Maghreb Why accelerators are flocking to Tunisia Are you ready for more Demodays? (Image via Flat6Labs) Tunisia has an impressive number of entrepreneurship training and mentoring... Aline Mayard • 11 November, 2015 Start'act Wikistartup Founders Institute
U.A.E UK’s Deliveroo makes its UAE debut Deliveroo's app now available in Dubai. (Images via Deliveroo) The UK-based food delivery site Deliveroo is launching in the UAE. With a... Lucy Knight • 25 November, 2015 Index Ventures Accel Hummingbird Ventures
Maghreb Algeria to get its first coworking space Coworking and more at Sylabs (Image via Sylabs) The Algerian web community has many brillant tech minds, motivated marketers, and... Aline Mayard • 19 November, 2015 sylabs algeria Coworking Spaces
Egypt Incubators prompt entrepreneurship in Upper Egypt Hemma encouraged students at Assiut University to apply with innovative ideas. (Images via Hemma) Cairo often takes all the attention of... Sara Aggour • 10 November, 2015 Holol Techno-Falah Upper Egypt
Regional Car-hailing app Careem raises $60M Series C [Editor's note: This article has been updated to include details about Careem's peak pricing change.] Middle East-founded... Rachel Williamson • 10 November, 2015 Wamda Capital Lumia Capital Abraaj Group
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,... Rachel Williamson • 02 November, 2015 JadoPado acquisition Series A
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... Aline Mayard • 02 November, 2015 tangiers tanger Technopark
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... Lucy Knight • 26 October, 2015 Ed Roberto What I Know techstars
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... Sara Kadaoui • 26 October, 2015 impact entrepreneurship Eiréné4Impact morocco
Regional London calling A Lebanese, a Briton, a Dutchman and an Italian walk into a London investment firm. They bond over hip hop. One year later they launch a... Lucy Knight • 21 October, 2015 Braci Hoxton Ventures Slidr
U.A.E May the funds be with you Tom Cruise famously scaling the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. (Image via Paramount Pictures) It is nearly four years since the release of... Rachel McArthur • 21 October, 2015 AlKatraz Production Abu Dhabi Film Commission SANAD
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... Aline Mayard • 27 October, 2015 NUMA Eiréné4Impact morocco
Regional Private equity investors in MENA seek a place in the sun This is a crosspost with Knowledge@Wharton. The backbone of future economic development in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) could hinge... Knowledge @Wharton • 19 October, 2015 IMF Abraaj Group private equity
Turkey 500 Startups launches $15M Turkey fund VC cash is shining on Istanbul's startups. (Image via Mybeautifuladventures.com) 500 Startups has launched a $15 million investment fund... Antoine Abou-Diwan • 22 October, 2015 erhan erdogan Webrazzi Summit yemeksepeti
Maghreb 5 MENA entrepreneurs join Endeavor Endeavor, Moroccan style. (Images via Endeavor) Two Moroccan and three Egyptian entrepreneurs have been selected to join the global... Aline Mayard • 15 October, 2015 morocoo Endeavor
Egypt What Egypt's local investors want Egypt has made headlines lately for attracting a series of high-level venture investments from foreign players, but local investors are... Sara Aggour • 29 September, 2015 KI angels Tennra ideavelopers
Egypt Yaoota raises $2.7M Series A from UAE's KBBO Yaoota cofounders Sherif ElRakabawy and Mohamed Ewis (Image via Rachel Williamson) Egyptian startup Yaoota has landed a $2.7 million... Rachel Williamson • 01 October, 2015 yaoota Series A Egypt
U.A.E Dubai’s smart city goal creeps closer Dubai wants to be a world-leader in building smart cities and it’s attracting corporate players from around the world clamouring to be i... Pamela Kesrouani • 20 September, 2015 Dubai Design District cisco MEMakers
Iraq Exchanges are creating Iraqi changemakers Over the past 10 years some 3,000 young Iraqis have travelled on exchange programs funded by foreign governments, and it's some of... Marwan A. Jabbar • 05 October, 2015 cultural exchange entrepreneurship iraq
Saudi Arabia How this Saudi app developer is nurturing talent [Update]: Ibtikar released a new trivia game called HEXA, with tens of thousands of questions in more than 15 different fields... Ahmed Gabr • 13 October, 2015
Regional She Entrepreneurs 2016 applications open She Entrepreneurs is a leadership program for young emerging women social entrepreneurs in the Middle East, North Africa and Sweden. The... Wamda • 17 September, 2015 Arab women Sweden SheEntrepreneur
Regional Beco Capital's tech investment 'periodic table' Tech investment firm Beco Capital have concluded that over the last 12 months the VC investment activity within the Middle East... Lucy Knight • 21 September, 2015 investing BECO Capital Venture Capital
Regional Raising the right kind of money [Opinion] I was at last weekend’s Mix N’ Mentor Beirut, and after sitting in on two fundraising mentorship sessions it became clear that... Fares Ghandour • 10 September, 2015 startup financing convertible note debt financing
U.A.E Compareit4me closes Series A round of $3M Compareit4me, the Dubai-based price comparison site for financial products has closed a Series A round of $3 million, lead by STC... Lucy Knight • 14 September, 2015 uae Investment Financial price comparison