Wamda

Lebanese Entrepreneur Invents Lego For Electronics, Raises $3.65M from US VCs

Lebanese entrepreneur Ayah Bdeir will now be able to bring snap-together electronics toys littleBits to a wider audience, thanks to a new...

Investment

Silicon Valley Fund 500 Startups Invests in Jeeran

Silicon Valley-based seed fund and accelerator 500 Startups has today announced investment in Jeeran, the popular Amman-based user review...

Investment Endeavor

Where to Find Funding and Support: Resources for Entrepreneurs in the UAE

Similar to some of the content in the Wamda Country Info Center for the UAE, this series of articles by Kia Davis offers an...

Investment

3 Things that Investors and Entrepreneurs Can Do to Avoid An Eternal War

Apple is the most valuable company around the world. Google is the search titan and the innovative platform in the tech industry. Microsoft...

Investment

Vodafone Egypt Launches EGP 20m Investment Fund and Incubator

We've received word that Vodafone Egypt is launching an EGP 20 million (US $3.3 million) investment fund that will focus on small, web and...

Investment

MBC Ventures Launches, Invests in Falafel Games, Aranim, Supermama

MBC Group announced early this week the launch of a new venture capital arm, MBC Ventures, which will invest in media and entertainment...

Investment

Striving for Funding: Confessions from Dubai's CareZone

Editor’s note (NC): Sometimes a good idea does not find funding in an appropriate time frame. It could be a failure of execution, o...

Investment

New VC Sinbad Ventures to Focus on Early Stage Global Web and Mobile Startups

Ahmad Takatkah, the former Head of Investments for N2V, has announced the launch of new venture capital fund Sinbad Ventures, which will...

Accelerators Investment

15 Tips For Pitching to Investors from Culture Shift in Cairo

Karen McGregor, a social investor from the Scottish investment firm FirstPort, gave a workshop during the Culture Shift event about how to...

Angel Investment Investment Negotiation

Maroc Numeric Fund Invests In Moroccan Daily Deals Site MyDeal.ma

The first Moroccan group buying website MyDeal.ma announced investment of 2 million Moroccan Dirhams (~$240,000) by the Maroc Numeric Fund...

Daily Deals Mydeal.ma MNF

Regional

Valuation methods for SMEs in MENA [Opinion]

Valuation in the Middle East and North Africa for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is a mixture of art, science, negotiations,...

Investment

How to Understand a VC Term Sheet

Having trouble understanding the ins and outs of the investment process or curious what terms you can expect to see in a standard term...

Investment

Riyada Enterprise Development Acquires 50% Stake In The Entertainer

Riyada Enterprise Development (RED) has announced its intent to acquire a 50% stake in The Entertainer, a consumer services company that...

Investment

Negotiate Your Startup’s Success, Part One: Talking to Investors

Last week, a friend of mine was meeting with a potential investor for a new venture he was kicking off. He called me to discuss and seek...

Investment

Advancing Arabic Content for Women: Maroc Numeric Fund Invests $300K in Majalatouki

The Maroc Numeric Fund (MNF) announced last week an investment of 2.6 million Moroccan dirhams (around US$ 300K) last week in Majalatouki,...

Investment Women

Rumor: Saudi Game Platform Kammelna Acquired by Peak Games for $10 million?

Today we heard a rumor that Saudi multiplayer card gaming platform Kammelna was acquired by Turkish game developer Peak Games. The...

Gaming Investment

Abraaj Capital Announces Acquisition of SME-Focused Fund Aureos Capital

Abraaj Capital is continuing its expansion across the region, today announcing its acquisition of Aureos Capital, a global private equity...

Oasis500 Secures Over $3 million in Investment for Run2Sport and Madfoo3atCom

Today tech-focused incubator Oasis500 has announced that two of its startups, Run2Sports and Madfoo3atCom, attracted investment following...

Maroc Numeric Fund Invests 3.5 Million Dirhams in Energy Optimizing Startup Meolink

Maroc Numeric Fund (MNF) has added a fourth tech startup to its portfolio this month, announcing investment of 3.5 Moroccan million dirhams...

Getting the Arab Youth into Employment

Throughout 2011, youth from across the Arab world have occupied streets, squares and other public places to protest a lack of inclusion, a...

8 Tips on How to Approach Getting Investment

As an entrepreneur you are going to face the experience of sitting down with investors. The experience might be quite overwhelming and...

Riyada Enterprise Development and Intel Break into the VOIP market with Investment in Nymgo

Small businesses worldwide have a new reason to think about international expansion; Riyada Enterprise Development (RED) and Intel Capital...

5 Crowd Questions from the 2nd Global Entrepreneurship Summit

While there have been many interesting panels at the Second Global Entrepreneurship Summit, some of the best questions I heard were asked...

RED, EIB, and Cisco Announce $50 Million Lebanon Growth Capital Fund

At the Second Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Istanbul, access to finance was pointed to as the single biggest barrier to...

Thought Leadership

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