Wamda

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...

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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...

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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,...

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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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,...

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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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

U.A.E

Doctoruna: making healthcare accessible in MENA

Since they launched in 2013, healthcare appointment website and mobile app Doctoruna has been on a mission to minimize the all too...

DoctorUna MEMakersGE Bayt

Regional

MENA’s startup health movement: a MEMakers report

In a new report from Wamda Research Lab (WRL) in partnership with GE, we interviewed over 120 entrepreneurs, investors,...

startup health digital health MEMakersGE

Jordan

Hikma Pharmaceuticals launches $30M digital health venture fund in Amman

Hikma Pharmaceuticals has launched a $30 million strategic venture capital fund focused on digital health, therapeutics, and diagnostics...

Hikma Ventures Hikma Pharmaceutical MEMakersGE

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...

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Palestine

Exoskeleton gives the gift of movement

AZR’s exoskeleton prototype is being tested in the lab. (Images via AZR Team) Three Birzeit University students in the West Bank have b...

Handicapped Exoskeleton Birzeit University

Regional

6 areas of healthcare to watch in GCC

Healthcare spending in the GCC is going to grow exponentially, says a new EY report. Global professional services firm EY is predicting...

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