Morocco New seed fund Outlierz launches in Morocco [Know your VC] A new Morocco-based seed fund called Outlierz is looking to provide “smart capital” for early stage Africa startups. The... Rachel Williamson • 15 February, 2017 Outlierz Hassan Haider seed fund
Egypt New startups on the block: February Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to... Lucy Knight • 31 January, 2017 new startups Jarra Carriage
Morocco Ketabook turns niche market into a Maghreb bookseller’s dream The story of Ketabook is the one of a historian father and his marketer son. It started 17 years ago when Mohamed El Mansour, a history... Yassine Bakir • 30 January, 2017 Ketabook Amazon culture
Morocco Moroccan 'search engine for sales' Vendo raises seed round Two-year-old Moroccan ecommerce search engine Vendo.ma has raised 2.7 million dirhams (US$267,000) from a business angel based in... Lilia Blaise • 24 January, 2017 Vendo Jumia ecommerce
Egypt WeMENA Resilient Future [call for applications] Women Entrepreneurs for a Resilient Future in the Middle East and North Africa (WeMENA) is a business model challenge launched to... Wamda • 07 January, 2017 women entrepreneurs MENA Innovation
Morocco Casablanca gets smart to clean up Morocco's economic center, the city of Casablanca, has experienced galloping urbanization in recent years and it’s significantly... Yassine Bakir • 19 December, 2016 smart city morocco NUMA
Morocco Moroccan enviro-startups turn their eyes on Africa This year COP22 succeeded in shifting into a real platform for action for the development of innovation and entrepreneurship - in Morocco,... Yassine Bakir • 04 December, 2016 Maroc COP22 Start-up
Morocco What did Morroco gain with COP22? A lot was at stake for Morocco with the opening of the 22nd COP (Conference Of Parties) UN Climate Change Conference, which began at the... Lilia Blaise • 22 November, 2016 COP22 morocco MEMakersGE
Morocco Morocco’s Beekast raises $3M for meeting app Beekast, a Moroccan mobile and web meeting and events app, has raised 2.7 million euro ($3 million) led by Isource, a VC with a 200 million... Yassine Bakir • 09 November, 2016
Morocco Morocco Startup Altitude Startup Altitude is a global entrepreneurship organisation, hosting international festivals and programmes around the world to inspire and... Wamda • 28 October, 2016
Morocco Converting code quicksmart, scalable? Hunched over his laptop in a hotel lobby, empty coffee cups and water bottles piled up on the table beside him, Jaoued Ahmed’s energy... Celeste Hicks • 04 October, 2016 myappconverter morocco
Morocco Maghreb Game Conference 2016 Maghreb Game Conference is the first Moroccan conference and exhibition dedicated to the video game industry, taking place on October... Wamda • 04 October, 2016 morocco game development Conferences
Morocco SIGEF 2016 [Exclusive discount!] Do you have a project to make the world a better place? If yes, then you should definitely plan on attending this year’s Social... Wamda • 28 September, 2016 morocco Social innovation entrepreneurship
Morocco The Moroccan doctor who wants to rethink medicine Next year should be the first time a 100 percent Moroccan made medicine will be commercialized. Adnane Remmal, a biology researcher,... Yassine Bakir • 28 September, 2016 biotech drugs Medical
Morocco Afrimarket raises $11M for regional expansion Moroccan entrepreneur Rania Belkahia has raised 10 million euros (US$11 million) for ecommerce platform Afrimarket, which targets the... Aline Mayard • 06 September, 2016 fundraising africa Afrimarket
Morocco New Work Class trains Morocco's aspiring entrepreneurs Each ecosystem has its quirks and setbacks. One of Morocco’s was that it lacked a training program for entrepreneurs outside of... Aline Mayard • 14 August, 2016 New Work Lab NWL Training
Morocco How Morocco's Highness beat tall poppy syndrome What to do when your team is too qualified, and too expensive, for your own country? Highness, a Moroccan user experience agency,... Aline Mayard • 09 August, 2016 Highness morocco User Experience
Morocco Credit cards, internet access, and online bill pay: Moroccan e-commerce is booming Without a doubt, e-commerce in Morocco is experiencing a peak of interest. Over the last seven years, we’ve seen, at my startup... Mehdi Reghai • 10 July, 2014 morocco E-commerce