Category: Startups

Four hundred and forty (440) labels and 281 pre-labels Startups have been granted by the College of Startups, until February 9, 2022, on a total of 1,206 applications received, announced Startup Tunisia on its Facebook page. These labels were granted in the context of an exceptionally accelerated edition. Startup Tunisia commended, on this occasion, the outgoing members of the College of Startups who have “worked hard and voluntarily, every month, to study the files of startups and grant the Startup Label. The national program “Startup Tunisia” aims to make Tunisia…

The Tunisia Digital Awards (TDA) has awarded the trophy “Silver” of the best Marketplace 2021 to the platform “JoussourINVEST.tn”. This award is a crowning achievement and recognition of the JoussourInvest initiative which aims to simplify through digital access to financing for SMEs, especially in the current health and economic context and is the result of a collaborative work of all stakeholders including the CDC, BVMT, ATIC and USAID through the Tunisia JOBS program. JoussourINVEST is an innovative tool for connecting SMEs with investors, supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem through the digitalization…

The call for projects for the third round of the Tunisian program Green4Youth is officially open until November 30th, 2021. The operation jointly launched by investors Impact Partner and Flat6Labs aims to identify and support 8 start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in Tunisia in the field of green economy. In Tunisia, start-ups and SMEs have the opportunity to benefit from the financing of 30,000 Tunisian dinars (more than 9,000 euros). This is part of the third cohort of the Green4Youth program. The initiative jointly launched by Tunisian…

Credit goes to Disrupt-Africa Tunisian fintech startup Kaoun has added new features to its payments app Flouci, a move that came about after it took part in a regulatory sandbox held by the Central Bank of Tunisia. Formed in January 2018 when co-founders Nebras Jemel, Anis Kallel, and Rostom Bouazizi put their studies in the United States – at Harvard University, University of Rochester, and Columbia University respectively – on hold to come back to Tunisia and build a fintech startup, Kaoun is “building a pipeline for financial inclusion”. Its first product…

Some 17 Tunisian start-ups have been selected to receive AIR and AIR² grants, as part of the second session of the Flywheel programme, piloted by Startup Tunisia with the support of the World Bank, GIZ Tunisia and the Caisse des dépôts et consignations Tunisia. Flywheel, which is also a fund to support the actors of the Startup ecosystem in Tunisia, supports the launch and development of Startups and Startup support structures. Its programme provides a structured solution based on financial instruments to address current challenges. Indeed, 11 projects have been…

The national programme, Startup Tunisia, has a new website. Available in two languages – French and English – this platform brings together all the useful information on the Startup Act, the startup ecosystem in Tunisia and the Startup Invest programme. The site also has a FAQ section to answer all the questions of users and actors of the startup ecosystem. TunisianMonitorOnline