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Bahrain’s e-government is ready for full migration to the cloud

Not only is technology causing an impact on economic sectors' performance and activities, but also affecting the manner through which...

E-government Bahrain

Bahrain

Restaurant booking app Eat receives funding from MEVP

Eat, MENA-based restaurant reservation platform, has recently closed a funding round from Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) for an...

eat MEVP Investment

Bahrain

Tech and innovation are at the core of the ‘New GCC’ investment opportunities as revealed ‘Gateway Gulf’

Over 500 international investors and select business leaders flocked to Bahrain to explore how to unlock opportunities across the...

Gateway Gulf Investor Forum Bahrain startups

Bahrain

Gateway Gulf Investor Forum 2018

Gateway Gulf Investor Forum 2018 will bring together 500+ global investors and CEOs from a variety of sectors, including oil and gas, real...

Bahrain Bahrain EDB Gateway Gulf Investor Forum

Bahrain

How Bahrain is growing into a startup haven

In 2017, Bahrain ranked second in the MENA in terms of Ease of Doing Business, and very good reasons have endorsed this ranking. The number...

Bahrain Ecosystem startups

Bahrain

400 international participants attended Follow the Leaders’ event in Bahrain

‘Follow the Leaders’ conference which took place in Bahrain, brought together 400 international entrepreneurs, angel investors,...

follow the leaders Bahrain Thinkers and Doers

Bahrain

unbound Bahrain 2018

On March 7-8, unbound brings its innovation festival to Bahrain, celebrating The Kingdom’s commitment to fuelling a digital future...

Bahrain EDB Innovation

Bahrain

Seedstars reveals why Bahrain might be the next startup hub in the region

“Ecosystem, it’s a bit of a cliche, an important one though.” This is how Simon Galpin, managing director at...

seedstars summit Seedstars Summit

Bahrain

Bahrain’s FinTech Bay, a new accelerator for startups

In February 2018, a new accelerator is set to officially kick off in Bahrain. The new facility will be focused on fintech startups in the...

Fintech accelerator Bahrain

Bahrain

Bahrain’s football app Malaeb closes a seed round investment

Bahraini app Malaeb, which helps users match players and book a football field, has recently closed a seed round for an undisclosed amount,...

Malaeb Inspire Ventures Vision ventures

Bahrain

Seedstars GCC

Seedstars World is on a mission to identify the best seed-stage entrepreneurs and provide them with an opportunity to win up to USD 1...

GCC Gulf seedstars

Bahrain

Tackling the region’s growing problem, diabetes

For years, Hussain Albar watched his mother suffer from diabetes. Each day, she would prick herself several times in order to log in a...

Healthcare Diabetes uae

Bahrain

Flat6labs and Al Baraka Banking Group to support entrepreneurs

Al Baraka Banking Group and Flat6labs signed an MOU to collaborate in a series of activities including creating the startup and...

Flat6Labs Al Baraka Banking Group entrepreneurship

U.A.E

Mobile payments startups on the rise in MENA

A bevy of geolocation startups already exist in Dubai, yet the Dubai and Riyadh-based Proxera is using its technology to help companies...

seamless ecommerce Retail

Bahrain

Egyptians win big in MITEF Arab Startup Competition

The MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) of the Pan Arab Region announced the winners of the 10th MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup...

MIT Enterprise Forum Pan-Arab

Bahrain

Fetchr buys Bahrain courier company in expansion push

Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Group (YBA Kanoo), one of the largest family-owned multinational businesses in the Middle East, has announced that...

Fetchr acquisition uae

Bahrain

Startup Watch: breaking stuff, pain = gain, and working for the man

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Google Startup Watch Uber

Bahrain

China in Bahrain: building shared interests

For centuries, Bahrain and China have trading with each other along the ancient Silk Road. In the past, Bahrain traded pearls,...

Bahrain china Brinc

Bahrain

Middle East newspapers need to get with the digital plan

We’re on our smart devices, all of the time. We know that. What we also know is that the majority of us are getting our news from...

Digital Media Index Newspapers digital transformation

Bahrain

From adversity to opportunity: Bahrain’s entrepreneurship as economic resilience

For some countries, political and economic disruptions have stalled development. But over the past few decades, Bahrain has boasted a proud...

Bahrain C5 Accelerate Amazon Web Services

Bahrain

Bahrain’s shift from oil to silicon [Opinion]

Of the businesses registered in Bahrain, 80 percent are SMEs and they are basically what drive our economy. We have other large...

Hamed Fakhro Bahrain Advice

Bahrain

Rowad Majlis "The Speed"

Rowad Majlis “The Speed” is a quarterly networking event bringing the local entrepreneurial community together for a...

Bahrain Networking Rowad

Bahrain

Bahrain’s Eat raises $2M

Editor’s note: this article was updated on October 12 to include a comment from Reserve Out. In what they are labelling...

Eatapp eat Bahrain

Bahrain

Turn8 Pre-Accelerator Program

The Turn8 Hub Pre-accelerator Program is a free 2-week intensive program from October 9 to 18 for technology startups in...

Bahrain accelerator Funding

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