Wamda

U.A.E

VR in airports: Driving sales, beyond entertainment

In early 2015, the Australian flag carrier Qantas Airways, in partnership with Samsung, brought Virtual Reality (VR) to its first-class...

uae Entertainment tech

U.A.E

Workers’ safety and tracking device WakeCap raised $300K

WakeCap, raised $300,000 from CCC (Consolidated Contractors Company), a construction group with projects across Middle East, Asia and...

uae WakeCap Investment

U.A.E

The StartUp Studio, a new partnership venture bringing corporate business and startups together

Media agency Mindshare MENA, and STEP Group announced this week The StartUp Studio, a new program which will facilitate partnerships...

STEP Group Mindshare Startup studio

U.A.E

$33B of lost remittances could be regained through the Blockchain, and this UAE startup is on it

Fintech startups are continuously bringing innovative solutions to cater to the large unbanked population. According to the World...

uae Dinarii Cash Fintech

Saudi Arabia

Insurance startup Aqeed raises $18 million, launches officially

Having raised a USD $18 million from its corporate shareholders in a landmark Series A round of funding, Aqeed.com, an insurance aggregator...

Aqeed Series A

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi-based Krypto Labs Announces the Winner of the Drone Innovation Start-Up Contest 2018

Krypto Labs, the global incubator for startups, announced that Voliro, from Switzerland - a startup focusing on omnidirectional drones for...

Krypto Labs

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi’s travel and tourism leaders award $100k to four Fikra Labs winners

One month after announcing the 12 shortlisted startups to join a four-week training by Fikra Labs, an acceleration programme for the travel...

Fikra Labs acceleration abu dhabi

U.A.E

Apps to locate missing refugees and tackle counterfeit medicine win NYU Abu Dhabi’s International Hackathon

Dawa, an application designed to tackle counterfeit medicine in the region using blockchain based pharmaceutical distribution, and Boosala,...

NYU Abu Dhabi

U.A.E

Four startups from the travel and tourism industry won Intelak’s third cohort

Four Dubai-based startups aiming at transforming the aviation, travel, and tourism industries graduated on April 30 from the...

uae Intelak GE

Lebanon

Could this 3D-printing startup remove one of the biggest construction costs in Dubai?

I met two startups in less than two weeks working in innovating the construction industry. And this is only in Lebanon. One cannot...

Buildink 3d printing Construction

U.A.E

Hospitality veteran invests $4M in Dubai-based virtual hotel startup to drive its expansion plan

MaisonPrive, a ‘virtual hotel’ operator that offers luxury apartments and villas to business and leisure visitors to Dubai,...

uae Funding MaisonPrive

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala acquires minority stake in NY-based Phoenician Capital

Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Investment Company acquired a minority stake in the general partner of Phoenician Capital, a New York-based...

uae Mubadala Investment Company acquisition

U.A.E

Endeavor Scale Up 2018

Scale-Up UAE is Endeavor UAE’s annual, scale-up focused conference, where some of the most promising entrepreneurs from the UAE and...

uae Endeavor UAE SANAD

U.A.E

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies signs first commercial hyperloop system in the UAE

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT) revealed the signing of an agreement with Aldar Properties, one of the leading real...

uae Hyperloop Transportation

U.A.E

The Plug and Play ADGM program will kick off in Q3 2018

Plug and Play (PNP), one of the world’s largest global innovation platforms, and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International...

uae ADGM Plug and Play

U.A.E

ArabNet Digital Summit 2018

The region’s key stakeholders will gather for the sixth edition of the ArabNet Digital Summit - the exclusive digital conference on...

Dubai Arabnet ArabNet Digital Summit 2018

Jordan

Jamalon to launch express personalized photo albums service in the Middle East in partnership with Taopix

Jamalon, the Middle East region’s largest online book store with a catalogue of over 10 million titles, announced a strategic...

Jordan uae Jamalon

U.A.E

AWS Summit Dubai 2018

Whether you are new to AWS, or an experienced user, AWS Summit Dubai will give you the inspiration and technical knowledge you need to get...

AWS Amazon Web Services AWS Summit

U.A.E

Register to attend a Fireside chat with Tony Bates in Dubai

On Tuesday April 24, Wamda will be hosting Tony Bates, CEO of Social Capital’s new growth unit, for a casual fireside chat and...

Tony Bates Skype cisco

U.A.E

FUTURE PROOFED - Ellevate Dubai 2018 Forum

If you're worried about how technology is going to disrupt your workplace or industry and want to find out what skills you need to...

uae Dubai Ellevate

U.A.E

Astrolabs launches its second Dubai tech hub

Dubai’s tech startup hub AstroLabs, officially opened its second coworking space in the Emirate yesterday, more than doubling its...

Astrolabs AstroLabs Dubai

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi's Fikra Labs accelerator selects 12 finalists, embraces hospitality innovation

Weeks after announcing Fikra Labs, an acceleration programme for the travel and tourism industries in Abu Dhabi, 32 startups out of 200...

Fikra Labs bootcamp startups

U.A.E

du Emirati Startup Challenge

du launched its first Emirati Startup Challenge, in partnership with Zayed University. The nationwide challenge will give Emirati...

du Zayed Zayed University

U.A.E

How to increase your exit chances, widen your audience and keep it simple: Insights from #STEP2018

Entrepreneurs don’t need to refine their pitches or have everything figured out when approaching investors, because great products...

Step Conference 2018 startups

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