Saudi Arabia

Arabnet Riyadh 2017

  For the sixth year in a row, ArabNet Riyadh will be gathering Saudi Arabia’s government, largest corporations and 1600...

Wamda • 04 December, 2017

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Regional

Seedstars MENA

Seedstars World is coming back to Bahrain on December 14 to have the second edition of Seedstars MENA which bridges between MENA ecosystems...

Wamda • 07 November, 2017

seedstars Bahrain startup

U.A.E

Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival

Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival will bring together the some of the best and brightest of the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem, to...

Wamda • 01 November, 2017

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U.A.E

The Cybersecurity Leaders Forum

Recharge your professional relationships at The Cybersecurity Leaders Forum: the premium gathering for senior ICT executives in the...

Wamda • 26 October, 2017

cybersecurity forum uae

Regional

Global Ventures Summit - Dubai

Global Ventures Summit seeks to level the playing field and support the best business ideas, startups and entrepreneurs coming out of...

Wamda • 20 October, 2017

Dubai Ventures GVS

Regional

MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition 11th Edition [Call for applications]

Apply today for the 11th edition of the MITEF Arab Startup Competition and take part in one of the biggest startup competitions in the...

Wamda • 02 October, 2017

MITEF competition startup

Iraq

Five One Labs Incubator Program [Call for applications]

The Five One Labs incubator is a three-month long program to take your startup business from idea to launch. From October 22 till...

Wamda • 25 September, 2017

Incubator startup Technology

Regional

She Entrepreneurs Program 2018 [Call for Applications]

Between 8 September and 4 October 2017, you can apply to She Entrepreneurs and take your social business initiative to a whole new...

Wamda • 20 September, 2017

Sweden She Entrepreneurs startup

Lebanon

Startup Weekend Beirut Artificial Intelligence Edition

From September 29 to October 1, Beirut Digital District will be hosting the first Startup Weekend dedicated to artificial intelligence in...

Wamda • 19 September, 2017

beirut AI Startup Weekend

Regional

GITEX and Wamda partner to promote collaborative entrepreneurship in MENA

GITEX Future Stars has selected Wamda, the leading platform for entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa, as its knowledge partner...

Staff writer • 24 July, 2017

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Regional

Mix N' Mentor Dubai 2016

Wamda’s flagship event, Mix N’ Mentor, is returning to Dubai! Happening at Dubai Future Accelerators on December 15, the...

Wamda • 24 November, 2016

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Lebanon

Reboot Beirut: shaping the future of communities #RebootBeirut

What's the one thing you'd want to change about Beirut? On September 16-18, Wamda and the American University of...

Wamda • 26 August, 2016

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Regional

The challenges and changes that shaped Woopra’s growth [Report]

Aramex has published a report, in collaboration with Wamda and the American University in Cairo (AUC), on Woopra, a real-time customer...

Raed Khalil • 24 May, 2015

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Lebanon

Souk el Tayeb, a social business and its growth in Lebanon [Report]

A social project creating a healthy diet. (Image via Souk el Tayeb) Aramex has published a report, in collaboration with...

Raed Khalil • 17 May, 2015

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Jordan

Zain and Wamda kick off Traxn with 5 Jordanian startups

Five Jordanian startups have been selected to join a new accelerator program designed to bring together young innovators with one of the...

Teeb Assaf • 12 March, 2015

Zain Telecom Traxn Zain Jordan

U.A.E

'Huge amounts' of support among Dubai's startup community, report entrepreneurs [Wamda TV]

How supportive is the startup community in Dubai of young startups and fresh entrepreneurs? There are “huge amounts” of support, says Sarah ...

Wamda • 17 February, 2015

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Egypt

First stop for Mix N’ Mentor 2015: Cairo

“There is progress… not at a Silicon Valley pace but you can see clear milestones,” Ideavelopers Managing Partner Tarek Assaad told Wamda i...

Wamda • 21 January, 2015

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U.A.E

What's next for Dubai's startup ecosystem? [Wamda TV]

By all accounts, the Dubai – and regional – startup ecosystems have made great strides in recent years. Alvaro Abella, Managing Partner at B...

Wamda • 07 January, 2015

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Regional

Traxn launches with Zain, call for applications now open for Jordanian startups

In the past few years, MENA startups and corporations kept their distance, holding on to the assumption that corporates are too...

Wamda • 28 December, 2014

Traxn zinc incubator ZINC

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,...

Maya Rahal • 23 December, 2014

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5 tips for building a successful mobile game, from 2013's biggest app success story

There’s no secret to building a good game, especially in the Middle East. Despite the fact that people in the region – especially the Gulf ...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 11 December, 2013

trivia game app

Launching Wamda Juice, New Supplement To Boost Your Inner Entrepreneur

We are excited to announce Wamda Juice, the new entrepreneurial supplement booster. Our researchers have been working for years on this and...

Habib Haddad • 01 April, 2013

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Regional

4 entrepreneurs share their most embarrassing professional moments [Wamda TV]

Late last month at Mix N’ Mentor Beirut, we got to play the role of nosy reporters, dragging five mentors away from their sessions and g...

Wamda • 08 October, 2014

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