From Builders to Creators: How Cozi.Club is Creating Dubai’s TrustCommunity of Exceptional Global AI Creative Talents

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Dubai has no shortage of ambition, capital, or innovation hubs. What it has lacked until recently is a functional trust community that helps global creative talent and AI founders transition from arrival to real traction. That gap is what Cozi.Club was built to solve, a trust community for creative AI builders’ success.

Positioned at the intersection of creative talent, Tech Infrastructure, and Mentors and Investors to substantially improve execution success rates, Cozi.Club operates less like a traditional co-living space and more like an operating system for globally mobile creative talent. Our value is zero friction for exceptional talent. Cozi.Club offers a lifestyle designed for sustainable innovation, helping you build in the UAE for the global stage.

The Critical Problem: Talents Lose their Grit, Money, and Momentum

Dubai continues to attract extraordinary AI-first talent from MENA, Europe, Asia, and North America. Yet many struggle to convert that initial grit into sustainable innovation and wealth creation success. The challenges remain consistent: high cost of living, fragmented ecosystem access, lifestyle misalignment for talent, and the trust gap between entry and market traction.

“When we arrived in Dubai in 2021, we came as builders,” Mey and Ehsan Jahani stated. “But as we grew, we noticed a critical gap; talented founders from around the world were arriving with the same fire we had, only to lose their momentum and hard earned savings within months.”

Cozi.Club is designed to create a “community for builders’ success”. A full concierge for talent integration, creating a trusted community that empowers their engagement to thrive and stay ahead of AI’s rapid evolution.

Community as Infrastructure, Not a Perk

At its core, Cozi.Club introduces a community-as-infrastructure model. Members are not passive residents or event attendees; they are embedded participants in a curated ecosystem built around shared ambition, accountability, and long-term presence in the region; Cozi.club converts tech tourism to long-term builders’ community.

The model blends villa-style living with a supportive lifestyle including gym, F&B, Funding access, coworking and ecosystem connectivity. This creates something rare in fast-moving Tech Talent House (Home Office). By lowering living costs, accelerating trust-building, and compressing access to relevant mentors and subject expert matters, Cozi.Club helps talent move from idea to execution faster, confidently and without losing their grit.

Why Talent House Matters for Dubai’s Tech Ecosystem

Dubai’s strategic plan, D33, and UAE Centennial 2071, to attract global talent hinge not just on inflow, but on retention and integration. Cozi.club serves as a buffer for AI-first and technology-driven exceptional talent who might otherwise struggle to establish themselves.

The impact is cumulative. As more founders stay, build, and create success stories, the UAE ecosystem compounds. Informal mentorship becomes structured knowledge transfer. Introductions turn into partnership and fundraising. Early-stage ideas evolve into regionally anchored AI-First startups.

From Builders for Builders; Cozi founders

Cozi.club was founded by Jahani brothers, Mey and Ehsan, whose own relocation to Dubai in 2021 gave them firsthand insight into the challenges facing incoming founders. While their backgrounds span venture building across AI, fintech, and emerging technologies, the emphasis of their work has expanded from cofoundership to creating the community for builders’ success.

Form Cofounder-as-a-Service to Ecosystem-as-infrastructure; Venturun to Cozi

As Cozi.club matures, Venturun, DMCC company, emerged as a natural extension rather than a separate initiative. While Cozi.club focuses on full concierge for exceptional talent, Venturun operates as a cofounder-as-a-service platform that works hands-on with founders ready to scale.

Venturun functions as a true co-founder model, supporting Go-to-Market strategy, fundraising, and regional/international expansion.Cozi.club’s trust-rich founder-investor community directly benefits the creative tech talent ecosystem. Together, the two form a pipeline: exceptional talent first, company second.

Turning UAE to Epicentre of Sustainable Regional AI Innovation

As part of MENANOVA Holding (based in ADGM) and aligned with UAE’s broader talent and innovation goals, Cozi.club and Venturun represent a practical, founder-led solution to a systemic challenge. Rather than relying on policy alone, it demonstrates how private initiatives can create trusted, dynamic, and self-organized communities and infrastructures that support public objectives.

Looking ahead, the vision is to deepen collaboration with ecosystem partners, institutions, and platforms, while staying true to the principle that defines Cozi.Club, removing friction, strengthening trust, and enabling global tech talent to build with confidence at the speed of AI.

Dubai has no shortage of ambition, capital, or innovation hubs. What it has lacked until recently is a functional trust community that helps global creative talent and AI founders transition from arrival to real traction. That gap is what Cozi.Club was built to solve, a trust community for creative AI builders’ success.

Positioned at the intersection of creative talent, Tech Infrastructure, and Mentors and Investors to substantially improve execution success rates, Cozi.Club operates less like a traditional co-living space and more like an operating system for globally mobile creative talent. Our value is zero friction for exceptional talent. Cozi.Club offers a lifestyle designed for sustainable innovation, helping you build in the UAE for the global stage.

The Critical Problem: Talents Lose their Grit, Money, and Momentum

Dubai continues to attract extraordinary AI-first talent from MENA, Europe, Asia, and North America. Yet many struggle to convert that initial grit into sustainable innovation and wealth creation success. The challenges remain consistent: high cost of living, fragmented ecosystem access, lifestyle misalignment for talent, and the trust gap between entry and market traction.

“When we arrived in Dubai in 2021, we came as builders,” Mey and Ehsan Jahani stated. “But as we grew, we noticed a critical gap; talented founders from around the world were arriving with the same fire we had, only to lose their momentum and hard earned savings within months.”

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