Venture Engine
Our core internal engine: thesis-driven venture creation with stage gates (discover → validate → build → spin). 30% of builder capacity is permanently locked for internal ventures.
The Projex Labs venture engine is not a single product line — it is nine reinforcing programs that together produce ventures, IP, revenue, and talent. Each program has its own thesis, its own engagement shape, and its own success metric. Here they are.
Our core internal engine: thesis-driven venture creation with stage gates (discover → validate → build → spin). 30% of builder capacity is permanently locked for internal ventures.
Co-funded innovation partnerships with SDAIA, Monsha'at, MCIT/DGA, sector regulators. Outputs are operating ventures with measurable impact, not strategy decks.
Our open-source product cores + community, infrastructure, and enterprise licensing layer. Every Projex Labs product ships with an open core.
Co-build AI ventures with PIF ecosystem entities, Shareek partners, enterprise groups. Shared equity and spin-off optionality from day one.
Technical co-founder to early- and growth-stage founders. 10–30% equity co-creation. Shared infrastructure. Long-term partnership, not vendor engagement.
Full-stack commercialization of research IP from KAUST, KFUPM, KSU, KAU, PNU, KACST, NCAI, and tech-transfer offices. 12–18 month track to independent venture.
A fellowship track for exceptional MENA builders — fellowship → contribution → hire → co-founder. Open-source community is the pipeline.
A network of regional operators — consultancies, systems integrators, academies — who resell, deploy, and localize Projex Labs open-core products. MENA-first distribution.
Our flagship annual research publication. The definitive state of MENA AI venture building. Published to LEAP, DeepFest, GAIN audiences.