Four Bahraini Startups Graduate from Local Accelerator Tenmou, Bahrain's first Y Combinator-style accelerator, has announced the graduation of its first round of startups, focusing on IT... Nina Curley • 01 February, 2012
Envestors next meeting: Matching entrepreneurs with investors Envestors Private Investor Network is organizing an event on January 30 from 6.30pm to 8.30pm featuring new companies who are seeking... Wamda • 23 January, 2012
China's Haxlr8r Accelerates Hardware Startups; Wamda to Connect Arab Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurs who have been looking to manufacture hardware cheaply in China now have better access to infrastructure, with the launch of... Nina Curley • 13 January, 2012
Girls Take the Lead as Sherkitna Trains Public High Students in Entrepreneurship A new initiative is launching in Jordan to help public high school students develop entrepreneurship skills during the school... Nina Curley • 12 January, 2012
Egyptian Accelerator Flat6Labs Graduates First Cycle of Tech Startups Egypt’s newest seed stage accelerator, Flat6Labs, has graduated its first group of startups, culminating in a Demo Day at their Cairo c... Nina Curley • 17 January, 2012 Accelerators Flat6Labs
ImHalal Sends Wake Up Call to Arab Investors As It Goes To The Deadpool In September 2009, during the month of Ramadan, a young Kuwaiti-Iranian entrepreneur named Reza Sardeha launched “ImHalal”, a new search eng... Maya Rahal • 09 January, 2012
Crowdfunding to the Rescue: How Kickstarter and Sprowd Help Startups Interested in starting up a new project but confused about where to get funding? In the last couple of years, we’ve seen the rise of a new t... Souhail Khoury • 21 December, 2011
A Look at Seedcamp, Europe's Hottest Accelerator As venture incubators sprout up around the globe, pledging to nourish the next generation of startups in a period of global recession, they... Gulay Ozkan • 23 November, 2011 Accelerators
Winning Startups Target Education and Environment at GEW Entrepreneurs Forum ‘Entrepreneurs are important because they create wealth for the society, and usually take less than 1% of what they create. Steve Jobs only ... Fernande van Tets • 18 November, 2011
Matching Entrepreneurs with Investors in Palestine It’s been said often that perseverance is the key to success in the region, especially in Palestine. Yet while options for funding are g... Nina Curley • 05 October, 2011
GIST Launches Competition to Fund Societal Change Do you have an idea whose time has come? If so, it’s now even easier to get funding this fall. GIST, the Global Innovation through Science a... Nina Curley • 04 October, 2011
Wamda Announces Commitment to Follow On Funding for Oasis500 Startups Today, Wamda is announcing a strategic partnership with Oasis500, Jordan’s entrepreneurship accelerator. Through the Wamda Fund (yes there i... Wamda • 02 November, 2011
Top 10 Accelerators in the Middle East and North Africa So you’ve written a quick pitch of your idea, sketched out your market, come up with some monetization options, taken stock of y... Nina Curley • 28 September, 2011 Accelerators
Shaking the Money Tree: The Search for Financing When it comes time to seek financing your startup enterprise, do you know your options? Mathew Georgiou, MediaSpark Inc. This article ... Wamda • 18 September, 2010
Seriously Funny: Jordanian comedy portal Talasim Late last September, Talasim.com, took one of the six winning spots at the UK's Seedcamp, earning 50,000 Euros in funding. But as the... Wamda • 27 July, 2010
Access-To-Finance: an Analysis of Egyptian Firms by Ayman Ismail Access-to-finance is a key aspect of entrepreneurial development as well as economic growth in emerging economies. As... Wamda • 23 August, 2010
Regional StartUp Maroc Championship StartUp Maroc Championship is a disruptive event designed to bring together new and experienced entrepreneurs with investors, mentors, ... Wamda • 16 October, 2015 championship startup maroc entrepreneurs
What can the Bank of Palestine do to better support startups? [Wamda TV] At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting on the Middle East and North Africa in the Dead Sea, Jordan this May, we tried to... Nina Curley • 11 July, 2013 Banks Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Ecosystem
What's dangerous about the hype in the Middle East startup ecosystem [Wamda TV] At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting on the Middle East and North Africa in Dead Sea, Jordan this May, we chatted with Usama Fayyad, E... Nina Curley • 09 July, 2013 Hype World Economic Forum Incubator
What are the biggest challenges faced by Bahraini entrepreneurs? We ask the crowd [Wamda TV] During Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor event in Manama, we asked attendees to share their biggest challenges to building their startup. Equity fun... Wamda • 03 July, 2013 Bahrain Mix n Mentor Ecosystem
Egyptian Startup Seeks to Streamline Travel Booking in the Middle East [Wamda TV] [Arabic] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, we chatted with Hussein Al-Sakkaf, Founder and CEO of Go Ejaza, a travel planning platform f... Wamda • 13 March, 2013 Egypt Travel
How to Nurture Global Ambition: A Chat with John Bradford of Springboard [Wamda TV] Springboard is an intensive 13-week mentor-led business accelerator program based in London and Cambridge that offers entrepreneurs office... Gulay Ozkan • 09 January, 2013 Accelerators Advice Scaling
HemenKiralik For Apartments Rental: Focusing on the Turkish Market [Wamda TV] During the Webrazzi Summit, Remi Onur, Co-founder and CEO at HemenKiralik.com, speaks to us about the startup's interface and future plans.... Wamda • 27 December, 2012 Call Centers Investment Travel
How KAUST Entrepreneurship Center Works to Incubate Startups in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV] Ahmed Abdulwahab, Manager of the the KAUST Entrepreneurship Center, explains what the newly-launched center and seed fund is doing to... Nina Curley • 22 April, 2012 Accelerators Ecosystem MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition