Fahmi Al Shawwa Built Immensa to Kill the Warehouse. The Industrial World Is Starting to Listen.

Fahmi Al Shawwa founded Immensa in 2016, the same year Sheikh Mohammed launched Dubai's 3D Printing Strategy. That timing was not accidental. Al Shawwa had spent years watching industrial companies do something absurd: storing billions of dollars worth of physical spare parts in warehouses across the world, just in case a pump or a valve failed somewhere on a rig or in a power plant. The parts would sit there for years. Many would never be used. The cost was staggering. The waste was staggering. And nobody was solving it.

So he decided to.

The Problem He Saw Before Anyone Else Did

The global industrial spare parts market is worth $165 billion. Most of it is locked up in physical inventory. Al Shawwa's insight was that a spare part is fundamentally a piece of information. A certified digital model of that part, stored securely, can be manufactured on demand anywhere in the world, the moment it is needed. No warehouse. No shipping delay. No rotting stock.

Immensa built the infrastructure to make that possible. They call it a Digital Parts Passport: a certified, secure digital file for each component, paired with a global network of qualified manufacturing partners who can produce the part on demand using additive manufacturing.

What Backing From the Dubai Future District Fund Means

This month, Immensa raised fresh growth capital from the Dubai Future District Fund and Global Ventures. The DFDF does not back companies for prestige. It backs builders who are solving problems that matter to the UAE's long-term industrial future. That Al Shawwa has their backing is a signal worth paying attention to.

Immensa now operates across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Kazakhstan. Their clients include some of the largest industrial operators in the Gulf. The company previously raised $20 million in 2023, and is now building toward its next round.

Why This Matters

Al Shawwa is not building a software company. He is rebuilding how physical industry works. That is a harder, slower, more specific kind of obsession. The kind that takes a decade to prove out. Dubai gave him the environment to do it. Now he is taking the model global.

Watch Immensa. Watch Fahmi Al Shawwa. This is what serious building looks like.