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Yanzo integrates its super app with ChatGPT

ChatGPT has not only taken the world by storm, but political leaders too. At the recent World Government Summit held in Dubai, barely one...

yanzo ChatGPT super app

Regional

Wafeq: the fintech catering to regional standards

It was in 2018 when Nadim Alameddine was preparing to file his first ever tax return that the idea for an accounting software came to him....

Wafeq Fintech

Regional

Mena startups raised $103 million in January 2023

Startups in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) raised $103 million in January 2023 across 22 deals, a 17 per cent decline...

investments

Regional

A breakdown of Mena exits in 2022

In total, 57 Mena-based startups exited through M&As in 2022, a 30 per cent increase from the previous year. A further...

exits

Egypt

Career180: Helping plug the skills gap for professionals in Mena

Unemployment remains perilously high across the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena), where 70 per cent of the 283 million youth aged...

Career180 unemployment

Regional

What awaits startup exits in Mena?

Looking back, the year 2021 was hard to emulate. After the pandemic-induced funding boom seen in 2021 and the first few months of 2022,...

M&A exits Exit

Regional

Startups in Mena raised almost $4 billion in 2022

Startups in the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena) raised $3.94 billion in 2022 across 795 deals, a rise of 24 per cent in...

Investment

Regional

Why SWVL's acquisition of Volt Lines came to a halt

In 2018, Lebanese entrepreneur Ali Halabi founded Volt Lines, a Turkey-based mobility startup targeting the corporate segment, enabling...

Swvl Volt Lines

Global

How influence is increasingly breeding entrepreneurship

Baha Hamadi,is a board member of the Public Relations & Communications Association You may have noticed a new breed of...

influpreneur

Regional

How is fintech evolving beyond digital payments?

Armin Moradi, is the co-founder and CEO at Qashio, a UAE-based spend management platform Numerous challenges faced by businesses...

Qashio

Regional

What is next for Careem's mobility of money?

Careem remains one of the Middle East’s biggest success stories, inspiring a legion of entrepreneurs and generating one of the...

Careem Pay careem Fintech

Jordan

How a failed supermarket and a stint at Uber led to the founding of Abwaab

Most graduates like to ease their way into employment, starting at an entry-level position to gain experience and work their way up. But...

EdTech Uber Failure

Regional

How can the Middle East become a better hub for tech startups?

Raviteja Dodda is the founder and CEO of US-based MoEngage, a customer engagement platform. Kunal Badiani, is the Middle East,...

Opinion

Regional

The tech trends that will impact business this year

Dr Ross Curran is an assistant professor at Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University Dubai Digital transformation will reach...

Trends

Regional

Mena startups raised $125 million in December, pushing 2022 total to $3.6 billion

Startups in the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena) raised $125 million in December 2022 across 38 deals, taking the total amount...

Investment

Regional

Trends to expect in 2023

When in February 2022 the war in Ukraine broke out, its impact on the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) at the time remained unclear, but...

Trends

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