Proptech startups in Dubai
Real-estate and property software runs deep: Property Finder (the region's first proptech unicorn), Dubizzle, short-stay rental platforms, and a tokenized real-estate cluster built on DLD and VARA.
23 companies building in Proptech here.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 (...
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...
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...
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...
** 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...
** 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...
** 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 ...
** 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...
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