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Tunisia

Galactech raises investment from Oman Technology Fund

Tunisia-based Galactech has closed a six-figure investment in its pre-Series A round from Oman Technology Fund (OTF) and other business...

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Tunisia

International Finance Corporation invests $1 million in Flat6Labs Tunis

Source: MENAbytes International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group has announced that it is investing $1...

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Tunisia

Tunisia’s Expensya raises $4.5 million

Source: MENAbytes Expensya, a SaaS for expense management, has raised a little over $4.5 million (€4 million) in its latest funding...

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Tunisia

Insect-based technologies: How buzzing is lending a hand

The buzzing of insects is enough to send hair raising chills and activate our flight or fight mode. Buzzing helps flying insects...

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Tunisia

Tunisian gaming startup raises $600K

The Tunisian startup Polysmart, which specializes in the design of video games has just raised 1.5 million Tunisian dinars (US$600,000)...

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Tunisia

Seedstars Tunis

Seedstars World is on a mission to identify the best seed-stage entrepreneurs and provide them with an opportunity to win up to USD 1...

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Tunisia

How this Tunisian channeled fashion into a startup

When Arbia Smiti founded Carnet de Mode (Fashion Diary) in 2011, the crowdfunding platform captured the attention of the French media,...

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Regional

4 startups that are changing Maghreb healthcare

A woman fainting at a railway station in Morocco, while waiting for the train that would take her three hours away for dialysis treatment,...

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Tunisia

Entrepreneurship and marriage don’t mix in Tunisia

“I don’t plan to get married anytime soon,” teased Mohamed Ben Abdellah, 28, founder of ceramics startup El Houch. He...

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Europe

French provides a ticket to Europe for North Africans

As French politicians play the immigration card ahead of the presidential election, the country’s new entrepreneurship visa opens a...

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Tunisia

Bloom Masters Competition

This year the MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab and the BIAT Foundation in Tunisia are organizing one of the largest competitions for...

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Global

Startup Watch: No means maybe means yes and Jay Z joins the VC crew

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...

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Tunisia

Teaching tech in Tunisia

On a Saturday afternoon, rather than playing video games or going out with some friends, 70 teenagers came to the Cogite coworking space to...

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Tunisia

New York startup vibe in Tunisian competition

Houda Ghozzi, the woman behind Tunisia’s Open Startup competition, was tired of programs that taught students how to pitch but then...

Open Startup Tunisia Columbia University BIAT

Tunisia

Spark Tunisia student geekout bridges social divides

Two members of the winning team at Spark Tunisia came from a high school in Aïn Draham, one of the poorest areas in the country. A...

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Tunisia

Follow The Leaders Tunis

Tunis has been witnessing a tidal wave of transformations and changes, with the growth of a new generation of leaders who are pioneering...

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Tunisia

The business of art: Tunisian artists-turned-entrepreneurs

Even as the city of Tunis buzzed with excitement over a 50 year old annual film festival, the state of the arts in the country is dire,...

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Tunisia

Feeling Fabulous: Tunisian app helps healthy ‘rituals’

Remember the last time you had a productive stress-free day? Did something you committed to doing a long time ago? I bet you felt fabulous....

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Tunisia

Turning pro: Tunisian game makers eye the big time

From the local playrooms to a Tunisian start-up dedicated to the making of video games, the gaming community in Tunisia is growing step by...

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Tunisia

Favizone, the Tunisian big data company that's launching in France

What do you do after you’ve found success and sold your startup? Mehdi Khemiri’s answer was to pick a high potential...

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Maghreb

Tunisia's startup minister ousted, should we panic?

Tunisia’s startup minister Noomane Fehri, who won over Tunisian entrepreneurs during his 18 months in office with his casual,...

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Tunisia

Surviving the Ben Ali regime: a Tunisian entrepreneur success story

Badreddine Ouali is a model for the new generation of Tunisian entrepreneurs, but he never planned his career. Today, after blazing a...

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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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Maghreb

For a night, Maghreb joined forces to solve their social problems

What if Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia joined forces to solve their social problems? It’s a germ of an idea that a small number of...

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