Jordan Jordanian edtech startup Little Thinking Minds raises $500,000 to close its Series A with ~$1.8 million Source: MenaBytes Amman-based edtech startup Little Thinking Minds has raised another $500,000 to close its Series A with $1.765... News • 20 May, 2019 EdTech Investment children
Jordan Mejuri raises $23 million Series B Source: MenaBytes Toronto-based direct-to-consumer jewelry startup Mejuri has raised $23 million in Series B led by New Enterprise... News • 28 April, 2019 Investment jewelry series B
Jordan PointCheckout raises $600,000 UAE-based PointCheckout, an online payment method for reward points, has closed a seed round of $600,000 led by Arzan VC, 500 Startups,... Yasmeen Nabil • 10 April, 2019 seed Seed funding seed investment
Jordan Amman based Oasis500 announces partial exit from Little Thinking Minds Source: Menabytes Amman-based accelerator and seed investor Oasis500 has announced partial exit from Jordanian edtech startup Little... News • 04 February, 2019 EdTech Jordan Exit
Jordan Little Thinking Minds raises $1.26 million in Series A Jordan-based Little Thinking Minds has raised $1.26 million in a Series A round led by Egypt’s Algebra Ventures with participation... Triska Hamid • 09 December, 2018 EdTech Education Series A
Iraq Jusoor Startup Roadshow The Startup Roadshow is Gathering Syrian Entrepreneurs Across 5 Cities to Support Refugee-Led Startups The Startup Roadshow, a... Wamda • 30 August, 2018
Jordan Mix N’ Mentor is back with a new format The 2018 roadshow for Wamda's flagship event, Mix N' Mentor, is about to kickoff starting with Amman on August 16th. The... Reine Farhat • 31 July, 2018 Mix N' Mentor 2018 amman
Egypt Jordan's POSRocket raises $1.5 million in a round led by Algebra Ventures POSRocket, a cloud-based POS Jordanian startup, has announced $1.5 million in a funding round led by $50 million Cairo-based venture... Staff writer • 09 July, 2018 Algebra Ventures KISP Ventures Arzan VC
Jordan Jamalon to launch express personalized photo albums service in the Middle East in partnership with Taopix Jamalon, the Middle East region’s largest online book store with a catalogue of over 10 million titles, announced a strategic... Staff writer • 15 April, 2018 Jordan uae Jamalon
Jordan Teaching coding will lead digital jobs, and this Jordanian startup is seizing this opportunity Even though digital talent is still scarce globally, and in the Middle East particularly, the fast-growing digital economy is leading an... Rana Freifer • 02 April, 2018 Jordan usa Y Combinator
Jordan Partnerships between Jordan’s Central Bank and the private sector are integral to financial inclusion The Central Bank of Jordan has made financial inclusion a priority and is working with the Jordanian private sector to expand financial... Priya Vithani • 20 November, 2017 Jordan central bank of jordan Private sector
Jordan Humanizing e-learning as a response to crises in the MENA The need for humanitarian aid in the MENA region has been on the rise since the breakout of the Arab revolts and more specifically the... Tala El Issa • 29 October, 2017 Kaya MOOC content
Jordan Jordanian addressing startup raises $100K from GMS Ventures & Investments NavCode is a Jordanian smart addressing app that contains user information such as name, phone number, building number and others. It... Staff writer • 16 October, 2017 NavCode Addressing VC
Jordan Reasons behind the mushrooming of electric cars on Jordan’s roads [Q&A] In 2016, electric car sales hit a new record with over 750,000 sales worldwide. The same year also witnessed the highest number of electric... Tala El Issa • 15 October, 2017 Jordan uae Electric vehicles
Jordan Geeks focuses on automation to scale business operations Time flies when you're having fun! Dubai-based startup Geeks, launched in December 2014 by the Jordanian partners Mousa Yassin and... Elias Jabbe • 04 October, 2017 Geeks it b2b
Jordan Jordan’s POSRocket raises $650K from Jabbar Internet Group, Arzan VC, and Propeller Inc. POSRocket, the Amman-based startup that sells cloud-based point-of-sale solutions to SMEs raised $650,000 as seed investment from Jabbar... Staff writer • 20 September, 2017 posrocket Point of sale Cloud Computing
Jordan When refugee kids’ drawings inspire a new social enterprise in Jordan Similar to many millennials, Jordanian Zaid Souqi gets bored very quickly; within several years he changed jobs around four times, but it... Tala El Issa • 17 September, 2017 Jordan Social Entrepreneurship The Orenda Tribe
Jordan Refugee Learning Accelerator [Call for applications] The Refugee Learning Accelerator supports engineers and computer scientists from the Middle East to create technologies for refugee... Wamda • 29 August, 2017 accelerator Refugee MIT
Jordan Are Arabs tuning in to podcasts? [Q&A] In 2006, only 22 percent of the adult population in the United States were aware of the term ‘podcast’, but this figure rose to... Tala El Issa • 21 August, 2017 podcast Sowt
Global How to face the fear of missing out in the workplace [Podcast] Whether we like it or not, we are constantly being affected by the ‘fear of missing out’ or ‘FoMO’, a term coined... Tala El Issa • 20 August, 2017 Patrick McGinnis entreprenership workplace
Jordan This is how Jamalon brought print-on-demand to the MENA Ala Alsallal was still a university student when he perceived a need for high-quality published content in the Arab world. While he was... Tala Salem • 16 August, 2017 Jordan Jamalon e-books
Jordan Ashyaat: The perks of ‘social selling’ in Jordan and beyond We’ve all seen TV ads promoting gadgets that make you look better or make your life easier. Think of that enthusiastic man sitting... Tala El Issa • 23 July, 2017 Jordan Ashyaat ecommerce
Jordan Innovation in the humanitarian aid sector helps Jordan’s Syrian refugees Humanitarian organizations are increasingly focusing on innovation, including venture arms, innovation labs, and accelerators, as a means... Tala El Issa • 18 July, 2017 Jordan Humanitarian Aid Innovation
Jordan Lost in translation: How this Jordanian startup is helping the deaf The translation of speech to text in real-time naturally enhances communication between people with hearing impairment and those without... Tala El Issa • 17 July, 2017 Mahmood Darawsheh Jordan Mind Rockets