U.A.E Taskspotting app raises $1.2M Series A round Market research app Taskspotting has announced the closing of their Series A round, to the tune of $1.2 million, led by Mena Venture... Lucy Knight • 02 October, 2015 Mena Venture Investments Series A Investment
Egypt Yaoota raises $2.7M Series A from UAE's KBBO Yaoota cofounders Sherif ElRakabawy and Mohamed Ewis (Image via Rachel Williamson) Egyptian startup Yaoota has landed a $2.7 million... Rachel Williamson • 01 October, 2015 yaoota Series A Egypt
Regional Optimization finally matters in MENA e-commerce [Opinion] Back in 2010, I wrote about the upcoming ecommerce boom in the Middle East, despite the many omni-present barriers at an... Mo Ali Yusuf • 01 October, 2015 funnel leakage friction
Lebanon Former Lebanese bakery serves up innovation The Obsessive Drafter hard at work. (Image via theBakery) Let’s head to theBAKERY, a cozy design lab in Beirut's Mar Mikhael n... Christina Fakhry • 01 October, 2015 Guillaume Crédoz The Obsessive Drafter theBakery
Oman One-stop shop for Oman’s entrepreneurs launches at Oman SME Summit 2015 Al Sayyid Dr. Adham Turki Al Said addresses the summit. (Images via International Finance Magazine) Omani entrepreneurs in search of... Antoine Abou-Diwan • 01 October, 2015 oman sme summit 2015 sme summit smes
Lebanon Lebanese teens invent urine-powered generator As Lebanon's environmental woes continue to escalate, with mountains of garbage rotting in the street and power cuts lasting... Maysaa Ajjan • 30 September, 2015 urinegenerator lebanon aub
Egypt The Egypt teen cracking the fuel crisis Azza Faiad’s passion for science started in a taxi ride late in 2010, a ride which sparked a potentially multibillion dollar idea to create ... Sara Aggour • 30 September, 2015 pyrolysis EPRI alternative energy
Regional Does your business really need an Arabic Top Level Domain? It’s now possible to buy domain names in non-roman letters including Chinese, Arabic and Russian, following a major expansion in the kinds o... Abdulghani Kataya • 29 September, 2015 TLD top level domains
Egypt What Egypt's local investors want Egypt has made headlines lately for attracting a series of high-level venture investments from foreign players, but local investors are... Sara Aggour • 29 September, 2015 KI angels Tennra ideavelopers
Maghreb Casablanca car share startup accelerates off the starting line Carmine's cars now have their own parking spots. (Images via Carmine) It’s a safe bet that not many in Casablanca know what car sharing i... Aline Mayard • 28 September, 2015 car share Transportation Sharing Economy
U.A.E Global Islamic Economy Summit 2015 In 2013, the inaugural Global Islamic Economy Summit introduced to the world the idea of a cohesive global Islamic Economy. This year's... Wamda • 28 September, 2015 GIES Islamic economy Dubai
Lebanon Accelerator insights from the UK Lebanon Tech Hub The UK Lebanon Tech Hub, which started earlier this year, announced the start of its International Accelerator activities in... Maya Rahal • 28 September, 2015 Tech Accelerator UK Lebanon Tech Hub accelerator
Regional Time ‘ripe’ for oil industry disruption There may be no better time than now for entrepreneurs to ‘disrupt’ the oil and gas industry. As the oil price hovers... Rachel Williamson • 28 September, 2015 Intelligent Oil&Gas conference IoT oil & gas
Regional Innovative tent for refugees harnesses renewable energy What the tents, in use, could look like. (Images via Abeer Seikaly) Nearing the half-decade mark, the Syrian Civil War has by modest... Samuel Wendel • 27 September, 2015 refugees tent abeer seikaly
U.A.E It’s alive! Epygen organisms alter ME oil industry The oil game is still played very traditionally in the Middle East, but companies such as Dubai’s biotech firm Epygen Labs are slowly... Rachel Williamson • 27 September, 2015 enzymes filter cake Epygen
Regional 6 reasons why you should start accepting bitcoin payments today Ease of use, lower fees and increasing adoption - what's not to like about bitcoin? (Image via BitOasis) This is a crosspost with... Dina Saman • 27 September, 2015 Bit Oasis Bitcoin
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