Lebanon Quanergy raises $90M in Series B funding Equiped with Lidar technology. (Image via Quanergy). Quanergy Systems has raised $90 million in a series B round, led by Sensata... Maya Rahal • 25 August, 2016 MEMakersGE quanergy systems 3d printing
Palestine Paypal: stop ignoring Palestinians now [Opinion] Paypal, despite its own corporate values of inclusion and equality, is discriminating against Palestinians. A few months ago Paypal CEO... Salah Amleh • 25 August, 2016 palestine PayPal
Lebanon 5 Lebanese food startups Every Arab country likes to call itself the best food culture in the region. We’re not about to start splitting hairs on who... Lucy Knight • 25 August, 2016 bread basket oslo biomass
Global Startup Watch: 5 years of Tim Cook’s Apple, and Gandalf won’t do your wedding The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, but not when you have to explain the difference between AR and VR, that’s easy.... Lucy Knight • 25 August, 2016 Startup Watch
Tunisia Can Yallaread make peer-to-peer work in Tunisia? The peer-to-peer sharing economy never really took off in MENA but some entrepreneurs, like Tunisian Ahmed Hadhri, still believe it’s... Aline Mayard • 24 August, 2016 culture yallaread collaborative consumption
Regional UAE tops MENA countries in Innovation Index 2016 [Infographic] The Global Innovation Index is an annual report that measures the openness and readiness of countries’ economies for innovation. The... Dana Ballout • 24 August, 2016 Global Innovation Index uae Saudi Arabia
Pakistan Entrepreneurs soak up the sun in Pakistan Pakistan is a lucky country. It’s a contrarian view but in the right light it is indeed lucky: rich in technophiles, a 190... Rachel Williamson • 24 August, 2016 pakistan Harness Energy Pantera Energy
Saudi Arabia Startup Weekend Taif carries on the Kingdom’s vision 2030 Startup Weekend in Sooq Okadh in Taif ended on August 13 after three days of hard work on entrepreneurial projects. The event falls under... Reine Farhat • 23 August, 2016 Startup Weekend Startup Weekend Taif Badir
U.A.E Refining the search for higher education, Schoolapply To better help those looking for university and college courses around the world Schoolapply, a Switzerland-born ed-tech startup, is... Lucy Knight • 23 August, 2016 schoolapply uae
Lebanon Lebanon's droid-maker: Innovo breaks into hi-tech manufacturing [Wamda TV] Innovo is one of the few independent precision manufacturing workshops in the region - this means robots, high tech circuit boards, and 3D... Rachel Williamson • 23 August, 2016 Innovo lebanon robotics
U.A.E Eureeca crowdfunds $400K for itself Crowdfunding platform Eureeca has announced today they have raised $400,000 on their platform for themselves. Eureeca closed the... Lucy Knight • 22 August, 2016 eureeca uae
Global What I know about going to Silicon Valley: Muyesser Taqi Eddin A Google search of this woman won’t yield much, and yet she has been intrinsic in building bridges between Silicon Valley and... Lucy Knight • 22 August, 2016 What I Know techwadi Networking
Jordan No labels, please: hybrid indie design spaces are trending in Amman Across the vibrant colored stairs extending from the renowned King Hussein street that curls its way down to the center of Amman, stands a... Tala El Issa • 22 August, 2016 Amman Design Week Design Art
Syria 10 tech ideas to prevent a lost Syrian generation “Between two million and three million Syrian children are not attending school. The UN children’s agency says the... Maysaa Ajjan • 22 August, 2016 Social Entrepreneurship syria Education
Regional Using tech to reverse wealth inequality The increasing pace of technological evolution is causing serious concerns about its impact on wealth inequality and creating... Abdulghani Kataya • 21 August, 2016 Wealth wealth inequality The Little Engineer
Qidni Labs promises to clean out your kidney for an artificial one End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) is when kidneys have stopped working well enough for patients to survive without dialysis or a kidney... Bérénice Magistretti • 21 August, 2016 Qidni Labs Healthcare Artificial organs
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