For startups and emerging companies exploring customers, partners and market fit in the GCC.
Choosing your next step
The GCC Startup Launch Sprint combines opportunity assessment and country prioritisation with customer, partner and ecosystem mapping. It supports startups and emerging companies exploring where their offer may fit in the Gulf, how to position it and which stakeholders to approach first.
Explain the problem your startup solves, its current stage, the customers or partners you want to reach and what you have already tested. Identify the market-fit questions you need to answer and any GCC country or ecosystem relationships already in place.
Engagement questions
The scope includes a GCC Opportunity Assessment, country prioritisation, a Country Priority Go-to-Market Strategy, 50 customer, partner and ecosystem targets, a minimum of 25 mapped stakeholders, founder and company positioning, initial outreach and a 90-day launch plan.
The Startup Launch Sprint focuses on startups and emerging companies exploring customers, partners and market fit. The Market Entry Sprint is designed for established SMEs testing a GCC market opportunity before making a larger commitment.
The 90-day launch plan sets out the next launch actions. Engagement scope, priorities and reporting arrangements are defined individually; the planning horizon is not a stated delivery deadline.
Other ways to work together
Research the market
Use the country, sector and event evidence to prepare your commercial questions.