Wamda

U.A.E

Wamda participates in Ziina’s seed round

Wamda has invested in UAE-based peer-to-peer (P2P) payment application Ziina’s seed funding round, which was led by the Oman...

Ziina Fintech

Regional

Women entrepreneurs can boost Middle East economies

Last week, TiE held its Women Global Competition in person in the UAE. The global initiative is dedicated to empower women...

Women entrepreneurship TiE

Regional

Rise of angels: More money or more inexperienced investors?

Angels are coming forth in the Middle East, more ready than ever to start investing in startups. Over the past year, several new angel...

Angel Investment

Regional

Wamda and Tarjama launch translation tool to serve the regional ecosystem

Wamda, the Middle East region's leading startup ecosystem enabler, has launched an English-Arabic business terminology translation...

wamda Tarjama Arabic digital content

Qatar

What impact will the restoration of relations with Qatar have on its startups?

The almost four-year blockade of Qatar was lifted last week at the GCC Summit. Now that Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have...

qatar

Saudi Arabia

Businesses in Saudi Arabia are showing signs of recovery, with some big winners

By Khalid Suleimani and Loulwa Bakr, senior partners at Chrome Advisory Some of the most optimistic people did not expect to...

sme Retail

Regional

Mena startups raised $65.5m in December, pushing 2020 total to $654m

Last year was meant to be the year that startups in the Middle East and North Africa broke the billion-dollar investment mark, but the...

Investment

Global

Why are governments hoarding Bitcoins?

Khurram Shroff is the chairman of UAE-based private equity firm IBC Group which has invested in over 4000 different Blockchain products....

cryptocurrency Bitcoin

Regional

Trends to expect in 2021

Last year we outlined several trends we expected would take place in 2020 – rise in foodtech, growth of e-commerce and the year that...

coronavirus Trends

Regional

Our top stories from 2020

The coronavirus pandemic usurped every aspect of our lives. In its devastation, it dictated our movement, altered our habits and...

entrepreneurship

Regional

What 2020 has taught us about digital transformation

Selina Bieber is the senior regional director for the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, and South Africa at GoDaddy The year 2020 has...

digital transformation

Global

What are the four phases of leadership?

Sri Shivananda is the senior vice-president and chief technology officer at PayPal SVP I have benefitted significantly in my career...

Leadership

Regional

From pearl trade to e-wallets: The rise of digital payments in the GCC

Dalal Buhejji is the director of business development, financial services at the Bahrain Economic Development Board At the turn of...

banking digital wallet

Regional

What is driving the growth of buy now pay later?

Before the emergence of online shopping, there were shopping catalogues, published and distributed by retailers who offered everything from...

BNPL Tabby

Regional

A look at the subscriptions-based economy in the Middle East

Digitisation has become the mainstay of the coronavirus pandemic, shifting both consumer and business behaviour. Amid this trend, the...

subscription SubsBase

U.A.E

Is open banking the answer to boosting the UAE property market?

Michael Hunter is the co-founder of Holo Open banking is a term we have been hearing a lot over the past three years, since the...

Fintech Open banking

U.A.E

A cashless society in the UAE cannot happen without financial inclusion

Anouar Bourakkadi Idrissi is the CEO of Edenred UAE At the onset of 2020, implementation of the wide-scale lockdown and social...

Fintech financial inclusion cashless

Regional

Mena startups raised $37 million in November

When Yahaal announced its Series A round, we expected investments to exceed $60 million in November, but a correction from the company...

Investment

U.A.E

Facing new realities at Gitex 2020

Gitex is usually one of the biggest events that takes place in the Middle East region, typically attracting more than 100,000 delegates...

GITEX

Regional

Where will the next wave of innovation come from?

Dr Vikas Nand Kumar Batheja is the co-founder and director of Capital College in Dubai The global pandemic has created panic,...

Innovation

U.A.E

Outlining Sharjah's approach to entrepreneurship

Najla Al-Midfa is the CEO of Sharjah Entrepreneurship Centre (Sheraa) Entrepreneurship is essential to building a strong...

sharjah Sheraa

Saudi Arabia

The Saudi accelerator removing roadblocks for women

By May Rostom For reasons ranging from cultural or self-imposed barriers to age-old beliefs, sex-role stereotyping has proved one of the...

accelerator

Regional

The regional tussle for startups: Is Dubai at risk of being overtaken? [part two]

As outlined in the first part of this feature, startups have become a fundamental pillar of the economy, a means not only for innovation,...

Ecosystem Dubai abu dhabi

U.A.E

Why successful companies view learning as a boardroom priority

Anthony Tattersall is the vice president of Europe Middle East and Africa at Coursera Business in the UAE has traditionally been...

online learning

Thought Leadership

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