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... Eman Mostafa • 31 May, 2016 Flat6LabsCairo fin-tech accelerator
Palestine Palestine's $12M Ibtikar fund launches, announces 8 investments The Ibtikar Fund's management team, investors and startups. (Image via Christina Ghanim) Palestinian pride is providing the fuel for... Christina Ganim • 31 May, 2016 5QHQH Tasameem ArabiAuto
U.A.E 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... Maya Rahal • 31 May, 2016 State of Payments 2016 Payfort Report
Regional Arab girls defy stereotypes at Microsoft Imagine Cup Two teams from Tunisia alongside one from Bahrain will represent MENA at the global final in Seattle. (Images via Eduard Cousin) Malak... Eduard Cousin • 31 May, 2016 microsoft imagine cup microsoft Egypt
Lebanon Lebanese scientist finds a potential treatment for jetlag A techie bedtime. (Image via Lumos Tech) This article is a crosspost with MIT Technology Review Arab Edition. Jet lag is a temporary... MIT Technology Review • 30 May, 2016 Sleep Lumos Tech MIT Technology Review Arab Edition
Palestine Tracking Palestine's tech talent at AngelHack The AngelHack Gaza competition produced some interesting ideas. (Images via Gaza Sky Geeks) Coding is increasingly becoming a... Rafat Abushaban • 30 May, 2016 coding competition Angelhack Ramallah palestine
Regional MENA’s startup health movement: a MEMakers report In a new report from Wamda Research Lab (WRL) in partnership with GE, we interviewed over 120 entrepreneurs, investors,... Willam Altman • 29 May, 2016 startup health digital health MEMakersGE
Egypt Zombies in Egypt: Epic VR brings the undead to malls This was the reaction when students first tested Epic VR in an event at the American University in Cairo. (Images via Epic VR) Virtual... Eman Mostafa • 29 May, 2016 Zombies EpicVr MEMakersGE
Egypt US-based Affectiva raises $14M Series D Affectiva's software can differentiate between a smirk, a happy smile, and a polite smile. (Images via Affectiva) Emotion... Rachel Williamson • 27 May, 2016 emotion recognition Rana el Kaliouby Affectiva
Egypt Will this social network maintain your privacy? More social networks outside of Facebook? (Images via Begether) According to the US-based tech news site The Information Facebook users... Eman Mostafa • 26 May, 2016 Begether Chaino privacy
Kuwait Kuwait’s Boxit gets seed funding, looks to tackle UAE and KSA This article is a crosspost with Nuwait. The core team. From left to right: Lijo Antony, head of product development,... Reine Farhat • 25 May, 2016 Boxit Wamda Capital Arzan VC
Lebanon FOO's timing curse: when being ahead of the game is a problem Foo founders Elie Nasr and Ghady Rayess. (Image via Brooke Anderson) Being early to the market can be both a blessing and... Brooke Anderson • 25 May, 2016 app development Foo lebanon
Maghreb Tunis-based Expensya raises seed round in France Expensya's team in their office in Cogite coworking space, Tunis. (Image via Expensyia) On Monday, almost a year after their launch,... Aline Mayard • 25 May, 2016 seed round expense reports expensya
Regional Exploring the frontiers of Arabic natural language processing Humans and machines, such a beautiful pairing. (Image via Sdtimes.com) A monetized mobile app that crowdsources the digitization of Arabic... Samuel Wendel • 25 May, 2016 Sakhr Arabic Snippets NYU Abu Dhabi
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... Maya Rahal • 24 May, 2016 Coindesk Wamda Capital Bitcoin
Egypt Cantalop signs on for $100,000 angel investment Egypt is brimming with job search sites on the cusp of expansion. (Image via Cantalop) Two years after its launch, Egyptian job search... Eman Mostafa • 24 May, 2016 youth unemployment Egypt unemployment rate job search
