Wamda

Regional

What MENA entrepreneurs should know before moving to Europe and the US

Expanding your business beyond the MENA region is a challenge. People in the know cite such a venture’s costliness, point out...

Entrepreneur Europe MENA

Global

Startup Watch: Kidpreneurs loading, virtual shopping, and anti-depression apps

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch Kidpreneurs virtual reality

Europe

Falling Walls Conference

The Falling Walls Conference is an annual global gathering of forward thinking individuals from 80 countries organised by the Falling Walls...

Science Research Technology

Regional

GITEX Future Stars Competitions

In case you haven’t heard yet, we have recently announced our partnership with GITEX Future Stars to create an all-encompassing...

GITEX GitexFutureStars Innovation

Turkey

Startup Istanbul

On October 20, 100 selected startups will meet world class mentors, investors, corporates and media in a 4 day event in...

startup tech Innovation

Regional

MAD Mentorpreneurs Pitch Competition

MAD Mentorpreneurs is a reverse mentoring program that will launch with a pitch competition taking place on September 30, 2017. 5...

Mentor MAD Talks Entrepreneur

Regional

ArabWIC 5th Annual International Conference on Arab Women in Computing

This year’s ArabWIC 5th Annual International Conference on Arab Women in Computing will be taking place from August 10-12 at the...

ArabWIC Computing Technology

Egypt

She Can

Entreprenelle will be holding their event ‘She Can’ which revolves around women in entrepreneurship, who will be sharing their...

Egypt Women entrepreneurship startup

Regional

SafirLab - The Laboratory for Change

The MENA region is facing some deep changes on the social, ecological, and economic levels. These sudden advancements have paved the...

MENA Social Entrepreneurship startup

Iraq

Pitch Bootcamp Erbil

Pitch Bootcamp is a two-day career accelerator program designed for students and fresh graduates. The first edition of Pitch Bootcamp...

iraq Erbil Pitch

Regional

GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund - Round 2

The GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund provides selected startups from Africa and Asia Pacific with equity-free funding, technical...

GSMA smes entrepreneurship

Regional

How mobile and digital transform the shared Ramadan experience

Technology and digital communication are impacting people’s interactions and activities during Ramadan. Freemium mobile apps like...

Ramadan YouTube snapchat

Jordan

Jordan Tech Startup Lookbook

The Jordan Tech Startup Lookbook is looking for the best tech startups in Jordan, as part of the Innovative Jordan campaign, the selected...

Jordan Oasis500 startups

Global

Solve at MIT 2017

Solve identifies and supports lasting solutions to the world's most pressing challenges. It’s a community who brings...

MIT challenge MENA

Lebanon

Branding & Customer Experience Workshops

‘Branding Workshop: let's dive deep & uncover what's your brand all about’ will be taking place on Thursday June 8...

lebanon Workshop Branding

Turkey

Seedstars Istanbul

Seedstars World is on a mission to identify the best seed-stage entrepreneurs and provide them with an opportunity to win up to USD 1...

turkey seedstars Pitching

Regional

Fincluders Startup Challenge Amman

The Fincluders Startup Challenge is looking for innovative fintech talents and entrepreneurs championing inclusive and fair finance for...

amman Fintech Innovation

Regional

Startup4IR by WEF and IFC

Startups4IR is a unique partnership between the World Economic Forum and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) aiming to bring...

wef World Economic Forum ifc

Regional

Is regional innovation standing in the way of investments? [Know your VC]

Samih Toukan, chairman of Jabbar Internet Group says that the MENA region doesn’t lack innovative ideas, but rather...

Samih Toukan MENA investments

Lebanon

ourMENA Beirut Hackathon

ourMENA Beirut hackathon is your opportunity to play a more active role in helping build a smarter, healthier, and more prosperous...

hackathon aub American University of Beirut

Egypt

WeMENA Resilient Future [call for applications]

Women Entrepreneurs for a Resilient Future in the Middle East and North Africa (WeMENA) is a business model challenge launched to...

women entrepreneurs MENA Innovation

Regional

2016 was very generous to MENA's startups #Wamda2016

People on the internet aren’t too sad to let go of 2016. Memes surrounding the US presidential elections, comedy sketches on the...

Wamda2016 MENA startups

Regional

Tech drives MENA to a crossroad

Fourteen years ago a group of Arab scholars drew a sobering picture of the Middle East: that it would need 140 years to just double its per...

Knowledge Economy undp AHDR

Regional

$815M+ invested in MENA startups in 2016 #Wamda2016

2016 was an exciting year for the startup ecosystem, especially from an investor’s standpoint. Investors’ appetite for...

Wamda2016 Roundup investments

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