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BITS Pilani Dubai Campus Launches Unique Career Fair Tailored for Exclusively Startups and SMEs

PR News Desk 08/02/2024

BITS Pilani Dubai Campus proudly announces its inaugural ‘Campus Career Fair-Startups’, solely for startups and SMEs nationwide and beyond, facilitating engagement with one of the region’s leading universities. Scheduled for February 15, 2024, this pioneering initiative seeks to redefine the

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Middle East startups warned that AI obsession can damage growth prospects

PR News Desk 09/01/2024

As the rise of artificial intelligence continues, Middle East startups have been warned against placing an exclusive focus on advanced technology, and in the process damaging their prospects for sustainable growth. Rashit Makhat, co-founder of Dubai tech venture company, Scalo Technologies, says founders who rely too heavily on AI risk losing sight of other key […]

Business Tech

7 cardinal mistakes startups make with VCs: Insights from the front lines

PR News Desk 23/11/2023

By Talal Thabet, CEO and Co-founder, Haltia.AI In the high-stakes world of venture capitalism, a startup’s fate often hinges on its ability to captivate and convince those holding the purse strings. Arto Bendiken and I, leading Haltia.AI, have waded through the venture funding quagmire, collecting a trove of do’s and don’ts — some learned the […]

Business Events GCC UAE

Global investors with $7 billion under management set to finance startups at Super Angels Summit 2023 in Abu Dhabi

Arnold Pinto 19/11/2023

Gulf emirate clinches the world’s first and largest angel investment event The UAE has firmly established itself on the global startup map, with the UAE government’s Entrepreneurial Nation initiative seeking to develop 8,000+ startups and SMEs in the Gulf nation by 2030 and setting up 20 startups valued at more than $1 billion by 2031. […]

NEWS DESK GCC UAE

Raiven Capital Launches Second Venture Capital Fund in Dubai

PR News Desk 07/11/2023

Raiven Capital today announced the launch of a new venture capital fund with a target size of USD125 mn in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the leading global financial hub in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region. The fund will focus on founders developing tech in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things […]

Gitex Business GCC UAE

Global startups sail into Expand North Star 2023 at Dubai Harbour

Arnold Pinto 13/10/2023

World’s largest startup event is on from October 15-18, 2023 Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) is organising Expand North Star – the largest startup event in the world – from October 15-18, 2023, at Dubai Harbour, the GCC region’s largest superyacht hub. Expand North Star is the co-located powerhouse event of GITEX Global – the […]

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RemotePass Partners with Hub71 to Increase the Convenience of Remote Working for Abu Dhabi Startups Worldwide 

PR News Desk 20/09/2023

RemotePass, the UAE’s leading platform for managing remote talent, has partnered with Hub71, Abu Dhabi’s global tech ecosystem, to provide the region’s highest potential startups with access to top-tier onboarding, payroll, and fintech services — enabling founders to attract the best remote talent worldwide and scale into global champions. As part of the partnership, Hub71

Business

500 Global and ITIDA Announce Scale Up Program in Egypt to Support Pre-Series A Startups

Middle East News 247 13/07/2023

CAIRO — 500 Global, one of the world’s most active multi-stage venture capital firms, and The Egyptian Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), announced the launch of 500 Global first batch of the Scale Up program in Egypt. The Scale Up program is focused on providing strategies and experimentation methodologies to accelerate growth for Pre-Series […]

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Hyundai Motor and Kia Revamp R&D Organization to Make it More Agile

News Desk 16/06/2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 16, 2023 – Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation today announced they are reorganizing their joint research and development (R&D) organization to flexibly respond to the rapidly changing global automotive industry, advance the transition to electrification and accelerate the development of Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs). The new

Business

London Business School MENA Startup Competition 2023 Calling All Entrepreneurs in the MENA Region

Yhuan Mae 08/06/2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 08 June 2023:       London Business School (LBS) has called on budding entrepreneurs to submit their entries to its second annual MENA Startup Competition, sponsored by Innobayt – the UAE based software development solutions company, ahead of the approaching deadline. Supported by the Institute of Entrepreneurship

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Al Etihad Credit Bureau and DIFC Innovation Hub

News Desk 10/05/2023

Dubai, UAE – 10 May 2023: Al Etihad Credit Bureau (AECB), a UAE federal company that provides information and analytics to support credit decisions, has signed an agreement with the DIFC Innovation Hub to foster the development of a partner ecosystem for startups across the UAE. The announcement was made at the Dubai FinTech Summit […]

NEWS DESK GCC Saudi Arabia

10 Startups Awarded $1 Million Cash Prizes at Accelerator Program Finals in Saudi Arabia

News Editor 20/03/2023

One of the oldest accelerator programs in the Middle East, TAQADAM, recently granted ten startups a cash pool totaling $1 million. The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology established the initiative in cooperation with the Saudi British Bank. This year’s annual accelerator program showcase marked the sixth year of the launch of the prize ceremony. Over