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 go only to people you've actually scanned at an event — no cold discovery, no spam — and one tap hides your phone and email from any connection.
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.
The core scan-to-connect loop, real camera capture, free OCR (Tesseract.js, no paid API), event tagging, and the relationship timeline work end-to-end on a live build, on a single device, with data currently stored on the device. Backend persistence — needed for two-phone mutual scans and shared team contacts — is in progress and funded by this round.
Paywall, upgrade-intent tracking, and a PDPL-minded consent/revoke layer are built and code-verified. Not yet exposed to real users.
Zero external users today. The 90-day closed beta launches once the round closes — this is what the raise unlocks.
Dubai hosts one of the most active professional event calendars on earth. Two regional players have matched Arabic UX and relationship memory separately — none auto-capture event context at the moment of a free, unlimited scan.
Context, not addressable market: these figures describe the UAE event industry Bindd sells into.
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
UAE startups raised $2B across 218 deals in 2025. ScaanMe and Nasy have matched Arabic/WhatsApp localization; NexaLink has event tagging in a global CRM. Based on our own competitive research, we have not found a free, MENA-native app that auto-captures event context at scan time. That 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, ScaanMe, Nasy, NexaLink) | Event platforms (Brella, Whova) | Bindd |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price position | Converged at ~$60/user/yr | Enterprise-only, opaque quotes | AED-priced, public pricing — Pro priced at parity with card apps |
| Event context per contact | Manual tags (NexaLink only) | Locked to a single event | Every contact, every event |
| Mid-size events (100–500) | Not their product | Priced out | Core beachhead |
| MENA fit | ScaanMe, Nasy | None | Free unlimited scan auto-captures event context — neither Nasy nor ScaanMe does this |
At pre-seed, you're backing the founder as much as the product.
Co-founder of two prior ventures. Built Bindd's working MVP entirely solo — no technical background, no team — using AI-assisted development.
Part of this round funds a part-time technical lead to own the backend and security as Bindd moves to real users.
The MVP is built. The beta has not started. Each next milestone is measured from funding close — not a hypothetical trajectory.
Core loop working on a single device.
Backend persistence ships; hire a part-time technical lead; beta partner outreach with 5 organizers.
100–150 testers across 2–4 live Dubai events.
Notification engine live, 300–500 users; Day-30 retention data; first paying customers.
Seed round, priced on that proof — not projections.
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.
Use of funds: Backend persistence & technical lead · closed beta at 2–4 Dubai events · runway to seed metrics.
SAFE, AED 5.5M–9.2M cap · DIFC