Wamda

UniVenture, Tunisian incubator launched by business angels, seeks applicants

UniVenture's first graduating class In May 2010, ten Tunisians entrepreneurs created the Carthage Business Angel association to...

Business Angels Incubator

Mix n' Mentor Cairo mentors seek to remedy challenges faced by a growing, but fraught, community

The world of entrepreneurship is full of obstacles, especially in the Arab world. These can be legal procedures, development, employment,...

Recently launched Egyptian app aims to help eliminate fake media reports

During a heated political debate that took place in Cairo after the events of June 30th 2013, three Egyptians, freshly graduated from...

news Mobile

What it will take to maximize business success in the Middle East

How can business choices yield high profits and high social impact in a rapidly changing consumer culture? What are the...

Wharton

A radical solution to the region's payment challenges, from serial ecommerce entrepreneur

At this point, it wouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that Moustafa Mahmoud eats, drinks, and sleeps e-commerce, in addition to having l...

payment solutions uae cash-on-delivery

7 Palestinian startups vie for Arabreneur investment at recent pitch event

“These startups are as good as any in Toronto, Barcelona, or London,” said Palestinian entrepreneur extraordinaire Dr. Abdulmalek Al-Jaber ...

pitch event arabreneur palestine

Intel Egypt denies rumors blaming partial shutdown on political woes

In the midst of a not-so-pleasant economic situation in Egypt, Intel made headlines last week. A number of online news sources reported...

Intel Egypt

Jordan

MXD raises $1M to launch 3D printing tool for the masses

“This year, 3D printing will be going mainstream in the U.S. and Europe, and we hope to become one of the big fish and set standards in the ...

3d printer 3D Investment

Having successfully crowdfunded, Moroccan-American smart doorbell Chui plots next steps

The story of Chui, a new generation of intercom, isn’t one you hear every day. Its trajectory has involved the city of Dallas, t...

Gadget morocco

Palestinian startup AidBits aims to streamline the aid sector

NGOs aren’t known for being the most efficient organizations. The amount of bureaucratic navel gazing, however important, it takes to get d...

aidbits arabreneur palestine

Iraq

Iraqi startup Miswag.net helps merchants transition to the internet

Miswag.net, Baghdad’s first internet-based startup with real potential to grow, launched less than a month ago to help local merchants in B...

PAYMENT iraq Delivery

Endeavor Jordan selects 3 startups to advance to International Selection Panel

Four of Jordan’s most promising entrepreneurs gathered recently for Endeavor Jordan’s Local Selection Panel (LSP), where they pitched the...

Jordan Endeavor Competitions

How can the Arab world break barriers to scale?

Editor’s note: Fadi Ghandour is the the Chairman of Wamda, the founder of Aramex, and board member of Endeavor, an international non...

Fadi Ghandour

'Internet Revolution' gains steam in Egypt; can it meaningfully challenge Big Internet?

In an attempt to defend citizens’ right to a decent internet connection at a reasonable price, a public campaign called Report an D...

Egypt

China's largest search engine takes on Google in Egypt

The digital media scene – especially that in the Arab region – seems to be an appealing market for competition between China and the U.S., ...

Baidu china Egypt

Fresh off Kickstarter glory, Integreight gears up for 1Sheeld due date

$85,210 USD. That’s how much funding the Egypt-based startup Integreight attracted for its award-winning product 1Sheeld during its 30-day ...

1sheeld arduino Hardware

Can lean e-commerce site ShuGeek bootstrap indefinitely?

One month was all it took to launch ShuGeek, the website for so-called geeky products in the UAE. The team, adopting a lean startup...

Technology E-commerce

KarTag enters the Cairo carpooling market with a user-generated 'pure carpooling' model

Egypt suffers from an astonishing amount of automobile-related pollution, traffic, and parking problems. Egyptian entrepreneurs have...

Car Service Coworking Sharing Economy

Social entrepreneurship incubator in Tunisia seeks to foster civic engagement

In Tunisia, the revolution has lead to a real revival of civic engagement. To help this movement bear fruit and be sustainable, a...

Incubator Social Entrepreneurship

What your ideal term-sheet should look like

Regional

How to raise $18M in the Middle East? 5 tips from MarkaVIP founder Ahmed Alkhatib

How do you raise $18 million USD in the Middle East? It’s not easy. Last week I sat down with Ahmed Alkhatib, the man behind the...

MarkaVIP

Thought Leadership