Wamda

Lebanon

FOO's timing curse: when being ahead of the game is a problem

Foo founders Elie Nasr and Ghady Rayess. (Image via Brooke Anderson) Being early to the market can be both a blessing and...

app development Foo lebanon

Lebanon

Brate raises $400K in seed funding

Lebanese startup Brate announced yesterday that it raised $400,000 in seed funding from a New York based angel...

brate Seed funding investement

Lebanon

Lebanon's startup clusters go beyond Beirut

As Lebanon develops its tech startup culture to become a serious player in the region, the capital of Beirut has become the country’s u...

Chouf Entrepreneur Bio Soil Outreach Leadership Academy

Lebanon

Circular 331: where has Lebanon's money gone?

It is said that innovation is an entrepreneur’s best friend. But in Lebanon a strong second contender has to be the central...

Lebanon for Entrepreneurs Berytech Fund Startup Megaphone

Lebanon

Arab Arcade Game Jam

Arab Arcade's next 48-hour Game Jam is taking place on the weekend of May 6-8 at the Beirut Digital District in Beirut, Lebanon. If you’re ...

Arab Arcade game jam lebanon

Regional

Changing the way MENA moves

Smart transportation has the potential to change many things in modern life, from the very roads people use to get to work to the way whole...

HERE Swiss RE Secure Drive Company

Lebanon

Equipping the next generation of Lebanese girls with STEM

Event participants take a group photo during the closing ceremony of the event (Image via Girls Got IT) "I used to think technology was...

STEM Girls Got IT MEMakersGE

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

Lebanon

Efiester plans parties in Paris with a foot in Beirut

Efiester wants to make organizing parties between friends easier. (Images via Efiester) Robert Harfouche is Lebanese, and lives in France....

party planner party efiester

Lebanon

Growing Lebanon's gaming scene

The video gaming industry in Lebanon is facing a fresh chapter in 2016 with the introduction of new publisher, Morage...

Goliath Games Fovea MENA Games 2016

Lebanon

Beco invests in cyber security with Myki seed round

Beco Capital has led a seed investment in Lebanese cyber security startup MYKI, but has not disclosed the total sum. Myki works with...

MyKi cybersecurity lebanon

Lebanon

Dream Matcher makes entrepreneurs' dreams come true

Dreamers writing their wishes on their 'dream wall'. (Images via The Dream Matcher) For the past four years, The Dream Matcher...

Imagine Cup The Dream Matcher Lebtivity

Lebanon

Maker Movement and fintech: what to expect at Arabnet Beirut

Christidis speaking at Arabnet Beirut 2015. (Image via Arabnet) The maker movement has been heating up in Lebanon for the past few...

Omar christidis Arabnet Beirut 2016 makers

Regional

Which 3D printer is best for prototyping?

RapidManufactory, Guillame Crédoz's workplace (Image via TCT Magazine) There's no doubt that 3D printing, the...

selective laser sintering stereolithography fused deposition modeling

Lebanon

Applications open for Speed@BDD's Batch II acceleration program

Do you have a technology startup idea and want to grow it into a successful business? Apply now to Speed@BDD’s Batch II acceleration pr...

mentorships applications Speed@BDD

Regional

MENA game makers show off skills at Global Game Jam

Disclosure: the author was present at the Lebanon jam site as a participant with team Groovy Antoid, who produced the game Ugnug...

game development ggj16 global game jam

Lebanon

Startup Seeds Launch by Tripoli Entrepreneur Club

Tripoli Entrepreneurs Club is happy to announce the launching of "Startup Seeds", a 4-month acceleration program targeting young e...

TEC StartupSeeds Tripoli

Lebanon

ArabNet Beirut 2016

Highlighting digital creativity, entertainment, entrepreneurship and business, ArabNet Beirut will feature more than 80 speakers from...

2016 ArabNet Beirut lebanon

Lebanon

Launch of World Bank and Kafalat's Matching Grant Facility

In the framework of the World Bank’s continuous support to the Lebanese Government’s ongoing initiatives to promote economic com...

session early stage startup financing

Lebanon

Lebanese telco Touch expands its reach with startups

Nadim Khater at his office. (Image via Touch) After indulging in an era of global expansion, telecom operators around the world...

Telcos touch lebanon

Lebanon

Lebanon's Global Entrepreneurship Week in full swing

GEW Lebanon's official launch at cohost ElementN drew many. (Images via GEW) Lebanon's Global Entrepreneurship Week is in full swing,...

MENA lebanon events

Regional

Intel's ChallengeME IoT competition announces winners

Intel's ChallengeME competition showcased a diversity of IoT innovation at Berytech in Beirut. (Images via Lina Mubarak) A logistics...

ChallengeME IoT MEMakers

Lebanon

An eco-friendly solution to dispose of pharmaceutical waste in Lebanon

A 'pill-board' building. (Image via Ziad Abi-Chaker) This article is a crosspost with the MIT Technology Review Arab Edition written by N...

MIT Technology Review Arab Edition cedar environmental expired medication

Lebanon

Social entrepreneurs tackle Lebanon's trash crisis

With the Naameh lanfill closed, trash has piled up the street. (Image via National Post) The piles of garbage in the streets and...

stratups crisis trash

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