Regional The tech trends that will impact business this year Dr Ross Curran is an assistant professor at Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University Dubai Digital transformation will reach... Thought Leadership • 08 January, 2023 Trends
Regional Why hypergrowth is killing the talent pool Reem M. Osman is the chief people officer at UAE-based nybl, an artificial intelligence startup Over the past couple of weeks, the tech... Thought Leadership • 24 November, 2022 talent
Regional Behind the scenes of the POSRocket acquisition In January 2022, Saudi Arabia-based fintech and foodtech startup Foodics announced it had acquired Jordan-based point of sale provider... Thought Leadership • 26 September, 2022 acquisition Exit posrocket
Regional Why I launched the 2022 Female Angels Movement It was late 2021, and I had just come off a panel at GITEX where we had discussed, at length, the struggles women face when fundraising.... Thought Leadership • 22 June, 2022 Angel Investment 2022 Female Angels
Regional How can Mena build a deeptech ecosystem? Amr Awadallah is an Egyptian born computer scientist and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. What’s particularly interesting about... Wamda • 21 April, 2022 podcast Amr Awadallah
Global The 10 pitch deck slides you need to wow investors Dr. Mussaad M. Al-Razouki is the chief investment and business development officer of Kuwait Life Sciences Company. He has over 15 years of... Thought Leadership • 11 April, 2022 pitch deck Advice
Iraq An investor's outlook on Iraq in 2022 Pat Cline is an investment advisor at Five One Invest in Iraq Although the past two years have been tumultuous economically, the Iraqi... Thought Leadership • 07 February, 2022 Kurdistan Region Iraq Five One Labs
Regional What is the state of mental health and wellbeing of entrepreneurs in Mena? Wamda and Microsoft for Startups have published a research report on the impact of Covid-19 on the state of mental health and... Wamda • 29 August, 2021 mental health
Regional How we pivoted our startup with grace Walid Daniel Dib is the co-founder and CEO of hala, a UAE-based insuretech startup Spoiler: There was absolutely no grace... Thought Leadership • 27 July, 2021 Pivot Hala
U.A.E You need to focus on the problem to succeed Ayman Alashkar, is the founder of UAE-based proptech startup OVERWRITE.ai We entered 2020 like... Thought Leadership • 23 November, 2020 Advice
Regional How do you create customer loyalty online? Niranjan Gidwani is a consultant and the former chief executive officer at Eros Group Dubai This topic deals with how crucial it is to... Thought Leadership • 29 September, 2020 E-commerce
Regional Accelerators 2.0: The post-pandemic version Yousra Diab is the head of programmes at Dubai-based social impact accelerator C3 As the world came to a standstill with the outbreak of... Thought Leadership • 18 August, 2020 C3 Accelerators
U.A.E Putting communities first in a new decade of innovation By Rashid Al Ghurair, founder and CEO of UAE-based CAFU, a fuel on demand service Entering this new decade just several months ago,... Thought Leadership • 06 August, 2020 CAFU
Global How do you build a company to last? Mudassir Sheikha and Magnus Olsson founded Careem in 2012 initially as a transportation service for the corporate world. It soon became the... Wamda • 07 July, 2020 careem Mudassir Sheikha
Regional In a world of remote work, will control replace culture? Marilyn Zakhour, founder and chief executive officer of UAE-based Cosmic Centaurs At the height of the pandemic, I started a company... Thought Leadership • 05 July, 2020 company culture remote work
Global Should businesses be spending or saving their marketing dollars? By Anastasiya Golovatenko, account director at Sherpa Communications The economical whirlwind caused by the outbreak of Covid-19... Thought Leadership • 24 June, 2020 Marketing Advice how to
Global A public relations strategy is critical now more than ever Sean Pattwell is the founder and chief executive officer at CW8 Communications The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken international commerce... Thought Leadership • 25 May, 2020 public relations PR strategy
Regional The future of SMEs after Covid-19 Rafael Lemaitre is a partner at consultancy SIA Partners and Maria Garrido is the manager of growth and innovation During... Thought Leadership • 14 May, 2020 sme covid-19
U.A.E Mustafa Koita: Your modern-day milkman The majority of entrepreneurs work in the corporate world for several years before something triggers their decision to leave and start... Triska Hamid • 13 May, 2020 Koita E-commerce
Global Managing Covid-19: Recessions, the runways for innovation? On 23 April, Wamda hosted its second webinar titled 'Navigating COVID-19: Recessions, the runways for innovation?,’ featuring... Wamda • 30 April, 2020 wamda webinar
Global Navigating Covid-19: Managing people and talent On Wednesday 15 April, Wamda hosted an online webinar, 'Navigating Covid-19: Managing people and talent,’ featuring Nathalie... Wamda • 25 April, 2020 Covid19 talent human resources
Global Balancing short-term survival with long-term stability Scott Cairns is the managing director at Creation Business Consultants, a structuring and advisory services firm based in the... Thought Leadership • 12 April, 2020 coronavirus covid-19 Business planning
Global We are now in the age of triage As the Coronavirus outbreak brings the world's economy to a halt, many businesses in the region are beginning to feel the effects. Fadi... Fadi Ghandour • 07 April, 2020 coronavirus covid-19 startup
Saudi Arabia In conversation with Mounira Jamjoom of Aanaab Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia-based teacher training platform Aanaab secured a $1.5 million investment round led by Wamda and Nour... Dunya Hassanein • 26 March, 2020 EdTech Aanaab jeddah