Top 40 Manufacturing Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates in May 2026

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• MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
• unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
• Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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• STARK — EUROPEAN DEFENCE SOVEREIGNTY
• Plasma — Plasma is an operational setting that supports payments, real-world assets, and DeFi, with trustless settlement on Bitcoin.
• Kriya Therapeutics — Kriya is a biopharmaceutical company developing gene therapy to address common diseases that impact millions of people worldwide. Learn more.

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• WakeCap — WakeCap Technologies RTLS is an IoT-based enterprise solution designed to support the digitization process of work sites, Construction, Oil and Gas, Industrial, Manufacture.

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• Prop-AI — Prop-AI is building the Bloomberg Terminal for real estate—an AI-powered platform that automates property discovery, evaluation, and acquisition.Headquartered in Dubai, Prop-AI uses proprietary machine learning and over 3 billion verified data points from government registries, real estate marketplaces, developers, and private sources. Itanalyzes all market listings and can access off-market opportunities by understanding all available supply and stakeholders. The platform delivers instant property valuations, investment scores, rental and appreciation forecasts, and fraud detection, giving investors and owners unmatched transparency and confidence.Prop-AI is focused on launching its Prop-AI Business platform and APIs for real estate professionals, alongside the region’s most advanced Agentic AI for Real Estate in 2025. These innovations aim to make intelligent, data-driven decision-making accessible to investors, real estate professionals, and eventually autonomous AI systems—setting a new standard for real estate investing in the region and beyond.
• Quotable AI — Shoppable Philippines B2B Marketplace
• Telescope Media Group — Telescope is a pioneer in media and technology that uses amusing, enlightening, and educational media material to have a good impact on society.

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• Datalogz — Datalogz is a BI Ops solution that enables teams to bridge the gaps in their business intelligence environment.
• Start Carreiras — Vetto has two engines: Vetto Core turns research intent into AI-ready data. Vetto Labs runs frontier research on how models learn better from data.
• Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.

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• Inovat — Travellers have to stand hours in the queues and get charged hidden fees to receive Tax refund that they are entitled to. They change that. With Inovat, get the best Tax Free experience that you deserve.
• Tradoor — Tradoor protects traders, LPs, and the protocol against unforeseen market fluctuations by using clever math and safety measures to enable traders to trade with confidence.
• Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.

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• Mentra — Mentra is a wearable technology company that develops smart glasses based on augmented reality and AI interface technologies.
• Luminal — Luminal provides a machine learning compiler and serverless cloud platform that automates PyTorch model optimization and deployment.
• Human Behavior — Human Behavior is a software development company that provides vision models to monitor and analyze product usage.

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• Salla — Salla a Saudi-based e-commerce platform that allows users to set up their e-commerce store in Arabic and sell their products and services to customers. In addition, users can set up their own branded store (with their own domain name) by selecting a design of their liking available on Salla. The owners of the e-commerce stores can then manage theirinventory by using Salla’s website or app. Salla provides different types of reports and tools that help store owners with automatic invoices, integration, Instagram, customer database, the ability to block customers, pin favorite products, have offers and discounts, and more.
• Gathern — Gathern is a booking platform of private villas, chalets, rest houses, camps, resorts, farms and other places suitable for gatherings.
• WakeCap — WakeCap Technologies RTLS is an IoT-based enterprise solution designed to support the digitization process of work sites, Construction, Oil and Gas, Industrial, Manufacture.

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• Everlyn — Everlyn is a Web3 video AI model that generates a decentralized infrastructure layer for autonomous video.
• Voyage — Voyage AI is an AI infrastructure project building the first GEOFi network to make AI-generated content citable.
• Cold River Games — Crystalfall is an upcoming free online action RPG with customizable skills and an endless endgame, set in a steampunk world.

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• Saee — Saee Jeddah-based last-mile delivery startup.
• Lucidya — Lucidya is a tool for social media analytics powered by artificial intelligence and big data solution. lucidya have many uses like market research, benchmarking, crisis management , product development ..etc
• MUNCH:ON — MUNCH:ON is a food tech startup that has cracked the subscription space in the UAE & KSA, focusing on offering meals from the best restaurants at a significant discount and with free delivery. The company has invested heavily in its scheduling, bundling and order prediction software which has enabled it to achieve massive cost savings for itsrestaurant partners that they then pass on to their users, often offering up to a 55% discount vs. restaurants' regular price. Whether it's employees ordering from their company's curated menu or users ordering for their families at home, the platform takes the usual hassle and cost out of food delivery in a financially (and environmentally) sustainable manner for all stakeholders

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• Synnax — Synnax is an artificial intelligence-powered financial platform which helps to forecast financial performance
• Mitosis — Mitosis is an EOL L1 blockchain that redefines the DeFi LP experience. EOL implements economies of scale to asset management and empowers LPs with increased bargaining power.
• Obol Labs — Powering and securing the multi-trillion dollar Ethereum economy w/ Distributed Validators - the end game of Ethereum staking.

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• Synnax — Synnax is an artificial intelligence-powered financial platform which helps to forecast financial performance
• The New Era® of Shopping — The New Era® of Shopping helps merchants make their catalogues discoverable and shoppable inside AI assistants. Key features of the platform include two-way catalog syncing with PIMs/ERPs, SKU-level intelligence to measure AI visibility and ranking of products inside LLM responses, user prompts analysis for trends and volume insights, andautomated content optimization to improve how products rank in conversational answers. The product is already integrated with all major eCommerce platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Wix, etc, as well as main AI discovery platforms: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity.

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• Synnax — Synnax is an artificial intelligence-powered financial platform which helps to forecast financial performance
• Treehouse — Treehouse is the decentralized fixed income layer, building yield solutions and unifying on-chain interest rates through its products, tAssets and DOR.

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• Nexosis — Blog About Machine Learning
• Tealium — Tealium is a customer data platform (CDP) that connects your data so you can connect with your customers!
• Receptiv — Download and use Free Background Photos. Browse the selection of free beautiful background photos submitted by our community of talented contributors and completely free to download and use.

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• Immensa — Immensa is building the largest on-demand AM spare parts platform for the energy industry thought, rapid digitization and RE of physical spare parts, collaborating with leading OEM's and Energy companies, enabling digital inventories on a global scale.

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• Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
• Mesh — Business entity identity verification radically simple, trusted, and portable, ensuring seamless interactions in the B2B Ecommerce, Marketplaces, Real Estate Technology, Construction | Mesh.
• Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.

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• Sakneen — All your inventory on a map reflecting availability from your CRM. We enable online payments and the distribution of inventory across your sales teams.
• Tenderd — Tenderd is an AI-powered fleet and equipment management platform that helps heavy industrial companies to track assets, reduce fuel costs, predict maintenance, and improve productivity in real time.
• EdenFarm Indonesia — EdenFarm Indonesia merupakan Start Up B2B, Pemasok bahan makanan mulai dari produk segar hingga sembako untuk restoran, warung nasi, hingga toko grosir.Menjual berbagai bahan pangan untuk usahamu mulai dari restoran hingga warung nasi

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• MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
• BLIFE Protocol — BLIFE Protocol's objective is to promote growth and development of Web3 on Bitcoin.
• NXI — Nexus Interactive gives collective growth and accrued value to its ecosystem.

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• Teleo — Teleo is revolutionizing material moving industries by turning heavy equipment into supervised autonomous machines.
• HavocAI — Havoc delivers scalable collaborative autonomy for maritime fleets, letting one operator command intelligent vessels with adaptive AI systems for defense & mission control.
• Warp — WARP is a technology company with an expansive network of carriers and cross-docks that automatically optimizes middle-mile freight to improve speed and reduce costs.

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• Era Software — Lightstep is the easiest way for developers and SREs to understand complex systems.
• Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
• Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.

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• Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
• Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
• Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.

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• Synnax — Synnax is an artificial intelligence-powered financial platform which helps to forecast financial performance
• StarSharks — StarSharks is a NFT-GameFi ecosystem based on the BSC chain developed by game players, governance committees, and game developers. The game integrates different types of games and breaks down barriers found between games by allowing players to use the same character to enter the Shark-metaverse. It enables players come together to build and govern a new metaverse and create a community culture in the Shark-metaverse.
• Mines of Dalarnia — An evolving platform-mining blockchain game, filled with single-and multiplayer action, built for every gamer

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• Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
• Urbanic — Hey! Check out this product I discovered on urbanic
• Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.

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• XION — XION | L1 BUILDING AN INTERNET WHERE TRUTH IS EASILY VERIFIABLE
• MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
• MANTRA — MANTRA bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi by offering the necessary infrastructure for tokenizing Real World Assets (RWAs) while adhering to real-world regulatory requirements.

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• Venus Concept — Venus Concept is a progressive thinking company driven by their passion to create cutting edge technologies and products. While resting on strong ethical morals, they push boundaries in order to create new standards in the medical aesthetics industry.Led by a team of experienced executives and researchers, world renowned for their achievementsin the medical aesthetics industry, Venus Concept is delivering the promise of a more effective, more pleasant and more profitable experience.
• WakeCap — WakeCap Technologies RTLS is an IoT-based enterprise solution designed to support the digitization process of work sites, Construction, Oil and Gas, Industrial, Manufacture.

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• SiPhox Health — Painless, 5-minute biomarker testing at home. Clear insights, trend tracking, and a personalized plan built around your results.
• Character.ai — Chat with millions of AI Characters on the #1 AI chat app. Where will your next adventure take you?
• Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

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• Immensa — Immensa is building the largest on-demand AM spare parts platform for the energy industry thought, rapid digitization and RE of physical spare parts, collaborating with leading OEM's and Energy companies, enabling digital inventories on a global scale.

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• Abwaab — Abwaab is an online learning platform that allows secondary-school students to learn at their own pace, test themselves and get ahead with our expert tutors anytime and anywhere. By offering short, engaging video lessons, visualized learning journeys, continuous assessment and performance analytics, we are changing the way students learn outsidethe classroom.
• Nas.com — Nas.io helps anyone go from idea to revenue in 1 minute with AI. Create digital products, build engaged communities, and automate marketing—all in one intuitive platform. Nas.io puts community first. Challenges, events, social feed, and memberships drive revenue growth for your business. Join 200k+ entrepreneurs and build your dream digitalbusiness with AI in 1 minute, no technical skills required.
• NorthLadder — Most of us know what it feels like to sell a pre-owned device - be it a smartphone, a laptop or a tablet. The fact is that the pre-owned market is intransparent and finding a fair price for your asset is daunting. Even if you do get a fair price, the inconvenience of meeting the buyer, negotiating the price, shipping the asset, and waiting forpayment could be an exhausting process. And then there is the worry of figuring out what happens to the data on your device.This is why NorthLadder came to be. We are the region’s only auction-driven selling platform for pre-owned electronics devices- a thoughtfully created service where people can sell their devices to a network of global buyers and get cash instantly in a safe, dignified, and hassle-free manner.But that’s not all. We have many convenient drop-off locations across the region for getting instant cash against your devices. Don’t want to drop off your device? No worries, we will come to your doorstep to pick it up and hand the cash over to you. And if you want your data to be erased, we can advise you on ways to do it or use internationally approved software to erase it for a small fee.We have served thousands of customers and their overwhelmingly positive feedback tells us we are on the right track. Our efforts actively contribute to the formation of a circular economy, which is the need of the day. You can help too, by introducing your electronic gadget to the secondary market - increase its lifespan and reduce its carbon footprint. This is what keeps us motivated: to help the planet as we continue our mission to serve millions of people across the globe.We are passionate, we are focussed, we are NorthLadder.

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• Ceto — Maximising vessel performance, minimising downtime and cutting emissions across maritime fleets by capturing and analysing realtime vessel data.
• Pinch AI — Pinch is a no-code, AI-powered abuse mitigation platform that helps merchants gain control over their margins and customer acquisition costs by predicting post-purchase buyer behavior.
• Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.

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• Wyvern — Discover hyperspectral imaging and Earth observation data from Wyvern. Access research-grade satellite imagery that reveals the hidden reality of our planet.
• Starpath Robotics — Making fully reusable missions to the Moon and Mars possible.
• Continuum Technology — Connecting world-class executive talent to the best venture-backed companies for consulting, advising and full-time roles.

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• Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
• TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
• Bion — Bion is a Web3 shopping application that uses blockchain technology to enhance the shopping experience.

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• Zerion — Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception.
• Tenbin Labs — Tenbin Labs is a New York-based startup developing a tokenized asset protocol for real-world assets like commodities and foreign exchange markets.
• Pyth Network — The Pyth network is a specialized oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind the “walled gardens’’ of centralized institutions. The Pyth network is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this unique data on-chain and aggregating it securely.

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• Corgea — Corgea finds, triages, and fixes vulnerabilities across code, packages, infrastructure, and containers.
• Triple-A — TripleA helps businesses increase their revenue by enabling crypto payments and payouts, leveraging on the fast-growing 300m+ people using cryptocurrencies.With its white-label, easy setup, instant confirmation, locked-in exchange rate, real-time fiat conversion, and no chargeback crypto payment solution, TripleA meets the needs of e-commercemerchants, retailers, game providers, PSPs, fintech, and marketplaces.TripleA was founded in Singapore in 2017 by Eric Barbier, a repeat entrepreneur in FinTech. The company is licensed by MAS, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Singapore's Central Bank), allowing partners to operate in a fully compliant and regulated environment.
• Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.

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• YoAgents — Yo Agents nasce dalla unione delle competenze di ogni singolo founder messe a fattor comune per creare un sales hub innovativo.
• Botsociety — Your conversational design suite. Design and prototype your next chatbot or voice assistant. Create a mockup of your project on Messenger, Slack, Google Assistant, Alexa and more. The next generation design solution for chatbots and voice.
• Metis Precision Medicine — Metis Precision Medicine is a B-Corp founded with the vision of bringing powerful cancer therapies to patients in need. Metis owns the intellectual property of a suite of anti-Met monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), with different and unique mechanisms of action, and is currently seeking investors, biotech or pharmaceutical companies interested inacquiring the relevant platform technology on a global basis.

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• KRNL Labs — KRNL Labs is a decentralized infrastructure protocol that makes smart contracts and develops an open, multichain software registry for the Web3 ecosystem. That allows developers to build dApps that can leverage multiple blockchains simultaneously.
• Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
• EdgeX Labs — EdgeX Labs is an innovative edge computing firm dedicated to offering robust and secure edge computing power as well as a development platform for various AI projects and AI agents. Our primary goal is to build a decentralized intelligent infrastructure network that encourages the general use and innovative development of AI technology.

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• Oumla — Secure, scalable blockchain infrastructure for businesses, enterprises, and governments to manage digital assets with ease and compliance.
• Hazen.ai — Enhance safety with our AI-powered camera, providing real-time monitoring and precise violation detection. This technology empowers authorities to enforce traffic laws effectively, ensuring safer roads for all.
• Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136

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• Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
• Vennre — Build wealth through vetted private market opportunities from $5k. GCC-first, globally accessible. Regulated, Sharia-compliant, digital-first.
• PatientPoint — Discover how PatientPoint delivers content that drives better health decisions and outcomes for healthcare providers, brands, and patients.

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• Cyltronic AG — Cytronic AG is the brand for compact and user-friendly linear drives and the market leader with the worldwide unique electric cylinder.
• Manex India — Manex Supply Chain Solutions Pvt Ltd, that operates under its brand name “Manex India” positions itself as one of the fastest growing end to end SCM & logistic service providers in India.
• Aeolus Aerospace — Aeolus Aerospace has been working towards achieving our goal of providing safe, affordable, fully electric accessible transportation.

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• Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers
• Approxima — Approxima medical is developing a novel treatment for patients with tricuspid valve regurgitation
• Annaida Technologies — Empowering fertility providers and researchers with AI-driven metabolomic platforms. Non-invasive, real-time insights at the microscale for personalized medical treatments.

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• Immensa — Immensa is building the largest on-demand AM spare parts platform for the energy industry thought, rapid digitization and RE of physical spare parts, collaborating with leading OEM's and Energy companies, enabling digital inventories on a global scale.
• Shimmer — Shimmer offers proven Wearable Sensor Technology & solutions that can be tailored to fit the application - for Enterprise, Research, Education & End User applications.