Egypt MARJ3 secures seed funding Cairo-based education technology (edtech) platform MARJ3 has raised a seed investment round led by Expert DOJO, US-based investment firm,... Wamda • 14 October, 2020 EdTech MARJ3 Seed funding
Tunisia GOMYCODE raises $850,00 pre-Series A round with participation from Wamda Wamda has participated in Tunisia-based edtech startup GoMyCode’s $850,000 in a pre-Series A investment round. The investment... Wamda • 06 October, 2020 GoMyCode Tunis EdTech
U.A.E Adopting a blended learning approach for the future Jamal Al Jassmi is the general manager at Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Studies (EIBFS) As the world resets to... Thought Leadership • 01 October, 2020 EdTech
U.A.E Spartech Ventures invests in UK-based Bibliu UAE-based venture capital (VC) investor Spartech Ventures, has participated in UK-based educational technology (edtech) platform... News • 14 September, 2020 Spartech Ventures EdTech Bibliu
Saudi Arabia Social learning crucial to edtech says Noon Academy founder The coronavirus lockdown shifted attitudes towards education technology (edtech), accelerating its adoption across the Middle East and... Dunya Hassanein • 10 September, 2020 EdTech Noon Academy
Lebanon Geek Express raises $520,000 in pre Series-A Geek Express, an edtech startup based in Lebanon and the UAE, has secured $520,000 in a pre-Series A round from National Talents, IM... News • 24 August, 2020 Geek Express EdTech
Global Foundation Holdings invests in India's Toppr Source: Vccircle Toppr Technologies Pvt. Ltd, which runs an eponymous ed-tech startup, has raised Rs 350 crore ($46 million) in its... News • 29 July, 2020 EdTech Toppr
U.A.E Periscope Media raises seed funding Dubai-based edutainment startup Periscope Media has raised its initial seed round funding. Founded in early 2020, Periscope Media is... News • 09 July, 2020 edutainment Periscope Media
Global Edtech and its roadmap to new realities Wamda hosted an online panel discussion in collaboration with Columbia Global Centers Amman, to address the future of education in the... Wamda • 02 July, 2020 Education EdTech coronavirus
Regional Beyond Incubation: Universities as agents of startup development In the 1990s, professors Henry Etzkowitz and Loet Leydesdorff, put forward the idea of the Triple Helix framework, which highlighted... Shaimaa El Nazer • 04 June, 2020 Education Taqadam startAD
Bahrain Unipal raises seed investment Bahrain-based Unipal has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from angel investor network Tenmou, as part of the fundraising round... Dunya Hassanein • 19 May, 2020 EdTech
Kuwait Baims secures first edtech funding in Kuwait Kuwait-based Baims has secured a seed round funding, the first education technology (edtech) investment in Kuwait. The round was led by... Shaimaa El Nazer • 15 April, 2020 EdTech Education
U.A.E Sheraa awards Little Thinking Minds $100,000 grant Source: Khaleej Times The Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center (Sheraa), has awarded its first Access Sharjah winner, 'Little... News • 06 April, 2020 Sheraa little thinking minds
Global Edtech startups: From perk to necessity Schools and universities were among the first institutions that shuttered their doors around the world in the face of the Coronavirus... Shaimaa El Nazer • 16 April, 2020 Education online learning E-Learning
Regional The Impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the entrepreneurship ecosystem [Survey] As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to impact the way we live, work and operate, very few startups in the region have managed to escape... Wamda • 06 April, 2020
Saudi Arabia In conversation with Mounira Jamjoom of Aanaab Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia-based teacher training platform Aanaab secured a $1.5 million investment round led by Wamda and Nour... Dunya Hassanein • 26 March, 2020 EdTech Aanaab jeddah
Regional Running Remote: 3 Habits of Highly Effective Remote Teams - Growth Velocity Academy Growth Velocity Academy run a number of workshops & boot camps on the subjects of digital marketing and growth hacking, enabling... Lara Fakih • 17 March, 2020
Jordan Abwaab raises $2.4 million pre-seed Jordan-based education technology (edtech) startup Abwaab has closed a $2.4 million pre-seed funding round, led by Adam Tech Ventures and... News • 17 March, 2020 Education online learning abwaab
Saudi Arabia Wamda invests in Arabic teacher training platform Aanaab Wamda has invested in Jeddah-based Aanaab, an education technology (edtech) platform that has raised $1.5 million in its seed round. The... Wamda • 03 March, 2020 Education EdTech wamda
U.A.E The Hub: The Center of Excellence for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Environmentalism GEMS World Academy Dubai (GWA), one of the leading IB+ schools, has been selected as the Center of Excellence for Entrepreneurship... Wamda • 09 January, 2020
U.A.E The UAE is the perfect launchpad for edtech solutions Katia Al-Kaisi is the founder and chief executive officer of Education House Finland which focuses on introducing Finnish education... Thought Leadership • 12 December, 2019 Education EdTech
Egypt COLNN raises $100,000 in seed round Egypt-based education technology (edtech) startup, COLNN has received $100,000 in seed funding from EdVentures which focuses its... Ayesha Ghaffar • 15 July, 2019 EdTech seed fund Investment
Regional The Dreamers 2019 Summer Camp | Technology, Space, and Entrepreneurship Dreamers platform designed to build the workforce of the future and the next wave of entrepreneurs. STEP Group,... Wamda • 16 June, 2019
Egypt In conversation with Sami Al Ahmad of Marj3 For Sami Al Ahmad, applying to study abroad and finding a scholarship was a lengthy and tedious process when the Syrian national was... Yasmeen Nabil • 16 April, 2019 syria cairo startup