In Focus - Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund: Page 3

Starting a Business

Startup Spotlight: Silicon Valley-Based Predictiv Is Bringing Its DNA Testing Expertise To The UAE

Conceptualized in July 2020, Predictiv was built with an approach wherein the platform "integrates your health history, your lifestyle, and your genes."

Starting a Business

Startup Spotlight: Sharjah-Based Merlin Farms Is Addressing MENA's Water Scarcity And Food Security Issues Through Aquaponics

Merlin Farms' farming technique is based on the concept of aquaponics -a combination of aquaculture and hydroponics- which can grow plants without soil by utilizing fish waste.

Starting a Business

Startup Spotlight: Dubai-Based Dukkan Aims To Provide Local Retail Stores With A Digital Edge

As a mobile application service that promises to deliver items from local stores within an hour in Dubai, Dukkan is aiming to give small and medium businesses in the Emirate a better head start in the online realm.

Starting a Business

Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based Frontier Is Enabling Easier Access To Space-Related Education

Launched with a vision to "push the frontiers of space science" in an interactive way, Frontier offers a hybrid gamified learning model, available in both Arabic and English.

Starting a Business

Startup Spotlight: Here's How Abu Dhabi-Based Heidron Energy Solutions Is Producing Lighter (And Cheaper) Batteries For Electric Vehicles

By offering Li-ion batteries made out of Silicon anodes, Abu Dhabi-based Heidron Energy Solutions is looking to create a less complex and much cheaper way to produce energy sources for electric vehicles.

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Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based Social Platform Fanera Is All About Connecting Football Fans In An Engaging, Interactive Way

Fanera is an app designed "for and by football fans" to share and engage with football content created by a community of fans, influencers, players, and clubs.

Growth Strategies

Startup Spotlight: Predixa Is Helping Companies Across The UAE Unlock The Financial Value Of Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion

Helping companies realize the social, as well as financial value associated with achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion forms the crux of Predixa's mission.

Growth Strategies

Startup Spotlight: AR Engineering Is Optimizing Digital Learning To Help Students Be More Job-Ready

Through its subscription-based augmented reality learning app, AR Academy, the firm offers access to a catalog of three-dimensional engineering systems, it enables students to interact with and operate these systems from remote locations.

Starting a Business

Startup Spotlight: AI-Based Platform Metanoa Is Enabling The Early Diagnosis Of Learning Disorders In Children

Metanoa enables the early diagnosis of developmental disorders such as autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities, speech delays, and others.

Growth Strategies

Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based MyUniPath Helps MENA Students Choose The Right Universities To Enrol In

By helping students figure out the "right" program, as well as how to pay for it, MyUniPath is helping students find the universities that best suit their requirements.

Growth Strategies

Startup Spotlight: Luxembourg-Headquartered Maana Electric Is Bringing Its Sustainable Solar Panel Producing Mobile Factories To The UAE

With an aim to become "the utility company of the solar system," Maana Electric has developed a mobile factory, called the TerraBox, that can produce solar panels using only sand and electricity- a model it hopes to recreate on the Moon and Mars as well.

Entrepreneurs

Startup Spotlight: Dubai-Based Podeo Wants To Help Arab Creators With An End-To-End Platform To Start A Podcast

Founded in 2019, Podeo is a podcast platform that enables creators and publishers to record, host, produce and distribute their podcasts on global podcasting directories, including the platform's own application.

Entrepreneurs

Startup Spotlight: Dubai-Based Flashy Aims To Become A Market Leader In The Commercial Brand Photography Domain

Flashy provides professional product/service photography for e-commerce businesses as well as those that operate in the F&B, hospitality, events, and real estate sectors.

Entrepreneurs

Startup Spotlight: UAE-Based AS2 Systems Offers Cutting-Edge Technologies That Can Help Secure Maritime Autonomy

Launched in September 2020, AS2 Systems is a tech startup that uses its proprietary technologies to develop a secure "command and control" system that offers autonomous control of any vessel, irrespective of its size or complexity.

Starting a Business

Startup Spotlight: Dubai-Based Fleetroot Is Easing Last-Mile Delivery Hassles For Businesses Across The MENA

In addition, the logistics platform also helps improve the safety and efficiency of connected operations by offering fleet management tools.