Wamda

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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...

fluidmeet workspace

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Saving Dubai’s energy one sky rise at a time

“It’s like the wild west, codes are lax, and no public records.” These are the comments of engineer Charles Blaschke when...

Taka Solutions MIT Media Lab community jameel

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Careem to use driverless ‘pods’

Careem has announced that they’ve partnered with a company that builds driverless, battery-powered ‘pods’. Furthering...

careem public transport MEMakersGE

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Careem to invest $100M in R&D

Careem has announced a new strategy, plus their plans for global expansion. According to a statement released today they plan, over...

careem ride hailing Investment

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Dubai’s medical tourism prospects

More often than not, planning a visit to a foreign country is an ambitious undertaking. Adding a stopover for a medical treatment during...

MEMakersGE Medical Tourism Medigo

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In5 Media Hub, latest incubator with industry approach

Dubai-based incubator In5 is finally putting the finishing touches to its media-focused hub. First announced in November 2015 they...

in5 In5 media hub Payfort

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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...

500 startups joi gifts Investment

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Dubai: a city built on data [Wamda TV]

Cities are not built on a whim, but today a new kind of data is used to sculpt modern metropoli from the bare bones of steel and...

cellular data Dubai du

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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...

Arab Start Up competition Startup MENA GCC Pitch Challenge Dubai+Acumen Business Plan Competition

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From buyouts to partnerships

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

Collaborative Entrepreneurship Dubai Expo 2020 GE

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Fare share: Uber and Careem set pace and purpose for MENA’s sharing economy

Innovation and regulation can often have a paradoxical relationship. Modern tech history has consistently highlighted the tug of war...

RTA Regulations careem

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Community Jameel and Wamda host MIT Media Lab Dubai workshop #MLDubai

Cities are rising at a fast pace. The MENA region has seen this with Dubai, and shortly after, Masdar City. In the meantime,...

Redefining Cities MIT Media Lab MIT

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Balancing act: the UAE treads the line between regulation and innovation

In a 2013 article, internet industry analyst Larry Downes made a strong statement: innovation and regulation simply don’t...

Block Chain Council regulation MEMakersGE

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PK on the core mission of The Assembly [Wamda TV]

Prashant Gulati, more known as ‘PK’, calls himself a “technology innovator, angel investor, mentor, idea accelerator and...

Prashant Gulati PK MEMakersGE

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Family offices a new addition to investment landscape

Family offices are the new breed of investor in the MENA tech sector, according to Beco Capital. The UAE-based investment firm, has...

Periodic table investors BECO Capital

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Doctoruna: making healthcare accessible in MENA

Since they launched in 2013, healthcare appointment website and mobile app Doctoruna has been on a mission to minimize the all too...

DoctorUna MEMakersGE Bayt

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IT platform Geeks raises $600K seed round

And 6500 happy customers. (Image via Geeks) Geeks.ae, an on-demand tech services platform that helps connect consumers and business...

Geeks investments Wamda Capital

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Are you happy? Data may decide for you

Welcoming to Arabnet Dubai 2016. (Image via Jacqueline Sofia) “Happiness is very personal. How far do you want us to go to make you h...

Happiness Dubai RTA Dubai Open Data Law

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Startup and corporation collaboration gets a boost #Expo2020xWamda

Corporation, big business, multinational, mega-corp - whatever noun you prefer to use, they need you, and by ‘you’ we mean...

CE Summit Collaborative Entrepreneurship expo 2020

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Payfort launches 3rd edition of the State of Payments

The Arab world could see $69 billion in online payment transactions per year by 2020. (Image via Wamda) Saudis and Emiratis have...

State of Payments 2016 Payfort Report

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Crowdfunding Hackathon by Zoomaal at Dubai SME

Crowdfunding has been gaining traction in the Arab world over the past few years, where an increasing number of platforms have...

zoomaal uae hackathon

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Applications deadline for Startupbootcamp IoT | Connected Devices accelerator

Startupbootcamp IoT, part of the international Startup Bootcamp program is coming to the ArabNet Digital Summit in Dubai on May 30-31 to m...

U.A.E

Seedstars World Competition Dubai 2016

Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is returning to Dubai for...

Startups competition Seedstars World uae

U.A.E

Bitoasis secures seed funding led by Wamda Capital

Fintech startup Bitoasis has announced its first round of funding, an undisclosed sum led by Wamda Capital. The round included Barry...

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