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Egypt

Egypt startup Dr. Weee tackles e-waste with app

Dr. Weee, an Egyptian e-waste business, has launched an app designed to make recycling easier for consumers. The app, launched this...

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Europe

Berlin refugee incubator launches crowdfunding campaign

Berlin refugee-entrepreneur business incubator Ideas in Motion has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help make the program a permanent...

Ideas in Motion Refugee

Tunisia

Tunisian startup Datavora raises $470K

Tunisian startup Datavora, a specialist in ecommerce big data, has raised just over 1 million Tunisian dinars (US$467,000) in seed...

Tunisie Data ecommerce

Bahrain

Fetchr buys Bahrain courier company in expansion push

Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Group (YBA Kanoo), one of the largest family-owned multinational businesses in the Middle East, has announced that...

Fetchr acquisition uae

Global

Pixelbug looks to take Silicon Valley

Pixelbug, the augmented and virtual reality pioneer founded in Dubai, has gone from dominating the MENA market to turning heads in Silicon...

PixelBug silicon valley accelerator

U.A.E

Jamalon signs agreement with Lulu.com in a Middle East publishing expansion

Jamalon.com, MENA's online bookstore, signed a Print-On-Demand (POD) agreement with Lulu.com, a global self-publishing platform,...

Jamalon partnerships news watch

Egypt

Amazon to soon launch logistics center in Egypt

Amazon is in the process of considering a logistics center in Egypt, as the Daily News Egypt reported. Hany Kesis, former chairperson of...

Amazon Expansion news watch

U.A.E

Dubai’s Carswitch.com raises $1.3M

Carswitch.com has secured $1.3 million investment from Glowfish Capital, the early stage incubator, after achieving a solid 30 percent...

carswitch.com Transport news watch

U.A.E

Minds on a Mission gets Emirati students thinking

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn” were the wise words from Benjamin Franklin that inspired the win...

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Saudi Arabia

Softbank frees up $8B cash for joint-Saudi fund

Japan’s Softbank Group has sold a stake in UK chip design firm, Arm Holdings, to fund its investment in in the $100 million...

Saudi Arabia Softbank ARM

Turkey

Modest fashion site Modanisa closes new round

Modanisa, the Turkey-based modest fashion site, has closed a fourth round of funding. Led by Dubai-based VC Wamda Capital for an...

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Regional

360Vuz secures an undisclosed round of venture capital led by Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority

360Vuz, the virtual reality startup in the Middle East, announced that it had raised an undisclosed round of venture capital led by Dubai...

360vuz virtual reality Augmented Reality

Tunisia

Travelcar raises $15.8M Series B

Travelcar, a startup that enables you to make your car available for renting at airports when you travel instead of paying for expensive...

car sharing Travelcar fundraising

Saudi Arabia

Cura connects Saudis with specialists

When Cura cofounder Abdullah Alswaha wanted to see a specialist about an ear infection, he found out first hand how difficult it was to...

Cura digital health MEMakersGE

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