About
We built StartedUp because business information about the UAE is everywhere — and trustworthy information is rare.
Founders and finance teams in the UAE make high-stakes decisions on numbers they can't verify — setup costs pulled from a forum, a contract clause skimmed under deadline, a renewal date nobody wrote down. StartedUp exists to replace guesswork with sourced, checkable answers.
Our first product searches every UAE free zone, licence and law with each figure linked to its official source. Our contract-intelligence product applies the same principle to your own documents: extract the terms, flag the UAE-law risks, track the deadlines — and cite every finding to the exact clause it came from, in English or Arabic.
The throughline is provenance. We would rather show you where an answer comes from than ask you to trust us. That's a harder product to build, and the only kind worth trusting for decisions that matter.
Who's behind it
Ashik Karim
Founder & Authorised Signatory, UpCapital Global FZCO
StartedUp is built and operated by UpCapital Global FZCO, based in Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, UAE. We work directly with the founders, finance and legal teams who rely on this data, and we hold ourselves to the same standard we ask you to hold us to: show the source.