{"id":229803,"date":"2026-04-08T02:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/north-africa-egypt-expands-startup-support-beyond-cairo-with-aswan-program\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T02:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:07:56","slug":"north-africa-egypt-expands-startup-support-beyond-cairo-with-aswan-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/north-africa-egypt-expands-startup-support-beyond-cairo-with-aswan-program\/","title":{"rendered":"North Africa: Egypt Expands Startup Support Beyond Cairo With Aswan Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Information Technology Industry Development Agency has supported 61 startups in Upper Egypt through a program run with Plug and Play, as the country seeks to broaden its tech ecosystem beyond Cairo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Startups in the Aswan Bootcamp Series secured a combined 3.7 million dollars in funding, according to ITIDA. The results point to rising investor interest in regions outside the capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The program launched in November 2024 with backing from United States Agency for International Development. After&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604070711.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Technology Industry Development Agency has supported 61 startups in Upper Egypt through a program run with Plug and Play, as the country seeks to broaden its tech ecosystem beyond Cairo. Startups in the Aswan Bootcamp Series secured a combined 3.7 million dollars in funding, according to ITIDA. The results point to rising investor interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":229804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,10405,341,4697,415,9758,257,6732,5163,254,15680,6096],"class_list":["post-229803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aswan","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-expands","tag-news","tag-north","tag-program","tag-south-africa-today","tag-startup","tag-support"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}