Wamda

Gamification startup KidzWeekend wins Startup Weekend Dubai

Startup Weekend Dubai is quickly becoming a rite of passage for many serious startups, who come to the weekend like a band of travelers...

Startup Weekend

A way forward in Egypt: Rise Up Summit galvanizes entrepreneurship by Tahrir Square

Tahrir Square will forever stand as a symbol of Egypt’s revolution and its ongoing transformation, its power seared into c...

Ecosystem

Maghreb

A co-working space to develop the Tunisian entrepreneurial ecosystem

Who better than entrepreneurs to solve Tunisia’s most pressing social, economic and environmental challenges and contribute to t...

tunisia Coworking Coworking Spaces

How an Egyptian traffic app partnered with the Kuwaiti government [Wamda TV]

If you ask a random big city resident about their city’s main problem, it’s very likely that their response will be the traffic. With more a...

istanbul traffic wasalny

Can SearchinMENA.com raise the funds it needs to build an Alibaba for the Middle East?

[Update: Eureeca has extended SearchinMENA.com's campaign.] After three years of building SearchinMENA.com, Syrian entrepreneur Salim...

SearchinMENA crowdinvestment

Egyptian fashion e-commerce startup looks to Eureeca for funding

For the first time, Dubai-based equity crowdinvestment platform Eureeca is hosting a campaign launched by an...

New payment solution in Kuwait wants cloud-based tokens to replace cash registers

Some say that in order to see a new startup ecosystem really take off, you just need to build one billion dollar company. Just one...

Payment systems Payment Gateways

The Middle East gets its first peer-to-peer lending site, with Sharia compliance

Looking back at the year, 2013 has clearly been the year of crowdfunding– especially in emerging markets and the Middle East. This y...

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Digital music app Zambaleeta launches in Egypt, offering access via prepaid cards

New music app Zambaleeta intends to corner the mobile music market in an old-fashioned way: by taking the fight offline. As...

prepaid smartphone Egypt

Meet the all-woman gaming community igniting creative culture in Saudi Arabia

Gaming, they say, can make a better world. Games make us better at being hopeful, forming social bonds, being productive, seeking...

W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Gaming

Can Airbnb clone Agaztak boost tourism in Egypt?

Not every entrepreneur is comfortable admitting that his startup is a local clone of an internationally successful business idea. But...

Egypt Travel

8 leading startups get connected with Silicon Valley at MENA Innovation DemoDay

Despite the instabilities at home, Egyptian startups are gaining global recognition for their innovations lately; it’s not just that I...

techwadi palinno disrupt

New meetup at Morocco's New Work Lab awards MySportner startup of the month

The Moroccan co-working space New Work Lab has launched a new meetup called Pitch Lab, giving entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch...

pitch lab new work labs morocco

Activity-tracking app wins at Startup Weekend Doha as women attend in record numbers

An activity monitoring mobile application, created by a team that included two high school students, won first prize in the...

Startup Weekend

New loyalty program QHat hopes to disrupt marketing in Egypt

A new loyalty scheme went live in Egypt that could disrupt the typical model deployed by market leaders like...

Lebanon's Roadie Tuner debuts a device 'three times more accurate than the human ear'

Fresh off their stay in China at hardware accelerator HAXLR8R, the Lebanese team behind Roadie Tuner is now set to release its...

haxlr8r china Hardware

StartupYourLife, the community that’s shaking up the Moroccan startup scene

“Countries from all around the world look up to Silicon Valley as if it were the heart of innovation; they’re all getting the...

startupyourlife morocco events

How idea stage entrepreneurs can benefit from startup competitions

As entrepreneurship has boomed in the Middle East, startup and business plan competitions have also sprouted up in the region, after...

startup bader ya mammy

Egyptian startup makes it easier to consume audio content in Arabic

Although podcasts have became popular the world over, they haven't taken off in Arabic, perhaps thanks to a lack of options for hosting...

Europe's Web Summit 2013: Impressions from North African startups

When I received a press invitation to one of Europe’s hottest tech conferences, Web Summit, I jumped at the opportunity to check it o...

Conferences

Startup looks to ease traffic in Cairo

Cairo's traffic has long been one of the city's most intractable problems. Many Egyptian entrepreneurs have tried to address the issue...

Car Service Transport Translation

3 education initiatives help Syrians find jobs and scholarships

Among the many tragedies resulting from Syria’s war, thousands of schools have been destroyed and many universities and educational i...

Training Education Social Entrepreneurship

How one Jordanian entrepreneur failed, then built a better company: the story of YalaValet

The startup scene is no stranger to failure, especially not in the Middle East, where regulations can cripple new businesses and generous...

Payment systems Automobiles Failure

Can a new mobile app enhance Hajj?

Technology is slowly finding its way into Islamic culture. With a fourth (23%) of the world’s population identifying as Muslim, and ...

Islamic products

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