AI startups in Dubai

Bilal Abu-Ghazaleh

** Founded 2025 by a Scale AI alum (left after Meta's investment). Builds **sovereign AI infrastructure / AI-native OS** for MENA critical industries — aviation, energy, logistics, construction, manufacturin...

** AI-powered corporate-cards and spend-management fintech. Raised a $48M Series A in August 2025 led by Peak XV Partners — one of the largest early-stage fintech rounds in MENA. A leading Dubai B2B fintech/...

Aditya Bhagat, Surya Prasad & Prateek Srivastava

** Founded 2017, Dubai-HQ'd. **Agentic AI + digital-banking platform** — conversational agents, face-match/liveness KYC, personalized recommendations, embedded payments/BNPL for banks & telcos. ~$2.6M revenu...

Akeed Azmi & David Reche

** Founded by ex-Careem operators. AI-native "Rippling for MENA" — unified HR, payroll and compliance stack; setup in 2–3 days vs months for legacy. Oct 2025 raised oversubscribed **$12M Series A** led by Pi...

Ilan Cohen

** Launched 2025. AI-native real-estate intelligence platform built from founder's AED 450M+ in Dubai property transactions. Raised **$3M pre-seed** — claimed largest early-stage round for an AI proptech in ...

Nimit Solanki (CTO) & Mark Reed (COO) (est. 2025)

Dubai-HQ'd AI-native hospitality-tech platform specializing in extended-stay bookings (30–365 nights) with AI-driven dynamic pricing and demand aggregation, promising ~32%+ discounts on underutilized hotel/h...

** Dubai-founded proptech/mortgage-and-real-estate platform digitizing home-buying and broker workflows. Raised a $59M Series B in July 2025 to expand across the Middle East and Europe (atop a $40M+ Series A...

Karim Dakki & Alexander Blum

** AI healthtech/fintech that buys delayed insurance claims from healthcare providers and turns them into upfront cash, using AI to price and de-risk claims. Raised **$26M Series A** (2025, led by Tharawat T...

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** "Digital operating system for MENAP healthcare" blending virtual care, **AI claims** and connected infrastructure. Raised **$6M Series A** (May 2025, co-led by Rasmal Ventures & Joa Capital) to expand int...

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** AI proptech startup that closed a **$1.5M pre-seed** in 2025 from regional and international investors. AI-driven real-estate transaction/insight tooling for Dubai's active property market.

Anuscha Iqbal, Ziyaad Ahmed & Karim Shiyab

** Founded 2024. AI-powered legal-workflow platform automating drafting, review and research for law firms and in-house teams. Raised **$2M pre-seed** to build out its AI legal stack across the region. **Sou...

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** Founded 2024. AI agent that automates visa/immigration paperwork and applications (targeting a ~$55B market). Raised **$700K pre-seed**; expanding across UAE, India and China. Enterprise + consumer govtec...

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** Founded 2024. Quantum-encrypted, on-device AI communication-safety app blocking phishing, fake profiles and impersonation before harm; tested with 10,000+ early users. Sep 2025 raised **$12M Series A** to...

** Dubai-based consumer/SMB digital-wallet and P2P payments app. Raised a $22M Series A (2024). A homegrown Dubai fintech targeting frictionless peer and merchant payments.