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Palestine

Palestine gets their first equity crowdfunding platform

Crowdpal, the first online equity crowdfunding platform purpose-built to support Palestinian entrepreneurship, launched its website today....

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Regional

500 Startups closes $15M on MENA fund

Hassan Haidar, the managing director of the MENA fund for 500 Startups, 500 Falcons, announced Wednesday the closing of their fund at $15...

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Syria

Votek and Loujee secures $1M investment

Votek Inc, developer of Arabic speech recognition software, governmental intelligent assistants and the first Arabic smart toy (Loujee)...

Votek AI syria

U.A.E

Sheraa forms partnership for social entrepreneurship ecosystem

As part of its commitment to supporting the growth of socially-conscious entrepreneurs in the region, Sheraa - a launch pad for aspiring...

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Regional

IFLIX launches in MENA

IFLIX’s service is now available to over 1 billion consumers in 18 countries across Asia and the Middle East and North...

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U.A.E

Payfort introduces card-on-delivery service in UAE

Payfort announced a new card-on-delivery service to allow merchants to offer card-on-delivery payments for their purchases. The new...

Payfort

Saudi Arabia

Saudi startup Dokkan Afkar closes $2M round

Dokkan Afkar announced yesterday, it has closed a $2 million investment round led by Riyad Taqnia Fund (RTF). Dokkan Afkar is a...

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U.A.E

UAE’s Trukker announces 1,000 percent growth in 7 months

Trukker, second place winner of the startup track at the MITEF Arab Startup Competition achieved 1,000 percent growth since its commercial...

Trukker MITEF Arab Startup Competition

Bahrain

Egyptians win big in MITEF Arab Startup Competition

The MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) of the Pan Arab Region announced the winners of the 10th MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup...

MIT Enterprise Forum Pan-Arab

Lebanon

Lebanon's Jaleesa awarded $40K by World Bank

Jaleesa, the Lebanon-based tech startup that connects families with a trusted babysitter, has secured a $40,000 equity-free contribution...

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Tunisia

Flat6Labs, open for business in Tunisia

Flat6Labs announced last summer that they were coming to Tunisia, as the country’s first accelerator and now for the last two months...

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U.A.E

Jadopado is acquired by Mohamed Alabbar

Editor's note: this story has been update May 11 to include the acquirers of Jadopado and a comment from Omar Kassim. In a statement...

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U.A.E

Six healthtech startups pitch during Dubai 100 finale

Investors and healthcare industry leaders from UAE and around the world came together for the finale of Dubai 100’s second...

Dubai 100 pitch event healthtech

Lebanon

First annual Beirut Innovation Week kicks off in May

On May 9th and 11th, the UK Lebanon Tech Hub UKLTH and the new London-based, specialist accelerator Resolve, will offer...

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U.A.E

Sheraa and Air Arabia to launch ‘Travel and Tourism’ track

Coming on the heels of its successful inaugural accelerator showcase day, Sheraa - a launch pad for aspiring entrepreneurs in the United...

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Egypt

Egypt startup BSocial launches Quran VR app

Marketing services company Bsocial has created a virtual reality (VR) app called Experience Quran for the Oculus store. It comes after...

BSocial virtual reality Experience Quran

Egypt

Rise Up Explore takes 6 startups to Silicon Valley

Rise Up has taken six startups on a Rise Up Explore trip to Silicon Valley that started on April 4 and finishes on April 13. RiseUp...

Rise Up Rise Up Explore

Saudi Arabia

24 Saudi entrepreneurs join second cohort at 910ths acceleration program

Twenty-four teams from across Saudi Arabia have been nominated for the 9/10ths Startup Accelerator Program, aiming to develop early-stage...

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Egypt

Egypt launches new startup waste management program

The Leeha 2eema waste management entrepreneurship program launched last month, to support 45 startups with local manufacturing and value...

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Turkey

Turkey’s Iyzico adds $2M to its Series C round

Online payment and fintech leader Iyzico announced earlier this week that Amadeus Capital Partners, the global technology investor, has...

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Global

Roadie 2 crowdfunds double its target amount

Band Industries launched Roadie 2 and Roadie Bass on Kickstarter yesterday with a fundraising goal of $50,000. This morning, the...

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U.A.E

Amazon buys Payfort

Not only is Amazon buying Souq.com, but it has also today bought Payfort. “Today as part of Souq Group Inc. we are pleased to...

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Morocco

Morocco’s Moteur.ma raises round from Malaysian investor

Moteur.ma is a classified car ads startup based in Casablanca. Launched in 2009, FDV funded 32 percent of the startup’s 2015...

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U.A.E

New platform for healthy food launched from Dubai

Plotos, a digital nutrition and wellness platform and app, launched today with funding of $100,000 to address the UAE’s growing...

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