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MYRI HEALTH FOUNDER JOINS QSTP × MERCK FEMTECH ACCELERATOR
GRAPHEAL EXPLORES QATAR WATER MONITORING
STUDIO 5 WRAPS UP DIGITAL ECONOMY CODERS
QDB's Pre-seed Investment Program: up to QAR 250,000 for early-stage startups 💼🇶🇦
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QSTP and Microsoft: 47 startups now active on Microsoft for Startups 🚀🇶🇦
Rafeeq and Startup Grind Doha partner to back Qatar's next tech founders 🤝🚀🇶🇦
QFTH names 11 startups for Wave 8 Pre-Acceleration 💳🇶🇦
QDB raises its Logistics Support Fund to QAR 400 million 🏭🚢🇶🇦
Rasmal Ventures, Qatar's first institutionally backed investment firm, trusted by sovereign wealth funds including QIA, has signed a three-year MoU with Bilişim Vadisi, one of Türkiye's largest technology development zones, at GITEX Türkiye in Istanbul.
Qatar ranks 5th in MENA and 46th globally on the new AI-Human Skills Synergy Index in Coursera's Global Skills Report 2026. The first index of its kind covers 98 countries, measuring AI skills built alongside the human skills needed to apply them.
Nama Social Development Center, part of Qatar Foundation for Social Work, is running a Digital Marketing for Entrepreneurs course, built to help participants understand their market and audience, produce effective digital content, choose the right platforms, and measure and improve their campaigns.
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Snoonu has launched the Tamkeen Growth Fund, QAR 5 million in interest-free growth capital for local merchant partners on its platform: restaurants, cafés, retailers and specialty stores.
Anthropic announced on 6 October that it is expanding Claude Startups, opening the program to more companies building on Claude.
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Up to $5.5M to move your startup to Qatar 🇶🇦
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Madad CEO: AI-native fintech can speed up SME finance in the GCC 💳🇶🇦
Qatar's Digital Incubation Center: 411 startups 🚀🇶🇦
AI is moving into Qatar's key sectors 🇶🇦
GrowthX Capital, the Doha investment platform founded by Snoonu founder Hamad Al-Hajri, has invested $1M combined in two Qatar-based startups, Hired Valley and Talebhub, and brought both into Snoonu Startup Factory.
MCIT, with Google Cloud and through Qatar Digital Academy, has launched a national upskilling initiative with 50,000+ training seats by 2030 in AI, cloud and advanced digital tech.
Meet the three experts leading the Angel Investors Bootcamp 2026, run by SCALE7, the Creative & Cultural Industries Hub founded by Qatar Development Bank, with Business Angels Europe.
Qatar Science & Technology Park has welcomed 15 professionals as the first cohort of its Fellowship Program, launched in September 2026 for four months.
Qatar Development Bank has opened its Talent Community Program to founders and specialised talent worldwide: free housing and temporary residency to work from Qatar.
The QRDI Council, with Innovation Cafe, has opened applications for the Strategic Product Management Bootcamp for SMEs in Qatar.
Google Cloud has launched Masar (مسار), a free technical training track for developers across MENA, delivered entirely in Arabic: 100% hands-on coding, zero slides.
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SCALE7, the Creative & Cultural Industries Hub founded by Qatar Development Bank, is running the Angel Investors Bootcamp 2026 with Business Angels Europe as Knowledge Partner.
Qatar FinTech Hub closes applications for Wave 8 of its Acceleration Program on 15 September — two days from now.