You might have seen that we launched STEP Anywhere taking place on August 24, 25, 26th– taking the STEP Conference experience online. Given the current situation and future outlook, we’re planning startup programming and pre-event community engagement to support where we can […]

Startupnight, one of Europe’s largest startup event, is back in Dubai hosted by DubaiSME at STEP 2020! This year Startupnight is taking place on February 11th, 2020 (evening of the first day of STEP 2020) and kicks off at 5 PM. One of our […]

MENA Startup discovery platform, Magnitt, has released its H1 2019 MENA Venture Investment Report. The positive findings of the report indicate that the MENA region saw 238 investment deals worth a total of $471M in the first half of 2019. […]

PointCheckout, an online payment method for reward points and miles, has closed a seed round of $600,000 to allow users to pay with their reward points and miles online at over 1,000 leading online merchants across the MENA region. The […]

STEP Conference’s annual pitch competition brings together talents from all over the region to showcase their ideas to a panel of experts. STEP 2018 attracted inspiring startups from different industries such as health, fintech, adtech, and e-commerce. Here’s how it works- startups […]

Womena, a Dubai-based angel investment fund, has launched their very own accelerator program last March. They named the program Womentum,an early stage accelerator program, that aims to encourage and support female founders based in the Middle East and North Africa […]