Wamda

Regional

Middle East and Turkey startups raise the temperature in Stockholm [Opinion]

MENA meets Stockholm at #sthlmtech. (Images via Aurore Belfrage) When talking to investors, corporates and media in the west about...

212 Istanbul Opinion Aurore Belfrage

Regional

MEVP closes second round on fund at $32M

[Editor's note: This article has been updated to include further investments announced in December 2015] Announcing Wednesday the...

VC Venture Capital MEVP

U.A.E

Social selling: The future of ecommerce in the Middle East?

Within the space of a few years, social media has become an integral part of everyday life. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other...

Shedd EZHeights Social selling

Lebanon

Crowdsourced interior design startup launches in Lebanon

Smartphones could soon help people decorate their homes and save money at the same time. Simply fill out a short online questionnaire,...

interior design Darwazah Ghassan Abi Fadel

Jordan

Fellowship for young women entrepreneurs connects rising stars from US and Jordan

Yara Al-Khader, founder and CEO of SA3ED.ME, pitches to judges during Demo Day at ZINC. (Images via Sam Wendel) “Recommendation s...

Privail Kuli Kuli Kollectco

Palestine

Gaza entrepreneur gives his 5 lessons for success

Castle Soft began in the late 1980s with a piece of paper, a pencil, and a vision to create accounting software that is reliable,...

al-aseal accounting software Majdi Abu Daff

Lebanon

An eco-friendly solution to dispose of pharmaceutical waste in Lebanon

A 'pill-board' building. (Image via Ziad Abi-Chaker) This article is a crosspost with the MIT Technology Review Arab Edition written by N...

MIT Technology Review Arab Edition cedar environmental expired medication

U.A.E

UAE's JadoPado raises $4M Series A

JadoPado CEO Omar Kassim. (Image via ResellerME.com) Online marketplace JadoPado has sold a 14.8 percent equity stake for $4 million,...

JadoPado acquisition Series A

Regional

MEC and Wamda partner to launch Corporate Entrepreneurship Services across MENA

MEC, one of the largest media agencies in the world and Wamda have signed a partnership to give MENA businesses access to innovation from...

MEC CER Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility

Maghreb

Tangiers Technopark, future hotspot for Moroccan tech? [Q&A]

Marouane Chelli has great ambitions for the newly launched Technopark in Tangiers. [Image via Marouane Chelli] After launching in...

tangiers tanger Technopark

Kuwait

How to leverage content at Mashup MENA

SMEs and startups that wish to reach more customers should offer smart content and leverage web analytics. This was the message at the...

Global

12 tips for getting hired by a startup [Infographic]

As the region’s number of startups grow so too does the interest from graduates and career changers in those startups. We’ve written many ti...

StartupCVs job hunting resume

Egypt

How to make social entrepreneurship work in MENA

JP Morgan's Ali Idrissi, Droomzaken's Martijn Blom and Accion Venture...

Misr El Kheir Social Entrepreneurship Egypt

Jordan

Matching virtual and real in 3D printing

Designing 3D models for screens is very different from designing them for printing. If a screen design is sent for printing so many...

MakePrintable MEMakers 3d printing

Regional

Cash is not king [Opinion]

The reliance on COD payments is hurting MENA's ecommerce sector. (Image via sharktankblog.com) This is a crosspost with Mo Ali Yusuf’s L...

cash epayment PAYMENT

U.A.E

Mix N' Mentor's 2015 roadshow brings the Marketplace Edition to Dubai

Mix N' Mentor serves up deep expertise in a casual atmosphere. (Images via Wamda) Dubai will host Wamda’s fifth and final Mix...

Mix n Mentor Marketplace Edition mix n mentor dubai

Maghreb

Startup Maroc Championship showcases potential of Morocco’s ecosystem

StartUp Maroc brought together 60 startups for two days of pitching. (Images via StartUp Maroc) This year's Startup...

get in the ring startup maroc Competitions

Regional

Big data for a big industry: oil and gas

BP technicians in the control room of the Atlantis platform. (Image via BP) The global oil and gas industry is being seduced by...

The Internet of Things IoT MEMakers

U.A.E

AstroLabs and Google officially open their coworking space

AstroLabs audience during the launch. (Images via AstroLabs) Just over a year since AstroLabs first announced they would be...

DMCC Astrolabs Academy Astrolabs

Maghreb

NUMA to bring French expertise to Morocco's startups

Jordan has Oasis500, Egypt has Flat6Labs, now Morocco has NUMA. The famous French innovation hub announced today that they are going to...

NUMA Eiréné4Impact morocco

Turkey

Webrazzi Summit 2015, a springboard for Turkish techheads

Winners of the Webrazzi Summit 2015. (Image via Webrazzi) As several hundred innovative minds gathered over two days to share ideas and...

500 startups turkey Webrazzi

Maghreb

Morocco’s Eiréné4Impact in the push for social entrepreneurs

Future Moroccan entrepreneurs learning about social entrepreneurship at Impact Camp. (Images via Sara Kaddaoui) This fall, school is back...

impact entrepreneurship Eiréné4Impact morocco

Egypt

Egypt's Otlob sold for a bargain to Rocket Internet

Egyptian food-ordering website Otlob has been snapped up by Rocket Internet, but at an almost firesale price. The acquisition by...

online food ordering otlob Rocket Internet

Regional

What I know about angel investing: Ed Roberto

Ed Roberto at the Great Wall of China. (Image via Techstars) With more than 30 years of experience as a startup founder, cofounder, angel...

Ed Roberto What I Know techstars

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