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The Logistics Giant That Sold Its Trucks and Kept the Map
Agility built a freight empire across the emerging world, sold it to a Danish rival for stock, and used the proceeds to buy airports' ground crews and fuel tankers instead. Here is how a Kuwaiti warehousing company became a holding company for the plumbing of global trade.
Ninety Percent of the Economy, Ten Percent of the Credit
SMEs are most of the UAE economy and a fraction of its lending. CredibleX embeds working capital where business already happens - and turned Mubadala into a lead investor with a $15 million Series A.
The 366-Foot Screen That Ate Las Vegas
One company runs the most expensive room ever built in Las Vegas and the cable channel that carries the Knicks. Here is how Sphere Entertainment turned a glowing orb into a business.
United Parks & Resorts
The company once called SeaWorld Entertainment quietly renamed itself United Parks & Resorts - and in doing so admitted that a killer whale was no longer the whole story.
Aspen Digital
Aspen Digital is an ADGM-regulated digital asset management platform built for private wealth. Founded in 2021 and co-incubated by Everest Ventures Group and TTB Partners, it gives family offices, external asset managers and ultra-high-net-worth investors a single regulated account to trade, custody, earn yield on and report across crypto - plus a white-label infrastructure stack that lets other wealth managers offer the same. It is backed by RIT Capital Partners (the Rothschild investment trust) and Liberty City Ventures.
Falcon Aviation Services
Falcon Aviation Services is an Abu Dhabi-based aviation group founded in 2006 that has grown from an offshore oil-and-gas helicopter operator into one of the Middle East's most diversified private-aviation companies. Operating from Al Bateen Executive Airport and Dubai, it offers helicopter and business-jet charter, aircraft management, MRO engineering, CAMO, fixed base operator (FBO) services, heliport management, medevac and sightseeing helicopter tours. Holding UAE and San Marino Air Operator Certificates and running a modern fixed- and rotary-wing fleet, Falcon is also pioneering next-generation urban air mobility as Archer Aviation's UAE vertiport partner.
Hubpay
Hubpay is a UAE-regulated fintech that gives small and medium businesses a global payments platform - multi-currency business accounts, competitive FX, cross-border payroll, and regulated payment links in one dashboard. Founded in 2019 by Kevin Kilty and licensed under the Abu Dhabi Global Market, it was the first independently regulated fintech in the UAE authorized to offer digital money services, and it now connects the UAE with markets across Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Klickl
Klickl is a regulated Web3 open-finance platform headquartered in Abu Dhabi that bridges traditional banking and digital assets. Founded in 2017, it offers crypto trading, custody, payments, multi-currency accounts, cards and OTC services under licenses from Abu Dhabi's ADGM, Poland (VASP/EU) and the US (FinCEN MSB). In December 2024 it raised a $25M Series A at a $125M valuation to expand across the MENA region and other emerging markets.
Napkin Inc.
Napkin Inc. is a Miami-founded, Abu Dhabi-incorporated company that buys, builds and grows cash-flowing digital service providers - creative agencies, SaaS, fintech and e-commerce shops - and rolls them into a shared, revenue-sharing structure it likens to turning digital transactions into tradable royalty streams. Led by co-founder and CEO Matthew Liberto, the company batches acquisitions of 'digital disruptors' and gives selling founders and staff common equity rather than the preferred-heavy terms of a traditional private-equity fund. Its work has since expanded into Napkin Deals, an online marketplace connecting buyers, sellers and capital providers across M&A, financing and digital-asset transactions.
VersiFi
VersiFi is a New York-based institutional digital asset trading and lending firm that pairs a low-latency, plug-and-trade platform with high-touch service. It gives institutions a single point of access to OTC and algorithmic trading, direct market access, borrowing, lending, and third-party custody - all wrapped in TradFi-grade compliance and risk controls.