The Middle East region is an incubator for talent, with startups having access to a vibrant ecosystem with an abundance of enthusiasm
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contemporary fashion
Entrepreneur of the Week: House of MC’s Maha Al Shamsi
The styling platform wants to offer clients an unforgettable experience through high fashion, jewellery rentals, luxury car rides and more
audio podcast
Entrepreneur of the Week: Fallound’s Stefano Fallaha
The app aims to fill in lost time while driving, walking or working out, with educational, entertaining and personalised content
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Entrepreneur of the Week: Helmii’s Simon Moore
The platform allows users to personalise every aspect of their bed and mattress, including colour, material and shape – all online
Activities around Dubai
Entrepreneur of the Week: Skilldeer’s Orkun Gedik and Philipp Tachas
The educational version of Airbnb or Booking.com offers classes and programmes, ranging from make up to cooking or perfume
Calendar app
Entrepreneur of the Week: Calio’s Ramy Al Kadhi and Latif Baluch
A calendar app that combines functionality and fun with plenty of social features
Arabian Business
Entrepreneur of the Week: Fritz Lanman of ClassPass
US-based fitness experience app ClassPass is set to launch in Dubai in October as part of its global expansion plan
Buy New and Used Cars
Entrepreneurs of the Week: Faiyaz Chand and Nasrullah Chaudhry
Faiyaz Chand and Nasrullah Chaudhry, co-founders of We Cash Any Car, their start-up that was recently acquired by Dubizzle, share some lessons of the road to acquisition
Dubai
Arabian Business Entrepreneur of the Week: Mums@Work’s Louise Karim
The start-up’s managing director discusses the platform that helps mothers back into the workplace after taking a career break
Diamond jeweller
Entrepreneur of the Week: Fergus James of diamond curator FergusJames.com
Diamonds might soon be a man’s best friend if the new bespoke retailer takes off in the way the founder and his backers believe it will
designer brands
Entrepreneur of the Week: Kunal Kapoor, The Luxury Closet
When the former Louis Vuitton sales manager realised his customers wanted to use high-end products but not keep them, he hit upon a business idea that has the potential to be truly disruptive
Dubai
Entrepreneur of the Week: Sprii’s Sarah Jones
The founder of e-commerce site for mums recalls how the business bug caught her at a young age
Artificial intelligence
Entrepreneur of the Week: Dawaami’s Kamal Al Samarrai
A veteran of the recruitment industry, Kamal Al Samarrai has self funded a new platform that he says can be scaled around the world
Airbnb
Arabian Business Entrepreneur of the Week: Frank Porter’s Anna Skigin
Anna Skigin left behind careers in finance and retail to self-fund a concept that tackles a gap in the new and emerging ‘sharing economy’
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Arabian Business Entrepreneur of the Week: Koi’s Ghassan Muradweij
With Uber and Careem effectively sewing up the ride-hailing app market, Koi has its sights on a different slice of the action
Bodyo
Entrepreneur of the Week: Bodyo CEO Tariq Hussain
The developers of a next-generation, wellness monitoring app are on a mission to help us track our health and fitness goals
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Entrepreneur of the Week: Tnerit’s Ali and Hussain Al Abbas
A platform for Dubai-based brothers looks to harness the emerging possibilities of the sharing economy in the region