Wamda

U.A.E

Carpool Arabia: Looking to ease the UAE’s traffic congestion woes

Not many entrepreneurs can claim that their brightest business idea was born on the road, but for Frenchman Benjamin de Terssac, that was...

carpool arabia carpooling uae

Regional

Traxn launches with Zain, call for applications now open for Jordanian startups

In the past few years, MENA startups and corporations kept their distance, holding on to the assumption that corporates are too...

Traxn zinc incubator ZINC

Regional

Top 10 MENA entrepreneurship quotes of 2014

2014 was quite a year for Wamda. We celebrated notable investments and acquisitions, we witnessed the launch of four big VC funds, we...

Tips

Saudi Arabia

The future is bright, the future is ecommerce in Saudi Arabia

This article was posted originally on Firnas.org. This year, online payment solution provider PayFort released the State...

E-commerce Saudi Arabia firnas

Egypt

Disrupt!/Graphic! Ideathon awards 4 new Egypt startups

No longer the prerogative of the technology field entrepreneurs can now be found in many sectors and events such as the Disrupt!/Graphic!...

disrupt design

Regional

Startup-corporate partnerships 1/3: the logic behind them

King Abdullah II of Jordan with Queen Rania at the opening of the MENA ICT FORUM in November. In the first of our three articles looking...

corporations startups partnerships

Regional

Wamda launches Traxn: a program to help startups scale through large corporates

Before we take a deep plunge into 2015, Wamda is wrapping up its 2014 efforts by launching Traxn (pronounced traction), a new program,...

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Regional

4 big MENA VC funds announced in 2014

2014 was a very good year when it came to new funds entering the tech scene in the Arab region. Rather than just seed and early stage, we...

Wamda Fund Badia Impact fund capital

U.A.E

Beam Wallet gets its first investment from Majid al Futtaim

In one of its first investments in the regional tech industry, Majid Al Futtaim Ventures announced an investment in mobile commerce...

Beam Money Beam Wallet Majid Al Futtaim

Regional

Still fighting for the funding, hot topic at Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor in Dubai

On December 13 Wamda hosted it’s final Mix N’ Mentor of 2014 at the in5 Innovation Hub in Dubai. Hosting some of the city’s most active ent...

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Saudi Arabia

The quick rise of online video content in Saudi Arabia

This post was originally published on firnas.org Making the most of the access now had to basic filming equipment, such as...

online video content Saudi Arabia YouTube

Libya

Two Maghrebi women named new Ashoka Fellows

The Voice of Libyan Women's Alaa Murabit addresses a crowd. Ashoka Arab World, an organization dedicated to enabling social...

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Regional

7 notable investments and acquisitions of 2014

There’s nothing quite like a satisfying investment or acquisition to get the entrepreneurial juices flowing. Throughout 2014, Wamda r...

Roundup Acquisitions Investment

Maghreb

Morocco's Education Media Company raises $280,000 on the strength of an unusual story

The 9rayti team. Adam Bouhadma is only 24, and has just raised 2.5 million Moroccan dirhams ($280,000) for his company Education...

MNF Education Maroc Numeric Fund

Lebanon

Lebanese entrepreneurs work to grow new talent in Tripoli

Recently, while walking up and down the stairways of heaven in one of the holiest places in Lebanon - The Qadisha Valley - I had the chance...

Tripoli lebanon Training

Global

4 trends from LeWeb that could make waves in the Arab world in 2015

The end of the year is always an interesting time. Some like to go back on what happened in the year gone by, while others try to predict...

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U.A.E

Dubai entrepreneurs pick VC brains with these 6 questions

Last Saturday, Wamda closed out yet another fruitful Mix N’ Mentor Roadshow. This year’s last event took place at the...

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Maghreb

Where does Azur Systems' success come from?

Walid El Alaoui Mrani has always had a clear vision of what he wants to do. Once graduated from engineering school, the young Moroccan...

Event Planning Mentorship

Jordan

Founding a second company: risk or investment?

Four years after launching Sitat Byoot, the female focused e-commerce site, CEO Saeed Omar is about to embark on a new journey in the...

Sitat Byoot Startup Jo Jordan

Regional

4 promising pivots by MENA startups in 2014

Loay Malahmeh of 3Dmena presents his company to King Hussein and Queen Rania of Jordan. In 1892, William Wrigley Jr., who had recently...

Pivot Lean Methodology

Maghreb

Morocco's CMI responds to 5 complaints from entrepreneurs

Since we published the testimonial piece of Greendizer co-founder Mohamed Attahri, where he described his less than...

CMI

Regional

5 ways to build your brand strategy on social networks

Launched earlier this year, Brand US Social (BUS) has already made quite an impact on the social and digital media scene. A London...

strategy Branding Social Media

Global

What an entrepreneurship ecosystem actually is

This article is a crosspost with Harvard Business Review Fostering entrepreneurship has become a core component of economic...

Ecosystem

Saudi Arabia

How one tweet inspired one man's mango selling website

This article was posted originally on Firnas.org. On April 27th 2012 Abdul Rahman Sahili read a tweet from a man in the coastal...

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