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Saudi Arabia

Startup Saudi Arabia

Startup Saudi Arabia is a 3-day event that will include a conference, an exhibition, and seminars as well as short presentations for...

saudi entrepreneurship startup

Saudi Arabia

SRMG acquires 51 percent stake in Saudi financial news service Argaam for $10M

The Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG) has acquired a controlling stake (51 percent) in the Argaam Investment and Trading Company,...

Saudi Arabia Argam acquisition

Saudi Arabia

Home cleaning marketplace Matic raises $3 million

Matic, an online marketplace for cleaning services in the GCC, incubated by Badir Program for Technology Incubators and Accelerators, has...

Matic MEVP Cleaning services

Global

Badir launches new program to attract global startups to KSA

Badir Program for Technology Incubators, a Saudi national program under King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), launched a...

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Saudi Arabia

A Saudi Arabian student succeeded in home-cooked food delivery orders

This year, online food orders in Saudi Arabia reached $644 million so far, and are expected to exceed $1 billion by 2019. After noting...

Mathaqi مذاقي Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

BIBAN Forum 2017: Funding is available, seek mentorship

Wamda organized its three-day Mix N’ Mentor event in Saudi Arabia, during the BIBAN Forum 2017, which ran from September 17 till 20,...

Saudi Arabia ksa Biban

Saudi Arabia

Saudi cloud-based POS startup Foodics closed a $4M funding round

Saudi Arabia's Foodics has closed a SAR 15 million ($4 million) investment round, led by Raed Ventures and Riyad Taqnia Fund (RTF) with...

Foodics Saudi Arabia ksa

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Aramco licenses NOMADD to create waterless cleaning systems

Saudi Aramco entered into a technology licensing agreement with NOMADD Desert Solar Solutions, the Saudi-based startup that commercializes...

Aramco Solar panels NOMADD

Saudi Arabia

Saudi’s crowdshipping platform wants to be in everyone’s luggage

Saudi Entrepreneur Khaled Sehly was a pharmacist before he quit his job to become an entrepreneur. In March 2017, Sehly launched...

Saudi Arabia ksa Airwaybill

Saudi Arabia

What I know about ecommerce in Saudi Arabia: Mazen AlDarrab

Saudi Arabia is one of the most promising ecommerce markets in the Arab region, despite the challenges that face the sector in the...

Saudi Arabia ksa ecommerce

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia hosts GE’s first Predix-powered hackathon in the region

General Electric (GE) hosted its first Industrial Internet of Things hackathon, powered by Predix, using big data to improve healthcare in...

MEMakersGE Predix hackathon

Saudi Arabia

This Saudi entrepreneur wants to bring you the Serviis you need

According to data released in the WRL report, supporting organizations in the Kingdom, such as funds, coworking spaces, accelerators and...

Saudi Arabia ksa Serviis

Saudi Arabia

The lifecycle of an app: From an idea to a successful business [slideshow]

Daily app downloads have reached 50 million globally, out of which 95 percent get deleted within a month, according to the Digital...

Digital Leadership in Mobile Apps Innosoft Alsharqia Chamber

Saudi Arabia

A Saudi teaching platform attracts a million students

One year following the failure of an ecommerce platform they had launched due to the lack of market readiness, Saudi entrepreneurs Mohammed...

ksa Saudi Arabia Noun

Saudi Arabia

Endeavor Revive Sharqiya

Endeavor Saudi Arabia, in collaboration with Global shaper community, will be running their monthly event ‘Revive’ on August 19...

ksa Endeavor Endeavor Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

This is how 3 Saudi female students launched a mobile repair company

Fixing electronic devices such as phones and laptops is a field dominated by men, especially in the Arab world. However, a group of young...

Saudi Arabia Fixtag Mobile

Bahrain

Seedstars GCC

Seedstars World is on a mission to identify the best seed-stage entrepreneurs and provide them with an opportunity to win up to USD 1...

GCC Gulf seedstars

Saudi Arabia

BIBAN 2017 SME Forum

The BIBAN 2017 SME Forum is a 4 day conference which will provide practical insights and delve deeper into how SMEs in Saudi Arabia can...

ksa sme startup

Saudi Arabia

This Saudi platform encourages loyalty with coupons

After working in human resources in a big corporation in Saudi Arabia, then in the marketing field, Rayan Saleh noticed a lack of employees...

Saudi Arabia

How Badir is accelerating entrepreneurship in the KSA

Over the past decade, Saudi Arabia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has come a long way. One of the main players in nurturing and...

Badir ksa

Saudi Arabia

New event in Saudi Arabia to help entrepreneurs develop their ideas

“Right before pitching my idea and going up on stage, I was doubting myself. But, I learned to believe in myself more. I also learned...

Saudi Arabia ksa Techpreneurship Sprint

Saudi Arabia

This is what this Saudi VC firm seeks in an entrepreneur

Though Saudi Arabia is rich in financial resources, startups there often find it difficult to access to funding especially in early stages....

ksa Saudi Arabia Inspire Ventures

Regional

Sports news are the most published on the region’s e-newspapers

Arabic news portals are increasingly relying on digital marketing channels, now that people refer to these portals for news. Social...

Digital Media Index news portals Newspapers

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

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