Maghreb ‘Tunisian DNA’ essential to major US cloud deal An American success often hides a diaspora success. In the case of Predictix it goes far beyond that. Predictix, a US-based retail cloud... Aline Mayard • 29 June, 2016 acceleration Predictix usa
Europe Aramex leads $8.5M Series B in UK address startup Aramex has led a $8.5 million Series B funding round in British startup What 3 Words, a company that is creating a universal postal code... Rachel Williamson • 29 June, 2016 Eddress what3words Locname
Maghreb AIG becomes Jumia, but is a rebrand a good idea? Few internet services have made as much noise as Africa Internet Group (AIG), and now it’s seeking to make more with a major... Aline Mayard - Rachel Williamson • 29 June, 2016 rebranding Africa Internet Group Kaymu
Egypt Is Ousta Egypt's fastest growing startup ever? [Q&A] [Update July 27: five months after launching Ousta is negotiating a $5.6 million investment round.] Ride hailing app... Radwa Rashad • 29 June, 2016 ride hailing Ousta careem
Regional Big data in health: good for anything yet? Using big data in healthcare, anywhere, might it be true to say no one seems to quite know what they’re doing yet? But Dr.... Lucy Knight • 29 June, 2016 Ver2 Digital Medicine MEMakersGE healthcare analytics
Maghreb The year Morocco's digital economy levels up This is the second of three articles about the state of digital payments in Morocco. Read the first here. Morocco’s financial... Amine Azariz • 28 June, 2016 Regulations fin-tech
Kuwait Getting them young: empowering Kuwait’s youth entrepreneurs This article has been crossposted from Nuwait. Two organisations, one local the other not, are trying to give Kuwait's young people... Reine Farhat • 28 June, 2016 Injaz Nuwait sirdab lab
U.A.E Dubai: a city built on data [Wamda TV] Cities are not built on a whim, but today a new kind of data is used to sculpt modern metropoli from the bare bones of steel and... Rachel Williamson • 28 June, 2016 cellular data Dubai du
Egypt How the Arab Spring planted seeds of innovation in Egypt [Podcast] This podcast is a crosspost with Knowledge@Wharton. The 2011 uprising in Egypt that saw the overthrow of longtime President Hosni... Knowledge @Wharton • 27 June, 2016 philanthropy Ahead of the Curve Egypt
Eventtus founder meets Obama “It’s a good looking group,” said US President Barack Obama, as he introduced four entrepreneurs to an audience at the... Lucy Knight • 27 June, 2016 Mai Medhat Global Entrepreneurship Summit President Barack Obama
Regional When MENA investors don’t bank on women For years, Lebanese entrepreneur Rayan Zahab would get called in for job interviews, only to hear hiring managers say the same thing: they... Brooke Anderson • 27 June, 2016 Golden Seeds Snapay Women Investing in Women Digital
U.A.E Startups, compete at your own risk Be it money, equity, consultation, incubation or simply a platform to fine-tune the elevator pitch, startup competitions have manufactured... Archana Menon • 26 June, 2016 Arab Start Up competition Startup MENA GCC Pitch Challenge Dubai+Acumen Business Plan Competition
U.A.E From buyouts to partnerships This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. More than half of all corporate-startup initiatives in MENA were... Teeb Assaf • 26 June, 2016 Collaborative Entrepreneurship Dubai Expo 2020 GE
Bahrain Skip ahead: Skiplino wants to put queuing behind us According to a Lebanese Central Bank official at the Arabnet Beirut summit this year, the Lebanese enjoy queuing in banks and use the... Eman Mostafa • 23 June, 2016 Skiplino LevelZ SAAS
Maghreb Propertyfinder buys Morocco-based Selektimmo The list of Moroccan platforms looking to benefit from the online real estate boom is long. Over a year ago, we wondered if... Aline Mayard • 23 June, 2016
Regional Share the love with a stock option pool [Opinion] Building a startup is a team effort, so it’s only fair that the team you share your entrepreneurial journey with also shares in some... Tamer Azer • 23 June, 2016 SOP Stock options A15
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