Wamda

Saudi Arabia

Goldman Sachs sets up MENA regional headquarters in Riyadh

Saudi Ministry of Investment has granted US investment bank Goldman Sachs a license to set up its regional headquarters in Riyadh. The...

Goldman Sachs

Regional

Unlocking the potential of ESOP

Rawan Baddour and Zuhair Shamma are the co-founders of UAE-based Zest, an equity management platform Despite the region making...

Zest ESOP

Global

An essential guide to cap tables

Wamda and Clara have teamed up to bring you, startup founders, this essential guide to capitalisation (cap) tables. If you are...

cap tables

Regional

An essential guide to ESOPs

A. Overview Wamda and Clara have teamed up to bring you, startup founders, this essential guide to employee share option plans (commonly...

ESOP Clara

Global

The 10 pitch deck slides you need to wow investors

Dr. Mussaad M. Al-Razouki is the chief investment and business development officer of Kuwait Life Sciences Company. He has over 15 years of...

pitch deck Advice

U.A.E

What are the implications of the UAE's tax reforms?

Dr Robert Mogielnicki is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington The Ministry of Finance in the United...

tax

Global

Tips to bear in mind if you’re expanding to the Middle East

Firas Marafie is the senior partnerships lead at what3words The Middle East: the quick buck, the pot of gold, or is it? With venture...

what3words MENA

Regional

Kitch launches in Saudi Arabia and the UAE

Cloud kitchen and store-front operator, Kitch, has officially launched in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, after privately raising $15...

Cloud kitchens Food & Beverage Investment

Egypt

Why Belal El-Megharbel left Careem and shunned his family business

This article originally appeared on the International Financial Corporation (IFC) website. By Gloria Mwaniga Odary In 2018, when Belal...

MaxAB B2B marketplace

U.A.E

Raising the bar for women’s healthcare

Investment in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) healthcare sector is booming. Over $144 billion will be ploughed into Mena-wide...

healthtech

U.A.E

Global Grad Show: Open Call For University Students And Professors to mitigate COVID-19's collateral issues

Global Grad Show has launched an Open Call for solutions to the collateral issues of COVID-19. University students and professor, from...

Regional

A look at the state of pre-seed startups in Mena

The UAE continues to be the leading hub for entrepreneurs according to a new report from Wamda Research Lab. More than 35 per cent of...

Wamda Research Lab wamda x

Oman

Oman's startup opportunity

The sultanate of Oman is gearing up to turbocharge its entrepreneurship ecosystem. While the Gulf state has not been traditionally known...

Oman Oman Technology Fund entrepreneurship

Regional

How do you create a good company culture?

Dawn Metcalfe is a workplace culture advisor and managing director at PDSi MEA. She is also the author of Managing the Matrix and The...

culture company culture Leadership

U.A.E

The hidden costs of starting up in the UAE

High set-up costs imperil fledging UAE-based startups and deter many would-be entrepreneurs from launching businesses in the...

entrepreneurship starting up Skype

Saudi Arabia

In conversation with Sara Sawaf of AYA Animations

Sara Sawaf studied finance and marketing while at university, but her career path took her along a more humanitarian route. Prior to...

content Animation Women Entrepreneur

Palestine

In conversation with Ahmed Hashlamon of Mashvisor

Mashvisor was founded by Peter Abualzolof and Mohammed Jebrini in 2014 with the aim of providing real estate investment data analysis to...

Mashvisor palestine

Lebanon

In conversation with Priscilla Elora Sharuk of Myki

Myki is a Beirut-based cyber security company that offers users an offline password manager through a mobile application. The app allows...

MyKi cyber security

Bahrain

The GCC's smallest island is attracting startup attention

Despite its small size, the Gulf island of Bahrain is proving a force to be reckoned with in the startup world. The tiny nation –...

Bahrain Bahrain Fintech Bay Bahrain Economic Development Board

U.A.E

In conversation with Kunal Kapoor of The Luxury Closet

The Luxury Closet (TLC) is an online store that sells pre-owned fashion items founded in Dubai in 2012 by Kunal Kapoor. The company...

E-commerce The Luxury Closet Entrepreneur

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

In conversation with Maya Talih Khatoun of RIOT

The fashion industry is the second most polluting industry after oil and gas. The total greenhouse gas emissions from textile production...

Fashion Sustainability RIOT

Egypt

In conversation with Ahmed Wadi of MoneyFellows

In a bid to fund his wedding, Ahmed Wadi realised he’d taken out the maximum loan limit from his bank and so he came up with the idea...

Fintech Flat6Labs Cairo MoneyFellows

U.A.E

In conversation with Bernard Lee of GlassQube Coworking

Bernard Lee was an investment banker in New York before moving to Abu Dhabi to work in debt restructuring for the Executive Council, where...

co-working space abu dhabi glassqube

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