Tunisia What I know about building an ecosystem from scratch: Wassel Berrayana In 2000, Wassel Berrayana was an employee in HQ Sun Microsystems, one of Silicon Valley’s companies, when he decided to leave his job... Maya Rahal • 21 August, 2017 it decentralization entrepreneurship
Tunisia What I know about building a solid team: Khaled Helioui Khaled Helioui left his job as CEO of the German video game company Bigpoint last May. He had joined the company at the age of 29 years... Maya Rahal • 10 July, 2017 management profitability growth
Tunisia B@labs, the first Tunisian incubator in downtown Tunis With up to a million people daily passing along Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, it is a strategic location for the latest addition to the... Maya Rahal • 05 July, 2017 Incubateur BIAT privé
Tunisia How Tunisia could be the next hub for justice entrepreneurs What if Tunisia was a better place to live in with more justice startups? The question was asked by Hiil, a Netherlands-based nonprofit... Maya Rahal • 02 July, 2017 justice Innovation droit
Tunisia How twin brothers made their startup fly, so high A small aviation startup in Tunisia has made a first by not only signing a deal with the Tunisian plane company Nouvelair, but with Airbus... Maya Rahal • 28 June, 2017 aéronautique avions hydravion
Tunisia Tunisian gaming startup raises $600K The Tunisian startup Polysmart, which specializes in the design of video games has just raised 1.5 million Tunisian dinars (US$600,000)... Maya Rahal • 21 June, 2017 Gaming creative industries video games
Tunisia Cyberesa improves e-tourism in Tunisia Despite the regional instability and tourism shakiness, Tunisian e-tourism is actually witnessing bright days and is not affected by the... Maya Rahal • 28 May, 2017 Tourism technologies Cloud
Tunisia How this Tunisian channeled fashion into a startup When Arbia Smiti founded Carnet de Mode (Fashion Diary) in 2011, the crowdfunding platform captured the attention of the French media,... Aline Mayard • 17 May, 2017 startup Mode Fashion
Tunisia Tunisian startup Expensya raises $1.10M The Expensya startup, which digitizes company expenses, offers companies and accounting firms cloud, web, and mobile software to report... Maya Rahal • 17 May, 2017 startup France frais
Tunisia Seedstars pushes Tunisian startups to scale more At the Mediterranean School of Business campus in Tunis, the Seedstars team gathered a dozen Tunisian startups around a competition that... Maya Rahal • 16 May, 2017 scalibility seedstars internationnalisation
Tunisia The Startup Act bill is opening new doors for Tunisian entrepreneurs Tunisian entrepreneurs are finally seeing a draft of the Startup Act. The latest is that it’s under negotiation before being... Maya Rahal • 16 May, 2017 Startup Act entrepreneurs regulation
Tunisia Seedstars Tunis 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... Wamda • 12 May, 2017 seedstars tunisia Pitch
Tunisia Flat6Labs, open for business in Tunisia Flat6Labs announced last summer that they were coming to Tunisia, as the country’s first accelerator and now for the last two months... Lilia Blaise • 02 May, 2017 acceleration startups investissements
Tunisia How Expensya built a business on partnerships Expensya founder Karim Jouini said his success came down to good partnerships. “The number one reason to have partners... Lilia Blaise • 18 April, 2017 expensya karim jouini startup
Tunisia Entrepreneurship and marriage don’t mix in Tunisia “I don’t plan to get married anytime soon,” teased Mohamed Ben Abdellah, 28, founder of ceramics startup El Houch. He... Lilia Blaise • 17 April, 2017 wedding tunisia entrepreneurs
Tunisia Two thirds of women-led startups fail in Tunisia, report Only a third of startups founded by women in Tunisia will survive compared to over two-thirds of those by men, a new study shows. The... Lilia Blaise • 26 March, 2017 Tunisie régions entrepreneurs
Tunisia Tunisian startup Datavora raises $470K Tunisian startup Datavora, a specialist in ecommerce big data, has raised just over 1 million Tunisian dinars (US$467,000) in seed... Lilia Blaise • 23 March, 2017 Tunisie Data ecommerce
Tunisia Bloom Masters Competition This year the MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab and the BIAT Foundation in Tunisia are organizing one of the largest competitions for... Wamda • 14 March, 2017 tunisia competition startup
Tunisia What 5 Tunisians learned from 4 Finns about their startups Learn your pitch, include all of the relevant information, and show - don’t tell - how you plan to scale, Finnish coaches told... Lilia Blaise • 12 March, 2017 startupsauna competition accelerator
Tunisia Tunisian startups' struggle to scale Tunisian entrepreneurs often ‘ask the experts’ how to internationalize their startup, and it’s a question that gained... Lilia Blaise • 28 February, 2017 Tunis internationnalisation Digitalmania
Tunisia Teaching tech in Tunisia On a Saturday afternoon, rather than playing video games or going out with some friends, 70 teenagers came to the Cogite coworking space to... Lilia Blaise • 26 February, 2017 GoMyCode Yahya Bouhlel Wala Kasmi
Tunisia Travelcar raises $15.8M Series B Travelcar, a startup that enables you to make your car available for renting at airports when you travel instead of paying for expensive... Lilia Blaise • 23 February, 2017 car sharing Travelcar fundraising
Tunisia Sarah Magida Toumi: Tunisia’s top tree-hugger For almost a decade Sarah Majida Toumi has been thinking about solutions to fight desertification in her country and sustainable... Lilia Blaise • 15 February, 2017 Sarah Magida Toumi Agriculture acacias
Tunisia Tunisia startup makes robots, not human substitutes When Anis Sahbani left his job as a university lecturer in France to start a robot-making startup in Tunisia, half of his friends thought... Lilia Blaise • 23 January, 2017 Enova Robotics profile robotics