MoIAT announces Make it in the Emirates Start-up Pitch Competition winners

MoIAT announces Make it in the Emirates Start-up Pitch Competition winners

Inaugural competition draws almost 400 submissions, including more than 200 from overseas

More than AED200,000 in prize money to help winning start-ups scale their technologies

Abu Dhabi, UAE: The winners of the inaugural Make it in the Emirates Start-up Pitch Competition were announced on Thursday at the Make it in the Emirates Forum that took place in Abu Dhabi.

Three startups were revealed as winners of the first edition of the Make it in the Emirates Startup Competition. Twenty-four startups were shortlisted to participate in the competition by a panel of industry experts from a pool of almost 400 submissions, 60 percent of which were from overseas. First, second and third place winners received AED100,000, AED70,000 and AED50,000, respectively, to scale up and grow their businesses.

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 The Food Engine, a UAE-based 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