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Bedayat

Prove it in a city that already works.

Bedayat incubates and accelerates startups solving social, environmental and economic sustainability problems. The differentiator is not the mentoring, it is that you can validate a concept inside a functioning district before you pitch it.

A startup testing a prototype in the living lab

Install it, measure it, then pitch it.

Bedayat companies put prototypes into a working district and come away with numbers from a real deployment. That changes the conversation with a customer or an investor entirely.

What you get

Living lab validation
Install, measure and iterate in a real community with real infrastructure. Most early stage companies cannot buy access to that at any price.
Funding routes
Introductions to the grants and funds that actually operate in this market, plus the angel and venture networks Bedayat runs.
An ecosystem, assembled
Mentors, industry partners, academic institutions and government entities. Sustainability startups usually need all four, and cold outreach to government rarely works.
Dubai SME certification
Bedayat is a certified incubator and accelerator, which opens funding and procurement doors that are otherwise closed to a young company.
Founders at work in the Bedayat programme

Certified, which matters more than it sounds.

Dubai SME certification is what makes certain grants and public procurement routes available to a company at all. It is unglamorous and it is often the difference between a pilot and a contract.

Apply to a cohort.

Tell us what you are building, what you have proved so far and what you would test here. Early is fine. Vague is not.

Apply to Bedayat