Wamda

Egypt

The Egyptian ElRe7la camp opens its doors to entrepreneurs

ElRe7la is a community driven organization that brings together entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs by offering an out-of-office experience in...

El Mashrou3 AlMaqarr Coworking Space ElRe7la

U.A.E

Silicon valley’s 500 Startups is organizing a pitching workshop in Dubai

500 Startups is organizing a pitching workshop hosted by AstroLabs in partnership with Nestle and TOP. The event allows entrepreneurs and...

Nestle 500 startups TOP

Regional

Ecommerce set to reach $13.4 billion by 2020, Payfort reports

Payfort announced today the release of its annual report: The State of Payments in the Arab World, at the Ecommerce Show Middle East 2015...

State of Payments 2015 Payfort Report

Global

Lebanese m-health entrepreneur meets President Obama

"Everybody has ideas. Most people are afraid to take first step. Go for it." @mcuban #StartTheSpark @WhiteHouse #PAGE...

Spark Global Entrepreneurship Initiative Global Entrepreneurship Summit White House

Jordan

TOP Academy seeks to create a ‘technical talent pipeline' in Jordan with software engineering course

Dozens of MENA startups rely on the assistance that regional seed accelerators provide to catapult them forward—and it in turn helps the o...

the online project

U.A.E

UAE online listings startup Melltoo raises $205,000 in seed round

UAE startup Melltoo Marketplace recently closed a seed round of $205,000, led by Turn8, Dubai Silicon Oasis...

morrad irsane sharene lee melltoo

Regional

Second Arab Youth Employment Conference discusses solutions to the region

Nabih Bulos, special correspondent, LA Times; Joumana Al Jabri, cofounder, Visualizing Impact; Rabee Zureikat, founder, Zikra...

AYE Conference Silatech Arab youth Employment Conference

Regional

UberPITCH: pitching competition for arabnet digital showcase

Uber and ArabNet are launching UberPITCH, a competition where entrepreneurs have 15 minute online pitch sessions for the chance to...

UberPITCH Uber Arabnet

Jordan

Mix N’ Mentor comes to Jordan this June with new Marketplace Edition

As one of the most vibrant cities in the region's entrepreneurial ecosystem, Amman is going to play host to Wamda’s second Mix N’ Mentor of...

Marketplace Edition Endeavor Jordan amman

Regional

Goldman Sachs leads new $100M round for Hellofood

Hellofood, the global online food delivery platform, whose most recent acquisitions in the region were the food delivery...

investment round hellofood Funding

Turkey

Biggest tech exit in the region, Turkey’s Yemeksepeti acquired for $589M

Delivery Hero, the Berlin-based billion-dollar food delivery service, has acquired Turkey’s Yemeksepeti for $589 million. Not only is this ...

Delivery Hero yemeksepeti Rocket Internet

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

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

Jordan

DIY app wins top prize at first ever RedTroops JO Hackathon

The developers of Edy, an iOS app that blends the creative photo sharing elements of Instagram with the DIY work of online marketplaces...

U.A.E

Wamda and General Electric announce partnership

Wamda and General Electric (GE), one of the world’s leading technology companies, are joining hands to enable and support the industrial e...

MEMakers partnership General Electric

Global

The growing list of global VCs investing in MENA startups

Earlier this year we published an article about the reasons behind foreign VCs' increase interest in the Middle East. Here...

vostok new ventures New Enterprise Associates Goldman Sachs

U.A.E

Russian entrepreneurship organization Startup Sabantuy comes to Dubai

The Cribb, an innovative hub based in Dubai, is hosting Startup Sabantuy this June 6, 2015, in Dubai UAE. The event will start at 11:30 AM...

Russia Startup Sabantuy Dubai

Egypt

Egypt’s North African Summit discusses regional media challenges

The North African Media Summit will be held from June 8 to 10, 2015, at the Movenpick Hotel, Cairo, Egypt. A panel of speakers will be...

North African Media Summit

Global

How one Jordanian's innovative approach to job hunting got Airbnb's attention

Nina Mufleh wants a job at Airbnb. Like thousands of others though, when she began her quest, she quickly found her applications and calls...

resume Airbnb CV

Global

Facebook adds free peer-to-peer payments in Messenger

This article is a crosspost with the Payfort blog. If you’re like most people, you know settling debts or splitting bills between f...

U.A.E

TURN8 hackathon in Dubai this May

TURN8 is organizing a hackathon on May 1-2, 2015, in Dubai, UAE. The event will begin at 12:00 PM GST and will end the following day at...

turn8 hackathon

Kuwait

Sirdab Lab organizes UX Design Workshop

Sirdab Lab is hosting a two-day long UX (User Experience) Design Workshop this May 3 and May 4, 2015, in Kuwait City, Kuwait. The workshop...

UX design Haider Al-Mosawi sirdab lab

Turkey

UX Alive conference in Istanbul

The UX Alive conference is an international conference on user experience and usability. This will be the first iteration of the event. It ...

Elaine Brechin Montgomery Giles Colborne Dustin Senos

Egypt

WE’Resilient, a competition for women solving urban risks of the MENA

WE’Resilient is a startup competition organized by the World Bank in partnership with IE Business group. The competition encourages the c...

WE'Resilient IE Business Group world bank

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