Wamda

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi’s travel and tourism leaders award $100k to four Fikra Labs winners

One month after announcing the 12 shortlisted startups to join a four-week training by Fikra Labs, an acceleration programme for the travel...

Fikra Labs acceleration abu dhabi

Global

What undeserved emerging markets achieved through tech: Success stories from Seedstars Global Summit

Switzerland was named the fourth happiest place on earth by the United Nations. This European country is home to one of the best...

Emerging Markets Seedstars Global africa

Lebanon

Diabetes monitoring startup wins a $50,000 Seed Boost fund during Speed@BDD’s fifth Demo Day

Spike, a mobile assistant that helps diabetics better manage their diabetes, won the second edition of Speed@BDD’s Seed Boost. The...

lebanon Speed@BDD Spike

Regional

UAE’s maid-booking startup Justmop secures Series A funding

Maid-booking startup Justmop in the UAE has recently raised a Series A of funding, led by venture capital firm VentureFriends, along with...

Justmop fundraising Series A

Tunisia

Entrepreneurs in south Tunisia are trying to make an impact

When you leave the capital of Tunisia and its brand new cluster of coworking spaces, the rest of the country is like a new field to explore...

Social Entrepreneurship Mentorship decentralization

Tunisia

How this startup digitized the business of second-hand clothes in Tunisia

Almost 30 percent of Tunisians buy second-hand clothes, according to the Trade Union Chamber of the Import, Export and Transformation of...

clothes online wardrobe epayment

U.A.E

This after school activities marketplace is using bitcoins to go global

Unlike loaded school days, which fall heavy and stressful on little ones’ shoulders, extracurricular activities, will help them...

Afterschool.ae Kids activities Bitcoin

Tunisia

Why should investors consider funding Tunisian startups? [Q&A]

Intilaq, a Tunisian incubator and fund officially started in 2014 in a partnership between Microsoft, Ooredoo, and other funding partners....

investments Business Angels seed funds

Regional

Will MENA’s on-demand startups become sustainable businesses?

On-demand startups, the so-called ‘Uber for X’ of startups, are those that provide immediate service by dispatching someone to...

On-demand startups Technology entrepreneurship

Kuwait

4 Kuwaiti family businesses using innovation to stay ahead

This article is a crosspost from Nuwait. As we enter the age of information, more businesses are now better able to understand and...

kuwait Innovation family businesses

Algeria

How this Algerian entrepreneur is recycling plastic waste

Unemployment rate in Algeria increased to 10.5 percent, reaches almost 27 percent of the youth, and 20 percent of women, according to...

algeria waste trash

Tunisia

What I know about building an ecosystem from scratch: Wassel Berrayana

In 2000, Wassel Berrayana was an employee in HQ Sun Microsystems, one of Silicon Valley’s companies, when he decided to leave his job...

it decentralization entrepreneurship

Morocco

4 Moroccans aiming at becoming the Alibaba of Africa

Working in the energy and industry sectors in various African countries helped Niama El Bassunie, a Casablanca-born entrepreneur, discover...

Trade financing for trade suppliers

Egypt

Digital services for cash strapped Egyptian SMEs

Starting a business in Egypt is not easy, in large part because of the hassle involved in registering a new establishment and obtaining the...

Training Cloud Telecommunication

Tunisia

How twin brothers made their startup fly, so high

A small aviation startup in Tunisia has made a first by not only signing a deal with the Tunisian plane company Nouvelair, but with Airbus...

aéronautique avions hydravion

Regional

Bloovo receives $3M in investment

Bloovo, a Dubai-based algorithmic online recruitment platform founded in 2016, closed a $3 million funding round. The co-investment was...

recruitement online platform

Lebanon

How the IFC wants to support MENA scaleups [Wamda TV]

Shortly before the World Economic Forum MENA Davos event at the Dead Sea in Jordan, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) visited...

ifc Fadi Ghandour Philippe Le Houerou

Tunisia

Cyberesa improves e-tourism in Tunisia

Despite the regional instability and tourism shakiness, Tunisian e-tourism is actually witnessing bright days and is not affected by the...

Tourism technologies Cloud

Tunisia

Seedstars pushes Tunisian startups to scale more

At the Mediterranean School of Business campus in Tunis, the Seedstars team gathered a dozen Tunisian startups around a competition that...

scalibility seedstars internationnalisation

Tunisia

The Startup Act bill is opening new doors for Tunisian entrepreneurs

Tunisian entrepreneurs are finally seeing a draft of the Startup Act. The latest is that it’s under negotiation before being...

Startup Act entrepreneurs regulation

Kuwait

Kuwait gets its own Community at #MixNMentor Nuwait

Faces old and new were at Kuwait City’s Dar Hamad venue on May 10, to attend the third Mix N’ Mentor Nuwait, hosted by The...

Mix N' Mentor Nuwait Mentorship The National Fund for SME Development

U.A.E

UAE’s Trukker announces 1,000 percent growth in 7 months

Trukker, second place winner of the startup track at the MITEF Arab Startup Competition achieved 1,000 percent growth since its commercial...

Trukker MITEF Arab Startup Competition

Saudi Arabia

Uxbert proves startups can make it in Saudi Arabia

The UAE is considered one of the most important startup hubs in the region. Yet the Saudi Nadeem Bakhsh decided to move his user experience...

Saudi Arabia Uxbert UX

Egypt

Out of Africa: the Egyptians are coming

Egyptian healthcare startup Vezeeta is expanding into the Levant, the latest of a series of companies from Egypt to start leaving...

Vezeeta Performly Crowd Analyzer

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