Venture studio · Dubai
We build companies where AI meets money.
Velox Ventures originates, builds and scales new companies at the frontier of artificial intelligence and financial services. We bring the regulatory depth, payments infrastructure and engineering speed that most founders spend years assembling.
How we work
Idea to live product in weeks, not quarters.
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01 · Originate
Find the regulated gap
We start where rules, rails and real customer pain meet. Payments, digital assets, open finance and enterprise AI in the UAE and wider MENA.
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02 · Build
Ship with an AI-native team
Small senior team, agent-driven engineering. Licensing, compliance and partner banks handled in parallel with product.
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03 · Scale
Spin out and fund
Each venture becomes its own company with its own founders, cap table and investors. The studio stays on as a long-term partner.
Portfolio
Ventures in the studio.
- HalaApp UAE-sovereign messaging, with an enterprise AI workspace and customer-service agents built in.
- SAM An AI assistant on WhatsApp that researches, books and pays for things on your behalf.
- Auruchain Physical gold, vaulted in Dubai and tokenised, so it can be held, moved and settled on-chain.
- Hemisphere One AI twin with two halves. Personal and work memory stay separate, enforced at the data layer.
Where we build
Focus areas.
- Agentic payments
- Stablecoins & tokenisation
- Open finance
- Sovereign & enterprise AI
- Compliance automation
- Payments infrastructure