Regional Social Media Week Dubai 2016 [Exclusive discount code!] Social Media Week is the biggest global conference that brings together thought leaders and practitioners to explore how social media and... Wamda • 11 October, 2016 Social Media Networking Innovation
Regional Apply for FasterCapital's 5th round of funding FasterCapital (a virtual incubator based in Dubai) has launched its fifth round of funding for 2016 which begins on September 18, 2016 and... Wamda • 11 October, 2016 incubation acceleration Funding
U.A.E EFICA Gala Dinner 2016 The annual Ethical Finance Innovation Challenge and Awards (EFICA) return in 2016 for the 4th time to inspire and assist initiatives that... Wamda • 11 October, 2016 Dubai entrepreneurship social enterprise
Regional How to Build a Winning Team for your Startup Young Arab Leaders are hosting another session of their Entrepreneur Workshop Series on the theme of "How to Build a Winning Team for... Wamda • 11 October, 2016 Dubai Workshop
U.A.E Has Falafel Games raised the largest round for a gaming startup in MENA? Falafel Games, one of the first gaming studios to emerge in the Middle East, just closed a round of $2.6 million. The funding round was... Lucy Knight • 11 October, 2016 falafel games MEVP Investment
U.A.E A step in the ecotourism direction This year Dubai and Abu Dhabi topped the list of most sustainable cities in MENA. On the global ranking list, however,... Archana Menon • 11 October, 2016 MEMakersGE uae eco resort group
Global Hello Tomorrow Global Summit #HTSummit A perfect storm of good things. That’s what they call the Hello Tomorrow Global Summit, an intimate, invite-only forum that gathers... Wamda • 11 October, 2016 Science Technology entrepreneurship
Regional Can audiobooks inspire more Arabs to read? [Wamda TV] Rawan Barakat, the founder of Raneen. (Image via Wamda) Studies have shown that Arab citizens hardly care about reading - dedicating... Kamel Al-Asmar • 11 October, 2016 Rawan Barakat Raneen Raneen Media
Turkey Seedstars Istanbul 2016 Seedstars World is coming back to Istanbul! On October 20, the 10 best startups from Istanbul will be invited to pitch in front of an... Wamda • 10 October, 2016 Pitch competition seedstars
Iran Iran startup Snapp raises $22M Series A Iranian ride sharing startup Snapp has secured a 20 million euro (US$22 million) Series A investment. The deal, reported in Tech... Rachel Williamson • 10 October, 2016 Snapp Iran Internet Group Rocket Internet
Bahrain Bahrain’s Eat raises $2M Editor’s note: this article was updated on October 12 to include a comment from Reserve Out. In what they are labelling... Lucy Knight • 10 October, 2016 Eatapp eat Bahrain
Lebanon Banque du Liban Accelerate 2016 Against all odds, Lebanon is developing a highly innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem. With a growing number of incubators, accelerators... Wamda • 10 October, 2016 BDL Accelerate beirut conference
Kuwait Is there a way to create high quality startups in Kuwait? This is an edited crosspost with Nuwait. We see plenty of buzz around the topic of startups in Kuwait. The 2 billion Kuwaiti dinar... Surya Rao • 10 October, 2016 Nuwait Mefazec kuwait
Lebanon Reboot Beirut hackathon features seasoned student entrepreneurs [Wamda TV] Over the past decade, there have been countless news stories pointing to a rise of student entrepreneurship globally. Lebanon is no... Dana Ballout • 10 October, 2016 Reboot Beirut aub student entrepreneurship
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... Tamer Azer • 09 October, 2016 Egypt venture capital association British Venture Capital Association
Kuwait Arabnet Kuwait draws crowds, demands action Entrepreneurship is a top priority for Kuwait’s power brokers who are spending a lot of money on developing an ecosystem, yet only a... Reine Farhat • 09 October, 2016 Arabnet Kuwait 2016