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U.A.E

LinkedIn reveals top UAE startups for 2022

LinkedIn has announced its annual ranking of the top 10 UAE-based startups that have demonstrated exceptional growth in the past year...

LinkedIn startups

Bahrain

Flat6Labs Bahrain distributes $250,000 among cohort winners

Flat6Labs Bahrain announced that eight startups have received $250,000 investment as part of its sixth cycle, which concluded after a...

Flat6Labs Investment accelerator

U.A.E

Sheraa launches startup studio S3

Sharjah Entrepreneurship Centre (Sheraa) has launched the Sharjah Startup Studio (S3), the first government-backed startup studio in the...

startups accelerator Sheraa

Tunisia

Tunisian Parliment supports startups with €66.9 million loan agreement

Source: Tunis Afrique Presse The House of People's Representatives (HPR), on Tuesday, passed a loan agreement amounting to...

startups IBRD

Jordan

ISSF allocates $7.5 million to Jordanian startups

Source: Jordan Times The Innovative Startups and SMEs Fund (ISSF), a private-sector-managed fund making investments in innovative...

ISSF startups covid-19

Global

Roundup of STEP’s first virtual conference

Dubai-based STEP launched its first online event as part of its series on the impact of COVID-19 on businesses. The two-hour event...

STEP Conferences covid-19 startups

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi Investment Office invests $16.3 million in several startups

Source: Zawya The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) today announced AED 60 million of investment in the latest batch of startups and...

startups investments Innovation

Regional

Falcon Network invests $450,000 in six startups

Dubai-based Falcon Network, a group of emerging markets-focused angel investors, has completed six investments worth $450,000 in...

Investment network startups

U.A.E

Vy Capital invests in UrbanClap

Source: MenaBytes Indian home and beauty services marketplace UrbanClap has raised $75 million in a Series E round led by Tiger Global,...

Investment Beauty startups

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi Investment Office launches Dh535 million fund

The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) announced today that it has launched the Dh535 million Ghadan Ventures Fund to support Abu...

fund Venture Capital startups

Egypt

Egypt sets up $57 million fintech startup fund

Source: ITWeb Africa Fintech startups in Egypt could soon have access to 1 billion Egyptian pounds (approximately...

Fintech fund Egypt

Lebanon

Speed raises new funding to improve future acceleration for startups

Source: Arabnet Speed, the Lebanese tech accelerator based out of the Beirut Digital District (BDD), has announced that it has raised...

accelerator Funding tech

U.A.E

VR in airports: Driving sales, beyond entertainment

In early 2015, the Australian flag carrier Qantas Airways, in partnership with Samsung, brought Virtual Reality (VR) to its first-class...

uae Entertainment tech

Egypt

Egyptian software company raised $300K from Saudi investors

Entlaqa, a software company, raised a $300,000 funding from Salem ben Saleh Ba Wazier and Mohamed ben Saleh Ba Wazier, two KSA-based...

Egypt ksa SAAS

Ivory Coast

How Ivory Coast is attempting to lead Francophone-African entrepreneurial ecosystems

A review by the World Economic Forum has identified three major trends expected to prompt Africa’s economic growth in the upcoming...

Ivory Coast startups africa

Bahrain

Tech and innovation are at the core of the ‘New GCC’ investment opportunities as revealed ‘Gateway Gulf’

Over 500 international investors and select business leaders flocked to Bahrain to explore how to unlock opportunities across the...

Gateway Gulf Investor Forum Bahrain startups

Lebanon

Three students teams awarded by Theemar Tripoli Investment Fund

Theemar Business Idea Competition’s (TBIC) final event was held on Saturday May 12 at AZM Educational Campus. TBIC is a...

lebanon Theemar Tripoli startups

U.A.E

$33B of lost remittances could be regained through the Blockchain, and this UAE startup is on it

Fintech startups are continuously bringing innovative solutions to cater to the large unbanked population. According to the World...

uae Dinarii Cash Fintech

Syria

Three teams won in Startup Weekend Homs

Over three days, and starting April 20, 2018, Startup Weekend Homs team held a Techstars Startup Weekend event at Jouri Hall in Al-Malaab...

syria Startup Weekend techstars

U.A.E

Four startups from the travel and tourism industry won Intelak’s third cohort

Four Dubai-based startups aiming at transforming the aviation, travel, and tourism industries graduated on April 30 from the...

uae Intelak GE

Regional

10 winning teams from 7 Arab countries at MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab’s 11th edition of the Arab Startup Competition

The MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) of the Pan Arab Region announced the winners of the 11th edition of the Arab Startup Competition. This...

MITEF Arab Startup Competition Oman

Global

Adrian Cockcroft of Amazon Web Services on cloud tech and how corporate culture is key

Last month, Wamda met with Adrian Cockcroft, VP of cloud architecture strategy at Amazon Web Services (AWS), to discuss the importance of...

AWS adrian cockcroft Cloud Computing

U.A.E

The Plug and Play ADGM program will kick off in Q3 2018

Plug and Play (PNP), one of the world’s largest global innovation platforms, and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International...

uae ADGM Plug and Play

Bahrain

How Bahrain is growing into a startup haven

In 2017, Bahrain ranked second in the MENA in terms of Ease of Doing Business, and very good reasons have endorsed this ranking. The number...

Bahrain Ecosystem startups

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