Innovate For Tomorrow Impact Accelerator 2025

The Innovate For Tomorrow Impact Accelerator is Dubai Holding’s flagship scale-up programme designed to empower innovators to unlock a better future. Now in its second edition, the 2025 accelerator champions circular economy innovation with a call to fundamentally rethink how we produce, consume and regenerate resources across the UAE’s most vital sectors.

In line with the strategic commitments of the UAE Vision 2071, UAE Net Zero by 2050 strategic initiative and UAE Circular Economy Policy 2031, this year’s programme challenges innovators to drive the critical transition to a more sustainable tomorrow.

We’re inviting visionary scale-ups to reimagine the lifecycle of critical resources, unlock new value and drive real-world transformation through inclusive, tech-enabled and regenerative solutions. We partner with you throughout the journey from your solution to implementation.

Benefits:

• Cash prizes totalling AED 850,000 (approximately USD 230,000) for winners.
• Winner will receive pilot funding and an opportunity to implement the solution within Dubai Holding’s ecosystem.
• 12-week hybrid accelerator (virtual + in-person in Dubai) offering workshops, mentor hours (up to 20 hours) and investor exposure.
• Access to 250+ discounted tech platforms and one-year access to the in5 incubator (for top scale-ups).

Eligibility:

To participate, you must be a scale-up with one of the following:

• A functional prototype or Minimum Viable Product (MVP) ready for validation.
• Early customer validation or paying customers, or have raised pre-seed or seed funding (ideally pre-Series A). (dubaiholding.com)
• At least one founder must commit full-time to the 12-week programme.

The programme is open globally, so African enterprises can apply — but selected scale-ups must be willing to operate or pilot within the UAE during and after the programme.

Duration:

• Application window opens: 6 October 2025.
• Application deadline: 25 November 2025.
• Selected cohort joins the 12-week accelerator from January to April 2026.
• Demo Day and pilot implementation phase begins May 2026.