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Egypt

Startups want to tackle Egyptian health, but lack money

Ahmed Abu ElHaz CEO of Shezlong pitching at BDL2015 accelerate in Beirut. (Image via Shezlong) Egypt is fertile ground for...

Otlob Doctor MEMakersGE shezlong

Jordan

Mixed Dimensions raises $4M in Silicon Valley

Gameprint.io in action. (Image via Mixed Dimensions) Jordanian 3D printing solutions company Mixed Dimensions, also known as MXD3D, has...

Draper Athena Alsop Louie Ventures Dolby Family Ventures

U.A.E

Term sheets at dawn, Step Conference 2016

Joy Ajlouny and fellow startup cofounders Loulou Khazen Baz and Mudassir Sheikha get stuck into the debate. (Image via...

AnchorFree Frontier Partners Eventbox

Jordan

Has foreign investment helped Jordanian SMEs and entrepreneurs?

Jordanian NGO Leaders of Tomorrow (LoT) was recently doing some research on the history of local economic reform. It brought them to the...

Diwanieh Foreign Direct Investment Leaders of Tomorrow

U.A.E

Twofour54 and Ycombinator invest in gaming developer Unnyhog

Four years after investing in social gaming sites Jawaker and Tahadi, and almost two years after investing in Arabic online game...

Unnyhog YCombinator TwoFour54

Saudi Arabia

Building a real estate startup in Saudi's stagnant market

The decrease in oil prices also affected the real estate market. (Image via news.weetas.com) Online real estate platform Lamudi,...

lamudi hellofood Carmudi

Lebanon

Content was king at ArabNet Beirut

Full house. (Image via Hasna Frangieh) Content was king at ArabNet Beirut this year and it didn’t take Quantum...

Arabnet Beirut 2016 content Online video

Regional

Network International to acquire Emerging Markets Payments for $340M

Private equity firm Actis confirmed today its agreement to sell EMP (Emerging Markets Payments), a payments business in Africa and the...

Emerging Markets Payments Network International acquisition

Lebanon

Beco invests in cyber security with Myki seed round

Beco Capital has led a seed investment in Lebanese cyber security startup MYKI, but has not disclosed the total sum. Myki works with...

MyKi cybersecurity lebanon

Regional

Zain Group acquires strategic stake in Lebanese company FOO

In the picture from left to right: Emre Gurkan (Zain Group Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer), Scott Gegenheimer,...

neXgen Zain Group Foo

Regional

Angel investment vs institutional investment [Wamda TV]

During Wamda’s last Mix N’Mentor in Cairo, we met up with Lana Alamat, partner and general counsel at Wamda Capital, for a chat about the i...

Lana Alamat Institutional Investment insights

U.A.E

OfficeRock.com raises $800K from Wamda Capital and Jabbar

Office supplies on the move. (Image via OfficeRock) Ecommerce platform for office supplies, OfficeRock.com announced today that it secured...

OfficeRock Jabbar Internet Group Wamda Capital

U.A.E

UAE cleaning platform gets investment from Yemeksepeti founder

Outsourcing your housework can be a chore, pun intended. (Image via Stephen Swintek/Getty Images) JustMop, the latest addition to a...

Just Mop cleaning yemeksepeti

Regional

Wadi.com raises $67M Series A

Ecommerce platform Wadi.com announced yesterday the closing of a $67 million Series A funding round led by Al Tayyar Group. The...

Wadi.com Al Tayyar Group Series A

Maghreb

Tech investor AIG to become first African unicorn

Africa Internet Group (AIG) is set to become Africa’s first unicorn, after international insurer AXA bought an 8 percent stake in the...

AXA AIG Africa Internet Group

Regional

Silkroad Images raises seed round

Silkroad Images, a stock photography and audio-video content library from Jordan, has secured a seed round of investment from Abu...

silk road images TwoFour54 techwadi

U.A.E

Mumzworld secures multi-million dollar investment round

Mona Ataya posing next to some of the products offered on Mumzworld. (Image via Mumzworld) Mumzworld announced yesterday it had closed...

announcement Wamda Capital series B

U.A.E

Bahrain’s Eat app on fast thinking and changing course

The team behind Bahraini startup Eat had a solid plan when they launched in 2014, but when they heard a global player was about to enter...

Eatapp zomato reservations

U.A.E

$20M series C round for Bayut.com’s owners

UAE's quickly growing real estate landscape The landscape of UAE's real estate. (Image via Spacing.ca) The owners of...

Bayut.com Zameen Series C

Saudi Arabia

Saudi launches $133M fund for ICT startups

Saudi Arabia has seen the launch of a new ICT venture worth 500 million riyals (US$133 million). Saudi riyals are plenty for...

Riyadh Taqnia Capital Riyad Capital Taqnia

Regional

MENA's year in investing [Infographic]

The money pool for startups in MENA is growing, but slowly. (Image via Near Shore Americas) Funding is the entrepreneur's...

VC investment Womena MENA

U.A.E

Propertyfinder.ae raises $20M from Swedish investors

Dubai-based Propertyfinder Group has raised $20 million in capital from Sweden-based Vostok New Ventures, a transaction that Propertyfinder...

Propertyfinder.ae vostok new ventures Investment

Maghreb

How the Tunisian government revived its economy [Opinion]

Tunisia in 2025 is quite different from the Tunisia of the Arab spring (Image via Hongkiat) * This is a hypothetical look-back from the...

revival startups economy

U.A.E

Laundrybox expands its services

At the end of 2015 Laundrybox’s business model, and solid teamwork, secured them the third place at Forbes Middle East’s 15 Most Promising ...

Forbes Laundry Box Funding

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