Wamda

Regional

ESCWA launches e-commerce acceleration programme for Arab SMEs

The United Nations’ ESCWA has launched an e-commerce Acceleration Programme (eCAP) to empower Arab SMEs. The eCAP programme will...

ESCWA E-commerce acceleration

Sudan

249Startups launches Sudan’s first equity fund Rhino Investments

Sudan-based innovation hub 249Startups has launched an equity fund “Rhino Investments” to boost the Sudanese entrepreneurial...

249Startups Rhino Investments acceleration

Saudi Arabia

Falak awards cash prize to eight Mena startups

Saudi Arabia-based accelerator Falak Investment Hub, has graduated its second cohort of eight startups. Almost SAR 3.8 million was...

Falak investment hub acceleration

U.A.E

Startupbootcamp Fintech Dubai graduates 11 startups

Startupbootcamp Fintech Dubai has announced the graduation of its third cohort of 11 startups. These startups included: UK-based...

Startupbootcamp Fintech Dubai acceleration Fintech

Jordan

Jordan Tourism Board, Venture X launch tourism startup accelerator

Source: Trade Arabia The Jordan Tourism Board (JTB) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Venture X to create a strategic...

Tourism Covid19 amman

Regional

Veolia launches accelerator for social startups and SMEs

France-based Veolia has launched an acceleration and mentoring programme, aimed at supporting social startups and SMEs across the Middle...

Veolia acceleration smes

Bahrain

Bahrain Fintech Bay, US’s MEPI launch accelerator for local startups

Bahrain Fintech Bay (BFB) and the US State Department’s Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), have teamed up to launch a virtual...

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Regional

Saudi’s Falak to invest SAR5 million in 10 startups

Saudi Arabia-based angel accelerator Falak Investment Hub is planning to invest SAR5 million in up to 10 tech startups selected to...

Falak investment hub acceleration

U.A.E

The case for accelerators in the UAE

Shahzad Bhatti is the founder and owner of the Co-Working PopUp, a community-driven coworking space and incubator for startups and small...

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U.A.E

Abu Dhabi’s travel and tourism leaders award $100k to four Fikra Labs winners

One month after announcing the 12 shortlisted startups to join a four-week training by Fikra Labs, an acceleration programme for the travel...

Fikra Labs acceleration abu dhabi

Lebanon

Diabetes monitoring startup wins a $50,000 Seed Boost fund during Speed@BDD’s fifth Demo Day

Spike, a mobile assistant that helps diabetics better manage their diabetes, won the second edition of Speed@BDD’s Seed Boost. The...

lebanon Speed@BDD Spike

U.A.E

When innovation complements an Emirate’s rich tourism offering

This article is a crosspost from Fikra Labs. The direct contribution of the travel and tourism sector to the UAE’s GDP was AED...

uae Fikra Labs Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi is getting ready for an innovation-loaded takeoff

This article is a crosspost from Fikra Labs. If it wasn’t for all the great aviation innovations that the world...

abu dhabi Travel Tourism

U.A.E

Dubai Tourism & Commerce Marketing joins the Emirates Group and GE as a principal partner of Intelak

Intelak, one of the first industry and technology-focused incubators in the MENA region, announced that Dubai Tourism & Commerce...

uae Intelak incubation

U.A.E

Fikra Labs is open for application and here’s why you should apply

As part of their mission to turn Abu Dhabi into a world class tourist destination and global innovation hub, four leading...

Innovation Fikra Labs abu dhabi

Tunisia

Flat6Labs, open for business in Tunisia

Flat6Labs announced last summer that they were coming to Tunisia, as the country’s first accelerator and now for the last two months...

acceleration startups investissements

Regional

Cohort 4 Acceleration Program

The U.S. hardware accelerator, "Make in LA", is recruiting International and MENA hardware startups for the Cohort 4 Program in...

LA acceleration accelerator

U.A.E

Etisalat Digital Challenge call for applications

It’s 2017 and new challenges are ahead of the region’s innovators, entrepreneurs & startups. Etisalat Digital and Dubai...

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Lebanon

The Impact Beirut

Ahead of the Curve (ATC) is a social business dedicated to the promotion of sustainable management practice, inclusive market growth and...

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Regional

Apply for FasterCapital's 5th round of funding

FasterCapital (a virtual incubator based in Dubai) has launched its fifth round of funding for 2016 which begins on September 18, 2016 and...

incubation acceleration Funding

Lebanon

LAUNCH Summit 2016 - Lebanon's Early Stage Startup Conference

AltCity is hosting the first EuroMENA early-stage innovation conference on September 22 at ESA in Clemenceau,...

lebanon entrepreneurship ideation

Saudi Arabia

New non-profit accelerator launches in Saudi Arabia

The small investment ecosystem in Saudi Arabia is forcing startups to either start late or too slowly - so says Ozan Sonmez from King...

KAUST acceleration incubation

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...

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