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Nirman Ventures appoints Naseer Ahmed as a Partner for MENA region
Nirman Ventures, a global venture capital firm investing in early-stage construction technology startups, announced Naseer Ahmed’s appointment as Partner leading the MENA region. With his extens...
Applications invited for Cycle 14 of Qatar’s XLR8 mentorship program
Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), a member of Qatar Foundation, has announced the opening of applications for cycle 14 of its mentorship program, XLR8. Now in its eighth year, XLR8 is an int...
AUBH kicks off AUBH Entrepreneurship Week
The American University of Bahrain (AUBH) kicked off its first AUBH Entrepreneurship Week, under the theme of “Entrepreneurship in the Digital Era”. The AUBH Entrepreneurship Week focused on attractin...
Climate tech startup Skytree secures €2.5M from EIC Accelerator
Skytree, a pioneering climate tech startup dedicated to advancing innovative CO2 capture and reutilization solutions, announced it has been selected to receive European Innovation Council (EIC) Accele...
US launches CancerX Startup Accelerator
CancerX, co-hosted by Moffitt Cancer Center and the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) alongside the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Office of the Assistant S...
RAKEZ launches in-house medical fitness centre to simplify UAE residence visa journey
Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) announced the opening of its in-house medical centre at RAKEZ Service Centre – Al Hamra, to provide all community members a one-stop solution for medical fitness e...
Safaricom, M-PESA Africa and Sumitomo launches new accelerator program
In partnership with M-PESA Africa and Sumitomo Corporation, Safaricom launched the Spark Accelerator, a program to support early-stage startups in growing and scaling their businesses. The three partn...
Microsoft allow startups to access high-performance Azure infrastructure
Microsoft is updating its startup program to include a free Azure AI infrastructure option for high-end GPU virtual machine clusters, for use in training and running large language models and other de...
A Twist Of Date, from a failed idea to thriving business
Facing ever-increasing demands and a constant battle to balance a full-time career and personal life, this young entrepreneur decided her future lay in putting her unique twist on date night ideas. Sh...