Wamda

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Shoutout platforms and the growing personalisation of celebrities

Social media platforms proved to be a powerful tool for celebrities across the world to engage directly with their fans, dictate their own...

Social Media

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Gitex Future Stars: North Stars in the making

Gitex, the Middle East’s largest technology exhibition is one of the most important events for those in the technology sector. It is...

GITEX GITEX Future Stars

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Azimut, GELLIFY launch joint $50 million VC fund to support B2B Mena startups

The Italian management group Azimut (ME) Limited ADGM, in partnership with GELLIFY Middle East is launching a VC fund targeting a fund...

Azimut GELLIFY VC

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Tourist VCs and their impact on emerging market ecosystems

There is a rising number of foreign VCs investing in the Middle East. Of the 10 Egyptian startups that raised investment in September, four...

Egypt Investment

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Four Mena startups receive Village Capital’s Sustainability Mena 2021 investment

Four startups have won $20,000 each as part of Sustainability Mena 2021, a three-month investment readiness programme run by Village...

Village Capital Sustainability Mena 2021

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Flat6Labs: A decade of accelerating startups

Once Hany Sonbaty and Ahmed Alfi launched their venture capital firm, Sawari Ventures, in Egypt back in 2010, the pair were often hounded...

Flat6Labs

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Young Arab entrepreneurs need govt’ support, increased access to funding

Amid today’s challenging labour market and lack of access to high quality education, young people across the Arab World are...

Arab youth

Egypt

Fawry invests in Sudan-based classifieds marketplace alsoug.com

Fawry, Egypt’s leading provider of e-payments solutions and digital banking services, has acquired a minority stake in Sudan-based...

fawry Alsoug

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Women cannot have it all...

Julie Nguyen is the founder of Crunchmoms, a professional network based in the UAE for talented, working mothers. There is...

Women empowerment

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Mental health startups in Mena

To mark World Mental Health Day, we have mapped the mental health startups in the Middle East and North Africa. Wamda also recently...

mental health

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Startups in Mena raised $338 million in September 2021

Startups in Mena raised almost $338 million across 37 deals in September, a 111 per cent rise month on month and a whopping 3000...

Investment

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Noon.com to raise $2 billion over three to four years

E-commerce platform Noon.com is receiving $2 billion in financing from investors including Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund...

Noon ecommerce

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Do robots create or destroy jobs?

Eugene Kovalenko is the chief commercial officer of Rozum Robotics, the company behind the first robot cafe in the UAE. When it...

robotics

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India's startup expansion to Mena: A cause for concern?

Since 2016, more than 50 India-based startups have expanded into the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) by making their UAE debut an entry...

India Softbank Softbank Vision Fund

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Should online retailers pay greater attention to men?

Leith Mathews is the founder and CEO of UAE-based rokpool, an online platform dedicated to men’s personal care products. Safe...

E-commerce

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The Abraham Accords and its impact on the 48er startup community

‘Historic’, ‘ground-breaking’ and ‘momentous’ was how the world’s media described the Abraham...

48-Palestinians 48ers

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Should we care about Philosophy of AI in the Mena region?

Aliah Yacoub is an AI philosopher and head of techQualia at Egypt-based Synapse Analytics, a data science and AI company The...

Artificial intelligence AI

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Is there hope for startups in the tourism sector?

The accelerating pace of vaccination efforts worldwide has led to encouraging signs of recovery in the tourism industry, but as the virus...

Travel Tourism

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Dark stores will create more collaborators than competitors

In the absence of physical shopping during last year’s lockdowns, demand for e-commerce soared, most notably in the grocery segment....

q-commerce quick commerce

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Mena startups raised $160 million in August 2021

Startups in Mena raised just shy of $160 million in August across 44 deals, taking the total raised so far this year to $1.78 billion....

investments

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Can data regulation be Mena's competitive advantage?

Khaled Lababidi is vice president and general manager of the Middle East, Africa and Turkey, for InCountry – a data...

Fintech Data regulation

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What is the main cause of stress for founders?

Mental health has long been a taboo subject in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region, but attitudes are changing. Wamda recently...

mental health EMPWR

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What is the state of mental health and wellbeing of entrepreneurs in Mena?

Wamda and Microsoft for Startups have published a research report on the impact of Covid-19 on the state of mental health and...

mental health

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Mena's mental health startups support fellow entrepreneurs' mental health and wellbeing

Wamda and Microsoft for Startups have published a research report on the impact of Covid-19 on the state of mental health and...

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