Three sustainability-focused technology start-ups recognized for their transformative innovations at Make it in the Emirates Forum

Three sustainability-focused technology start-ups recognized for their transformative innovations at Make it in the Emirates Forum

Three startups were revealed as winners of the first edition of the Make it in the Emirates Startup Competition. The Make it in the Emirates Start-up Competition, launched by the Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT), brought together global technology start-ups that have the potential to drive the decarbonization and digitalization of industry to pitch their ideas to investors and industry players. Applicants included start-ups focused on fields such as renewable energy, transportation & mobility, AI & robotics, biopharma, thermal management, agriculture, consumer goods, advanced materials, manufacturing, construction and utilities, and graphene.

The first winner was VFlow Tech, a Singaporean start-up that provides innovative, reliable and large-scale storage solutions using flow batteries to unlock the full power of renewables. The second winner was UAE-based The Food Engine, a start-up that has developed an automated vertical aeroponic farming system that uses 90 percent less water than traditional agriculture. The third winner was Farmin, a spin-off of Khalifa University that uses satellite imagery super resolution along with AI to acquire critical and predictive insights that can provide highly accurate AI models to detect changes down to 4m2.