Regional Altibbi raises $6.5M through MEVP, DASH Ventures, and other investors Altibbi Ltd., one of the Middle East’s largest digital health platforms, announced a new round of funding amounting to $6.5 million.... Staff writer • 02 October, 2017 AlTibbi MEVP DASH Ventures
Bahrain Tackling the region’s growing problem, diabetes For years, Hussain Albar watched his mother suffer from diabetes. Each day, she would prick herself several times in order to log in a... Lucy Knight • 06 July, 2017 Healthcare Diabetes uae
Saudi Arabia Big opportunities for startups in KSA [Report] The number of entrepreneurship support organizations in the KSA, including funds, coworking spaces, incubators and accelerators, has nearly... Maya Rahal • 13 June, 2017 Saudi Arabia ksa Wamda Research Lab
Lebanon AUB and UKLTH to fund diabetes solution UK Lebanon Tech Hub (UKLTH) announced today that it will fund the research and development of Ediamond (electromagnetic diabetes monitoring... Staff writer • 26 May, 2017 news watch UK Lebanon Tech Hub aub
U.A.E Telemedicine, coming together for the UAE? Editor’s note: Telehealth, and telemedicine, are often used interchangeably and cover a broad category of solutions in the healthcare... Lucy Knight • 18 April, 2017 telemedicine digital healthcare health at hand
Palestine Gaza’s Swift Braille helps the blind use smartphones Swift Braille is a smartphone app that aims to help visually impaired and blind people communicate with others in writing. Worldwide... Rafat Abushaban • 04 January, 2017 SwiftBraille blindness Gaza
Saudi Arabia Sihatech jumps on the Saudi Arabia health tech opportunity Saudi Arabia has a shortage of healthcare startups, throwing the sector wide open for companies like online medical platform... Abdulghani Kataya • 21 December, 2016 Sihatech Saudi Arabia ksa
Saudi Arabia What to expect at Arabnet Riyadh 2016 Arabnet Riyadh has proven to be one of the biggest forums in Saudi Arabia: in 2015 it gathered more than a 1,000 participants from all over... Abdulghani Kataya • 04 December, 2016 Saudi Arabia ksa riyadh
Egypt EAEF reinvests in Egypt’s Smartcare Medical Services Smartcare Medical Services in Egypt has secured another 12 million Egyptian pounds (US$762,000) from the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund,... Rachel Williamson • 17 November, 2016 Smartcare Medical Services Egypt Series A
Lebanon App aiding facial paralysis wins 10K at BDL Accelerate hackathon An app that aids patients with facial paralysis won the $10,000 prize at Lebanon’s BDL Accelerate conference health hackathon on... Maysaa Ajjan • 14 November, 2016 healthtech Health hackathon BDL Accelerate
U.A.E China calls for Dubai 100 health tech backer With its fast growing healthcare market and rapidly ageing population, China is proving to be a match for Dubai-based Dubai 100. The... Lucy Knight • 06 November, 2016 Dubai 100 china Healthcare
Qatar Qatar doctor directory Meddy adds Arabic site Qatari healthcare directory Meddy has launched its first Arabic version with the expectation that using the region’s native language... Abdulghani Kataya • 23 October, 2016 Meddy qatar Healthcare
U.A.E 3D medical printing finds its footing in Dubai’s future Launched in October 2015, Medativ is a Dubai-based 3D anatomical model printing company. The company name is a play on its products... Archana Menon • 18 October, 2016 MEMakersGE Healthcare 3d printing
Global Braci capitalizes on Europe’s growing hard of hearing market Anwar Al Mojarkesh has built up a long list of inventions that he sought to one day realise. One was a “dancing pillow” that... Lucy Knight • 05 October, 2016 Braci sound alert MEMakersGE
Regional Real innovation can only happen from within I was recently invited to talk about innovation in healthcare in emerging markets at the Royal Society of Medicine’s Digital... Roland Daher • 22 September, 2016 MEMakersGE Innovation
Morocco The Moroccan doctor who wants to rethink medicine Next year should be the first time a 100 percent Moroccan made medicine will be commercialized. Adnane Remmal, a biology researcher,... Yassine Bakir • 28 September, 2016 biotech drugs Medical
Global US digital health startup gets Hikma Ventures funding Hikma Ventures announced today their participation in a $47.6 million Series B round for Chrono Therapeutics. Chrono is a US-based... Lucy Knight • 08 September, 2016 Investment Hikma Ventures MEMakersGE
Qidni Labs promises to clean out your kidney for an artificial one End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) is when kidneys have stopped working well enough for patients to survive without dialysis or a kidney... Bérénice Magistretti • 21 August, 2016 Qidni Labs Healthcare Artificial organs
Regional Fortifying healthcare startups in the Middle East and North Africa This article is a crosspost with the Stanford Social Innovation Review. AlemHealth, an Emirati medical startup, can remotely diagnose... Jamil Wyne - Willam Altman • 25 July, 2016 AlemHealth CardioDiagnostics AlTibbi
U.A.E Dubai’s medical tourism prospects More often than not, planning a visit to a foreign country is an ambitious undertaking. Adding a stopover for a medical treatment during... Archana Menon • 11 July, 2016 MEMakersGE Medical Tourism Medigo
Syria High risk, high reward: Mag Optics wants to change the way we see Biotech is a high risk, high cost, high reward world. It's one that Mag Optics, a London-based startup founded by a Syrian... Rachel Williamson • 04 July, 2016 MAG Optics lasik MEMakersGE
Egypt How the Arab Spring planted seeds of innovation in Egypt [Podcast] This podcast is a crosspost with Knowledge@Wharton. The 2011 uprising in Egypt that saw the overthrow of longtime President Hosni... Knowledge @Wharton • 27 June, 2016 philanthropy Ahead of the Curve Egypt
Regional Big data in health: good for anything yet? Using big data in healthcare, anywhere, might it be true to say no one seems to quite know what they’re doing yet? But Dr.... Lucy Knight • 29 June, 2016 Ver2 Digital Medicine MEMakersGE healthcare analytics
Egypt Egypt's Smart Care secures $1.2M from major foreign donor A major foreign donor has invested $1.2 million in Smart Care Medical Services, a digital healthcare management startup. The deal,... Rachel Williamson • 21 June, 2016