Top Tech Startups in United Arab Emirates in 2027

MongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose database platform, designed to unleash the power of software and data for developers and the applications they build. Headquartered in New York, MongoDB has more than 15,000 customers over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded over 60 million times and there have been more than one million MongoDB University registrations.

LILT is a language translation services and technology company. We're building the next generation of localization, making it possible for every organization to communicate with their customers in the language of their choice through LILT's high-quality, scalable, and affordable translation services. We recruit the world's best human translators and equip them with our software, allowing them to translate better and faster than ever. By combining human expertise and machine efficiency in a complete enterprise localization solution, we can deliver technology-enabled translation services to our customers. Lilt is backed by some of the world's leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, and Redpoint. Our customers include some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in the world who rely on Lilt every day to provide more personal customer experiences in 300+ languages. Our team is headquartered in the Bay Area with additional hubs in Indianapolis, Washington DC, Berlin, Dublin, and the UK.

Digify is an award-winning cloud-based document security and data room software. We empower businesses to take control of their confidential documents after they are shared. Digify offers features like document tracking, access controls, and revoking access, ensuring information security for fundraising, due diligence, intellectual property protection, and sensitive communications. Trusted by over 500,000 users in 138 countries, Digify is a leader in the document security space.

We're Fireflies.ai, and we're on a mission to make all meetings more productive. You know those moments when you wish you could remember that key insight from an important conversation? That's the itch we're scratching. We created a smart meeting assistant that quietly joins your meetings, records conversations, transcribes them and summarizes everything. It then automatically organizes the information into a searchable archive. Fireflies is the super-powered note-taker you've always wanted! Our goal is simple - help teams cut down on redundant conversations and unlock more value from their meetings. We integrate tightly with tools you already use like Zoom, Google Meet, Slack, Salesforce, and more so it feels seamless. Excited yet?

Sardine helps fintech, crypto, and web3 companies "move money confidently" by developing fraud, compliance, and payment infrastructure. With Sardine, builders can focus on growing their business instead of spending time, fighting against fraudsters. We're growing incredibly fast and powering over 100 customers around the world like Brex, MoonPay, Bakkt, Luno, Transak, Chippercash, Candy Digital, Metamask, Brave, and RelayFi.

Our products enhance the guest dining experience, streamlines operations, and increase our clients’ brand value. With PrestoPrime, diners can order food, provide feedback, play games, and pay their bill at the table, without waiting. Our system includes not only specialized hardware, but also a complete software solution designed to meet the specialized needs of restaurants.

Pallet is building AI Agents to transform logistics — a $12 trillion global industry. We’ve raised $50M from top investors including General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures. In under two years, we’ve achieved 700% revenue growth and are just getting started. Our mission is to increase the efficiency of the global supply chain by automating the manual workflows that slow logistics teams down — from scheduling and appointment setting to data entry and load management. Our flagship platform provides end-to-end visibility, control, and optimization, while our newest product, CoPallet, introduces AI Agents that can understand and execute requests in real time, and integrate directly with customer systems. As logistics providers look to generative AI to drive efficiency, many are turning to Pallet to lead the way. With deep industry expertise and cutting-edge AI capabilities, we’re positioned to build the next $10B company in logistics. Join us and work alongside leaders from Google, DoorDash, YC, and more to shape the future of logistics tech.

Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging™. Braze helps brands deliver great customer experiences that drive value both for consumers and for their businesses. Built on a foundation of composable intelligence, BrazeAI™ allows marketers to combine and activate AI agents, models, and features at every touchpoint throughout the Braze Customer Engagement Platform for smarter, faster, and more meaningful customer engagement. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered decisioning and optimization, Braze enables companies to turn action into interaction through autonomous, 1:1 personalized experiences. The company has been consistently recognized as a Leader in marketing technology by industry analysts, and was named a G2 “Best of Marketing and Digital Advertising Software Product” in 2026. Braze was also named a 2026 Best Places to Work by Built In, a 2025 America’s Greenest Companies by Newsweek, and a 2025 Fortune Best Workplace in Technology™ by Great Place To Work®. The company is headquartered in New York with 15 offices across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Learn more at braze.com.

DriveWealth is a financial technology firm pioneering embedded finance, fractional investing in US equities, and API-driven brokerage infrastructure. We’ve built patent-pending technology to fractionalize US equities and were the first to receive a license to do so in 2015. We help banks, fintechs, RIAs, and global brands build investing experiences in 153 countries. Some of our partners are Revolut, Hatch, MoneyLion, Stake, and Avenue.

Bask, the platform for telehealth, is a compliant, everyone accessible, no-code, software to launch and scale a direct-to-consumer telehealth business. By default, we provide electronic medical records (EMR), payment processing, pharmacy fulfillment and compounding, a website builder, and a patient management system. We are the Shopify for E-Prescribing.