Global Prepaid is the future of financial inclusion Rupert Shaw is the chief commercial officer at Ding, a mobile top up and airtime transfer company based in Ireland Among all the... Thought Leadership • 28 February, 2021 financial inclusion
Global Forgetting the M in MVP: Are founders launching in a lean way? Leen Ashqar is a senior associate at Propeller, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Amman, Jordan As an active pre-seed and... Thought Leadership • 25 February, 2021
Lebanon Can Lebanon become the next global outsourcing hub? This article was written by the team at B.O.T - Bridge. Outsource. Transform All eyes have been on Lebanon over the past year, but... Thought Leadership • 23 February, 2021 Outsourcing
Global What can Mena learn from the African experience in fintech? Mahmood Ahmadu is the chairman of Innovate 1 Pay, a Nigerian financial technology (fintech) company established in 2012, providing online... Thought Leadership • 21 February, 2021 Fintech financial inclusion africa
Regional Careem’s tech drive: Going beyond mobility When Careem first launched its ride-hailing service, everything was done manually. Sourcing the drivers was done via SMS, user requests... Dunya Hassanein • 18 February, 2021 careem super app
Iraq The realities of fundraising in Iraq Ali Al Suhail is the managing director at KAPITA, a development company that invests and incubates startups in Iraq. He is also the... Thought Leadership • 16 February, 2021 fundraising KAPITA
Global Will Bitcoin valuations drop this year? Khurram Shroff is the chairman of UAE-based private equity firm IBC Group which has invested in over 4000 different Blockchain products.... Thought Leadership • 15 February, 2021 Bitcoin
Global Your next great app idea will be built by software, guided by AI and humans Sachin Dev Duggal is the co-founder and CEO of Builder.ai, a UK-based human-assisted artificial intelligence (AI) platform to... Thought Leadership • 14 February, 2021 Software AI machine learning
Regional Mena startups raised $43 million in January 2021 The year began with a rather respectable amount raised in funding at $43 million, across 37 deals. This is $11.5 million more compared to... Wamda • 11 February, 2021 Investment
Regional Why Google launched an accelerator for Mena In October 2020, Google launched its regional accelerator, a three-month virtual programme targeting startups across the Middle East and... Thought Leadership • 10 February, 2021 Google accelerator
Regional How can brands become TikTok famous? What started out as a lip-syncing and dancing platform has, in the space of just two years, become the fastest growing app in the world.... Wamda • 09 February, 2021 TikTok
Regional Will loyalty become a new form of currency? Repeat custom is the lifeblood of all commerce, selling a product or service once to a person is easy enough, getting them to buy it again... Shaimaa El Nazer • 08 February, 2021 customer loyalty
Regional A look at Kitopi's three-year journey When Kitopi launched in January 2018 in Dubai, few were familiar with the concept of cloud kitchens. Now, three years later, cloud kitchens... Triska Hamid • 04 February, 2021 Kitopi cloud kitchen
Regional Is a competitive funding landscape good for the ecosystem? Covid-19 has been the ultimate stress test for all businesses, including startups and venture capital (VC) firms. While the pandemic has... Dunya Hassanein • 02 February, 2021 ABV Venture Capital
Global The basics of intellectual property [part one] Ludwig Lindermayer is a patent and trademark attorney at PAUSTIAN & PARTNER. In a series of thought leadership pieces, he... Thought Leadership • 31 January, 2021 Intellectual property Patents
Saudi Arabia Telgani: Partnering for profit in Saudi’s mobility sector In countries that lack a robust public transport infrastructure, car ownership and renting tend to dominate. Over the past couple of years,... Dunya Hassanein • 28 January, 2021 Telgani mobility
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