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France and the UAE strengthen their offerings for tech startups
While virtual meetings and cloud-based working practices are now a permanent part of every day life, in the UAE’s capital, Abu Dhabi, a new tech startup ecosystem is developing that...
Abu Dhabi: the gateway to amplifying your fintech startup
Back in 2017, Bahrain’s regulatory sandbox was just launching, and excitement was building in the MENA region and abroad about the possibilities and achievements it might deliver. By early 2020,...
How ADGM makes doing business in Abu Dhabi easy
Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) is a thriving, robust international financial centre that operates under English Common Law. Founded in 2015, it offers a modern business infrastructure and a holistic...
Investment Insights: How to make your startup investment ready, with Lumia Capital
American venture capital firm Lumia Capital is the kind of investor that startups dream about: they focus on the people as well as the business. And, while they understand that...
High quality healthcare in Abu Dhabi
When it comes to healthcare, every country offers a different approach, and it’s always helpful to have international networking so that best practice can be shared. The UAE is currently...
Investor Insights: Mubadala on how startups can get investment-ready
Mubadala is an investment company with $232bn worth of assets under management and also a backer of Abu Dhabi’s Hub71 ecosystem for growing tech companies. Ibrahim Ajami, head of ventures...
Meet the startup that’s bridging the gap between tech and creative
London-based Arishi Agency delivers high-tech services to clients across many industries – managing director, Andrew Elia, explains why he has located his new venture in Abu Dhabi’s tech ecosystem, Hub71....
Why Indian tech startups are so excited about the UAE’s tech boom
The relationship between the UAE and India is a storied and symbiotic one. Both countries benefit from a strong trade relationship that extends from imports and exports to talent and...
Investor Insights: Shorooq Partners on how startups can be investment-ready
It may not be one of the first things that springs to mind, but raising capital for your startup or new venture is often most easily achieved by simple, old-fashioned...
How one firm in Abu Dhabi is changing the data security game
With the advent of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union as well as the findings of firms such as Cambridge Analytics that even major companies are...
Meet Abu Dhabi’s blockchain and decentralisation wunderkind
“All industries are the same – you have to stay away from the people who have a propensity toward jargon and toward trying to create their little islands of expertise....
Startup Insights: How Techstars’ accelerator programme is changing the world
If you’re a part of the tech world, you’ve most likely heard the Techstars story and perhaps wanted a piece of that investment pie. Founded in 2006 by a team...
Startup Insights: Microsoft on early-stage tech startups
In the first of a new series, where Hub71’s global partners give us their take on the evolving startup world, we spoke to Sayed Hashish, General Manager, Microsoft UAE, about...
Big data success in the Middle East: how Microsoft is helping young startups
The big success stories of the tech world used to start in someone’s garage, with a bit of homemade hardware, a big dream and a lot of hard work. Today,...
Edtech Case Study: Using technology to enhance the teaching of Arabic
Badr Ward, founder and CEO of the world’s first Arabic-language educational app, Lamsa, is the classic example of an entrepreneur who built a business to solve a problem he faced...
Meet the American startups thriving in Abu Dhabi
With the massive economic downturn brought on by the recent pandemic, many US business owners have their hands full securing new lines of investment and diversifying their revenue streams. While...
Meet the UK startups thriving in Abu Dhabi
With the massive economic downturn brought on by the recent pandemic, many British business owners have their hands full securing new lines of investment and diversifying revenue streams as much...
The future of healthtech: Opportunities for startups in the UAE
Healthcare Technology is a growing sector, with an annual value expected to reach $11 billion in the Middle East by 2021, according to the Middle East Medical Devices and Diagnostics...
The future of edtech: How Abu Dhabi is leading the way
The format of education has changed, possibly forever, due to the ongoing viral pandemic, with UNESCO reporting that more than 60% of the world’s student population have been negatively impacted...
UAE minister for AI and digital economy on the opportunities for tech companies to grow in Abu Dhabi
In 2017 the UAE signalled its commitment to technological innovation when it appointed HE Omar Al Olama as the first minister for artificial intelligence of any country in the world....
Fintech startups in the post-Covid-19 world: Stable governance is key
The question all fintech startups are asking themselves is:"How can we survive and even thrive in the challenging post Covid-19 economy?" Is the answer to bunker down in London or...
The future of proptech is in Abu Dhabi
Anyone who’s been to the UAE or even seen aerial shots of the country knows how quickly the construction and property markets move there, with high-rise buildings and new developments...
Future of tech startups: Why base your tech startup in Abu Dhabi?
Some 60% of investment funding for startups in the MENA region was given to projects based in the UAE in 2019, according to a report by startup data analysis company...
Abu Dhabi’s bid to create a complete ecosystem for startups
It’s been a tough few months for most companies worldwide unless you’re Amazon, and smaller companies in particular, including startups, have certainly been hit harder than larger corporations with multiple...
Startups and Covid-19: Where do we go from here?
In the Covid-19 era, it’s no secret that many startups around the world have either completely failed or scaled back to a bare minimum working model in the hopes of...