Wamda

Lebanon

UK Lebanon Tech Hub accepting applicants for accelerator programme

UK Lebanon Tech Hub is accepting applications for its accelerator program. UKLebanon offers a 10 months programme, where it will provide...

UK Lebanon Tech Hub accelerator

Lebanon

Lebanese game developers Wixel Studios targets cancer with new project

Still from the Aurora game. (Image via Wixel Studios) Despite a growing tech-healthcare sector - which by now has hundreds of...

Cancer Aurora Wixel Studios

Lebanon

Beirut gets a new accelerator, UK Lebanon Tech Hub now open

A giant Twitter deck at the UK Lebanon Tech Hub. (Images via Lucy Knight) Standing on a podium in a carpark in a fast sweltering Beirut,...

UK Lebanon Tech Hub Beirut Digital District lebanon

Lebanon

Zoomaal founder shares tips from $330k Series A round

The Zoomaal team at their offices in Beirut. After raising a seed round of $75,000 in Q3 of 2013 (from Wamda, MEVP, and Sawari Ventures),...

abdallah absi cairo angels zoomaal

Lebanon

With Oracle and in the cloud, Transtek eyes regional opportunities

For small and medium-sized companies that aim to impact their markets rather than focusing on scaling, it is critical to have a quality...

Supply Chain System Compass ERP ERP

Lebanon

USAID launches MENA-II in Lebanon amidst growing landscape of support

Last week, representatives of USAID, the Berytech Foundation (a Lebanese incubator and VC fund), and the United States...

im capital Circular 331 Berytech

Lebanon

Lebanese designers converge to the Disrupt!/Design!/ ideathon

Disrupt!/Design!/ is a focused event organized by Mideast Creatives where designers from a wide variety of fields come together to bring...

disrupt design Mideast Creatives zoomal

Lebanon

Data key to the growth of the MENA gaming industry [Wamda TV]

For the gaming industry of the Middle East to grow, developers need to expand to other markets. Equally, the region needs to present a...

MEGA 2015 gaming industry

Lebanon

Art meets architecture at design startup UV Lab

Khan Bar Restaurant: UV Lab's first comprehensive project This article is part of a partnership with Dreammatcher and AltCity. UV...

Lebanon

5 things I learned from making a video game in 30 hours

Sten Selander of Media Evolution (Sweden) briefs Arabic Game Jam participants As a kid, I had two main hobbies: drawing and playing video...

video games arabic game jam MENA Games

Lebanon

How a Lebanese ecommerce pioneer carved his niche

The hype surrounding entrepreneurs and tech companies has breathed new life into the myth that startups are staffed by college dropouts in...

Karim Saikali lebanon E-commerce

Lebanon

Leap Ventures' new $71M fund is 'ready for business’

Henri Asseilly at ArabNet Beirut earlier this year. (Image via Lucy Knight) As we previously reported, the focus of the ‘sponsored a...

ArabNet Beirut Venture Capital Investment

Lebanon

Lebanese startups gain access to more money and support than ever #ArabNetBeirut

The Circular 331 panel. A Lebanon-based $71 million fund focusing on the Middle East and North Africa; plans for a Beirut chapter...

Kuwait National Fund iSME Leap Ventures

Lebanon

Flat6Labs to launch Beirut accelerator

Regional accelerator Flat6Labs will open a chapter in Beirut, cofounder Hany El-Sonbaty announced today at the Arabnet conference. The...

beirut accelerator Flat6Labs

Lebanon

How putting her kids first led this Lebanese entrepreneur to launch a startup

Life’s daily struggles make it easy to forget how hard it is to be a mother, let alone a working one. Lebanese Ingrid Salloum,...

women entrepreneurs lebanon Advice

Lebanon

How ecommerce is breathing new life into an established offline toy business

If you happen to be living in or visiting Lebanon, you will have noticed the large number of malls that cropped up in recent years, from...

traditional business online payment lebanon

Lebanon

Access to funding for Lebanese startups is looking up

Obviously a lot more than loose change is going to be availalbe. (Image via Lucy Knight) Things are certainly looking up for the coffer...

Berytech US Aid Lebanese Central Bank

Lebanon

How can Arab women empower themselves to lead? 10 inspiring quotes from #NAWF2015

Left to right: Habib Haddad, Rana Salhab, Jihad Azour, Youssef Hamidaddin Al Iktissad Wal Aamal Group and Al Hasnaa Magazine organized...

Nawf forum NAWF2015 women entrepreneurs

Lebanon

Lebanon's Blessing Foundation to scale its network of women in business to the region

Last month, 85 business owners – many strangers to each other – gathered in an upscale Beirut café. Each was in a specific stage of their bu...

networks blessing foundation blessing

Lebanon

Rollin'pen finds its opportunity in optimizing Arabic content for the web

While Beirut has countless translators, one in particular is targeting businesses with an eye on corporate communication. “The idea i...

RollinPen lebanon Translation

Lebanon

Beirut born Campus Society on the hunt for Series A funding

When you have a Facebook account you’d think there would be little else forcing you to join another social network. Well, apparently F...

Campus Society aub lebanon

Lebanon

Lebanese government inks $6.4 million loan to create tech hub

Lebanon’s government is moving forward with an initiative aimed at strengthening innovation and entrepreneurship in its mobile internet e...

Ministry of Telecommunications MIHub tech hub

Lebanon

Beirut Service Jam 2015

The Beirut Service Jam is the Lebanese edition of the Global Service Jam. The global event is coming this year to Beirut on February 27th,...

Beirut Digital District beirut

Lebanon

STEP Warm Up Tour: Beirut

STEP Warm Ups are designed to gather techies before the annual STEP Conference. This year, STEP Conference 2015 is happening in Dubai on...

STEP beirut

Thought Leadership

All the information you need to navigate Mena's startup ecosystem

Thank you