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Expand North Star 2024: The world’s largest startup and investment event officially underway in Dubai
- Expand North Star 2024, the world’s largest startup and investment event, is officially underway in the UAE with over 1,800 exhibiting startups and more than 1,200 investors with assets under management (AUM) exceeding $1 trillion.
- This year’s edition is the largest and most international to date with over 100 countries participating, and features more than 59 leading unicorns with a combined valuation of $400 billion?
- In the opening day’s standout session, Dr. Sebastian Schäfer, CEO of House of Finance & Tech Berlin called for cross-continental collaboration between European nations, citing the vast untapped potential across the digital space.
- Another standout session of the opening day was looking at the Climate Tech Unicorns: Valuation, Volatility, and Venture Capital, where Sean O’Sullivan, Founder of US venture capital firm SOSV addressed the opportunities for startups looking to solve humanity’s existential crisis of climate change.
- Throughout the event, there will be events and speakers focused on the future of money, blockchain, creativity, and the planet.
- Tech Transfer 3.0, which converges leading research labs, visionary scientists, engineers, tech experts, and academics to demonstrate innovation from concept to real-world applications, will take place for the first time and welcom high-tech institutions including University College London, Johns Hopkins University and MIT.
- Meanwhile, Supernova Challenge 2.0 presents the best startups from Europe, Asia, and Africa and will take place as part of GITEX GLOBAL 2024, the world’s largest and best-rated tech and startup event.
- GITEX YouthX Unipreneur is a programme designed to connect the UAE’s youth with Dubai’s economic agenda.
- DWTC has hosted over 6,000 events, with an estimated economic output of AED 248 billion, attracting over 38 million business visitors to Dubai.
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