Red Sea Farms startup wins $150,000 at Misk’s Entrepreneurship World Cup finals King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is proud to announce that Red Sea Farms placed third at the recent Entrepreneurship World Cup (EWC). The event, which...
read moreUnitX, a KAUST artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing startup spin-out company and a barrier-breaking cloud-based supercomputing provider that helps enterprises deploy AI at scale, has secured $2 million of co-investment from the KAUST Innovation Fund and Saudi Aramco’s Wa’ed Ventures Fund. The injection...
read moreHundreds of developers, designers, programmers and entrepreneurs from around Saudi Arabia came together last week to design next generation technologies in food, water and energy for implementation in Saudi Arabia’s $500bn global model for future living NEOM, the event’s challenge partner....
read moreIn 2017, we covered the journey of KAUST startup Sadeem—a company that provides solar-powered smart city solutions for flood, traffic and environmental monitoring, saving money and lives in real-time—from its inception. Read about the company’s achievements—and expansion—as the startup’s story continues below. An...
read moreKAUST Ph.D. graduate Kiran Narayanan (M.S., Ph.D. ’18, mechanical engineering) made use of his entrepreneurial spirit when he and his Ph.D. supervisor KAUST Professor and Acting Dean of Physical Science and Engineering Ravi Samtaney created UnitX, a University-funded supercomputing startup....
read moreTHUWAL, SAUDI ARABIA — King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is hosting three entrepreneurship bootcamps in support of the Tech Champions program by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT). Over 100 participants and mentors gathered on...
read moreIn Saudi Arabia, there is no shortage of people with vibrant ideas and a determination to pursue them. King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) is home to a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem with the Kingdom’s highest concentration of deep...
read moreUniversities play an important role in economic development. In the United States, university research accounted for 13% of total R&D in 2016. In Saudi Arabia, where R&D investments ranked 40th globally, spending in 2013 was 0.8% of GDP – a...
read moreIn 2011, three KAUST Ph.D. students —Mustafa Mousa, Esteban Canepa and Ahmad Dehwah—began working together in the research group of former KAUST Assistant Professor Christian Claudel on an ambitious project involving sensors for smart cities. They did not realize that by the time they graduated in 2016, the project would become a...
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