Wamda

Regional

New startups on the block: December

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

Egypt

EAEF reinvests in Egypt’s Smartcare Medical Services

Smartcare Medical Services in Egypt has secured another 12 million Egyptian pounds (US$762,000) from the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund,...

Smartcare Medical Services Egypt Series A

Regional

New startups on the block: November

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to watch. Arab...

Transport Healthcare ecommerce

Regional

MSD Innovation Factory

MSD is eager to find new and better ways to provide healthcare services to patients and healthcare professionals around the world. That...

healthtech biotech Healthcare

U.A.E

China calls for Dubai 100 health tech backer

With its fast growing healthcare market and rapidly ageing population, China is proving to be a match for Dubai-based Dubai 100. The...

Dubai 100 china Healthcare

Qatar

Qatar doctor directory Meddy adds Arabic site

Qatari healthcare directory Meddy has launched its first Arabic version with the expectation that using the region’s native language...

Meddy qatar Healthcare

U.A.E

3D medical printing finds its footing in Dubai’s future

Launched in October 2015, Medativ is a Dubai-based 3D anatomical model printing company. The company name is a play on its products...

MEMakersGE Healthcare 3d printing

Global

US digital health startup gets Hikma Ventures funding

Hikma Ventures announced today their participation in a $47.6 million Series B round for Chrono Therapeutics. Chrono is a US-based...

Investment Hikma Ventures MEMakersGE

Regional

Using tech to reverse wealth inequality

The increasing pace of technological evolution is causing serious concerns about its impact on wealth inequality and creating...

Wealth wealth inequality The Little Engineer

Qidni Labs promises to clean out your kidney for an artificial one

End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) is when kidneys have stopped working well enough for patients to survive without dialysis or a kidney...

Qidni Labs Healthcare Artificial organs

Regional

5 medical solutions startups from MENA

Research suggests that the global medical device market will grow by 14 percent between 2016 and 2020. However, VC investment in medical...

Healthcare medical solutions Slighter

U.A.E

Doctoruna: making healthcare accessible in MENA

Since they launched in 2013, healthcare appointment website and mobile app Doctoruna has been on a mission to minimize the all too...

DoctorUna MEMakersGE Bayt

Regional

MENA’s startup health movement: a MEMakers report

In a new report from Wamda Research Lab (WRL) in partnership with GE, we interviewed over 120 entrepreneurs, investors,...

startup health digital health MEMakersGE

U.A.E

The World Government Summit: How the UAE’s past informs its future

Attendees at this year’s World Government Summit. (Image via The National / Pawan Singh) This article is a crosspost with K...

World Government Summit Healthcare Government

Jordan

Altibbi opens Pandora’s box on MENA’s healthcare questions

From a doctor's office, to your PC to your phone - the changing face of medicine. (Image via Jacqueline Sofia) A young mother in Saudi...

digital health MEMakersGE Diabetes Healthcare

Jordan

Hikma Pharmaceuticals launches $30M digital health venture fund in Amman

Hikma Pharmaceuticals has launched a $30 million strategic venture capital fund focused on digital health, therapeutics, and diagnostics...

Hikma Ventures Hikma Pharmaceutical MEMakersGE

Egypt

Startups want to tackle Egyptian health, but lack money

Ahmed Abu ElHaz CEO of Shezlong pitching at BDL2015 accelerate in Beirut. (Image via Shezlong) Egypt is fertile ground for...

Otlob Doctor MEMakersGE shezlong

Regional

How Nabda Care is creating portable mobile healthcare services [Wamda TV]

Nabda Care is a medical-social platform that aims to link patients, care providers, and personal medical records. It also provides patients...

Healthcare nabda care Egypt

Lebanon

Listen to your heart: behind CardioDiagnostics' decision to open up to patients [Video]

Lebanese entrepreneur Ziad Sankari is a man on a mission: he has a very personal reason to improve cardiac health and his startup,...

healthtech healthcare analytics CardioDiagnostics

Regional

6 areas of healthcare to watch in GCC

Healthcare spending in the GCC is going to grow exponentially, says a new EY report. Global professional services firm EY is predicting...

Vezeeta Gravilog MEMakers

U.A.E

Physicians and the future with 3D printing

How soon before the doctors of the Middle East embrace the possibilities of 3D printing? (Images via Jacqueline Sofia) Covering everything...

Arab Health Exhibition MEMakers AlemHealth

Regional

Electronic medical services: health risks or new hope?

Checking your online pulse. (Image via Vanguard Communications) As the world commemorates World Cancer Day every February 4, cancer...

ehealth Cancer digital health care

Regional

How to leverage healthcare analytics to control healthcare costs [Opinion]

Healthcare costs directly impact an SME’s bottom line and overall competitiveness. Skyrocketing healthcare costs in the United...

healthcare analytics MEMakers Healthcare

Egypt

Egypt's Winex innovates with health tech

The international health sector is evolving as innovators mix tech solutions with healthcare, but in Egypt the shift to even partially...

Winex MEMakers big data

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