Startups

Follow MENA’s startup scene with funding announcements, product launches, founder stories, and insights from regional ecosystems.

Nayrouz TalaatOctober 25, 2020
16

StartEgypt Hosts First Female Founders Forum

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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Osama TolbaOctober 18, 2020
24

Comscore study: increase in corporate credit card demand

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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Editorial TeamOctober 15, 2020
14

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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Ahmed MaherOctober 11, 2020
17

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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Ahmed MaherOctober 8, 2020
16

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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Editorial TeamOctober 1, 2020
44

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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Editorial TeamSeptember 15, 2020
24

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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Dana KhammashSeptember 15, 2020
22

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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Editorial TeamSeptember 8, 2020
16

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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Ahmed MaherSeptember 7, 2020
33

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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Editorial TeamSeptember 6, 2020
21

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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Radwa RashadAugust 2, 2020
41

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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Dalia KhirfanJune 25, 2020
22

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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Editorial TeamJune 22, 2020
13

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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Nayrouz TalaatJune 14, 2020
11

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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