Wamda

Regional

Logistics company secures $41M in Series B funding

Fetchr, a tech company disrupting the traditional logistics sector in the MENA region, secured 41 million dollars in a Series B...

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Egypt

Endeavor Catalyst Fund closes first $500,000 investment in Egypt

Endeavor Catalyst Fund, Endeavor’s co-investment vehicle, concluded its first investment in Egypt contributing 500,000 dollars to...

Investment fund statups

U.A.E

24 Emirati Nationals graduate from Flat6Labs Future Innovators Academy

This week marked the graduation ceremony of the Future Innovators Academy, a one-month innovation program run by Flat6Labs Abu Dhabi and...

Flat6Labs turn8 Future Innovators Academy

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

Global

Startup Watch: It’s all about the money, money, money and solar power

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch Investment 500 startups

U.A.E

Intelak Incubator startups are one step closer to reality

Earlier this month, the four winning teams from Intelak, which means ‘take off’ in Arabic, successfully pitched to investors,...

Intelak MEMakersGE

Regional

500 Startups closes $15M on MENA fund

Hassan Haidar, the managing director of the MENA fund for 500 Startups, 500 Falcons, announced Wednesday the closing of their fund at $15...

500 startups falcon fund Investment

Syria

Votek and Loujee secures $1M investment

Votek Inc, developer of Arabic speech recognition software, governmental intelligent assistants and the first Arabic smart toy (Loujee)...

Votek AI syria

U.A.E

Sheraa forms partnership for social entrepreneurship ecosystem

As part of its commitment to supporting the growth of socially-conscious entrepreneurs in the region, Sheraa - a launch pad for aspiring...

Sheraa social entrepreunership news watch

Regional

IFLIX launches in MENA

IFLIX’s service is now available to over 1 billion consumers in 18 countries across Asia and the Middle East and North...

IFLIX TV on demand SVoD

U.A.E

Payfort introduces card-on-delivery service in UAE

Payfort announced a new card-on-delivery service to allow merchants to offer card-on-delivery payments for their purchases. The new...

Payfort

Saudi Arabia

Saudi startup Dokkan Afkar closes $2M round

Dokkan Afkar announced yesterday, it has closed a $2 million investment round led by Riyad Taqnia Fund (RTF). Dokkan Afkar is a...

Saudi Arabia ksa DokkanAfkar

Bahrain

Egyptians win big in MITEF Arab Startup Competition

The MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) of the Pan Arab Region announced the winners of the 10th MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup...

MIT Enterprise Forum Pan-Arab

Lebanon

Lebanon's Jaleesa awarded $40K by World Bank

Jaleesa, the Lebanon-based tech startup that connects families with a trusted babysitter, has secured a $40,000 equity-free contribution...

lebanon Jaleesa world bank

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...

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U.A.E

Jadopado is acquired by Mohamed Alabbar

Editor's note: this story has been update May 11 to include the acquirers of Jadopado and a comment from Omar Kassim. In a statement...

JadoPado uae noon.com

U.A.E

Six healthtech startups pitch during Dubai 100 finale

Investors and healthcare industry leaders from UAE and around the world came together for the finale of Dubai 100’s second...

Dubai 100 pitch event healthtech

U.A.E

Sheraa and Air Arabia to launch ‘Travel and Tourism’ track

Coming on the heels of its successful inaugural accelerator showcase day, Sheraa - a launch pad for aspiring entrepreneurs in the United...

Sheraa sharjah uae

Egypt

Egypt startup BSocial launches Quran VR app

Marketing services company Bsocial has created a virtual reality (VR) app called Experience Quran for the Oculus store. It comes after...

BSocial virtual reality Experience Quran

Lebanon

Syrian entrepreneurs raise their voices at Jusoor

“War is always louder, but we want to raise the voices of youth and entrepreneurship”. This is how Ahmad Bayram, managing...

jusoor syria Jusoor Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

Saudi Arabia

24 Saudi entrepreneurs join second cohort at 910ths acceleration program

Twenty-four teams from across Saudi Arabia have been nominated for the 9/10ths Startup Accelerator Program, aiming to develop early-stage...

Saudi Arabia ksa 910ths

Egypt

Rise Up Explore takes 6 startups to Silicon Valley

Rise Up has taken six startups on a Rise Up Explore trip to Silicon Valley that started on April 4 and finishes on April 13. RiseUp...

Rise Up Rise Up Explore

Turkey

Turkey’s Iyzico adds $2M to its Series C round

Online payment and fintech leader Iyzico announced earlier this week that Amadeus Capital Partners, the global technology investor, has...

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Saudi Arabia

Riyadh is Mix N’ Mentor’s first stop this year

The Saudi ecosystem is getting more and more exciting, and Wamda is on trend: we host the first Mix N’ Mentor of the year on April 22...

Saudi Arabia ksa mnm

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