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Cura Connects Saudis with Specialists
When Cura cofounder Abdullah Alswaha wanted to see a specialist about an ear infection, he found out first hand how difficult it was to book a doctor’s appointment, especially for simple complaints th...
Big Booster Launches Second Acceleration Program for Startups
Big Booster launched the second season of its non-profit acceleration program, calling on 100 international early stage startups to take the leap and dive into Lyon and Boston’s innovation scenes. The...
Startup Idea: Origami Biobattery is Powered by Dirty Water
Last year, a team of US-based researchers demonstrated an origami-style battery that could produce small amounts of electricity using dirty water. The team has now given its bacteria-powered device a ...
Startup Idea: In Bangladesh, DIY aircon made with plastic bottles
Many communities lack reliable electricity, which is why we’ve seen a number of projects that work without it, such as a portable medical sterilizer and an underground refrigerator. In Bangladesh, rec...
How Travel Agencies Can Survive in the Digital Age
The travel sector was among the first to be massively disrupted by digital. Travelers today have gone from being at the end of the value chain to finding themselves smack in the middle of it, which qu...
Egyptian selfie drone wins $26K Swiss investment
Egyptian drone startup Drofie has attracted the attention of the Swiss, securing a 25,000 Swiss francs (US$26,000) investment and a spell in the Kickstart Accelerator in Zurich. The “flying selfie sti...
Investcorp buys majority stake in Italian luxury tailor Corneliani
Gulf investment firm Investcorp has bought a majority stake in Italian menswear company Corneliani in a deal that values the group at $100 million, its Head of Corporate Investment in Europe Hazem Ben...
MENAT-based accelerators invested $3.5m in start-ups last year
Start-up accelerators invested nearly $200m in new ventures worldwide in 2015, according to a new report by Gust, an online platform to manage start-up fundraising, and Fundacity, a fundraising networ...
Rules for a Great Startup Idea
Even though it’s trendy in startups to say that ideas mean nothing and execution means everything, the reality is much less binary and much more nuanced. For example, even the world’s best entre...