Deeptech startups in Dubai
The hard-tech edge: robotics, AR and XR, and frontier hardware, including a growing set of research-heavy teams.
6 companies building in Deeptech here.
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...
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 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-...
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...
** 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...
(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...
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