Regional Corporate VCs and VCs: Who wins the battle? In 2016, Intel Capital and Google Ventures were the most active corporate venture capital (CVC), according to a CB Insights report,... Reine Farhat • 24 September, 2017
U.A.E GE, MENA startups come together on common ground [Video] During the last quarter of 2015, Wamda and General Electric (GE) kicked off a new common activity, the ‘GE MEMakers Mentorship Program’. Th... Maya Rahal • 09 February, 2016
Lebanon Lebanese telco Touch expands its reach with startups Nadim Khater at his office. (Image via Touch) After indulging in an era of global expansion, telecom operators around the world... Maya Rahal • 18 January, 2016
Regional Fast Facts II: 12+ new hubs for MENA startups (2015) Throughout 2015, support for entrepreneurs in the Arab world continued to grow. As Wamda’s review of the year’s... Jonas Feller • 31 December, 2015
Regional MEC and Wamda partner to launch Corporate Entrepreneurship Services across MENA MEC, one of the largest media agencies in the world and Wamda have signed a partnership to give MENA businesses access to innovation from... Wamda • 02 November, 2015
Saudi Arabia Saudi startup Rwaq steps on giants' shoulders to succeed “Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility”, or CER, are the new buzzwords entering Saudi Arabia’s lexicon, and one startup is making the m... Safar Ayad • 14 June, 2015
Jordan Zain Jordan’s commitment to entrepreneurship continues Zain CEO Ahmad Hanandeh, right, works with entrepreneurs at Mix N' Mentor Amman in 2014, hosted at ZINC. Since first signing a partnership... Wamda • 26 May, 2015
Jordan Zain and Wamda kick off Traxn with 5 Jordanian startups Five Jordanian startups have been selected to join a new accelerator program designed to bring together young innovators with one of the... Teeb Assaf • 12 March, 2015
Regional Startup-corporate partnerships 2/3: why are there so few? The second in our series of three articles looking at the intricacies of the startup-corporate relationship, we follow on from the logic... Ahmed Mohammed • 30 December, 2014
Regional Traxn launches with Zain, call for applications now open for Jordanian startups In the past few years, MENA startups and corporations kept their distance, holding on to the assumption that corporates are too... Wamda • 28 December, 2014
Zain Jordan embarks on CER with a series of activities Telecom company, Zain Jordan, has taken a big step into actioning its Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility program and helping e... Maya Rahal • 22 June, 2014
Wamda Chairman Fadi Ghandour receives award at World Entrepreneurship Forum Wamda Chairman Fadi Ghandour was honored yesterday at this year’s World Entrepreneurship Forum in Singapore with the Business Entrepreneur ... Wamda • 01 November, 2013
4 simple reasons why a young digital agency in Lebanon is turning a steady profit Sometimes the startups seeing the most steady returns aren’t the ones that are popping up in the news, but just those with a solid model a... Glen Dalakian II • 24 October, 2013
Global Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility, by Fadi Ghandour It is a matter of fact that chronic poverty and unemployment have long been the twin hallmarks of most Arab economies. While poverty... Fadi Ghandour • 21 January, 2013
Regional Fadi Ghandour Announces Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Movement In a speech today at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Dubai, Fadi Ghandour, CEO of Aramex and Chairman of the Board at Wamda,... Nina Curley • 12 December, 2012
Regional Startup-corporate partnerships 3/3: 6 success stories Announcing the ShopGo deal In our series on startup-corporate partnerships we've looked at the logic behind the relationships, and why... Ahmed Mohammed • 04 January, 2015
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