Maghreb Deadline for Impact Lab's acceleration program, Morocco Impact Lab, an accelerator for impact startups working in partnership with Numa Casablanca, is looking for French-speaking startups... Wamda • 05 May, 2016
U.A.E Deadline for application to Dubai Smartpreneur Competition The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has teamed up with the Smart Dubai Office to launch the Dubai Smartpreneur Competition,... Wamda • 24 March, 2016 smart governance smartpreneurs Apply
Regional StartUp Maroc Championship StartUp Maroc Championship is a disruptive event designed to bring together new and experienced entrepreneurs with investors, mentors, ... Wamda • 16 October, 2015 championship startup maroc entrepreneurs
Regional We need to support MENA’s ‘Silicon Wadis’ Mouayed Makhlouf is the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) director of the Middle East and North Africa region. With a staff of... Mouayed Makhlouf • 15 July, 2015 Mouayed Makhlouf ifc sme
Regional Crowdfunding can be a 'catapult for innovation' in the Middle East Rafat Abushaban, a business development specialist from Gaza, was first introduced to crowdfunding in 2011 when someone told him to check... Hayden Pirkle • 10 March, 2015 eureeca zoomaal indiegogo
Global Does your startup have what it takes to get into a top accelerator? Applying for a MENA accelerator or a global one can turn out to be a time-consuming process, so it’s important to make ... Aline Mayard • 19 January, 2015 Hxlr8r accelerator Hardware
Regional Investor and entrepreneur Noor Sweid talks to Wamda about angel investing [Wamda TV] At our final Mix N’ Mentor of the year in Dubai earlier this month we took some time to talk to the mentors about their particular areas o... Wamda • 31 December, 2014 Noor Sweid mix n mentor dubai Mix n Mentor
Maghreb Mauritania enters the startup game Mauritania's flag flies high. (Image via Xinhuanet.com) Mauritania's tech and startup scene started late but is growing, due to the hard... Aline Mayard • 08 December, 2015 Startup Mauritania
Lebanon Foreign investment elusive for MENA startups, says Lebanese VC When you talk with Khaled Nasr about venture capital investments and the tech startup scene in both Silicon Valley and the Middle East... Anwar Aridi • 02 November, 2014 silicon valley Investment VC investment
Watch the Livestream of Flat6Labs' 4th Demo Day Curious about the latest round of startups coming out of Cairo's accelerator Flat6Labs? Tune in to the Livestream from their Demo Day,... Wamda • 14 January, 2013 Accelerators Angel Investment Flat6Labs
TIEC Digital Arabic Content Workshop As part of their collaboration, the Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) and the United Nations Economic... Wamda • 11 February, 2014 un Egypt cairo
MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition For the first time since its launch in 2005, the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition, operated in partnership with Abdul Latif... Wamda • 23 December, 2013 competition MIT
AstroLabs partners with Blackbox to send a Middle Eastern startup to Silicon Valley AstroLabs, the startup workshop series, is now joining ranks with the organizations working to connect startups in the Middle East with... Wamda • 26 November, 2013 tim draper blackbox silicon valley
What advice did you receive at Mix N' Mentor Beirut? We ask the crowd [Wamda TV] Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Beirut brought together entrepreneurs and mentors from across Lebanon to discuss and workshop the main challenges the... Wamda • 04 November, 2013 Expert Advice Mix n Mentor Advice
Pioneers of Egypt Award, promoting social entrepreneurship, enters second round After the 2011 start of the Egyptian revolution and the subsequent unrest, social entrepreneurship organizations exploded onto the... Hanan Solayman • 09 October, 2013
Gaza Sky Geeks bootcamp prepares entrepreneurs to pitch to investors [Wamda TV] [Arabic] Last week, MercyCorps Gaza and Oasis500 partnered to organize their first week long bootcamp in Gaza, in collaboration with Gaza ... Mariam Hamed • 09 September, 2013 Accelerators Investment Oasis500
Why startups should look outside of traditional VC funding for investment [Wamda TV] Young startups shouldn’t get stuck looking for funding only from VC’s. There’s a world of opportunity in less traditional funding sources to... Wamda • 22 July, 2013 Venture Capital World Economic Forum Advice
How can governments better support entrepreneurs? [Wamda TV] At the World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, Wamda chatted with Yasar Jarrar, a Young Global Leader working as a Partner at Bain ... Nina Curley • 15 July, 2013 World Economic Forum Government Mentorship
Lebanese Startup Kactus Reinvents the Mobile To-Do List [Wamda TV] [Arabic] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, we chatted with Nadi Chemali, the co-Founder of Kactus, an iPhone app in Lebanon that... Wamda • 12 March, 2013 Scaling Accelerators Angel Investment
How to Craft an Effective Pitch: Bill Morrow of Angels Den [Wamda TV] In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Bill Morrow, Founder of Angels Den, a leading angel and entrepreneur network in E... Wamda • 17 February, 2013 Angel Investment Pitching
Rethinking Economic Growth: The Full Report The International Labour Organization, along with UNDP, has released a new report, titled Rethinking Economic Growth: Towards Productive... Wamda • 05 February, 2013 Government Trends
A Chat with Dan Isenberg on Scaling and the Role of Government in Entrepreneurship [Wamda TV] In a candid chat at the recent World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai, Daniel Isenberg, professor at Babson University ... Nina Curley • 02 December, 2012 Advice Ecosystem Government
A Chat with Fadi Ghandour: How to Encourage Entrepreneurship in the Arab World [Wamda TV] At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last month, Fadi Ghandour discussed opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs in the Arab world, in an... Nina Curley • 12 November, 2012 Abu Dhabi Media Summit Ecosystem Fadi Ghandour
A Chat with the Startup Founder Who Secured Over $10 Million on Kickstarter [Wamda TV] It is increasingly important for hardware entrepreneurs to either transform what people are already carrying into wireless devices or... Gulay Ozkan • 31 October, 2012 Conferences Crowdfunding Innovation