Dubai startup resources

Crash course on Dubai’s startup ecosystem

Times have changed from 6 years ago (2008) when our startup DUPLAYS was just getting off the ground, holding meetings at Caribou Coffee. Today Dubai has a number of co-working spaces, accelerators and an overall much more vibrant startup scene.

Co-working spaces

• The Shelter - co-working, events, and more
• MAKE Business Hub - Dubai Marina cafe, co-working space
• Impact Hub - Dubai - part of network of 30+ “hubs” around the world
• The Cribb - part of Innovation 360 that also run i360 and Turn8 below
• The Pavilion - sadly closing/closed
• Astrolabs - coming soon!

Startup news

• Wamda - the source for MENA startup news, that also has a fund, and does great events like Mix N Mentor

Accelerators

• i360 Accelerator
• Turn8
• In5
• Seed Startup
• Sicilon Oasis
• Afkar.me

Startups

• Dubizzle - Buy, sell, find anything in Dubai
• DUPLAYS - Play rec sports and meet new people
• PropertyFinder.ae - Rent/buy your apartment
• Nabbesh - Post and search for skills, find a co-founder
• Eureeca - Crowd investing platform
• Restronaut - Social dining, like “DUPLAYS for dining out” :)
• Careem - Dubai’s own Uber / car service
• Qordoba - Translation marketplace
• Astrolabs - Startup education programs “Scaling online startups”
• FishFishMe - Go fishing!
• JadoPado - Buy electronics and more online
• …plus 100’s more on AngelList angel.co/dubai