Wamda

A tale of two cities: how a Lebanese startup moved to San Francisco

Elie Khoury knew he wanted to be in California ever since he was a child tinkering with computers in Byblos. “I didn’t have...

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi startup's device to aid search for oil

In an oil-based economy like Saudi Arabia, finding oil and gas is almost as important as finding water. The country’s efforts to...

Core Echo Saudi Arabia Oil

Egypt

Karmsolar gives solar power to the people

In Karmsolar’s office on the posh Cairene island of Zamalek the company’s mission statement, to become the most innovative...

KarmSolar solar energy Juhayna

U.A.E

MENA’s Airbnb of the workspace?

Thanks to a growing line up of coworking spaces, incubators, hot desks, and shared office space, the workspace revolution has...

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Regional

Startup Watch: Pokémon Go, VCs are ponzi schemes, and Cairo's legacy of entrepreneurship

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

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Egypt

Cairo Sitters signs Kamelizer as angel investor

Cairo Sitters has announced an investment from Egyptian angel fund Kamelizer at the Berlin Tech Open Air Conference today. CEO Hossam...

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Maghreb

Fantasy football kicking off in Tunisia

Coaching Foot has proved that the American ‘fantasy football’ model has a thriving future in Tunisia. The country’s...

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Regional

Arabic speech recognition for children [Video]

The different Arabic dialects often make it harder for voice recognition services to understand and analyse the transmitted...

Votek Loujee speech recognition

Syria

Syrian hardware startup Daraty dodging country's challenges

Two engineering students in Syria’s capital are overcoming the enormous challenges in their war-torn country to launch Daraty, an...

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U.A.E

500 Startups invests in UAE gifting marketplace

UAE-based gift-giving platform Joi has recieved investment from 500 Startups. With this first round founders Ritesh Tilani and...

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Syria

High risk, high reward: Mag Optics wants to change the way we see

Biotech is a high risk, high cost, high reward world. It's one that Mag Optics, a London-based startup founded by a Syrian...

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Jordan

Putting the creative in coworking, Amman

Coworking spaces are popular features in startup hubs across MENA, giving businesses, entrepreneurs, and freelancers access to a stable,...

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Europe

Aramex leads $8.5M Series B in UK address startup

Aramex has led a $8.5 million Series B funding round in British startup What 3 Words, a company that is creating a universal postal code...

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U.A.E

Startups, compete at your own risk

Be it money, equity, consultation, incubation or simply a platform to fine-tune the elevator pitch, startup competitions have manufactured...

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Eventtus founder meets Obama

“It’s a good looking group,” said US President Barack Obama, as he introduced four entrepreneurs to an audience at the...

Mai Medhat Global Entrepreneurship Summit President Barack Obama

Egypt

Is Ousta Egypt's fastest growing startup ever? [Q&A]

[Update July 27: five months after launching Ousta is negotiating a $5.6 million investment round.] Ride hailing app...

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U.A.E

From buyouts to partnerships

This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. More than half of all corporate-startup initiatives in MENA were...

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Syria

Syrians seek refuge in tech

For a while, it seemed that the Syrians were running out of options. For the fourth year in a row since 2012, the UN reported a steep...

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Palestine

Scarcity fuels Gaza hardware invention boom

Following the successful Bold Knot crowdfunding campaign* in 2015, Gazan entrepreneurs have started pursuing their own hardware...

Sketch Engineering The Explorer Robot Taawon

Bahrain

Skip ahead: Skiplino wants to put queuing behind us

According to a Lebanese Central Bank official at the Arabnet Beirut summit this year, the Lebanese enjoy queuing in banks and use the...

Skiplino LevelZ SAAS

Egypt

Rubber a hot commodity for Egypt startup Retyres

Driving Cairo’s ring road or through one of its many poorer outskirts, one often encounters the distinct smell of burned rubber:...

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Egypt

Egyptian selfie drone wins $26K Swiss investment

Egyptian drone startup Drofie has attracted the attention of the Swiss, securing a 25,000 Swiss francs (US$26,000) investment and a spell...

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Regional

MENAT accelerators invest $3.5M, lag global averages

Accelerators have become a “rite of passage” for entrepreneurs around the world, and a report on the state of global programs...

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Maghreb

Karim Jazouani Prize 2016: nominate the advocates of Moroccan entrepreneurship

One step forward, two steps backward? Or is it two steps forward, one step backward? If we take a look at the tech sector in Morocco,...

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