Saudi Arabia

Vision 2030: SME Opportunities in KSA and MENA

"Vision 2030: Small and Medium Enterprises Opportunities in KSA and MENA" will be taking place on July 11 at 500 Startups in San...

Wamda • 06 July, 2017

sme saudi vision 2030

Global

Pixelbug looks to take Silicon Valley

Pixelbug, the augmented and virtual reality pioneer founded in Dubai, has gone from dominating the MENA market to turning heads in Silicon...

Wamda • 20 March, 2017

PixelBug silicon valley accelerator

Global

Startup Watch: weirdest new year countdown, food in 2050, and the ugly side of Silicon Valley

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Reine Farhat • 05 January, 2017

Startup Watch Unicorn Bots

Global

TechWadi Annual Forum 2017 [Exclusive Discount Code Inside!]

The TechWadi Annual Forum 2017, happening on January 27-28, is a celebration honoring the work TechWadi has done to...

Wamda • 29 November, 2016

silicon valley MENA startups

Regional

State and entrepreneurship: will a Trump presidency change all that? [Opinion]

Right after the election of Donald Trump, the soon to become the 45th President of the United States of America, many opinions were voiced...

Ghassan Dibah • 24 November, 2016

Government entrepreneurship Opinion

Global

Startup Watch: Trump and foreign techies, food delivery is tough, and something new for Lebanon’s economy

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Lucy Knight • 24 November, 2016

Startup Watch lebanon Donald Trump

Global

Behind Gradberry’s rebirth: it's all about timing

“I don’t look like any other founder in the [Silicon] Valley. I wasn’t born and raised here,” Gradberry founder Iba...

Vanessa Khalil • 02 November, 2016

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A tale of two cities: how a Lebanese startup moved to San Francisco

Elie Khoury knew he wanted to be in California ever since he was a child tinkering with computers in Byblos. “I didn’t have...

Brooke Anderson • 31 July, 2016

Woopra data analytics lebanon

Lebanon

A first year anniversary and a trip to Silicon Valley

“We’re witnessing a change of mindset, in the banks, the investors, the supporters. You can see the effect, and this has all...

Lucy Knight • 13 July, 2016

Speed@BDD silicon valley

Egypt

Will this social network maintain your privacy?

More social networks outside of Facebook? (Images via Begether) According to the US-based tech news site The Information Facebook users...

Eman Mostafa • 26 May, 2016

Begether Chaino privacy

Lebanon

Lebanese drones tackling forest fires, NAR

In 2014, when fires started raging through Nicolas Zaatar’s home district of Baabda in Lebanon, an opportunity presented...

Lucy Knight • 05 May, 2016

Next Automated Robots MEMakersGE NAR

Saudi Arabia

Saudi launches $133M fund for ICT startups

Saudi Arabia has seen the launch of a new ICT venture worth 500 million riyals (US$133 million). Saudi riyals are plenty for...

Lucy Knight • 18 January, 2016

Riyadh Taqnia Capital Riyad Capital Taqnia

Lebanon

Speed@BDD sends two startups off to Silicon Valley

Two of Speed@BDD’s first six startups are off to Silicon Valley. The accelerator’s CEO Sami Abou Saab said Rational Pixels...

Lucy Knight • 14 January, 2016

NAR Rational Pixels Speed@BDD

U.A.E

A mobile growth workshop with a touch of Silicon Valley

Those magic micro-moments. (Image via Nagi Salloum) in5 Innovation Centre hosted the Mobile Growth Academy workshop with Nagi Salloum,...

Archana Menon • 16 December, 2015

TangoMe Mobile growth Academy In5 Innovation Centre

Regional

TechWadi Roadshow connects MENA startups to Silicon Valley experts

Google's Sharif El-Badawi addresses the crowd at ZINC during TechWadi's stop in Amman. (Images via Samuel Wendel) Despite the near...

Samuel Wendel • 25 October, 2015

SiliconWadi ZINC silicon badia

U.A.E

Pretotyping and Beyond: Building the Right ‘It’ Before You Build ‘It’ Right

'Pretotyping and Beyond: Building the Right ‘It’ Before You Build ‘It’ Right', the first pretotyping workshop in the region, will be held i...

Wamda • 14 October, 2015

Pretotyping startups silicon valley

Bahrain

Bahraini startup streams success?

For 10 years Ali Mahmood was obsessed with amateur motorbike and go-kart racing. He wanted to take his love of the sports to another...

Lucy Knight • 16 September, 2015

Livestream Live streaming Utrack.tv

Regional

Join the second edition of "Arab World Meets Silicon Valley"

Also known as the Global Track, the "Arab world meets Silicon Valley" program is running its second edition organized by the MIT...

Wamda • 07 August, 2015

Arab world MITEF competition

U.A.E

$11M Series A round from the US for Dubai-based delivery service Fetchr

Dubai-based delivery service Fetchr has successfully closed a Series A funding round worth $11 million. The not-insignificant sum was...

Lucy Knight • 12 June, 2015

Mena360 Dhabi Holdings New Enterprise Associates

Regional

Silicon Valley investor on MENA’s road to startup success

Bern Shen at Flat6Labs mentoring a startup team working on children education. Investor Bern Shen is optimistic about the MENA region’s a...

Pamela Kesrouani • 03 June, 2015

MENA ecosystem Bern Shen MENA

Global

Fadi Bishara on what will attract the VC from Silicon Valley [Wamda TV]

Catching up with Fadi Bishara at the recent ArabNet conference in Beirut Wamda got a chance to chat with him about his thoughts on the VC...

Lucy Knight • 29 March, 2015

Fadi Bishara blackbox silicon valley

Meet the 18 startups that MITEF and TechWadi flew to Silicon Valley

Many startups from the Arab region dream of conquering the world; not an easy task when you’re based in the Middle East and North Africa. T...

Aline Mayard • 17 June, 2014

silicon valley Mentorship MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

Young change agents from the Arab world convene at Stanford

For three years now, Stanford University students, gathered in a student initiative called AMENDS, have invited promising actors of change...

Aline Mayard • 24 April, 2014

techwadi silicon valley Mentorship

Global

Egyptian job site Wuzzuf joins 500 Startups' acceleration program

Wuzzuf, an Egyptian recruiting site launched in 2012 by BasharSoft, was on the verge of closing down two years ago. However...

Reine Farhat • 05 February, 2014

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