What's dangerous about the hype in the Middle East startup ecosystem [Wamda TV] At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting on the Middle East and North Africa in Dead Sea, Jordan this May, we chatted with Usama Fayyad, E... Nina Curley • 09 July, 2013 Hype World Economic Forum Incubator
What are the biggest challenges faced by Bahraini entrepreneurs? We ask the crowd [Wamda TV] During Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor event in Manama, we asked attendees to share their biggest challenges to building their startup. Equity fun... Wamda • 03 July, 2013 Bahrain Mix n Mentor Ecosystem
Egyptian Startup Seeks to Streamline Travel Booking in the Middle East [Wamda TV] [Arabic] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, we chatted with Hussein Al-Sakkaf, Founder and CEO of Go Ejaza, a travel planning platform f... Wamda • 13 March, 2013 Egypt Travel
How to Nurture Global Ambition: A Chat with John Bradford of Springboard [Wamda TV] Springboard is an intensive 13-week mentor-led business accelerator program based in London and Cambridge that offers entrepreneurs office... Gulay Ozkan • 09 January, 2013 Accelerators Advice Scaling
HemenKiralik For Apartments Rental: Focusing on the Turkish Market [Wamda TV] During the Webrazzi Summit, Remi Onur, Co-founder and CEO at HemenKiralik.com, speaks to us about the startup's interface and future plans.... Wamda • 27 December, 2012 Call Centers Investment Travel
How KAUST Entrepreneurship Center Works to Incubate Startups in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV] Ahmed Abdulwahab, Manager of the the KAUST Entrepreneurship Center, explains what the newly-launched center and seed fund is doing to... Nina Curley • 22 April, 2012 Accelerators Ecosystem MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition
What Oasis500 Looks for in a Startup [Wamda TV] Usama Fayyad of successful Jordanian accelerator and early stage investment vehicle Oasis500 chats with Wamda at the World Economic Forum... Nina Curley • 01 November, 2011 Accelerators Investment Mentorship
Meet the New Accelerator in Town: Dubai’s SeedStartup SeedStartup, a seed-stage investment vehicle launching in the UAE this September, is coming online as the latest in a series of new... Nina Curley • 06 September, 2011
New Startup Seed Fund Tenmou Launches in Bahrain Tenmou, a new seed stage investment vehicle, has launched in Bahrain this week. The fund, the country's first business angel company, is... Wamda • 06 September, 2011
How FEMIP is Working to Empower MENA Startups Learn how FEMIP can help finance and support your startup in the Middle East and North Africa. What is FEMIP?The Facility for... Wamda • 28 July, 2010
How the Palestine Investment Fund is Helping SMEs A report on the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF) reveals its commitments to small and medium-sized businesses in Palestine. Wamda • 03 August, 2010
N2V Announces Two New Investments N2V have announced in these two articles a new investment with Qaym.com along with a joint venture with AqarMap.com. N2V Invests In ... Wamda • 01 April, 2011
Jordan's Agents of Change In the next few years, the work of a few Jordanian agents of change, investing millions of dollars in small companies, could matter more... Wamda • 19 September, 2010
How much should you look for in your seed round? The challenge of how much money to seek in early-stage funding remains one of the most complex an entrpreneur can face. Will Herman is an... Wamda • 16 September, 2010
Just Capital: Seed Funding in Jordan This article first appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of The Explorer, Aramex's thought-leadership magazine that investigates issues ... Wamda • 09 September, 2010
Bassel Ojjeh on Building a Business After spells at both Microsoft and Yahoo, Bassel Ojjeh is well placed to understand the potential of technology. In his last role, he was... Wamda • 09 September, 2010
Why Execution is More Important than the Idea: Sarah Abu Alia of Art Medium [Wamda TV] Sarah Abu Alia, the Founder and Project Director of Art Medium, an art management company, to market and broker art in Jordan. Abu Alia... Wamda • 12 May, 2011
Gideon Simeloff of twofour54: What Investors are Looking For Gideon Simeloff, the head of Ibtikar at Abu Dhabi-based investment vehicle TwoFour54, explains how TwoFour54 is creating a sustainable... Wamda • 08 May, 2011
Leading Startups to Scalable Success Rashid Al Ballaa, the CEO of N2V, discusses N2V's four unique platforms for supporting entrepreneurs at seed and early stages, even those... Wamda • 08 May, 2011
Why Creating Revenue Streams Upfront is Important for Starting Up in Lebanon: Antoine Abou-Samra, the Managing Director of Bader Lebanon Antoine Abou-Samra, the Managing Director of Bader Lebanon, describes how Bader trains Lebanese entrepreneurs, connects them to a network... Wamda • 08 May, 2011
Cloud 9: Pitch Your Business to the Experts Cloud 9 at CoE 2010 offered startup entrepreneurs Omar Samra of Wild Guanabana, Murshed Mohamed Ahmed of Yebab.com, Noor el Fadl of... Wamda • 20 January, 2011
Wayne Borg of TwoFour54 Wayne Borg, the COO of TwoFour54, discusses TwoFour54's work to create a center of excellence for arabic content creation and unite the... Wamda • 02 January, 2011
Matt Harris: The Future of Mobile Tech in MENA Matt Harris, the co-founder and general managing partner of seed and early stage venture capital firm Village Ventures, discusses the... Wamda • 04 January, 2011
The Mini Entrepreneur chats with Arif Naqvi and Fadi Ghandour Do you think Arif and Fadi will fund the Mini Entrepreneur? Wamda • 10 November, 2010