Egypt People still love print, says e-book startup Kotobna Egyptian e-book platform Kotobna is breaking the stranglehold of traditional book publishers, but they are also finding that people still... Radwa Rashad • 20 March, 2017 Kotobna Publishing e-publishing
Egypt Amazon to soon launch logistics center in Egypt Amazon is in the process of considering a logistics center in Egypt, as the Daily News Egypt reported. Hany Kesis, former chairperson of... Wamda • 15 March, 2017 Amazon Expansion news watch
Egypt Careem sacks Egypt boss Careem’s Egypt managing director Wael El Fakharany said in a tweet today that he was sacked by the car hailing startup. Egypt... Rachel Williamson • 13 March, 2017 careem
Egypt Signed, sealed: deliveries get tech'd in Cairo Personal transport is easily the most popular sharing economy business in Egypt, as Uber, Careem and Ousta compete hard for market share,... Radwa Rashad • 01 March, 2017 Bosta Oustaman Ousta
Egypt UK foreign minister Boris Johnson praises Egypt startups UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson praised the creativity and originality of Egypt’s entrepreneurs on Saturday during a networking... Doaa Farid • 28 February, 2017 Bosta boris johnson
Bahrain Startup Watch: breaking stuff, pain = gain, and working for the man The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Rachel Williamson • 23 February, 2017 Google Startup Watch Uber
Egypt Tinder for business: Geomingle wants to send you on a ‘date’ Londoners have embraced the dating app with such passion that an Egyptian entrepreneur has built a spin off, which he hopes will have an... Eman El-Sherbiny • 20 February, 2017 GeoMingle tinder location-based networking
Egypt Egypt’s Edfa3ly finds a Kuwaiti safe haven This article has been crossposted from Nuwait. Egyptian ecommerce play Edfa3ly has achieved the dream - a successful expansion into the... Eman Mostafa • 05 February, 2017 Nuwait edfa3ly ecommerce
Egypt New startups on the block: February Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to... Lucy Knight • 31 January, 2017 new startups Jarra Carriage
Egypt Jordan's POSrocket turns restaurant registers to a thing from the past Four years as the cofounder of a successful food delivery company, acquired by Turkey's Yemeksepet in 2012, Zeid Husban was ready for... Tala El Issa • 29 January, 2017 posrocket ifood.jo POS
Egypt AWTAD UP Communities rounds of 2017 [Call for applications] The Association for Women’s Total Advancement and Development (AWTAD) is an NGO dedicated to the professional and personal... Wamda • 23 January, 2017 Egypt entrepreneurship Mentorship
Egypt What startups should know about Egypt’s IMF reforms All Egypt is feeling the weight of economic reform, but not all entrepreneurs will feel the impact equally. Last week, the... Rachel Williamson • 22 January, 2017 IMF reforms bankruptcy
Egypt On speaking terms: Egypt’s investors, entrepreneurs forging a bond [Know Your VC] The investor-entrepreneur relationship in Egypt has been something of a rollercoaster, but both say they’re finally starting to iron... Reem Fatthelbab • 16 January, 2017 investor relations A15 eventtus
Egypt Stronger together: uniting Egypt’s women entrepreneurs Egyptian women are entrepreneurial powerhouses, and Rasha Abu AlSaud has been working for the last three years to link them all. In... Eman Mostafa • 11 January, 2017 GEW Women Entrepreneurs of Egypt Cairo Startup Cup
Egypt Maker Hackathon 2017 For the third year in a row, Maker Hackathon returns to empower innovators and makers to create functioning prototypes of... Wamda • 09 January, 2017 Egypt hackathon Hardware
Egypt Did this Egyptian company predict the US election? Donald Trump’s election to the US presidency was a shock for many, but not so much for those who were willing and able to read the... Eman Mostafa • 08 January, 2017 big data TweetElect MEMakersGE
Egypt WeMENA Resilient Future [call for applications] Women Entrepreneurs for a Resilient Future in the Middle East and North Africa (WeMENA) is a business model challenge launched to... Wamda • 07 January, 2017 women entrepreneurs MENA Innovation
Egypt Education startups begin to break through in Egypt Conservative dress codes hid a highly progressive approach to education during a meeting in Giza during November last year, which was... Menan Khater • 05 January, 2017 self-directed education Egyptian Network for Self-Directed Education Tyro
Egypt Egypt’s Vezeeta gets $5M Series B Vezeeta, an Egypt-based automated physician, clinic and hospital bookings platform received $5 million in series B funding led by... Lucy Knight • 30 December, 2016 Vezeeta Egypt BECO Capital
Regional Wamda’s best stories of 2016 2016 was the year of trying new things and testing some ideas on you, our readers. We brought in a weekly series we called Startup... Rachel Williamson • 27 December, 2016 Wamda2016 shezlong sympaticus
Egypt Fixing Egypt’s waste crisis one handbag at a time An Egyptian startup in Aswan is turning palm tree waste into handmade products, and is not only providing jobs but helping to revive... Nayrouz Talaat • 27 December, 2016 Napata palm waste waste management
Egypt Can cleantech be Egypt's greatest wealth generator? The Egyptian cleantech ecosystem is a few years behind its cousin, pure tech, but the sector is beginning to show signs of consolidation.... Rachel Williamson • 18 December, 2016 Cleantech LACI cleantech Arabia
Egypt Egypt loosens rules on mobile money In what will be welcome news to Egypt’s burgeoning fintech startups, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) is starting a bid to formalize... Rachel Williamson • 15 December, 2016 Fintech Central Bank of Egypt mobile money
Egypt IFC invests in Algebra Ventures, Flat6labs Cairo funds New Egyptian venture fund Algebra Ventures has announced the first closing at $40 million. The fund, first announced in June, plans to... Rachel Williamson • 15 December, 2016 Algebra Ventures Egypt SysDsoft