Biotech

uMore, the AI-powered mental wellbeing tracker, becomes the first UAE based start-up accepted to TheVentureCity

  DUBAI, UAE (April 1, 2020) — Today, uMore announced it has joined, TheVentureCity's Product-Led Growth Program, an international venture acceleration program that focuses on product, growth and access to capital. uMore is a digital health screening and recommendation platform that uses machine learning and digital phenotyping to offer users accessible and personalised mental health care. The...

Nano Announces Lead Investor Commitment for $90 Million Funding Round

AUSTIN, Texas and DUBAI, UAE (Arab Newswire)  --  Nano Cures Inc. (“Nano”), a clinical stage biotechnology and infectious disease immunity platform company, today announced a $90M pre-IPO funding round. The investment will be led by a $20M commitment from Opulence Capital Management, a Dubai based private investment fund, with existing and new investors participating. The investment will...

UAE homegrown Fitness brand GymNation partners with Heroes of Hope in support of People of Determination across the UAE

GymNation, the UAE’s leading gym operator, today announces the success of its partnership with inclusive sports community NPO, Heroes of Hope. The partnership was set up at the start of November 2020, to reaffirm GymNations focus on supporting UAE communities, by providing People of Determination the opportunity to excel through employment and access to fitness. The partnership comes in response...

Breathing Life into Desert Sand with high Water Retention

If technology is employed correctly, it is a distant perception that even flowers can bloom in deserts. Rechsand’s Anti-Seepage Breathable Sand is one such unique innovation that will allow desert areas such as the Saharas or the UAE to grow abundant and lush foliage and greenery. The innovative sand retains water and allows free air circulation, thus creating an optimally wet soil environment...

How to start a business in a UAE Free Zone

The free zones in the UAE can be categorised into two groups—industry-specific and general-purpose. Here's to give you an idea:   Industry-Specific Free Zone Industry-specific free zone specialises to only particular or interrelated sectors. Examples of these free zones are Dubai Internet City and Silicon Oasis, which are specifically designed for the IT and innovation industries. Or, Dubai...

How to structure the perfect business plan for success

Now, it doesn’t mean that you have to perfect your business plan from the get-go. A well-written business plan requires time and effort, and it keeps evolving as you learn and understand more about your business, your market, and ultimately, yourself.   However, even how important a business plan is, some entrepreneurs today still underestimate its relevance to achieving business success. And...

How to protect your company from the pitfalls of a startup

If you are a startup company, there is always a phase of trial and error. At this stage, learning from your own mistakes and of others is pivotal to your growth as it is an opportunity to discover a more effective business approach. It allows you to change your perspective and have a deep awareness of what your business needs to thrive.   However, without the right strategy or external support,...

How to protect your company from the pitfalls of a startup

If you are a startup company, there is always a phase of trial and error. At this stage, learning from your own mistakes and of others is pivotal to your growth as it is an opportunity to discover a more effective business approach. It allows you to change your perspective and have a deep awareness of what your business needs to thrive.   However, without the right strategy or external support,...

Valtrans Promotes Sustainability

Dubai, 13 June 2019: Valtrans started the Green initiative in 2014, providing major breakthroughs in the parking industry. The aim is to embrace technology by becoming paperless, reducing carbon emissions and developing an environmental sustainability culture. The latest initiatives and products like Green Valet Parking and PARKONIC reduces the carbon footprint that traditional systems leave...

Polar Bear Pitching redefines pitching competitions from 12th to 13th of March in Oulu, Finland

The most extreme business event in the world will take place again next March in Oulu, Finland. The theme of the event is Business Unusual, which means that Polar Bear Pitching changes participants and business, challenges everything you hold true and thus, redefines the whole future. Arctic circumstances have always forced people to come up with innovative solutions and this is what Polar Bear...

Western Australia Premier’s maiden visit to UAE aims at boosting its AED8.4 billion trade relationship

Premier Mark McGowan of Western Australia will be traveling to UAE, the largest trading partner in the GCC and will be meeting senior government officials in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The visit aims to further enhance the AED8.4 billion trade relationship between the two countries.  “I am pleased to announce the Premier of the largest State in Australia which is also the largest mineral and grain...

Pitching from an ice hole - a perfect example of Finnish innovation

What is the scariest stage you have been on? This is a question Finns are giving an easy answer to once again this February. Polar Bear Pitching is a unique pitching event in that there is no time limit for your speech, but you have to do it while standing waist deep in a hole carved to the frozen Baltic Sea. Finns like to describe their attitude towards life with one word, sisu. Sisu stands for...

KeyTech introduces a new concept of Security Management Software

  (Dubai, UAE) KeyTech Security Solutions has announced the launch of Security Management Solution (SMS), a PC based software application advancing security centric fundamentals - built on logic. Security specialists, KeyTech, aim to replace outdated methods used for security operations with their new, 100% paper free, purpose-built software providing multiple security applications under one...

“Uplifting” The Spiritual Trollbeads Spring Collection 2016

Call it energy, call it light. Call it love, hope or the magic of the universe - but every spring we feel it again. Trollbeads’ “Uplifting” celebrates the spirituality and beauty of life with an almost weightless spring collection of sparkling, copper-dusted and pastel-coloured glass beads and intricate, handmade silver beads filled with magical symbolism.  Trollbeads is the original...

Corporate giants taking employee wellness seriously in the UAE

Eternity Medicine Institute Dubai, a company at the forefront of preventative health in the region confirms today that the number of UAE corporates taking on employee healthcare programmes is on the increase. With some of the region’s most well recognized blue chip organizations now offering advanced screening and wellness programs for its employees, could this herald a new frontier in employee...