Iraq Careem debuts in Iraq Careem, the region’s leading ride-hailing service in the MENA, Turkey and Pakistan, expanded its services into the Republic of Iraq,... Staff writer • 15 January, 2018 careem baghdad iraq
Iraq Five One Labs Incubator Program [Call for applications] The Five One Labs incubator is a three-month long program to take your startup business from idea to launch. From October 22 till... Wamda • 25 September, 2017 Incubator startup Technology
Iraq Pitch Bootcamp Erbil Pitch Bootcamp is a two-day career accelerator program designed for students and fresh graduates. The first edition of Pitch Bootcamp... Wamda • 20 June, 2017 iraq Erbil Pitch
Iraq Where does entrepreneurship stand in Iraq? [opinion] Many small things are currently shaping the future of the startups ecosystem in Iraq. Even if the digital shift took some time to occur, in... Marwan A. Jabbar • 08 June, 2017 fikra space baghdad talabatey
Iraq First tech map for Iraq launched This article is a crosspost from Bite.Tech Over the past six months, Bite.Tech, an independent newsletter covering the digital economy... Staff writer • 06 June, 2017 Bite.Tech Tech map startups
Egypt Arabnet Dubai promotes investments in the MENA's emerging markets As Arabnet CEO Omar Christidis took his last strides on the Arabnet Digital Summit stage in Dubai and shared some telling numbers, the... Elias Jabbe • 22 May, 2017 Aqar Map Astrolabs Oman Technology Fund
Iraq Building a startup launchpad in Iraq [Opinion] Iraq’s entrepreneurship scene has a number of players helping startups, such as Fikra Space which was launched in 2014, but they... Aziz Alnassiri • 09 March, 2017 Centre for Iraqi Entrepreneurship Opinion Science Camp
Iraq US travel ban harms Iraqi entrepreneurs For an Iraqi makerspace founder, the repercussions of President Trump’s executive order to put a ban on travelers from seven... Rachel Williamson • 05 February, 2017 Science Camp Basra Nawres Arif
Regional Wamda’s best stories of 2016 2016 was the year of trying new things and testing some ideas on you, our readers. We brought in a weekly series we called Startup... Rachel Williamson • 27 December, 2016 Wamda2016 shezlong sympaticus
Iraq To dream the impossible dream: an Erbil incubator When Mashal Sadiq arrived in Erbil after completing her undergraduate studies in the UK she was just looking for a little break from the... Lucy Knight • 14 December, 2016 Incubator myedream iraq
Iraq Startup Weekend Erbil 2016 Startup Weekends are 54-hour events designed to provide entrepreneurs with a crash course on the basics and know-hows of starting your own... Wamda • 14 November, 2016 Erbil Startup Weekend techstars
Iraq Fertile ground for mobile wallets: Iraq Hussein Kanber agha says his company has built a user friendly mobile wallet that will allow Iraqis to make payments using their... Lucy Knight • 17 October, 2016 iraq wallet ideal payments Zain Group
Iraq Home or away? The best market may not be under your nose Starting in your home market is not necessarily the best way to success, a lesson Iraqi-founded Apps Lab learned the hard way. Apps Lab... Marwan A. Jabbar • 19 July, 2016 Apps Lab Ali Al-Hilli Hajwilha ya Saudi
Iraq A story of failure, or is it? Three years ago Wamda interviewed Iraqi Mohammad Al-Samarrai about his venture, the country’s first online food delivery site based... Lucy Knight • 08 March, 2016 Easy Bites Erbil Kurdistan
Iraq Iraq's foodie appmakers want to fix the mealtime grind Sha6bu5 is hoping to profit from the Middle East's foodie trend. (Image via MAHAW) The Middle East’s entrepreneurial newsmakers this year h... Marwan A. Jabbar • 20 December, 2015 iraq 3d-mapping startup weekend baghdad
Iraq Erbil's startups go quiet An Erbil panorama. (Images via Rachel Williamson) On three occasions this year Goran Sherko has had to postpone Startup Weekend... Lucy Knight • 09 December, 2015 Erbil Kurdistan isis
Iraq Curing Iraq's coder crisis Iraqi startups suffer from a critical lack of skilled coders but a new bootcamp in Baghdad called The Week is trying to narrow this talent... Marwan A. Jabbar • 11 November, 2015 app developers coders The Week
Iraq Exchanges are creating Iraqi changemakers Over the past 10 years some 3,000 young Iraqis have travelled on exchange programs funded by foreign governments, and it's some of... Marwan A. Jabbar • 05 October, 2015 cultural exchange entrepreneurship iraq
Iraq Iraq's main maker: Nawres Arif Nawres Arif taught himself digital 3D modelling from a photocopied manual, years before he had a computer. He set up Basra’s first... Rachel Williamson • 03 September, 2015 profile Nawres Arif Basra
Iraq Hacking out coworking spaces in Iraq If there’s one country in the region where entrepreneurs need a good coworking space, it’s Iraq. Baghdad’s two coworking spaces are opera... Marwan A. Jabbar • 19 August, 2015 burj babel fikra space hackerspace
Iraq Iraq's startups one year after the rise of ISIS [Opinion] “A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty,” is how Eric Ries d... Marwan A. Jabbar • 12 August, 2015 Ein MAHAW sha6bu5
Iraq Ifrosh tests cardless ecommerce platform in Iraqi Kurdistan In recent years, the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan has generated headlines for its relative stability and booming... Eric Reidy • 28 April, 2014 iFrosh Kurdistan credit cards
Iraq Iraqi startup Miswag.net helps merchants transition to the internet Miswag.net, Baghdad’s first internet-based startup with real potential to grow, launched less than a month ago to help local merchants in B... Ali M. Ismail • 14 April, 2014 PAYMENT iraq Delivery
Iraq Startup Weekend Sulaimani, Iraq For the first time ever, Startup Weekend makes its way to Iraq on January 31-February 2, 2013. SW Sulaimani will take place at... Wamda • 31 January, 2013 Startup Weekend