Egypt IFC invests in Algebra Ventures, Flat6labs Cairo funds New Egyptian venture fund Algebra Ventures has announced the first closing at $40 million. The fund, first announced in June, plans to... Rachel Williamson • 15 December, 2016 Algebra Ventures Egypt SysDsoft
Egypt Real-time translation for Europe bound refugees and migrants [Wamda TV] Refugees and migrants from eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia have been making their way to European Union countries for many years,... Lucy Knight • 13 December, 2016 ET Call refugees Egypt
Egypt Rising Up: Egypt's entrepreneurs as important as ever The Rise Up Summit, the region’s foremost entrepreneur get-together, closed yesterday on the news of yet another brutal terrorist... Rachel Williamson • 12 December, 2016 RiseUp Summit Egypt Alexandria Angels
Egypt Innoventures announces $1.6M fund Innoventures CEO, Hesham Wahby, announced December 6 the launch of a new 30 million Egyptian pound (US $1.6 million) fund, Innoventures... Eman Mostafa • 09 December, 2016 Innoventures Reactor VC4Africa
Egypt Karmsolar unveils product, deals in Apple-style launch In a presentation that drew considerably on those of an Apple product launch, Egypt off-grid solar power specialist Karmsolar announced new... Rachel Williamson • 09 December, 2016 KarmSolar solar power solar pumping
Egypt Egypt's online recruitment platform Wuzzuf acquires Viriphi Egypt’s online recruitment platform Wuzzuf announced on Thursday its acquisition of job assessment platform Viriphi for an... Eman Mostafa • 08 December, 2016 Programme jobs assessment Egypt
Egypt ROVArab Competition Applications for the upcoming ROVArab competition have recently opened for students of all educational levels, whether university,... Wamda • 06 December, 2016 Egypt robot ROV
Egypt Who's investing in Egypt now anyway? [Know your VC] Egypt’s economy is in bad shape, so who would want to invest in startups and SMEs in this current gloomy atmosphere? Tarek Fahim,... Radwa Rashad • 05 December, 2016 Know your VC Endure Capital JuiceLabs
Egypt Wamda’s Mix N' Mentor meets Rise Up Egypt There are a handful of giant tech events in MENA every year and they’re often packed with people you want to meet (and some you... Rachel Williamson • 29 November, 2016 rise up summit Egypt event
Egypt What’s in store for the digital real estate sector in Egypt? Real estate is a safe haven for Egyptian investors, a circumstance that helps explain the success of Aqarmap, a real estate search engine... Eman Mostafa • 28 November, 2016 Real Estate Aqarmap Nozol
Egypt Can an underground free market save Egypt solar? As Egypt’s plans for a large-scale renewable energy industry have disintegrated over the last year, small operators have quietly... Rachel Williamson • 25 November, 2016 Egypt challenge 22 solar energy
Egypt Alex Geeks Meetup - Story of a Startup #3 Alex Geeks Meetups returns with its third edition of ‘Story of a Startup’. The purpose of these meetups is to... Wamda • 24 November, 2016 alexandria Networking alex geeks
Egypt Hack4Egypt 2016 Hack4Egypt hackathon is bringing together the most daring and innovative designers, programmers, and entrepreneurs to revolutionize... Wamda • 23 November, 2016 Egypt hackathon HACK4EGYPT
Egypt RiseUp Summit 2016 Mark your calendars! From December 9 to 11, RiseUp Summit 2016 will be happening in Downtown Cairo, Egypt. In recent years, RiseUp... Wamda • 18 November, 2016 Egypt RiseUp startup
Egypt EAEF reinvests in Egypt’s Smartcare Medical Services Smartcare Medical Services in Egypt has secured another 12 million Egyptian pounds (US$762,000) from the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund,... Rachel Williamson • 17 November, 2016 Smartcare Medical Services Egypt Series A
Egypt Nawart's cleantech startups a silver lining for Egypt's transition Egypt may have effectively killed off any interest in industrial scale solar, but a group of people passionate about the cause believe... Menan Khater • 07 November, 2016 MEMakersGE Cleantech Nawart
Egypt 'Push' is big business for these Egyptians 2015 was the year of the push notification. App makers discovered that a prompt on a smartphone could remind their users they existed... Rachel Williamson • 06 November, 2016 pushbots push notification Egypt
Egypt Winners and losers in Egypt’s currency crisis Two days after this article was published, on November 3 the Central Bank of Egypt has floated the pound, allowing it to move to 13... Rachel Williamson • 01 November, 2016 Egypt currency crisis Al Bustani
Egypt Reclaiming Egypt’s rooftops: Al Bustani reaps urban farm profits In 2014, Housam Abul-Fotouh was in the Sinai desert building 72,000 square metres of greenhouses. He and cofounder Mohamed Ibrahim had... Rachel Williamson • 31 October, 2016 Al Bustani Egypt agritech
Egypt No hoax! Journas sets Arabic news record straight Discredited news pieces and hoax science articles circulate throughout the web, and Arabic versions are not immune. So in came Journas,... Radwa Rashad • 30 October, 2016 Egypt Journas Kotobna
Egypt Egypt startup trades clicks for cash To try to defuse an education crisis, ‘clickfunding’ startup Bassita is joining forces with the Misr El Kheir Foundation to... Eman El-Sherbiny • 25 October, 2016 Bassita Clickfunding Egypt
Egypt Apply for incubation at TIEC If you have a business plan for your startup and are looking for incubation, be sure to apply to the 13th round of TIEC's... Wamda • 24 October, 2016 incubation Scalability Egypt
Egypt The Story of a Startup #2 Started by Morad Edwar and Sarah Abdel Aziz, Alex Geeks Meetup returns with its second session of "The Story of a Startup".... Wamda • 24 October, 2016 Networking alexandria entrepreneurship
Egypt Flat6labs signs $1M deal with IFC Flat6labs has signed a $1 million deal with the World Bank investment arm International Finance Corporation (IFC). The Egyptian... Rachel Williamson • 24 October, 2016 Flat6Labs International Finance Corporation ifc