Wamda

Algeria

How this Algerian entrepreneur is recycling plastic waste

Unemployment rate in Algeria increased to 10.5 percent, reaches almost 27 percent of the youth, and 20 percent of women, according to...

algeria waste trash

Tunisia

What I know about building an ecosystem from scratch: Wassel Berrayana

In 2000, Wassel Berrayana was an employee in HQ Sun Microsystems, one of Silicon Valley’s companies, when he decided to leave his job...

it decentralization entrepreneurship

Morocco

4 Moroccans aiming at becoming the Alibaba of Africa

Working in the energy and industry sectors in various African countries helped Niama El Bassunie, a Casablanca-born entrepreneur, discover...

Trade financing for trade suppliers

Egypt

Digital services for cash strapped Egyptian SMEs

Starting a business in Egypt is not easy, in large part because of the hassle involved in registering a new establishment and obtaining the...

Training Cloud Telecommunication

Tunisia

How twin brothers made their startup fly, so high

A small aviation startup in Tunisia has made a first by not only signing a deal with the Tunisian plane company Nouvelair, but with Airbus...

aéronautique avions hydravion

Regional

Bloovo receives $3M in investment

Bloovo, a Dubai-based algorithmic online recruitment platform founded in 2016, closed a $3 million funding round. The co-investment was...

recruitement online platform

Lebanon

How the IFC wants to support MENA scaleups [Wamda TV]

Shortly before the World Economic Forum MENA Davos event at the Dead Sea in Jordan, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) visited...

ifc Fadi Ghandour Philippe Le Houerou

Tunisia

Cyberesa improves e-tourism in Tunisia

Despite the regional instability and tourism shakiness, Tunisian e-tourism is actually witnessing bright days and is not affected by the...

Tourism technologies Cloud

Tunisia

Seedstars pushes Tunisian startups to scale more

At the Mediterranean School of Business campus in Tunis, the Seedstars team gathered a dozen Tunisian startups around a competition that...

scalibility seedstars internationnalisation

Tunisia

The Startup Act bill is opening new doors for Tunisian entrepreneurs

Tunisian entrepreneurs are finally seeing a draft of the Startup Act. The latest is that it’s under negotiation before being...

Startup Act entrepreneurs regulation

Kuwait

Kuwait gets its own Community at #MixNMentor Nuwait

Faces old and new were at Kuwait City’s Dar Hamad venue on May 10, to attend the third Mix N’ Mentor Nuwait, hosted by The...

Mix N' Mentor Nuwait Mentorship The National Fund for SME Development

U.A.E

UAE’s Trukker announces 1,000 percent growth in 7 months

Trukker, second place winner of the startup track at the MITEF Arab Startup Competition achieved 1,000 percent growth since its commercial...

Trukker MITEF Arab Startup Competition

Saudi Arabia

Uxbert proves startups can make it in Saudi Arabia

The UAE is considered one of the most important startup hubs in the region. Yet the Saudi Nadeem Bakhsh decided to move his user experience...

Saudi Arabia Uxbert UX

Egypt

Out of Africa: the Egyptians are coming

Egyptian healthcare startup Vezeeta is expanding into the Levant, the latest of a series of companies from Egypt to start leaving...

Vezeeta Performly Crowd Analyzer

Egypt

Upper Egypt entrepreneurs demand more attention

Luxor entrepreneurs hope they will be the lucky recipients of rising international, if not national, attention after the UN launched two...

UNIDO IMKAN creetova

Europe

French provides a ticket to Europe for North Africans

As French politicians play the immigration card ahead of the presidential election, the country’s new entrepreneurship visa opens a...

French tech ticket Gbarena Bobbli

Tunisia

Tunisian startup Datavora raises $470K

Tunisian startup Datavora, a specialist in ecommerce big data, has raised just over 1 million Tunisian dinars (US$467,000) in seed...

Tunisie Data ecommerce

Tunisia

Tunisian startups' struggle to scale

Tunisian entrepreneurs often ‘ask the experts’ how to internationalize their startup, and it’s a question that gained...

Tunis internationnalisation Digitalmania

U.A.E

The uptick in sellers on ecommerce platforms [Q&A]

While consumers are often the center of attention in ecommerce platforms, sellers are just as important according to UAE’s online...

Jado Pado ecommerce marketplaces

Lebanon

Carrying the Lebanese flag, one export at a time

Many Lebanese companies could pass as coming from anywhere – in technology, services, and even food. But a handful of them are...

lebanon Semsom Ksara

Global

Driving the Dubai-Nairobi digital highway [Opinion]

I just came back from my second trip to Kenya in the past year and it is striking, for all the significant cultural, historic, geographic...

Kenya m-pesa Twiga

Tunisia

Travelcar raises $15.8M Series B

Travelcar, a startup that enables you to make your car available for renting at airports when you travel instead of paying for expensive...

car sharing Travelcar fundraising

Algeria

Algeria’s startup culture: from the ground and up

Lack of e-payment systems, sluggish bureaucracy, and scarce access to financing are some of the issues faced by an aspiring Algerian...

algeria Gotta Love Algeria Eblink

Bahrain

China in Bahrain: building shared interests

For centuries, Bahrain and China have trading with each other along the ancient Silk Road. In the past, Bahrain traded pearls,...

Bahrain china Brinc

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