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Applications Now Open For Technology Innovation Pioneers Summit 2019

20 Aug 2019
Deadline to apply is September 15th. [...]
Meet 11 of the Investors Speaking at MAIN’s Second Conference in El-Gouna

Meet 11 of the Investors Speaking at MAIN’s Second Conference in El-Gouna

18 Aug 2019
From Angels to VCs, these are 11 of the investors speaking at the second edition of [...]
The Startup Roadshow Launches Again with $15,000 in Prizes for Syrian-led Startups

The Startup Roadshow Launches Again with $15,000 in Prizes for Syrian-led Startups

18 Aug 2019
The competition is taking off on September 7th in a series of bootcamps In Lebanon, [...]
Seedstars Is Coming to Baghdad For The First Time To Find The Top Startup in Iraq

Seedstars Is Coming to Baghdad For The First Time To Find The Top Startup in Iraq

01 Aug 2019
Iraq-based startups will be granted the opportunity to win up to $500,000 in equity [...]
Applications Are Now Open for StartAD and Khalifa Fund’s Ibtikari Incubation Programme

Applications Are Now Open for StartAD and Khalifa Fund’s Ibtikari Incubation Programme

31 Jul 2019
Deadline for registration is September 5. [...]
Applications Are Now Open for Brinc’s Hardware and IoT Accelerator Programme in Bahrain

Applications Are Now Open for Brinc’s Hardware and IoT Accelerator Programme in Bahrain

30 Jul 2019
Finalists will have the chance to receive up to $60,000 in funding. [...]
WFES’s Climate Innovations Exchange Is Coming to Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week For the Third Time

WFES’s Climate Innovations Exchange Is Coming to Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week For the Third Time

25 Jul 2019
The deadline to submit is August 6th. [...]
Egypt's Central Bank Fund for Fin-tech Startups Aspires to Reach $500 Million Over The Next 5 Years

Egypt's Central Bank Fund for Fin-tech Startups Aspires to Reach $500 Million Over The Next 5 Years

24 Jul 2019
To be launched in early 2020. [...]
Amazon’s AWS Summit is Coming to Bahrain for the Third Time

Amazon’s AWS Summit is Coming to Bahrain for the Third Time

14 Jul 2019
The summit allows tech-based startups to utilise the cloud and seize every [...]
Google News Initiative Is Looking For Startups Shaping The Future of Journalism

Google News Initiative Is Looking For Startups Shaping The Future of Journalism

10 Jul 2019
Deadline: September 2nd. [...]
Meet The Third Batch Graduating From MINT Incubator By EGBANK

Meet The Third Batch Graduating From MINT Incubator By EGBANK

02 Jul 2019
Applications for Fall 2019 are now open! [...]
Cartier Seeks Innovative Women Entrepreneurs With $100,000 Up for Grabs

Cartier Seeks Innovative Women Entrepreneurs With $100,000 Up for Grabs

02 Jul 2019
Application deadline: August 14 [...]
Jack Ma Announces African Netpreneur Prize, Gives Local Entrepreneurs A Chance to Win $1 Million

Jack Ma Announces African Netpreneur Prize, Gives Local Entrepreneurs A Chance to Win $1 Million

25 Jun 2019
Deadline: June 30 [...]
Egyptian Freelancers Can Now Try Out CO-55 For Free, Just By Flashing Their Inploy Profile

Egyptian Freelancers Can Now Try Out CO-55 For Free, Just By Flashing Their Inploy Profile

17 Jun 2019
If an Inploy freelancer likes their CO-55 experience, they'll take a 10% discount [...]
Singularity University's Global Impact Challenge Is Coming To Egypt

Singularity University's Global Impact Challenge Is Coming To Egypt

02 Jun 2019
Deadline: June 21 [...]
Do You Have A Real Estate Startup Idea? This Opportunity Is For You

Do You Have A Real Estate Startup Idea? This Opportunity Is For You

20 May 2019
Deadline: May 28 [...]
Are You A Green Startup? Youthinkgreen Egypt Is Looking For You

Are You A Green Startup? Youthinkgreen Egypt Is Looking For You

08 May 2019
Applications close May 9. [...]
Jusoor Is Giving Syrians and Jordanians An Entrepreneurial Ramadan Opportunity, Deadline: April 25

Jusoor Is Giving Syrians and Jordanians An Entrepreneurial Ramadan Opportunity, Deadline: April 25

23 Apr 2019
Building SMEs in 10 weeks through the Jusoor Small Business Programme. [...]
Startups Galaxy Is Looking For Egyptian Startups To Send To ArabNet Beirut

Startups Galaxy Is Looking For Egyptian Startups To Send To ArabNet Beirut

16 Apr 2019
Deadline: April 20 [...]
Techne Drifts Come To An End At AUC Tahrir, On April 14th

Techne Drifts Come To An End At AUC Tahrir, On April 14th

12 Apr 2019
Free entrance [...]
Egyptian Entrepreneurs Can Learn Cutting Edge Technologies With VFlock And IBM, Starting Mid-April

Egyptian Entrepreneurs Can Learn Cutting Edge Technologies With VFlock And IBM, Starting Mid-April

04 Apr 2019
Applications close on April 10th. [...]
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency Offers Study Trips For Egyptian Female Entrepreneurs To The Hague

The Netherlands Enterprise Agency Offers Study Trips For Egyptian Female Entrepreneurs To The Hague

29 Mar 2019
Applications close on April 3 [...]
Turning Art Into Business At Al-Maqarr, Greek Campus, March 31

Turning Art Into Business At Al-Maqarr, Greek Campus, March 31

27 Mar 2019
Malak El-Masry will be giving this workshop. [...]
Womena Is Now Accepting Early-Stage Female-Led Startups To Its Womentum Accelerator Programme

Womena Is Now Accepting Early-Stage Female-Led Startups To Its Womentum Accelerator Programme

20 Mar 2019
Final cohort will be announced on May 5th. [...]
Willy Lai Is Dropping By The Greek Campus To Give A UX Workshop On April 1st and 2nd

Willy Lai Is Dropping By The Greek Campus To Give A UX Workshop On April 1st and 2nd

18 Mar 2019
The Campus has sealed a deal with Lai to offer the workshop at a special 90 percent [...]
Egypt’s Female Environmental Entrepreneurs Put Under The Spotlight In This New EBRD Programme

Egypt’s Female Environmental Entrepreneurs Put Under The Spotlight In This New EBRD Programme

10 Mar 2019
Good news for the women working in the green sector. [...]
Ashoka's Arab World Social Innovation Forum Is Kicking Off On March 15th

Ashoka's Arab World Social Innovation Forum Is Kicking Off On March 15th

05 Mar 2019
Taking place in the American University in Cairo, Fifth Settlement. [...]
Meet The 8 Startups Enrolled In Flat6Labs Cairo's 12th Cycle

Meet The 8 Startups Enrolled In Flat6Labs Cairo's 12th Cycle

04 Mar 2019
Come hear them pitch! [...]
STEP Conference Is Coming to Saudi Arabia For The First Time, Here’s All What We Know

STEP Conference Is Coming to Saudi Arabia For The First Time, Here’s All What We Know

28 Feb 2019
Happening on March 25. [...]
She Can, Egypt's Annual Women Entrepreneurship, Returns On March 8 To Explore "Successful Failures" 

She Can, Egypt's Annual Women Entrepreneurship, Returns On March 8 To Explore "Successful Failures" 

27 Feb 2019
The third edition of She Can will feature ministers Nabila Makram, Ghana Wali, and [...]
SOCIAL MEDIA DAY TAKES OFF ON ITS 7TH YEAR IN EGYPT

SOCIAL MEDIA DAY TAKES OFF ON ITS 7TH YEAR IN EGYPT

26 Feb 2019
Mark your calendars! [...]
Egyptian Fashion Designers Have A Few Spots Left At The World’s First Ready-Couture Store in Dubai

Egyptian Fashion Designers Have A Few Spots Left At The World’s First Ready-Couture Store in Dubai

26 Feb 2019
At “1422,” fashion entrepreneurs get to book a space at unparalleled rates and [...]
Booking.com Is Launching A Travel Hackathon With A Grand Prize Of EUR 10,000

Booking.com Is Launching A Travel Hackathon With A Grand Prize Of EUR 10,000

27 Jan 2019
The top 20 teams that qualify will start hacking, and the top five will make it to [...]
The 3rd Cycle of EGBANK’s MINT Incubator Is Now Accepting Applications, This Is All You Need To Know

The 3rd Cycle of EGBANK’s MINT Incubator Is Now Accepting Applications, This Is All You Need To Know

10 Jan 2019
We sit down with Susanne Wardani, head of youth banking at MINT Incubator, as she [...]
Five Speakers To Look Out For At Dubai’s 2nd UNLOCK Blockchain Forum In Mid Jan

Five Speakers To Look Out For At Dubai’s 2nd UNLOCK Blockchain Forum In Mid Jan

08 Jan 2019
From a Netflix-featured blockchain evangelist to the CEO of Smart Dubai, meet five [...]
Startup Grind Cairo Will Dissect The Automotive Industry At Falak Startups On December 29th

Startup Grind Cairo Will Dissect The Automotive Industry At Falak Startups On December 29th

26 Dec 2018
This is the second sector-specific event Startup Going launches; the first one [...]
The Doodle Factory Invites Participants To Get Behind Its Scenes At Startup Haus Cairo On Friday

The Doodle Factory Invites Participants To Get Behind Its Scenes At Startup Haus Cairo On Friday

13 Dec 2018
RiseUp is over, but its satellite events aren't. Aiming to raise EGP 50,000, the [...]
PepsiCo, RiseUp, Ministry of Solidarity Unite To Launch 'Egypt 2030' Hackathon

PepsiCo, RiseUp, Ministry of Solidarity Unite To Launch 'Egypt 2030' Hackathon

10 Dec 2018
“In a country like Egypt, rich in agriculture and has the Nile, we shouldn’t be [...]
From The Art of Deals, To The Science of Customer Loyalty: 10 Workshops To Look Out For at RiseUp 18

From The Art of Deals, To The Science of Customer Loyalty: 10 Workshops To Look Out For at RiseUp 18

27 Nov 2018
From legal landscaping and international fundraising, to using chatbots to boost [...]
If You're A Techie, You Don't Want To Miss Out On These 5 Talks Happening This RiseUp Summit

If You're A Techie, You Don't Want To Miss Out On These 5 Talks Happening This RiseUp Summit

26 Nov 2018
Whether you get hot under the collar at the mention of “AI” or “crypto,” check out [...]
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RiseUp Acquires Business News Website MENAbytes, Introduces trackMENA

We speak with both parties about the acquisition and what it means to the future of business journalism. [...]

Egyptian Trucking Marketplace Trella Joins Y Combinator’s S19 Batch

On a mission to improve the shipping industry in the region. [...]

Meet 11 of the Investors Speaking at MAIN’s Second Conference in El-Gouna

From Angels to VCs, these are 11 of the investors speaking at the second edition of MAIN Angel Oasis conference. [...]

Egypt's Health-Tech Startup Chefaa Closes Seed Round, Plans to Expand in the MENA

The investment will focus on geographic expansion and the delivery of more products. [...]

The Startup Roadshow Launches Again with $15,000 in Prizes for Syrian-led Startups

The competition is taking off on September 7th in a series of bootcamps In Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. [...]

Meet The Solo Entrepreneur Behind Drumstick, A Green Startup Fighting Plastic in Egypt

15,000 Freska-packs were exchanged between beach-goers and Freska sellers last week, thanks to Drumstick. [...]

This Egyptian Eco-Friendly Startup Is Creating Plastic-Free Natural Toiletries

We speak with Nour AbdelGawad, the entrepreneur behind OOZE. [...]

Egyptian Fin-Tech Startup MoneyFellows Raises Over $1 Million Investment in Pre Series A Round

The investment aims to scale the userbase of the platform, streamlining of operations and exploring expansion opportunities. [...]

Egyptian PetCare Startup Vetwork Expands to Saudi Arabia

Vetwork now serves pet owners in Jeddah, with plans to further expand to other parts of the Kingdom. [...]

Egypt's Central Bank Fund for Fin-tech Startups Aspires to Reach $500 Million Over The Next 5 Years

To be launched in early 2020. [...]

Egypt's Blockchain Startup Elkrem Closes $75,000 From San Franciscan Accelerator Tachyon

With this investment the startup is going to globally launch their first product, the blockchain development board, through Kickstarter in [...]

These Are The 5 Mentors You Will Find At Egypt's Ahead Of The Curve's 6-Day Leadership Programme

Leap will focus on accelerating the leadership journeys of women entrepreneurs who have been in business for at least 1 year. Applications [...]

Meet 21 of the Investors Speaking At MAIN's First Conference in El-Gouna

From VCs to Angels, these are 21 of the investors speaking at the first annual Middle East Angel Investment Network (MAIN) conference. [...]

A15 Sells 76% Stake In Emirati Fintech Startup TPAY To Helios

This is considered the region's first Dragon exit and the second major exit for A15 in three years after the sale of Otlob, one of the [...]

25 Under 25: The Young Entrepreneurial Minds Redefining Egypt's Future

Reshuffling business models as old as time, bringing the patient back to the top of the healthcare pyramid, and using blockchain to avoid [...]

RiseUp Acquires Business News Website MENAbytes, Introduces trackMENA

We speak with both parties about the acquisition and what it means to the future of business journalism. [...]

Egyptian Trucking Marketplace Trella Joins Y Combinator’s S19 Batch

On a mission to improve the shipping industry in the region. [...]

Meet 11 of the Investors Speaking at MAIN’s Second Conference in El-Gouna

From Angels to VCs, these are 11 of the investors speaking at the second edition of MAIN Angel Oasis conference. [...]

Egypt's Health-Tech Startup Chefaa Closes Seed Round, Plans to Expand in the MENA

The investment will focus on geographic expansion and the delivery of more products. [...]

The Startup Roadshow Launches Again with $15,000 in Prizes for Syrian-led Startups

The competition is taking off on September 7th in a series of bootcamps In Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. [...]

Applications Now Open For Technology Innovation Pioneers Summit 2019

Deadline to apply is September 15th. [...]

Saudi Arabia’s Online Grocery Startup Nana Secures Over $6 Million In Series A Round

The investment aims towards expansion efforts including the on-boarding of new stores and supermarkets to increase visibility and [...]

RiseUp Acquires Business News Website MENAbytes, Introduces trackMENA

We speak with both parties about the acquisition and what it means to the future of business journalism. [...]

Meet 11 of the Investors Speaking at MAIN’s Second Conference in El-Gouna

From Angels to VCs, these are 11 of the investors speaking at the second edition of MAIN Angel Oasis conference. [...]

The Startup Roadshow Launches Again with $15,000 in Prizes for Syrian-led Startups

The competition is taking off on September 7th in a series of bootcamps In Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. [...]

EDITOR'S PICKS
After Spike In Gas Prices In Egypt, “Tink” Launches To Make Commuters Share The Tank

After Spike In Gas Prices In Egypt, “Tink” Launches To Make Commuters Share The Tank

08 Jul 2019
This startup offers a solution for the rising fuel prices. [...]
Hacking Through Beirut's Commercial Real Estate: An Interview With Antwork and BDD

Hacking Through Beirut's Commercial Real Estate: An Interview With Antwork and BDD

11 Jul 2019
We speak to Zina Dajani from Antwork and Christelle Abou Jaoude from Beirut Digital District about their journeys in commercial real estate in Beirut. [...]
Between Chaos and Boredom, How Do Company Retreats Find The Thin Line? We Ask El-Re7la

Between Chaos and Boredom, How Do Company Retreats Find The Thin Line? We Ask El-Re7la

03 Jun 2019
How do retreats really affect teams? [...]
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