Regional MENA cashes in: new report shows VC money is rising This is an edited crosspost from Medium. I’ve always admired the consistency and nuggets of wisdom that US founders and VCs are... Ramzy Ismail • 21 July, 2016 Venture Capital Flat6Labs
Lebanon Smart money is good money [Opinion] Recently I was involved in a debate: startups versus venture capital. One particular moment... Walid Mansour • 21 July, 2016 MEVP money smart money
Global Startup Watch: Saudi cash, zombie startups, and your how-to-fire guide The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Rachel Williamson • 21 July, 2016 Startup Watch careem KarmSolar
Turkey Turkish logistics startup raises $1M Kapgel, a Turkish on-demand logistics platform, has announced it's closed a $1 million round from Wamda Capital, Addventure,... Maya Rahal • 20 July, 2016 KapGel Wamda Capital turkey
U.A.E Saving Dubai’s energy one sky rise at a time “It’s like the wild west, codes are lax, and no public records.” These are the comments of engineer Charles Blaschke when... Lucy Knight • 20 July, 2016 Taka Solutions MIT Media Lab community jameel
Maghreb Seducing Dubai: how Morocco's Buzzeff broke in to El Dorado “In Dubai, we lost a lot of money for 18 months,” said Jérôme Mouthon, founder of Moroccan ad agency... Aline Mayard • 20 July, 2016 buzzeff Dubai adtech
Egypt Karmsolar gives solar power to the people In Karmsolar’s office on the posh Cairene island of Zamalek the company’s mission statement, to become the most innovative... Eduard Cousin • 20 July, 2016 KarmSolar solar energy Juhayna
Maghreb MNF Angels, will business angels save seed funding in Morocco? Maroc Numeric Fund (MNF) has partnered with the OCP Entrepreneurship Network to launch a new 100 million Moroccan dirham... Aline Mayard • 19 July, 2016 MNF Maroc Numeric Fund Seed funding
U.A.E Careem to use driverless ‘pods’ Careem has announced that they’ve partnered with a company that builds driverless, battery-powered ‘pods’. Furthering... Lucy Knight • 19 July, 2016 careem public transport MEMakersGE
Regional Startups are creating jobs, but that’s not enough [Report] While the majority of the surveyed workforce in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) perceive working at a startup as a good career... Teeb Assaf • 19 July, 2016 WRL Access to Talent
Iraq Home or away? The best market may not be under your nose Starting in your home market is not necessarily the best way to success, a lesson Iraqi-founded Apps Lab learned the hard way. Apps Lab... Marwan A. Jabbar • 19 July, 2016 Apps Lab Ali Al-Hilli Hajwilha ya Saudi
Global Three growth hacking tricks to keep online users [Wamda TV] Some entrepreneurs only consider putting effort into marketing just as they are launching their product. For growth hacking and marketing... Reine Farhat • 19 July, 2016 Growth hacking
Regional What I know about making people pay: Hadi Raad Fintech is the hot sector of 2016: banks are jumping into it, the Nasdaq is testing ideas, Abu Dhabi is setting up a fintech... Rachel Williamson • 18 July, 2016 Collaborative Entrepreneurship Visa Bridge
Turkey The incubators and accelerators powering Turkey’s startups Despite seeing big political upheavals in recent years, and again over the weekend, Turkey is a startup hub. Behind the thriving... Lorena Rios • 18 July, 2016 Accelerators incubators investors
Lebanon SE Factory prepares the next generation of coders in Lebanon Any tech executive seeking to hire software engineers in Lebanon agrees there is a shortage in talent. To fill that gap, coding boot... Ayman Farhat • 18 July, 2016 SE factory bootcamp Coding
Regional Tech adoption can enable a revolution [Infographic] Governments and regulators must innovate, as the global adoption of technology grows and new economies take shape. This is one of the... Lucy Knight • 17 July, 2016 World Economic Forum GITR Innovation
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