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Startup Financing
OfficeRock.com Raises Funds From Enabling Future, Jabbar Internet Group, And Other Investors
A boost for the B2B e-commerce market, office supplies platform OfficeRock.com has raised an undisclosed amount from investors Enabling Future, Wamda Capital, Jabbar Internet Group, WOMENA, and more investors
Startups
Fighting The Status Quo: Lina Khalifeh Sets Out To End Violence Against Women With Her SheFighter Academy
Using her skills and background, Lina Khalifeh launched the social enterprise to empower women globally.
Startups
FriendyCar Wants To Make Car Sharing Easy (And Efficient)
FriendyCar is a P2P online marketplace for borrowing and lending cars in the Middle East.
Startups
Eventtus Raises US$2 Million From Algebra Ventures And 500 Startups
With the new investment, Eventtus is all set to take itself up a notch.
Startup Financing
Digitizing Payments: Kuwait's Ajar Online Gears Up To Take Its Platform To The Rest Of The GCC
As anyone in the GCC can attest, paying rent in this region can often be a strenuous task for both landlords and tenants. Ajar Online is a platform offering a seamless and hassle-free way to digitize rent payment and collection.
Technology
The Future Is Here: Tech Festival Uses Implanted Microchips As Tickets
Inserting microchips to humans may sound like a plot straight out of a sci-fi television series like Black Mirror, but that reality is now here.
Tech Startups
Startup WideBot Helps Users Build Chatbots That Speak The MENA Language
Egyptian startup WideBot, a bot builder platform, aims to take the hassle out by letting users build chatbots- and no, you don't need to have any special coding or technical skills to do that.
Startups
Mind Rockets Wants To Give A Voice To MENA's Deaf Community
MENA startup Mind Rockets have tasked themselves with the mission of developing assistive tech solutions to make the world accessible to the deaf community.
Startups
HealthTech Startup Altibbi Raises US$6.5 Million From DASH Ventures, MEVP And Others
The digital health sector gets a boost as Altibbi, a telehealth platform raises US$6.5 million from lead investors DASH Ventures and Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), and more investors.
Finance
Blockchain Startup ArabianChain Raises AED3 Million In Funding
The startup develops a public and decentralized platform for smart contracts on blockchain in the region.
Startups
Going Cashless: Startup PayMob Wants To Make Egypt (And MENA) Transact From Their Mobile Phones
In a cash-dominated society, financial inclusion is essential for individuals, enterprises, and economies alike to prevent hurdles to progress- and this is the opportunity that PayMob is trying to tackle.
Starting a Business
UAE Startup Joi Wants To Be The Go-To Portal For All Things Gifts
The brain-child of Ritesh Tilani and Alper Celen, joi is a web and mobile gifting platform offering a variety of more than 1,000 refined selections.
Entrepreneurial ecosystems
Kitchen Nation Helps Culinary Startups Scale Independently
Kitchen Nation was launched as a platform to cultivate ideas and talent through its services and support system, with the aim being to stand out among the world's culinary incubators in its mission to enable homegrown concepts.
Startups
Moroccan Startup WaystoCap Is Enabling Africa's Businesses To Trade Better
As a platform that addresses the business-to-business buying and selling of merchandise across Africa, Morocco-born WaystoCap is aiming to solve the fragmented situation in a market that is still in the process of going digital.
Startups
Entrepreneur Middle East's Achieving Women 2017: Daria Solovieva
Daria Solovieva, founder of ella Middle East, discusses improving the MENA media landscape and cultivating an audience for the female-focused publication.