Qatar’s world-class innovation infrastructure enables tech startups to secure stable, long-term growth

Qatar’s world-class innovation infrastructure enables tech startups to secure stable, long-term growth

A startup funded by Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP), part of Qatar Foundation, Research, Development and Innovation (QF RDI), has lauded QSTP’s Tech Venture Fund (TVF) programme in creating an ‘edtech’ hub in Qatar.

In 2015, the three co-founders of OBRIZUM, a cloud-based adaptive e-learning platform, were working in deep technologies, such as stem cells, biophysics, and genetic engineering as PhD students and fellows at the University of Cambridge.

By working together as technology professionals and data scientists, the co-founders witnessed a shift in how people use knowledge and collect information. OBRIZUM is a WISE Accelerator alumni and awardee of the TVF.

WISE Edtech Accelerator manager Victoria Basma said, “The WISE Edtech Accelerator has aimed to support innovation building within education, focusing on technology that is able to help evolve the way we teach and learn.

“A key partner for the WISE Edtech Accelerator has therefore been QSTP’s Tech Venture Fund, not just as potential funders, but more importantly as local stakeholders who, alongside WISE, are able to drive Qatar toward becoming the region’s first edtech hub.”

Basma said, “First as an alumni member of our 2017 edtech accelerator and now as active contributors to our programme, we are so