Egypt Lucky: the startup digitising the cashback space The devaluation of the Egyptian pound back in 2016 was intended to preserve its foreign currency reserves, attract foreign direct... Dunya Hassanein • 09 May, 2022 Lucky app
Global How fintech solutions can bridge the trade financing gap Ankit Goel is the Middle East and North Africa head of MODIFI, a a global fintech company that helps small and medium-sized... Thought Leadership • 05 May, 2022 Fintech
Saudi Arabia How can Saudi Arabia unleash national success in fintech? Abdullah Al Othman is the founder and chairman of Geidea, a Saudi Arabia-based fintech specialised in payments. It works with over 150,000... Thought Leadership • 28 April, 2022 Fintech
Saudi Arabia From Resalaty to Unifonic, tracing the Saudi startup’s journey It is difficult to recall a time when messaging large numbers of people was impossible, but that was the reality for brothers Ahmed and... Triska Hamid • 25 April, 2022 Unifonic
Regional How can Mena build a deeptech ecosystem? Amr Awadallah is an Egyptian born computer scientist and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. What’s particularly interesting about... Wamda • 21 April, 2022 podcast Amr Awadallah
Qatar What is holding back Qatar's startup ecosystem? Qatar’s vast oil and natural gas reserves have served the country’s needs well. It was thanks to these fossil fuels that Qatar... Nesma Abdel Azim • 20 April, 2022 doha
Egypt The startup tackling plastic waste in Egypt through its “reverse vending machine” As the most populous country in the Middle East, Egypt produces the largest quantity of plastic waste at an average of 5.4 million tonnes... Dunya Hassanein • 17 April, 2022 plastic waste Dawarha Cleantech
Regional Startups in Mena raised $299 million in March 2022, pushing Q1 funding to $934 million Startups in the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena) raised $299 million across 79 deals in March 2022, a 22 per cent decrease... Wamda • 14 April, 2022 Investment
Egypt Shift EV to expand beyond Egypt after raising Series A round Egypt-based electric mobility startup Shift EV, has raised an undisclosed Series A round, led by the startup's existing... Dunya Hassanein • 12 April, 2022 Shift EV
Global The 10 pitch deck slides you need to wow investors Dr. Mussaad M. Al-Razouki is the chief investment and business development officer of Kuwait Life Sciences Company. He has over 15 years of... Thought Leadership • 11 April, 2022 pitch deck Advice
U.A.E What are the implications of the UAE's tax reforms? Dr Robert Mogielnicki is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington The Ministry of Finance in the United... Thought Leadership • 06 April, 2022 tax
Global The realty of the metaverse Amash Malik is director of performance marketing at Bayut & dubizzle From the moment Facebook rebranded to Meta, the concept of... Thought Leadership • 04 April, 2022 metaverse
Saudi Arabia What we learned at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Riyadh For the past few years, Saudi Arabia has done an exceptional job of reforming its business processes and boosting entrepreneurship in the... Triska Hamid • 31 March, 2022 GEC GEN
Libya Presto: Building Libya’s first super app Over the past decade, Libya has been mired in a civil war that has decimated its economy and put paid to foreign direct investment (FDI).... Dunya Hassanein • 28 March, 2022 super app
Saudi Arabia The digital payment opportunity in Saudi Arabia When Muhannad Ebwini launched payment gateway HyperPay in Jordan back in 2014, e-commerce accounted for just 1.5 per cent of total retail... Nesma Abdel Azim • 24 March, 2022 hyperpay
Egypt Do cloud kitchens stand a chance in Egypt? The meteoric rise of cloud kitchens in the UAE is beginning to permeate through to other parts of the Middle East. Across the region, new... Dunya Hassanein • 21 March, 2022 cloud kitchen Cloud kitchens
