Emirati startup founders unveil AI-powered innovations at Hub71 Impact 2026

Emirati startup founders unveiled AI-powered and advanced-technology solutions at Hub71's Impact 2026 event held at Manarat Al Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi, underscoring Abu Dhabi’s integrated entrepreneurship ecosystem. Founders credited Hub71 and Hub71+ Digital Assets’ programmes for providing mentorship, funding opportunities and strategic partnerships that have helped their companies scale across sectors including digital marketing, healthcare and advanced manufacturing. The event and coverage were published by WAM on 2026-06-09.

"ReachLLM aims to strengthen its presence within Abu Dhabi's innovation ecosystem and expand globally, with a focus on markets in the Middle East and North Africa," said Maryam Alabbar, Co‑Founder at ReachLLM, describing the company’s ambition to lead what it sees as a new phase of search visibility for brands.

At Impact 2026, founders presented concrete use cases and product roadmaps tied to local market needs and regulatory priorities. Several companies highlighted how hosting, data residency and Arabic-language capabilities were central to their go-to-market strategies, particularly for customers in the Gulf and regional healthcare providers.

Startups and solutions showcased

• ReachLLM (Maryam Alabbar) — Positions itself on AI-driven brand visibility across large language models and search-oriented generative platforms including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Alabbar emphasised that the company is "continuing to develop products built entirely on AI to help brands maintain a more sustainable and consistent presence across large language models, while also enabling them to measure the impact of that growth." She framed "AI-powered answer engine optimisation, or AEO, as the next generation of traditional search engine optimisation, or SEO."
• LiMb (Shamma Al Saadi) — An AI-powered smart platform for physiotherapists that designs therapeutic exercises and manages patient follow-up outside clinics. Al Saadi noted LiMb was in a pre-launch phase "ahead of its official launch at the end of this month" and is developing an advanced AI model for therapeutic exercises and pain management that will provide "instant voice feedback to correct movement posture" to support home rehabilitation.
• Nabdh Technologies (Afra Alahbabi) — Developing an Emirati platform for Arabic-language operational intelligence tailored to clinical workflows. Alahbabi said the platform is designed to reduce the burden of medical documentation and to "integrate smoothly with existing healthcare systems without disrupting daily operations or creating clinical risks," while relying on UAE-based data hosting to ensure security and privacy.
• The AM Lab (Abdallah Alawadi) — Launched as "the first digital manufacturing platform in the Middle East and North Africa dedicated to simplifying industrial procurement," the company consolidates spare-parts requirements online and fulfils orders within weeks or, in some cases, days. Alawadi highlighted capabilities to produce parts for oil and gas, aviation and defence, aligned with the UAE’s National In-Country Value programme.

Founders at the event stressed that Abu Dhabi’s programming — from mentorship to access to capital and strategic partners — has enabled rapid product development and regional expansion. Looking ahead, the startups signalled plans to deepen ties within Abu Dhabi’s innovation ecosystem, scale AI-native products internationally, and prioritise Arabic-language and UAE data-residency features to meet institutional customers’ compliance and privacy requirements.