Wamda

Egypt

ROVArab Competition

Applications for the upcoming ROVArab competition have recently opened for students of all educational levels, whether university,...

Egypt robot ROV

Egypt

Who's investing in Egypt now anyway? [Know your VC]

Egypt’s economy is in bad shape, so who would want to invest in startups and SMEs in this current gloomy atmosphere? Tarek Fahim,...

Know your VC Endure Capital JuiceLabs

Egypt

Wamda’s Mix N' Mentor meets Rise Up Egypt

There are a handful of giant tech events in MENA every year and they’re often packed with people you want to meet (and some you...

rise up summit Egypt event

Egypt

Can an underground free market save Egypt solar?

As Egypt’s plans for a large-scale renewable energy industry have disintegrated over the last year, small operators have quietly...

Egypt challenge 22 solar energy

Egypt

Hack4Egypt 2016

Hack4Egypt hackathon is bringing together the most daring and innovative designers, programmers, and entrepreneurs to revolutionize...

Egypt hackathon HACK4EGYPT

Egypt

RiseUp Summit 2016

Mark your calendars! From December 9 to 11, RiseUp Summit 2016 will be happening in Downtown Cairo, Egypt. In recent years, RiseUp...

Egypt RiseUp startup

Egypt

EAEF reinvests in Egypt’s Smartcare Medical Services

Smartcare Medical Services in Egypt has secured another 12 million Egyptian pounds (US$762,000) from the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund,...

Smartcare Medical Services Egypt Series A

Regional

Series A investment: when, how, who? [Know your VC]

In the growth cycle of a startup the Series A round can be a critical hurdle, but investors say there is a lot startups can do to...

Series A Investment Venture Capital

Global

Startup Watch: the tech-media-sports nexus, and Egypt, well done.

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...

Egypt lebanon Startup Watch

Egypt

Nawart's cleantech startups a silver lining for Egypt's transition

Egypt may have effectively killed off any interest in industrial scale solar, but a group of people passionate about the cause believe...

MEMakersGE Cleantech Nawart

Egypt

'Push' is big business for these Egyptians

2015 was the year of the push notification. App makers discovered that a prompt on a smartphone could remind their users they existed...

pushbots push notification Egypt

Egypt

Winners and losers in Egypt’s currency crisis

Two days after this article was published, on November 3 the Central Bank of Egypt has floated the pound, allowing it to move to 13...

Egypt currency crisis Al Bustani

Egypt

Reclaiming Egypt’s rooftops: Al Bustani reaps urban farm profits

In 2014, Housam Abul-Fotouh was in the Sinai desert building 72,000 square metres of greenhouses. He and cofounder Mohamed Ibrahim had...

Al Bustani Egypt agritech

Egypt

No hoax! Journas sets Arabic news record straight

Discredited news pieces and hoax science articles circulate throughout the web, and Arabic versions are not immune. So in came Journas,...

Egypt Journas Kotobna

Egypt

Flat6labs signs $1M deal with IFC

Flat6labs has signed a $1 million deal with the World Bank investment arm International Finance Corporation (IFC). The Egyptian...

Flat6Labs International Finance Corporation ifc

Egypt

Can new tech trends advance digital advertising?

'Why did Mandolin create a two-bar pack?’ Mandolin Egypt itself did not know the answer but used the question in its social...

Digital Media Advertising Egypt

Egypt

Apply for incubation at TIEC

If you have a business plan for your startup and are looking for incubation, be sure to apply to the 13th round of TIEC's...

incubation Scalability Egypt

Egypt

Egypt startup trades clicks for cash

To try to defuse an education crisis, ‘clickfunding’ startup Bassita is joining forces with the Misr El Kheir Foundation to...

Bassita Clickfunding Egypt

Egypt

Seedspace Fintech Week Cairo

Seedstars World returns to Cairo for Seedspace Fintech Week Cairo, which will be taking place on October 26 during Seedspace...

seedstars Egypt Networking

Global

Startup Watch: How to get more dates on Tinder, why Egyptian investors must unite, and VR Facebook emojis

Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been reading this week on how to get more dates on Tinder, VR spreading its Ocu-pus legs across...

Startup Watch Theranos tinder

Egypt

The lucky 13: Egypt's incubators

Cairo was - surprisingly - named one of the top 10 cities in the world to found a tech-startup last year, and that is likely partly...

incubators Egypt Accelerators

Egypt

'VC association wanted, please call Egypt for more details' [Opinion]

There is no doubt the Egyptian startup ecosystem is young. If the startups are young, the investors are as well. As investors, we need...

Egypt venture capital association British Venture Capital Association

U.A.E

Careem v Uber: the local kid is winning

Careem’s flexibility in dealing with governments may give it the edge it needs over Uber and upstarts such as Egypt’s...

careem Uber Ousta

Egypt

Cairo Angels lead angel deal in Egypt's Hire Hunt

Business angels network Cairo Angels has sealed an investment with the Egyptian startup Hire Hunt in September. Cairo Angels...

cairo angels HireHunt Egypt

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