Qadi — a UAE-based RegTech startup — has emerged from stealth after closing a pre-seed funding round led by Incubayt, aiming to build the Middle East’s first sovereign regulatory compliance platform driven by AI.
Turning laws into AI-enabled agents
Qadi’s platform converts local laws, regulations, and internal institutional policies into AI agents that automatically make compliance determinations. The goal is to simplify and speed up compliance workflows for law firms, financial institutions, and other regulated organisations across the MENAT region.
Funding to build legal-AI infrastructure & scale up teams
With the pre-seed round secured, Qadi plans to expand its team of AI engineers and legal technologists and roll out the platform to select law firms and financial institutions across the GCC. Investors see this as a timely offering as regulatory frameworks in the Middle East evolve rapidly, especially around AI, data, and digital services, driving demand for automated, sovereign compliance infrastructure.
Why this matters for the region
As digitally native businesses proliferate in the Middle East, the compliance burden grows. Qadi’s approach — encoding regulatory complexity into automated AI agents — could reduce friction, compliance costs, and risk, ushering in a new era where compliance becomes a seamless, embedded part of business workflows.
Editor’s Note — The Startups MENA Team
At Startups MENA, we focus on the narratives that define how the Middle East builds its next-generation workforce and innovation economy. The UAE’s new initiative to train 10,000 youth and create 30,000 jobs is more than a development program—it’s a blueprint for how a nation future-proofs its human capital. By merging education, entrepreneurship, and digital innovation, this campaign moves beyond traditional job creation and lays the groundwork for an ecosystem where young Emiratis are founders, builders, and contributors to a self-sustaining economy.
— The Startups MENA Editorial Team
