Wamda

A*Apps Launches Crowdsourced Mobile App-Testing at Flat6Labs Demo Day

In Egypt, A*Apps (“A Star Apps”) is developing a unique platform that allows mobile app developers to test their apps through cro...

Crowdsourcing Mobile Apps

Yemeksepeti to Enter MENA Region After $44M Investment from General Atlantic

As Webrazzi reported today, Yemeksepeti, a leading Turkish food ordering site, has announced a US $44 million round of funding from New...

Food & Beverage Investment

Summer School Takes Controversial Decision to Exclude Lebanese Entrepreneur

Controversy struck Lebanon’s entrepreneurship community this past week, as prominent young Lebanese entrepreneur Abdallah Absi was expelled ...

Competitions Education

MarkaVIP Hits 2 Million Registered Users, Continues to Solve E-Commerce Issues in MENA

Less than two years after its launch in 2010, MarkaVIP has announced today that it has now hit two million registered users. It’s a big mi...

E-commerce

Egyptian Social Gaming Startup FunWave Delivers Football Fun

Egypt is full of football fanatics, and the region is as well. So it made perfect sense that Egyptian social games start-up FunWave’s ...

Accelerators Angel Investment Egypt

Startup Weekend Mansoura

For the first time ever, Startup Weekend makes its way to the Egyptian Nile Delta on November 1-3rd. The event will follow the basic...

Startup Weekend

Namshi Raises $20m Round from JP Morgan, Blakeney Management

Christmas is coming early this year to several of Rocket Internet's clones. The latest in a slew of investments by J.P. Morgan, Namshi, the...

Rocket Internet Investment E-commerce

Make-Movie Wins Incubation Prize At Fekrety [WamdaTV]

The make-movie.com team, won the Flat6Labs incubation prize that includes seed investment of 70k EGP (11k USD), during Fekrety, the ...

Competitions

First Startup Q8 (Kuwait) Event

On Wednesday, September 26th, Startup Q8 (Kuwait) is hosting the first Startup Q8 Event at Think Cafe in Kuwait City. Join this powerful ...

Startup Communities

Egypt's Tech Community to Conquer Cairo's Traffic

We have all heard about, and many of us have experienced, Cairo’s infamous and grueling traffic congestion. This year, the World Bank is p...

Mobile Apps Technology Taxi + Traffic

Nozom Defies Cairo’s Centralization And Boosts Entrepreneurship In Mansoura

Over 120 members of Mansoura-based Nozom all agree on fostering the entrepreneurship culture in this small town, defying several obstacles...

Dubai-Based Gaming Studio Piranha Byte Launches Its Brainchild: Peek!

Piranha Byte, a game development studio based in Dubai, just released its first title Peek!, inspired by the most successful photo sharing...

Gaming

AltCity's Open House & Barcamp

Join AltCity on Friday, September 28th for their first “Open House” from 6-8pm, and on Saturday September 29th for a barcamp entitled “Me...

Startup Communities

Startup Tob Turba Wins Fikrati Competition in Egypt

Tob Turba Madghout (Madghout stands for compressed) won the first prize in the 'Fikrati' (my idea) competition organized by the...

Competitions

Analyzing Interest in MENA Investments: Pamir Gelenbe of Hummingbird Ventures [Wamda TV]

Pamir Gelenbe, a partner at Hummingbird Ventures, discusses the challenges facing new startups in MENA and gives his take on the...

Investment

The Cairo Angels Are Looking For a Few Good Startups

The Cairo Angels are here. No, it’s not a local remake of Charlie’s Angels (can you imagine), but a group of business angels based in Cairo ...

Angel Investment Investment

OPIC and Abraaj Capital Commit $150M to Boost SMEs in MENA

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Egypt now have even more opportunities to for growth, as Sunday the Overseas Private...

Government Investment

Goodbye Mizado, Hello Jumia: Inside Rocket Internet's Newest Gamble in Egypt

Jumia, the new online mall, launched with little fanfare in Egypt just over two months ago, the progeny of the German behemoth...

Rocket Internet Egypt Ecosystem

Startup Weekend Mount Lebanon

Do you want to turn your idea into reality? Then brace yourself for Startup Weekend Mount Lebanon. The event will follow the Startup...

Pitching Startup Weekend Workshops

Lebanese Telecoms Minister Interviewed by Wamda on Twitter - Here is How It Went

On Friday, Wamda hosted a Twitter interview with Lebanese Telecoms Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui to discuss entrepreneurship, innovation, and...

Government

Teshkeel Media Group Equity Stake Acquired by Crescent Enterprises

Crescent Enterprises, a subsidiary of the UAE-based Crescent Group, announced the acquisition of an equity stake in the Teshkeel Media...

Acquisitions

Wizards Productions Continues to Go Global, Announcing Partnership with Tapjoy, Acceleration with YetiZen

After announcing a pivot into mobile gaming and a deal with leading international publisher 6waves, Wizards Productions is continuing to...

Gaming Mobile Mobile Gaming

Cairo Workspace The District Celebrates Six Months of Success

Six months is usually too soon to celebrate a birthday, but things had been going so well for The District recently that celebrations were...

Accelerators Coworking Spaces

Iraq to Be Reborn as Art & Science Hub Through Baghdad Hackerspace

A young leader is bringing his passion for collaboration to create a hackerspace in Baghdad this October. Bilal Ghalib, an expat who...

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