Wamda

Palestine

Receet secures pre-series A investment

Ramallah-based Receet, has secured a six-figure pre-series A investment round, led by Ibtikar Fund, with participation from Paltel...

Fintech Ibtikar Fund

Palestine

Gamiphy raises six figure investment in pre-Series A

Palestine-based user engagement and retention platform Gamiphy has raised its pre-Series A investment round led by Ibtikar Fund with...

Gamification engagment retention

Palestine

Overcoming barriers of women-led entrepreneurship in Palestine

Ghassan Amayra is the co-founder of Palestine-based MENACatalyst and Leila Farraj is the digital content strategist at...

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Palestine

Ibtikar Fund invests in Inggez

Ibtikar Fund has announced its investment in Palestine-based Inggez, a mobile app offering on-demand access to gyms and fitness classes,...

fitness Health

Palestine

THE FINTECH BOOTCAMP 2019

Arab Bank is launching the first Fintech Bootcamp for Palestinian entrepreneurs with ideas within the Fintech industry. The bootcamp...

Jordan

Mecal raises funding

Amman-based Mecal, an e-commerce platform focused on men’s accessories has raised funding from Palestine-based Ibtikar Fund and...

Investment men's accessories

Palestine

In conversation with Ahmed Hashlamon of Mashvisor

Mashvisor was founded by Peter Abualzolof and Mohammed Jebrini in 2014 with the aim of providing real estate investment data analysis to...

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Palestine

Is the Palestinian diaspora key to enabling local startups?

Diyala Abdlrasul and Ghassan Taha Amayra are the co-founders of MENACatalyst The Palestinian plight is not a foreign...

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Palestine

In conversation with Christina Ganim of Kenz

Christina Ganim founded Kenz with her colleague and friend Nicola Cuoco. The e-commerce website, founded in Palestine, sells underwear to...

Entrepreneur startup Women Entrepreneur

Palestine

Ibtikar Fund invests in Receet

Palestine’s Ibtikar Fund announced its investment in Receet, a mobile application that provides digital receipts in business...

fund Investment digital

Palestine

Ibtikar Fund invests in Palestine's Safra

Palestine’s Ibtikar Fund has announced a new investment in Safra, a Ramallah-based online travel platform for travel agents in the...

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Palestine

Entrepreneurship in Palestine: More than just a job

For many startups in Palestine, entrepreneurship is not only a choice of employment, but a form of resistance. With restrictions faced by...

Palestinian Diaspora Ecosystem

Palestine

Gaza startup Vidmass raises pre-Seed from Ibtikar and Vision VC

Vidmass, a Gaza-based startup specialising in online video creation, has raised a pre-seed round of investment from early-stage funds...

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Palestine

This is how Dawsat is reinventing the Middle Eastern diet

Mas Watad graduated from Al-Quds University as a nutrition specialist in 2003 and decided that, rather than simply raising people’s...

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Palestine

Palestinian startups carving their ways around barriers to success

Running a startup in Palestine is no easy task. In addition to the fact that over 90 percent of startups anywhere fail, with financial...

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Palestine

Connect Gaza looks to bring Palestinian startups into the regional ecosystem

Digital entrepreneurship and innovation are becoming key focuses of many governments across the Middle East as they seek to reform their...

PICTI startups investments

Palestine

Ibtikar receives a $2.5M investment, looks to help Palestinian entrepreneurs get funded

Ibtikar Fund, a Palestinian early stage venture capital firm has announced it has received a $2.5 million investment from the International...

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Palestine

Alwaleed injects $62M in $500M Series E funding Careem

(Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include the new capital injection of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and the announcement...

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Palestine

Palestinian fintech startup simplifies online and mobile trading

The lack of online Arabic content has been a driving force for many startups in the Middle East. It happens to be one of the core reasons,...

Economies startup Fintech

Palestine

Palestine gets their first equity crowdfunding platform

Crowdpal, the first online equity crowdfunding platform purpose-built to support Palestinian entrepreneurship, launched its website today....

Crowdfunding statups entreprenership

Palestine

10 Palestinian startups to watch

Despite tough circumstances, Palestinian startups have often managed to impress with their versatility, innovation, determination. And...

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Palestine

Appmahal hopes for Middle Eastern chat app hit

Palestinian startup Appmahal has launched a localized version of Whatsapp, and hopes this will provide the competitive edge it needs in a...

Siha Whatsapp WeChat

Lebanon

Jusoor Entrepreneurship Competition

Registration for Jusoor’s third annual Entrepreneurship Competition has opened to all Syrian entrepreneurs looking to develop...

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Lebanon

Crowdfunding products: pressure does not make perfect

One of the most painful examples of delayed promises of crowdfunding is Palestine-based Bold Knot, a great-looking bank-charger-cable on a...

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