Egyptian Startup Ecosystem Report

An overview of the Egypt ecosystem

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• Egypt has 562 startups
• 93.6% of startups are from Cairo

• 39% of Egyptian startups are “accelerated”.

• 12,913 individuals employed by Egyptian tech startups
• At least US$791,072,500 has been raised by at least 318 Egyptian tech startups across 447 individual rounds since January 2015

Top 5 startup sectors:

• Ecommerce and Retail Tech
• Fintech
• e-health
• edtech
• Recruitment