Wamda

Regional

The need for edtech in higher education

Brendan Vyner, is the director of marketing and student recruitment at the University of Wollongong in Dubai. Covid-19 has...

Education EdTech

Regional

Beauty and the online beast: Driving online sales in the Middle East

Nicolas Bruylants is the co-founder and chief visions officer of UAE-based CNNB Solutions, which helps brands to build, operate and scale...

D2C Beauty

Regional

Startup advice: Six tips for early stage founders from Bayzat’s Talal Bayaa

Talal Bayaa is the co-founder and CEO of Bayzat, a UAE-based startup providing businesses with smart insurance, HR, and payroll...

Bayzat startup advice

Regional

Fintech is poised for consolidation in the Middle East

Mahmoud Hamouda is a strategy and operations consultant at Dell Technologies. He is also the head of Dell for Entrepreneurs in Egypt. In...

Fintech

Regional

Village Capital launches accelerator programme for impact startups in Mena, Turkey

US-based Village Capital has launched an investment readiness accelerator programme for impact startups from the Middle East, North...

Village Capital impact entrepreneurship

Regional

Mena startups raised $632 million in July 2021

Startups raised almost $632 million in July across 77 deals, a record-breaking month thanks mostly to Kitopi’s $415 million Series C...

Investment

Regional

How the gig economy is disrupting the region’s startup ecosystem

With 70 million platform workers registered globally, economists predict that by 2025, talent platforms will mediate one third of all...

gig economy

Regional

Swvl eyes IPO via SPAC

UAE-based mass transportation company Swvl, initially founded in Egypt, is reportedly planning to go public via a merger with a special...

Swvl SPAC

Pakistan

Zayani VC, Tricap invest in Pakistan-based Dastgyr’s $3.5 million Seed round

Bahrain-based Zayani Venture Capital and Dubai’s Tricap investments have participated in Pakistan-based B2B e-commerce startup...

Zayani VC Tricap b2b

Regional

How we pivoted our startup with grace

Walid Daniel Dib is the co-founder and CEO of hala, a UAE-based insuretech startup Spoiler: There was absolutely no grace...

Pivot Hala

Regional

Want economic prosperity? Help women become more financially capable

Dina Alnabulsi is a business analyst at Globitel, a Jordan-based telecommunications company Financial exclusion is a universal issue,...

financial inclusion Women empowerment

Regional

Mena startups raised $267 million in June 2021, pushing Q2 investment to $552 million

Startups in Mena have raised $267 million across 44 deals in June, propelling the second quarter investments to more than $552 million, a...

Investment

Regional

Localization Strategy Made Simple

One-size-fits-all English content and experiences are no longer sufficient. According to a study by Common Sense...

Regional

Floral marketplaces: Does the future look rosy?

The retail industry across the Middle East has undergone a sea of change, with online purchases becoming a central part of the...

Floranow Floward marketplace

Global

Floward raises $27.5 million in Series B

Kuwait-based flowers and gifts marketplace Floward, has raised $27.5 million in a Series B funding round led by STV with participation...

Floward Floral markerplaces ecommerce

Egypt

MNT enters share swap deal with super app Halan

Netherlands-based MNT Investments BV has entered a share swap agreement with Egypt-based super app Halan. The deal is expected to...

Halan super app BNPL

Regional

Navigating a post-pandemic edtech market

The inescapable need for online learning last year provided a boom for the education technology (edtech) sector that many expect to be...

Education EdTech

Regional

Teachers, technology and tortoises

Nafez Dakkak is the managing director and CEO of the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development. It all seems so...

EdTech Nafez Al Dakkak

Regional

Watheeq launches $26.7 million proptech fund

Saudi Arabia-based investment management and financial advisory company Watheeq Financial Services, has launched SAR 100 million ($26.7...

Proptech Watheeq

Global

Localized raises $2.2 million Seed round

US-headquartered Localized, a platform that connects job seekers in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region with local and...

Localized Job listing seed

Regional

Startup advice: Building an efficient sales engine for a growth-stage startup

Sakshi Tulsian is the co-founder and chief revenue officer (CRO) at India-based POSist Technologies, which offers cloud-based restaurant...

POSist

Regional

Is Mena the next big market for micromobility?

Transportation is often described as the lifeblood of an economy. For any major city, the ability to transport goods and people along a...

mobility e-scooter micromobility

Lebanon

BASMA raises $3 million Series A round to scale operations in Mena and GCC

Lebanon-founded direct-to-consumer (D2C) digital dental startup BASMA, has raised a $3 million Series A funding round, led by...

Basma digital healthcare Series A

Regional

An evolving landscape: The state of open banking regulations in Mena

Abdulla Almoayed is the founder and CEO of open banking platform Tarabut Gateway. Here, he discusses how government regulations are shaping...

Fintech Open banking Regulations

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