End-to-End Platform for UAE Market Entry Offering the World’s Most Innovative Organizations Strategic Advisory, On-Ground Representation, and Co-Funded Project Execution
Mumbai, 15th May 2025: Sustain Labs Paris (SLP), the world’s largest sustainability-focused venture builder, in collaboration with Posterity Institute, has launched SLP Innovation Expand, an initiative designed to help innovation-driven organizations to establish and expand their presence in the UAE markets.
The SLP Innovation Expand selectively offers three distinct models of engagement – Think Partner (strategic advisory), Do Partner (embedded UAE representation), and Build Partner (co-funded launchpad) – catering to highly innovative organizations at various stages of readiness. With over 900 technical assessments, 200+ annual company evaluations, and a 36-member expert team, SLP ensures ventures have access to technical know-how, go-to-market support, and implementation partnership customised for the UAE ecosystem.
SLP selectively partners with organizations globally that offer highly innovative products and services, helping them expand to the UAE through the Innovation Expand platform. In collaboration with Dubai’s government, SLP Innovation Expand facilitates business set up and a soft landing pad. It offers curated strategic advisory, operational readiness and co-funded growth opportunities for highly innovative companies that align with Dubai’s economic vision. What sets SLP Innovation Expand apart is its embedded on-ground technical and operational support – ensuring companies not only leverage the UAE market, but also successfully execute projects without having to hire a local team in the UAE.
“Today, scale-ups and growth focused organizations require more than just ambition to expand internationally. They need confirmed revenue stream and credible local representation with on-ground technical expertise to expand sustainably in new markets. Given the current geo-political pushback on certain sectors in other parts of the world, it is especially timely for SLP Innovation Expand to step in and offer organizations with highly innovative products and services the partnership opportunity for strategic entry, execution and scale in the UAE,” said Dr. Miniya Chatterji, CEO of Sustain Labs Paris.
Dubai and the UAE today offer one of the world’s most attractive environments for innovators – combining robust funding ecosystems, strong demand for advanced technologies, ease of business setup, a diverse and meritocratic culture, and long-term stability in governance and policy. SLP Innovation Expand is designed to help selected organizations capitalize on this opportunity with structured support at every stage.
“At Posterity Institute, we specialize in creating real pathways for market integration and connecting ventures with the UAE’s strategic leadership across business and government. Backed by our Chief Sustainability Officers Network — comprising over 100 corporate
members — and a growing global alliance of institutional partners, we offer ventures unrivaled access to knowledge, influence, and execution capacity. Through this partnership, we are not just enabling innovative organizations — we are embedding them into the UAE’s dynamic ecosystem, accelerating their scale-up, and positioning them as drivers of economic transformation and sustainable growth,” said Dr. Yasar Jarrar, Managing Partner of Posterity Institute.
Organizations can now leverage SLP’s robust legal infrastructure and embedded local teams, minimising upfront investments while gaining fast-track access to the UAE market. Through its triple-purpose approach – creating credible entry points, enabling real market validation, and building for long-term scale – SLP Innovation Expand offers unmatched value, helping organizations implement a pipeline of highly innovative projects and services in the UAE.
SLP’s track record includes establishing the UAE’s first Carbon Capture & Storage service platform, creating Dubai’s first climate-focused diploma and degree program, and serving as Program Partner to GITEX Impact, the region’s largest ESG and climate-tech event. With projects across seven countries and 20,000+ hours dedicated annually to sustainability skilling, SLP continues to drive disruptive innovation globally.
For more information, please visit www.sustainlabsparis.com/innovationexpand
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About Sustain Labs Paris: Sustain Labs Paris is an enterprise based in the UAE, India, New Zealand and France that establishes and manages new institutions and assets that profoundly move the needle towards a sustainable future. As the world’s largest climate and sustainability-focused venture builder, the organisation has core expertise across venture building, organisational transformation, undertaking technical assessments and investing in climate education. Some of the ventures established and managed by Sustain Labs Paris are Carbon Capture Company, UAE’s first carbon capture and storage project development service company; the GITEX Impact CSO Business Club at the Dubai World Trade Centre; Sustainability DIY, an online institution to ‘DIY’ sustainability, in partnership with Microsoft; and the Anant School for Climate Action, India’s first undergraduate to PhD level university focusing on climate technologies. Notable transformative projects include developing sustainability strategies for leading energy companies, designing sustainability-focused curricula for country-wide deployment, conducting life cycle assessments for global food & beverage companies, and partnering with financial institutions to address climate risk. Sustain Labs Paris has collaborated globally with governments as well as large global companies, universities and development agencies on infrastructure development, sustainability reporting, policy, and strategies to move towards sustainable growth.
About Posterity Institute: The Posterity Institute (PI) is a purpose-driven organization dedicated to advancing sustainable and inclusive development across growth markets. Headquartered in the UAE and deeply rooted in the Middle East and Africa, Posterity Institute brings global expertise into local high-growth markets through a model built on collaboration, policy innovation, and purpose-driven execution. Posterity Institute operates through two flagship platforms. The Chief Sustainability Officers Network is a first-of-its-kind community of over 100 corporate leaders, designed to advance sustainability by nurturing partnerships, and convening meaningful, impactful events and networking opportunities among its members. Complementing this, the Irth Institute—MEA’s first digital campus which enables public sector leaders with the tools, knowledge, and networks needed to design and deliver forward-looking policies. By bridging global knowledge with regional priorities, the Institute helps shape a future that is sustainable, inclusive, and built from the region, by the region. https://www.theposterityinstitute.org/
