Wamda

Saudi Arabia

Investment in Saudi-based startups record an all time high in 2019

The number of investments in Saudi-based startups amounted to 71 investments in 2019, an increase of 92 per cent from 2018, recording the...

saudi growth Funding

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi Investment Office launches Dh535 million fund

The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) announced today that it has launched the Dh535 million Ghadan Ventures Fund to support Abu...

fund Venture Capital startups

Regional

Thinking of expanding to another country? Here are some points to consider

Moatassem Moatez has launched and scaled several startups in his role as business partner at Innovest Middle East. Geographical...

Expansion growth Mentorship

Global

How to measure loyalty without alienating your customers

Research suggests a 5 percent increase in customer retention will boost profits by 20-100 percent across a wide range of industries, which...

Marketing growth users

U.A.E

This after school activities marketplace is using bitcoins to go global

Unlike loaded school days, which fall heavy and stressful on little ones’ shoulders, extracurricular activities, will help them...

Afterschool.ae Kids activities Bitcoin

Tunisia

What I know about building a solid team: Khaled Helioui

Khaled Helioui left his job as CEO of the German video game company Bigpoint last May. He had joined the company at the age of 29 years...

management profitability growth

Global

How to professionalize a startup without stifling it

This is an edited crosspost from Harvard Business Review. Insurgent companies are full of foundational stories and most of them involve...

HBR Scaling growth

Regional

Careem's 4 big things for 2016 [Wamda TV]

2015 was certainly a great year for Careem and they say localization was the key. They acquired Saudi-based home delivery...

Mudassir Sheikha wamda mix n mentor dubai growth

Regional

Back to the old school: harnessing the power of SMS in emerging markets [Report]

Palestinian startup Souktel has hacked normal mobile phone communication to once again put SMS front and centre of how people...

american university of cairo Scalability Souktel

Jordan

Inside Kharabeesh's path to scale [WRL Report]

Kharabeesh's geographic reach (Images via Wamda Research Lab) The MENA region is facing an acute unemployment crisis that is...

Kharabeesh Digital Arabic Content growth

Regional

MENA online market to soon create billion dollar companies

The iMENA Group has published, in partnership with Kauffman Fellows Press, a report outlining how the MENA region’s online sector will r...

Khaldoun Tabaza growth iMENA

Regional

User Growth 101: From 500 to 5 million

I sat down to talk with two mobile developers today. They were anxious to discuss the app they had been building over the past few months....

users growth

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