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U.A.E

Podeo closes $5.4 million Series A, eying global expansion

UAE-based podcast distribution platform Podeo has raised a Series A of $5.4 million, led by Oraseya Capital, with participation from...

Podeo podcast Oraseya Capital

Egypt

The Potcast Productions secures follow-up investment from IMP

Egypt-based podcast production company “The Potcast Productions Company” (TPP) has closed a pre-Seed funding round with...

The Potcast Productions TPP podcast

Jordan

Sowt Media acquires UAE’s Finyal Media

Jordan-based Sowt Media has acquired UAE-based podcast production company Finyal Media for an undisclosed amount, financed by the US...

Finyal Sowt Media production

Regional

How can Mena build a deeptech ecosystem?

Amr Awadallah is an Egyptian born computer scientist and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. What’s particularly interesting about...

podcast Amr Awadallah

Saudi Arabia

Mohtwize receives $507,000 capital investment from Wa’ed

Riyadh-based podcast platform Mohtwize has received $507,000 (SAR1.9 million) venture capital investment from Wa'ed, the...

Mohtwize podcast

Global

Deepfakes: Who can we trust?

Deepfake technology has rapidly developed over the past few years and while many will have experienced it through fun apps designed to edit...

deepfakes podcast

Lebanon

Podeo raises Seed investment led by Razor Capital

Lebanon-based podcast platform, Podeo, has raised an undisclosed Seed investment round, led by Razor Capital with co-investments from...

Podeo podcast

Regional

How do you seize a market opportunity?

Disaster for many evokes a sense of fear and danger and a desire to seek out safety and stability. But there are those who manage to seek...

podcast

Regional

What's next for traveltech?

The travel sector was the worst-hit during the lockdown and it will likely take years before numbers reach pre-Covid levels. Yet...

Travel traveltech podcast

Regional

Is the world going into hibernation?

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused an economic slowdown, one that risks a global recession. For many who have been sent to work from home, it...

podcast coronavirus covid-19

U.A.E

Pivots and Failures with Repeat's Omer Aslan Gurel

Omer Aslan Gurel could have easily followed the path that was laid out for him – go to university and eventually join his family...

food tech Entrepreneur podcast

U.A.E

How do you grow tomatoes in the desert?

In the latest edition of our Food Technology podcast series, we spoke with Sky Kurtz, co-founder and chief executive officer at...

Agriculture agritech podcast

U.A.E

Dubai-based Kerning Cultures raises $460,000 in seed funding

Source: MenaBytes Dubai-based Kerning Cultures has raised $460,000 as seed funding, becoming the first ventured backed podcast network...

seed-fund podcast Investment

Regional

Podcasts: digitising an oral tradition

The tradition of telling stories is not unique to the Middle East, but this part of the world has for millennia enjoyed tales of love,...

podcast Media Digital Arabic Content

Jordan

Are Arabs tuning in to podcasts? [Q&A]

In 2006, only 22 percent of the adult population in the United States were aware of the term ‘podcast’, but this figure rose to...

podcast Sowt

Regional

Hiro Tamura of European fund Atomico analyzes tech ecosystems [Podcast]

During an event for Wamda Capital’s investors and partners earlier this year, Hiro Tamura gave a presentation on global emerging...

Hiro Tamura Wamda Capital podcast

U.A.E

When governments embrace entrepreneurship [Podcast]

From South Korea to Finland, to the UK, to Chile, governments are engaging with startups. In Finland, the government gives loans to...

Government Sheraa 1776

U.A.E

Opportunities behind challenges of fintech in the Middle East [Podcast]

Fintech is hot. Globally, investments in fintech have been rising since 2012, and while they might drop slightly in 2017, according to CB...

Fintech podcast Wamda Capital

Turkey

A look at Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem [Podcast]

This podcast has been crossposted from Wamda Capital. The Turkish ecosystem has come a long way over the past three to four years. The...

podcast Wamda Capital ecosystem growth

Regional

What's holding MENA's digital media market back? [Podcast]

This podcast has been crossposted from Wamda Capital. Digital media is a growing market, but the amount of education still required for...

Wamda Capital digital content Kharabeesh

Kuwait

10 startup podcasts you should be listening to today

This article is a crosspost with Nuwait. Despite the short attention span of online readers, good content still ranks...

Lean startups The Week In Startups Menassah

Regional

Wamda Capital launches podcast series

Investment firm Wamda Capital published yesterday its first podcast episode on Soundcloud. In this episode, Fares Ghandour...

announcement Wamda Capital podcast

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