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Hack4Egypt tackles the big issues

Mentor Tarek Amin, digital group head for Adline Media Network, offers some advice. (Images via Hacka Mena) Hack4Egypt is a chance to...

Nile University HEAT HACK4EGYPT

Egypt

RiseUp Summit meets expectations, beats them

A closing keynote: how does entrepreneurship impact on the economy? Well, it depends who you ask. (Images via Rachel...

Oak Investment Partners YCombinator US Aid

Egypt

Si-Ware's miniature MEMS worlds

Imagine looking through a microscope and seeing a fully-operational machine, with tiny motors and micro-sized mirrors to redirect...

fabless spectrometer Siware

Egypt

Sun rises on Egypt's Silicon Valley

The Middle East has long been searching for its own Silicon Valley, but it’s been searching for the wrong ecosystem under the wrong...

MEMS semiconductor Sun City

Regional

Lift-off: planning your exit strategy

Investment activity is slowly heating up in Egypt and as a result entrepreneurs, especially those looking to raise funding, need to start...

oteena Egypt rise up summit

Egypt

Startups urged to use Egypt's wealth of waste

Rubbish piled in the streets and beside waterways is a common sight in many of Egypt's cities and rural areas. (Image via...

PET flakes El Misbah El Mudii Tagaddod

Egypt

Egypt pill reminder app sets sights on Germany

Despite having perfect health, Ahmad ElKaragy always dreaded having colds for one reason: he often forgot to take his medication...

MEMakers Healthcare Egypt

Egypt

Fawry sells major stake for $100M

A consortium of international investors has taken an 85 percent stake in Egyptian electronic bill presentment and payment platform Fawry...

fawry Egypt Investment

Egypt

How to make social entrepreneurship work in MENA

JP Morgan's Ali Idrissi, Droomzaken's Martijn Blom and Accion Venture...

Misr El Kheir Social Entrepreneurship Egypt

Egypt

Lessons from the Tahrir Academy shutdown

Tahrir Academy first announced their closure earlier this summer. News that Egyptian online learning center Tahrir Academy was...

nafham legislations close down

U.A.E

The Gamifiers: making business fun

The Gamifiers participate in Dubai Lynx We've all been there, dragging ourselves through another long day at work doing routine tasks that...

TheGamifiers uae Gamification

Egypt

Egypt's Otlob sold for a bargain to Rocket Internet

Egyptian food-ordering website Otlob has been snapped up by Rocket Internet, but at an almost firesale price. The acquisition by...

online food ordering otlob Rocket Internet

Egypt

Egypt's VoIP block to make the startup life harder

At the start of October news broke on social media websites that Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications such as Skype, WhatsApp...

voice over internet protocol Mobinil Viber

Egypt

The Egypt teen cracking the fuel crisis

Azza Faiad’s passion for science started in a taxi ride late in 2010, a ride which sparked a potentially multibillion dollar idea to create ...

pyrolysis EPRI alternative energy

Egypt

Egyptian social entrepreneurship incubator aims to help the neediest

A year ago the Misr El Kheir foundation launched GESR, an Egyptian incubator for social entrepreneurship, with the...

Gesr Egypt Social Entrepreneurship

Egypt

What Egypt's local investors want

Egypt has made headlines lately for attracting a series of high-level venture investments from foreign players, but local investors are...

KI angels Tennra ideavelopers

Egypt

Yaoota raises $2.7M Series A from UAE's KBBO

Yaoota cofounders Sherif ElRakabawy and Mohamed Ewis (Image via Rachel Williamson) Egyptian startup Yaoota has landed a $2.7 million...

yaoota Series A Egypt

Egypt

e-health and Egypt: the who's who [Infographic]

Egypt’s health sector is in dire need of an overhaul, but it has yet to attract much attention from the country’s tech...

Nano Ebers D-Kimia Diagnostics Vound

Regional

7 insights into MENA's biggest ecosystems [Infographic]

Do you know just how many of MENA’s startups come from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and the UAE? Do you know how many men have founded...

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Regional

New Wamda Research Lab report, Country Insights looks at Egypt, Lebanon Jordan and UAE

Jerash, Jordan: more than 60 percent of MENA's startup support institutions are based in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and the UAE. (Images via...

Wamda Research Lab uae lebanon

Egypt

Egypt startups attract wave of foreign VCs

Egyptian entrepreneurs are finally beginning to attract foreign investors, with jobs site Wuzzuf the latest to close a major Series A...

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Egypt

InfoMed digitizes Egypt's family doctors

A spate of high-profile deaths in Egypt from medical misdiagnosis has highlighted the need for better all-round medical care in...

family medicine ehealth InfoMed

Egypt

Dopay does banking for unbanked Egyptians

Dopay, one of the early startups to get involved in Egypt's financial technology sector, is hoping to build a web of clients among the...

unbanked Dopay financial services

Egypt

Printing money: Spear Ink’s e-waste ambitions

E-waste is a mushrooming scourge of the technology revolution with up to 50 million tons of electronic rubbish generated annually -...

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