Wamda

Egypt

1864 Accelerator, open for applications

The 1864 Accelerator constitutes the first local financial technology focused (FinTech) startup accelerator program of its kind in...

accelerator Egypt startups

Regional

SwitchMed Connect 2016

SwitchMed Connect is an annual gathering of Mediterranean stakeholders to build synergies, exchange knowledge, and scale up eco and social...

Barcelona entrepreneurship eco friendly

Regional

YPO & Wamda live Twitter Chat: What’s Trending Now in MENA? #MENABizTrends

What industries are ready for disruption in MENA? What is trending in the business world? Got anything you’d like to learn about...

twitter Chat entrepreneurship

Regional

Startups and VCs: it doesn't have to be complicated

The relationship between an investor and an investee is sometimes delicate. One is fronting up with cash and faith that it’ll go...

due diligence startups VCs

Egypt

15 Egyptian fashion startups for your sartorial radar

Ecommerce is a driving force for economic growth in the Middle East. And with this growth of ecommerce has come a slew of ...

Maison Saedi ZAAM UpFuse

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

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

U.A.E

1776 Challenge Cup Regional Finale at Dubai

Are you a startup with big ambitions to solve a meaningful problem for the world? From teachers to transportation or food to finance, 1776...

2016 1776 challenge cup Apply

Regional

What judges look for in pitches

Judging at the Seedstars Beirut event in November in UK Lebanon Tech Hub. (Image via Maysaa Ajjan) We already covered the exciting...

pitches judging Seedstars World

Maghreb

How the Tunisian government revived its economy [Opinion]

Tunisia in 2025 is quite different from the Tunisia of the Arab spring (Image via Hongkiat) * This is a hypothetical look-back from the...

revival startups economy

Regional

7 online courses for startups

The life of an entrepreneur is hectic, with nonstop demands and success often depending on learning and growing in changing...

Coursera Udacity Udemy

Regional

The role of the term sheet in VC transactions

The term sheet, not binding but crucial. (Image via Exceleratelabs) The negotiation of a venture capital transaction between a...

term sheets startups Venture Capital

Regional

8 MENA startup founders under the age of 20

Countries in the Middle East and North Africa currently own a vast reserve of an invaluable resource, one that can spur innovation and help...

teenage founders startups MENA

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

U.A.E

Pretotyping and Beyond: Building the Right ‘It’ Before You Build ‘It’ Right

'Pretotyping and Beyond: Building the Right ‘It’ Before You Build ‘It’ Right', the first pretotyping workshop in the region, will be held i...

Pretotyping startups silicon valley

Lebanon

Is Lebanon a startup trap? [Opinion]

The buzz about entrepreneurship and start-ups in Lebanon has never been louder. News of increasingly available venture capital funds, bank...

funding gap seed startups

Regional

Don't be afraid to scale

This is a crosspost with LinkedIn. The MENA entrepreneurship landscape has come a long way since the days when I was at...

VC investment Amir farha startups

Regional

Startup AddVenture conference 2015

CCC Startups and MC Egypt are bringing the Startup AddVenture conference to Cairo on February 22nd. The conference offers a full-day...

startups cairo

Regional

The biggest opportunities for would-be founders in 2015

The best companies solve the biggest problems – the really hard ones that few people even know about, much less know how to tackle. T...

2015 startups new year

Regional

Startup-corporate partnerships 2/3: why are there so few?

The second in our series of three articles looking at the intricacies of the startup-corporate relationship, we follow on from the logic...

corporations startups partnerships

Regional

Startup-corporate partnerships 1/3: the logic behind them

King Abdullah II of Jordan with Queen Rania at the opening of the MENA ICT FORUM in November. In the first of our three articles looking...

corporations startups partnerships

Regional

Wamda launches Traxn: a program to help startups scale through large corporates

Before we take a deep plunge into 2015, Wamda is wrapping up its 2014 efforts by launching Traxn (pronounced traction), a new program,...

program Traxn corporations

U.A.E

Startup Hackajob 2016 in Dubai: Get hired by a startup

Startup Hackajob 2016 is an event that invites tech talent of all ages to prove they have the skills to take a startup to the next level. ...

online challenges Hackajob 2016 startups

Regional

Deadline for incubator FasterCapital's 2nd round of funding

Dubai-based FasterCapital has opened applications for its second round of funding. This virtual incubator targets startups from all around...

Faster Capital incubation startups

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