MENA ECOSYSTEMS

MENA ECOSYSTEMS

Womena Announces Second Season of Womentum, a Docu-Series Covering Female-Led Startups in MENA

07 Jul 2020

After a widely positive reception to the first season, Womena’s hit series Womentum [...]

RiseUp & Facebook Ramp Up Joint-Effort to Help Egyptian SMEs Through Economic Downturn

RiseUp & Facebook Ramp Up Joint-Effort to Help Egyptian SMEs Through Economic Downturn

06 Jul 2020

The programme has so far supported 400 Egyptian startups, and is now expanding its [...]

Magnitt Report: Investments in MENA Startups Have Reached $659 Million in H1 2020

Magnitt Report: Investments in MENA Startups Have Reached $659 Million in H1 2020

05 Jul 2020

Despite the consequences brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the MENA startup [...]

Ashoka Launches WISE Up, a Virtual Summit to Amplify Female Social Entrepreneurs

Ashoka Launches WISE Up, a Virtual Summit to Amplify Female Social Entrepreneurs

04 Jul 2020

The online event will bring together regional and international women social [...]

UAE Inaugurates Research and Development Platform Dubai Future Labs

UAE Inaugurates Research and Development Platform Dubai Future Labs

03 Jul 2020

The lab is the first platform of its kind in the country, and is already [...]

MIT Enterprise Forum Announces Winners of 13th Arab Startup Competition

MIT Enterprise Forum Announces Winners of 13th Arab Startup Competition

26 Jun 2020

Six entrepreneurs from across the Arab world were awarded the winning slots for the [...]

New Report Shows Tiktok, Huda Beauty and Careem Among the Best Loved Brands in the MENA

New Report Shows Tiktok, Huda Beauty and Careem Among the Best Loved Brands in the MENA

19 Jun 2020

Talkwalker’s ‘Brand Love 2020’ report highlights the brands that are fostering the [...]

4 Egyptian Students Among Winners of Apple’s Swift Student Challenge

4 Egyptian Students Among Winners of Apple’s Swift Student Challenge

16 Jun 2020

The four winners will be recognised for their innovative work during Apple’s [...]

Egyptian Online Learning Platform Zedny Launches with Over 200 Courses in Arabic

Egyptian Online Learning Platform Zedny Launches with Over 200 Courses in Arabic

16 Jun 2020

The new educational platform aims to address industry changes before Arab [...]

From Sales to CEO: An Interview with the Arab ‘Godmother’ of Fashion Retail Asil Attar

From Sales to CEO: An Interview with the Arab ‘Godmother’ of Fashion Retail Asil Attar

10 Jun 2020

Honoured on lists of top business leaders year after year, Iraqi-British retail [...]

Egypt’s Ministry of Communications Partners with Amazon for Youth Training

Egypt’s Ministry of Communications Partners with Amazon for Youth Training

10 Jun 2020

The training programme with Amazon Web Services comes as part of a nationwide [...]

Egypt Announces EGP 8.5 Billion Plan to Build 13 Industrial Parks for SMEs

Egypt Announces EGP 8.5 Billion Plan to Build 13 Industrial Parks for SMEs

10 Jun 2020

The move aims to support the massive SME sector through the Coronavirus crisis. [...]

Cairo Angels Partners with Microsoft to Launch Fundraising Consultancy Arm for Startups

Cairo Angels Partners with Microsoft to Launch Fundraising Consultancy Arm for Startups

09 Jun 2020

The Cairo Angels and Microsoft’s 4Afrika initiative want to take the pain out of [...]

Techila Con: A Two-Day Tech Conference With a Twist Come to Life This June 12th-13th

Techila Con: A Two-Day Tech Conference With a Twist Come to Life This June 12th-13th

07 Jun 2020

We speak to the team behind Techila Con, a new virtual event from Egypt, bringing [...]

Fatafeat Launches World’s First Fully Arabic Cooking Course App

Fatafeat Launches World’s First Fully Arabic Cooking Course App

04 Jun 2020

The Arabic cooking channel found that two thirds of Egyptians lack confidence in [...]

Injaz Bahrain Goes Online Amid COVID-19 Lockdown

Injaz Bahrain Goes Online Amid COVID-19 Lockdown

04 Jun 2020

The youth empowerment NGO offers programmes in work readiness, financial literacy [...]

Amazon Company PAYFORT Announces Initiative to Support Middle East Startups

Amazon Company PAYFORT Announces Initiative to Support Middle East Startups

04 Jun 2020

The #StartupStayUp initiative will fund three months of digital marketing for 100 [...]

Middle East Tourism in the Post-COVID World: Tune in to Arabian Travel Market’s First Virtual Event

Middle East Tourism in the Post-COVID World: Tune in to Arabian Travel Market’s First Virtual Event

31 May 2020

The massive B2B exhibition’s first virtual edition will run from June 1st to 3rd. [...]

Dubai SME & the Beehive UAE Allocate AED 420 million to Helping Startups Leverage FinTech for Growth

Dubai SME & the Beehive UAE Allocate AED 420 million to Helping Startups Leverage FinTech for Growth

24 May 2020

Businesses at least 50% owned and managed by an Emirati citizen can apply for [...]

How COVID-19 is Affecting Social Media Interaction Across 13 Industries

How COVID-19 is Affecting Social Media Interaction Across 13 Industries

22 May 2020

Crowd Analyzer Co-Founder Ahmed Saad delves deep into data from across the region, [...]

Egyptian Matchmaking App Hawaya Launches in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait

Egyptian Matchmaking App Hawaya Launches in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait

21 May 2020

Following its success in Egypt, and a surge in its usage during the Coronavirus [...]

Creative Industry Freelancers & SMEs in the UAE Can Now Apply for Government Grants Up To AED 50,000

Creative Industry Freelancers & SMEs in the UAE Can Now Apply for Government Grants Up To AED 50,000

15 May 2020

The UAE’s Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development has just announced ‘The [...]

Tunisia Aims to Support Startups with €66.9 Million Loan Agreement

Tunisia Aims to Support Startups with €66.9 Million Loan Agreement

14 May 2020

Two years after passing its revolutionary ‘Startup Act,’ Tunisia aims to follow up [...]

Vezeeta Launches Partnership with Egypt’s Health Ministry for COVID-19 Awareness Campaign

Vezeeta Launches Partnership with Egypt’s Health Ministry for COVID-19 Awareness Campaign

11 May 2020

The partnership will launch a massive social media campaign under the slogan ‘Your [...]

Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority Announces Relief Packages for Startup

Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority Announces Relief Packages for Startup

11 May 2020

The regulatory authority has put in place several incentives to support [...]

Uber Egypt Lays Off 40% of Staff

Uber Egypt Lays Off 40% of Staff

07 May 2020

The layoffs come as part of global job cuts by the ride-hailing app in 46 countries. [...]

UAE Firms Free to Work Remotely Even After Pandemic Is Over

UAE Firms Free to Work Remotely Even After Pandemic Is Over

04 May 2020

“The remote system will help create new job opportunities and also help in [...]

Uber Shuts Down Uber Eats Operations in All Middle East Markets

Uber Shuts Down Uber Eats Operations in All Middle East Markets

04 May 2020

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

Lebanese Diaspora Creates Remote Jobs Platform to Tackle Unemployment Back Home

Lebanese Diaspora Creates Remote Jobs Platform to Tackle Unemployment Back Home

02 May 2020

The online platform JobsForLebanon aims to use the country’s 16 million-strong [...]

Samsung-Backed Firms Announce MEASEA Blockchain Consortium to Launch in the Region

Samsung-Backed Firms Announce MEASEA Blockchain Consortium to Launch in the Region

30 Apr 2020

The association will be spearheaded by several industry experts in order to develop [...]

ITIDA: Egypt Keeps Top Spot in the Region for Number of Startups & Venture Deals in Q1 2020

ITIDA: Egypt Keeps Top Spot in the Region for Number of Startups & Venture Deals in Q1 2020

27 Apr 2020

Of all the deals made in the region in the first quarter of 2020, 37% were in the [...]

PIVOTING IN A PANDEMIC: Events Will Never Be the Same Again, But That Doesn't Mean It's Over

PIVOTING IN A PANDEMIC: Events Will Never Be the Same Again, But That Doesn't Mean It's Over

21 Apr 2020

In the second edition of our series focusing on the entrepreneurs that are reacting [...]

Why An Entrepreneurial Mindset Is Key to the Refugee Crisis, Especially in the COVID Era

Why An Entrepreneurial Mindset Is Key to the Refugee Crisis, Especially in the COVID Era

15 Apr 2020

Between startup and NGO, NaTakallam co-founder Aline Sara on the goldilocks zone of [...]

Supporting A Crippled Health System: Meet the Entrepreneur Behind Libya’s COVID-19 Response

Supporting A Crippled Health System: Meet the Entrepreneur Behind Libya’s COVID-19 Response

11 Apr 2020

Speetar started as a platform for doctors in diaspora to support their people back [...]

INJAZ Goes Beyond Borders With First Regional Virtual Innovation Camp

INJAZ Goes Beyond Borders With First Regional Virtual Innovation Camp

11 Apr 2020

As almost all educational institutions are closed across the MENA region, INJAZ Al [...]

THE COST OF CORONA ft. Omar Samra, CEO Wild Guanabana

THE COST OF CORONA ft. Omar Samra, CEO Wild Guanabana

08 Apr 2020

“If ever there was time for people to believe in the idea of impermanence, this is [...]

Techstars Launches Virtual Startup Weekend Events to Help Fight COVID-19

Techstars Launches Virtual Startup Weekend Events to Help Fight COVID-19

07 Apr 2020

Entrepreneurs and mentors from 69 countries all join to develop solutions aimed to [...]

10 Webinars and Online Talks from the Ecosystem to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week

10 Webinars and Online Talks from the Ecosystem to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week

05 Apr 2020

The ecosystem is alive and well - at least online. Platforms from all across the [...]

PIVOTING IN A PANDEMIC: Egypt’s Fitness Entrepreneurs Built an Industry From Scratch. Now What?

PIVOTING IN A PANDEMIC: Egypt’s Fitness Entrepreneurs Built an Industry From Scratch. Now What?

04 Apr 2020

We speak to the biggest Egyptian fitness entrepreneurs to find out how the young [...]

THE COST OF CORONA ft. Cornelius (Con) O’Donnell, Partner & COO Elves

THE COST OF CORONA ft. Cornelius (Con) O’Donnell, Partner & COO Elves

03 Apr 2020

“The mantra right now is survival of the quickest. Hope for the best but plan for [...]

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Egypt’s B2B E-Commerce Platform Fatura Raises USD 7-Figure Seed Round

The platform connects FMCG wholesalers to retailers and doubly serves as a digital lending platform for small merchants. [...]

Dubai-Based Proptech Startup Nomad Homes Raises $4 Million Investment

The digital real estate platform is vying to migrate property renting and buying in the EMEA region entirely online. [...]

Tunisian Entertainment Startup Galactech Raises Six-figure Pre-Series A Investment

The six-figure Pre-Series A round led by the Oman Technology Fund will enable Galactech to enter more international markets. [...]

GoDaddy Launches Arabic Website to Support SMEs in the MENA Region

Web hosting company GoDaddy has just launched an Arabic Beta version for their website to provide various digital tools to SMEs to help [...]

Swedish Audiobook Streamer Storytel Acquires UAE’s Kitab Sawti

The two platforms will combine their libraries to form one of biggest Arabic audio content libraries in the world. [...]

4 Egyptian Students Among Winners of Apple’s Swift Student Challenge

The four winners will be recognised for their innovative work during Apple’s virtual WWDC20. [...]

Egyptian Real Estate Platform Sakneen Announces Backing By Y Combinator

The startup aims to reinvent Egypt’s real estate market by marrying the needs of buyers, brokers, and developers. [...]

From Retail to Real Estate, The Sallam Family's Three Generations of Serial Entrepreneurs

Since 1939, the Sallam family has been a staple of Egyptian business. Three generations later, there’s no sign of stopping. [...]

Meet the Founders Behind Arabic Learning & Development Platform Zedny

Recently launched with an enormous library of 5,000+ hours of content ready for users to access, Zedny hopes to become the benchmark for [...]

Egyptian Fintech Startup MoneyFellows Raises $4 million in Series A Round

The digital era’s answer to traditional ‘gam’eyat’ and money circles is expanding across Africa. [...]

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. [...]

6 Signs your Startup Could Be Among the 90% that Fail

We speak to Farah Ehsan, Falak Startups’ programme manager about the mistakes she has seen startups make that foretell a misfortunate [...]

Good People and Kijamii Merge Into GP&K, Forming MENA’s Largest Independent Network

The newly formed network will operate under the name ‘GP&K’, with its companies providing their digitally-excellent services to [...]

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. [...]

Egypt’s B2B E-Commerce Platform Fatura Raises USD 7-Figure Seed Round

The platform connects FMCG wholesalers to retailers and doubly serves as a digital lending platform for small merchants. [...]

Dubai-Based Proptech Startup Nomad Homes Raises $4 Million Investment

The digital real estate platform is vying to migrate property renting and buying in the EMEA region entirely online. [...]

Tunisian Entertainment Startup Galactech Raises Six-figure Pre-Series A Investment

The six-figure Pre-Series A round led by the Oman Technology Fund will enable Galactech to enter more international markets. [...]

GoDaddy Launches Arabic Website to Support SMEs in the MENA Region

Web hosting company GoDaddy has just launched an Arabic Beta version for their website to provide various digital tools to SMEs to help [...]

Swedish Audiobook Streamer Storytel Acquires UAE’s Kitab Sawti

The two platforms will combine their libraries to form one of biggest Arabic audio content libraries in the world. [...]

UAE Launches Space Science Training programme for Young Arab Inventors and Scientists

The programme coincides with the launch of the pioneering Hope Mars Mission, the first Arab interplanetary venture in history. [...]

Moroccan Fintech Startup OnePay Raises $400,000 Investment

The investment is the first of its kind by MITC Capital’s Maroc Numeric Fund II. [...]

Dubai Chamber Launches Online Marketplace for Personal Protective Equipment

Businesses can register to the marketplace, where they can potentially reduce costs, generate new leads and build long-term partnerships. [...]

Dubai’s Kidtech Startup Periscope Media Closes Seed Funding Round

The young startup was founded in 2020, and is developing innovative methods in kidtech and edutainment. [...]

Dubai’s ‘KidTech’ Startup Periscope Media Closes Seed Funding Round

The young startup was founded in 2020, and is developing innovative methods in edutainment. [...]

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Digitising Services for a More Productive MENA Region: An Interview with Careem CEO Mudassir Sheikha

Digitising Services for a More Productive MENA Region: An Interview with Careem CEO Mudassir Sheikha

30 Jun 2020

“We find local solutions to local problems. This is what we built Careem on,” says Careem’s co-founder and CEO, Mudassir Sheikha in this exclusive interview following the recent release of the company’s SuperApp. [...]

From Sales to CEO: An Interview with the Arab ‘Godmother’ of Fashion Retail Asil Attar

From Sales to CEO: An Interview with the Arab ‘Godmother’ of Fashion Retail Asil Attar

10 Jun 2020

Honoured on lists of top business leaders year after year, Iraqi-British retail veteran Asil Attar has had an illustrious career, working with some of the biggest names in fashion and becoming the first female CEO of multiple MENA powerhouses. [...]

Meet the Founders Behind Arabic Learning & Development Platform Zedny

Meet the Founders Behind Arabic Learning & Development Platform Zedny

28 Jun 2020

Recently launched with an enormous library of 5,000+ hours of content ready for users to access, Zedny hopes to become the benchmark for professional education in the region. [...]