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Europe

Aramex leads $8.5M Series B in UK address startup

Aramex has led a $8.5 million Series B funding round in British startup What 3 Words, a company that is creating a universal postal code...

Eddress what3words Locname

Maghreb

AIG becomes Jumia, but is a rebrand a good idea?

Few internet services have made as much noise as Africa Internet Group (AIG), and now it’s seeking to make more with a major...

rebranding Africa Internet Group Kaymu

Egypt

Is Ousta Egypt's fastest growing startup ever? [Q&A]

[Update July 27: five months after launching Ousta is negotiating a $5.6 million investment round.] Ride hailing app...

ride hailing Ousta careem

Regional

Big data in health: good for anything yet?

Using big data in healthcare, anywhere, might it be true to say no one seems to quite know what they’re doing yet? But Dr....

Ver2 Digital Medicine MEMakersGE healthcare analytics

Maghreb

The year Morocco's digital economy levels up

This is the second of three articles about the state of digital payments in Morocco. Read the first here. Morocco’s financial...

Regulations fin-tech

Kuwait

Getting them young: empowering Kuwait’s youth entrepreneurs

This article has been crossposted from Nuwait. Two organisations, one local the other not, are trying to give Kuwait's young people...

Injaz Nuwait sirdab lab

Regional

When MENA investors don’t bank on women

For years, Lebanese entrepreneur Rayan Zahab would get called in for job interviews, only to hear hiring managers say the same thing: they...

Golden Seeds Snapay Women Investing in Women Digital

U.A.E

Startups, compete at your own risk

Be it money, equity, consultation, incubation or simply a platform to fine-tune the elevator pitch, startup competitions have manufactured...

Arab Start Up competition Startup MENA GCC Pitch Challenge Dubai+Acumen Business Plan Competition

U.A.E

From buyouts to partnerships

This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. More than half of all corporate-startup initiatives in MENA were...

Collaborative Entrepreneurship Dubai Expo 2020 GE

Bahrain

Skip ahead: Skiplino wants to put queuing behind us

According to a Lebanese Central Bank official at the Arabnet Beirut summit this year, the Lebanese enjoy queuing in banks and use the...

Skiplino LevelZ SAAS

Maghreb

Propertyfinder buys Morocco-based Selektimmo

The list of Moroccan platforms looking to benefit from the online real estate boom is long. Over a year ago, we wondered if...

Regional

Share the love with a stock option pool [Opinion]

Building a startup is a team effort, so it’s only fair that the team you share your entrepreneurial journey with also shares in some...

SOP Stock options A15

Lebanon

Lebanon’s Pinpay, ready for the big time

In 2013 mobile bill payment platform Pinpay had to make a decision: shut up shop or start again from scratch. They went with the latter....

Lebanon Central Bank Regulations Bankmed

Syria

Syrians seek refuge in tech

For a while, it seemed that the Syrians were running out of options. For the fourth year in a row since 2012, the UN reported a steep...

community jameel MIT Media Lab syria

Maghreb

For a night, Maghreb joined forces to solve their social problems

What if Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia joined forces to solve their social problems? It’s a germ of an idea that a small number of...

algerian startup initiative espace bidaya Lab'Ess

Palestine

Scarcity fuels Gaza hardware invention boom

Following the successful Bold Knot crowdfunding campaign* in 2015, Gazan entrepreneurs have started pursuing their own hardware...

Sketch Engineering The Explorer Robot Taawon

Egypt

Egypt's Smart Care secures $1.2M from major foreign donor

A major foreign donor has invested $1.2 million in Smart Care Medical Services, a digital healthcare management startup. The deal,...

Regional

How can startups build successful collaborations with corporations?

This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. Collaborative entrepreneurship initiatives are trending and an...

Coentrepreneurship Expo 2020 Dubai CE

Regional

What I know about investing in robotics: Jose Berengueres

To obtain his PhD in bio-inspired robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Jose Berengueres studied the movement of a gecko in...

Adasi pal robotics robotics

U.A.E

Fare share: Uber and Careem set pace and purpose for MENA’s sharing economy

Innovation and regulation can often have a paradoxical relationship. Modern tech history has consistently highlighted the tug of war...

RTA Regulations careem

Egypt

Egyptian selfie drone wins $26K Swiss investment

Egyptian drone startup Drofie has attracted the attention of the Swiss, securing a 25,000 Swiss francs (US$26,000) investment and a spell...

Fame monster Latvia Kickstart Accelerator

Egypt

Rubber a hot commodity for Egypt startup Retyres

Driving Cairo’s ring road or through one of its many poorer outskirts, one often encounters the distinct smell of burned rubber:...

tyres rubber Retyres

U.A.E

Community Jameel and Wamda host MIT Media Lab Dubai workshop #MLDubai

Cities are rising at a fast pace. The MENA region has seen this with Dubai, and shortly after, Masdar City. In the meantime,...

Redefining Cities MIT Media Lab MIT

Maghreb

Karim Jazouani Prize 2016: nominate the advocates of Moroccan entrepreneurship

One step forward, two steps backward? Or is it two steps forward, one step backward? If we take a look at the tech sector in Morocco,...

Karim Jazouani morocco

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