Wamda

Jordan

Ashyaat: The perks of ‘social selling’ in Jordan and beyond

We’ve all seen TV ads promoting gadgets that make you look better or make your life easier. Think of that enthusiastic man sitting...

Jordan Ashyaat ecommerce

Morocco

4 Moroccans aiming at becoming the Alibaba of Africa

Working in the energy and industry sectors in various African countries helped Niama El Bassunie, a Casablanca-born entrepreneur, discover...

Trade financing for trade suppliers

Lebanon

How this entrepreneur wants to democratize mobile payment

Elise Moussa, the entrepreneur who’s behind Snapay, a mobile payment solution, didn’t start small, didn’t start at home....

lebanon mobile payment cash payment

Jordan

Lost in translation: How this Jordanian startup is helping the deaf

The translation of speech to text in real-time naturally enhances communication between people with hearing impairment and those without...

Mahmood Darawsheh Jordan Mind Rockets

Palestine

Palestinian startups carving their ways around barriers to success

Running a startup in Palestine is no easy task. In addition to the fact that over 90 percent of startups anywhere fail, with financial...

palestine Startup ecosystem entrepreneurship

U.A.E

The app that ‘Maidme’ clean my house

On-demand has made its way through almost all industries, and home cleaning is no exception, with everyone from entrepreneurs to major...

uae Maidme House cleaning

Saudi Arabia

Becoming an employee in the company you founded: Esimsar

Following the acquisition of Saudi Esimsar by Propertyfinder in 2014, its founder Tarek Zeitoun chose to continue working in his company as...

Saudi Arabia ksa Esismsar

Jordan

How this chatbot is facilitating food ordering

At some point in 2014, Mark Zuckerberg was disliked by many. Forcing all Facebook app users to migrate to a separate chatting app...

Eila Mindhub Cafe chatbot

Turkey

How this Turkish startup seeks to be a one-stop-shop for waste management

‘Your trash is our pleasure’, was not only an ad that Nihat Kuruüzüm, a Turkish university dropout, fell on when he...

Recycling smart waste management smart reverse vending machines

Kuwait

The internet of things is rising in Kuwait

This article is a crosspost from Nuwait. The total potential economic impact of the internet of things (IoT) is expected to reach $11...

kuwait AEA Manufacture Internet of Things

U.A.E

When tech tackles the multi-billion beauty industry

Before founding Shedul, a free booking platform for hair salons and spas, New Zealand natives William Zeqiri and Nick Miller, were on...

Shedul SAAS Beauty and Wellness

Saudi Arabia

How this Saudi female entrepreneur is driving forth book culture

The average Arab citizen reads approximately 35 hours and 17 books every year. Research showed that on average, an Arab reads 11 books in...

Saudi Arabia Dhad Manar Saud Alomayri

U.A.E

Short term thinking: fertile grounds for MENA’s Airbnb-inspired startups

If not a turnkey development, the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing’s MoU with Airbnb in May 2016 was proof of the...

uae Airbnb

Algeria

From dates to big data, entrepreneurship as therapy

“You need to start by entering your order into the machine,” a waiter explained to Hadj Khelil at a McDonald’s in Paris....

big data organic farming

Lebanon

How tech can power up coworking spaces [Wamda TV]

Renting and dealing with logistics is burdening for startups: costly and timely. Some coworking spaces are attempting to change...

Antwork co-working space Zina Dajani

Tunisia

How twin brothers made their startup fly, so high

A small aviation startup in Tunisia has made a first by not only signing a deal with the Tunisian plane company Nouvelair, but with Airbus...

aéronautique avions hydravion

Turkey

How this Turkish startup optimizes wind energy plants’ production

Green energy is developing towards a mainstream, competitive, and reliable technology. Governments around the globe are investing big...

turkey Hypercfd GE

Global

Can a MOOC protect online activists from getting hacked?

The hacking of NGOs, journalists and human rights workers’ accounts have become more common during the last six years. A recent...

Advocacy Assembly MOOC Esraa Haidar

Egypt

Automating HR management in Egypt

Focusing on developing a specialized product allowed Egyptian software company HITS Solutions to enter more than 40 countries, working with...

Egypt HITS Solutions HR

Saudi Arabia

Saudi entrepreneur launches new servicing platform

The increasing impact of digital content on people’s daily lives, is driving more regional entrepreneurs to launch Arabic platforms....

Mnassa Osama Abdo ksa

Regional

Aim low, shoot high: AI regional startups are keeping it real

In the past two years, both growth numbers and tech advancements in the AI industry have made it fairly easy for its outsiders to fantasize...

chatbot AI Facebook Messenger

Morocco

Morocco's trash spotting app

The rise of smartphone penetration and the emergence of digital tools is turning crowdsourcing into a popular business model. It enables...

climat déchets écologie

Saudi Arabia

This Saudi startup wants to digitize governmental entities

World of System and Software, a Saudi company, limiting its work to one sector, found that this hindered the reach of its products, in...

Saudi Arabia ksa WorldofSS

Egypt

Egyptian fintech startup digitizes the gameya

‘We can all go further together than we could all alone’, is the promise of the 2,000-year old practice of ‘jameya’...

MoneyFellows Ahmed Wadi Egypt

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