Wamda

Global

Startup Watch: Message from the Pharaohs, zombie startups, and indoor farming

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch Coworking Spaces VC

Egypt

Building Communities in Virtual Reality

Alexandria Augmented Reality/ Virtual Reality Meetup is a meetup for virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality...

VR ar Meetup

Egypt

Egyptian ecommerce platform acquires two phone comparison portals

Egypt-based ecommerce platform Yaoota acquired Mobihall and Mobilesgate, two of the largest phone comparison portals in the Arab world. The...

yaoota Mobihall Mobilesgate

Egypt

She Can

Entreprenelle will be holding their event ‘She Can’ which revolves around women in entrepreneurship, who will be sharing their...

Egypt Women entrepreneurship startup

Egypt

Digital services for cash strapped Egyptian SMEs

Starting a business in Egypt is not easy, in large part because of the hassle involved in registering a new establishment and obtaining the...

Training Cloud Telecommunication

Egypt

Government and private sector team up to support startups in Egypt

In recent years, the Egyptian government has taken on a new, more proactive role by partnering with the private sector to boost...

Egypt Government

Egypt

Automating HR management in Egypt

Focusing on developing a specialized product allowed Egyptian software company HITS Solutions to enter more than 40 countries, working with...

Egypt HITS Solutions HR

Egypt

Egyptian fintech startup digitizes the gameya

‘We can all go further together than we could all alone’, is the promise of the 2,000-year old practice of ‘jameya’...

MoneyFellows Ahmed Wadi Egypt

Egypt

GE Egypt Digital Innovation Challenge announced the winners

Last week, the GE Egypt Digital Innovation Challenge announced three winners, on May 22nd, after reviewing more...

Egypt Egypt Innovate tiec

Egypt

Seedstars Alexandria

Seedstars World is on a mission to identify the best seed-stage entrepreneurs and provide them with an opportunity to win up to USD 1...

Egypt alexandria seedstars

Egypt

Uber launches UberBoat in a partnership with Nile Taxi

Uber is partnering with the luxury Nile transport company NileTaxi to introduce UberBoat to Cairo starting yesterday (Tuesday, May 16)...

UberBoat Uber Egypt

Regional

The opportunity of an inclusive sharing economy in MENA

It’s 9am. A commuter leaves home heading for her office in the local tech business hub. After 30 seconds a car has arrived to take...

lebanon uae Egypt

Global

Startup Watch: Business tips from a drug lord, burnout and the futility of the job interview

The world of entrepreneurship news is ever growing and sometimes it’s hard to know where to start when you want to catch up. To...

Startup Watch Programme business plans

Europe

French provides a ticket to Europe for North Africans

As French politicians play the immigration card ahead of the presidential election, the country’s new entrepreneurship visa opens a...

French tech ticket Gbarena Bobbli

Regional

MENA social enterprises grow in spite of deep-rooted challenges and little support [Report]

Social Entrepreneurship (SE) in the Arab world stands on a paradox: It has every reason to thrive and yet every excuse to die. This is...

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Bahrain

Startup Watch: breaking stuff, pain = gain, and working for the man

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Google Startup Watch Uber

Egypt

AWTAD UP Communities rounds of 2017 [Call for applications]

The Association for Women’s Total Advancement and Development (AWTAD) is an NGO dedicated to the professional and personal...

Egypt entrepreneurship Mentorship

Egypt

Maker Hackathon 2017

For the third year in a row, Maker Hackathon returns to empower innovators and makers to create functioning prototypes of...

Egypt hackathon Hardware

Egypt

Egypt’s Vezeeta gets $5M Series B

Vezeeta, an Egypt-based automated physician, clinic and hospital bookings platform received $5 million in series B funding led by...

Vezeeta Egypt BECO Capital

Global

Startup Watch: Careem the unicorn, Nile farmers learning farming, and AI wars

This year is coming to a close but there is no ‘slowly’ in the complex world of entrepreneurship news, with people ever ready...

Startup Watch careem Egypt

Egypt

IFC invests in Algebra Ventures, Flat6labs Cairo funds

New Egyptian venture fund Algebra Ventures has announced the first closing at $40 million. The fund, first announced in June, plans to...

Algebra Ventures Egypt SysDsoft

Egypt

Rising Up: Egypt's entrepreneurs as important as ever

The Rise Up Summit, the region’s foremost entrepreneur get-together, closed yesterday on the news of yet another brutal terrorist...

RiseUp Summit Egypt Alexandria Angels

Egypt

Real-time translation for Europe bound refugees and migrants [Wamda TV]

Refugees and migrants from eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia have been making their way to European Union countries for many years,...

ET Call refugees Egypt

Egypt

Egypt's online recruitment platform Wuzzuf acquires Viriphi

Egypt’s online recruitment platform Wuzzuf announced on Thursday its acquisition of job assessment platform Viriphi for an...

Programme jobs assessment Egypt

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