Egypt Egypt's economic crisis in focus at RiseUp's 10th summit For the past decade, RiseUp has been one of the most influential startup events in Egypt and the wider Middle East and North Africa region.... Dunya Hassanein • 20 March, 2023 RiseUp
Regional How will the failure of SVB impact Mena's startup ecosystem? The collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), one of the world's biggest startup lenders has been nothing short of a disaster for the... Dunya Hassanein • 16 March, 2023 SVB
Tunisia Is Tunisia poised to become a leading deeptech hub in Africa and the Middle East? Rym Baouendi is a senior advisor at the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT Tunisia, a small country located in... Thought Leadership • 13 March, 2023 deeptech
Regional Mena: A fertile ground for tech IPOs Sandeep Ganediwalla is a partner at Redseer Strategy Consultants looking at the Middle East and Africa The Middle East and North Africa... Thought Leadership • 09 March, 2023 ipo
Regional Mena startups raised $760 million in February 2023 Startups in the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena) raised $760 million across 48 deals, up from 22 deals worth $104 million in... Wamda • 06 March, 2023 Investment
Iraq Sandoog: Enabling e-commerce in Iraq For many, Iraq still conjures up visions of war, struggle and corruption. Life, admittedly is not the easiest in the country, but beyond... Triska Hamid • 02 March, 2023 Sandoog E-commerce
Saudi Arabia Open banking in Mena: Shifting gears and making strides Abdulla Almoayed is the founder and CEO of open banking platform Tarabut Gateway The Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region is now... Thought Leadership • 27 February, 2023 Open banking Fintech
Yemen Yemen's pursuit of an e-commerce sector The growth of entrepreneurial activity witnessed across most parts of the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena) has recently permeated... Dunya Hassanein • 23 February, 2023 Yemen E-commerce
Egypt Can Mena adopt AI at the same speed and scale it is recommended to? Aliah Yacoub is an AI philosopher and Farah Ghazal is an AI social scientist at Egypt-based techQualia Emerging technologies... Thought Leadership • 20 February, 2023 ChatGPT AI
U.A.E Yanzo integrates its super app with ChatGPT ChatGPT has not only taken the world by storm, but political leaders too. At the recent World Government Summit held in Dubai, barely one... Triska Hamid • 16 February, 2023 yanzo ChatGPT super app
Regional Wafeq: the fintech catering to regional standards It was in 2018 when Nadim Alameddine was preparing to file his first ever tax return that the idea for an accounting software came to him.... Triska Hamid • 13 February, 2023 Wafeq Fintech
Regional Mena startups raised $103 million in January 2023 Startups in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) raised $103 million in January 2023 across 22 deals, a 17 per cent decline... Wamda • 09 February, 2023 investments
Regional A breakdown of Mena exits in 2022 In total, 57 Mena-based startups exited through M&As in 2022, a 30 per cent increase from the previous year. A further... Wamda • 06 February, 2023 exits
Egypt Career180: Helping plug the skills gap for professionals in Mena Unemployment remains perilously high across the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena), where 70 per cent of the 283 million youth aged... Dunya Hassanein • 02 February, 2023 Career180 unemployment
Regional What awaits startup exits in Mena? Looking back, the year 2021 was hard to emulate. After the pandemic-induced funding boom seen in 2021 and the first few months of 2022,... Dunya Hassanein • 31 January, 2023 M&A exits Exit
Regional Startups in Mena raised almost $4 billion in 2022 Startups in the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena) raised $3.94 billion in 2022 across 795 deals, a rise of 24 per cent in... Wamda • 29 January, 2023 Investment
