Egypt: Page 4

Leadership

Entrepreneur Middle East's Achieving Women 2019: Dr. Iman Bibars, Regional Director, Ashoka Arab World

Since launching Ashoka Arab World in 2003 in Egypt, Bibars has expanded the organization's operations to 11 countries across the MENA region.

Technology

5 Things to Know About Egypt's Startup Ecosystem

Egypt, the land of pyramids, pharaohs, and the Nile, is fast becoming one of the hottest startup hubs in the Middle East and Africa region

Entrepreneurs

Egyptian Startup Weelo Wants To Offer A Digital Grocery Shopping Experience That Benefits Consumers, Supermarkets And Suppliers

The grocery e-commerce space is one that's been seeing a lot of interest lately in the Middle East, and Egyptian startup Weelo has found a certain niche in this space.

News and Trends

Bringing Local To Global: Ashoka Arab World Hosts Arab World Social Innovation Forum 2019

The full-day agenda includes a number of major players in the social entrepreneurship ecosystem, including Katherine Milligan, Former Director and Head of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and Ayman Ismail, founding Director of the AUC Venture Lab.

News and Trends

SHE CAN 2019 Invites Egypt's Entrepreneurs To Gain Insights On Turning Failures Into Success Stories

With this year's theme as 'Successful Failures,' the conference will focus on leveraging innovating thinking, creativity, technology and capital to turn failures into success stories.

Entrepreneurs

Impacting Entrepreneurship: Abdelhameed Sharara, CEO And Co-founder, RiseUp Summit

The CEO and co-founder of RiseUp Summit is catalyzing Egypt's entrepreneurial ecosystem with his platform's consistent year-on-year growth.

Entrepreneurs

A15 Sells Its Stake In Mobile Payment Startup TPAY To Helios Investment Partners

In a bid to create the region's first "dragon" company, A15 has sold its stake in mobile payment startup TPAY to Helios Investment Partners.

Innovation

This Entrepreneur Built an All-Female Driving School -- in Egypt

Nayrouz Talaat's Direxiona driving school is often ridiculed and dismissed by conservative local men. But she doesn't have time to listen. Business is booming.

Finance

"We Got Funded!" Cairo-Based iCommunity Raises US$600,000 in Series A Funding Round

iCommunity, Egypt's first mobile community platform for the real estate industry, aims to transform the engagement between residents and real estate developers.

Entrepreneurs

We Got Funded: Social Media Monitoring Startup Crowd Analyzer Raises US$1.1 Million In Funding

In its endeavor to revolutionize the social media marketing industry, the startup has raised US$1.1 million in a pre-Series A round

Finance

We Got Funded: Jordan-Based Tech Startup POSRocket Receives A US$1.5 Million Boost

The startup aims to utilize the funding proceeds to further build on their accomplishments, and is looking at making focused investments in the areas of product research, operations management, and talent.

Technology

Meet The Ten Egyptian Startups Graduating Flat6labs Cairo's Tenth Cycle

The entrepreneurs hail from across Egypt and are working on online and digital solutions across industries ranging from fintech, medicine, training and development, to transportation, insurance and retail.

Entrepreneurs

Migrant Women Entrepreneurs Showcase Their Business Ideas At Cairo's Women On The Move

Aiming to connect migrant and refugee entrepreneurs with Egypt's local ecosystem, the event gathered over 250 entrepreneurs from from Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan, at Egypt's tech hub The GrEEK Campus.

Technology

We Got Funded: Egypt-Based Fintech Startup Moneyfellows Raises Seed Funds

The startup claims to be gaining traction steadily since the time it participated in the Barclays Egypt and Flat6labs-powered 1864 fintech startup accelerator, and it had also won first place in the startups track at the 10th MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition held in Bahrain.

Technology

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.