Wamda

Maghreb

Tunisian teens start thinking like entrepreneurs

Students putting themselves in an entrepreneur’s shoes. (Images via Spark) The time is long gone when starting a business as a teenager m...

BIAT foundation Spark teenagers

Maghreb

Tunis-based Expensya raises seed round in France

Expensya's team in their office in Cogite coworking space, Tunis. (Image via Expensyia) On Monday, almost a year after their launch,...

seed round expense reports expensya

Maghreb

Tiny Tunisian startup cracks open global telco market

Roamsmart helps mobile operators manage their roaming operations. (Image via RCR Wireless) Roaming is a pain for business travelers and a...

BizSpark RoamSmart roaming

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

Maghreb

Saphon: the Tunisian wind-energy revolution is official

Saphon's wind turbine: cheaper, more efficient, safer. (Image via Saphon) For the last four years, Tunisian company Saphon has...

Saphon Energy MEMakersGE wind energy

Lebanon

8 things we learnt at MENA Games in Beirut

The gaming industry in the Middle East and North Africa is growing. More than 40 gaming startups from Europe, MENA and Turkey...

Turkish Game Developers Association Netmarble Nuked Cockroach

Maghreb

Repairing a country: Tunisia's diaspora returns

Tunisia's diaspora is returning to a country that's gradually reforming itself, to build lives and businesses. (Image via Aviation...

Smart Tunisia TAYP Saphon Energy

Maghreb

Tunisia's entrepreneurs need to step up [Opinion]

Tunisian entrepreneurs need to step up and lead the charge. (Image via Wikimedia Commons) After working with entrepreneurs while...

Founders Institute Opinion tunisia

Maghreb

Droidcon Tunis, the government backs startups

The Tunisian minister drop the suit for the fifth edition of Droidcon in Tunisia. (image via Tekiano) Over the weekend, huge crowds of...

noomen fehri Droidcon Tunisia Taher Mestiri

Maghreb

How five Tunisian startups became profitable

Has the time for Tunisian startups finally come? (Image via Disney) Several iconic and emblematic Tunisian startups are now...

monresto.tn tiklik WebRadar

Maghreb

Founder Institute Tunisia graduates first class

Tunisian ICT Minister Nooman Fehri speaks at the Founders Institute. (Images via Founder Institute) Tunisia’s Founder Institute has g...

Founder Institute tunisia

Maghreb

Tunisian stock exchange startup ilBoursa reaching new heights

ilBoursa offers data to help investors make better financial decisions. Some entrepreneurs want to be famous, others want to make money,...

stock exchange Ilboursa finance

Maghreb

Tunisia’s media monitoring service, WebRadar, is targeting the Arab world

The Innova team is changing Arabic big data. Here they pause at Cogite coworking space's garden. (Images via WebRadar) Upon discovering...

online alerts WebRadar tunisia

Maghreb

Tunisian incubator Esprit aims to turn engineers into entrepreneurs

The first promotion of engineers-entrepreneurs presented health and safety-related startups at Esprit's demo day. (Images via Esprit) If...

Esprit engineering school

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

Maghreb

Two Tunisian makerspaces boost creativity

The FabLab solidaire is bringing out the heavy artillery. (Image via FabLab Solidaire) “Tunisia has no other choices but i...

Association Jeunes Science de Tunisie FabLab Solidaire elFabLab

Regional

The ‘ease’ of doing business in MENA [Infographic]

Starting a business and running it isn’t easy. It becomes less so when the economy in which you want to start the business...

Doing Business Report Oman Yemen

Maghreb

Why accelerators are flocking to Tunisia

Are you ready for more Demodays? (Image via Flat6Labs) Tunisia has an impressive number of entrepreneurship training and mentoring...

Start'act Wikistartup Founders Institute

Maghreb

Connecting the IoT dots in Tunisia [Opinion]

The industry of connected objects, or what we have come to call the Internet of Things (IoT), has rapidly expanded around the world, but...

IoT MEMakers CONNECTED HOME

Maghreb

From France to the Maghreb: why some Maghrebi entrepreneurs return to the homeland

This view does make a good argument for Tunisia. (Image via West East South North) Sure, many Tunisians and Moroccans have...

quality of life healthy morocco

Maghreb

Why Maghrebi entrepreneurs are launching in France

Here’s a thought: the Maghreb doesn’t lack entrepreneurs; they simply don’t work in their native region. Many...

HEC Entrepreneur Taxiii careem

Maghreb

Apps open political dialogue in North Africa

Tunisians are making their voice heard. (Image via The Nation) The Arab spring proved the power of social media. Firstly that it goes far...

Arab spring democracy politics

Maghreb

Putting Tunisian honey on the map

Busy bees are honey bees. In July 2014 Khaled Bouchoucha quit his job as a fleet engineer manager at aeronautic company Sabena Technics to...

UniVenture Qatar Friendship Fund Honey

Maghreb

Tunisian pride and funky designs create growing business

Sofiène Ben Châabane in his boutique/café Lyoum in La Marsa.(Images via Christine Petré) There’s an irony to it. Tunisia is the s...

Lyoum textile Tunis

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