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El Mashrou3: The First Reality TV Show For Entrepreneurs In Egypt Is Casting Now

In 2013, the Arab world will witness its second major reality TV show for entrepreneurs in Egypt: El Mashrou3, announcing its casting ...

Competitions Egypt Social Entrepreneurship

Emokhalfa Takes on Cairo’s Traffic with New Violation Reporting App

Fixing Cairo’s traffic problems is not going to happen overnight. But new startup Emokhalfa is taking the problem into their own hands. It c...

Crowdsourcing Egypt Government

Innoventures and Fascila Launch Startup Reactor Acceleration Program

Last week, Innoventures announced the launch of a new entrepreneurial support program called ‘Startup Reactor’. Launched in...

Accelerators Ecosystem Egypt

KAF Wear: Creating a Modern Egyptian Clothing Tradition

A start-up is often a labour of love; and this is never truer than with the single founder start-up. KAF Wear is one such...

Egypt Expansion Fashion

Crowdfunding Platform Yomken Makes Launching Products Easy in Egypt

While concern in Egypt rises over courting investment and international partnerships intended to improve Egypt’s economy, one initiative h...

Crowdfunding Egypt

5 Tips for Success in Egypt and MENA, from a Self-Made Innovator

Redg Snodgrass is an uncommon name for an out of the ordinary serial entrepreneur, or “funtrepreneur”, as he likes to call him...

Angel Investment Ecosystem Egypt

Gessur Initiative: Technology for Businesses Growth

Entrepreneurs Business Forum (EBF-Egypt) as a part of its role of supporting entrepreneurs and helping to grow their businesses will launch ...

Egypt

Hyperlocal Social Network Nassya Brings Cairo's Neighborhoods Online

In old Egyptian movies, women used to gossip on their balcony with their neighbors throughout the morning. Today, the same scene takes...

Egypt Social Networks

Lebanon

Solvermine: The Region’s First Crowdsourced Problem-Solving Platform [Wamda TV]

Solvermine is the first product from start-up Fekra2 (Idea2). Co-founders Sabrine Assem & Noha Askar explain that although there are...

Competitions Crowdsourcing Ecosystem

GamesBond Aims to Develop Educational Games on MS-Kinect [WamdaTV]

GamesBond’s co-founders Alaa Eltayeb & Ahmed Tayseer present their MS-Kinect based educational games. They explain that they will first ...

Competitions Egypt Gaming

Microsoft Finally Targets Egyptian Developers with BizSpark, Mobile App Competition

“Developers developers developers developers,” a sweaty Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, famously chanted during a Microsoft conference a few y...

Accelerators Cloud Computing Ecosystem

Weekly Wrap-Up: September 30 - October 04

This week, we've highlighted a number of startups that keep on setting the bar higher for themselves. What drives you to go further? Pic of ...

Acquisitions Animation Competitions

Egyptian National Competitiveness Council Disappoints: Where Were the Entrepreneurs?

I like to challenge my prejudices every now and then, so I decided to accept an invitation to the eighth annual conference of The Egyptian...

Conferences Ecosystem Egypt

Egyptian Accelerator Flat6Labs Hits Its Stride in Cycle 2 Demo Day

Flat6Labs, the Cairo-based accelerator, held its third demo day event on the 17th September, dubbed the “Cycle 2 Demo Day”. Not only did the...

Accelerators Acquisitions Egypt

TellUs the New Way For Customer Service in MENA

“I was talking with a friend when he suggested there should be some sort of solution to solve the [bad] customer service quality in Egypt, a...

Egypt Mobile Apps User Experience Design

Egyptian Social Gaming Startup FunWave Delivers Football Fun

Egypt is full of football fanatics, and the region is as well. So it made perfect sense that Egyptian social games start-up FunWave’s ...

Accelerators Angel Investment Egypt

Goodbye Mizado, Hello Jumia: Inside Rocket Internet's Newest Gamble in Egypt

Jumia, the new online mall, launched with little fanfare in Egypt just over two months ago, the progeny of the German behemoth...

Rocket Internet Egypt Ecosystem

Revolutionizing Egypt's Oldest Bank with Cloud Computing

This week, OMS won an award for their role in a different kind of Egyptian revolution, one that took place in its oldest commercial bank....

Technology Software Cloud Computing

Egypt

Innoventures Startup Reactor

Innoventures LLC, in partnership with VC4Africa, have launched the third cycle of Startup Reactor for Egyptian startups....

Innoventures Startup Reactor cairo

Egypt

Apply for ElRe7la's upcoming Nuweiba trip

ElRe7la are preparing to kick off their next four-day unconventional camping experience outside of the city, bringing together leaders,...

holistic experience camping application deadline

Egypt

Techne Summit 2016

The Techne Summit is an international technology entrepreneurship event taking place in Egypt on May 7-8. Regional and...

Techne Summit alexandria Egypt

Egypt

Startup Weekend Cairo 2016

Startup Weekend is coming to Cairo this year on Thursday April 14 until Saturday April 16 at The British University In Egypt. Once ...

German university 2016 startups

Lebanon

Eduvation Summit in Cairo

Egypt occupies an unfavourable position in international rankings for education and technology at a time where economic growth through...

Eduvation Speakers tech

Egypt

Edm'16 "Integrating Engineers By Management"

IEEE Alexandria Student Branch (IEEE AlexSB) is organizing ∫Edm: Integrating Engineers by Management which conveys managerial related iss...

engineers IEEE edm

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