Wamda

Regional

Activate and accelerate: 14 CE tools for corporations

In May of this year, British banking and financial services company Barclays partnered with Flat6Labs to open Egypt's first...

Expo 2020 Dubai Collaborative Entrepreneurship corporations

Egypt

What do Egyptian shoppers want? [Infographic]

Egypt: MENA's largest market by far. (Image via Wamda) This is a crosspost with Yaoota Magazine. Egyptian shoppers are a...

State of Payments 2016 yaoota Payfort

Yemen

Making ecommerce work in Yemen

Startups can arise in the oddest of places. (Images via Rachel Williamson) When Wamda was contacted in January by Adeeb Qasem, of...

Tamween Internet Society Yemen

Iran

Iran's gaming market, an overview part II

Such a large market, with a few hurdles still. (Images via Sourena Game Studio) Yesterday I shared some statistics on who is using the...

Free2Play Sanctions Sourena Game Studio

Iran

Iran's internet users, an overview

With nearly 80 million people in Iran you can imagine there is a huge internet audience waiting to be pounced upon. Unfortunately,...

Sourena Game Studio iran Gaming

Regional

Who's hiring in MENA? [Infographic]

Access to talent is a key difficulty for employers large and small in MENA. In an upcoming Wamda Research Lab report the findings...

Access to Talent recruitment Payfort

Regional

MENA’s fab labs and the fourth industrial revolution

We are in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution in human history. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4ID) is an economic...

hackerspace MEMakers Job Creation

Saudi Arabia

Saudi ecommerce delivers on its promises [Infographic]

The increase in Saudi women using the internet has corresponded with an increase in online shopping. (Image via alo.rs) The ecommerce...

Infographic E-commerce Aleqtisadiahand

Regional

The life cycle of your customer [Infographic]

Retaining customers can be tricky in the online sphere. (Image via Dotsquares) As a new generation of Middle Eastern entrepreneurs...

digital consumer Infographic

Regional

Is ecommerce MENA's biggest digital market? [Infographic]

This is an edited crosspost from LinkedIn. Consumers have become smarter and faster in making buying decisions online,...

payment gateway CashU fin-tech

Saudi Arabia

Mobile is winning in Saudi's internet race [Infographic]

Mobile internet use might be high in Saudi Arabia but ecommerce companies still haven’t convinced those people to shop on their...

Mobile internet penetration mobile internet internet penetration

Regional

Wamda and Expo 2020 Dubai launch their first report on Collaborative Entrepreneurship [Infographic]

Almost every other corporation operating in MENA engages with startups in one way or another. This is one of the exciting findings...

Expo 2020 Dubai Collaborative Entrepreneurship WRL

Regional

MENAT’s internet growth and barriers [Infographic]

Despite the apparent prevalence of the world wide web in people’s lives, there are still a many who go without internet access. According t...

eMarketer MENAT internet penetration

Regional

MENA's year in investing [Infographic]

The money pool for startups in MENA is growing, but slowly. (Image via Near Shore Americas) Funding is the entrepreneur's...

VC investment Womena MENA

Regional

Fast Facts II: 12+ new hubs for MENA startups (2015)

Throughout 2015, support for entrepreneurs in the Arab world continued to grow. As Wamda’s review of the year’s...

Wamda Research Lab accelerator CER

Regional

MENA's social media strongholds [Infographic]

Social media has a huge influence on business in the Middle East, be it as a marketing tool or a company platform through which...

google plus snapchat Payfort

Regional

Megatrends in MENA: the rise of entrepreneurship [Infographic]

Entrepreneurship has finally attained global megatrend status, according to EY, but MENA's founders knew that long...

EY megatrend entrepreneurship

Regional

Megatrends in MENA: the digital future [Infographic]

The 'digital future', described by EY as one of its megatrends, is upon us and rapidly changing how people live, eat...

EY mobile internet Winex

Regional

Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority's Annual Tech Startups Pitching Competition

For The Entrepreneur Day, tech entrepreneurs from all over the world are invited to apply to DSOA's Annual Tech Startups Pitching C...

DSOA competition Dubai

Regional

The ‘ease’ of doing business in MENA [Infographic]

Starting a business and running it isn’t easy. It becomes less so when the economy in which you want to start the business...

Doing Business Report Oman Yemen

Regional

Majority of UAE residents prefer to be entrepreneurs if given the choice [Report]

(Image via Startupist) More than half of the UAE’s residents say they would like to be entrepreneurs, according to a survey conducted b...

YouGov bayt.com MENA

Regional

Megatrends in MENA: startup solutions for urban lives [Infographic]

The ultimate example of urbanization in MENA: Dubai from above. (Image via Picasa) 'Megatrends', according to EY, are...

Recycle Beirut urbanisation El Noor Geh

Regional

MENA's IoT expansion [Infographic]

People today create a data trace with almost everything they do - trawling Facebook, booking an Uber, walking with a FitBit. The Middle...

Internet of Things IoT MENA

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

Thought Leadership

All the information you need to navigate Mena's startup ecosystem

Thank you