Wamda

Turkey

Turkish wedding marketplace Dugun sets its sights on KSA with Zafaf.net

Turkish wedding marketplace Dugun sets its sights on KSA with Zafaf.net It was the bras that ruffled some feathers. CEO Emek...

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Regional

Cleantech startups in MENA face many challenges but remain resilient [Report]

MENA is experiencing some of the most daunting environmental challenges on earth. Energy and water scarcity coupled with an...

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Morocco

Converting code quicksmart, scalable?

Hunched over his laptop in a hotel lobby, empty coffee cups and water bottles piled up on the table beside him, Jaoued Ahmed’s energy...

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U.A.E

Refining the search for higher education, Schoolapply

To better help those looking for university and college courses around the world Schoolapply, a Switzerland-born ed-tech startup, is...

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Global

How to professionalize a startup without stifling it

This is an edited crosspost from Harvard Business Review. Insurgent companies are full of foundational stories and most of them involve...

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Global

Startup Watch: Saudi cash, zombie startups, and your how-to-fire guide

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...

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A tale of two cities: how a Lebanese startup moved to San Francisco

Elie Khoury knew he wanted to be in California ever since he was a child tinkering with computers in Byblos. “I didn’t have...

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Egypt

Karmsolar gives solar power to the people

In Karmsolar’s office on the posh Cairene island of Zamalek the company’s mission statement, to become the most innovative...

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Regional

Startups are creating jobs, but that’s not enough [Report]

While the majority of the surveyed workforce in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) perceive working at a startup as a good career...

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Iraq

Home or away? The best market may not be under your nose

Starting in your home market is not necessarily the best way to success, a lesson Iraqi-founded Apps Lab learned the hard way. Apps Lab...

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Regional

Startup Watch: Pokémon Go, VCs are ponzi schemes, and Cairo's legacy of entrepreneurship

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...

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Maghreb

Seducing Dubai: how Morocco's Buzzeff broke in to El Dorado

“In Dubai, we lost a lot of money for 18 months,” said Jérôme Mouthon, founder of Moroccan ad agency...

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Egypt

How the Arab Spring planted seeds of innovation in Egypt [Podcast]

This podcast is a crosspost with Knowledge@Wharton. The 2011 uprising in Egypt that saw the overthrow of longtime President Hosni...

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Jordan

For tech’s sake, get out of our way [Opinion]

Last October we found out the royal court wanted some major changes to reawaken Jordan’s technology sector. This was no surprise...

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Regional

MENAT accelerators invest $3.5M, lag global averages

Accelerators have become a “rite of passage” for entrepreneurs around the world, and a report on the state of global programs...

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Regional

Corporate-startup partnerships, where are we at in MENA? [Report]

89 percent of large corporations and 94 percent of startups see value in partnering together. [Tweet this] This is one of many findings...

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Lebanon

FOO's timing curse: when being ahead of the game is a problem

Foo founders Elie Nasr and Ghady Rayess. (Image via Brooke Anderson) Being early to the market can be both a blessing and...

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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...

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Yemen

How one company grabbed 70% market share in Yemen

Amazon, Tesla Motors and Tupperware are amongst some big company names that didn’t turn a profit for years, and are proof that if...

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Jordan

How Jeeran monetized its digital content by going offline

The Jeeran team at their Egypt launch in 2015. (Image via Wamda) As internet penetration in MENA skyrockets, demand for local digital...

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Regional

Building a regional education platform: The Coding Circle [Q&A]

Coding is the future. (Images via The Coding Circle) Launched in Dubai in 2014, The Coding Circle is a tech and coding education...

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Egypt

Making video pay: who's profiting from the boom?

Internet and smartphone growth, especially among youth, play a big role in the flourishing of the video industry. (Images...

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Jordan

Jordan gets a new startup accelerator with BIG by Orange

Jordan’s startup factory just powered-up another assembly line. In December 2015, Orange Jordan, which is part of the multinational...

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Jordan

Bridging a video gap from Jordan

The Metaphorio team (L to R) Waleed Qadi, Nadia Husseini and Khaled Husseini, want people to work together. (Images via...

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