Doha, Qatar, 04 February 2026 – Accelerating AI venture building across the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa and other emerging markets, The Utopia Studio has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on venture innovation with Sytronix, Hosted.ai, and Sia Partners. This strategic technology infrastructure partnership, announced at Web Summit Qatar, aims to provide founders with a full-stack package of lower-cost, locally deployed compute infrastructure and AI tooling to accelerate their startups’ development and commercialisation. The partnership addresses a critical structural barrier: AI ventures in emerging markets spend 40–50% of revenue on compute infrastructure while paying 3–5x premiums compared to developed markets.
Supporting pre-seed and seed-stage founders and fellows of Doha-based The Utopia Studio – an AI-native venture builder supported by Qatar Development Bank that is purpose-built to transform high-barrier problems into scalable, investable companies – the partnership brings together complementary capabilities across hardware (UK-based Sytronix), software (US-based Hosted.ai), and ecosystem development (France-headquartered Sia Partners).
Founders will now benefit from priority access to sovereign, locally deployed compute infrastructure, elastic GPU services, and agentic AI tooling at materially lower costs than hyperscale cloud alternatives. This enables ventures being co-built with The Utopia Studio to train, deploy and scale AI systems earlier and faster in their lifecycle, without capital, data or IP leakage to foreign hyperscalers.
Under the agreement, The Utopia Studio will orchestrate the partnership and venture pipeline, identifying, validating, and co-building ventures and providing access to UTOPIA OS — a modular, adaptive AI tech-stack tailored to each venture — compressing the path from concept to Series A to under 24 months.
Sytronix will design, build and deploy sovereign high-performance computing infrastructure. Hosted.ai will deliver elastic GPU-as-a-Service and sovereign cloud computing. Sia Partners will provide strategic advisory and agentic AI acceleration to help development and go-to-market execution.
Karan Pinto, Studio Director at The Utopia Studio, said: “AI ventures in emerging markets spend half their revenue on compute at 3–5x premiums. This full-stack infrastructure partnership – from owned hardware to elastic cloud – changes the economics fundamentally. We can now enable full-stack vertical AI companies and agent-led ventures by giving founders control of their largest cost center. The cost of intelligence determines the cost of innovation.”
James Walsh, founder and CEO of Sytronix commented: “This strategic partnership is a huge step forward for Sytronix and in line with our vision of being at the cutting edge of technology. We’re excited to work with our incredible partners to give Qatar a leading foothold in the Compute, AI and Quantum space.”
Announced in 2025, The Utopia Studio is Qatar’s first AI-focused venture studio. The Studio is already working with its first group of entrepreneurs and over the next five years it aims to develop 140 venture concepts and support over 50 Pre-Seed to Series-A ventures, across the Global South.
The MoU aligns with Qatar National Vision 2030 to build human capital and diversify the economy, supporting two of the Studio’s core focus areas: Infrastructure Intelligence and Sovereign Systems. By coupling infrastructure, software, and advisory support, the partnership allows Studio-backed ventures to focus capital on product, talent, and market entry, rather than infrastructure overhead, increasing their probability of reaching product-market fit and follow-on funding.
The MoU is effective for an initial 24-month period, with the option to extend by mutual consent.
About The Utopia Studio
The Utopia Studio is an AI-native venture studio operating as part of Utopia Capital Management’s venture platform. Supported by Qatar Development Bank, the Studio partners with deep domain experts to co-build and commercialise new early-stage ventures addressing complex, high-barrier problems across the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, and other emerging markets. The Utopia Studio combines hands-on venture building, access to capital, and AI-native infrastructure to help founders fast-track their company growth from concept to Series A in less than 24 months.
About Sytronix
Sytronix is a high-performance computing and data center infrastructure company specializing in world-record servers and bespoke enterprise solutions. Working at the bleeding edge of hardware and architecture, Sytronix designs, builds, and deploys custom rack-and-stack modular systems that deliver unmatched speed, efficiency, and reliability. Holding 40+ world records across AI and render sectors, Sytronix provides ventures with sovereign computing infrastructure that achieves 8–12 month break-even versus cloud costs.
About Hosted.ai
Hosted.ai is an AI cloud infrastructure company making GPU-as-a-Service easy, efficient, and profitable for neoclouds, GPUaaS providers, sovereign GPU initiatives, and enterprises. Founded in 2024 with core platform technologies in development since 2018, hosted.ai addresses the fundamental inefficiency in today’s GPU infrastructure where 30–90% of capacity sits idle while burning CAPEX and OPEX.
About Sia Partners
Sia Partners is a global management consulting firm with 3,000+ consultants across 19 countries, born digital and pioneering the next generation of consulting through agentic AI. In September 2025, Sia launched its Agent Store featuring 250+ production-ready AI agents built on proven consulting methodologies and deep industry expertise. Through SiaGPT platform and Heka AI ecosystem (100+ Data Scientists), Sia democratizes access to enterprise-grade AI capabilities for ventures and organizations.
