Real companies. Live challenges. Tangible impact.
You won't be doing homework. You'll be solving live business challenges for two startups, and building a portfolio you can show the world.
Launch a fintech with Gemba
The company
Gemba ge.mba is a DIFC-based fintech building the "invisible banking layer", infrastructure that lets any company embed full banking and payments into their product. No banking license. No compliance team. You can build a working fintech in just 7 minutes. Gemba is a noted alumnus of the JPMorgan Chase FinTech Forward Programme, an accelerator providing executive mentorship and network access to early-stage fintechs.
Put Gemba on the map. Use their AI-powered banking stack to launch your own fintech product, build a PR engine that lands press coverage, and convert that momentum into real signups.
What you'll do
Fuel a startup's growth with Vvanta
The company
Vvanta vvanta.ai is an AI-powered creative and strategy platform that helps enterprises design and launch marketing campaigns with AI. Vvanta already works with the likes of Almarai and other large enterprises, and is fundraising right now, with your work feeding directly into their growth story.
Land 3 enterprise clients. Leverage Vvanta's AI creative stack to deliver campaigns they actually use, and bring a fresh Gen Z and Gen Alpha lens to work that ships.
What you'll do
How challenges work
Meet the founders
Hear the challenge directly from the companies
Team up
Work in small teams with your mentors
Build & launch
Execute your campaign and products over 6 weeks
Pitch your results
Present your impact to founders and mentors at Demo Day
Ready to work on something real?
Your portfolio starts here, not with a certificate, but with results.