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U.A.E

8X Ventures to deploy $20 million in Mena cleantech startups

UAE-based VC firm 8X Ventures plans to deploy $20 million in the Mena region's climate tech and cleantech startups. It also plans to...

clean tech 8x Ventures

Saudi Arabia

Wadi Makkah invests in Pavegen

Wadi Makkah Ventures Company has invested in UK-based Pavegen’s Series A round. Pavegen is a clean-tech company, that installs...

clean tech energy

Global

Smart Grid encouraging thousands of new startups

Ammar Radhi is the head of strategy and special projects at Refinitiv Today’s smart grid revolution in electricity...

clean tech Smart Cities renewable energy

Jordan

Solutions to Jordan’s climate change challenges?

Jordan can be pretty dry. (Image via Letstravelsomewhere.com) As an arid, resource poor nation, Jordan has historically relied on foreign...

IndyACT Jordan IEEE Jordan Young Professionals Energy Master Plan

Egypt

Nawart opens doors to Egypt renewables startups

Cleantech Arabia cofounder Ahmed Huzayyin gives an explainer on Nawart and what it's looking for. (Images via Nawart) MENA’s...

cleantech incubator Ahmed Huzayyin GIZ

Egypt

Printing money: Spear Ink’s e-waste ambitions

E-waste is a mushrooming scourge of the technology revolution with up to 50 million tons of electronic rubbish generated annually -...

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi startup aims to make solar PV predictable

In the 20th century, Saudi Arabia was a global power thanks to oil; in the 21st century, it might still play a dominant role - but...

Solar panels solar energy clean tech

Regional

The future of energy is in batteries [Infographic]

This year the world is abuzz with the word 'batteries', as Tesla releases its wall-mounted storage device for the home and the...

cleantech Arabia MEMakers Oil

Saudi Arabia

High-tech startups to get up to $2M from new Saudi fund

Since 2010 the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology has invested in more than 30 projects through its Seed Fund. These cash...

WATER fund solar energy

Egypt

Egyptian power cuts fuel an ecommerce solution

For the majority of Egypt’s 82 million residents, 2014 will no doubt go down in history as the year of the power cut. It didn’t matter whi...

Green Scene Egypt clean tech Green Energy

Jordan

Renewable energy and gender equality tackled in Amman conference

Special guest Lina Khalifeh, founder of Shefighter, stands with CWEEL-Jordan's Suhair Al Mhairat during the 1st Anniversary Meeting....

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Egypt

Sun shines on Egypt's solar startups

Sarah Mousa eyed the small boys, vigorously hacking at each other with sticks in the narrow backstreet of Cairo’s Al Darb Al Ahmar...

MEMakers Roundup solar energy

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