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12/20/23, 1:36 PM DIFC Innovation Hub concludes 'Investor Day' with over $600mln funding

The event served as a ‘graduation day’ for 19 start-ups from the FinTech Accelerator Programme
WAM
DIFC Innovation Hub concludes 'Investor Day' with

over $600mln funding

The event served as a ‘graduation day’ for 19 start-ups from the FinTech Accelerator
Programme

Staff Writer, WAM (Emirates News Agency)

December 19, 2023

DIFC Innovation Hub, home to the first and largest financial technology accelerator in the Middle East,
Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, concluded its annual flagship Investor Day, with over 500 people
attending the event, including key figures from the investor community and finalists of the ninth edition of

the FinTech Accelerator Programme and the seventh edition of AccelerateHer.

The event was attended by Essa Kazim, Governor, DIFC, and Arif Amiri, Chief Executive Officer, DIFC
Authority, who actively engaged with speakers, investors and entrepreneurs.

Delivering the opening keynote, Mohammad AlBlooshi, Chief Executive Officer, DIFC Innovation Hub,
said, “The FinTech Accelerator Programme has a phenomenal track record of empowering start-ups by
helping them to transform their ideas into products and offerings unique to the financial market. The

solutions showcased this year are some of the best we have seen within the industry and we
congratulate these pioneers on successfully completing their programmes. We have numerous success

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