Wamda

Saudi Arabia

BLOMINVEST partners with Flat6Labs to fund Saudi startups

Saudi Arabia-based asset manager BLOMINVEST has partnered with Egypt’s Flat6Labs to launch a fund targeting early-stage startups...

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U.A.E

Eight startups graduate from Flat6Labs Ignite programme in Abu Dhabi

Eight startups have graduated from the Flat6Labs Ignite programme in Abu Dhabi with each startup receiving Seed investment ranging from...

Flat6Labs Ignite Programme accelerator

Regional

Organon, Flat6Labs launch accelerator to support female-focused healthtech in Mena

Flat6Labs has partnered with Organon to launch the Femtech Accelerator Programme to help healthtech startups focused on women’s...

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Regional

Flat6Labs: A decade of accelerating startups

Once Hany Sonbaty and Ahmed Alfi launched their venture capital firm, Sawari Ventures, in Egypt back in 2010, the pair were often hounded...

Flat6Labs

Tunisia

Flat6Labs announces second close of Tunisia Seed Fund

Flat6Labs has announced the second close and increase of its Tunisia-based Anava Seed Fund (ASF) from $3 million to $10 million....

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Egypt

Eight startups graduate from Flat6Labs’ Cairo Seed Programme

Egypt’s Flat6Labs has graduated eight startups from its Cairo Seed Programme’s 16th cycle, each receiving seed investment...

Flat6Labs Cairo Seed Program

Jordan

Flat6Labs launches $20 million Seed Fund in Jordan

Seed investor and accelerator Flat6labs, has launched a $20 million Seed Fund in Jordan to nurture the growth and development of...

Flat6Labs Funding Jordan

Bahrain

Taajer raises $32,000 Seed round

Taajer, Bahrain-based B2B e-commerce connecting retailers to wholesalers, has raised a $32,000 Seed investment from Flat6labs Bahrain...

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Bahrain

Flat6Labs Bahrain distributes $250,000 among cohort winners

Flat6Labs Bahrain announced that eight startups have received $250,000 investment as part of its sixth cycle, which concluded after a...

Flat6Labs Investment accelerator

Egypt

Argineering Raises $400,000

Source: Waya Egyptian tech startup Argineering just raised $400,000, closing its seed round led by 500 Startups and Flat6Labs Cairo....

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Egypt

In conversation with Sami Al Ahmad of Marj3

For Sami Al Ahmad, applying to study abroad and finding a scholarship was a lengthy and tedious process when the Syrian national was...

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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’...

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Bahrain

Flat6labs and Al Baraka Banking Group to support entrepreneurs

Al Baraka Banking Group and Flat6labs signed an MOU to collaborate in a series of activities including creating the startup and...

Flat6Labs Al Baraka Banking Group entrepreneurship

U.A.E

24 Emirati Nationals graduate from Flat6Labs Future Innovators Academy

This week marked the graduation ceremony of the Future Innovators Academy, a one-month innovation program run by Flat6Labs Abu Dhabi and...

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Saudi Arabia

Gorfah and the seven business models

What do you do when you don’t know which business model suits you? This is what Gorfah faced, a Saudi startup working in an $8...

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Global

Tracking skateboard tricks from UAE to LA

Rideblock talks building a product in the UAE with a market in the US It was an argument over who had pulled off a better Ollie - a...

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Egypt

Flat6labs signs $1M deal with IFC

Flat6labs has signed a $1 million deal with the World Bank investment arm International Finance Corporation (IFC). The Egyptian...

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Egypt

A list of Egyptian startup investors

We have compiled a list of 16 different investors to whom Egyptian entrepreneurs can pitch their product. Since 2015, a number of...

Egypt A15 Sawari Ventures

Regional

MENA cashes in: new report shows VC money is rising

This is an edited crosspost from Medium. I’ve always admired the consistency and nuggets of wisdom that US founders and VCs are...

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U.A.E

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...

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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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Egypt

Instabug and the ecosystem

Instabug has Egypt's tight-knit ecosystem to thank for much of its success. (Image via Instabug) This is an edited crosspost from Rise...

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Maghreb

Big changes for Tunisia as Flat6labs, Le15 launch

Last week Flat6labs announced their launch in Tunisia, alongside the brand new startup hub Le15, marking a huge leap forward for the...

Flat6Labs Tunis Le15 seed investment

Egypt

Flat6Labs and Barclays launch a fintech accelerator in Egypt

Ahmad Alfi speaking during the launch of Accelerator 1864. (Image via Flat6Labs) Yesterday Cairo-based Flat6labs announced the...

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