The grant program will award selected organization over a 12-month period, starting this summer
By Exec Edge Editorial Staff
Inmā Emirates Holdings, the Dubai-based holding company founded by Dubai’s Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum, announced today a new grant program to help founders of existing ventures in the climate resilience space scale their businesses.
The initiative, details of which were made public today by the holding company via press release, intends to award grants to selected applicants over the span of 12 months. The open call for submissions is open to private-sector social enterprises and founder-led ventures across all global regions.
“Through this open call, we want to identify ventures that are ready to move from validation to practical implementation, especially in regions where resilience, food security, energy access, and environmental adaptation are becoming urgent priorities,” said Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook, Chairman of Inmā Emirates Holdings, in the grant program’s official announcement.
The Dubai-based holding company was established to consolidate Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook’s private impact investments. According to sources connected with Inmā, this grant program is intended to function as a precursor to a larger venture fund in the sector, designed to identify promising opportunities, validate market demand, and build an early investment pipeline.
A Commitment to Measurable Impact
The open call is consistent with Inmā Emirates Holdings’ broader investment model, which prioritizes projects where private capital and development partnerships can generate compounding public benefit. Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum has structured Inmā around four core values: collaboration, foresight, responsibility, and adaptability.
Through the open call, Inmā intends to identify the next generation of durable, scalable businesses operating at the intersection of environmental resilience and private-sector growth.
“The most important climate and sustainability solutions will not succeed on technical promise alone. They need a path to deployment, local relevance, and the operational discipline to prove they can deliver measurable benefits for communities, governments, and markets,” Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook said.
What Companies Are Eligible for Grants?
Inmā is particularly interested in technologies designed for adoption in environments where infrastructure, digital literacy, power access, and institutional capacity may be uneven. This focus reflects the practical realities facing smallholder farmers, rural communities, and public-sector institutions across global emerging markets. Nonprofits, university-incubated entities, and research labs are not eligible.
Priority verticals for grants include:
- Meteorology and weather intelligence
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Deforestation prevention and restoration
- Agriculture technology and precision farming/food security
- Electric vehicle technology
- Solar energy and renewable power access
- Desert control, land restoration, and water-stress adaptation
What Kind of Companies are Eligible?
Applicants must have, at minimum, defensible intellectual property, proprietary technology, or a differentiated technical process, along with a working prototype, proof of concept, field validation, or technical demonstration. Concept-only ideas without technical validation are unlikely to be competitive.
Stronger applications will demonstrate execution capacity alongside innovation. Priority will be given to ventures that can show:
- Existing customers, paying users, or signed partnerships
- Early revenue or a credible path to revenue
- Deployment data, field results, or measurable user outcomes
- A defined plan for geographic expansion or public-sector partnership
- Applications will also be evaluated on scalability, commercial durability, and the ability to attract co-investors, public-sector buyers, or institutional partners beyond the grant cycle.
How Will Applications Be Evaluated?
Inmā’s evaluation criteria cover mission fit, problem significance, technical strength, proof of concept, market need, scalability, impact measurement, team quality, capital efficiency, and durability.
Applicants should define the outcomes they expect to deliver and how those outcomes will be measured. Relevant key performance indicators may include farmers reached, forecast accuracy, crop loss reduction, yield improvement, water savings, energy generated or stored, jobs created, income uplift, and service uptime.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via email with a PDF attachment to grantapplications@inma.co by 31 August, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. BST. Submissions should include company name, headquarters, founding year, website, founder and leadership team bios, sector category, problem statement, product or service description, current stage of development, technical differentiation, proof of concept or deployment evidence, business and revenue model, grant amount requested, proposed use of funds, and a 12-month deployment or scale plan, key risks and mitigation plan, impact metrics currently tracked, and impact metrics expected from grant support.
Supporting materials such as pitch decks, technical documentation, demo links, pilot results, customer references, or letters of support are encouraged.
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