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MIT awards $150K to 7 refugee aid ideas
Seven startups and NGOs (listed below) were awarded $150,000 in total at the MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab Innovate for Refugees award ceremony which took place in Amman on Tuesday. The Innovate for...
View ArticleDealMakers 2016
Take part in DealMakers 2016, Endeavor Jordan's exclusive annual event. In its 4th edition, the event aims to elevate the conversation between investors and entrepreneurs on how to collectively...
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Startup Watch: Who's reading your emails, the UAE mission to Mars and...
Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been reading this week on those new Pixel phones that do stuff with the flick of a wrist, Twitter looking to graze for new owners and whether or not one is corrupted by...
View ArticleGlobal Islamic Economy Summit 2016
The Global Islamic Economy Summit (GIES) is the region’s premier forum on the Islamic economy. It brings together world-class experts in critical industry sectors that span geographic regions and...
View ArticleSME Beyond Borders Dubai 2016
The UAE is taking critical steps to advance entrepreneurship and innovation, along with the government’s commitment to fuel sustainability, smart technology, and women empowerment. To echo last year’s...
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Careem v Uber: the local kid is winning
Careem’s flexibility in dealing with governments may give it the edge it needs over Uber and upstarts such as Egypt’s Ousta. Careem announced Tuesday that it had cut a deal with Dubai’s Road Transport...
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GITEX Technology Week 2016
This year's GITEX Technology Week aims to be bigger than ever, bringing designers, developers, entrepreneurs, manufacturers, and technology enthusiasts from all over the globe under one roof to exhibit...
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Cairo Angels lead angel deal in Egypt's Hire Hunt
Business angels network Cairo Angels has sealed an investment with the Egyptian startup Hire Hunt in September. Cairo Angels chairman Aly El Shalakany told Wamda they finalized an investment in the...
View ArticleMix N’ Mentor - Nuwait Edition 2016
Mix N’ Mentor - Nuwait Edition is heading back to Kuwait to bring together entrepreneurs with industry experts, investors and mentors to discuss specific challenges related to small and medium...
View ArticleSeedstars Algeria 2016
Seedstars World is coming back to Algeria! This time bigger, stronger, better. On October 29, the 12 best startups from Constantine, Algiers, and Oran will be invited to pitch in front of an investment...
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Nestrom and how to feed the next two billion
Over half a century ago, the introduction of pesticides and modified irrigation systems helped save one billion people from famine, producing food for an increasing world population. However, what was...
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Arabnet Kuwait draws crowds, demands action
Entrepreneurship is a top priority for Kuwait’s power brokers who are spending a lot of money on developing an ecosystem, yet only a handful of local entrepreneurs showed up to the city’s first Arabnet...
View Article'VC association wanted, please call Egypt for more details' [Opinion]
There is no doubt the Egyptian startup ecosystem is young. If the startups are young, the investors are as well. As investors, we need to work more closely together to up our game and be the right...
View ArticleReboot Beirut hackathon features seasoned student entrepreneurs
Over the past decade, there have been countless news stories pointing to a rise of student entrepreneurship globally. Lebanon is no exception. As dozens of students gathered for the Reboot Beirut...
View ArticleIs there a way to create high quality startups in Kuwait?
This is an edited crosspost with Nuwait. We see plenty of buzz around the topic of startups in Kuwait. The 2 billion Kuwaiti dinar fund (US$6.6 billion) has attracted worldwide media attention and...
View ArticleBanque du Liban Accelerate 2016
Against all odds, Lebanon is developing a highly innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem. With a growing number of incubators, accelerators and venture capital firms paired with the support from the...
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Bahrain’s Eat raises $2M
In what they are labelling a “post-seed round”, restaurant reservation app Eat has raised $2 million having worked tirelessly since 2014 to conquer not only their home market of Bahrain, but also the...
View ArticleIran startup Snapp raises $22M Series A
Iranian ride sharing startup Snapp has secured a 20 million euro (US$22 million) Series A investment. The deal, reported in Tech Crunch, was with South African telecommunications company MTN, which...
View ArticleSeedstars Istanbul 2016
Seedstars World is coming back to Istanbul! On October 20, the 10 best startups from Istanbul will be invited to pitch in front of an investment panel and compete to be crowned the most promising...
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Can audiobooks inspire more Arabs to read?
Rawan Barakat, the founder of Raneen. (Image via Wamda) Studies have shown that Arab citizens hardly care about reading - dedicating only six minutes a year to reading books. However, there are people...
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