Bindd turns a two-second scan at a Dubai event into a searchable, event-tagged relationship — not another cold LinkedIn request nobody answers.
Paper cards and camera-roll screenshots pile up. No name, no context, no follow-up. The connection is gone by Monday.
A connection request weeks later, with no record of where you met or why it mattered. Networks grow; relationships don't.
Sales teams attend dozens of events a year with zero shared record of who met whom, at which event, and what happened next.
Bindd replaces the paper card and the cold LinkedIn request with a two-second scan that becomes a permanent, event-tagged relationship — searchable by where and when you met.
Unlimited, free, instant. Meet someone, scan, done. Contact details unlock only after a mutual scan — no cold discovery, no spam.
Every connection is tied to the event where it happened — GITEX, a chamber meetup, a client dinner. Your network becomes searchable by context, not just name.
Notes, tags, follow-up reminders, and a full timeline per contact. Not a contact book — the story of how your network was actually built.
We're not asking you to fund a slide. We're asking you to fund the next phase of something already running. Here's the honest state of the build, not a projection.
Real camera capture, free OCR (Tesseract.js, no paid API), event tagging, and the relationship timeline all function end-to-end on a live build.
Paywall, upgrade-intent tracking, and a PDPL-aligned consent/revoke layer are built and code-verified. Not yet exposed to real users.
Zero external users today. The 90-day closed beta plan is scoped and ready to launch on funding — this is what the raise unlocks.
Dubai hosts one of the most active professional event calendars on earth. Every incumbent in this category is Western-built: no Arabic UX, no WhatsApp-first sharing, no regional payment rails.
UAE event management market, 2025 — growing to $25.1B by 2030
of UAE event revenue comes from tickets — professionals already pay to be in the room
of the market is corporate events — Bindd's exact use case, concentrated in Dubai
mobile's contribution to MENA GDP in 2024 — a mobile-first professional culture
UAE startups raised $2B across 218 deals in 2025 — none of it has gone to a UAE-native professional networking platform, based on our own competitive research. The gap is structural, not cosmetic, and it is still open.
Scanning and saving stay unlimited and free, forever. Bindd monetizes organization, intelligence, and visibility — never capture.
Notes, tags, search, full timeline, and "who viewed you." Converts the morning after an event.
Shared contact pool and CRM sync. A team's network becomes organizational lock-in.
Featured placement, lead capture, post-event connection reports. Free tier feeds supply.
Spotlight and "Open to Connect" status. Near-zero marginal cost, high margin.
| Comparison | Card apps (Blinq, Popl, HiHello) | Event platforms (Brella, Whova) | Bindd |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price position | Converged at ~$60/user/yr | Enterprise-only, opaque quotes | AED-priced, public pricing |
| Event context per contact | None | Locked to a single event | Every contact, every event |
| Mid-size events (100–500) | Not their product | Priced out | Core beachhead |
| MENA fit | None | None | Arabic UX & WhatsApp-first, from day one |
At pre-seed, you're backing the people as much as the product. This is who's behind Bindd.
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[Background]
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Year one: own professional events in Dubai. Year two: the GCC — and a data layer nobody else can build. We're raising pre-seed to get there.