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Cairo-Based Food Delivery Startup RoadRunner Raises Six-Figure Seed Investment

The up-and-coming startup has already staked its claim as a viable player in the food delivery industry by veering away from the [...]

Cairo-Based Concierge Service Elves Scores $2 Million Investment

The AI-powered app has raised its latest investments from Sawari Ventures, with participation from some of its other existing investors. [...]

Egypt Launches New Programme to Train 100,000 Egyptians in Web Development, Data Analysis & More

The Egyptian Ministry of Communications and IT has launched the programme to better equip participants' for the job market. [...]

US VC Openner is Looking to Invest in 50 Egyptian Startups

prolific Washington DC-based venture capital firm has its crosshairs on Egypt, as it looks to back pre-seed and seed stage startups through [...]

Egyptian Startup Kashier Payments Raises Seed Investment to Expand Products and Grow Team

The payments platform aimed at businesses also plans to up-scale its commercial go-to market strategy. [...]

Kapturise: The Story Behind UAE’s Newly Launched On-Demand Photography Startup

Since the platform’s launch earlier this month, 400 photographers have registered, and the startup’s already turning heads with their [...]

Softmills: The Consultancy Firm Incubating Egyptian Startups to Stand Out in a Tech-Hot World

We speak to one of the founders of the burgeoning consulting firm, gaining insight on how tech ventures are the talk of every town. [...]

Isqan: How Two Friends Elevated the PropTech Game in Egypt

We speak to the founders of Isqan on the road to creating what could be Egypt's biggest proptech accelerant to date. [...]

Hacking Women’s Online Safety, How Arab Women Technologists Are Taking on the Challenge

Google’s Women Techmakers program brought 35 women tech experts from the Arab World to hack the issue of online violence, and raise [...]

9 MENA-based EdTech Startups That Have Led Online Learning During the Pandemic

What was once a shiny new tool, is now a dire necessity. Edtech's taken the world by storm during the pandemic, and entrepreneurs all [...]

25 Under 25: The Entrepreneurs Reshaping Egypt's Startup Landscape for the New Decade

They're changing mindsets, challenging the status quo, fusing high-tech to the traditional, freshening up stale sectors and hustling their [...]

Kashat Is the First Egyptian Mobile App to Give Small Loans

Lending as little as EGP 100 to as much as EGP 1,500, Kashat is the first to be licensed for nano-finance. [...]

Uber Shuts Down Uber Eats Operations in All Middle East Markets

Uber Eats will shut down in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, while UAE operations will transition to Uber subsidiary Careem. [...]

This American-Egyptian Startup Found a Solution to the Shortage of Doctors

After scoring their seed round and launching in Egypt, these founders are hoping to make your healthcare journey a lot simpler. [...]

What Would You Do If You Found Your Startup’s Doppelgänger?

While he surfed the world wide web for new startups, Startup Scene's Ahmed Budalama found two e-commerce platforms whose resemblance was [...]

Cairo-Based Food Delivery Startup RoadRunner Raises Six-Figure Seed Investment

The up-and-coming startup has already staked its claim as a viable player in the food delivery industry by veering away from the [...]

Cairo-Based Concierge Service Elves Scores $2 Million Investment

The AI-powered app has raised its latest investments from Sawari Ventures, with participation from some of its other existing investors. [...]

Egypt Launches New Programme to Train 100,000 Egyptians in Web Development, Data Analysis & More

The Egyptian Ministry of Communications and IT has launched the programme to better equip participants' for the job market. [...]

US VC Openner is Looking to Invest in 50 Egyptian Startups

prolific Washington DC-based venture capital firm has its crosshairs on Egypt, as it looks to back pre-seed and seed stage startups through [...]

Egyptian Startup Kashier Payments Raises Seed Investment to Expand Products and Grow Team

The payments platform aimed at businesses also plans to up-scale its commercial go-to market strategy. [...]

Algebra Ventures Co-founder and Managing Partner Ziad Mokhtar Announces His Departure

Five years after co-founding Egypt’s first independent VC, Mokhtar is looking to get his hands dirty and jump into the world of tech [...]

KSA’s F&B Management Startup Foodics is Expanding into Egypt

The expansion has been made possible by the startup’s impressive $4 million Series A round in 2017. [...]

Egypt’s FreshSource Becomes First Ever African Finalist in Grow-NY Competition

The agritech startup’s sibling founders, Omar and Farah Emara, are off to New York to compete for a $1 million grand prize. [...]

Registration for the 5th MITEF Saudi Startup Competition is Now Open

In a challenging year, organisers of the MIT-backed competition are urging startups from all sectors to apply to one of its three tracks. [...]

Saudi Procure-to-Pay Platform Penny Software Scores $1.35M in Seed Funding Round

The startup was founded just this year and aims to digitise and simplify B2B spending. [...]