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Lebanon

Lebanon’s Smarke takes a second look at MENA

After a strongly MENA-backed crowdfunding campaign, Lebanese smart lock maker Smarke is reconsidering their target market. Smarke...

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Lebanon

Lebanon sets sights on being R&D hub for the Middle East

It’s all about sharing. That is what former Nokia Technologies president, Ramzi Haidamus, thinks when it comes to a country...

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Lebanon

Beirut gets to experiment with VR [Wamda TV]

Can a short VR movie be produced in just two days? This was the bet taken by the 48h VR Film Jam in Beirut last weekend. It seems...

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Lebanon

IoT-Leb: Internet of Things Made for Lebanon

IoT in Lebanon has the potential to cause a paradigm shift in several industries, including agriculture, healthcare, urban planning, and...

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Lebanon

Carrying the Lebanese flag, one export at a time

Many Lebanese companies could pass as coming from anywhere – in technology, services, and even food. But a handful of them are...

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Lebanon

Big deals announced at Arabnet Beirut

At Arabnet Beirut this week Flat6labs, a regional incubator, announced that it was accepting applications for a $20 million local...

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Regional

MENA social enterprises grow in spite of deep-rooted challenges and little support [Report]

Social Entrepreneurship (SE) in the Arab world stands on a paradox: It has every reason to thrive and yet every excuse to die. This is...

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Lebanon

Entrepreneurship: an unequal playing field

The message aspiring business leaders get when they go to conferences and listen to motivational speeches by their role models, urging them...

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Lebanon

Agritech sprouts among Lebanon’s startups

In the mountains of Broummana above Beirut, an entrepreneur is growing vegetables through his hydroponics invention that he hopes will...

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Lebanon

Innovation Factory fills Lebanon’s hardware development gap [Wamda TV]

There aren’t many startups whose entrance is preceded by a long and winding dirt road, an army station across the street, and a...

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Lebanon

Lack of local talent drives Lebanese entrepreneurs abroad

Despite a deep desire by Lebanese entrepreneurs to hire local and base their startups at home soil, lagging skills within the labor force...

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Lebanon

Beirut Digital District expanding into work, live, play neighborhood [Wamda TV]

Lebanon’s Beirut Digital District is the epicenter of the country’s ecosystem. Launched in 2012, it hosts dozens of startups,...

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Lebanon

Beirut Game Fest

Gaming enthusiasts, this is for you. For the first time ever, Arab Arcade invites you to Beirut Game Fest, a day of talks,...

Gaming development INDUSTRY

Lebanon

Speed@BDD Acceleration Cycle [Call for Applications]

Do you have a technology startup that you want to grow into a successful business? Speed@BDD, the first ecosystem-backed technology...

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Lebanon

SwitchMed Green Entrepreneurship Training Program

Green entrepreneurship is a growing industry in the region, where there’s great potential in turning a ‘green’ product or...

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Lebanon

SE Factory Cycle #3 [Call for Applications]

Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program and the Nawaya Network teamed up to launch an advanced coding bootcamp in Lebanon, which aims...

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Lebanon

Smart scaling: how these MENA companies got it right

The Middle East and North Africa is one of the most difficult parts of the world to grow a business, but it’s even harder to scale...

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Lebanon

Not seen, not heard: Lebanon’s woman problem

When Mohamad Najem wrote a public post about refusing to be part of an all-male panel for a tech conference in Beirut, it was shared more...

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Lebanon

Beirut’s southern suburbs home to robotics education

Electronics and hardware education is gaining traction across Lebanon as maker schools and workshops are popping up across the...

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Global

Startup Watch: Trump and foreign techies, food delivery is tough, and something new for Lebanon’s economy

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...

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Regional

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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Lebanon

The Impact Beirut

Ahead of the Curve (ATC) is a social business dedicated to the promotion of sustainable management practice, inclusive market growth and...

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Global

Startup Watch: the tech-media-sports nexus, and Egypt, well done.

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...

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Regional

Scaling up? Show me the money

Scaling up from scrappy startup to SME is a whole new game. Cash is oxygen and managers are critical. “There is research that...

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