The GCC Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the GCC Fall 2025 program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 12 companies were able to make it through.
Each of these Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of GCC's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the GCC program:
- Agami Fintech Ltd. - Providing collateral-free quick working capital for growth ready small entrepreneurs (SMEs) by a crowd investment marketplace.
- HayaGen - Helping labs train professionals in advanced genetic testing through interactive, case-based modules, reducing outsourcing and strengthening precision medicine skills.
- SEDNA - A mobile adventure game that turns parks and streets into AI guided quests where young adults earn monetizable tokens and items, promoting education, wellbeing and sustainability, culminating in a global final with a major prize.
- FXS - Building performance-driven training technology that helps athletes push their limits, hit measurable targets, and enables teams to identify and scout emerging talent.
- LeoCompare - Empowering migrants and underserved communities by giving them transparent, affordable, and accessible options for financial services.
- RaiseTalks - Offering an AI-powered SaaS fundraising workspace for early-stage startups to organise data rooms, streamline DD and secure funding.
- Anklit - A privacy-first wellbeing messaging app that reduces distraction and optimizes your communication by automatically suggesting the best times to engage with each contact based on personalized relationship scores.
- IWISHUAE - Connecting K-12 students in the UAE with real community problems they can solve, addressing the gap between student entrepreneurial enthusiasm and meaningful project opportunities.
- Rxportway Technologies Private Limited (pillzap) - Unlocking a new revenue stream for pharmacies by making their shelves discoverable online, creating a digital channel that doesn’t exist today.
- InPower Consulting Pte Ltd - Generating a personalised career compass that helps professionals discover their strengths, verify their skills, and design a clear path to reach their dream job.
- Hozur - Facilitating SMEs’ marketing operations by using AI-powered systems and existing tools to automate workflows and reach target audiences more efficiently.
- VINBAY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY L.L.C - A cloud-based SaaS platform for auto workshops and spare-parts retailers in MENA, featuring a mobile app that directly connects customers with workshops in a market lacking true plug-and-play solutions.
The GCC Fall 2025 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
Join us at GCC Founder Institute Graduation Event on Dec 23rd - link to graduation event.
GCC Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the GCC Founder Institute: Ayhan K. Isaacs (Head of Global Growth, Founder Institute), Sameer Sortur (Founding Partner, SquareCircle Ventures). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in GCC that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the GCC Fall 2025 program was supported by some of GCC's top technology organizations, including:
ome of GCC’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:
In the Founder Institute's pre-seed accelerator program, early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise over 1.9BN.
After Graduation, the new GCC Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now have a fast-growing company that has been fully validated by experienced startup founders, with access to the Founder Institute's global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building their business.
Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, building a co-founding team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 100+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs.
The next GCC Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/gcc.
Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over 1.9BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.
See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/graduates.
