Iraq Iraqi Islamic Bank partners with MSA Novo to back startups in Iraq Iraq Islamic Bank (IIB) has partnered with investment company MSA Novo, to launch a tech fund to invest in Iraqi startups and lead the... News • 20 March, 2023 Iraqi Islamic Bank MSA Novo iraq
Iraq Rocket Internet-backed Iraqi super app Baly raises $10.5 million Iraq-based super app Baly, backed by Germany’s Rocket Internet has closed a Seed round of $10.5 million from Kingsway Capital, MSA... News • 28 January, 2022 super app iraq
Iraq Iraqis turn to entrepreneurship as corruption hinders economy Iraq has become more synonymous with war and corruption than entrepreneurship, but things are slowly changing as more people seek... Triska Hamid • 14 January, 2019 iraq baghdad Miswag.net
Iraq Careem debuts in Iraq Careem, the region’s leading ride-hailing service in the MENA, Turkey and Pakistan, expanded its services into the Republic of Iraq,... Staff writer • 15 January, 2018 careem baghdad iraq
Iraq Five One Labs Incubator Program [Call for applications] The Five One Labs incubator is a three-month long program to take your startup business from idea to launch. From October 22 till... Wamda • 25 September, 2017 Incubator startup Technology
Iraq Pitch Bootcamp Erbil Pitch Bootcamp is a two-day career accelerator program designed for students and fresh graduates. The first edition of Pitch Bootcamp... Wamda • 20 June, 2017 iraq Erbil Pitch
Iraq First tech map for Iraq launched This article is a crosspost from Bite.Tech Over the past six months, Bite.Tech, an independent newsletter covering the digital economy... Staff writer • 06 June, 2017 Bite.Tech Tech map startups
Iraq US travel ban harms Iraqi entrepreneurs For an Iraqi makerspace founder, the repercussions of President Trump’s executive order to put a ban on travelers from seven... Rachel Williamson • 05 February, 2017 Science Camp Basra Nawres Arif
Iraq To dream the impossible dream: an Erbil incubator When Mashal Sadiq arrived in Erbil after completing her undergraduate studies in the UK she was just looking for a little break from the... Lucy Knight • 14 December, 2016 Incubator myedream iraq
Global Startup Watch: Quit the social, call your angel, and cut down on the hype The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Rachel Williamson • 20 October, 2016 Softbank Softbank Vision Fund iraq
Iraq A story of failure, or is it? Three years ago Wamda interviewed Iraqi Mohammad Al-Samarrai about his venture, the country’s first online food delivery site based... Lucy Knight • 08 March, 2016 Easy Bites Erbil Kurdistan
Iraq Iraq's foodie appmakers want to fix the mealtime grind Sha6bu5 is hoping to profit from the Middle East's foodie trend. (Image via MAHAW) The Middle East’s entrepreneurial newsmakers this year h... Marwan A. Jabbar • 20 December, 2015 iraq 3d-mapping startup weekend baghdad
Iraq Erbil's startups go quiet An Erbil panorama. (Images via Rachel Williamson) On three occasions this year Goran Sherko has had to postpone Startup Weekend... Lucy Knight • 09 December, 2015 Erbil Kurdistan isis
Iraq Curing Iraq's coder crisis Iraqi startups suffer from a critical lack of skilled coders but a new bootcamp in Baghdad called The Week is trying to narrow this talent... Marwan A. Jabbar • 11 November, 2015 app developers coders The Week
Iraq Exchanges are creating Iraqi changemakers Over the past 10 years some 3,000 young Iraqis have travelled on exchange programs funded by foreign governments, and it's some of... Marwan A. Jabbar • 05 October, 2015 cultural exchange entrepreneurship iraq
Iraq Iraq's main maker: Nawres Arif Nawres Arif taught himself digital 3D modelling from a photocopied manual, years before he had a computer. He set up Basra’s first... Rachel Williamson • 03 September, 2015 profile Nawres Arif Basra
Iraq Hacking out coworking spaces in Iraq If there’s one country in the region where entrepreneurs need a good coworking space, it’s Iraq. Baghdad’s two coworking spaces are opera... Marwan A. Jabbar • 19 August, 2015 burj babel fikra space hackerspace
Iraq Iraq's startups one year after the rise of ISIS [Opinion] “A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty,” is how Eric Ries d... Marwan A. Jabbar • 12 August, 2015 Ein MAHAW sha6bu5
Startup Weekend Baghdad Startup Weekend is coming to Baghdad, on August 21th, 22th and 23rd at the Oil Cultural Center in Baghdad. SW Baghdad will follow the ... Wamda • 13 August, 2014 Startup Weekend iraq
Iraq Ifrosh tests cardless ecommerce platform in Iraqi Kurdistan In recent years, the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan has generated headlines for its relative stability and booming... Eric Reidy • 28 April, 2014 iFrosh Kurdistan credit cards
Iraq Iraqi startup Miswag.net helps merchants transition to the internet Miswag.net, Baghdad’s first internet-based startup with real potential to grow, launched less than a month ago to help local merchants in B... Ali M. Ismail • 14 April, 2014 PAYMENT iraq Delivery
Startup Weekend NEXT Baghdad shows what's possible As a co-organizer of the first and second installments of Baghdad Startup Weekend, I’ve learned first-hand how challenging it can be to c... Marwan A. Jabbar • 18 February, 2014 startup weekend next iraq Startup Weekend
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