum (SMMF2015) will open at the Applied Sciences University in Bahrain on January 28th and...

Bahrain Social Media

Bahrain

Bahrain's answer to OpenTable announces $300,000 second investment round

Bahrain’s newest table reservation application, eatapp.co, has just announced a second funding round, totaling $300,000. The r...

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Bahrain

The Bahrain Award for Entrepreneurship

Designed to recognize the contributions of entrepreneurs to Bahrain's economy, entrepreneurs in Bahrain are invited to apply for the...

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Bahrain

White Payments to officially launch in Bahrain and UAE

White Payments, the newly launched Bahrain-based online payments solution targeted at entrepreneurs throughout the Middle East, is a...

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Bahrain

Bahrain's funding options

“Bahrain is like a petri dish: it’s a pretty self-sufficient ecosystem with a lot of human capital,” says Hasan...

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Bahrain

Bahrain women win innovation award at 2014 Microsoft Imagine Cup [Wamda TV]

Every year since 2003, the Microsoft Imagine Cup has invited student teams from around the world to compete for gold and glory, while...

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