Saudi Arabia

Penny pushes into global e-procurement market

Procurement remains a largely offline and fragmented endeavour, but over the past couple of years, digital solutions have grown...

Dunya Hassanein • 18 January, 2022

B2B e-commerce Penny SAAS

Egypt

Mozare3: Enabling small farmers in Egypt to become bankable

The agriculture sector is the largest employer in Egypt; nearly 28 per cent of the total workforce work in agriculture, according to USAID....

Dunya Hassanein • 16 January, 2022

Agtech Mozare3

U.A.E

Startups and SMEs can only grow with access to funding

Ahmed Mohamed Al Naqbi is the chief executive officer of Emirates Development Bank The UAE government is steadfast in its commitment...

Thought Leadership • 12 January, 2022

funding gap

Iraq

TipTop's $5 million raise and Iraq's quick-commerce expansion

The continued pandemic-driven disruptions impacting the e-grocery segment have led to the emergence of q-commerce, a new vertical which has...

Dunya Hassanein • 11 January, 2022

tiptop quick commerce q-commerce

Regional

Mena startups raised $206 million in December 2021

Startups in the Middle East and North Africa region (Mena) raised $206 million in December 2021 across 44 deals, a 27.5 per cent decrease...

Wamda • 06 January, 2022

Investment

Regional

Trends to expect in 2022

After two years of ongoing uncertainty, the investor hesitancy that defined the beginning of the pandemic has dissipated entirely, as...

Wamda • 03 January, 2022

Trends

Regional

Our top stories from 2021

This past year has been an incredibly dynamic one for the entrepreneurship ecosystem across the Middle East and North Africa. We have...

Wamda • 30 December, 2021

wamda

Palestine

Fintech: A force for financial inclusion in Palestine

Majd Zghyer is the strategy officer at uMake, an entrepreneurship support organisation (ESO) based in Ramallah, Palestine. This year has...

Thought Leadership • 27 December, 2021

Fintech financial inclusion

Jordan

What is so special about Jordan?

Almost a third of all the entreprenuers in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) are Jordanian, despite the country accounting for just 3...

Wamda • 23 December, 2021

Xina AI

Regional

Has last-mile delivery reached its saturation point? [Part two]

In the first part of this feature, we charted the growth of last-mile delivery in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena). In this second...

Dunya Hassanein • 22 December, 2021

Last-mile delivery Logistics Last mile

Regional

Last-mile delivery startups in North Africa and the Levant

Wamda has mapped 51 last-mile delivery startups in North Africa and the Levant region. Of these, 28 are based in the Egypt, the...

Wamda • 21 December, 2021

Last-mile delivery Logistics

Regional

Last-mile delivery startups in the GCC

Wamda has mapped 51 last-mile delivery startups based in the GCC. Of these, 22 are based in the UAE and 16 in Saudi Arabia. The majority of...

Wamda • 20 December, 2021

Last-mile delivery

Regional

Last-mile delivery startups in numbers

Over the past couple of years, the last-mile delivery sector has witnessed a spike of new startup entrants, with most operating an...

Wamda • 16 December, 2021

Last-mile delivery

Regional

A look at last-mile delivery in Mena [Part 1]

The final leg of the product shipping journey, defined as last-mile delivery, is the least efficient and costliest part of the product...

Dunya Hassanein • 15 December, 2021

Last-mile delivery Last mile Logistics

Egypt

Has the Egyptian startup ecosystem “made it”?

Michel Assaad is a startup mentor and the vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa strategy at Citi Bank.The views expressed below...

Thought Leadership • 13 December, 2021

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Turkey

Wamda participates in Tarfin’s $8 million pre-Series B bridge round

Turkey-based agritech Tarfin has raised $8 million in a pre-Series B bridge round of financing from Yara Growth Ventures, Quona...

News • 12 December, 2021

Tarfin Bridge round