The Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund (MBRIF), an initiative by the UAE Ministry of Finance, highlights ten startups from Cohort 10 that are redefining how we work, transact, and make decisions. From blockchain to AI-powered law, travel, and content development, these ventures are building smarter, faster, and more connected systems across industries.
UAE-based Eecrow | Trust, Secured, Work and Guaranteed
Eecrow provides freelancers and SMEs with a milestone-based escrow and contract management platform that ensures timely payments and transparency at every stage. Using AI-driven smart contracts, full KYC verification, and multi-currency support (AED, USD, EUR, GBP, SAR), it acts as a trusted middle layer between parties, reducing financial uncertainty and minimizing challenges typically associated with project payments.
Eecrow is now raising $500,000 to expand its regulated escrow infrastructure and secure licensing across MENA.
UAE-based Gestify | From Watching to Doing
Gestify transforms passive short-form video viewing into an interactive, gesture-controlled experience, enabling creators to engage audiences without any coding or special hardware. Through its fully browser-based platform, Gestify elevates both monetization and audience participation, turning traditional videos into dynamic, immersive experiences.
Gestify is raising $500,000 to grow globally and scale its SaaS infrastructure.
UAE-based Ketrone | AI-Powered Legal Teams
Ketrone embeds AI agents into legal workflows, acting as digital team members for law firms and corporate legal departments. The platform researches, drafts, and reviews documents in real time, ensuring compliance across UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and France, with Microsoft Word integration and Arabic support.
Ketrone is raising $3.5 million to expand operations and accelerate sales growth.
UAE-based Pixonal | Data That Thinks for You
Pixonal converts static analytics into interactive intelligence, delivering AI-driven narratives, predictions, and visual storytelling for faster, better-informed decision-making. Building on its profitability, the platform is expanding through strategic partnerships to deliver collaborative, real-time intelligence to organizations across the globe.
UAE-based iWarranty | Reinventing Warranty Management
iWarranty empowers manufacturers, retailers, and consumers to manage warranties effortlessly through its unified, AI-powered platform. By integrating automation, blockchain transparency, and seamless APIs, it reduces claims costs, streamlines operations, and inspires a shift toward repair over replacement, driving sustainable consumption.
iWarranty is raising $3 million to enhance technology and expand internationally.
Rudiq | Tokenizing the Real World
Rudiq enables businesses to tokenize and manage real-world assets with an integrated platform for asset management, lending, and brokerage. Its chain-agnostic, compliant solution unlocks liquidity and transparency for institutional and retail investors.
Rudiq is raising $11 million to secure licenses and expand operations.
Soshianest | Predicting the Unpredictable
Soshianest provides highly accurate supply chain forecasts using deep learning and over 2,000 geopolitical, sentiment, and macroeconomic variables. Its platform helps organizations in maritime, commodity, and energy sectors make strategic decisions, improve resilience, and navigate volatile markets.
UAE-based Jadwelny | Travel, Simplified by AI
Jadwelny is redefining travel planning with its AI-powered platform, giving users access to over 3 million properties worldwide and combining flight and hotel bookings with personalized AI-generated itineraries. With features like refund protection, eSIM integration, and “Travel Now, Pay Later,” Jadwelny delivers a seamless, tailored travel experience.
Jadwelny is raising $1 million to fuel its expansion across the GCC.
UAE-based Revent | Circular IT for a Sustainable Economy
Revent provides SMEs with premium refurbished IT devices through flexible subscriptions, using AI diagnostics and maintenance to extend device life and reduce e-waste. By lowering costs by up to 40%, Revent combines sustainability with affordability.
Revent is closing a $1.5 million round to scale operations in the GCC.
UAE-based Timber Exchange | Intelligence for the Timber Trade
Timber Exchange is a single intelligence hub that analyzes over 400 global signals monthly to provide clear insights on production, inventories, consumption, and prices for the timber industry. This guidance helps real estate developers, contractors, and furniture companies lower import costs and avoid pricing mistakes, driving measurable improvements in P&L and working capital.
Timber Exchange is raising $1.33 million to build a satellite data team, expand proprietary data collection, and launch its new CIQ module.
Cohort 10 demonstrates how MBRIF-backed startups are moving innovation from disruption to practical delivery, building systems that are intelligent, efficient, and sustainable.
Learn more about Cohort 10 at www.mbrif.ae.
