Riyada Enterprise Development Acquires 50% Stake In The Entertainer Riyada Enterprise Development (RED) has announced its intent to acquire a 50% stake in The Entertainer, a consumer services company that... Nina Curley • 27 March, 2012 Investment
Negotiate Your Startup’s Success, Part One: Talking to Investors Last week, a friend of mine was meeting with a potential investor for a new venture he was kicking off. He called me to discuss and seek... Nadim Haddad • 12 March, 2012 Investment
Advancing Arabic Content for Women: Maroc Numeric Fund Invests $300K in Majalatouki The Maroc Numeric Fund (MNF) announced last week an investment of 2.6 million Moroccan dirhams (around US$ 300K) last week in Majalatouki,... Maya Rahal • 21 February, 2012 Investment Women
Rumor: Saudi Game Platform Kammelna Acquired by Peak Games for $10 million? Today we heard a rumor that Saudi multiplayer card gaming platform Kammelna was acquired by Turkish game developer Peak Games. The... Nina Curley • 13 February, 2012 Gaming Investment
Abraaj Capital Announces Acquisition of SME-Focused Fund Aureos Capital Abraaj Capital is continuing its expansion across the region, today announcing its acquisition of Aureos Capital, a global private equity... Nina Curley • 20 February, 2012
Oasis500 Secures Over $3 million in Investment for Run2Sport and Madfoo3atCom Today tech-focused incubator Oasis500 has announced that two of its startups, Run2Sports and Madfoo3atCom, attracted investment following... Nina Curley • 07 February, 2012
Maroc Numeric Fund Invests 3.5 Million Dirhams in Energy Optimizing Startup Meolink Maroc Numeric Fund (MNF) has added a fourth tech startup to its portfolio this month, announcing investment of 3.5 Moroccan million dirhams... Nina Curley • 31 January, 2012
Getting the Arab Youth into Employment Throughout 2011, youth from across the Arab world have occupied streets, squares and other public places to protest a lack of inclusion, a... Tom Speechley • 14 January, 2012
8 Tips on How to Approach Getting Investment As an entrepreneur you are going to face the experience of sitting down with investors. The experience might be quite overwhelming and... Esraa Haidar • 16 January, 2012
Riyada Enterprise Development and Intel Break into the VOIP market with Investment in Nymgo Small businesses worldwide have a new reason to think about international expansion; Riyada Enterprise Development (RED) and Intel Capital... Nina Curley • 19 December, 2011
5 Crowd Questions from the 2nd Global Entrepreneurship Summit While there have been many interesting panels at the Second Global Entrepreneurship Summit, some of the best questions I heard were asked... Nina Curley • 05 December, 2011
RED, EIB, and Cisco Announce $50 Million Lebanon Growth Capital Fund At the Second Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Istanbul, access to finance was pointed to as the single biggest barrier to... Nina Curley • 04 December, 2011
MarkaVIP Announces $5 Million in Funding From Lumia Capital and Invus Amman-based private online sales club MarkaVIP has announced $5 million in investment led by Lumia Capital with participation from... Nina Curley • 06 December, 2011
Saudi Telecom Company Launches $50 Million Fund to Support Tech SMEs Saudi IT entrenpreneurs now have even more options for support. Saudi Telecom Company (STC) Group recently announced its investment in a... Nina Curley • 22 November, 2011
Moroccan Craigslist Competitor Soukaffaires.ma Announces $500K Investment from Maroc Numeric Fund Soukaffaires.ma, a Moroccan portal for online classified ads, has announced today that it received 4.2 dirhams (~US $500,000) in investment... Nina Curley • 15 November, 2011
Investors See Turkey as Pilot Market for Western Companies to Enter the Middle East Without a doubt, there has been a boost in entrepreneurship over the last two years in emerging markets. We’ve witnessed the launch of s... Gulay Ozkan • 09 November, 2011
Egypt 2.0: The Investor Perspective Spring’s fervent revolution has given way to a dry summer in Egypt. As demonstrators streamed back into Cairo's Tahrir Square recently to p... Nina Curley • 08 September, 2011
Building Optimism in North Africa: Abraaj’s Amundi Acquisition In North Africa, there’s more reason for optimism among the entrepreneurship community today. Abraaj Capital’s recent acquisition of the Nor... Nina Curley • 25 September, 2011
How To Create a Good Relationship with a VC Venture capital funding is a relationship, not a transaction, argues Nat Goldhaber Nat Goldhaber is co-founder and managing director of... Wamda • 16 September, 2010
The Definitive Guide to MENA Venture Capital Veeceepreneur: an entrepreneur that is eligible for VC funding Looking for venture capital funding? You may just want to print a copy of... Wamda • 06 April, 2011
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
Regional We need to support MENA’s ‘Silicon Wadis’ Mouayed Makhlouf is the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) director of the Middle East and North Africa region. With a staff of... Mouayed Makhlouf • 15 July, 2015 Mouayed Makhlouf ifc sme
Lebanon Foreign investment elusive for MENA startups, says Lebanese VC When you talk with Khaled Nasr about venture capital investments and the tech startup scene in both Silicon Valley and the Middle East... Anwar Aridi • 02 November, 2014 silicon valley Investment VC investment
What advice did you receive at Mix N' Mentor Beirut? We ask the crowd [Wamda TV] Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Beirut brought together entrepreneurs and mentors from across Lebanon to discuss and workshop the main challenges the... Wamda • 04 November, 2013 Expert Advice Mix n Mentor Advice