Wamda

Egypt

After taking Jeeran to Egypt, cofounder discusses failure and success

Jeeran's Egypt team at their launch party. (Image via Jeeran Blog) Jeeran, the MENA based review platform, expanded its network to Egypt...

Jeeran Romouz Sadeq Omar Koudsi

Regional

Second Arab Youth Employment Conference discusses solutions to the region

Nabih Bulos, special correspondent, LA Times; Joumana Al Jabri, cofounder, Visualizing Impact; Rabee Zureikat, founder, Zikra...

AYE Conference Silatech Arab youth Employment Conference

Turkey

Biggest tech exit in the region, Turkey’s Yemeksepeti acquired for $589M

Delivery Hero, the Berlin-based billion-dollar food delivery service, has acquired Turkey’s Yemeksepeti for $589 million. Not only is this ...

Delivery Hero yemeksepeti Rocket Internet

U.A.E

A forum for Android lovers, Droidcon comes to Dubai

Droidcon Dubai 2015. (Images via Facebook) "A 17-hour flight is how long it took for some of the event speakers to come...

Dubai Smart City initiative Alljoyn Groupon

Regional

40 free tools to start and grow your own business

This article is a crosspost with the Maqtoob blog. "If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build...

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Regional

Goldman Sachs leads new $100M round for Hellofood

Hellofood, the global online food delivery platform, whose most recent acquisitions in the region were the food delivery...

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Saudi Arabia

What does it take to build a successful data startup in Saudi Arabia? A chat with Innosoft's founder

Loai Labani, a Saudi entrepreneur and mentor, discovered his passion for information and technology while he was studying software...

MEMakers Innovative Software Innosoft

U.A.E

Dubai's Pixelbug launches highly anticipated edutainment app Colorbug

The coloring is taken to a whole other level. Are you a child between 4 and 10? Do you want to meet Patrick the Horse, Pablo the...

PixelBug Colorbug edutainment

Global

Facebook adds free peer-to-peer payments in Messenger

This article is a crosspost with the Payfort blog. If you’re like most people, you know settling debts or splitting bills between f...

Maghreb

Inside Hmall's plans to scale

Moving from a 150m2 office to a 750m2 office is every startup’s dream. For Hmizate, it’s a dream come true. Earlier this month, the Mor...

Hmall marketplace Scaling

Lebanon

Beirut gets a new accelerator, UK Lebanon Tech Hub now open

A giant Twitter deck at the UK Lebanon Tech Hub. (Images via Lucy Knight) Standing on a podium in a carpark in a fast sweltering Beirut,...

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Lebanon

Zoomaal founder shares tips from $330k Series A round

The Zoomaal team at their offices in Beirut. After raising a seed round of $75,000 in Q3 of 2013 (from Wamda, MEVP, and Sawari Ventures),...

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Egypt

Sun shines on Egypt's solar startups

Sarah Mousa eyed the small boys, vigorously hacking at each other with sticks in the narrow backstreet of Cairo’s Al Darb Al Ahmar...

MEMakers Roundup solar energy

Regional

How animation studio Kharabeesh drew its own success

Kharabeesh was one of the first companies to start making animated and video Arabic content, but their success didn’t come...

Kharabeesh ksa YouTube

Regional

How ArabiaWeather leveraged big data and processing power to stay ahead of the competition

Hurricane approaches. (Image via symonsez.wordpress.com) The story of ArabiaWeather is one referred to in the Middle East startup...

MEMakers JordanWeather.jo JavaScript

U.A.E

Wamda and General Electric announce partnership

Wamda and General Electric (GE), one of the world’s leading technology companies, are joining hands to enable and support the industrial e...

MEMakers partnership General Electric

Global

How to develop succinct workflow policies

Workflow policies, whether for startups or large corporations, are a good way to smooth out work processes and avoid task conflicts...

strategies work practices Workflow

Egypt

More options for Cairo startups as coworking spaces multiply

Two years ago the number of coworking spaces in Cairo could be counted on one hand, but as their numbers have multiplied they’re now b...

Jordan

Girls in Tech hosts its first bootcamp in Jordan

Participants of the first Girls in Tech bootcamp in Jordan. (Images via Tala El Issa) One month into their existence and...

MENA Apps Umniah Telecommunications The Tank

Jordan

DIY app wins top prize at first ever RedTroops JO Hackathon

The developers of Edy, an iOS app that blends the creative photo sharing elements of Instagram with the DIY work of online marketplaces...

Regional

Bahraini wearable could add a new dimension to social interaction

The Feelix is another wearable that may reach the market. The bracelet syncs with a user's smartphone and sends him or her...

Feelix wearables Bahrain

Regional

Don't be afraid to scale

This is a crosspost with LinkedIn. The MENA entrepreneurship landscape has come a long way since the days when I was at...

VC investment Amir farha startups

Jordan

TOP Academy seeks to create a ‘technical talent pipeline' in Jordan with software engineering course

Dozens of MENA startups rely on the assistance that regional seed accelerators provide to catapult them forward—and it in turn helps the o...

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Kuwait

Volume and variety mark this year's #MITEFArab

The 8th annual MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan Arab region witnessed a record number of participants on Sunday April 19, with more...

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