Soran Hamawandi was frustrated every time he came across a property advertised in Iraq. The advert either didn’t mention the price, floor plan, or location. He wondered how he could apply his entrepreneurial experience, having founded two previous startups, to address the issue of information asymmetry that customers in Iraq encountered with real estate platforms […]Read More اقرأ المزيد
Kurdish-Iraqi Delivery app Lezzoo is changing the game (literally!) with the launch of its addictive new gamification feature to make your food deliveries more fun. The new game called Jezar (which means ‘carrot’ in Arabic) can be played while you wait for your Lezzoo order to arrive. Founder of Lezzoo, Yadgar Merani, wanted to add […]Read More اقرأ المزيد
Leveraging over 17 years of telecom industry experience, Karrar Al-Taie utilised his corporate background to design an imaginative new enterprise – founding Lemune, an innovative grocery delivery service aiming to reinvigorate grocery shopping in Iraq. After recognising the public sector’s bureaucratic limitations during a brief government stint post-university, Karrar pivoted to the private sphere, climbing […]Read More اقرأ المزيد
It all started when the news showcased valuable, historical ruins being destroyed in 2014”, says Ali Al-Makhzomy, Tajarib’s podcast guest. “I realised that I needed to take practical steps to do something. These historical sites in my own country were being destroyed and most Iraqis, including myself, had never even visited any of them throughout […]Read More اقرأ المزيد
An egg is being fried on the pavement and items hanging on the walls are melting. This first scene of an air-conditioning advert by CrazyTown draws on every Iraqi’s memory of coming back home on a summer afternoon. This exemplifies the philosophy of the Baghdad-based creative agency – to communicate a client’s key message that […]Read More اقرأ المزيد
Skyscanner for flights, AirBnB for accommodation, and TripAdvisor for places to eat, but where do you go to get your visa arranged? How do you avoid spending a fortune on navigating clunky governmental websites, only to then receive rejections? This week’s guest on the Tajarib podcast is Mustafa Alwan, founder of Kawenter, a travel startup […]Read More اقرأ المزيد
بينما كان شاهيز راباتي يقرأ تقارير عن أكراد تقطّعت بهم السبل على الحدود بين بولندا وروسيا البيضاء، عثر بقصة شديدة الحزن، تروي حكاية امرأة قررت الهرب من كردستان، تاركةً وراءها عملها في المخبز، حيث كانت تجني أجرًا هزيلًا لا يتجاوز 10,000 دينارٍ عراقي في اليوم. لم يمتلك شاهيز إلا أن يتأمل مطولًا في القرار الصعب […]Read More اقرأ المزيد
Shahez Rabati came across a disheartening story amidst reports about Kurdish people stranded at the Polish-Belarusian border. The story that caught his attention involved a woman who had decided to flee Kurdistan, leaving behind her meagerly paid job at a bakery where she earned 10,000 Iraqi Dinars a day. Shahez could not help but contemplate […]Read More اقرأ المزيد
ShakoMakoApp is a combinatorial evolution of Instagram, WhatsApp, Google and Amazon, with the aim of organising the disorganised through a P2P-B2C system. It is the first comprehensively dedicated connected-commerce platform in Iraq. Three years ago, the founders saw a problem: independent and new shop ventures were looking for an easy and free way to enter […]Read More اقرأ المزيد
Amer Salih, founder of car marketplace iQ Cars, has launched a new commercial vehicle and machinery marketplace called iQ Fleet which includes fleet services for companies. Founded in November 2020, iQ Cars has grown to become a serious player among Iraqi online marketplaces. Already the platform has signed up over 700 car showrooms, has over […]Read More اقرأ المزيد