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The Singapore Geospatial Chief Who Made Sovereign AI a Global Export
May 16, 2026
The Investor Who Bet Abu Dhabi Could Feed Itself
May 12, 2026
The Delivery Founder Who Sold to Amazon and Stayed to Fix the Invoice
May 12, 2026
The Goldman Banker Who Taught Machines to Read the Fine Print
March 27, 2026
The Swiss Outsider Who Built the Gulf's Real Estate Operating System
March 26, 2026
The Man Who Became Dubai's Mortgage
March 25, 2026
Chris Hutchinson Wants Your Dollars to Move Like Your Messages.
March 21, 2026
Hamza Iraqui Is Betting $17 Million That You'll Never Buy a New Phone Again
March 17, 2026
Alexander Epure Is Replacing the Hiring Stack With a Single AI
March 16, 2026
Mudassir Sheikha Built a $3 Billion Super App for a Region the World Forgot to Map
March 16, 2026The Singapore Geospatial Chief Who Made Sovereign AI a Global Export
After building Singapore's Smart Nation mapping infrastructure as CEO of Esri Singapore, Thomas Pramotedham arrived in Abu Dhabi in 2021 to lead Presight AI: a G42 company with a harder brief: turn government data into the most deployable applied AI platform on earth.
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The Goldman Banker Who Taught Machines to Read the Fine Print
Arya Bolurfrushan left Wall Street, took an oil company public in Oslo, then moved to Abu Dhabi to build the AI platform that automates the most compliance-heavy industries on earth.
The Swiss Outsider Who Built the Gulf's Real Estate Operating System
Michael Lahyani left a consulting career in Geneva because he saw something nobody in Dubai's property market wanted to admit: the entire industry was flying blind.
The Man Who Became Dubai's Mortgage
Jad Antoun didn't set out to fix real estate. He set out to fix the moment everyone almost walks away from it. The mortgage.
Chris Hutchinson Wants Your Dollars to Move Like Your Messages.
Utexo raised $7.5M to put USDT on Bitcoin. Instantly, privately, for near-zero cost. Tether led the round. That's the whole signal.
Hamza Iraqui Is Betting $17 Million That You'll Never Buy a New Phone Again
Revibe just closed a $17M round led by Partech to become the most trusted refurbished electronics marketplace in MENA and Africa. Because the real barrier was never price. It was trust.
Alexander Epure Is Replacing the Hiring Stack With a Single AI
Dubai-based Qureos just raised $5 million to prove that AI can compress enterprise hiring from months to six days. Alexander Epure built the platform that 1,000+ organizations are already using to find talent faster.
Mudassir Sheikha Built a $3 Billion Super App for a Region the World Forgot to Map
Careem started as a corporate car service in Dubai. It ended as the most important technology acquisition in MENA history. Because Sheikha refused to stop at the obvious answer.
Idriss Al Rifai Solved the Middle East's Oldest Logistics Problem With the Phone in Your Pocket
Fetchr raised $41M to crack the last-mile delivery puzzle across a region where most people don't have a street address. By making the customer the address.
Raouf Khalil Built America's Largest Home Healthcare Network. Then He Did It Again in Dubai.
After selling his California home health empire to Option Care, Raouf Khalil landed in Dubai in 2011 with one conviction: the GCC needed doctors delivered, not just prescribed. TruDoc just raised $15M from the Al Nahyan family to prove he was right.
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