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Saudi Arabia

The launch of four initiatives supporting the Saudi SME sector

Saudi Arabia’s Small and Medium Enterprises Authority announced today the launch of four initiatives to support and sustain the...

vision 2030 SMEA Funding

Saudi Arabia

Sakrobe announces including female mobile phone maintenance workers

Sakrobe, one of the first online services that connects maintenance service seekers and providers with a unique, easy to use interface...

Sakrobe

Saudi Arabia

Arabnet Riyadh 2017

For the sixth year in a row, ArabNet Riyadh will be gathering Saudi Arabia’s government, largest corporations and 1600...

Arabnet riyadh vision 2030

Saudi Arabia

Prince Mohammad Bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship

Prince Mohammad Bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship (MBSC) is the first private institute of higher education in Saudi...

MBSC RiseUp 2017

Saudi Arabia

Beauty ecommerce GlamBox gets acquired by a Saudi consortium of investors

Dubai-based GlamBox, a beauty online subscription platform, has recently been acquired by a Saudi consortium of investors. Neither the...

GlamBox acquisition Success Stories

Saudi Arabia

The role of education and women in the Saudi economy at #MiskGlobalForum

During the Misk Global Forum organised last week for the second year in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, discussions around education and the...

Misk Foundation Misk Global Forum Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Saudi needs to show more support for early stage startups #MixNMentor

The second out of a series of four Mix N’ Mentor events Wamda is organizing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia took place yesterday at...

Mix N' Mentor KSU Badir program for Technology Incubators

Saudi Arabia

MITEF Saudi Startup Competition

The MITEF Saudi Startup Competition focuses on attracting high potential business projects across the following three tracks: idea,...

Saudi Arabia competition MITEF

Saudi Arabia

#MixNMentor unveils entrepreneurs biggest challenges in KAUST

For the first time, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology KAUST Innovation and Monsha’at, a Small and Medium Enterprises...

Mix N Mentor Riyadh Mix n Mentor KAUST

Saudi Arabia

A ‘quattro’ of Mix N’ Mentors coming to Saudi Arabia

Wamda is organizing four rounds of its flagship event, Mix N’ Mentor, in Saudi during the last two months of the year. The...

Mix N' Mentor riyadh Badir

Saudi Arabia

Startup Saudi Arabia

Startup Saudi Arabia is a 3-day event that will include a conference, an exhibition, and seminars as well as short presentations for...

saudi entrepreneurship startup

Saudi Arabia

SRMG acquires 51 percent stake in Saudi financial news service Argaam for $10M

The Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG) has acquired a controlling stake (51 percent) in the Argaam Investment and Trading Company,...

Saudi Arabia Argam acquisition

Saudi Arabia

Home cleaning marketplace Matic raises $3 million

Matic, an online marketplace for cleaning services in the GCC, incubated by Badir Program for Technology Incubators and Accelerators, has...

Matic MEVP Cleaning services

Global

Badir launches new program to attract global startups to KSA

Badir Program for Technology Incubators, a Saudi national program under King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), launched a...

news watch Badir

Saudi Arabia

A Saudi Arabian student succeeded in home-cooked food delivery orders

This year, online food orders in Saudi Arabia reached $644 million so far, and are expected to exceed $1 billion by 2019. After noting...

Mathaqi مذاقي Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

BIBAN Forum 2017: Funding is available, seek mentorship

Wamda organized its three-day Mix N’ Mentor event in Saudi Arabia, during the BIBAN Forum 2017, which ran from September 17 till 20,...

Saudi Arabia ksa Biban

Saudi Arabia

Saudi cloud-based POS startup Foodics closed a $4M funding round

Saudi Arabia's Foodics has closed a SAR 15 million ($4 million) investment round, led by Raed Ventures and Riyad Taqnia Fund (RTF) with...

Foodics Saudi Arabia ksa

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Aramco licenses NOMADD to create waterless cleaning systems

Saudi Aramco entered into a technology licensing agreement with NOMADD Desert Solar Solutions, the Saudi-based startup that commercializes...

Aramco Solar panels NOMADD

Saudi Arabia

Saudi’s crowdshipping platform wants to be in everyone’s luggage

Saudi Entrepreneur Khaled Sehly was a pharmacist before he quit his job to become an entrepreneur. In March 2017, Sehly launched...

Saudi Arabia ksa Airwaybill

Saudi Arabia

What I know about ecommerce in Saudi Arabia: Mazen AlDarrab

Saudi Arabia is one of the most promising ecommerce markets in the Arab region, despite the challenges that face the sector in the...

Saudi Arabia ksa ecommerce

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia hosts GE’s first Predix-powered hackathon in the region

General Electric (GE) hosted its first Industrial Internet of Things hackathon, powered by Predix, using big data to improve healthcare in...

MEMakersGE Predix hackathon

Saudi Arabia

This Saudi entrepreneur wants to bring you the Serviis you need

According to data released in the WRL report, supporting organizations in the Kingdom, such as funds, coworking spaces, accelerators and...

Saudi Arabia ksa Serviis

Saudi Arabia

The lifecycle of an app: From an idea to a successful business [slideshow]

Daily app downloads have reached 50 million globally, out of which 95 percent get deleted within a month, according to the Digital...

Digital Leadership in Mobile Apps Innosoft Alsharqia Chamber

Saudi Arabia

A Saudi teaching platform attracts a million students

One year following the failure of an ecommerce platform they had launched due to the lack of market readiness, Saudi entrepreneurs Mohammed...

ksa Saudi Arabia Noun

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