Next Wave Founders features inspiring stories of young entrepreneurs across the UAE. Explore how students and teenage founders are building startups, launching AI companies, raising funding, and solving real world problems at a young age. Read interviews, founder journeys, business lessons, and startup success stories from the next generation of UAE innovators.
Most startup founders spend years gaining industry experience before launching a company. MAS Abhijeet took a different path. He began teaching coding at 12, long before he could legally drive or finish high school. Today, at 15, the Abu Dhabi-based student leads Our Crazy Code, an edtech platform that says it has trained more than … Read more
While most teenagers are still deciding what they want to do after school, 14-year-old Jainam Jain is already building an AI startup from one of the world’s most iconic business addresses. The young entrepreneur runs Mengo Engine, an AI startup with an office on the 141st floor of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa. The company is developing … Read more
Meet Mustafa Mevlan, a 15-year-old Dubai developer who taught himself coding at 10. He bypassed traditional routes, built an autonomous AI agent startup, and drafted his investor deck at a school desk to secure a high-stakes pitch session before billionaire Khalaf Al Habtoor. In this guide, we explained how he executed: From a 10-Year-Old Gamer … Read more