Wamda

Lebanon

What can the social innovation ecosystem learn from the tech sector in Lebanon? [Opinion]

Social entrepreneurship is increasingly seen as the key for sustainable development in diverse contexts worldwide. As developed countries...

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Lebanon

Lebanese youth is entrepreneurship-driven, but needs more early-stage funding [Report]

Editor's note: This article has been updated to include the insights of Jad Salame, managing partner of Phoenician Funds. The...

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Lebanon

The MENA embraces more healthtech advancements

The global healthcare expenditure will be growing from $7.7 trillion in 2013 to $9.6 trillion in 2018. Digital transformation is...

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Lebanon

This Lebanese startup is carrying a piece of home around the world

According to the Lebanese International Business Council, the Lebanese diaspora is currently estimated between 11 to 13 million people,...

Koullouna Marielle Khayat Diaspora

Kuwait

‘Scent-preneurs’ are gaining momentum in the region as clients seek individuality

It is said that perfume is something that’s invisible, yet an unforgettable accessory. Beyond the pleasance it evokes, and the...

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Lebanon

About Beirut’s middle-stage ecosystem and its multiple opportunities [Report]

The World Bank’s Tech startup ecosystem in finding and recommendations report, analyzed the tech startup ecosystem in Beirut, in an...

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Lebanon

Bus stops in Lebanon are getting smarter

The World Bank’s Roads and Employment Project for Lebanon in 2017 estimated the Lebanese road network for almost 21,705 kilometers,...

Smart Bus Stops Transportation Social Entrepreneurship

Lebanon

Seedstars Beirut: Everyone wants to scale

“Lebanon is a great place to test ideas and launch startups. This relatively small market is better than others when it comes to the...

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Lebanon

Startup Weekend Beirut Artificial Intelligence Edition

From September 29 to October 1, Beirut Digital District will be hosting the first Startup Weekend dedicated to artificial intelligence in...

beirut AI Startup Weekend

Lebanon

How this Lebanese startup is innovating refugee humanitarian assistance

Innovation in the humanitarian sector is a growing and important source of support for at-risk groups of people around the world. It served...

KwikSense UNH Humanitarian Aid

Lebanon

Solidifying business bonds through partnerships: #MixNMentor Beirut

The Lebanese Information Technology (ICT) sector and related industries, is a fast growing sector with a market size of $436.2 million in...

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Lebanon

After fablabs and makerspaces, startup studios debut in Beirut

Accelerators, incubators, coworking spaces, hackerspaces, makerspaces, fablabs, and living labs, all constitute a crowded ecosystem lexica...

Startup studio Sqwirl Lab Ziad Jreidini

Lebanon

This Lebanese startup is reinventing secondhand retail

August 25 was the Secondhand Wardrobe Day and there is a reason to celebrate it. Trashion, bale retail, or secondhand businesses are not...

Fabricaid secondhand clothing Retail

Lebanon

Facebook Partner Developer Workshop

Beirut Digital District in collaboration with Facebook, invite you, your teams and your extended network of startups and entrepreneurs to...

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Lebanon

Digital Transformation Middle East 2017

The Digital Transformation Middle East 2017 conference will be taking place at the American University of Beirut on September...

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Jordan

Refugee Learning Accelerator [Call for applications]

The Refugee Learning Accelerator supports engineers and computer scientists from the Middle East to create technologies for refugee...

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Lebanon

Rebuilding toy models, from Urbacraft to Makerbrane [Wamda TV]

When Ayssar Arida and Sabine de Maussion founded in Lebanon Urbacraft, a building blocks startup that allows children to build construction...

Makerbrane Urbacraft 3D Makerspace

Lebanon

Slush GIA Beirut 2017

This year Bootcamp by AltCity will be hosting the Slush GIA Pitch competition 2017 at Beirut Digital District on September 6 from 5 pm to 8...

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Lebanon

Seedstars Beirut

Seedstars World is on a mission to identify the best seed-stage entrepreneurs and provide them with an opportunity to win up to USD 1...

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Lebanon

Mix N' Mentor Beirut 2017

The Lebanese startup ecosystem had witnessed a series of game-changing initiatives that promise to boost many of the country’s...

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Lebanon

Lebanese social startups develop solutions that ‘Makesense’

Senselab, a three-week bootcamp powered by Makesense Lebanon, gathered various Lebanese ventures aiming at designing, testing, improving...

Makesense Fabricaid Kharzaya

Lebanon

Sixth edition of Mix N’ Mentor Beirut coming on September 8

There is a reason why Beirut is talked about so much in the startup world. While the city may not be as big as Cairo or Amman or as...

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Lebanon

The music revolution will not be live, it will be digital [Part1]

In the first piece of this two-part series, we will be looking at the business of online music in the MENA, what are the numbers,...

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Lebanon

Learn. Impact. Grow Program

The Suliman S. Olayan School of Business (OSB) at The American University of Beirut (AUB) in partnership with the Lebanese League for Women...

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