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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

Jordan

Meet JAZARI, the deeptech company working to improve vehicle engines

Electric vehicles are becoming more commonplace in many parts of the world, but traditional, petrol-powered cars still dominate and will...

AlJazari mobility deeptech

U.A.E

The edtech startup enabling teachers to teach

Changing education is an incredibly difficult process. Upgrading curricula or changing teaching methods requires the convincing of parents,...

oktopi EdTech

U.A.E

The venture builder helping female-led agritechs scale beyond the desert

The female share in the agricultural workforce in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) hovers around 30 per cent, making the sector one...

agritech Dana Global

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