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The Company Behind the Buy Button
Techies Infotech makes its living in the hard, hidden layer of Gulf commerce - where a polished storefront must still speak to warehouses, payments, tax systems and customers in two languages.
Arimac Digital
Arimac Digital is a full-stack digital product engineering company founded in Sri Lanka in 2011 and now operating out of Colombo, Dubai and beyond. It builds enterprise-grade web, mobile, AI, immersive and robotics products for global brands across fintech, telecom, aviation and consumer sectors - clients include Emirates, Etihad, Coca-Cola, Tesco, Visa and Ooredoo. With 400+ specialists, 850+ solutions delivered and a claimed 330 million+ digital lives reached, Arimac positions itself as one of South Asia's leading engineering-led digital studios, and made headlines building Diyazen, Sri Lanka's first humanoid robot.
DXwand
DXwand is a Dubai- and Cairo-based enterprise AI company whose ORXTRA platform lets large organisations build and deploy generative AI agents on top of their own documents, databases and workflows. Founded in 2018 by two former Microsoft executives, Ahmed Mahmoud and Mahmoud Gomaa, the company built its edge on two hard problems most Western vendors skipped: understanding spoken Arabic across its many dialects, and running useful AI cheaply enough that a bank or a ministry can afford to put it in front of millions of people. Its knowledge-mining and RAG engine removes the manual data-labelling step that normally stalls enterprise AI projects, and its agents ship as pre-built modules for customer service, procurement and HR, or as custom builds through a no-code Agent Builder that supports 20+ language models and 80+ data sources. DXwand serves financial services, government, healthcare, telecom, education, media and retail clients across MENA, has raised roughly $6.9 million to date including a $4 million Series A led by Shorooq Partners and Algebra Ventures, and says it reached about $5 million in annual recurring revenue while remaining profitable.
Step
Step is a new-media and events company that runs one of the largest technology festivals in the Middle East and North Africa. Founded by Ray Dargham in 2011, it stages the annual Step Conference in Dubai and Saudi Arabia, publishes tech newsletters and social platforms like StepFeed, and connects founders, investors and builders. From a first edition of roughly 100 people, it has grown to draw more than 8,000 attendees, with startups featured on its stages collectively raising billions in funding. In 2026 the company extended its model to San Francisco with an AI-focused edition.