Wamda

Jordan

Zain Jordan’s commitment to entrepreneurship continues

Zain CEO Ahmad Hanandeh, right, works with entrepreneurs at Mix N' Mentor Amman in 2014, hosted at ZINC. Since first signing a partnership...

Ahmad Hanandeh ZINC Zain Jordan

Kuwait

Kuwait National Fund partners with the World Bank to support local SMEs

The State of Kuwait is aiming to develop the entrepreneurial spirit among Kuwaitis, help the country take a major stride in efforts to...

Kuwait National Fund fund partnership

Regional

OpenSooq and fast-growing social network, LINE, announce partnership

OpenSooq, a classifieds platform for MENA (via Twitter) The MENA online classified platform OpenSooq has announced a strategic partnership...

OpenSooq LINE

Regional

Pitching on the open road: Uber brings MENA entrepreneurs and experts together in 5 cities

Entrepreneurs pitched their startups in cars they hailed through Uber's mobile app. (Image via Maysaa Ajjan) Pitching a business...

Arabnet digital showcase arabnet digital summit UberPITCH

Regional

Arabnet Digital Summit 2015 in Dubai

Arabnet Digital Summit 2015 is one of the biggest event in MENA, gathering thousands of attendees and hundreds of speakers every year...

arabnet digital summit Dubai Arabnet

Bahrain

Bahrain gets its first official angel investor network courtesy Tenmou

An entrepreneur pitches his augmented reality app to investors. (Images via Tenmou) An annoyance for the growing startup scene of the...

Hasan Haider MENA Angel Investment Network Bahrain

U.A.E

Let the coding begin, ArabCode.org launches in Dubai

The three stages of ArabCode.org's plan for coding (Images via ArabCode.org) Back in November 2013 when Dubai won the right to host Expo...

Tecom Investments code.org ArabCode.org

U.A.E

Second Eureeca webinar, on valuation in SME’s

Eureeca is organizing a webinar on the importance of valuation.Valuation is integral in the development of SME’s and companies...

webinar Valuation eureeca

Lebanon

Souk el Tayeb, a social business and its growth in Lebanon [Report]

A social project creating a healthy diet. (Image via Souk el Tayeb) Aramex has published a report, in collaboration with...

Souk el Tayeb aramex wamda

Egypt

The Egyptian ElRe7la camp opens its doors to entrepreneurs

ElRe7la is a community driven organization that brings together entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs by offering an out-of-office experience in...

El Mashrou3 AlMaqarr Coworking Space ElRe7la

U.A.E

Silicon valley’s 500 Startups is organizing a pitching workshop in Dubai

500 Startups is organizing a pitching workshop hosted by AstroLabs in partnership with Nestle and TOP. The event allows entrepreneurs and...

Nestle 500 startups TOP

Regional

Ecommerce set to reach $13.4 billion by 2020, Payfort reports

Payfort announced today the release of its annual report: The State of Payments in the Arab World, at the Ecommerce Show Middle East 2015...

State of Payments 2015 Payfort Report

Global

Lebanese m-health entrepreneur meets President Obama

"Everybody has ideas. Most people are afraid to take first step. Go for it." @mcuban #StartTheSpark @WhiteHouse #PAGE...

Spark Global Entrepreneurship Initiative Global Entrepreneurship Summit White House

Jordan

TOP Academy seeks to create a ‘technical talent pipeline' in Jordan with software engineering course

Dozens of MENA startups rely on the assistance that regional seed accelerators provide to catapult them forward—and it in turn helps the o...

the online project

U.A.E

UAE online listings startup Melltoo raises $205,000 in seed round

UAE startup Melltoo Marketplace recently closed a seed round of $205,000, led by Turn8, Dubai Silicon Oasis...

morrad irsane sharene lee melltoo

Regional

Second Arab Youth Employment Conference discusses solutions to the region

Nabih Bulos, special correspondent, LA Times; Joumana Al Jabri, cofounder, Visualizing Impact; Rabee Zureikat, founder, Zikra...

AYE Conference Silatech Arab youth Employment Conference

Regional

UberPITCH: pitching competition for arabnet digital showcase

Uber and ArabNet are launching UberPITCH, a competition where entrepreneurs have 15 minute online pitch sessions for the chance to...

UberPITCH Uber Arabnet

Jordan

Mix N’ Mentor comes to Jordan this June with new Marketplace Edition

As one of the most vibrant cities in the region's entrepreneurial ecosystem, Amman is going to play host to Wamda’s second Mix N’ Mentor of...

Marketplace Edition Endeavor Jordan amman

Regional

Goldman Sachs leads new $100M round for Hellofood

Hellofood, the global online food delivery platform, whose most recent acquisitions in the region were the food delivery...

investment round hellofood Funding

Turkey

Biggest tech exit in the region, Turkey’s Yemeksepeti acquired for $589M

Delivery Hero, the Berlin-based billion-dollar food delivery service, has acquired Turkey’s Yemeksepeti for $589 million. Not only is this ...

Delivery Hero yemeksepeti Rocket Internet

Lebanon

Zoomaal founder shares tips from $330k Series A round

The Zoomaal team at their offices in Beirut. After raising a seed round of $75,000 in Q3 of 2013 (from Wamda, MEVP, and Sawari Ventures),...

abdallah absi cairo angels zoomaal

Lebanon

Beirut gets a new accelerator, UK Lebanon Tech Hub now open

A giant Twitter deck at the UK Lebanon Tech Hub. (Images via Lucy Knight) Standing on a podium in a carpark in a fast sweltering Beirut,...

UK Lebanon Tech Hub Beirut Digital District lebanon

Jordan

DIY app wins top prize at first ever RedTroops JO Hackathon

The developers of Edy, an iOS app that blends the creative photo sharing elements of Instagram with the DIY work of online marketplaces...

U.A.E

Wamda and General Electric announce partnership

Wamda and General Electric (GE), one of the world’s leading technology companies, are joining hands to enable and support the industrial e...

MEMakers partnership General Electric

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