Wamda

Regional

The Zayed Sustainability Prize is now accepting submissions for 2026

The Zayed Sustainability Prize, a global award that recognises impactful solutions, is now accepting applications for the 2026...

Zayed Sustainability Prize

Egypt

RiseUp 2025 to gather MENA’s startup ecosystem under the theme “Tell Your Story”

RiseUp has announced the launch of its 12th annual RiseUp Summit, set to take place from May 8 to 10, 2025, at the Grand Egyptian Museum...

RiseUp 2025

Lebanon

LIFE calls on Lebanese entrepreneurs to apply for Dubai pitch night

Calling Lebanese Entrepreneurs in the MENA Region! LIFE Pitch Night is coming to Dubai on 15 May 2025, connecting Lebanese founders with...

life LIFE Pitch Night

Qatar

Startup Grind holds Qatar's first Tech Startup Community Awards ceremony

Press release: Startup Grind Qatar, the local chapter of the global startup community, held its Tech Startup Community Awards Programme,...

Startup Grind Qatar Tech Startup Community Awards

Regional

Google for Startups Accelerator AI First accepts applications

Applications are now open for the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First MENA & Turkey programme, designed to propel your venture to...

Google for Startups

Regional

Apply now: TiE Women MENA Programme 2024

TiE Dubai is launching the 5th edition of the TiE Women MENA Programme. This programme aims to embrace, engage and empower women...

TiE Women MENA

Egypt

10 Egyptan startups win VMS Bridge Programme awards

Ten Egyptian startups have won the prizes of the joint Saudi-Egyptian programme VMS Bridge, aimed at supporting startups in Egypt and Saudi...

VMS Value Makers Studio

Egypt

Startups Without Borders' fifth edition kicks off in Cairo in May

Startups Without Borders will launch the fifth edition of its annual summit, which will take place on May 10-11 at Kamelizer Spaces in...

Startups Without Borders

Palestine

Mobilizing for Gaza: Creating Jobs for Palestinians

The genocide in Gaza is an assault on every facet of life and society. Entire sectors have been decimated, universities razed, and...

palestine Gaza

Qatar

Qatar's tech sector takes centre stage at Web Summit 2024

The recent Qatar Web Summit witnessed the unveiling of initiatives set to revolutionise Qatar's startup ecosystem, heralding potential...

Web Summit qatar

Palestine

Palestine LINK Insourcing Program

A special event hosted by (Fares and Fahmi) and Intersect Advisory LLC, to introduce you to the groundbreaking LINK Insourcing Program...

LINK insourcing program

Global

Why are South Korea and the GCC so interested in one another?

For many years the Middle East’s startup ecosystem has looked to the West, for inspiration, for investment and to scale. But as...

South Korea

U.A.E

Wamda's roundup of Expand North Star

For the first time, the startup section of Gitex, Expand North Star (ENS), was split from the main event causing confusion among some and a...

Expand North Star GITEX

Egypt

Egypt announces new startup regulations during Techne Summit in Alexandria

Over the past four days, Bibliotheca Alexandrina has embraced the 9th edition of Techne Summit, one of the main entrepreneurial annual...

Techne Summit ict ITIDA

U.A.E

UAE Startup Competition: ScaleUp 2023

Are you ready to take your startup to the next level and gain the support you need to thrive in the competitive UAE business landscape?...

aramex

U.A.E

GPT-5 and beyond: trends, predictions and the impact on the future jobs market

Tarjama, as a leader in the Arabic language space in MENA, is hosting a leading expert in AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) from DeepMind...

generative AI Tarjama

U.A.E

Dubai Generative AI Programmes

The Dubai Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DCAI) is inviting global AI startups and companies to participate in one of its two new...

Egypt

Egypt's economic crisis in focus at RiseUp's 10th summit

For the past decade, RiseUp has been one of the most influential startup events in Egypt and the wider Middle East and North Africa region....

RiseUp

U.A.E

Innovative Palestine in the UAE: People and Potential

The International Conference on Entrepreneurship in Palestine (ICEP) 4.0 showcasing the Palestinian startup community in a pitch event and...

Palestine

Palestinian innovation is going global and its first stop is Dubai

Rateb H.Rabi is the managing director of Intersect Innovation Hub, a business incubator serving startups in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Nablus,...

palestine

Regional

Gitex: embracing a "phygital" future

Ask anyone who attended Gitex this year about their experience, you will be met with one of two responses - either an excited...

GITEX North Star

U.A.E

EMERGE Gulf Health Innovation

An unrivalled opportunity is taking place in the city of the future, Dubai, for health tech disruptors at the startup and scaleup stage to...

healthtech

Saudi Arabia

AstroLabs Showcase series launches in Riyadh

UAE-based technology ecosystem builder AstroLabs has launched its first edition of the ‘AstroLabs Showcase’ series in Riyadh...

Astrolabs

Saudi Arabia

What we learned at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Riyadh

For the past few years, Saudi Arabia has done an exceptional job of reforming its business processes and boosting entrepreneurship in the...

GEC GEN

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