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As Uber spends $10bn to own robotaxis, Dubai’s Zed shows why taxi fleets matter again
Japan’s GO grew from a Tokyo cab company’s taximeter business into a $1.3bn listing. In Dubai, Al Ghurair is testing the same idea with Zed, a homegrown app backed by more than 4,200 of its own taxis.
Why a pair of shorts follows you online, and how KinraLab plans to fix fashion's keyhole view of shoppers
Retailers spend billions on personalisation built from clicks and returns. KinraLabs founder Olga is betting that a profile shoppers own, built from who they are and what they actually wear, will serve both customers and brands better.
Maven Robotics raises $100M Series A as Shorooq and Presight back its warehouse robots
The Santa Clara company, founded in 2024, will build 250 third-generation robots for palletising and tote handling in logistics and manufacturing
Hyundai spin-off Dtonic runs data hubs for most of Korea's smart cities. Its next test is Palantir's home turf
Dtonic, a 96-person company from Seongnam, cut a pandemic contact-tracing job from 48 hours to five minutes and now says its ontology-based AI OS can pull enterprise AI out of the pilot trap. Whether an execution layer built for Korean cities can compete globally is the question that will define its listing ambitions.
Palma.ai raises $1.8m pre-seed to govern enterprise AI agents
Palma.ai is building a single control layer for AI agents working across Claude, Gemini and Copilot. The backers now funding it are also using it to become AI-native venture firms.
Nayla raises SAR67 million as the first Sanabil Studio venture to attract outside investors
The SAMA-licensed microfinance lender secured US$18 million in equity and debt, led by Idrisi Ventures, to expand credit for Saudi micro businesses.
Huspy buys luxury brokerage LuxuryX as its UAE agent network grows 75% in nine months
The acquisition adds a senior luxury team ahead of next month's Huspy Signature launch, and shows again that AI-native property platforms cannot code their way into the high-end market.
QuantumGate says enterprises have roughly 30 months before today's encryption starts to expire
Adnan Fakhouri, Customer Success Lead, Delivery at QuantumGate, on why "harvest now, decrypt later" is becoming a board-level problem, and why the migration starts with an inventory rather than an algorithm swap.
A dying Jodhpur boot led two founders to start sweeping hotel rooms for hidden cameras
The QueerTech Verifications is bootstrapping an independent physical safety audit for hotels, funded by an AI video studio its founders built on a budget of a few hundred dollars
Restaurant Financing in Saudi Arabia: SPICE Tests Shariah-Compliant Dining Capitalr
SPICE advances Shariah-compliant funding to premium restaurants and returns 20% cashback to their diners, as the Kingdom’s foodservice economy heads toward $58.3 billion and embedded lending costs draw criticism in mature markets
Inside the $35 Billion race to interpret what infrastructure inspections actually reveal
As drone inspection consolidates around larger engineering stacks, Germany’s FlyNex is betting that owning the workflow from data capture through to investment decisions keeps independent software companies relevant.
TheStage AI is betting that the next wave of AI runs on phones rather than servers
With an SDK targeting NPUs on smartphones and laptops, the company is chasing an edge AI market forecast to reach $118.7 billion by 2033 while cutting cloud inference costs for existing customers.
Tax Star raises $1.75 million as accreditation becomes the scarcest asset in tax software
The Dubai company will spend the angel-backed seed round on go-to-market expansion and product development in the ten weeks before every large business in the country must appoint an accredited provider, in a market where the buyer's timetable is written by regulation.
Fuelre4m is selling the fuel industry the one thing it never counted: what it wastes
Rob Mortimer’s team came from telecoms, property, and radio communications, and built a fuel-reforming business on the quarter of every litre that never properly combusts. Holcim UK has rolled it out across 200 sites, and the credibility fight is only starting.
Why a Seoul geriatrician seeing 100 patients a day decided the ward needed an algorithm that could explain itself
AITRICS now runs in more than 190 Korean hospitals and holds clearances across five Asian markets. Its founder still practises medicine, and the product was rebuilt around the users he had not planned for.
The AI data centre is the product: inside MangoBoost’s full-stack bet
Founded out of a Seoul National University laboratory in 2022, MangoBoost has moved from DPU silicon to complete server racks, and now takes its open infrastructure argument into Abu Dhabi.
Featherless AI is betting that open models win, and that AMD is how they get there
Backed by AMD Ventures, Airbus Ventures and BMW i Ventures, the serverless inference platform has grown from an internal pricing experiment into a catalogue of more than 40,000 open models. Chief Revenue Officer Joe Fleming sets out how a $20 Million company intends to compete in a category where rivals carry multi-billion-dollar valuations.
Inside rahd·AI, the company betting decommissioning is a data problem first
With £44 billion still to be spent on the UK Continental Shelf and 500 wells already past deadline, the Aberdeen company argues the savings begin long before a rig is booked.
Why 88% of satellite methane alerts get ignored, and how AIRMO plans to change that
Detection stopped being the hard part years ago. The space company has raised €10 million and built its own laser sensor to produce a number regulators, auditors and operators will all act on, with the first satellite launching in 2027.
Longevium raises $7 million to build a longevity AI research lab at Dubai Science Park
The clinic network will open a dedicated research facility in the fourth quarter of 2026, moving biological age measurement, digital twins and regenerative medicine out of its consultation rooms and into a formal research programme regulated under Dubai’s new longevity law.