Local Capacity Building
Building Local Capacity, Not Just a Local Office.
Strengthening the existing regional ecosystem, not just deploying capital into it.
Mechanisms
Talent Development
Fellowships and training placing local professionals into neurotech venture and neuro-device roles.
Academic Partnerships
Joint research programs and sponsored fellowships with GCC universities and research institutes.
Co-Investments
Partnering with existing local venture capital firms rather than competing with them.
Knowledge Transfer
Bringing global scientific and commercial expertise to train local teams, not just capital.
Regional Deployment
For many portfolio companies, we go beyond capital: working to bring their technology, products, or services directly into the GCC market, and where it makes sense, helping them establish a local office.
The Economic Case
Jobs, direct and indirect
Regional team roles, plus jobs created wherever portfolio companies establish local operations.
Diversification alignment
Contributes directly to the knowledge-economy and R&D-intensity targets already central to GCC diversification strategies, not a separate initiative alongside them.
FDI multiplier
Every portfolio company that establishes a regional presence brings its own capital and operations, extending impact well beyond the fund’s own size.
Direct healthcare benefit
Where portfolio companies include consumer health and diagnostics businesses, citizens gain access to new preventive-health services directly, not just abstract economic activity.
Ecosystem multiplier
Growing local demand for legal, laboratory, regulatory, and contract research services as portfolio companies operate in-region.
Year 1 Targets
Startups funded
Local professionals trained
Academic MOUs signed
In Discussion With
Conversations underway with leading GCC research institutions and family offices.