Morocco Bidaya Space in Morocco searches for seed stars Casablanca greentech incubator Espace Bidaya has helped 19 startups launch into the world since it began, and 14 are on track to survive... Yassine Bakir • 09 April, 2017 morocco Bidaya startups
Regional 10 steps corporations must take before investing in startups [Opinion] Corporations want to innovate, but issues such as tighter R&D budgets and organizational bureaucracy can make tapping outside sources -... Kamal Hassan • 09 April, 2017 corporate venture capital the cribb
Egypt Is Egypt finally ready for ride-sharing? Uber and Careem fares have become unaffordable for many Egyptians, as fuel costs continue to rise following the floatation of the currency... Doaa Farid • 09 April, 2017 Buseet Kalax Swvl
Regional What we learned about the media industry at #STEP2017 The reader is king. After an era of praising content as the supreme power in media, the focus today is shifting towards the... Maya Rahal • 07 April, 2017 Step Conference Step 2017 Media
U.A.E What we learned about the media industry at #STEP2017 The reader is king. After an era of praising content as the supreme power in media, the focus today is shifting towards the... Maya Rahal • 07 April, 2017 Step 2017 Step Conference Media
Saudi Arabia Takamol Holding helping both startups and investors It’s a common scenario: Saudi entrepreneurs complain about the lack of investment and venture capital put into startups, while... Abdulghani Kataya • 06 April, 2017 Saudi Arabia ksa Musharakah
Global Startup Watch: Another bad re-brand, giving that investment back and robots need emotions The world of entrepreneurship news is ever growing and sometimes it’s hard to even know where to start when you want to catch up.... Lucy Knight • 06 April, 2017 Startup Watch yahoo! iran
Regional New startups on the block: April Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to... Lucy Knight • 05 April, 2017 new startups IoT ecommerce
Global Tracking skateboard tricks from UAE to LA Rideblock talks building a product in the UAE with a market in the US It was an argument over who had pulled off a better Ollie - a... Archana Menon • 05 April, 2017 RideBlock uae Flat6Labs
Lebanon Agri-logistics wins Lebanon's first agritech hackathon A logistics idea called Sou2 Baladi won Lebanon’s first agritech hackathon on Sunday, taking home $3,000 and a place in the new... Rachel Williamson • 04 April, 2017 Agrytech Accelerator Berytech agritech
Morocco Cooking oil can run engines as well [Wamda TV] Thousand of tons of waste cooking oil is produced around the world every year, with large amounts dumped in rivers and... Abdulghani Kataya • 04 April, 2017 Kilimanjaro Environnment youssef Chaqor Cooking Oil
Lebanon What I know about bad investments: Walid Mansour [Know your VC] In a debate in 2016 Walid Mansour was keen to shed the image of VCs as “cigar smoking fat cats”. “We have investors... Lucy Knight • 03 April, 2017 MEVP Know your VC What I Know
U.A.E The Souq sale is a game changer for MENA ecommerce [Opinion] We all heard the news: Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer by sales and market capitalization, founded 23 years ago in... Yorgos Kleivokiotis • 03 April, 2017 Amazon Souq.com acquisition
Egypt Voxera beats roaming bill and VOIP ban Voxera cofounder Amr El Gebaly arrived home after a holiday with his wife to a menu-like list of roaming charges on his phone bill. That... Radwa Rashad • 02 April, 2017 Voxera data roaming charge VOIP ban
Egypt Out of Africa: the Egyptians are coming Egyptian healthcare startup Vezeeta is expanding into the Levant, the latest of a series of companies from Egypt to start leaving... Rachel Williamson • 02 April, 2017 Vezeeta Performly Crowd Analyzer
Palestine Appmahal hopes for Middle Eastern chat app hit Palestinian startup Appmahal has launched a localized version of Whatsapp, and hopes this will provide the competitive edge it needs in a... Rafat Abushaban • 01 April, 2017 Siha Whatsapp WeChat
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