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Lebanon

Lebanese outpitch internationals at BDL Accelerate

ReAble cofounders Paul Safi and Emile Sawaya. (Image via ReAble) BDL Accelerate's Early Stage Startup Competition saw a staggering...

Early Stage Startup Competition BDL Accelerate Banque du Liban

U.A.E

7 minutes in an Infiniti Q70 for a shot at $40,000

Your passion was unmatched! Congratulations to our 3 entrepreneurs, we can't wait to see what's next for you! pic.twitter.com/I3etOE5IJC — ...

Bookr Infiniti Lab infiniti

Top 6 questions raised at Mix N'Mentor Dubai

U.A.E

Egypt’s Noongam wins top prize at The Entrepreneur Day

Egyptian comic book publishers, Noongam, have snagged the biggest prize at DSOA’s The Entrepreneur Day with their platform Magnoon. Founder ...

Mea 360 Just Mop Guiddoo World

Egypt

RiseUp Summit meets expectations, beats them

A closing keynote: how does entrepreneurship impact on the economy? Well, it depends who you ask. (Images via Rachel...

Oak Investment Partners YCombinator US Aid

Lebanon

Investments announced at Lebanon's BDL Accelerate

[Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include Berytech’s further investments announced on the second...

BDL Accelerate Berytech beirut

Regional

500 Startups announces $30M MENA fund

Silicon Valley-based venture firm 500 Startups announced this week their $30 million fund for MENA startups. The fund, aptly...

Dave McClure Hasan Haider 500 startups

U.A.E

Cisco Dubai successfully hosts IoT World Forum Hackathon

In first place SmartX team with the judges. (Images via BeMyApp) Right on the heels of the Internet of Things World Forum (IoTWF) in...

IoTWorldForum IoT MEMakers

Maghreb

Moroccan smart car app competition to boost local industry

The future of cars? (Image via McMaster.ca) Forgetting where you parked your car is an embarrassing problem that’s about to become a t...

MagNav self-driving car applications

Regional

Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority's Annual Tech Startups Pitching Competition

For The Entrepreneur Day, tech entrepreneurs from all over the world are invited to apply to DSOA's Annual Tech Startups Pitching C...

DSOA competition Dubai

U.A.E

UAE Innovation Week: 800 activities, hackathons, labs, and workshops

Dubai ranked second globally in government procurement of advanced technology products (Images via GE Hewar blog) From November...

UAE innovation week MEMakers Innovation

Egypt

Bedaya’s new fund for Egyptian startups

During the launch of Bedaya Startup Academy in 2015. (Image via Mahi Al Jazzar) Bedaya, Egypt’s first governmental fund that is private s...

Bedaya Startup Academy Bedaya

Palestine

GITR Palestine announces champions

Three startups prevailed as champions of the Get in The Ring challenge, held for the first time in Ramallah on November...

Get In The Ring Foundation ramallah gaza sky geeks

Regional

Lebanese entrepreneurs excel at Harvard Arab Weekend Competition

The WhiteLab team receiving the first prize. (Images via Harvard Arab Weekend) Ten MENA-focused entrepreneurs pitched their startups...

MoviePigs Slighter WhiteLab

U.A.E

Wamda and GE organize closing day of MEMakers Venture Program

GE mentors and MENA entrepreneurs during the mentorship session (Images via Kamel El Asmar) A little over six weeks after launching the GE...

MEMakers GE Venture Program MEMakers

Lebanon

Seedstars World touches down in Beirut

Overall winners Codefish with the Seedstar competitors in Beirut. (Images via UK Lebanon Tech Hub) For the second year running Beirut...

Fallound Merchandizer Seedstars Global

Jordan

Inspire ME creativity conference aims to spark innovation in graphic design

Graphic designers in Jordan are a forward-thinking group, according to Medhat Eid, an Adobe Community Professional based in...

Graphic Design Inspire ME designers

Lebanon

Lebanon's Global Entrepreneurship Week in full swing

GEW Lebanon's official launch at cohost ElementN drew many. (Images via GEW) Lebanon's Global Entrepreneurship Week is in full swing,...

MENA lebanon events

Kuwait

Nuqat’s Copy+Paste Syndrome discusses imitation and innovation

This article is a crosspot with Nuwait. Are there any original ideas? Is imitating another idea a good thing? Does copying ideas encourage...

Nuqat Nuwait kuwait

Iraq

Curing Iraq's coder crisis

Iraqi startups suffer from a critical lack of skilled coders but a new bootcamp in Baghdad called The Week is trying to narrow this talent...

app developers coders The Week

Regional

Beirut's first hackathon for women breaks stereotypes

MENA's future developers pause for a photo at the She Develops hackathon. (Images via Karim Shehab) A lot has been said about the...

android developers She Develops app developers

Jordan

Eureka Tech Talk ignites spark for tech and entrepreneurship in Jordanian kids

Two Eureka students present to the crowd. (Images via Samuel Wendel) Like many countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Jordan is...

Tech Talk global entrepreneurship week Eureka

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...

Start'act Wikistartup Founders Institute

U.A.E

Big Data leading innovation, SmartCon 2015

Bora Arslan believes that big data is overused and exaggerated, creating mistrust in people. (Images via Pamela Kesrouani) Big data “will t...

smartcon Smart Cities MEMakers

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