Regional The Digital Payments Hackathon With more than $12,000 in prizes, this two-day hackathon will bring together developers, designers and entrepreneurs from all over Dubai to... Wamda • 11 November, 2016 hackathon Dubai AngelHack
Saudi Arabia MiSK Global Forum According to a recent study prepared by the United Nations, by the year 2020, 90% of the world’s population will be below 30, so it... Wamda • 10 November, 2016 Saudi Arabia MiSK vision 2030
Regional Fadi Ghandour's roadmap to boosting MENA’s startup ecosystem [Opinion] This article was crossposted from Zenith magazine. Progressive policies can help unlock the economic and job-creating potential of... Fadi Ghandour • 10 November, 2016 Funding Opinion Regulations
U.A.E UAE Ministry of Finance Festival of Innovation The Ministry of Finance Festival of Innovation will be taking place on November 21-22 at The Annex (Burj Khalifa). The event will include... Wamda • 10 November, 2016 Dubai Innovation entrepreneurship
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... Rachel Williamson • 10 November, 2016 Egypt lebanon Startup Watch
Morocco Morocco’s Beekast raises $3M for meeting app Beekast, a Moroccan mobile and web meeting and events app, has raised 2.7 million euro ($3 million) led by Isource, a VC with a 200 million... Yassine Bakir • 09 November, 2016
Regional Scaling up? Show me the money Scaling up from scrappy startup to SME is a whole new game. Cash is oxygen and managers are critical. “There is research that... Rachel Williamson • 09 November, 2016 scale-ups BDL Accelerate Nathealth
Kuwait Arzan VC's humble beginnings [Know your VC] This is an edited crosspost from Nuwait. Kuwait’s first venture capital fund Arzan VC is not keen on missing opportunities... Reine Farhat • 08 November, 2016 Nuwait Arzan VC Lunch:On
Saudi Arabia Challenge 22 Roadshow - KSA Challenge 22 is an innovation competition administered by the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy in Qatar. This competition aims... Wamda • 08 November, 2016
Regional PepsiCo Social Impact Competition announces its finalists Disclaimer: The list of the finalists was updated on November 15, 2016 due to the withdrawal of one of the startups. PepsiCo and Wamda... Wamda • 08 November, 2016 Pepsico Social Entrepreneurship competition
Saudi Arabia A Saudi startup invents VR glasses that could change books for ever By 2020, the global virtual reality (VR) market is projected to reach $150 billion. It is expected to reach its first billion this year... Abdulghani Kataya • 08 November, 2016 BeThere Saudi Arabia KAUST
Saudi Arabia Carpooling for the working women of Saudi, a solution? [Wamda TV] Women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. While there is no official law banning women from the act, it is deeply held religious... Lucy Knight • 08 November, 2016 ksa GITEX 2016 Kaspercab
Kuwait 10 ways to beef up your business All you need is a few colorful bean bags and a casual open space to bring a startup community together to talk about what they do - and... Reine Farhat • 07 November, 2016 Mix N' Mentor 2016 Nuwait National Fund for SME Development
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... Menan Khater • 07 November, 2016 MEMakersGE Cleantech Nawart
Global What I know about privacy and AI: Rand Hindi The future holds so many innovations to make our lives easier, but we are often told that it will come at a price. We’ll need to... Aline Mayard • 07 November, 2016 privacy AI Snips
Regional Telcos to the startup rescue? Telcos could be the saviour of emerging market startups, according to a report from mobile industry association GSMA. They have the... Rachel Williamson • 06 November, 2016 GSMA corporate venture capital Venture Capital