Global How Orange is helping entrepreneurs cooperate with telcos [Q&A] Orange, the French multinational telecommunications company, has recently made strides in diversifying its business activities while... Tarek Faycal • 01 October, 2017 orange telecom startup
Saudi Arabia BIBAN Forum 2017: Funding is available, seek mentorship Wamda organized its three-day Mix N’ Mentor event in Saudi Arabia, during the BIBAN Forum 2017, which ran from September 17 till 20,... Staff writer • 24 September, 2017 Saudi Arabia ksa Biban
Saudi Arabia The lifecycle of an app: From an idea to a successful business [slideshow] Daily app downloads have reached 50 million globally, out of which 95 percent get deleted within a month, according to the Digital... Maya Rahal • 27 August, 2017 Digital Leadership in Mobile Apps Innosoft Alsharqia Chamber
U.A.E Sharjah calls on entrepreneurs to participate in the Sheraa Accelerator program The second edition of Sheraa's accelerator program is now accepting UAE and international entrepreneurs applications for its second... Staff writer • 14 August, 2017 Sheraa Sheraa Accelerator program sharjah
Tunisia What I know about building an ecosystem from scratch: Wassel Berrayana In 2000, Wassel Berrayana was an employee in HQ Sun Microsystems, one of Silicon Valley’s companies, when he decided to leave his job... Maya Rahal • 21 August, 2017 it decentralization entrepreneurship
Regional What I know about building ecosystems in emerging countries: Linda Rottenberg It only took Linda Rottenberg a brief conversation with a taxi driver in Buenos Aires to launch Endeavor. Initially an engineer, this... Reine Farhat • 07 August, 2017 What I Know Endeavor Linda Rottenberg
Lebanon Sixth edition of Mix N’ Mentor Beirut coming on September 8 There is a reason why Beirut is talked about so much in the startup world. While the city may not be as big as Cairo or Amman or as... Wamda • 31 July, 2017 mnm Mix n Mentor lebanon
Morocco Dare Inc. a social incubator on the rise in Morocco According to a study by the British Council and the Moroccan CISE (Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship), the... Yassine Bakir • 30 July, 2017 Social Entrepreneurship startups incubation
Lebanon One lucky startup walks away with $50,000 from Speed@BDD’s fourth Demo Day Speed@BDD, a Beirut-based tech startup accelerator, concluded yesterday its fourth acceleration program with a Demo Day. The accelerator is... Staff writer • 07 July, 2017 Speed@BDD Startups competition accelerator
Tunisia B@labs, the first Tunisian incubator in downtown Tunis With up to a million people daily passing along Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, it is a strategic location for the latest addition to the... Maya Rahal • 05 July, 2017 Incubateur BIAT privé
Kuwait Kuwait gets its own Community at #MixNMentor Nuwait Faces old and new were at Kuwait City’s Dar Hamad venue on May 10, to attend the third Mix N’ Mentor Nuwait, hosted by The... Reine Farhat • 12 May, 2017 Mix N' Mentor Nuwait Mentorship The National Fund for SME Development
Regional How to make a good digital media strategy for your business [Wamda TV] In a region where internet penetration is rapidly growing (60 percent in 2017), having a good digital strategy for your business is... Maya Rahal • 09 May, 2017 Jad Yammine content strategies content
Saudi Arabia Gorfah and the seven business models What do you do when you don’t know which business model suits you? This is what Gorfah faced, a Saudi startup working in an $8... Abdulghani Kataya • 01 May, 2017 Saudi Arabia ksa Gorfah
Lebanon Syrian entrepreneurs raise their voices at Jusoor “War is always louder, but we want to raise the voices of youth and entrepreneurship”. This is how Ahmad Bayram, managing... Abdulghani Kataya • 13 April, 2017 jusoor syria Jusoor Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
Morocco Bidaya Space in Morocco searches for seed stars Casablanca greentech incubator Espace Bidaya has helped 19 startups launch into the world since it began, and 14 are on track to survive... Yassine Bakir • 09 April, 2017 morocco Bidaya startups
Regional How to start your journey as a mentor This is an edited crosspost from New Shift. Mentors face many exciting challenges when advising early-stage entrepreneurs: studying a... Zeynep Saka • 15 February, 2017 Mentor Advice
Egypt Innoventures announces $1.6M fund Innoventures CEO, Hesham Wahby, announced December 6 the launch of a new 30 million Egyptian pound (US $1.6 million) fund, Innoventures... Eman Mostafa • 09 December, 2016 Innoventures Reactor VC4Africa
Saudi Arabia Saudi’s 9/10ths graduates first batch Saudi’s 9/10ths Start Up Accelerator has just graduated its first batch of six startups. The startups include Polyinspect, Kaspercab,... Abdullah Baghawitah • 11 December, 2016 9/10th Saudi Arabia ksa
Tunisia Spark Tunisia student geekout bridges social divides Two members of the winning team at Spark Tunisia came from a high school in Aïn Draham, one of the poorest areas in the country. A... Lilia Blaise • 07 December, 2016 Innovation Technologie Start-up
Saudi Arabia What to expect at Arabnet Riyadh 2016 Arabnet Riyadh has proven to be one of the biggest forums in Saudi Arabia: in 2015 it gathered more than a 1,000 participants from all over... Abdulghani Kataya • 04 December, 2016 Saudi Arabia ksa riyadh
Global 7 things Guy Kawasaki wants you to know Guy Kawasaki is an author and public speaker…. and tech evangelist. He worked at Macintosh, then left. Then worked at Apple, and... Lucy Knight • 27 November, 2016 guy kawasaki Steve Jobs
U.A.E Mix N’ Mentor is returning to Dubai, MENA’s startup capital Wamda’s flagship event, Mix N’ Mentor, is finally returning to the uncontested MENA capital for anyone with a startup and the gusto to thr... Wamda • 22 November, 2016 Mix n Mentor Mix N' Mentor 2016 mix n mentor dubai
Egypt The lucky 13: Egypt's incubators Cairo was - surprisingly - named one of the top 10 cities in the world to found a tech-startup last year, and that is likely partly... Radwa Rashad • 24 October, 2016 incubators Egypt Accelerators
Syria Artificial intelligence startup wins at Jusoor competition Arabot, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to build online Arabic chatbots, won first place at Jusoor’s third annual... Maysaa Ajjan • 04 October, 2016 Jusoor Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Glean syria