Top 10 Travel Startups in Asia

Travel startups act on an attractive market for disruptive entrepreneurs to tap into.

With more than 1.1 billion people travelling out of their home country in 2014 alone (source: UN’s World Tourism Organization), there is a huge market potential…

CEOs and their James Bond Doppelgängers

Bond, James Bond. We’ve all heard these three little words about a hundred times (or if you’re a diehard Bond fan like me, probably a thousand times!) With the latest chapter of the saga just being released (Spectre), we thought that it might be fun to take a…

Is Cape Town The New Silicon Valley?

On June 30th, Seedstars World hosted the first leg of its South African round in Cape Town. 10 Capetonian startups were invited to pitch, five of which were selected to go on to the second and final South African round that will take place in Johannesburg this…

MENA Is Hot For Travel Startups

Anywhere you go around the world, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hasn’t heard of Dubai. It’s the city with world’s tallest building and biggest mall, complete with a ski platform built right in the desert. So it’s no surprise that it’s the first destination we…

Women Entrepreneurs Around The World Chapter 3: MENA

Our last stop was Asia, where we discovered some fascinating women! Our next chapter centres on some of the most innovative and captivating female entrepreneurs in the MENA region. Often associated with conflict and chaos, The Middle East…

Farmable: How a Ghana-based startup is using sustainable agriculture to reduce poverty

Agriculture is one of the largest driving economic forces in the world. In Ghana, over half of the population is engaged in agricultural production. More than 90% of this production…