Imran, Zeeshan & Haider Ali Khan

Formerly EMPG (Emerging Markets Property Group, est. 2015), the group behind property portal Bayut and classifieds marketplace dubizzle. Became the Arab world's first homegrown unicorn after the 2020 EMPG–OL...

Michael Lahyani

Founded 2007 (evolved from Al Bab World print classifieds), Property Finder is the Middle East's first proptech unicorn — the leading property portal across MENA. Hit $1B+ unicorn status with General Atlanti...

Feras Jalbout

Founded 2021 (Y Combinator S21), baraka is a DIFC/DFSA-regulated wealthtech app for GCC retail investors to buy US stocks, bonds, options and gold from $1. Closed a $20M Series A in Nov 2022 led by Valar Ven...

Craig Moore

Founded 2014, Beehive is MENA's first regulated P2P/crowdfunding lending marketplace connecting SMEs seeking finance with investors; has facilitated $100M+ in loans. Now an e& enterprise (Etisalat group) com...

Comfi is a Dubai B2B embedded-finance / BNPL platform for business purchases. Raised a large $65M pre-Series A (equity + debt) in 2026, led by Iliad Partners with Yango Ventures and Raw Ventures, plus credit...

Michele Grosso

Founded 2015, Democrance is a Dubai B2B insurtech: white-label, plug-and-play SaaS that digitises insurance sales/distribution for emerging-market and underserved segments. Backed by Global Ventures and Wa'e...

Jon Edward Santillan & Walfrido Perez

Founded 2019, Denarii Cash is a Dubai cross-border money-transfer / remittance app targeting UAE-Philippines and other South/Southeast Asia corridors. Acquired by Dubai's Careem in July 2022 to power Careem ...

Michael Hunter & Arran Summerhill

Founded 2020, Holo is billed as the Middle East's first fully digital mortgage platform — users compare 500+ products from 20 UAE lenders free (Holo is paid by banks). Raised a seven-figure seed (2023, Wathe...

Kevin Kilty

Founded 2019, Hubpay is a Dubai cross-border wallet / remittance and multi-currency business-account fintech serving MENAP corridors (strong UAE-Pakistan/South Asia flows). First UAE startup licensed for dig...

Kerem Kuyucu & Ali Cagatay Ozcan

Founded 2014, Justlife is MENA's leading home-services super-app (cleaning, maintenance, handyman, beauty, laundry) with 1M+ users across UAE, Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain. Backed by 500 Global, Ve...

Helen Chen, Damien Drap & Dan Piehler

Founded 2019 in Dubai, Nomad Homes is a software-enabled marketplace for residential real estate across EMEA (UAE, France, Spain, Portugal). Raised $4M seed (Comcast Ventures), a $20M Series A (01 Advisors/S...

Ian Dillon & Katharine Budd

Founded 2015, NOW Money is a Dubai fintech providing mobile accounts, payroll and low-cost remittances to low-income migrant/underbanked workers in the Gulf, partnering with employers. Closed a new financing...

Tariq Sheikh & Dani Molina

Founded 2019, Postpay is a Dubai Buy Now, Pay Later fintech for GCC shoppers and merchants. Raised $35M+ from investors including Afterpay and Australia's AP Ventures, plus debt financing from Commercial Ban...

Cavendish Maxwell

UAE real-estate market-intelligence and valuation platform (part of Cavendish Maxwell) aggregating Dubai Land Department transactions and Ejari rental data. Products include the PMiQ analytics platform, valC...

Amira Sajwani

Founded 2022 by Amira Sajwani (DAMAC Properties family), PRYPCO is a multi-product proptech spanning fractional ownership (Blocks, DFSA-regulated), blockchain tokenization (Mint, VARA-licensed, built with Du...

Antti Arponen

Founded ~2017, Pyypl is a Dubai blockchain-based mobile payments / financial-services platform for the unbanked and migrant smartphone users (no bank account or credit card needed); ~80% of users are migrant...

Jonathan Lau & Armin Moradi

Founded 2021, Qashio is a Dubai B2B spend-management + corporate-cards platform (digital wallets, smart cards, automated approvals, B2B loyalty) operating across 22 countries. Raised a $19.8M debt+equity rou...

Marc Michel, Amr Hosny & Farah Karabeg

Founded 2024, Reno is an AI-powered end-to-end home renovation / interiors platform — design, contracting, quality inspection and 'Renovate Now, Pay Later' financing in one operating system. Raised $4M (2025...

Aahan Bhojani & Ashmin Varma

Founded 2021, Silkhaus is a tech-enabled short-term / flexible rental platform giving asset owners management infrastructure to monetize units (targeting 20-40% higher yields). Raised $7.75M seed (2022, Nord...

Siddiq Farid & Musfique Ahmed

Founded 2018, SmartCrowd pioneered DFSA-regulated real-estate crowdfunding in the UAE, enabling fractional property investment from ~AED 500. Raised $600K seed (2018, Shorooq/500 Startups) and a $3M bridge (...

Abdulla Almoayed

Founded 2017 in Bahrain, Tarabut (Tarabut Gateway) is MENA's largest regulated open-banking platform — a universal banking API connecting banks and fintechs for account data and payments. Relocated HQ to Dub...

Sirish Kumar & Khalil Alami

Founded 2014, Telr is a Dubai online payment-gateway provider — APIs and tools for businesses to accept and manage payments via web, mobile and social, with offices in the UAE, Singapore, India and Saudi Ara...

Arjun Mohan

Founded 2018, Tenderd is a construction / heavy-equipment rental marketplace and AI fleet-management platform (TenderdTrack turns machines into IoT-connected assets tracking productivity and emissions). Rais...

Marwan Hachem & Anas Zaidan

Founded 2019, YAP is a Dubai neobank / independent digital banking platform (launched with RAK Bank rails) — accounts, cards, transfers, spending analytics with no physical branches. One of the UAE's earlies...

Mohamed Alabbar (chairman/founder-shareholder)

Founded 2018, Zand is a Dubai fully-licensed all-digital bank (and crypto custodian) serving corporate, institutional, fintech and wealth clients, positioned to bridge TradFi and DeFi. Founder-shareholders i...

Smart Chain Holding

Founded ~2021, Aqarchain is a blockchain-based real-estate tokenization and crowdfunding platform (built on Tezos, Sharia-compliant) operating a DFSA-regulated portal with a DAO governance model for fraction...

Dubai

DFSA-regulated (DIFC-registered) real-estate crowdfunding / fractional-ownership platform enabling investment in prime Dubai property from ~AED 5,000, with the platform handling selection, rental management,...

Dubai

Smart-rental / co-living operator and full-cycle property manager offering fully furnished, flexible-lease apartments; runs a Dubai operation (since 2022) alongside Istanbul and Hong Kong, managing 800+ unit...

Dubai

Launched ~2024/2025, Deed is a DIFC-licensed, DFSA-regulated fractional real-estate app letting anyone globally invest in income-generating Dubai residential property from AED 500 (up to AED 50,000/transacti...

Dubai

Founded 2018, Disrupt-X is a Dubai full-stack IoT platform for smart-city, construction and facility-management use cases (industrial, commercial, residential), partnering with Intel, AWS and Al-Futtaim Tech...

Nameer Khan

Launched 2023 by MENA Fintech Association chairman Nameer Khan, Fils is a Dubai-based B2B2C ESG/climate fintech-infra layer — embedded API that lets payment companies track and offset carbon via high-integri...

Exalogic Consulting

Proptech SaaS from Exalogic Consulting: an end-to-end real-estate ERP covering the full property lifecycle — pre-construction procurement, sales, broker CRM, finance, post-handover community management and A...

Alex Galt

Founded Dec 2021 and relocated to Dubai in Feb 2022, Realiste is an AI-driven real-estate investment platform / marketplace (an 'AI real-estate consultant') that scores neighborhoods and forecasts returns; r...

Dubai

Operating since 2007, REIDIN is a leading real-estate data-analytics provider for the Dubai/MENA market, offering transaction data, price indices and the AI-driven R-Insight dashboards plus an API for segmen...

Saad Ansari

Xpence is a Dubai digital banking / spend-management platform for SMEs, startups and freelancers — business accounts, cards, invoicing, receipt scanning and real-time expense tracking in one mobile app.

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/...

** K-12 edtech combining AI, personalized learning and gamification, serving 1.4M+ learners across five markets. In June 2024 it became the first edtech to list on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), ra...

Khaldoon Bushnaq & Tariq Seksek **[FLAG: Abu Dhabi-HQ]

** Founded 2020, Alma Health provides virtual care and home medication delivery for chronic patients (diabetes, hypertension). Raised ~$26M incl. a $16M Series B (2023) and a 2024 minority investment by Egyp...

Ihab Fikry & Ibrahim Kamel

** Founded 2016 (Dubai Silicon Oasis), Almentor is the largest Arabic-language video-learning platform (B2C + B2B), with 1,000+ courses from 950+ mentors targeting 400M+ Arabic speakers. Raised a $10M pre-Se...

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...

Talal Bayaa, Tarek Bayaa & Brian Habibi

** Founded 2013, Bayzat is an all-in-one HR, payroll, benefits and health-insurance SaaS. It started as an insurance-comparison tool and expanded into a full HRIS now serving 4,000+ companies and 250,000+ em...

** Dubai-founded (2012) "work-life" HR-tech platform bundling HR management, payroll, employee benefits and insurance in one cloud product for Middle East businesses. One of the region's most established HR-...

Slava Solonitsyn & Anton Glance

** Founded 2025. Construction-robotics startup integrating specialised + general-purpose robots directly into contractor workflows. Emerged from stealth Nov 2025 with **$2M pre-seed led by Tim Draper**. Phys...

** The world's largest indoor vertical farm (330,000 sq ft, 3 floors, 1M+ kg leafy greens/year) using hydroponics with 95% less water. Originally the Emirates Crop One JV with US-based Crop One; in February ...

** Dubai-based, one of the world's largest indoor vertical farms — a JV between Emirates Flight Catering and Crop One near Al Maktoum International Airport, growing leafy greens with ~95% less water for the ...

** Dubai-based on-demand fuel-delivery and connected-car-services app (founder/CEO Rashid Al Ghurair). In 2025 it explored a first external stake sale to fund growth. A homegrown Dubai mobility/logistics-ser...

Mudassir Sheikha, Magnus Olsson & Abdulla Elyas (est. 2012)

Dubai-HQ'd 'super-app' spanning ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments across 70+ cities. First MENA unicorn (ex-Israel); acquired by Uber for $3.1B (closed 2020). In 2023 the super-app (every...

Abdullah Al Mutawa (est. 2022)

Zero-commission food-delivery app promising 30-minute free delivery and guaranteed dine-in prices, founded by ex-Carriage co-founder Abdullah Al Mutawa. Live in Kuwait/KSA since Sept 2022 and UAE since May 2...

Mohammad Sleiman (founder/CEO)

Founded 2019; recommerce + reverse-logistics platform for retailers and consumers covering returns management, warranty management, buy-back and trade-ins (pre-owned/open-box resale). Raised an US$18M Series...

Ibtissam Ouassif & Ammar Afif (est. 2019)

Dubai-HQ'd Buy-Now-Pay-Later fintech targeting larger-ticket purchases, with an explicit travel-and-tourism vertical (e.g., staycation/hotel financing partnerships such as Sandy Beach Hotel & Resort). Mashre...

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...

** Comfi is a B2B BNPL / invoice-financing SaaS platform that embeds directly into invoicing and accounting tools SMEs already use (Wafeq, Zoho Books, ERPs), letting vendors offer buyers payment flexibility ...

Ahmed Saad & Baha Galal

** Founded 2013 (Egypt), Dubai-headquartered Crowd Analyzer is an Arabic-first social-media monitoring / martech SaaS analyzing conversations for sentiment and relevance. Raised $3.5M+ Series A led by Saudi'...

** Dubai-based cybersecurity firm delivering AI-driven security, risk governance, cloud security, incident response and cyber-resilience. At GISEC 2024 it launched HAARIS, an AI/ML-powered cybersecurity solu...

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 ...

** Dubai-based climate-tech startup specializing in drone-based reforestation, AI-powered environmental monitoring and MRV (measurement/reporting/verification), enabling scalable, community-led mangrove rest...

** Dubai-headquartered cybersecurity firm providing enterprise security services — penetration testing, security architecture, strategy/roadmap and managed defense — across the UAE, KSA, Kuwait and the wider...

** The region's first chip physical-implementation / back-end design centre — turnkey physical-design services for fabless semiconductor firms, ASIC houses and IDMs. Aligns with the UAE's "design-only" chip-...

Nezar Kadhem & David Feuillard (est. 2015)

Restaurant-tech platform: cloud-based table management, online reservations and guest CRM for restaurants and hotels. Founded in Bahrain and now Dubai-based; raised ~$31.6M total (incl. an $11M Series B roun...

Vilhelm Hedberg (co-founder/CEO), w/ Ravi Bhusari

Founded 2016; the region's first and largest app-based car-sharing / self-drive mobility platform (pay-per-minute, hourly, daily and 1-9 month car subscriptions via connected-car tech). Raised a ~US$17.5M Se...

Daniel Zywietz

** Founded 2012, Dubai-based Enerwhere builds solar-hybrid microgrids and distributed clean power for commercial and industrial customers, decarbonizing the temporary-power market. Its solar-plus-storage sys...

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...

Jaideep Dhanoa & Mo Fdal (co-founders, ex-Careem/Circ)

FLAG — Abu Dhabi-HQ micromobility startup (e-scooters, e-bikes, MyFenix subscription) founded by former Careem/Circ execs; raised a US$3.8M seed (2020) led by Israel's Maniv Mobility, expanded e-bikes into U...

Idriss Al Rifai & Joy Ajlouny (co-founders) [DEFUNCT]

Founded 2012 by ex-BCG consultant Idriss Al Rifai and serial entrepreneur Joy Ajlouny; pioneering GPS/app-based last-mile delivery startup that used phone-location instead of street addresses (a big deal in ...

Soumia Benturquia (founder/CEO)

Founded 2018; turns partner merchant stores (gas stations, groceries, pharmacies, 24/7 shops) into pick-up/drop-off (PUDO) points for last-mile parcel collection, easing failed-delivery costs. Backed by a se...

William Zeqiri & Nick Miller **[FLAG: HQ relocated to London]

** Founded in Dubai in 2015 by ex-Dubai Holding VP William Zeqiri, Fresha is a beauty/wellness marketplace + booking-and-payments SaaS for salons and spas. Reached $1B+ unicorn valuation in 2026 on an $80M K...

** Dubai-based regulated digital-assets and payments infrastructure startup. Raised a $12.2M Series A led by Galaxy and e& capital (with Further Ventures), taking total funding past $26M; later secured a lic...

Mohamed Al Fayed & Mohamed Hamedi (est. 2019)

Dubai-HQ'd restaurant-tech SaaS: an all-in-one operating system for cloud kitchens and delivery-centric restaurants — POS, aggregator integrations, online ordering, menu management, delivery/logistics and an...

** One of the UAE's earliest telehealth providers, Health at Hand offers on-demand video consultations with DHA-licensed doctors plus e-prescriptions, lab requests, sick-leave certificates and medication del...

Digvijay Pratap, Geet Bhalla & Mohammed M.S. BinMahfouz (est. 2014)

Dubai-HQ'd online travel agency for leisure and Umrah/Hajj packages via its 'Holidayme' and 'Umrahme' brands (parent: Traveazy). Raised a $16M Series C led by China's Gobi Partners with Accel, Global Venture...

** 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...

Khalid Baareh & Kareem Abughazaleh (est. 2019)

Dubai-HQ'd 'cloud-kitchen-as-a-service' operator that procures, cooks and delivers on behalf of partner restaurant brands from smart-tech-equipped kitchens. Raised a $20M Series A (led by Mohamed Yousuf Nagh...

Rita Huang (founder/CEO), w/ Naveen Joseph, Gao Wenli, Nancy Chen

Founded 2017 by ex-Alibaba/Meraas JV CTO Rita Huang; last-mile e-commerce logistics connecting Chinese sellers to emerging markets, with domestic next-day delivery, cross-border (China-to-UAE/KSA), COD, ware...

John Tsioris & Ioanna Angelidaki (est. 2015)

Dubai-HQ'd on-demand grocery-delivery marketplace, a MENA category leader. Acquired by Delivery Hero in 2020 for ~$360M (one of the region's largest exits); in 2025 Talabat acquired InstaShop from Delivery H...

** Dubai proptech simplifying real-estate/property management for owners, tenants and partners — portfolio management, market insights and flexible rent-payment options. Part of Dubai's dense proptech-fintec...

Mohamad Ballout, Saman Darkan, Bader Ataya & Andy Arenas (est. 2018)

Managed cloud-kitchen unicorn founded by ex-McKinsey consultants. Runs 200+ kitchens/outlets across UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, powering 200+ restaurant brands' delivery without physical outlets. Re...

Karim Dakki & Ghafoor Ahmad **[FLAG: Abu Dhabi-HQ]

** Founded 2019, Klaim is a healthcare-fintech that purchases delayed insurance claims from providers and advances payment within 24 hours, using AI to predict insurer payment behavior. Raised $26M ($10M Ser...

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...

Badr Ward

** Founded by Badr Ward, Lamsa is a Dubai-based early-childhood Arabic edtech app equipping young children with 21st-century skills through interactive stories and games. Backed by the Mohammed Bin Rashid In...

** Emirati-founded (Helal Tariq Lootah, Alexandre Soued) B2B data-analytics/open-finance fintech that turns raw transaction data into enriched, categorized insight for banks and fintechs across MENA. Raised ...

** UAE/Dubai-based fintech simplifying payments and financial operations for MENA SMEs. Raised a $3.4M round (2024) led by 4DX Ventures with the Dubai Future District Fund. A homegrown SME-payments player.

Saeed Alhassan Alkhazraji & Vishnu Vijayan Pillai **[FLAG: Abu Dhabi-HQ; Indian co-founder]

** Deep-tech startup using solar energy for waste-free, floating water distillation to enable freshwater production and crop irrigation, targeting water and food security. Spun out of Khalifa University. **F...

(founders)

** "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...

** Founded 2015, Meta-Techs is a Dubai-based cybersecurity and IT-services firm offering tailored cyber-defense for businesses navigating cloud transformation, digital risk and regulatory pressure, blending ...

Fareed Aljawhari

** Founded 2014 (robotics/AI from 2018). Builds fully autonomous, modular electric robots for smart cities — M-Patrol surveillance units deployed with **Dubai Police** and The Sustainable City. **IPO'd on NY...

Mohammad Al Zaben, Dana Baki & Awn Ali (est. 2016)

Dubai-born subscription food-delivery platform built for the corporate-lunch segment, using scheduling, bundling and routing software to tap underutilized kitchen capacity at a discount. Delivered meals acro...

Sachin Gadoya & Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulla Al Thani (est. 2007)

One of the UAE's first online travel agencies, offering flights, hotels, holiday packages and visa services, plus a growing corporate-travel (Musafir Business) arm. HQ in Dubai International Financial Centre...

Fodhil Benturquia

** Founded 2018 by ex-Souq/Noon exec Fodhil Benturquia, Okadoc is the UAE's first real-time doctor-booking platform, later adding telemedicine, and now serves hospitals, clinics and insurers across 40+ speci...

Adam Ridgway (founder/CEO)

Founded 2016; data-driven electric-vehicle manufacturer focused on last-mile delivery fleets (electric motorcycles, bikes, scooters), positioned as MENA's first type-approved EV maker. Global HQ established ...

Bassam Alfeeli & Nada AlShammari

** Founded 2018. Private aerospace firm making LEO accessible via affordable **CubeSat** missions (concept-to-orbit). Sent a science payload to the ISS (2020), launched a CubeSat on SpaceX (2021), and is run...

** Global provider of high-resolution satellite / Earth-observation data establishing a Dubai Silicon Oasis base. Geospatial + satellite-data deeptech serving the region's smart-city and mapping demand.

** Dubai-based SME spend-management platform (smart corporate cards + expense automation). Raised a $7M pre-Series A co-led by Shorooq Partners and Augmentum Fintech, following a $12M seed. Competes with Ala...

'Vas Floyd' & 'Max' (CTO) (est. ~2007)

Dubai-HQ'd events, experiences and attractions ticketing platform and event guide — MENA's leading event ticketing provider. Grew from a guest-list tool for the Audio Tonic event at Jumeirah Beach Hotel; add...

Pranav Goel (co-founder/CEO)

FLAG — Indian intra-city logistics/mini-truck aggregator (HQ Mumbai) that launched Dubai operations in May 2023 with a ~US$6M initial investment (part of a US$50M/5-yr international push). Indian-origin foun...

(founder undisclosed)

** 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.

Sky Kurtz, Mahmoud Adi & Robert Kupstas **[FLAG: Abu Dhabi-HQ]

** Controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) agribusiness growing fruit and vegetables in high-tech greenhouses; ~$287–387M raised since 2017 (Olayan family, Franklin Templeton, IMM). In 2024 it moved to a sc...

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...

Armin Moradi & Jonathan Lau

** Founded 2021, Qashio is a B2B spend-management platform issuing smart corporate cards and automating expense/AP workflows with embedded financing and rewards. It claims to be the UAE's first fintech to is...

Bassel El Koussa (CEO/co-founder) + Tim Linssen, Danny Hawkins, Federico Ferraro, Rami Idriss

Launched 2014 in London; shut UK operations and relocated HQ to Dubai in early 2019, now a UAE-focused same-day/on-demand last-mile and e-commerce fulfillment player (storage, pick-pack, delivery, returns, t...

Bader Albader (est. 2012)

Online travel marketplace for flights and hotel bookings across the Middle East, positioning as a regionally-tailored OTA. Dubai-HQ'd with strong Gulf (incl. Kuwait/KSA) operations; COO Amanpreet Singh is am...

** Dubai-based wealthtech/roboadvisory and commission-free investing app for the MENA retail investor (automated portfolios, trading, savings). A leading homegrown consumer wealthtech scale-up in the DIFC fi...

** Dubai-based edtech platform connecting students with scholarship opportunities globally. Raised a $550K bridge round at a ~$6M valuation to accelerate growth and expand operations.

innovation arm of Agility

Digital freight + last-mile/e-commerce logistics brand launched by Agility (one of the world's largest supply-chain operators). Shipa Freight is a digital freight forwarder for booking/managing air & ocean s...

Rayan Osseiran (founder/CEO)

Founded 2019 after Osseiran hit storage/fulfillment pain running his own e-commerce store (Limink); on-demand distributed warehousing and fulfillment enabling e-commerce brands to store, scale and ship acros...

Rami El Malak & Mossab Hussein **[FLAG: acquired by Abu Dhabi's CPX, 2025]

** Founded 2019, Dubai-headquartered SpiderSilk is a cyber-AI / attack-surface-management company that maps organizations' external exposure to prevent breaches. Raised ~$11M total incl. a $9M round (Nov 202...

** Dubai-based fractional real-estate investment platform letting retail investors buy into income-generating Dubai property from small tickets. A leading consumer proptech-fintech democratizing real-estate ...

Peter Schatzberg (est. 2017)

Dubai-HQ'd cloud-kitchen operator distinguished by owning all of its own delivery-only brands (unlike Kitopi/iKcon, which host third-party brands). Raised a $17.7M Series C led by its own founder/CEO; backed...

** MENA's leading BNPL/shopping and financial-services app, founded in Dubai. Reached a $3.3B valuation on a $160M Series E in February 2025 — the region's most valuable fintech and a full-blown unicorn expa...

Abdulaziz Al Loughani & co-founders (est. 2004)

MENA's largest food-delivery platform. Founded in Kuwait in 2004, HQ in Dubai; acquired by Germany's Delivery Hero in 2015. In December 2024 Talabat listed on the Dubai Financial Market, raising ~$2B at a >$...

Kunal Kapoor (est. 2011)

Dubai-HQ'd online marketplace for pre-owned luxury fashion, watches and jewellery — a hospitality-adjacent premium-experience play for the region's luxury traveler/consumer. Raised ~$47.6M total across 10 ro...

** Dubai-based real-world-asset (RWA) tokenization platform. Raised a $3.2M pre-seed in September 2025 (Exponential Science, Triliv Holdings and others). Rides Dubai's RWA/tokenization wave alongside PRYPCO.

** Dubai-linked Web3 infrastructure builder on the TON blockchain (Telegram ecosystem). Raised a $28.5M Series A led by Ribbit Capital at a ~$1B valuation in 2025. A Web3-infrastructure soonicorn/unicorn tie...

Muhammad Chbib (founding CEO); backed by DAFZ

Launched 2020 by Tajawal's ex-CEO Muhammad Chbib with initial investment from Dubai Airport Free Zone Authority; MENA B2B e-marketplace for wholesale/corporate procurement (food, office supplies, industrial ...

Gaurav Biswas & Pradeep Mallavarapu (co-founders)

FLAG — HQ is Abu Dhabi (JLT-cluster listing) with primary operating base increasingly in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; NOT Dubai-HQ'd though it operates in Dubai. Founded 2016 by Indian-origin founder Gaurav Biswas ...

Hasib Khan (founder/CEO)

Founded 2016; the Middle East's first pay-per-minute car-sharing service (app-based street rental, ~60 fils/minute plus hourly/daily/subscription plans). Raised ~US$17.3M total (incl. a rapid US$1.3M round i...

** New Dubai proptech launched by CAFU founder Rashid Al Ghurair to bring the entire residential rental journey (search, application, payments) online — targeting friction in Dubai's fast-growing rental mark...

(founder undisclosed)

** 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...

Nadim Alameddine

** Founded 2019, Wafeq is an accounting, invoicing and financial-compliance SaaS for MENA SMEs and accountants (invoices, payroll, inventory, VAT-ready reporting). In December 2024 it closed a $7.5M Series A...

Ross Veitch & Craig Hewett (est. 2005)

Leading MENA travel metasearch engine for flights and hotels. Founded in Singapore in 2005 (originally 'Bezurk', rebranded 2008); opened a Dubai regional office in 2013 and now operates a dual Dubai/Singapor...

** Dubai-based deep-tech company building the world's first multifunctional AI-powered smart contact lens (AR vision, health/IOP monitoring, night vision) thinner than a human hair. Became the UAE's 12th uni...

(founders undisclosed)

** 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...

Daniil Shuleyko (CEO); ex-Yandex Taxi team

Yango Group is headquartered in Dubai and operates ride-hailing, delivery (Yango Delivery/Cargo), e-grocery, mapping and an AI assistant across 30+ countries. Originated in 2018 from the Yandex Taxi team (Ri...

(Yango Group)

** Robotics arm of Dubai-HQ'd tech group Yango (international spin-out lineage from Yandex). Showcased at GITEX 2024 an AI-driven warehouse "Picker" for pick-and-place and last-mile automation; planned large...

** Founded 2018 (Business Central Towers, Dubai Media City), Yomly is a cloud-based HR and payroll SaaS built for GCC compliance — onboarding, payroll, performance, self-service mobile. Reports 60,000+ users...

Ramy Assaf & Ashraf Atia (co-founders)

Founded 2017; conversational-commerce / social-selling platform letting merchants sell and take payments over WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, layering ordering + payment + fulfillment for micro/SME busine...

** 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.