ABU DHABI — AlNser Holding, a diversified Emirati family group, today launched Business Scale-Up UAE, an invitation-only initiative convening established international companies evaluating the United Arab Emirates as a platform for regional and global growth. Eleven editions will be held across Europe, Asia, Central Asia and the Americas between October 2026 and September 2027, opening in Paris on 1 October.
The initiative is designed to complement, not duplicate, the extensive international work already undertaken by federal and local authorities. Where that work has established awareness of the Emirates at scale, Business Scale-Up UAE operates further along the same path, in smaller rooms and at the point of decision. Each edition convenes thirty to forty senior executives from a single market for a working session on the practical realities of establishing and operating in the Emirates, followed by a closed day of structured bilateral meetings. The agenda addresses market selection, corporate structuring, banking and taxation, trade agreements, local content requirements and commercial route to market.
Business Scale-Up UAE neither invests nor promotes. It represents the United Arab Emirates as a whole as a private sector initiative. election is on merit against published criteria, and capacity is limited to the number of companies the programme can support afterwards.
The programme ends where the decision is made. Companies that choose to proceed may engage the Scale-Up Hub, a separate AlNser initiative offering soft landing support. The two are deliberately kept apart: no participant is directed toward the Hub, and nothing in the programme depends on it.
“A great deal has already been done to present this market to the world, and it has been done well. Our contribution is a narrower one and comes later in the conversation. Our group has traded here for decades, and every decision this programme describes is one we have taken ourselves. That means we can tell a company plainly what each of those decisions involves and what it costs. That is the gap we are trying to close,” said Mr. Mohamed Naser Al Zaabi, Chairman and Managing Director of AlNser Holding.
The programme developed from private sessions held in Rome, Seoul and Hong Kong. Alongside the editions, Business Scale-Up UAE also delivers briefings, seminars and direct meeting programmes where a market or partner institution prefers that format, including engagements under preparation in Uzbekistan and Morocco.