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Maghreb

Startup Maroc Championship showcases potential of Morocco’s ecosystem

StartUp Maroc brought together 60 startups for two days of pitching. (Images via StartUp Maroc) This year's Startup...

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U.A.E

Dubai signs data sharing law

Dubai’s goal of becoming the smart city of the Middle East got a little closer this week when they announced the signing of a Dubai...

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U.A.E

Mix N' Mentor's 2015 roadshow brings the Marketplace Edition to Dubai

Mix N' Mentor serves up deep expertise in a casual atmosphere. (Images via Wamda) Dubai will host Wamda’s fifth and final Mix...

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Turkey

Webrazzi Summit 2015, a springboard for Turkish techheads

Winners of the Webrazzi Summit 2015. (Image via Webrazzi) As several hundred innovative minds gathered over two days to share ideas and...

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U.A.E

Arab Future Cities Summit Dubai 2015

The second installment of the annual Arab Future Cities Summit Dubai will be held under the patronage of the Government of Dubai after...

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U.A.E

AstroLabs and Google officially open their coworking space

AstroLabs audience during the launch. (Images via AstroLabs) Just over a year since AstroLabs first announced they would be...

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Kuwait

Nuwait launches to celebrate entrepreneurs' success stories in Kuwait

This article was originally published on Nuwait. One of the core issues Kuwait is facing at the moment is the need to find more private ...

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Egypt

KarmSolar, first Egyptian company to get license for off-grid solar power plant

Update: This article has been updated to include KarmSolar's largest deal to date, announced on October 18. Solar energy...

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Turkey

Local funding for Turkish startups still lacking

Startup Istanbul attendees vowing to stay true to entrepreneurship. (Image via Startup Istanbul) This year's Startup Istanbul has...

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Lebanon

Former Lebanese bakery serves up innovation

The Obsessive Drafter hard at work. (Image via theBakery) Let’s head to theBAKERY, a cozy design lab in Beirut's Mar Mikhael n...

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Regional

Wamda and GE launch 6 weeks MEMakers venture program between GE mentors and regional startups

GE Mentors and entrepreneurs enjoying the introductory dinner. Wamda and General Electric (GE) have kicked off their latest collaboration,...

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Global

The Islamic economy: untapped opportunity for entrepreneurs?

The second edition of the Global Islamic Economy Summit was an opportunity for stakeholders to collaborate and progress the Islamic...

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Lebanon

UK Lebanon Tech Hub’s 15 startups off to London

The startups going to London, and continuing in Beirut received certificates of their achievement. (Images via Lucy Knight) The first 15...

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U.A.E

Melltoo launches premium service

Things are moving fast at Melltoo Marketplace. The Dubai-based mobile classifieds startup has just rolled out a new premium service just a...

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Egypt

Egyptian social entrepreneurship incubator aims to help the neediest

A year ago the Misr El Kheir foundation launched GESR, an Egyptian incubator for social entrepreneurship, with the...

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U.A.E

Taskspotting app raises $1.2M Series A round

Market research app Taskspotting has announced the closing of their Series A round, to the tune of $1.2 million, led by Mena Venture...

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Oman

One-stop shop for Oman’s entrepreneurs launches at Oman SME Summit 2015

Al Sayyid Dr. Adham Turki Al Said addresses the summit. (Images via International Finance Magazine) Omani entrepreneurs in search of...

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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...

U.A.E

Mini Exchange secures over $1M in seed funding

Screenshot of MiniExchange for Eid sale. Mini Exchange, an outlet for childrens retailers' and an online marketplace for parents to buy...

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Lebanon

Ride sharing app wins $20K in AUB contest

Lujain Nabaa, Mohamad Nabaa, and Ralph Khairallah of tulos accept this year's AUB Samir and Claude Abillama Eco-Entrepreneurship...

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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...

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Palestine

No electricity, no problem: Startup Grind Gaza succeeds despite obstacles

Despite difficulties, Dave McClure, right, managed to get to Gaza for its second Startup Grind event, and it was a success. (Image via Ain...

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Turkey

500 Startups announces new investment team in Turkey

500 Startups is boosting it’s presence in Turkey. This week the venture firm and early stage accelerator announced new venture partner E...

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Regional

Africa Code Week aims to teach 20,000 children to code in one week

Almost everybody has heard of Code.org, the American non-profit that aims to get kids to code. They’re hard to miss. In 2013, the o...

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