Wamda

Morocco

Converting code quicksmart, scalable?

Hunched over his laptop in a hotel lobby, empty coffee cups and water bottles piled up on the table beside him, Jaoued Ahmed’s energy...

myappconverter morocco

Egypt

Replacing wood with straw, an Egyptian environmental solution

Egypt is brewing a number of entrepreneurial projects seeking to provide sustainable solutions for the manufacture of wooden furniture and...

Egypt Dawayer MEMakersGE

Jordan

Hello World Kids teaches programming in Jordanian schools

After Hanan Khader travelled to Silicon Valley in 2013 to represent her Jordanian company Aqar-Estate as part of the TechWomen program, she...

Hello World Kids Jordan Hanan Khader

Beirut-based Myki launches authentication solution at Techcrunch Disrupt

Take 5,000 plus attendees, a gigantic waterfront pier and some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, and you get Techcrunch Disrupt San...

MyKi techcrunch lebanon

Global

Learning from failure? Jordan teens ready to launch again [Wamda TV]

It’s been a long time coming, but according to their latest statements the app Aidmaid is soon to launch. Aidmaid, which...

Jordan Saudi Arabia aidmaid

Egypt

3 failures and a job: how Bio Energy Egypt hit success

Bio Energy Egypt founder Mahmoud Galal failed three times and took a corporate job before he succeeded at being an entrepreneur. But all...

Dayra Egypt Bio Energy Egypt

Egypt

Egypt startup eyes global industrial IoT

Spimesense Labs was born from corporate sluggishness: two friends were working at Ericsson when it was trying to work out just how big this...

SpimeSenseLabs Egypt big data

$A fractal view of event technology$

U.A.E

A fractal view of event technology

Fractal Systems is a Dubai based company loading up exhibitions, airports, and event venues with samplings of holograms, drones, sliding...

MEMakersGE fractel robotics

U.A.E

From finance to food tech: UAE's Chefxchange

For most millennials, the art of wining and dining guests at home is increasingly dwindling in the face of a rising on-demand culture that...

lebanon uae food tech

Syria

Startup Weekend Damascus: here are the winners!

Tabbakh Rou7o, an app that matches home cooks with customers seeking affordable meals, snagged the first prize at Startup Weekend Damascus...

Startup Weekend Damascus syria

Syria

10 tech ideas to prevent a lost Syrian generation

“Between two million and three million Syrian children are not attending school. The UN children’s agency says the...

Social Entrepreneurship syria Education

Regional

Making the best of a child’s addiction

In the 90s, parents hid Gameboys from their children on high shelves and under heavy mattresses. This year, with face-to-screen time at...

Play My Way children Education

Saudi Arabia

Foodics: the Saudis taking on Gulf restaurant giants

In Saudi, the food and beverage (F&B) sector is one of the largest in the Gulf. Probably no surprise there, as in MENA food and...

Foodics ksa Alwans

Tunisia

Surviving the Ben Ali regime: a Tunisian entrepreneur success story

Badreddine Ouali is a model for the new generation of Tunisian entrepreneurs, but he never planned his career. Today, after blazing a...

Corruption Europe Vermeg

Syria

Wikilogia: The Syrian NGO that brought open source learning to Damascus

As the nearly six year war raged on in Syria, hundreds of entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts were quietly thriving in Damascus. They are...

syria Wikilogia Education

Lebanon

Back from the brink, FREE

How do you bring yourself back from the financial brink and complete a water irrigation prototype? Antoine Skayem’s company, FREE...

lebanon Free UK Lebanon Tech Hub

Jordan

Decorating Jordan’s homes with its trash

It all started in one of the oldest bookstands in downtown Amman when unemployed Alaa Ziadeh decided to build things... using his...

Jordan Environment Green entrepreneurs

Egypt

App Lab kills cash at Egypt festivals

Festivals, be they music or other, are bedevilled by two problems: ticketing fraud and cash. Early last year the founders of a new music...

App Lab Sandbox Oshtoora

Palestine

5 steps to ecommerce success in Gaza

It took five years for a small team of professional coders in Gaza to launch their own ecommerce solution Loqta, after noticing how much...

Loqta Gaza ecommerce

Saudi Arabia

Saudi getting smart on flooding?

For the last four years PhD student Mustafa Mousa has been placing nodes (sensors) in various locations in Mecca and Thuwal. He wanted to...

KAUST Saudi Arabia Sadeem

U.A.E

From shop to your shelf, El Grocer grows

Delivery services are a part of Dubai’s residential lifestyle, and some residents are even spoilt for choice with stores at the...

el grocer Delivery Logistics

Jordan

Zain Jordan wants you to ditch your console and grab your phone

There isn’t a better example than Pokémon Go to highlight the crucial role of mobile in the gaming industry. Several of the...

tamatem Gaming Telcos

Regional

Wissam Sabbagh: A visionary turning idea to product

“Sex and $550.” That was the subject line of an email then 18-year-old Wissam Sabbagh sent to thousands of potential...

Wissam Sabbagh Dotcom Mangomolo

Syria

Code your way up: Syrian startups teach code in Arabic

As millions of Syrians fleeing a brutal war struggle to integrate into new countries, one barrier stands out above the rest:...

Remmaz bitcode Education

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