North Africa / 
Egypt / Cairo - Incubators
Nahdet El Mahrousa
NM’s incubator is the region’s first incubator for early-stage innovative social enterprises. Despite having started as an early-stage support platform, it has grown to support social entrepreneurs from the idea stage all the way to the growth and scale-up phases. <p></p> <mark> Clean & Green <br> Renewable energy, waste management, water management, food production, and agribusiness sectors <p></p>Creative Industries <br> Handicrafts and performing arts sectors. <p></p>Tech for Social <br> Startups leveraging technology to create social impact across sectors. <p></p>Wild Cards <br> Promising social enterprises from all sectors that are daring, innovative, and scalable. </mark>
EBNI
EBNI or EiTESAL Business Nurturing Initiative runs an incubation program that provides end-to-end support to business ventures to start their startups from scratch and take the same to the scale-up level. <mark>This incubator program specializes in helping hardware and IoT businesses in the niche of telecom, learning, healthcare, transportation, smart homes, and food, water & energy.</mark> They provide them with services such as; financial & legal services, technical & business services, business training, consultation, mentoring, incubation services, coworking space, makerspace, and membership & networking opportunities to the participants.
INJAZ Egypt
INJAZ Egypt's non-profit business program empowers youth and student entrepreneurs by providing them knowledge about entrepreneurship, financial literacy & work readiness.<mark> They empower entrepreneurs to work towards their business ideas, brush up on their business skills, and enable them to earn and secure a better life for themselves.</mark> This program partners with different universities and colleges across the country to inspire young entrepreneurs and build potential to make successful business companies by connecting them to experienced business mentors and customized training sessions.
Innoventures
Innoventures runs a 6-month Startup Reactor business program that accelerates and supports high-potential startups in Egypt. <mark>The participating startups receive mentorship, training, investment, office space, various perks, business support services, networking & pitching opportunities in front of potential investors.</mark> This program follows a five-step process Spark, Ignition, Plasma, Fusion, and Nova. These steps of the process support startups and help them build successful business ventures in the industrial ecosystem of Egypt.
FinTech Egypt
FinTech Egypt is a unified platform to foster and connect all FinTech ecosystem stakeholders, including <mark>FinTech startups, financial institutions, regulators, service providers, mentors and investors.</mark> We want to become a globally recognized FinTech hub in the Arab world & Africa, home to next generation financial services, talent and innovative development.
EFG EV Fintech
EFG EV Fintech runs a business program that empowers and supports entrepreneurs and innovators of the fintech industry. <mark>This 4-month program focuses on driving the fintech ecosystem forward in the industry through strategic investments, pitching opportunities in front of top industry investors & stakeholders, seed funding up to EGV 1M-5M, and business advice on issues such as legal, finance & taxation.</mark> This program focuses on business verticals such as; regtech, insurtech, payments, proptech, money transfer, investments & savings, wealth management & Robo advisory, infrastructure technology, blockchain platforms, and borrowing & capital raising.
GESR
Governorate Economic and Social Revival (GESR) operates a 6-9 months incubator program that helps startups and businesses to reach from the prototype stage to the final product stage. <mark>This program focuses on technology business firms in the niche of health, education, food & agriculture, energy, and environment and provides them with funding, mentorship, technical assistance, accounting support, and training to develop prototypes into successful businesses.</mark> Some of its portfolio companies are Sun City, Mogassam, Crina, Bermuda, Green Light, and many more.
Falak Startups
Falak startups supports Egyptian entrepreneurs by investing in and mentoring startups throughout their journey to address their business needs and foster their growth. <p></p> <mark>We arm entrepreneurs with the necessary tools, resources, and networks to develop their strategies and scale-up their businesses. Our offering entails equity investment, growth hacking, networking, mentorship, training, and a wide variety of perks and benefits. After meeting the needed KPIs, our founders are able to showcase their startups on our Virtual Stage platform, a tool for connecting with potential investors, policymakers, stakeholders, and partners. </mark> <p></p> Although Falak Startups is industry agnostic and focuses on tech-enabled and scalable startups, we have an additional focused track that specializes in Financial Technology powered by EFGEV. We also foster sub-tracks that are sector-specific with the support of key industry partners. <p></p> Our startups operate from our fully-equipped state-of-the-art, 700m2 office, in the heart of Downtown Cairo, that meets all their office space needs.