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Applications for MITEF’s 14th Arab Startup Competition are Now Open

30 Sep 2020

After managing to complete its 13th edition during the pandemic earlier this year, [...]

Sharjah Entrepreneurship Centre Launches $250,000 Middle East & Africa Challenge

Sharjah Entrepreneurship Centre Launches $250,000 Middle East & Africa Challenge

29 Sep 2020

The two-track programme is on the lookout for healthtechs and foodtechs creating [...]

Fintech Express: Mastercard Launches New Programme for Fintech Startups in MEA Region

Fintech Express: Mastercard Launches New Programme for Fintech Startups in MEA Region

28 Sep 2020

Open to fintechs of all kinds, the three-pronged programme aims to help launch and [...]

UAE’s Shorooq Partners Launches Initiative to Support Lebanese Startups and Entrepreneurs

UAE’s Shorooq Partners Launches Initiative to Support Lebanese Startups and Entrepreneurs

26 Sep 2020

The ‘Shorooq Lebanon’ initiative aims to help startups and entrepreneurs devastated [...]

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

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

23 Sep 2020

In a challenging year, organisers of the MIT-backed competition are urging startups [...]

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

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

22 Sep 2020

The Egyptian Ministry of Communications and IT has launched the programme to better [...]

US VC Openner is Looking to Invest in 50 Egyptian Startups

US VC Openner is Looking to Invest in 50 Egyptian Startups

18 Sep 2020

prolific Washington DC-based venture capital firm has its crosshairs on Egypt, as [...]

Saudi’s ‘Flagship Accelerator Program’ is Now Accepting Applications

Saudi’s ‘Flagship Accelerator Program’ is Now Accepting Applications

13 Sep 2020

The second edition of Falak Investment Hub’s intensive programme is set to raise [...]

‘She Leads’ Launches in the UAE with the Aim of Supporting Women in Business

‘She Leads’ Launches in the UAE with the Aim of Supporting Women in Business

06 Sep 2020

Launched by Creative Zone and Dubai Business Women Council, this training programme [...]

Entrepreneurship Platform LAFFAZ Launches ‘The Future of Fintech in MENA’ Virtual Event

Entrepreneurship Platform LAFFAZ Launches ‘The Future of Fintech in MENA’ Virtual Event

02 Sep 2020

The MENA and India focused entrepreneur platform will host a slew of industry [...]

ITIDA Teams Up with Udacity to Launch Tech Scholarship Programme for 100,000 Egyptians

ITIDA Teams Up with Udacity to Launch Tech Scholarship Programme for 100,000 Egyptians

31 Aug 2020

The programme aims to invest in the development of tech skills in the local [...]

Startups Without Borders and Facebook Launch Training Programme

Startups Without Borders and Facebook Launch Training Programme

25 Aug 2020

The programme aims to equip up-and-coming migrant and refugee entrepreneurs with [...]

EntelaQ is Qatar’s First SportsTech Pre-Accelerator Programme

EntelaQ is Qatar’s First SportsTech Pre-Accelerator Programme

08 Aug 2020

‘Qatar SportsTech’ are accepting applications for their first ever pre-accelerator [...]

9 #RiseUpFromHome Speakers Not to Miss

9 #RiseUpFromHome Speakers Not to Miss

07 Aug 2020

Trailblazing thought leaders and industry disruptors are leading RiseUp’s digital [...]

Saudi Arabia’s MiSK Launches Second Edition of Entrepreneurship World Cup

Saudi Arabia’s MiSK Launches Second Edition of Entrepreneurship World Cup

06 Aug 2020

After only one edition, the global initiative has become one of the most sought [...]

Facebook Launches Accelerator Programme to Drive E-commerce Growth for Startups

Facebook Launches Accelerator Programme to Drive E-commerce Growth for Startups

05 Aug 2020

The social conglomerate is ushering in yet another initiative to help startups and [...]

Embassy of Netherlands in Egypt Launches Incubator Programmes in Cairo and Assiut

Embassy of Netherlands in Egypt Launches Incubator Programmes in Cairo and Assiut

03 Aug 2020

The Dutch initiative will emphasise gender parity through the programme, with a 50% [...]

Lebanon’s Nucleus Ventures Announces New Funding Opportunities for Early-Stage Startups

Lebanon’s Nucleus Ventures Announces New Funding Opportunities for Early-Stage Startups

01 Aug 2020

With seed funding opportunities ranging between $5000 and $100,000, Nucleus [...]

Egypt's Famed Entrepreneurship Platform 'Rise Up' Comes Home!

Egypt's Famed Entrepreneurship Platform 'Rise Up' Comes Home!

23 Jul 2020

The special digital edition, ‘Riseup from Home’, is set to tackle the challenges [...]

Abu Dhabi’s Ma’an Launches Third Cycle of its Incubator Programme for Social Startups

Abu Dhabi’s Ma’an Launches Third Cycle of its Incubator Programme for Social Startups

21 Jul 2020

This social incubator is investing more than AED 2 million in a programme to [...]

The Best Webinars to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week: July 19th - 25th

The Best Webinars to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week: July 19th - 25th

19 Jul 2020

Fill your planner with our weekly roundup of online sessions and webinars from [...]

Applications for Falak Startups Cycle 4 Acceleration Programme Are Now Open

Applications for Falak Startups Cycle 4 Acceleration Programme Are Now Open

15 Jul 2020

The programme provides founders with a broad network of experts to consult, as well [...]

Abu Dhabi Announces First YouthTech Competition, Powered by NYU Accelerator

Abu Dhabi Announces First YouthTech Competition, Powered by NYU Accelerator

13 Jul 2020

Organised by Abu Dhabi’s Department of Education and Knowledge and startAD, the [...]

The Best Webinars to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week: July 12th - 18th

The Best Webinars to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week: July 12th - 18th

12 Jul 2020

Fill your planner with our weekly roundup of online sessions and webinars from [...]

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 [...]

The Best Webinars to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week: July 5th - 11th

The Best Webinars to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week: July 5th - 11th

05 Jul 2020

Fill your planner with our weekly roundup of online sessions and webinars from [...]

Seedstars Launches Entrepreneurship Summer School for MENA and Africa Students

Seedstars Launches Entrepreneurship Summer School for MENA and Africa Students

05 Jul 2020

‘The After Grad’ is a summer training programme designed to prepare high school [...]

GIZ Teams Up With MINT & HIMAngel for New CouchPitch Initiative

GIZ Teams Up With MINT & HIMAngel for New CouchPitch Initiative

29 Jun 2020

As Coronavirus keeps us locked in, GIZ, MINT by EGBANK and HIMangel partner up to [...]

The Best Webinars to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week: June 28th - July 4th

The Best Webinars to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week: June 28th - July 4th

28 Jun 2020

Fill your planner with our weekly roundup of online sessions and webinars from [...]

UAE-Based Gulftainer Launches Global Startup Port Logistics Challenge

UAE-Based Gulftainer Launches Global Startup Port Logistics Challenge

27 Jun 2020

The challenge is led by Gulftainer and US-based global accelerator program Global [...]

You Can Now Apply to StartEgypt’s Cycle-5 Incubator Programme

You Can Now Apply to StartEgypt’s Cycle-5 Incubator Programme

25 Jun 2020

The programme led by StartEgypt will be open to Egyptian entrepreneurs in Cairo, [...]

MINT Incubator Opens Applications for Its Fall 2020 Cycle

MINT Incubator Opens Applications for Its Fall 2020 Cycle

24 Jun 2020

The incubator is introducing two new tracks: fintech and sector-agnostic. [...]

The Best Webinars to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week: June 21st - 27th

The Best Webinars to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week: June 21st - 27th

21 Jun 2020

Fill your planner with our weekly roundup of online sessions and webinars from [...]

AstroLabs and Google for Startups Announce Support Programmes for MENA Startups

AstroLabs and Google for Startups Announce Support Programmes for MENA Startups

17 Jun 2020

The initiatives include grants totalling up to AED 240,000 and scholarship [...]

The Best Webinars to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week: June 14th - 20th

The Best Webinars to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week: June 14th - 20th

14 Jun 2020

Fill your planner with our weekly roundup of online sessions and webinars from [...]

8 Speakers You Don’t Want to Miss at Techila Con This Weekend

8 Speakers You Don’t Want to Miss at Techila Con This Weekend

11 Jun 2020

From Microsoft to GoDaddy, Instabug to Facebook, Techila Con’s epic lineup of [...]

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 [...]

Meet the Expert Lineup of Mentors for Seedspace Cairo’s ‘It’s Easier Online’ Hackathon

Meet the Expert Lineup of Mentors for Seedspace Cairo’s ‘It’s Easier Online’ Hackathon

09 Jun 2020

In addition to having one-on-one mentorship sessions with key players from the [...]

Flat6Labs Cairo to Host ‘Pitchathon’ Local Startup Competition in June

Flat6Labs Cairo to Host ‘Pitchathon’ Local Startup Competition in June

08 Jun 2020

Winning startups will have the chance to join Flat6Labs’ exclusive roster of [...]

The Best Webinars and Online Talks to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week

The Best Webinars and Online Talks to Fill Up Your Quaran-time This Week

07 Jun 2020

Fill your planner with our weekly roundup of online sessions and webinars from [...]

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500 Startups Veteran Bedy Yang Appointed as New Managing Partner for MENA

Alongside other new personnel, Yang will be leading new funds and initiatives, following the announcement that current managing partners, [...]

Fintech Express: Mastercard Launches New Programme for Fintech Startups in MEA Region

Open to fintechs of all kinds, the three-pronged programme aims to help launch and expand the startups driving the digital economy. [...]

Yodawy and MetLife Form Milestone Partnership to Create One-Stop-Shop for Medical Services Online

The Cairo-born app is teaming up with the global healthcare provider for a multi-year partnership that will provide Egyptians with an [...]

Virtuzone Teams up with Fintech Startup Zbooni to Offer Customers Whatsapp Payment Solutions

Customers of Virtuzone, a company formation specialist, will also have access to Zbooni’s social commerce platform. [...]

Saudi Arabia’s KAUST Launches MENA’s First Conscious Investor Programme

The six-week, pan-regional fellowship aims to enable the next generation of investors to make impactful investments in the GCC. [...]

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. [...]

IFC: COVID-19 is Shifting Our Thinking About Mental Health in Egypt, Particularly in the Workplace

The International Finance Corporation's Gender and Private Sector Lead in MENA, Sammar Essmat, writes about the mental health factor of the [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

500 Startups Veteran Bedy Yang Appointed as New Managing Partner for MENA

Alongside other new personnel, Yang will be leading new funds and initiatives, following the announcement that current managing partners, [...]

Fintech Express: Mastercard Launches New Programme for Fintech Startups in MEA Region

Open to fintechs of all kinds, the three-pronged programme aims to help launch and expand the startups driving the digital economy. [...]

Yodawy and MetLife Form Milestone Partnership to Create One-Stop-Shop for Medical Services Online

The Cairo-born app is teaming up with the global healthcare provider for a multi-year partnership that will provide Egyptians with an [...]

Virtuzone Teams up with Fintech Startup Zbooni to Offer Customers Whatsapp Payment Solutions

Customers of Virtuzone, a company formation specialist, will also have access to Zbooni’s social commerce platform. [...]

Saudi Arabia’s KAUST Launches MENA’s First Conscious Investor Programme

The six-week, pan-regional fellowship aims to enable the next generation of investors to make impactful investments in the GCC. [...]

Changelabs Egypt Demo Day Returns with 13 of the Country’s Most Innovative Startups

An eclectic mix of fintechs, healthtech and edtechs make-up Changelabs Egypt’s second cohort. [...]

Applications for MITEF’s 14th Arab Startup Competition are Now Open

After managing to complete its 13th edition during the pandemic earlier this year, the regional platform returns to help empower a new [...]

500 Startups Veteran Bedy Yang Appointed as New Managing Partner for MENA

Alongside other new personnel, Yang will be leading new funds and initiatives, following the announcement that current managing partners, [...]

Energy Giant Saudi Aramco Invests in US Blockchain Startup Data Gumbo

The investment marks the second between the two parties, following 2019’s Series A round. [...]

Iraqi E-commerce Platform Miswag Scores Second Round of Funding

The funding brings the startup’s total outside capital raised to over $1 million. [...]

EDITOR'S PICKS

Yodawy and MetLife Form Milestone Partnership to Create One-Stop-Shop for Medical Services Online

Yodawy and MetLife Form Milestone Partnership to Create One-Stop-Shop for Medical Services Online

28 Sep 2020

The Cairo-born app is teaming up with the global healthcare provider for a multi-year partnership that will provide Egyptians with an inclusive platform for medical essentials. [...]

IFC: COVID-19 is Shifting Our Thinking About Mental Health in Egypt, Particularly in the Workplace

IFC: COVID-19 is Shifting Our Thinking About Mental Health in Egypt, Particularly in the Workplace

22 Sep 2020

The International Finance Corporation's Gender and Private Sector Lead in MENA, Sammar Essmat, writes about the mental health factor of the pandemic and how the IFC is hoping to make a difference, exclusively for Startup Scene. [...]

#LoveLocal: How a New Facebook Initiative is Helping Support and Upskill SMBs in MENA

#LoveLocal: How a New Facebook Initiative is Helping Support and Upskill SMBs in MENA

17 Sep 2020

Startup Scene Speaks to Ramez Shehadi, Managing director of Facebook MENA, about the social media giant's new initiative picking up the pieces of an ecosystem shattered by COVID019. [...]