Dubai Holding, a diversified global investment company, has announced the 15 scale-ups selected for the 2025 cohort of its flagship impact accelerator, “Innovate For Tomorrow”. Selected from a pool of over 1,400 applications spanning 93 countries, the cohort represents a diverse group of innovators focused on climate-tech and sustainability. The programme is designed to support companies that are turning circular economy solutions into real-world impact, with a specific focus on materials, energy, waste, and the built environment.
Accelerating Circular Systems
The “Innovate For Tomorrow” accelerator aims to reimagine circular systems to build a more resilient future. By selecting scale-ups that have already developed proven technologies, Dubai Holding intends to provide the operational support and market access necessary to deploy these solutions at scale. The 2025 cohort features companies addressing critical sustainability challenges, ranging from autonomous energy systems and water recycling to the upcycling of industrial and food waste into high-performance materials.
The 2025 Cohort
The 15 companies selected for the programme include:
- Bird Collaborative: A social enterprise providing sustainable products and tech-enabled solutions specifically for the hospitality and events sector.
- Cauli: A solution that helps food businesses reduce single-use waste and costs through AI-enabled reusable packaging systems.
- CO2Wall: A startup revolutionizing urban spaces with smart, AI-driven living green walls and roofs designed for sustainability.
- Cycled Technologies: A waste management innovator that makes recycling easy by automating sorting at the source through proprietary hardware embedded in collection bins.
- Enlog: A company building autonomous, AI-driven systems to reduce energy waste, improve power quality, and make buildings grid-responsive.
- HyveGeo: A desert greening and carbon removal company focused on terraforming solutions.
- Mruna: A climate and infrastructure innovation company pioneering nature-based, tech-enabled circular water systems for the built environment.
- Nadeera Technologies: A social enterprise leveraging technology-enabled interventions to instill circular economic practices and improve waste management behaviors.
- Ottan: A materials company that transforms food waste into high-performance, low-carbon materials capable of replacing plastics, ceramics, stone, and wood.
- PeelPack: A packaging innovator that upcycles potato-peel side streams into Materra®, a fiber-based material engineered to replace single-use plastic and virgin paper.
- Revent: A B2B technology subscription service that enables SMEs to access business-ready IT devices while extending device lifecycles.
- Rumett: A construction tech firm developing gypsum-based systems, including reusable paper-free plaster panels and 3D-printable mixes for low-carbon building.
- Seramic Materials: An advanced materials company transforming industrial solid waste into high-performance, sustainable ceramics.
- Souji: A recycling solution that converts used vegetable cooking oil from commercial kitchens into non-toxic, high-performance cleaning products in minutes.
- Without: A deep climate-tech company transforming unrecyclable plastic and textile waste into high-quality materials through proprietary technology.
About Dubai Holding
Dubai Holding is a diversified global investment company with operations in 13 countries and employing over 20,000 people. Established in 2004, it manages an extensive portfolio of assets that support the diversification and sustainable growth of Dubai’s economy across key sectors including real estate, hospitality, leisure and entertainment, and investments.
Source: Dubai Holding
