Wamda

Regional

Take employee wellbeing seriously or watch your business suffer

Michael Trüschler is the co-founder and chief executive officer at FlexxPay a UAE-based financial technology company providing...

Fintech

Regional

The state of technical talent in Mena

Leen Ashqar leads value creation at Propeller, a venture capital firm based in Amman, Jordan Too often, we come across a startup founder...

Jordan talent Skills

Lebanon

The trials of operating an e-commerce business in Lebanon

Philippe Abdeni is the chief operating officer at Bellamysworld, an e-commerce platform founded in 2003 in Lebanon for high-end luxury...

E-commerce Retail

Global

Security: Is it time for startups to grow up?

Alexander Moiseev is the chief business officer at security firm, Kaspersky Leading entrepreneurship magazines are filled with...

cyber security cybersecurity

Global

The science of mentorship

By Ziad Matar, president of TiE Dubai and founding partner of Meditari & Ivan Fernandes, director of mentorship at TiE Dubai The...

Mentorship Mentor

Regional

Corporate Entrepreneurship: Four ways to balance performance and disruption

Joe Abi Akl is the acting chief corporate development officer at UAE-based Majid Al Futtaim, developers of shopping malls and...

Majid Al Futtaim Corporate entrepreneurship

U.A.E

The UAE is the perfect launchpad for edtech solutions

Katia Al-Kaisi is the founder and chief executive officer of Education House Finland which focuses on introducing Finnish education...

Education EdTech

Palestine

Overcoming barriers of women-led entrepreneurship in Palestine

Ghassan Amayra is the co-founder of Palestine-based MENACatalyst and Leila Farraj is the digital content strategist at...

palestine Palestinian Diaspora gaza sky geeks

Regional

Gaining more value from data through incentive, investment and regulation

Jad Hajj, partner with Strategy& Middle East; Alice Klat, director of the Ideation Center, and Jana Batal, senior fellow at the...

big data

U.A.E

A case for Dubai as a fintech hub

Salmaan Jaffery is the chief business development officer at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Authority This is an...

DIFC Fintech Hive Fintech

Global

Mental health and entrepreneurship - how much do entrepreneurs struggle?

Reem Shaheen is the founder of BE Psychology Centre in Dubai and is a US-trained counseling psychologist Recent research...

mental health entrepreneurs entrepreneurship

Saudi Arabia

Why every investor should be looking at Saudi Arabia

An exponential entrepreneurial shift is underway in Saudi Arabia, and it is attracting substantial venture capital interest, says Luca...

STV Saudi Arabia Venture Capital

Regional

Just 7% of Middle East companies are tapping into $575 billion market

By Xavier Anglada, managing director and Accenture Digital lead in the Middle East In today’s business landscape, innovation is...

Data Innovation

Regional

Beyond the headlines - Careem, regulatory hurdles and Saudisation

A closer look at this week's top news stories Careem Earlier this week, Careem announced a line up of managing directors whose...

careem Uber Saudi Arabia

Regional

Challenges facing entrepreneurial leaders

Areej Khataybih is the founder of The Spark Back and co-author of A Woman's Work. In the Middle East and North Africa (Mena),...

entrepreneurship Leadership

Egypt

Exits by IPO…healthier for the ecosystem

When Egyptian financial technology (fintech) company Fawry went public on 8 August, it was a fantastic moment for the tech ecosystem,...

fawry ipo IPOs

Saudi Arabia

Who is spearheading digitisation in Saudi Arabia?

Sofana Dahlan is one of the first ten female lawyers authorised to practice law in Saudi Arabia. She is also the president and founder...

E-government digital adoption

U.A.E

The case for accelerators in the UAE

Shahzad Bhatti is the founder and owner of the Co-Working PopUp, a community-driven coworking space and incubator for startups and small...

acceleration Accelerators

Jordan

The key to sustainable growth lies in Jordan's SMEs

Yara Asad is the project manager at Building Markets in Jordan where she focuses on assessing businesses and their investment...

sme amman Report

Regional

How can consumers take back control of their data?

By Ankit Chaudhari, CEO and founder of Aiisma, a data management software and hardware company with headquarters in Las Vegas and an...

data privacy

Palestine

Is the Palestinian diaspora key to enabling local startups?

Diyala Abdlrasul and Ghassan Taha Amayra are the co-founders of MENACatalyst The Palestinian plight is not a foreign...

Palestinian Diaspora palestine

Regional

How Middle East startups can win on social

Lama Abdelbarr leads on digital communications for Middle East & Africa at Talkwalker, a social media analytics platform uses...

Social Media Digital Marketing how to

Regional

What makes a good entrepreneurship hub?

Recently, we published a feature on the battle of the startup hubs in the Middle East. There are several cities across the region,...

entrepreneurship Ecosystem

Regional

Can corporates in Mena change the entrepreneurial landscape?

Omar Al Sharif is the director of partner programmes at Wamda Governments across the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) are eager to...

intrapreneurship Corporate entrepreneurship corporate venture capital

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