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Egypt

2 Egyptian startups heading to Germany’s Pirate Summit

Winners of the event, Germany bound. Two Egyptian startups are heading off to Germany. Crowd Analyzer, a platform analyzing social...

Coterique Crowd Analyzer Greek Campus

Jordan

Innovative thoughts at the Arab youth Employment Conference in Jordan

The Arab youth Employment Conference: Promoting Innovative Solutions to Longstanding Challenges, will be held from April 28-30,2015, in...

International Youth Foundation Silatech Arab youth Employment Conference

U.A.E

Cardiac emergency services app takes first prize at Dubai’s Hacka{MENA}

Finding ways to change the world in seventy-two hours sounds close to impossible, but Hacka {MENA}, Dubai’s first social impact hackathon d...

PwC Hacka EXPO Hacka MENA

Lebanon

Lebanese designers converge to the Disrupt!/Design!/ ideathon

Disrupt!/Design!/ is a focused event organized by Mideast Creatives where designers from a wide variety of fields come together to bring...

disrupt design Mideast Creatives zoomal

Lebanon

USAID launches MENA-II in Lebanon amidst growing landscape of support

Last week, representatives of USAID, the Berytech Foundation (a Lebanese incubator and VC fund), and the United States...

im capital Circular 331 Berytech

Maghreb

Girls in Tech to launch in Morocco to support women entrepreneurs

When I asked Fatim-Zahra Biaz to give me a name of a Moroccan woman tech entrepreneur, she struggles. “This is why we’re launching Girls ...

Girls in Tech women entrepreneurs New Work Lab

Regional

Inspiration, community-building and unicorns at #STEP2015

The STEP Conference, in its fourth year, is quickly becoming one of the most anticipated events in the Arab region when it comes...

STEP2015 Step Conference STEP

Regional

Hatcher announces new seed and Series A funding for MENA startups

Hatcher, the Singapore-based ‘B2B venture builder’ connecting startups in emerging markets with investors, is looking to “double down,” as ...

hatcher fund hatcher beirut

Jordan

liwwa announces seed round led by DASH Ventures, hints at new product launch

liwwa, the Amman-based peer-to-peer Sharia-compliant lending site, has closed a seed round led by DASH Ventures, with participation from...

crowd economy liwwa DASH Ventures

Regional

New fund to invest $10M in idea-stage startups

In order to bridge the funding gap between the early stages of a startup, a new fund lead by Prince Kojo Onioni Zalani from Nigeria is...

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Regional

Facebook launches Blueprint for startups; and main announcements from #F8

In one of its biggest conferences so far, Facebook revealed this week a slew of services, products, and features tailored to almost all...

F8 blueprint Facebook

Regional

Souq.com opens API to the public to spur MENA ecommerce

Souq.com announced Friday that it will be making its API (application program interface) available to the public, allowing third party...

api Souq.com ShopGo

Global

Corridor for UK and MENA investment in SMEs opened up further by UK regulation

The Dubai-based international investment platform Eureeca announced today that they have recently received the stamp of approval from the...

FCA eureeca Dubai

Lebanon

Lebanese startups gain access to more money and support than ever #ArabNetBeirut

The Circular 331 panel. A Lebanon-based $71 million fund focusing on the Middle East and North Africa; plans for a Beirut chapter...

Kuwait National Fund iSME Leap Ventures

Lebanon

Flat6Labs to launch Beirut accelerator

Regional accelerator Flat6Labs will open a chapter in Beirut, cofounder Hany El-Sonbaty announced today at the Arabnet conference. The...

beirut accelerator Flat6Labs

Egypt

Fadi Ghandour: entrepreneurship is a tool for social inclusion

Middle East governments and private sectors must both take action to increase social inclusion in the region if they want to build...

aramex Fadi Ghandour

Maghreb

Sawari Ventures tries to fill Egypt funding gap with $50 million VC fund

Sawari Ventures partners: Hany Sonbaty, Ahmed Alfi, Wael Amin. Egyptian venture capital company Sawari Ventures is turning...

Sawari Ventures morocco tunisia

Kuwait

Physical gets digital for self storage with Kuwait's BoxIt

For decades now, self-storage in America has been big business. Fuelled by that all-American accumulative consumerist instinct, by 2009...

sirdab lab self-storage storage

Jordan

Jordanian founders activate their ideas at lean startup workshop

Many entrepreneurs spend months or even years immersed in their businesses, before they suddenly realize their company has been solving...

lean lean startup Lean Methodology

Europe

Arab Mobile App Challenge highlights new talent in Barcelona

What would you rather win $25,000 to further develop your app, or a ticket to pitch your app at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress? These w...

Arab Mobile App Challenge wORLD MOBILE CONGRESS amac

Jordan

Hivos and Project Pen aim to disrupt electronic publishing in Jordan

In response to the Arab publishing industry’s recent increased attention to the internet, Hivos has dedicated the Disrupt!...

zinc incubator ZINC ebooks

Maghreb

Startup MENA expands its network to Tunisia

After favorable outcome in Egypt, where the Startup MENA team engaged over 400 entrepreneurs in 2014, designing tailored workshops...

Cogite startup mena tunisia

Palestine

PIVOT turns to Kickstarter to fund its journey through Palestinian - and world - history

You might remember the story of Palestinian Asma Jaber and her fiancé Sami Jitan who launched PIVOT, an interactive app that stores ...

Pivot kickstarter palestine

U.A.E

Mobile solar power in UAE gets a $10M boost

Enerwhere, a Dubai-based energy startup company that supplies the commercial sector with transportable solar-hybrid power plants, has...

Adenium Enerwhere uae

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