Regional Fintech is poised for consolidation in the Middle East Mahmoud Hamouda is a strategy and operations consultant at Dell Technologies. He is also the head of Dell for Entrepreneurs in Egypt. In... Thought Leadership • 15 August, 2021 Fintech
Egypt Is a virtual demo day better for pitching? Karmah El Naggar is the special projects lead at Falak Startups, an accelerator based in Egypt In February 2020, we were quickly... Thought Leadership • 12 August, 2021 Falak Startups accelerator
Regional Mena startups raised $632 million in July 2021 Startups raised almost $632 million in July across 77 deals, a record-breaking month thanks mostly to Kitopi’s $415 million Series C... Wamda • 10 August, 2021 Investment
Global When we can’t build startups from a garage, how do we create strong teams? Marilyn Zakhour is the founder and chief executive officer of UAE-based Cosmic Centaurs, a flexible work... Thought Leadership • 08 August, 2021 Cosmic Centaurs remote working
U.A.E Can AI work in oil and gas without historical data? In some countries in the Middle East, the oil and gas (O&G) sector contributes as much as 90 per cent to gross domestic product (GDP).... Dunya Hassanein • 05 August, 2021 deeptech Artificial intelligence nybl
Global Lessons for Mena: The rise of bus-sharing in Bangladesh Wes Schwalje is the co-founder of Tahseen Consulting, a boutique consulting, government relations and development firm based in the UAE.... Thought Leadership • 03 August, 2021 mobility buses
Saudi Arabia Defining Saudi Arabia's gig economy When UK-based food delivery platform Deliveroo announced it would pull out of Spain over changes to the legal status of gig economy... Nagham Al Eithan • 01 August, 2021 gig economy
Regional How the gig economy is disrupting the region’s startup ecosystem With 70 million platform workers registered globally, economists predict that by 2025, talent platforms will mediate one third of all... Nagham Al Eithan • 29 July, 2021 gig economy
Regional How we pivoted our startup with grace Walid Daniel Dib is the co-founder and CEO of hala, a UAE-based insuretech startup Spoiler: There was absolutely no grace... Thought Leadership • 27 July, 2021 Pivot Hala
U.A.E Can Dubai become the capital for next-gen healthtech startups? Marwan Abdulaziz Janahi is the managing director of Dubai Science Park Medical innovation has surged as the world’s greatest minds... Thought Leadership • 25 July, 2021 Dubai healthtech
Regional Want economic prosperity? Help women become more financially capable Dina Alnabulsi is a business analyst at Globitel, a Jordan-based telecommunications company Financial exclusion is a universal issue,... Dina Alnabulsi • 22 July, 2021 financial inclusion Women empowerment
Jordan Istikana: Streaming its way to production In most homes in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena), the television is still the focal point of the living room, bringing together... Nesma Abdel Azim • 20 July, 2021 istikana Film Video Streaming
Palestine Does Palestine have investment-ready startups? Majd Zghyer is the strategy officer at uMake, an entrepreneurship support organisation (ESO) based in Ramallah, Palestine. So far this... Thought Leadership • 18 July, 2021 palestine
Egypt What can open banking do for Egypt? Akram Abdou is the founder of Egypt-based Underlie, an open banking platform offering application programming interfaces (APIs) to... Thought Leadership • 14 July, 2021 Open banking
U.A.E Opontia: Enabling e-commerce brands to go global The GCC region is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets in the world according to a report from Dubai’s CommerCity, with... Dunya Hassanein • 12 July, 2021 e-commerce enablement E-commerce Opontia
Global Deepfakes: Who can we trust? Deepfake technology has rapidly developed over the past few years and while many will have experienced it through fun apps designed to edit... Wamda • 11 July, 2021 deepfakes podcast
