MENA 100 Business Plan Competition, is organized by the MENA-OECD Enterprise Financing Network, in cooperation with the Islamic Development Bank and the MENA Center for Investment. and in partnership of MENA 100 regional Partners including QRCE.
The MENA 100 Competition addresses innovative entrepreneurs, from the 18 Arab countries participating...
This year is witnessing a growing array of people and companies entering the funding space for tech startups and companies in the Arab region, with Intilaq from Bayt.com and others who we will announce about them soon on ArabCrunch. And as of today Evolveplus based in Amman, Jordan has entered this space.
Evolveplus is a holding company that c...
Update: as a result of this post ArabCrunch.NET was developed and launched in private beta to help Arab startups and help the region innovate, continuing ArabCrunch Mission.
In this post I would highlight a few points that I think can help in creating a vibrant startup-based IT sector in the Arab world. This came up to me in light of my...
Bayt.com the largest job portal in the Arab world has just launched Intilaq an Arabic word which means "Launch" in English, which is an initiative that aims to fund and support aspiring entrepreneur technologists in early-stage technology startups. It is the first initiative of its type that comes from Arabian based Internet company. That you ...
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Coinciding with Google’s executive trip to Jordan and across the region, I’ve been hearing rumors that Google is in acquisition talks with a Jordanian internet startup, the deal is rumored to be in millions of dollars. I have the name of the startup but I won’t mention it, if these rumors were true it will mark the 1st Goo...
Jordan based, CIApple, is a startup that aims to work in the field of computational intelligence, has won The first place in the Arab Technology Business Plan (Seed Stage Category) which is organized by Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF) in cooperation with Intel Corporation. (Disclosure: Hussein Al-Netsha founder or CIApple is a frie...
UPDATE: 3 Q&A with STEVEN VAILE, CEO of H2O New Media, bellow.
UPDATE 2: full interview here.
H2O New Media , the technology company focused on white label Social Media applications in Dubai, UAE has confirmed its first round of funding from Equinox International. An undisclosed yet “significant investment” has been sanctioned ...
Interactive Ventures Holding Company (“IV Holdings”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelerator Technology Holdings (“ATH”), that invests in Internet and Interactive companies serving the global Arab audience, has become a strategic financial investor in MediaScope Ltd, a pioneering digital marketing and publishing company based in ...
As USA is already in recession, UK yesterday has been officially in recession and oil prices dropping, The economic outlook in the Arab world, especially in the Arabian Peninsula is gloomy. So I have asked Herve Cuviliez the managing director of KuvCapital a seed investment venture firm that has offices in Lebanon, France and UAE, (Afirca office is...
We are witnessing more efforts in the Arab world to help entrepreneurs, with different business plan competitions and incubation programmers. We have ASTF, QRNEC, and now we have the MIT Arab Business Plan Competition 08. (Look at 12 ways to help you kick start your startup.)
Though we need at least dozens more to help flourish entrepreneur...
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