Egypt Cairo delivery sector heats up as Goodsmart seeks expansion Opening the fridge after a long day at work and realizing someone has taken the last cold drink, or coming home to find you’ve... Sara Aggour • 23 May, 2016 Awfar Markets Knock Mart Egypt
Regional From e-shop to doorstep: finding the right fulfillment model Marketplaces have the choice between different types of fulfillment models (Image via F1online) The success of an ecommerce B2C platform... Aline Mayard • 18 May, 2016 fulfillment Hmall Jumia
Maghreb How is this startup bootstrapping solar and water solutions? Alto Solution has entered the tough B2B market for energy and water products. (Image via Alto Solution) How can we continue humanity’s d... Aline Mayard • 22 May, 2016 renewables solar desalination desalination
Egypt What do Egyptian shoppers want? [Infographic] Egypt: MENA's largest market by far. (Image via Wamda) This is a crosspost with Yaoota Magazine. Egyptian shoppers are a... Rachel Williamson • 22 May, 2016 State of Payments 2016 yaoota Payfort
Egypt Cantalop signs on for $100,000 angel investment Egypt is brimming with job search sites on the cusp of expansion. (Image via Cantalop) Two years after its launch, Egyptian job search... Eman Mostafa • 24 May, 2016 youth unemployment Egypt unemployment rate job search
Egypt Dead but not gone: El Wafeyat brings funerals online Death notices are yet another area where online businesses are chewing into newspaper profit models. (Images via El Wafeyat) El Wafeyat... Eduard Cousin • 17 May, 2016 onine obituaries elwafeyat Egypt
Egypt FilKhedma puts tradesmen at your fingertips Omar Ramadan in his still-spartan new digs in New Cairo. (Images via Filkhedma) Home maintenance service Filkhedma has just moved into a... Eduard Cousin • 15 May, 2016 home maintenance Taskty Omar Ramadan
Regional Ecommerce driving Middle East digital economy: Payfort Ecommerce is the furnace driving growth in the Middle East’s online economy but local online airline bookings are by far the highest... Rachel Williamson • 15 May, 2016 State of Payments 2016 Payfort Entertainment
Yemen Making ecommerce work in Yemen Startups can arise in the oddest of places. (Images via Rachel Williamson) When Wamda was contacted in January by Adeeb Qasem, of... Rachel Williamson • 17 May, 2016 Tamween Internet Society Yemen
Iran Iran's gaming market, an overview part II Such a large market, with a few hurdles still. (Images via Sourena Game Studio) Yesterday I shared some statistics on who is using the... Hassan Mehdiasl • 12 May, 2016 Free2Play Sanctions Sourena Game Studio
Jordan Meet the 16-year olds who brought the NASA Space Apps hackathon to Jordan The pilots of NASA Space Apps Amman: Rasha Khateeb (left) and Maram Abu Hussein (right). (Images via Sam Wendel) The countdown to Jordan’s ... Samuel Wendel • 11 May, 2016 NASA Space Apps Challenge Zain Group MEMakersGE
Egypt Building a biogas empire in Upper Egypt Mona El Khodairy receiving the Ecotaqa award at The Impact bootcamp in Dubai. (Images via Ecotaqa) In 2014 Mona El Khodairy, an... Eman Mostafa • 12 June, 2016 Sustaincubator Eco Taqa Mona ElKhodairy
Global The next big thing is spacetech [Opinion] Space is a frontier that's fast becoming accessible to everyone. (Image via Timez5) The space economy is poised for explosive growth... Nader Sabry • 05 May, 2016 CanadaArm Space economy Virgin Galactic
Egypt Zombies in Egypt: Epic VR brings the undead to malls This was the reaction when students first tested Epic VR in an event at the American University in Cairo. (Images via Epic VR) Virtual... Eman Mostafa • 29 May, 2016 Zombies EpicVr MEMakersGE
Iran Iran's internet users, an overview With nearly 80 million people in Iran you can imagine there is a huge internet audience waiting to be pounced upon. Unfortunately,... Hassan Mehdiasl • 11 May, 2016 Sourena Game Studio iran Gaming
Lebanon Lebanon's startup clusters go beyond Beirut As Lebanon develops its tech startup culture to become a serious player in the region, the capital of Beirut has become the country’s u... Brooke Anderson • 08 May, 2016 Chouf Entrepreneur Bio Soil Outreach Leadership Academy
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 KSA e-store caters to electronics hobbyists A Hobby District circuit. (Images via Hobby District) Amateur circuit designers have surged into the electronics manufacturing sector... Ahmed Gabr • 12 May, 2016 Massimo Banzi HobbyDistrict MEMakersGE
Egypt Hub in a Box creates off-the-shelf plan for hub finances Hub 'DNA' - working out what's essential and what's not. (Image via Eduard Cousin) Asking Adam Molyneux-Berry about Hub in a Box is... Eduard Cousin • 03 May, 2016 Global Innovation Gathering ImpactHubs Naweya
Palestine Work Factory builds Ramallah startup community Work Factory hosted the West Bank's most recent Startup Grind. (Images via Work Factory) You can read Wamda's definitive guide to... Christina Ganim • 01 May, 2016 smart-x toastmasters Work Factory
Saudi Arabia Et3arraf brings traditional Saudi courting online Et3arraf is a meeting of the ways: old evolving into the new. (Image via Et3arraf) Hundreds of years ago in the Arabian Desert,... Brooke Anderson • 27 April, 2016 Matchmaking love Et3arraf
Regional Edtech and the future of work in MENA Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are in the midst of a tremendous inflection point, with the future of the... Willam Altman • 26 April, 2016 Refugee Open Ware Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education Fourth Industrial Revolution
Maghreb Tiny Tunisian startup cracks open global telco market Roamsmart helps mobile operators manage their roaming operations. (Image via RCR Wireless) Roaming is a pain for business travelers and a... Aline Mayard • 01 May, 2016 BizSpark RoamSmart roaming
Global What I know about building an IoT device: Shaun Moore A stint at Merrill Lynch in Chicago, experience developing mobile apps, and a constant affiliation with technology is what led Dallas-based... Archana Menon • 25 April, 2016 MEMakersGE WIK What I Know