Wamda

Saudi Arabia

Building a real estate startup in Saudi's stagnant market

The decrease in oil prices also affected the real estate market. (Image via news.weetas.com) Online real estate platform Lamudi,...

lamudi hellofood Carmudi

Lebanon

Listen to your heart: behind CardioDiagnostics' decision to open up to patients [Video]

Lebanese entrepreneur Ziad Sankari is a man on a mission: he has a very personal reason to improve cardiac health and his startup,...

healthtech healthcare analytics CardioDiagnostics

Lebanon

Efiester plans parties in Paris with a foot in Beirut

Efiester wants to make organizing parties between friends easier. (Images via Efiester) Robert Harfouche is Lebanese, and lives in France....

party planner party efiester

Lebanon

Growing Lebanon's gaming scene

The video gaming industry in Lebanon is facing a fresh chapter in 2016 with the introduction of new publisher, Morage...

Goliath Games Fovea MENA Games 2016

Kuwait

What's most exciting about Kuwait's future? [Video]

This is an edited crosspost from Nuwait. Each entrepreneurship ecosystem has its own story to tell, but failures, success...

Nuwait 500 startups world bank

Turkey

Scale-ups shine at Startup Turkey

Startup Turkey's winning teams AloTech, Tamatem, and UrbanStat. (Images via Startup Turkey) In the end it was the oldest and most...

Muslim Face Eye Track Fidelo

Regional

Angel investment vs institutional investment [Wamda TV]

During Wamda’s last Mix N’Mentor in Cairo, we met up with Lana Alamat, partner and general counsel at Wamda Capital, for a chat about the i...

Lana Alamat Institutional Investment insights

Jordan

Jordan ed-tech startup secures deal with UNRWA

The EDaura team. Founder and CEO Nidal Khalifeh at far left, cofounder Muneer Saifi third from left, standing. (Image via Samuel...

lms skoolizer edaura

Egypt

The kid with the amazing AR glasses

Vound inventor Aly Mohamed at an EU-sponsored contest for young scientists. (Image via Wamda) Aly Mohamed comes across as a...

deaf Aly Mohamed Vound

Jordan

Theeb: how to build a movie

The guys behind Oscar-nominated ‘Theeb’ have found themselves in Hollywood, building a napkin pitch into a...

bedouin ing Abdullah II Fund for Development Bayt Al Shawareb

U.A.E

Scaling out of MENA

Scaling beyond the Middle East is something most startups have on their agenda. Take a quick survey of new startups in the region and...

PropSpace SAAS JRD Group

Kuwait

Ajar Online redefines rental payments in Kuwait

This article is a crosspsot with Nuwait. Ajar Online cofounders, Talal Alyaseen and Shaheen Alkhudhari. (Image via Ajar Online) The idea...

property Ajar Online crosspost

U.A.E

Enabling ecommerce with delivery

Cofounders, left to right, Sari Issa and Fares Nimri. (Images via CamelShip) Ecommerce is constantly evolving and becoming more...

Sky Net Parzel CamelShip

Egypt

Elves and Uber, together for Valentines

Valentine’s Day can be stressful. Those behind new startup Elves have decided to team up with Uber to help clients who forgot...

Genie of Arabia Elves Elvesapp

U.A.E

UAE cleaning platform gets investment from Yemeksepeti founder

Outsourcing your housework can be a chore, pun intended. (Image via Stephen Swintek/Getty Images) JustMop, the latest addition to a...

Just Mop cleaning yemeksepeti

Maghreb

Turning Moroccan shops' Wi-Fi into marketing tools

Not offering free Wi-Fi is not an option anymore. (Images via Nextwi) Offering a quality internet connection is increasingly an...

wifi nextwi Marrakesh

Saudi Arabia

Ed-tech to the rescue of Saudi Arabia's schools

Saudi Arabia’s education system has many problems. Despite the government allocating 25 percent of its $229 billion budget to education in ...

Alhodhud iRehab Masmoo3

U.A.E

Introducing Flat6Labs' 6 latest UAE startups

Much like Hollywood is a celebrity hunting ground, Flat6Labs’ recent Demo Day suggests that Abu Dhabi might be the place to reel in...

StudentCart Metaphorio Jumpsuite

Egypt

Billionaire invests in Shaghalni's blue collar job ads

Shaghalni's pitch is not just to advertise blue collar jobs, but 'grey' collar work as well. (Images via Shaghalni) With only seven...

Omar Khalifa Omedia grey collar jobs

Syria

ReBootKamp initiative gives Syrian refugees access to tech-education

A mockup of RBK's planned ZatLAB in northern Jordan. (Images via RebootKamp.org) As the Syrian Civil War drags on, a generation of young...

hugh bosely syrian civil war Zatlab

Maghreb

Tech investor AIG to become first African unicorn

Africa Internet Group (AIG) is set to become Africa’s first unicorn, after international insurer AXA bought an 8 percent stake in the...

AXA AIG Africa Internet Group

Regional

Social money: it's coming to a MENA platform near you

Fastacash is expanding into the Middle East, bringing with it social network payment options. (Image via Fastacash) Sending money to your...

mobile money social payments Fastacash

U.A.E

Physicians and the future with 3D printing

How soon before the doctors of the Middle East embrace the possibilities of 3D printing? (Images via Jacqueline Sofia) Covering everything...

Arab Health Exhibition MEMakers AlemHealth

U.A.E

Dashroad launches with Careem, seeks to take on MENA

"It's a platform. In short, it's a FitBit for cars" This is how entrepreneur Faheem Gill introduces his product Dashroad, which was...

MixTelematics Samtech Dashroad

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