Wamda

Regional

How Covid-19 unlocked the adoption of e-commerce in the Mena region

Wamda, in partnership with MIT Legatum Entrepreneurship Center, will be hosting an online panel to launch a report on ‘How...

Saudi Arabia

Alhokair and ACC acquire majority stake in UK's Vogacloset

Saudi Arabia-based retailer Alhokair and mall operator Arabian Centres Company (ACC) have come together to acquire a combined 51 per cent...

E-commerce Vogacloset

Regional

Will loyalty become a new form of currency?

Repeat custom is the lifeblood of all commerce, selling a product or service once to a person is easy enough, getting them to buy it again...

customer loyalty

Egypt

Why Belal El-Megharbel left Careem and shunned his family business

This article originally appeared on the International Financial Corporation (IFC) website. By Gloria Mwaniga Odary In 2018, when Belal...

MaxAB B2B marketplace

Egypt

Opio raises $300,000 seed investment

Egypt-based women’s fashionwear brand Opio has raised $300,000 in a seed round from AUC Angels, local and regional angel investors...

direct-to-consumer

Regional

What is driving the growth of buy now pay later?

Before the emergence of online shopping, there were shopping catalogues, published and distributed by retailers who offered everything from...

BNPL Tabby

Saudi Arabia

Salla raises $8.5 million in Series A

Saudi Arabia-based e-commerce Salla, has closed a SAR32 million ($8.5 million) Series A round led by STV, with participation from existing...

Salla Series A

Regional

The unstoppable growth of e-grocery

E-grocery remains the fastest growing segment of e-commerce in the Middle East according to new research from RedSeer Consulting, growing...

e-grocery

Regional

Techne Summit Alexandria 2020

Techne Summit is coming to you this year on November 7-8-9 as a Hybrid Event! So, if you can't attend in person, you can...

Saudi Arabia

Penny Software raises $1.35 million Seed with participation from Wamda

Saudi Arabia-based Penny Software has raised $1.35 million in a Seed investment round from Wamda, Class 5 Global, Outliers VC, Plug and...

b2b marketplace Penny

U.A.E

Awok’s failure: Pandemic victim or cash mismanagement?

Wamda cannot verify the claims that Hussein Khafagy, head of customer experience at Awok makes below Last week, Dubai-based...

awok.com failures

U.A.E

eyewa raises $2.5 million pre-series B bridge round

Wamda, the Middle East region's leading startup ecosystem enabler, has invested in UAE-based eyewear e-commerce player eyewa, which has...

eyewa wamda Wamda Capital

Regional

Creating a comprehensive model for e-commerce success

Darren Hodgkin, CEO of Digital&Code E-commerce has made massive gains during the Covid-19 pandemic. Consumers were forced to...

E-commerce

Regional

elGrocer: The lessons we learned in the era of Covid-19

Nader Amiri is the founder of UAE-based e-grocery startup elGrocer E-commerce is on everyone’s mind. There’s a lot being...

e-grocery elGrocer covid-19

Regional

Will cash on delivery return post Covid-19?

By Faris Fallouh, Senior Global Express Services at Aramex During this pandemic, consumers globally and in the Middle East and North...

CoD cash-on-delivery

Regional

The logistical developments in e-commerce

The importance of the e-commerce industry has been multiplied by 10 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic according to Iyad Kamal, chief...

Logistics aramex

Regional

The Impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the entrepreneurship ecosystem [Survey]

As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to impact the way we live, work and operate, very few startups in the region have managed to escape...

Egypt

E-Commerce Summit 2019

Egypt’s E-Commerce Summit returns this year to drive the growth of the e-commerce industry in Egypt and the MENA region....

Global

Jumia shares “pop” 75 per cent on NYSE debut

Jumia, Africa’s largest e-commerce player, went public today on the New York Stock Exchange with a closing price of $25.46 per...

africa

Egypt

Egyptian online fashion rental platform raises $1M from Algebra Ventures and 500 Startups

La Reina, an Egyptian online platform for rental couture, announced receiving $1 million in a Series A funding round led by Egypt’s...

Egypt La Reina Algebra Ventures

Regional

More family businesses to engage with tech and innovation: Techstars’ Jag Singh

Last month, Wamda had the chance to catch up with Jag Singh, managing director of Techstars’ METRO Accelerator for Retail, ahead of...

lebanon Jag Singh techstars

Saudi Arabia

Saudi DokkanAfkar.com launches new ‘Designer Program’

DokkanAfkar.com, one of the first ecommerce websites in Saudi Arabia for creative products, announced the launch of its ‘Designer...

Saudi Arabia DokkanAfkar ecommerce

Saudi Arabia

Niche e-grocery stores are gaining momentum and this Saudi startup is taking note

A research led by Think with Google, found that millennials are very much concerned about their health. If they’re going to live...

Saudi Arabia ecommerce f&b

U.A.E

Marketplace builder behind joigifts closes $1.5 M Seed Round

Dubai-based Enhance, a holding company that builds online marketplaces for the Middle East and Africa, has raised a Seed Round of $1.5...

uae Enhance joigifts

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