Regional Forty per cent of Arab youth plan to start own business Frustration with struggling economies, government corruption and lack of job opportunities is pushing young Arabs towards entrepreneurship... Wamda • 06 October, 2020 Arab youth entrepreneurship E-commerce
U.A.E The state of subscription-based businesses in Mena [Survey] Wamda's Research Lab and Microsoft for Startups have partnered with Subsbase, a subscribers lifecycle management and... Annelies Docx • 04 October, 2020
U.A.E STEP Match Step Match is a series of online networking events brought to you by Step, the organizers of Step Conference,... Wamda • 27 September, 2020
Regional I failed and this is my truth Failure in the startup world can seem like an inevitable milestone, with nine out of 10 startups ending in failure. For many... Thought Leadership • 15 September, 2020 Failure
Regional Roundup of Step Anywhere 2020 Step this week concluded its first ever online edition, Step Anywhere, only six months after the ninth edition of Step Conference, the... Shaimaa El Nazer • 27 August, 2020 STEP event
Regional Future of mobility: The uncertainty of e-scooters This is the second part in a series of features examining the impact of Covid-19 on the region's transport and mobility... Dunya Hassanein • 29 August, 2020 mobility Transportation circ
U.A.E Abu Dhabi's Dh535 million Ventures Fund will be transferred to ADQ Source: The National Abu Dhabi's state holding company ADQ is partnering with the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (Adio) to develop the... News • 19 August, 2020 abu dhabi ADIO
Regional Accelerators 2.0: The post-pandemic version Yousra Diab is the head of programmes at Dubai-based social impact accelerator C3 As the world came to a standstill with the outbreak of... Thought Leadership • 18 August, 2020 C3 Accelerators
Lebanon Can Lebanon's entrepreneurship ecosystem survive? Beirut made headlines worldwide as a devastating explosion shook the Lebanese capital’s port area last week, resulting in an... Shaimaa El Nazer • 13 August, 2020 beirut
U.A.E Why are there so few Emirati entrepreneurs? Earlier this year Wamda published a report on the state of pre-seed startups in the Middle East and North Africa. What emerged from our... Wamda • 11 August, 2020 emiratis uae
Egypt Mayday's mission to improve roadside assistance in Egypt By Mostafa Adel In Cairo alone, it is estimated that traffic issues cost Egypt’s economy $7 billion every year. This figure... Middle East Exchange • 29 July, 2020 mobility
Regional In a world of remote work, will control replace culture? Marilyn Zakhour, founder and chief executive officer of UAE-based Cosmic Centaurs At the height of the pandemic, I started a company... Thought Leadership • 05 July, 2020 company culture remote work
Saudi Arabia Refd secures investment from OceanX Holding Saudi Arabia-based Refd, a mobile application that provides services for people of determination, has secured investment from OceanX... News • 02 July, 2020 Refd OceanX Investment
Saudi Arabia Munch:On - Going beyond lunch Most food delivery platforms witnessed a slowdown in business once lockdown came into effect. Working from home gave people enough time to... Shaimaa El Nazer • 30 June, 2020 Lunch:On Munch:On
Regional Edtech and its roadmap to new realities Wamda, in partnership with Columbia Global Centers, is hosting an online panel discussion, ‘Edtech and its roadmap to... Wamda • 25 June, 2020
Regional The Middle East's post-pandemic future A new reality is beginning to emerge as lockdown measures begin to ease amid the Covid-19 outbreak, imposing a dramatic restructure to... Shaimaa El Nazer • 23 June, 2020 coronavirus sme economy
U.A.E Raising the bar for women’s healthcare Investment in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) healthcare sector is booming. Over $144 billion will be ploughed into Mena-wide... Alicia Buller • 22 June, 2020 healthtech
Egypt Seedstars: It's Easier Online Hackathon Digital & Financial inclusion have transformative power on the economy, community and employment. Digital transformation... Lara Fakih • 08 June, 2020
Regional TiE Dubai offers $100,000 to winning startup TiE Dubai, a chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), announced the launch of a regional Women 2020 pitch competition as part of its... Shaimaa El Nazer • 01 June, 2020 Women entrepreneurship competition
Regional Beyond Incubation: Universities as agents of startup development In the 1990s, professors Henry Etzkowitz and Loet Leydesdorff, put forward the idea of the Triple Helix framework, which highlighted... Shaimaa El Nazer • 04 June, 2020 Education Taqadam startAD
Regional The angel network looking for halal opportunities Muslims concluded the celebration of Eid Al Fitr this week, marking the end of Ramadan in lockdown. During this time, 64 per cent of UAE... Dunya Hassanein • 27 May, 2020 Islamic economy Angel Investment
Regional [Report Launch] The Impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the entrepreneurship ecosystem Wamda and Arabnet have joined efforts to conduct research for a report on the impact of COVID-19 on the startup ecosystem across the... Wamda • 13 May, 2020
Regional Blitzscaling and the COVID-19 crisis Theory, a JV with MENA media giant StarzPlay, and its partner network Nat Geo and Discovery, and Harvard affiliates that... Wamda • 11 May, 2020
Regional A conversation on mental health and the power of harnessing communities in the MENA region during uncertain times Wamda and Microsoft for Startups are hosting 'A conversation on mental health and the power of harnessing communities in the MENA... Wamda • 10 May, 2020