Saudi Arabia Core Vision acquires stake in the Chairman Group Saudi Arabia-based venture capital firm Core Vision has acquired a stake in The Chairman Group, a holding group with five diversified... News • 23 October, 2023 CoreVision
Bahrain Savii expands to Bahrain following pre-Seed round Savii, a UAE-based neobank for children, has launched its services in Bahrain after raising a pre-Seed round from angel investors in the... News • 24 January, 2022 Savii neobanks
Egypt Fawry to raise $50.8 million growth capital, explores a US Listing Cairo-based fintech Fawry plans to raise $50.8 million of growth capital through a rights issue to existing shareholders, to be used to... News • 20 January, 2022 fawry Fintech
Saudi Arabia UAE-based cloud kitchen kaykroo expands operations into Saudi Arabia UAE-based cloud kitchen kaykroo has expanded its services to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. Launched in September 2020 by Jihad El-Eit and... News • 12 October, 2021 kaykroo foodtech cloud kitchen
Regional Mena's mental health startups support fellow entrepreneurs' mental health and wellbeing Wamda and Microsoft for Startups have published a research report on the impact of Covid-19 on the state of mental health and... Wamda • 29 August, 2021
Regional What is growth hacking? It took Nader Sabry 139 attempts before he launched a prayer mat designed to alleviate pain using NASA technology. Once the prototype was... Wamda • 05 May, 2021 Growth hacking
U.A.E How local businesses support the economic fabric of countries By Miguel Angel Povedano, chief commercial officer at Majid Al Futtaim Retail The magnitude, complexity, and socioeconomic... Thought Leadership • 28 May, 2020 Majid Al Futtaim Holding Majid Al Futtaim
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
Regional How do you create a good company culture? Dawn Metcalfe is a workplace culture advisor and managing director at PDSi MEA. She is also the author of Managing the Matrix and The... Thought Leadership • 26 September, 2019 culture company culture Leadership
Regional How Middle East startups can win on social Lama Abdelbarr leads on digital communications for Middle East & Africa at Talkwalker, a social media analytics platform uses... Thought Leadership • 11 July, 2019 Social Media Digital Marketing how to
Lebanon The challenges facing Lebanon's fashion ecosystem Christina Chehade is the managing director at Endeavor Lebanon Lebanese designers have been rising in the ranks, dominating... Thought Leadership • 30 May, 2019 Fashion fashion supply chain
U.A.E Souq becomes Amazon.ae in the UAE Source: The National Amazon and Souq on Wednesday announced the launch of Amazon.ae, which replaces souq.com in the UAE nearly two years... News • 01 May, 2019 news Amazon Souq.com
Saudi Arabia In conversation with Abdulmajeed Alyemni of KSA's Salasa Salasa is a logistics fulfilment company based in Saudi Arabia. Working with e-commerce companies, Salasa fulfils their orders, packs them... Triska Hamid • 05 March, 2019 Logistics Saudi Arabia
Regional Namshi latest e-commerce platform to expand to Egypt as competition heats up Namshi is set to expand to Egypt and establish a logistics base in Saudi Arabia following Emaar Malls' full acquisition of the... Triska Hamid • 03 March, 2019 E-commerce Namshi Noon
Egypt Egypt's growing interest in Africa Toward the end of last year, billboards adorned Egypt’s capital city of Cairo with adverts for Africa-focused conferences and... Yasmeen Nabil • 25 February, 2019 africa African Summit Swvl
Regional Is there a role for startups in the Islamic economy? With 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide, the Islamic economy is a lucrative sector, worth an estimated $2.1 trillion according to the State of... Pamela Kesrouani • 04 February, 2019 Islamic Banking islamic finance Fintech
Kuwait The growth of e-groceries in Kuwait InstaSalla is a Kuwait-based e-grocery company launched in 2016 by Smart Mart, an e-commerce platform. Today, InstaSalla is the leading... Wamda • 31 January, 2019 e-grocery online grocery kuwait
Regional Thinking of expanding to another country? Here are some points to consider Moatassem Moatez has launched and scaled several startups in his role as business partner at Innovest Middle East. Geographical... Thought Leadership • 24 January, 2019 Expansion growth Mentorship
Morocco Morocco's WaystoCap expands to West Africa Source: Tech Voice Africa Moroccan e-commerce startup WaystoCap is expanding to West Africa after having opened two new... News • 17 December, 2018 waystocap E-commerce b2b
U.A.E Souq.com opens Dubai centre that will create 600 jobs Source: The National Souq.com, the e-commerce platform Amazon bought for $580 million (Dh2.13 billion) last year, has opened a centre in... News • 17 December, 2018 souq Souq.com Amazon
Egypt From Transport to Fintech: RiseUp Concludes its Sixth Edition The sixth edition of the RiseUp Summit in Cairo closed with several announcements, engaging discussions and the inevitable bustle of the... Wamda • 10 December, 2018 #entrepreneurship #RiseUp #AimHigh
U.A.E WeInvest sets sights on UAE Source: Finextra WeInvest, a Singapore-based digital wealth services and robo-advisory firm, announced today its expansion will be into... News • 08 November, 2018 Fintech Hive DIFC
Global What does Careem’s expansion to Sudan mean for local players? Sudan, a country with a population of around 40 million, has gone both unnoticed and untouched by regional and international tech players,... Wamda • 12 June, 2018 careem Sudan Expansion
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... Rana Freifer • 15 May, 2018 Gateway Gulf Investor Forum Bahrain startups