Startups
Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, marketing & advertising agencies, and creative work.
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Endeavor Egypt Welcomes Dalia Ibrahim to the Board of Directors
Endeavor Egypt welcomes renowned publishing, education entrepreneur, and expert Dalia Ibrahim to its Board of Directors. Dalia Ibrahim is the…
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8 Tools Every New Business Needs
Are you wondering which tools you should be using for your new business? If so, you’ve come to the right…
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Foundation Ventures powers up Egypt’s entrepreneurship ecosystem with 4 new investments
Cairo – Foundation Ventures (FV) is a regional venture capital firm founded in 2019 and is managed by Mazen Nadim,…
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StartEgypt Hosts First Female Founders Forum to Inspire Entrepreneurs
The pre-acceleration program, StartEgypt, hosted its first virtual forum for female entrepreneurs, the Female Founders Forum. The one-day virtual event…
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Comscore study: Small Business Owners’ Interest in Credit Cards is Increasing
Comscore’s white paper “The COVID-19 Impact on Small Business Credit Card Applications in 2020” revealed that small business card application…
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instaConsult Launches Personal Consultation via Whatsapp
In this age, technology can literally be injected into your skin. So don’t expect this to be a far topic.…
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NowPay Raises US$2.1 Million in Seed Investment
Cairo-based FinTech startup NowPay, a financial-wellness platform for employees in emerging markets, has announced today that the company has raised…
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Cairo-based Last-mile Delivery Startup ‘dreevo’ Raises 6 Digits USD Figure
dreevo, a last-mile delivery-focused startup has raised 6 digits USD figure in a bootstrap, pre-seed fund from EF Logistics, a…
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Tribal Credit Takes Juniper Research’s Best B2B Payment Platform Gold Award
US-based fintech Tribal Credit has won Juniper Research’s Best B2B Payment Platform Gold Award, recognizing its efforts in helping startups…
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Facebook Launches ‘#LoveLocal’ campaign to support local businesses in MENA
Facebook has launched a new initiative to offer digital support to local small and medium businesses in the MENA region,…
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What is a Burn Rate and Why Should Startups Care?
For early-stage startups, having cash is essential to staying afloat. But it’s one thing to have money and another to…
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Amber Solutions Secures $5.5 Million in Series B
Amber Solutions, a technology innovator creating a modern hyper-intelligent electrical architecture, announced the completion of a $5.5-million Series B and…
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Mexico’s Auto-parts Startup ‘RIGS’ Teams Up With Tribal Credit
The auto parts market in Mexico has seen tremendous growth over the past five years, redefining how the automotive industry…
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How Can Startups Use Virtual Credit Cards To Empower Growth?
Virtual credit cards are quickly gaining traction around the world in the B2B payment space. Created for online transactions, they…
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Fintech Tools Every Startup Should Have
In this day and age, there is literally a digital tool for everything. But when you’re a startup with limited…
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Iraq’s First ‘marketplace app’ Lezzoo Raises Seven-figure Seed Round
Lezzoo, the Iraqi startup for delivery and payment on-demand, is geared to become the troubled nation’s first super app, following graduation from…
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5 Link Building Tactics to Boost Your Online Presence
Using SEO to build an online presence is an essential need these days. Apart from putting your brand in the…
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Cairo-based Fintech Startup MoneyFellows Raises US $4M in Series-A
Egyptian fintech startup MoneyFellows has raised US $4 million in a Series-A investment round from venture capital (VC) firms Partech and…
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Demand for Arabic chatbots surges in H1-2020 amid COVID-19, WideBot data shows
Egyptian chatbot startup WideBot witnessed a surge of Arabic chatbot building requests during the first half of 2020, amounting to…
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Fintech giant ‘Brex’ lays off 62 of staff despite raising $150M
Brex founders Pedro Franceschi and Henrique Dubugras wrote in a blog post published yesterday that 62 people would be let go.…
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Tribal Credit Joins Visa’s Fintech Fast Track to Bridge Equity Gap for MENA Startups
US-based startup Tribal Credit, which raised $9.1 million in a series of seed rounds, today announced that it has joined…
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Coronavirus: Fitness App ‘ElCoach’ Gives Away 30-days Free For Everyone
Bodybuilders, gym-goers, and fitness enthusiasts have been scrambled to find alternative ways to sweat after closing gym chains & boutique…
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Online Learning Platform Abwaab Raises 2.4M in Seed Funding
Abwaab, MENA’s latest online learning platform, today announces the closing of its $2.4M pre-seed funding round. The round was kicked…
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Unlocking Potential Unicorns in MENA’s Mystery Land
Aside from the never-ending ancient archeological discoveries, Egypt is one of the fastest growing startup ecosystems in MENA. A Magnitt…
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Gemini Enterprises Africa and RiseUp LLC join forces for Pyramids Plateau until 2022
Gemini Enterprises Africa, part of Orascom Group, and RiseUp LLC, the MENA region’s connector of startups to local and global…
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RiseUp kicks off its 7th edition at AUC New Cairo Campus
RiseUp Summit 2019, MENA’s leading entrepreneurship event, kicked off Thursday at the American University in Cairo (AUC) New Cairo Campus,…
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Silicon Valley’s Tribal Credit Raises $5.5M in Seed Funding to Bank Startups
Tribal Credit closed a $5.5 million Seed round led by BECO Capital and Global Ventures to bank startups in emerging…
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A15 doubles down on Intouch.com investment to redefine retail experiences for MENA shoppers
The leading tech investor A15 has capitalized on its investment in Ireland-based retail personalization platform Intouch by doubling down on…
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RiseUp selects 15 regional startup finalists for ‘Pitch by the Pyramids’
RiseUp has completed its selection of 15 startups from seven cities across the Middle East and North Africa to pitch…
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Efficient Marketing Tools to Create Viral Campaigns Rapidly
Marketing has always been a subtle companion of trade and e-commerce. It started with word of mouth and later grew…
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‘Boost with Facebook’ partners with RiseUp to bring digital skills training to Egyptian startups
Facebook announced on Tuesday its partnership with RiseUp to bring ‘Boost with Facebook’, its global program designed to help small…
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Amman-based POSRocket Takes Cash Registers to the Cloud
The global cloud-based market is forecasted to nearly double from US $29.9 billion in 2019 to US $58.9 billion by 2024…
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Jamalon Brings Books Beyond Borders
Did you know that Arabic is the fifth most spoken language in the world? Doing one for the language is…
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Silicon Valley’s Tribal Credit Eyes MENA, Closing Round to Bank Startups
Silicon Valley-based Tribal Credit started private beta testing with MENA startups and is closing a funding round that includes some…
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6 things you can do to create a better working environment
A big part of having a successful business is having happy and content employees. And while it’s true you can’t…
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Career180 raises USD 100,000 seed fund from EdVentures
Career180, a centralized and comprehensive career advising platform in Egypt that aims to qualify youth to the job market, has…
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Good People, Kijamii partner to form ‘GP&K’ digital driven network
Good People, the region’s leading creative production house, joined forces with the region’s leading digital agency and 2019’s Independent-Agency-of-the-Year, Kijamii, to form…
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Eventtus, MENA’s Leading Event-Tech Company, to Open Office in Saudi Arabia
Today, Eventtus, the leading event-tech company, announces that it’s going to open its third office, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, alongside…
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Egypt’s NowPay Raises $600k from Endure Capital, 500 Startups
Egyptian fintech startup, NowPay, said it’s closing a new undisclosed round after raising USD 600,000 in Seed funding from Silicon…
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Middle Eastern Female Entrepreneurs Outpacing Other Nations
The number of new startups in the Middle East has risen by more than 42% in the past three years,…
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Match Group Acquires Egyptian Dating Startup ‘Harmonica’
Online dating giant, Match Group has acquired “Harmonica”, an Egyptian online dating startup. Financial details were not disclosed. Announced Flat6Labs today.…
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SeedStars visits Baghdad to find promising Iraqi startups
Seedstars World, the largest startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes will land for the first time in…
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Egyptian Transportation Startup ‘Swvl’ Raises $42 Million for African Expansion
Swvl, Egypt-based app for booking buses has raised $42 million as it plans to expand into other markets in Africa,…
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Stanford-born Startup Strives to End Elderly Social Isolation
In the midst of calls to break up Facebook, struggling IPOs, and some fan drama over Game of Thrones finale — no…
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Egyptian Startup Mumm Launches ‘Mumm Prime’ Egypt’s First Premium Chef
Egypt’s homemade food service Mumm has launched “Mumm Prime”, Egypt’s premium online chef subscription service on Sunday. For an affordable…
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Egypt’s Direxiona wins 50,000 euro-prize in AFD Digital Challenge
Egypt’s Direxiona matching platform for women drivers and instructors has won the first prize in the AFD Digital Challenge competition…
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Eventtus ‘rebrand’ aims to inspire event professionals to ‘think big, think easy’
Eventtus revolutionized its brand strategy and visual identity as the company is expanding its event tech solutions globally. These were…
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3 Things You Should And Shouldn’t Do To Make Meetings Productive
It is necessary for every company to hold a workplace meeting every once in a while. The meetings are essential…
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How to Start A Digital Marketing SEO Agency
Starting your own digital marketing agency sounds like an exciting thing to do; however, it can also seem a little…
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Brimore, retail distribution platform, raises $800k in seed funding
Brimore, the direct-selling distribution platform that connects manufacturers with consumers, announced that it has raised $800k in a seed funding…
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What Can I Do if I Don’t Have Money to Grow My Business?
Wouldn’t it be nice if growing your business was as simple as taking two aspirin? When you wake up the…
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