The tech shaping the Middle East
The numbers the world computes with reached the West through this region. MindEast believes it will lead again.
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The full story behind each MindEast Reel, written from the same checked facts, with every source.
Where the region's builders and backers meet.
Building it, or backing it?
MindEast explains how the region's technology works, one fact-checked story a day, and introduces founders to the investors who fit them, from Casablanca to Beirut to Riyadh.
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About MindEast
MindEast explains how the Middle East's technology works: a short explainer every day on Instagram, the full story behind each one here, and every Monday the region's startup funding rounds. The Launchpad introduces founders to the investors who fit them.
In 1202, a merchant's son in Pisa finished a book that changed how Europe counted. He had learned the digits zero to nine in Béjaïa, a trading port on the Algerian coast where his father worked. The numbers the world computes with reached the West through this region, along the same trade routes that once carried the Phoenician alphabet across the Mediterranean.
Somewhere along the way, the region started exporting its builders. Its engineers left for Silicon Valley, and its founders moved their companies abroad to be taken seriously. Now the tide is turning back East.
MindEast's biggest bet is the region itself.
How MindEast checks
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Every story is written from the facts checked for its Reel, and every claim has a numbered source. A company's claims about its own product are labeled as the company's, and a fact that only one source gives says so. The same rules apply to every country covered.
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Last updated 28 October 2026.
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