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Hadafi competition offers Saudi women the chance to fund business ideas

Last week, Dubai-based social enterprise Potential launched Hadafi, a women’s entrepreneurship program designed to empower women in Saudi A...

Women Hadafi Saudi Arabia

Guy Kawasaki’s top 11 mistakes made by entrepreneurs [Video]

As one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh computer in 1984, Guy Kawasaki has since started his own...

Venture Capital Expert Advice Tips

Not another cupcake shop: Bahrain's women entrepreneurs debate what local startups need

If there’s one place in the Arab world one can go to understand the complex relationship between women, government, and entrepreneurship i...

Ecosystem

Visualizing Palestine unites activism and entrepreneurship

In 2009, Ramzi Jaber quit his job as a civil engineer in Jerusalem to organize TEDxRamallah. Upon moving to Ramallah to begin work on the...

indiegogo palestine Crowdfunding

Bahraini antique furniture startup eyes regional expansion

Two years ago, childhood friends Sara Sayyar and Mariam Fathi started a business based on their passion for “all things old and broken... y...

manama riyadat mall furniture

Egyptian event platform Eventtus goes premium after investment from Vodafone, Cairo Angels

After meeting at Startup Weekend Cairo in 2011, the founders of event organizing platform Eventtus launched their startup in...

Funding Venture Capital Angel Investment

3 ways to build a better city

Developing a world-class city often involves creating a healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem. New studies from McKinsey and the National...

Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Government

Healthcare portal WebTeb closes Series B round from Siraj Palestine Fund

On top of reaching over 3.5 million unique visitors per month, Arabic medical content portal WebTeb just announced new investment from...

Healthcare Content Portals Health & Beauty

6 tips for successfully crowdfunding your creative project

Got an idea so crazy it just might work? You’re in luck: Zoomaal, the Arab world’s only crowdfunding site, is launching its Cre...

Shekra and Injaz Al-Arab partner to support crowdfunding with mentorship

Fundraising is crucial for startups, but entrepreneurs also need knowledge and experience to realize success. That's why Shekra,...

Borrowing $1 billion a day? A look at debt in Saudi Arabia

A surprising headline recently caught our eye: Arabian Business suggested that Saudi consumers are borrowing almost US $1 billion per...

Statistics Loans Banks

Hivos Creativity Competition on Zoomaal

New crowdfunding platform Zoomaal, in partnership with Hivos, has set up ‘The Hivos Creativity Competition’ to encourage Arab creativity an...

Crowdfunding Competitions

What Mashrou' Leila's crowdfunding success means for the Arab music scene

Last month, 543 fans of the Lebanese indie rock band Mashrou' Leila gave a combined total of over $66,000 USD to fund the release of the...

6 people entrepreneurs should look for at a networking event

Dubai is an unusual place. The startup scene is small but growing rapidly, the majority of people are expats, and there are dozens...

Addy raises $320K in Silicon Valley, launches address system for Middle East e-commerce

When we last checked in with Addy last summer, the startup was generating buzz after debuting at Stanford’s StartX Demo Day for its...

Addressing Mobile E-commerce

Startup in Palestine launches crowdfunding campaign for rooftop farming in refugee camps

During one of her stints conducting field research in the Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Lebanon in support of her...

iMENA invests $8m in HelloFood; why it is and isn't like Rocket Internet

iMENA Holdings made headlines yesterday with the news that it invested US $8 million in HelloFood, Rocket’s online food ordering platform ...

Scaling Rocket Internet Investment

Stars of Science launches fifth season with more women: 'innovation knows no gender'

Stars of Science, the hit pan-Arab science and technology reality-TV competition, returns this Friday, Sept 13 on MBC 4 (8pm KSA), for its...

Science Stars of Science Competitions

Startup funding: How to fuel your car [Infographic]

This past week, our Wamda Community member Osama Natto designed and posted his own infographic on his own profile, using the metaphor of a...

Funding Scaling Advice

Meet the three teams that won a Silicon Valley investor pitch event in Palestine

PALinnO, a new initiative in Palestine designed to connect local startups to Silicon Valley mentors, has announced the winners of its...

Digital agency Intigral launches new incubator to help startups reach the Saudi market

Ready for a new incubator? Dubai-based digital media company Intigral launched one today, to support startups building digital products...

STC Incubator Saudi Arabia

Flat6Labs debuts a new model; will it set the tone for regional startup acceleration?

Accelerators in the Arab world are all the rage lately. For every one that has shut down since we last listed the Top 10...

Accelerators

Start-Up Chile meetup in Dubai

Start-Up Chile is once again ready to select, fund and host 100 startups to help them develop their global business ideas through...

Incubator

Mumzworld seeks investment from 'empowered' women angels; how it's persuading moms to buy online

Mumzworld, the Dubai-based e-commerce portal for goods related to mothers, children, and babies, has announced that it’s open for a new r...

Angel Investment E-commerce Women

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