U.A.E Banking and insurance comparison startup Bayzat raises $1M led by BECO Capital Bayzat, a UAE-based comparison site for health insurance services, banking products and car insurance has received a $1 million round... Maya Rahal • 29 June, 2015 Bayzat investement Funding
Saudi Arabia Saudi web startup focuses on rehab for disabled children Hospitals and medical clinics are not the most inviting of places, especially if you have to visit them regularly, but Saudi startup... Ryan Adil • 22 July, 2015 developmental disabilities rehab rehabilitation
Maghreb Morocco's online health service DabaDoc expands its reach When Zineb Yacoubi returned to Morocco after eight years abroad, she was struck by how difficult it was to book a medical appointment.... Aline Mayard • 20 May, 2015 dabadoc Maghreb morocco
Regional Diagnose your market: insights into MENA’s digital health revolution The health revolution. (Image via CB Insights) As the m-health industry of the Middle East continues to grow, Dubai hosted its first... Roland Daher • 11 May, 2015 Trice Imaging Inc HealthXL Qualcomm Ventures
Regional M-health apps taking the pulse of the region Following up on our recent piece on m-health in the region, we’ve compiled a list of other health applications and platforms that are... Lucy Knight • 26 January, 2015 AlemHealth Faselty Eshraq
Regional Building the Arab region’s biggest B2B market place is not without its challenges Two years ago Syrian entrepreneur Salim Akil was poised to make his SearchinMena.com, a Yellow Pageseque search engine, the region’s l... Pamela Kesrouani • 17 February, 2015
Regional The growing m-health sector of the Middle East, too slow? When the Arabic medical information platform AlTibbi accept their World Summit Award for best mobile medical content in February... Lucy Knight • 08 January, 2015 MENA Healthcare Dr Bridge
Young Lebanese innovators honored by MIT, confirms a growing trend Update: Wamda has just learned that a third Lebanese, entrepreneur Rand Hindi, was also included in the MIT list (editors were... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 25 August, 2014 littlebits MIT
Regional Not another social network: Doxunity wants to help doctors do their jobs better Over the past few years, Wamda has covered a lot of medical startups that provide patients with information on different health topics,... Reine Farhat • 24 August, 2014 webteb Health Medical
From Saudi to the US: selling camel milk as the new superfood A Palestinian raised in Saudi, Walid Abdul-Wahab moved to Los Angeles in 2009 to study at USC, where he discovered how health-conscious a... Aline Mayard • 20 August, 2014
WebTeb goes mobile with Arabic language app Leading Arabic health and lifestyle portal Webteb has announced the launch of its mobile WebTeb App, the first of its kind in... khaled sleiman • 18 August, 2014 webteb Health
Regional investment future looks bright despite political distress The 8th edition of the ‘MENA Private Equity & Venture Capital’ Annual Report shows that investments in the region are holding strong de... Wamda • 22 July, 2014 private equity mena pea uae
How this startup is taking on the region's $15 billion cosmetics market While Faisal Hakki was working at the Jordanian VC firm Accelerator Technology Holdings, where he screened, evaluated, and helped... Hayden Pirkle • 20 July, 2014 same day delivery kohlah beauty products
Four tactics to make niche Arabic content work, from health platform Anakeef The web is teeming with forums and platforms tackling a wide range of health, nutrition, fitness, lifestyle, beauty, fashion and... Maya Rahal • 17 June, 2014 lifestyle anakeef Health & Beauty
Palestinian entrepreneur launches e-store and educational blog on sexual health for married couples “It started one day when I was walking in Ramallah,” Ashraf Alkiswani says. “I was stuck behind these two guys in their late thirties, and ... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 03 April, 2014 karaz sexual health ramallah
Palestinian software companies merge; set sights on changing U.S. healthcare market iConnect-Tech and 2i Software, two software development companies with front offices in Chicago and programming teams based in Palestine,... Eric Reidy • 01 April, 2014 software development palestine Developers
Mobile app generator wins the day at Startup Weekend Amman Hoards of aspiring entrepreneurs gathered at the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Building in Amman this past weekend for Startup Weekend – a 5... Hayden Pirkle • 17 February, 2014
Can this Bahraini couple's startup help fight childhood obesity in the Gulf? Yoga, Team Awesome, Muay Thai, Zumba, and Parkour all sound like classes you can take at a gym that combines fun with fitness. This is... Leena AlOlaimy • 13 February, 2014 child obesity obesity children
Egyptian pharmacist creates Dawaa, a digital pharmaceutical drug index Designed to bridge the gap between the conventional hard copy drug reference manual and the digital lives of today's physicians, Dawaa is... Ahmed Gabr • 09 February, 2014 Healthcare Health Mobile
Can a young woman entrepreneur succeed in Morocco with a new online medical appointment service? Finding the right doctor and booking an upcoming appointment is a complex task, especially in Morocco, where public-sector doctors don’t t... Aline Mayard • 28 January, 2014 Health
Palestinian startup MobiStine to launch free healthcare app for new parents At the end of October 2013, Husni Abu Samrah returned to Palestine after spending five months in the United States. He had just completed... Eric Reidy • 09 January, 2014 masschallenge mobistine palestine
What did Lebanese entrepreneurs learn from the Dublin Web Summit? With 10,000 attendees this year – four times the number from last year, and twenty times the number from the first event just two years a... Maya Rahal • 17 December, 2013 Web Summit Conferences
10 amazing holiday gifts from innovators in the Middle East Whatever your religious beliefs, we all worship at the altar of buying new things, especially at this time of year. We compiled a list of... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 10 December, 2013 gift gift guide morocco
MySportner founder Kenza Bennani on her greatest challenges, and big plans for the future The New Work Lab, a Moroccan co-working space based in Casablanca, recently held the first edition of Pitch Lab won by MySportner.... Fatim Zahra Biaz • 12 December, 2013 mysportner new work labs morocco