Egypt When being a game developer just isn’t enough Kareem Abdullatif andHani El-Akel have a passion for gaming and in 2010 the Egyptian entrepreneurs decided to take a risk and found their... Safar Ayad • 22 June, 2015 Appsinnovate gaming industry Egypt
Egypt After taking Jeeran to Egypt, cofounder discusses failure and success Jeeran's Egypt team at their launch party. (Image via Jeeran Blog) Jeeran, the MENA based review platform, expanded its network to Egypt... Raed Khalil • 06 May, 2015 Jeeran Romouz Sadeq Omar Koudsi
Egypt NASA hackathon sheds light on Egypt’s growing interest in outer space The growth of scientific minds in Egypt. (Images via Nasa Space Apps Cairo) With so many problems on the ground, why would we want to... Hanan Solayman • 12 May, 2015 PSC-BA CubeSat Space Apps Challenge NASA
Regional How animation studio Kharabeesh drew its own success Kharabeesh was one of the first companies to start making animated and video Arabic content, but their success didn’t come... Abdulghani Kataya • 29 April, 2015 Kharabeesh ksa YouTube
Regional Global VCs investing in MENA are like pink diamonds: rare but existent Though it might seem quiet, some VCs are on the prowl. Towards the end of 2014 Wamda published an interview with Lebanese VC Khaled Nasr.... Lucy Knight • 10 March, 2015 MarkVIP Jereen Utrack.tv
Egypt Egypt’s entrepreneurial youth and the battle for credibility Entrepreneurial activities are not just the prerogative of those over 21 in hoodies. We’ve spoken before on Wamda about the ‘age’ question w... Lucy Knight • 16 March, 2015 Rocking Solutions Arabiaweb Awraq
Egypt Egypreneur Forum: The Pioneers Started in 2008, Egypreneur is a network of Egyptian entrepreneurs that empowers startups to start and grow their business. Acting as a... Wamda • 20 March, 2015 Egypt
Maghreb Sawari Ventures tries to fill Egypt funding gap with $50 million VC fund Sawari Ventures partners: Hany Sonbaty, Ahmed Alfi, Wael Amin. Egyptian venture capital company Sawari Ventures is turning... Rachel Williamson • 16 March, 2015 Sawari Ventures morocco tunisia
Egypt Leaving multinationals behind: how Creative Lab Group's Randa Abdou forged her own path If you live in Egypt, you’re probably familiar with the Rotato potato chips brand and its growth in popularity over the years. Despite its ... Stephanie Nour Prince • 22 February, 2015 Pepsico women entrepreneurs Egypt
Maghreb Startup MENA expands its network to Tunisia After favorable outcome in Egypt, where the Startup MENA team engaged over 400 entrepreneurs in 2014, designing tailored workshops... Christine Petré • 09 March, 2015 Cogite startup mena tunisia
Egypt 'Shut up and build something': reflections and how tos from Startup AddVenture Cairo Pharaoes scaling the walls of the GrEEK Campus Last weekend was a busy one for the GrEEK Campus, a tech hub located at the old... Reine Farhat • 03 March, 2015 Startup addventure Mix N'Mentor Cairo rise up summit
Regional enpact Initiative for young entrepreneurs Engage - Participate - Act" International mentoring led by enpact, a non-profit organization - aims to connect and train young promising ... Wamda • 25 February, 2015 tunisia Egypt Mentorship
Egypt What the restaurant sector of Egypt needs to know [Infographic] Ask any entrepreneur in Egypt and they will tell you right away that one of the biggest challenges faced when starting up is finding solid... Amir Allam • 10 February, 2015 Amir Allam restaurants ElMenus
Egypt Solar energy to light up Egypt's poorest villages No longer just the remit of entrepreneurs, social issues affecting a nation have also been taken up by corporations, and PepsiCo Egypt has... Eman Mostafa • 22 February, 2015 liter of light Pepsico Egypt
Egypt Egyptian entrepreneurs push forward long-awaited e-government measures The Mugamma, Egypt's central bureaucracy building, stands sentinel over Tahrir Square and is a monument to a government legacy of... Rachel Williamson • 23 January, 2015 egovernment fawry hope
Egypt Egypt's Bey2ollak app adds bomb alert hashtag Egyptian traffic app Bey2ollak has created a bomb scare hashtag to better inform Egyptians of urban threats after a spate of bombings... Rachel Williamson • 05 February, 2015 alert bomb bey2ollak
Regional 4 tips for budget-conscious startups The successful management of a budget can give a startup a big push forward and help it achieve unexpected results, however, finance and... Mohamed Kamal • 04 March, 2015 Dollars Budgets Egypt
Egypt New crowdfunding platform takes aim at Egypt's entrepreneurs Egypt’s latest crowdfunding platform Tennra for entrepreneurs launched this week with a proposition to make giving away money... Rachel Williamson • 02 February, 2015 Tennra zoomal Egypt
Global Women for Success - Global Partnership for Women SME's Conference The “Business Women of Egypt 21” association announced the "Women for Success - Global Partnership for Women SME's" conference, which will ... Wamda • 04 February, 2015 Egypt Women
Egypt Proposed Egypt technology park facing bureaucratic delays Big plans to create a technology and entrepreneurial hub in the southern Cairo suburb of Maadi could be stalling, for which some are... Rachel Williamson • 28 January, 2015 maadi technology park Hardware Egypt
Egypt The pros and cons of being a foreign founder in Egypt UK citizen and former financial analyst Emily Renny is a cofounder of the gamified crowdfunding platform Tennra, and has lived in... Rachel Williamson • 14 January, 2015 Tennra law uk
Egypt Palestinian startup seeks to bridge Egypt’s digital divide Jacob Korenblum, CEO of Palestinian startup Souktel, says there is a a huge potential in Egypt for audio mobile services and low-data... Rachel Williamson • 22 January, 2015 Bayt Iqraaly Zambaleeta
Egypt AUC Venture Lab Challenge Cycle 4, Deadline January 25 The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program (EIP) at the American University of Cairo School of Business has announced that the... Wamda • 23 January, 2015 AUC V-Lab Egypt
Egypt First stop for Mix N’ Mentor 2015: Cairo “There is progress… not at a Silicon Valley pace but you can see clear milestones,” Ideavelopers Managing Partner Tarek Assaad told Wamda i... Wamda • 21 January, 2015 wamda mix n mentor cairo Mix N'Mentor Cairo wamda mix n mentor
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