Wamda

U.A.E

How do you grow tomatoes in the desert?

In the latest edition of our Food Technology podcast series, we spoke with Sky Kurtz, co-founder and chief executive officer at...

Agriculture agritech podcast

Jordan

Jordan's Ghoorcom looks to boost farmers’ profits through technology

Ghoorcom is a Jordanian business-to-business startup that could transform the country’s agriculture sector, swelling farmers’...

farming Blockchain

U.A.E

Snooze notification: How LUNCH:ON copes during Ramadan

For a lunch delivery company in the UAE, Ramadan is the seasonal dip that LUNCH:ON needs to contend with. So how does the company adapt to...

f&b food tech Lunch:On

U.A.E

In conversation with Dana Baki of LUNCH:ON

LUNCH:ON partners with restaurants to offer office workers a selection of curated meals at discounted prices. It was founded by Mohammad Al...

Lunch:On food tech Entrepreneur

Regional

Tech in food: the transformation of an industry - Register your interest

Tech in food: the transformation of an industry. Limited capacity, register your interest here. Wamda is hosting a panel on April...

Regional

E-groceries: The fastest growing e-commerce segment

In the $8.3 billion e-commerce sector in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena), it is the grocery segment that has perhaps experienced...

online grocery e-grocery Food delivery

U.A.E

Zomato sells UAE business to Delivery Hero

Source: Economic Times Zomato Media, which owns and operates the eponymous online food delivery and restaurant discovery...

India zomato Delivery Hero

Regional

The Middle East’s technological forte is in the food sector [Opinion]

As Gulfood draws to a close in Dubai this week, one of the biggest exhibitions in the region, the appetite for food is palatable [all puns...

food Food accelerator Innovation

Kuwait

The growth of e-groceries in Kuwait

InstaSalla is a Kuwait-based e-grocery company launched in 2016 by Smart Mart, an e-commerce platform. Today, InstaSalla is the leading...

e-grocery online grocery kuwait

Regional

Digital Dining: How food delivery is forcing restaurants to change

Food delivery apps have been a catalyst for change throughout the restaurant industry. What started as a response to the...

Food & Beverage Food delivery ride hailing

U.A.E

In conversation with Sky Kurtz of the UAE's Pure Harvest

Pure Harvest Smart Farms is one of the first hydroponic farms in the Middle East region, growing tomatoes in a sensor-filled greenhouse. At...

hydroponics Agriculture agritech

U.A.E

Smart farming for food security

The UAE consumes more than 80 per cent of its freshwater resources to produce less than 15 per cent of its food supply according to...

farming hydroponics sensors

Egypt

Fakahany raises $700,000 seed

Source: MENAbytes Fakahany, a Cairo based farm-to-door fresh produce e-commerce platform has raised $700,000 in seed funding, the...

seed fund E-commerce

Kenya

Twiga Foods raises $10 million

Twiga Foods has announced a $10 million investment led by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Global...

Twiga Foods Wamda Capital Funding

Turkey

Tarfin raises $1.3 million in seed round

Tarfin recently completed a $1.3 million seed round led by Turkey-based Collective Spark Fund with co-investment from Wamda Capital. The...

Agriculture agritech Fintech

Saudi Arabia

Niche e-grocery stores are gaining momentum and this Saudi startup is taking note

A research led by Think with Google, found that millennials are very much concerned about their health. If they’re going to live...

Saudi Arabia ecommerce f&b

Kuwait

Kuwait’s path towards becoming a food capital

This article is a crosspost from Nuwait. As the GCC looks to diversify their revenue streams away from the oil and gas sector, Kuwait is...

kuwait Nuwait f&b

Egypt

New startups on the block: February

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

new startups Jarra Carriage

Egypt

Jordan's POSrocket turns restaurant registers to a thing from the past

Four years as the cofounder of a successful food delivery company, acquired by Turkey's Yemeksepet in 2012, Zeid Husban was ready for...

posrocket ifood.jo POS

U.A.E

Jisr Venture Partners like to look outside MENA [Know your VC]

Jisr Venture Partners founder and chairman Waleed Albanawi is making another investment into the food and beverage (F&B) space by...

Investment jisr venture partners ReserveOut

Kuwait

Life after Talabat: Interview with Mohammed Jaffar

This article was originally published on Nuwait. The acquisition of Talabat by German internet company Rocket Internet was the...

talabat kuwait

Jordan

Home-cooked food gets a taste of delivery services in Jordan

When Marwan Oklah Al Zou'bi and Adam Barghouti were studying indoors during Canada’s harsh winters, ordering homemade food...

Jordan Delivery Homecooked meals

Bahrain

Bahrain’s Eat raises $2M

Editor’s note: this article was updated on October 12 to include a comment from Reserve Out. In what they are labelling...

Eatapp eat Bahrain

Lebanon

Growing organically in Lebanon can be tough

Reema Mansour Maamari challenges you to make your own granola. “Why shouldn’t you make your own granola? It’s so easy. If...

biolicious lebanon Organic Food

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