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Egypt

Seedspace Fintech Week Cairo

Seedstars World returns to Cairo for Seedspace Fintech Week Cairo, which will be taking place on October 26 during Seedspace Global Fintech Week. The event, taking place at Fl...

seedstars Egypt Networking

Turkey

Seedstars Istanbul 2016

Seedstars World is coming back to Istanbul! On October 20, the 10 best startups from Istanbul will be invited to pitch in front of an investment panel and compete to be crowned the most p...

Pitch competition seedstars

Algeria

Seedstars Algeria 2016

Seedstars World is coming back to Algeria! This time bigger, stronger, better. On October 29, the 12 best startups from Constantine, Algiers, and Oran will be invited to pitch in front of...

Pitch competition seedstars

Regional

10 October events for MENA entrepreneurs

As the MENA region’s entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem blossoms and grows, so do the events, conferences, and competitions. And as any mentor will advise, attending events is k...

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Iran

Seedstars Tehran 2016

Seedstars World is coming back to Tehran! On September 15 at the Incubator of Shahid Beheshti University, the 12 best startups from Iran will be invited to pitch in front of a panel of in...

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Bahrain

Seedstars Bahrain 2016

Seedstars World is coming for its inaugural event to Bahrain! The event will take place at CH9 Hub on September 24, where the best startups from GCC will be invited to pitch in front of a...

Pitch competition seedstars

Lebanon

Seedstars Beirut 2016

Seedstars World is coming back to Beirut! On October 13 2016, the 10 best startups from Beirut will be invited to pitch in front of an investment panel and compete to be crowned the most ...

Jordan

Seedstars Amman

SEEDSTARS WORLD IS COMING TO AMMAN TO FIND THE BEST STARTUP IN JORDAN On August 7th, Jordan’s best startups will compete to represent the country at the Seedstars World competition ...

U.A.E

Seedstars World Competition Dubai 2016

Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is returning to Dubai for the third time on May 28th, 2016 at In5 Innovation...

Startups competition Seedstars World uae

Global

AIG raises another $80M, from Orange

The leading operator telecom wants to join the African ecommerce boom. (Image via Rude Baguette) Africa Internet Group (AIG) can’t seem to get enough. The company, which recently made headl...

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Global

Governments and startups, where the two can merge

Amongst the snow capped Swiss mountains a crop of startups selected from emerging markets descended on the chilly town of Lausanne for the annual Seedstars Summit on February 3. Al...

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Maghreb

4 tips for digitalizing your market

Careem, Hmizate/Hmall, Jumia, Uber, and Avito discuss digitalization. (Image via @equartey) Africa is a big continent, yet in spite of all the differences its 54 countries have one thi...

Seedstars Africa Avito Hmizate

Regional

Ground control to the Middle East

An artists rendering of satellites and debris orbiting the earth. (Image via European Space Agency) Space technology is now on the minds of the Middle East. As previously reported on...

Blink Mars Robotics AP-Swiss

Regional

Seedstars Summit 2016

Seedstars World announces its annual Seedstars Summit under the theme "billion". The summit will take place on March 3rd at EPFL University in Switzerland, where the "Seedstars World Global...

Switzerland International startups 2016

Maghreb

Seedstars Africa

Seedstars World (SSW), the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is joining forces with StartupYourLife (SYL), the major Moroccan start...

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Regional

What judges look for in pitches

Judging at the Seedstars Beirut event in November in UK Lebanon Tech Hub. (Image via Maysaa Ajjan) We already covered the exciting pitches of 12 Lebanese startups at the Seedstars event...

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Global

What I know about networking: Igor Ovcharenko

Igor Ovcharenko organized his first startup networking event in 2012. (Image via Seedstars World) Before his first ever event with startups and investors, Ukranian Igor Ovcharenko spent a l...

Matchmaking Seedstars World Igor Ovcharenko

Lebanon

Seedstars World touches down in Beirut

Overall winners Codefish with the Seedstar competitors in Beirut. (Images via UK Lebanon Tech Hub) For the second year running Beirut got to play host to Seedstars World and their world...

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Palestine

Palestinian startup to compete in Seedstars World finals

First place and a ticket to Switzerland: meet the Mashvisor team. (Images via Arabreneur) Mashvisor has been selected as a national winner in Seedstars' Ramallah competition on Novembe...

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Lebanon

Seedstars Beirut 2015

Seedstars World is coming back to Beirut! On November 26 2015, the top 10 to 12 best startups in Lebanon will be invited to pitch in front of a local and international jury at the...

seedstars competition beirut

Jordan

Arabic e-book startup Yaqut wins SeedStars Amman competition, advances to world finals

Yaqut's Ammar Mardawi (center) accepts the award for winner of Seedstars Amman. (Images via Samuel Wendel) Twelve Jordanian startups gathered as regional finalists in the SeedStars World co...

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Regional

What KinTrans' Mohammed Elwazer learned at SeedStars International

KinTrans may not have won SeedStars 2015 competition in Geneva in February, but founder Mohammed Elwazer didn’t walk away empty handed. While the top prize of $500,000 went to Philippine sta...

SeedStars International hearing impaired KinTrans

Maghreb

What have 8 of Morocco’s support organizations for tech entrepreneurship achieved?

Many startups are now getting support in Morocco either at the seed or growth stage, but support programs and organizations are too few, and not good enough to help the birth of a real entre...

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Continuing its focus on emerging markets, Seedstars World hosts Dubai round

In 2005, Mohamed Elwazer witnessed a disturbing scene while waiting for a train at a metro station in Egypt. A security officer was behaving brusquely with a young boy who appeared to be de...

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