Funding

Abdallah Abu-Sheikh: The $230M Bet on 2 Billion Underbanked Muslims

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: Building the Last-Mile Logistics Layer for 2 Billion Emerging Market Shoppers

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: Building the Last-Mile Logistics Layer for 2 Billion Emerging Market Shoppers

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.

Slava Solonitsyn: The Founder Replacing Construction with Robots

A former $100M 3D printing founder quit his successful exit to build robots that will fundamentally change construction. Buildroid's simulation-first approach and partnership model signal a paradigm shift in automation.

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

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.