Wamda

Regional

Offline healthcare going online in MENA

Not enough time for exercise? Perhaps apps might be of use. (Image via core0.staticworld.net) Healthcare. An increasingly diverse and...

Heathcare Fittpass The Wellness Log

Regional

Silkroad Images raises seed round

Silkroad Images, a stock photography and audio-video content library from Jordan, has secured a seed round of investment from Abu...

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Kuwait

A cost effective and environmentally friendly way to cook your food, straight out of Kuwait

As reported previously on Wamda, the teams attending the first Kuwait Global Technopreneurship Challenge were trying to answer questions...

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U.A.E

Why e-Home Automation is big on smart home tech? [Video]

Khalifa AlJaziri, Group Managing director of e-Home Automation International, explains in this video the core goal of his company, in...

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Pakistan

Pakistan's eye on MENA

Pakistan is as misrepresented in the media as the Middle East and has an equally thriving startup ecosystem, but there is not much...

Zameen Rozee.pk incubation

U.A.E

Startups pitch for entry to Masdar and BP’s new accelerator

Catalyst advisor Mohamed Hamdy holds forth on what he'd like to see from startups wanting to enter the accelerator. (Images...

Masdar Catalyst accelerator BP

Maghreb

Tunisian stock exchange startup ilBoursa reaching new heights

ilBoursa offers data to help investors make better financial decisions. Some entrepreneurs want to be famous, others want to make money,...

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Kuwait

Passion for food and design brought Basil AlSalem back to Kuwait

This article is a crosspost with Nuwait. Kuwaiti entrepreneur Basil AlSalem discovered his passion for food and design when...

Cocoa Room B+F Nuwait

Maghreb

Tunisia’s media monitoring service, WebRadar, is targeting the Arab world

The Innova team is changing Arabic big data. Here they pause at Cogite coworking space's garden. (Images via WebRadar) Upon discovering...

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Palestine

What I know about developing hardware and software in Palestine: Ayman Arandi

Ayman Arandi and his partners launched Iris Solutions with $15,000 of their own capital in the West Bank in 2012, with a plan to provide...

Ayman Arandi Sensory room Touch screens

U.A.E

Bahrain’s Eat app on fast thinking and changing course

The team behind Bahraini startup Eat had a solid plan when they launched in 2014, but when they heard a global player was about to enter...

Eatapp zomato reservations

Lebanon

Hind Hobeika discusses manufacturing challenges [Video]

Wamda's cofounder and CEO, Habib Haddad interviewed in the video above, Hind Hobeika, founder of Instabeat, from a driverless car in ...

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U.A.E

The pursuit of ‘appy-ness’

Founder Dinesh Lalvani with some of his characters. (Images via AppyKids) Before becoming the Samsung Galaxy Tab regional ambassador for...

AppyKids samsung edutainment

Regional

Media matchmaker app links brands and journalists

WePress founder Mohamed Parham Al Awadhi and his moustache. (Image via Eduard Cousin) “Nice moustache!” one of the visitors at the Rise Up ...

Mohamed Parham Al Awadhi journalism platform WePress

U.A.E

5 initiatives making the UAE perfect for eco-friendly startups

It’s a common perception that every Middle Eastern economy relies completely on fossils fuels, but the UAE is working towards being more e...

Dubai 2020 Urban Masterplan Estidama Etihad Esco

Regional

Piecing together the social enterprise ecosystem in MENA

For every Dumyé doll purchased one is gifted to an orphan. (Image via Dumyé) Sourcing a definition for social enterprise could prove as p...

Ustad Mobile Social Tent Palestyle

Egypt

Egypt's Winex innovates with health tech

The international health sector is evolving as innovators mix tech solutions with healthcare, but in Egypt the shift to even partially...

Winex MEMakers big data

Palestine

This Palestinian startup is using touch technology to help kids affected by autism

Colors, lights, music - the specialized environments of Iris Solutions' sensory rooms helps rehabilitate people who live with stress...

Medical Aid for Palestinians Stress Disorders Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Regional

Fast Facts I: $300M+ in MENA startup exits (2015)

As the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Index noted, MENA countries collectively enjoy a startup ecosystem that is “almost...

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Saudi Arabia

Building Saudi Arabia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, KAUST

A university with plans for the Saudi Arabian knowledge economy. (Image via Globalhighered.wordpress.com) Saudi Arabia has been an...

Beacon I Saudi Arabia KAUST

Global

How important is the patent?

A patent. ‘Have you got one?’ It’s a question that one startup tells Wamda is asked a lot, too much in fact. So, are...

Band Industries Saba IP Patents

Pakistan

What to do when the giants arrive [Opinion]

Visitors to Lahore from the Islamabad incubator i2i test out the Savaree service. (Images via Savaree) Madeeha Hassan, founder of...

taxi app ride sharing Lahore

Regional

ArabiaWeather uses big data to help the aviation industry [Video]

November 2015 was a big month for the first weather company in the Middle East, ArabiaWeather. The team announced a $5 million funding...

MEMakers ArabiaWeather big data

Turkey

What is holding back Turkey’s startups?

There's something holding them back. (Image via Dwass at Foolishlego.com) With 2015 drawing to an end, suffice to say it has been another...

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