Wamda

Regional

Accelerators 2.0: The post-pandemic version

Yousra Diab is the head of programmes at Dubai-based social impact accelerator C3 As the world came to a standstill with the outbreak of...

C3 Accelerators

Egypt

RiseUp concludes its first virtual edition

RiseUp is one of the region's biggest startup events, attracting thousands of participants, giving visitors a glimpse into the Egyptian...

RiseUp Summit Rise Up from Home

Lebanon

Can Lebanon's entrepreneurship ecosystem survive?

Beirut made headlines worldwide as a devastating explosion shook the Lebanese capital’s port area last week, resulting in an...

beirut

U.A.E

eyewa raises $2.5 million pre-series B bridge round

Wamda, the Middle East region's leading startup ecosystem enabler, has invested in UAE-based eyewear e-commerce player eyewa, which has...

eyewa wamda Wamda Capital

Regional

The future of mobility: Buses on demand

This is the first part in a series of features examining the impact of Covid-19 on the region's transport and mobility startups Over...

mobility Swvl Buseet

U.A.E

Putting communities first in a new decade of innovation

By Rashid Al Ghurair, founder and CEO of UAE-based CAFU, a fuel on demand service Entering this new decade just several months ago,...

CAFU

Regional

Majid Al Futtaim: The corporate engaging with startups

Corporates are a necessity in the startup journey. They provide entrepreneurs with the work experience required to understand business and...

Majid Al Futtaim MAF

Regional

Creating a comprehensive model for e-commerce success

Darren Hodgkin, CEO of Digital&Code E-commerce has made massive gains during the Covid-19 pandemic. Consumers were forced to...

E-commerce

Regional

The audiobook opportunity in education

UAE-based audiobook platform Kitab Sawti was recently acquired by Storytel. In this exclusive piece for Wamda, Kitab Sawti's founder...

Kitab Sawti Audiobooks Education

Egypt

Mayday's mission to improve roadside assistance in Egypt

By Mostafa Adel In Cairo alone, it is estimated that traffic issues cost Egypt’s economy $7 billion every year. This figure...

mobility

U.A.E

Has the office become a burden?

Life is returning to offices in the UAE and the wider Middle East region as workers go back to their desks wearing masks and attempting to...

Regional

elGrocer: The lessons we learned in the era of Covid-19

Nader Amiri is the founder of UAE-based e-grocery startup elGrocer E-commerce is on everyone’s mind. There’s a lot being...

e-grocery elGrocer covid-19

Regional

What is the future of events?

Last week, after four long months of coronavirus lockdowns, Dubai hosted its first “in-person” event. AI Everything, held at...

STEP Step Conference eventtus

Bahrain

E-sports and gaming: Mena's new global frontier

Yousef Buhazza is the founder of Unreal Bahrain and vice chairman of the Bahrain Internet Society Growth in Crisis All manner of...

Gaming E-sports

Regional

Real to virtual: Buying and selling property online

Real estate is one sector that appears to have resisted the indelible disruption that has redefined other, traditional sectors like...

Real Estate Proptech

Regional

Adopting emerging technologies in a post-Covid-19 world

By Jad Hajj, partner, Imad Atwi, Jean Salamat, principals, and Riazul Raquib, senior associate, with Strategy& Middle East, part of the...

digital transformation

Global

A deep dive into the GCC’s cloud kitchen sector [part two]

Cloud kitchens are the backend equivalent of the food courts found in malls - several offerings all under one roof. They emerged as a...

cloud kitchen Food delivery

Regional

Top five investment deals in the second quarter of 2020

The top five disclosed venture capital (VC) deals in the second quarter of 2020 amounted to $244.6 million, largely down to the $150...

VC investment

Regional

In a world of remote work, will control replace culture?

Marilyn Zakhour, founder and chief executive officer of UAE-based Cosmic Centaurs At the height of the pandemic, I started a company...

company culture remote work

Saudi Arabia

Munch:On - Going beyond lunch

Most food delivery platforms witnessed a slowdown in business once lockdown came into effect. Working from home gave people enough time to...

Lunch:On Munch:On

Regional

Will cash on delivery return post Covid-19?

By Faris Fallouh, Senior Global Express Services at Aramex During this pandemic, consumers globally and in the Middle East and North...

CoD cash-on-delivery

Global

What is the future of human resources?

By Somaya El Sherbini, co-founder and managing partner at RightFoot With global economies facing challenges for the remainder of 2020,...

human resources HR recruitment

Regional

The Middle East's post-pandemic future

A new reality is beginning to emerge as lockdown measures begin to ease amid the Covid-19 outbreak, imposing a dramatic restructure to...

coronavirus sme economy

U.A.E

Raising the bar for women’s healthcare

Investment in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) healthcare sector is booming. Over $144 billion will be ploughed into Mena-wide...

healthtech

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