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AstroLabs joins forces with LBS’s MENA Entrepreneurship Club
The prestigious London Business School’s MENA Entrepreneurship Club joined forces with AstroLabs, MENA’s leading entrepreneurship ecosystem builder, to support aspiring entrepreneurs with ...
Sheraa inspires over 100 students with Careem CEO’s insights
Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center (Sheraa) brought together 100 American University of Sharjah (AUS) and University of Sharjah undergraduate students to hear from Mudassir Sheikha, the co-founder and CE...
Zero Carbon Ventures raises $5 million
Zero Carbon today announced the closing of its seed investment round of $5 million. This coincides with the appointment of His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mana bin Khalifa Al Maktoum as strategic invest...
Microsoft-backed FAST Accelerator’s second cohort selects 12 African startups
Flapmax announced today the twelve companies selected for the second cohort of the FAST Accelerator startup program, created in partnership with Microsoft to help strengthen and scale Africa’s d...
TOKO and Virtuzone to lunch crowd funding platform
TOKO FZE a leading innovator in the FinTech sector, born out of global law firm DLA Piper, announces a transformative strategic partnership with Virtuzone, a pioneer in business solutions and corporat...
UAE small businesses eye global expansion says Visa
Visa today revealed findings from the seventh edition of its Global Back to Business Study, which found that a majority of surveyed small and micro businesses (SMBs) plan to prioritize cross-border sa...
Venture capital fund, Varys Capital all set to enter GCC
Venture capital fund Varys Capital seeks to enter the GCC market, enabling institutional and qualified investors to penetrate the next digital era asset venture investment arena and leverage the firm’...
USAID supports entrepreneurship in Egypt
23 startups celebrated their graduation from Cohort 3 of Sultan Hussein Kamel Innovation Hub in Cairo, Egypt in the presence of the new USAID Mission Director in Egypt, Sean Jones, and USAID’s Chief I...
Kenyan startups invited to compete at Underdog Tech Award
inDrive introduced a new international prize, the Underdog Tech Award that is designed to honour the founders of the most promising tech startups outside of the well-established tech hubs and startup ...