The UAE has successfully created a legal framework that is constantly adapting, matching or exceeding the highest international standards, to meet the needs of the entrepreneurship community.
The future of payments and digital innovation depends on the ability to collaborate with traditional and new players in the banking and payments sector to solve real consumer and merchant needs.
The event, which will run from 9am to 6pm, will feature a number of panel discussions and fireside chats with prominent members of the UAE and MENA entrepreneurial community.
From incubators and accelerators, to co-working spaces, education programs and funding, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is seeing a surge in the number of organizations to support entrepreneurs.
The event, featuring Ronaldo Mouchawar, Vice President, Amazon MENA, and co-founder, Souq.com, discussed opportunities and insights in the UAE's ecosystem.
One startup is hoping to make buying a used vehicle easier by streamlining the process of assessment and evaluation before a purchase with the help of its proprietary vehicle data platform.
The startup is a value-added marketplace of work, meeting, and event spaces, which allows users to book everything from meeting rooms to banquet halls to co-working spaces to serviced offices.
The sprint is an organized forum that brings these requirements together for five dedicated days, in order to strategically resolve a business problem, or harness a market opportunity and turn an idea into value.
Huge gaps still exist in the Middle East and North Africa's startup funding ecosystem, but substantial recent exits and an improvement in the quality of pitches could be on the way to changing the status quo.
UAE-based solar developer Yellow Door Energy aims to address rising costs and utility issues by helping save money, control energy costs, reduce carbon emissions, and enhance customers' sustainability objectives.