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Investment in women-founded startups at 1.2 per cent of $2.87 billion raised in 2021

It was a year in which many records were broken - the largest funding round to date, the highest number of deals, and the arrival of...

wamda Investment

Regional

How can the GCC countries become digital leaders?

Tarek El Zein is a partner with Strategy& Middle East, part of the PwC network The digital economies of GCC countries have...

GCC Innovation

Egypt

The issue of e-pharmacy in Egypt

When Amazon acquired US-based e-pharmacy startup PillPack in 2018 in a deal valued at $753 million, it sent repercussions across the...

e-pharmacy B2B marketplace Chefaa

Saudi Arabia

Penny pushes into global e-procurement market

Procurement remains a largely offline and fragmented endeavour, but over the past couple of years, digital solutions have grown...

B2B e-commerce Penny SAAS

Egypt

Mozare3: Enabling small farmers in Egypt to become bankable

The agriculture sector is the largest employer in Egypt; nearly 28 per cent of the total workforce work in agriculture, according to USAID....

Agtech Mozare3

U.A.E

Startups and SMEs can only grow with access to funding

Ahmed Mohamed Al Naqbi is the chief executive officer of Emirates Development Bank The UAE government is steadfast in its commitment...

funding gap

Iraq

TipTop's $5 million raise and Iraq's quick-commerce expansion

The continued pandemic-driven disruptions impacting the e-grocery segment have led to the emergence of q-commerce, a new vertical which has...

tiptop quick commerce q-commerce

Regional

Mena startups raised $206 million in December 2021

Startups in the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena) raised $206 million in December 2021 across 44 deals, a 27.5 per cent decrease...

Investment

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Trends to expect in 2022

After two years of ongoing uncertainty, the investor hesitancy that defined the beginning of the pandemic has dissipated entirely, as...

Trends

Regional

Our top stories from 2021

This past year has been an incredibly dynamic one for the entrepreneurship ecosystem across the Middle East and North Africa. We have...

wamda

Palestine

Fintech: A force for financial inclusion in Palestine

Majd Zghyer is the strategy officer at uMake, an entrepreneurship support organisation (ESO) based in Ramallah, Palestine. This year has...

Fintech financial inclusion

Jordan

What is so special about Jordan?

Almost a third of all the entreprenuers in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) are Jordanian, despite the country accounting for just 3...

Xina AI

Regional

Has last-mile delivery reached its saturation point? [Part two]

In the first part of this feature, we charted the growth of last-mile delivery in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena). In this second...

Last-mile delivery Logistics Last mile

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Last-mile delivery startups in North Africa and the Levant

Wamda has mapped 51 last-mile delivery startups in North Africa and the Levant region. Of these, 28 are based in the Egypt, the...

Last-mile delivery Logistics

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Last-mile delivery startups in the GCC

Wamda has mapped 51 last-mile delivery startups based in the GCC. Of these, 22 are based in the UAE and 16 in Saudi Arabia. The majority of...

Last-mile delivery

Regional

Last-mile delivery startups in numbers

Over the past couple of years, the last-mile delivery sector has witnessed a spike of new startup entrants, with most operating an...

Last-mile delivery

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