Maghreb New $51M World Bank fund to target Morocco Morocco has been missing a strong investment fund dedicated to startups, but this will change in autumn when the World Bank launches a... Aline Mayard • 05 July, 2016 Financement world bank morocco
U.A.E 500 Startups invests in UAE gifting marketplace UAE-based gift-giving platform Joi has recieved investment from 500 Startups. With this first round founders Ritesh Tilani and... Natasha D'Souza • 05 July, 2016 500 startups joi gifts Investment
Regional Startups and VCs: it doesn't have to be complicated The relationship between an investor and an investee is sometimes delicate. One is fronting up with cash and faith that it’ll go... Maya Rahal • 05 July, 2016 due diligence startups VCs
Regional What I know about mentoring: Kathleen Bury Despite having alumni spread across 14 countries the UK-based foundation Mowgli is still having to work very hard to get people to... Lucy Knight • 04 July, 2016 Mowgli relationships
Syria High risk, high reward: Mag Optics wants to change the way we see Biotech is a high risk, high cost, high reward world. It's one that Mag Optics, a London-based startup founded by a Syrian... Rachel Williamson • 04 July, 2016 MAG Optics lasik MEMakersGE
Egypt Ramadan a flash point for Egypt food startups Egyptians’ food spending over Ramadan hit an average of 35 billion Egyptian pounds (US$3.5 billion), or about 15 percent of their... Eman Mostafa • 03 July, 2016 Agrimatic Akla Baity Yumamia
Regional MENA by the numbers: what do they really mean? Internet penetration, media consumption or ecommerce spending rates all tell one piece of a broader story about how the internet is being... Rachel Williamson • 03 July, 2016 Payfort infographics Data
Regional Meet the makers: GE Garages and the future of industrial entrepreneurship As the MENA region grapples with non-hydrocarbon diversification in the aftermath of the oil price shock, a slew of strategic announcements... Vanessa Khalil • 03 July, 2016 MEMakersGE GEMS robotics
Global The future of everything: tech of 2016 [Infographic] The technology you hear about everyday - artificially intelligent robots, self driving cars - are just the tip of science these... Rachel Williamson • 30 June, 2016 Systems Metabolic Engineering open AI perovskite
Jordan For tech’s sake, get out of our way [Opinion] Last October we found out the royal court wanted some major changes to reawaken Jordan’s technology sector. This was no surprise... Laith Zraikat • 30 June, 2016 regulation Opinion Policy
Global Religious readings get innovative This article is a crosspost with MIT Technology Review Arab Edition. It is quite common in religious circles to read Islam’s holy... MIT Technology Review • 30 June, 2016 Brandwise-apps Quran Khatma sawab
Maghreb ‘Tunisian DNA’ essential to major US cloud deal An American success often hides a diaspora success. In the case of Predictix it goes far beyond that. Predictix, a US-based retail cloud... Aline Mayard • 29 June, 2016 acceleration Predictix usa
Europe Aramex leads $8.5M Series B in UK address startup Aramex has led a $8.5 million Series B funding round in British startup What 3 Words, a company that is creating a universal postal code... Rachel Williamson • 29 June, 2016 Eddress what3words Locname
Maghreb AIG becomes Jumia, but is a rebrand a good idea? Few internet services have made as much noise as Africa Internet Group (AIG), and now it’s seeking to make more with a major... Aline Mayard - Rachel Williamson • 29 June, 2016 rebranding Africa Internet Group Kaymu
Egypt Is Ousta Egypt's fastest growing startup ever? [Q&A] [Update July 27: five months after launching Ousta is negotiating a $5.6 million investment round.] Ride hailing app... Radwa Rashad • 29 June, 2016 ride hailing Ousta careem
Regional Big data in health: good for anything yet? Using big data in healthcare, anywhere, might it be true to say no one seems to quite know what they’re doing yet? But Dr.... Lucy Knight • 29 June, 2016 Ver2 Digital Medicine MEMakersGE healthcare analytics
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