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CiNQ Builds the Rooms Where Industry Never Sleeps
The Dubai engineering group turns drawings into E-houses, offshore living quarters and chilled-water tanks - the quiet infrastructure that keeps power, people and data centers running.
The Company That Rents You a Sales Team in the Gulf - and the AI That Tells It Who to Call
Selling software into the Gulf usually means hiring locally, learning the market the hard way, and waiting months to get paid. Cadena turns that whole problem into a subscription.
Digital Gravity Wants One Team to Build Your Entire Digital Business
The Dubai agency bundles designers, developers, marketers and emerging-tech specialists into one shop. Its wager is simple: in a fragmented agency market, fewer handoffs can be a product in itself.
Bayzat
Reduce HR admin time, run payroll in minutes, streamline all your payments, and deliver world-class employee experiences - unified on one platform hyperlocalised for the GCC.
Cozmo AI
Cozmo AI (formerly CozmoX AI) builds multimodal 'AI employees' that answer calls, read documents, and complete regulated business processes end to end for financial services, insurance, and enterprise operations. Founded by Alok Kumar and Nuha Hashem - the team behind the Gen Z neobank Zywa - the Y Combinator W22 company runs from San Francisco and Dubai, and says its agents handle voice conversations in 70+ languages including multiple Arabic dialects.
FinFlx
FinFlx is a Dubai-based fintech that helps UAE companies forecast, fund and manage their employees' end-of-service gratuity in line with local labour law. Its platform automates gratuity calculations for HR and finance teams, lets employers park those liabilities in a segregated, professionally managed fund, and gives employees an app with a flexible savings account paying a guaranteed 4-5% return. Founded by Amr Yussif and Matthieu Capelle after Yussif's own gratuity was withheld, FinFlx went through Y Combinator's W22 batch and is regulated by the FSRA in Abu Dhabi Global Market.
YC Ventures
YC Ventures is a Dubai-based diversified investment company built on a maritime core. It owns and operates dry-bulk ships, manages technical and crew operations for a wider fleet, and recycles the returns into technology ventures spanning maritime fintech (Shipfinex), marine e-commerce procurement (Shipskart), lithium energy storage (Terranova), and youth leadership education. Led by Group CEO Yasovardhan Chinni, the group works across the UAE, India, Singapore, Nigeria and the USA under the operating idea of owning the asset, running the voyage, and compounding the capital into the next venture.
eyewa
eyewa is the Middle East's largest omnichannel eyewear retailer, selling prescription glasses, sunglasses, blue light glasses and contact lenses through its e-commerce platform, mobile app and a growing network of physical stores across the GCC. Founded in Dubai in 2017 by former Bain consultants Anass Boumediene and Mehdi Oudghiri, the company pairs affordable in-house brands with technology like AI-powered virtual try-on, and reached roughly 150 stores before raising a $100M Series C led by General Atlantic in late 2024 to fund a 100-store expansion.
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.
FinBursa
FinBursa is an AI-native operating platform for private markets, built in the Dubai International Financial Centre. It connects capital seekers, advisors and qualified investors on one neutral, integrated system, replacing scattered CRMs, spreadsheets and ad-hoc data rooms with deal management, fundraising, virtual data rooms and AI agents. The platform charges no success fees on its marketplace and focuses on opening private-market access across the Middle East and emerging markets.
First Data Company
First Data Company is a Dubai-based marketing technology firm that turns anonymized transaction data into precise advertising audiences. Its machine-learning models aggregate purchase signals from retailers, mobile operators and online cash registers to predict what a customer is likely to buy next, then place relevant ads across Google, Facebook and programmatic inventory. Positioned for a cookieless world under the tagline "We know your customer," the company blends brand-building ("brandformance") with performance marketing and CRM personalization to lift sales for its clients.
Flow48
Flow48 is a Dubai-based fintech that gives small and medium businesses in emerging markets fast access to working capital by turning their future revenue and unpaid invoices into upfront cash. Founded in 2022 by serial entrepreneur Idriss Al Rifai, the company uses a proprietary, data-driven underwriting engine to approve non-dilutive, collateral-free financing of up to $20 million, typically disbursing funds within 24 to 48 hours. Operating across the UAE and South Africa with expansion into Saudi Arabia, Flow48 raised a $69 million Series A in February 2025 to close the SME funding gap that traditional banks leave open.
Holo
Holo is a Dubai-based digital mortgage platform that lets home buyers and homeowners compare, apply for and track mortgages across 20+ banks in one place. Founded in 2020 by mortgage veterans Michael Hunter and Arran Summerhill, it pairs proprietary automation software with human advisors to cut the paperwork and opacity out of home financing. The company is profitable in the UAE, has helped tens of thousands of clients, processes over AED 1 billion in applications monthly, and raised a $22M Series A in 2025 to expand across Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC.
Huspy
Huspy is a Dubai-based proptech and fintech company that runs a digital platform for buying and financing homes. It connects home buyers, real estate agents and banks in one place, offering online mortgage comparison and pre-approval, a broker portal linked to more than 25 banks, and mobile tools for agents. Founded in 2020 by Jad Antoun and Khalid Ashmawy, Huspy operates across the UAE and Spain, facilitates over $7 billion in annual real estate transactions, and has helped more than 25,000 people buy homes.
InMobiles Holding
InMobiles Holding is a Dubai-headquartered information and communications technology (ICT) provider founded in 2006. It supplies mobile network operators, telecom regulators and enterprises with A2P SMS messaging hubs, next-generation SMS firewalls, value-added services (VAS), roaming, fintech, KYC and revenue-assurance solutions, alongside consumer apps such as the NumberBook caller-ID service. A GSMA associate member and former ISAG board member, InMobiles reports more than 235 international installations and reach across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas.
INTEREL
INTEREL is a Dubai-based smart building technology company that builds the hardware, operating system and IoT infrastructure hotels and multifamily properties use to control HVAC, lighting, shades and guest services from a single connected platform. Its 'Hotel of Things' ecosystem pairs a portfolio of smart thermostats and room controllers with INTEREL OS and the connectBsmart connectivity framework, letting properties automate energy use, integrate door locks, voice assistants and property-management systems, and cut water and power consumption. Founded in 2010, INTEREL has installed roughly 500,000 devices across more than 45 countries and now operates within the Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem.
Mawaad Environmental Services
Mawaad Environmental Services (MES) is a Dubai-based materials processing and resource-recovery company founded in 2018 by Ismail Fahmy. It turns industrial by-products - chiefly the slag left over from steelmaking - into marketable construction materials such as steel slag aggregates and ladle furnace slag. Operating on a cradle-to-cradle circular-economy model across the GCC and Egypt, MES holds long-term processing agreements with steel producers including Emirates Steel and Ezz Steel, and reported processing and selling 300,000 tons of steel slag in the first half of 2021.
Podeo
Podeo is a Dubai-based podcast platform that gives creators an end-to-end toolkit to record, host, produce, distribute and monetize their shows. Started in Beirut and now the largest podcast platform in the Middle East and North Africa, it has onboarded more than 100,000 creators reaching an audience of roughly 50 million listeners. Its distinguishing move is distribution beyond the usual apps - pushing audio into radio stations, airlines, ride-hailing, gaming and chat apps - paired with a programmatic advertising model that keeps the service free for creators while sharing revenue as their audiences grow.
PropSpace
PropSpace is Dubai's longest-running real estate CRM, launched in 2012 as the first dedicated real estate software built for the UAE and wider MENA market. The cloud-based, mobile-ready platform gives brokers, agents, property managers and developers a single place to manage leads, listings, deals, viewings, marketing and reporting - plus lease, maintenance and financial tools for property management. After six years inside portal group Property Finder, PropSpace was spun out in 2024 as an independent company led by CEO Patrick Caulfield and COO Tom Dickson, and now serves hundreds of agencies including CBRE, Savills and Hamptons.
Stake
Stake is a Dubai-based digital real estate investment platform that lets people buy fractions of income-generating property from as little as AED 500. Investors earn passive rental income and capital appreciation while Stake handles sourcing, acquisition, management and exit. Regulated by the DFSA in the UAE and the CMA in Saudi Arabia, the platform serves more than two million users across 181 countries and has expanded from Dubai into Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and US industrial real estate.
WegoPro
WegoPro is a business travel and expense management platform that gives growing companies a single place to book flights and hotels, enforce travel policies through multi-level approvals, and automate expense reporting with real-time analytics. Formerly the Singapore-founded SaaS startup Travelstop, it was acquired by Middle East travel marketplace Wego in September 2023 and relaunched as WegoPro in January 2024, initially across seven MENA markets. The platform pairs consumer-grade booking experience with finance-team controls, aiming to reduce travel costs and administrative overhead for small and mid-sized businesses.
YAP
YAP is a Dubai-based digital banking platform that lets people open an account, get an instant IBAN and Mastercard, send and receive money, pay bills and track spending entirely from a mobile app. Launched in March 2021 as the UAE's first independent digital banking platform, YAP does not hold its own banking licence in the UAE; instead it partners with licensed banks (originally RAKBANK) to provide the underlying accounts while YAP builds the customer-facing experience, analytics and card controls. The company has raised roughly $41 million and is expanding across the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, targeting Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan and Ghana.
Zbooni
Zbooni is a Dubai-based conversational commerce platform that lets businesses capture orders, send invoices, and accept payments directly inside messaging and social apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. Founded in 2016 by Ramy Assaf and Ashraf Atia, the company champions what it calls cCommerce - selling through the chat window customers already use - and provides merchants a mobile business dashboard, payment links, and its own payment gateway across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt.
Zeeyarah - Superior Tracks Travel & Tourism
Zeeyarah - Superior Tracks Travel & Tourism (Superior Tracks Travel and Tourism LLC) is a Dubai-based online travel agency and B2B travel aggregator that was the first company in the Gulf and MENA region to earn IATA NDC Level 4 certification. Branded as Zeeyarah in the Gulf and Flyintrip elsewhere, it connects consumers and travel-trade partners directly to airline and hotel inventory through New Distribution Capability (NDC) technology, offering flights, hotels, holiday packages, transfers, car rentals and cruises. Founded in 2016 by former Emirates Airlines executive Mohammed Gaus, the company blends deep airline-industry expertise with a technology-first distribution platform.