Technology

Hamza Iraqui and Abdessamad Ben Zakour built Revibe in Dubai to fix a broken market: a region that kept buying new devices when millions of refurbished ones were already good enough. With every phone passing a 50-point quality check and a 12-month warranty, Revibe has served hundreds of thousands of customers. Now $17 million from Partech and a group of regional investors is funding expansion into every major consumer electronics category.

Serial entrepreneur Abdallah Abu-Sheikh closed the largest seed round in Middle Eastern history for Mal, an AI-native Islamic digital bank betting big on a market traditional fintech ignores.

Rita Huang solved the last-mile delivery problem that defeated the world's largest logistics networks: she built iMile to connect 2 billion emerging market buyers and sellers.

Rita Huang solved the last-mile delivery problem that defeated the world's largest logistics networks: she built iMile to connect 2 billion emerging market buyers and sellers.

Jalil Allabadi transformed his father's medical dictionary into Altibbi, MENA's largest digital health platform serving 20M users across the Arab world.

Hosam Arab built Namshi into the Middle East's largest fashion retailer, then started Tabby. The fintech startup became the region's only independent unicorn by solving a problem traditional banks ignored: giving young Muslims access to interest-free installment payments.

Fahmi Al Shawwa founded Immensa in 2016 with a simple but radical idea: what if industrial companies never had to stockpile physical spare parts again? A decade later, backed by the Dubai Future District Fund, he is closer than ever to proving it.