UTOPIA is the platform that brings together capital, intelligence, infrastructure, and partners to design, build, and scale ventures across the Global South.
01
Capital
Two funds. Frictionless capital.
Via A-Typical Ventures and The Radical Fund, alongside co-investors and SPVs, providing continuous access from idea to Series A.
02
Build
AI-native venture studio.
Through The Utopia Studio, we partner with domain experts to build companies from the ground up when the right opportunities don't yet exist.
03
Networks
POD networks.
Curated networks of corporate and institutional partners, co-investors, and domain experts supporting ventures with proprietary data, validation, and market access.
04
Technology
UTOPIA OS.
A proprietary technology and intelligence layer combining compute, data, and AI tools to accelerate building and reduce costs by more than 50%.
02 The Opportunity
The global south is entering the fastest infrastructure buildout in history. UTOPIA is laying the foundations for founders to build it.
2×faster economic growth than western markets and accelerating
70%of global infrastructure demand is driven by the Global South
90%of the global emerging middle class will come from the Global South
15%of global VC funding reaches these markets despite representing the majority of global opportunity
03.5 Platform Deep Dive
How each part of the platform works.
01 / Capital
Two funds. Frictionless capital.
Via A-Typical Ventures and The Radical Fund, we provide continuous, thesis-led capital from Pre-Seed through to Series A aligned with how companies are actually built inside the platform. No relationship rebuilding at each stage.
A-Typical Ventures
GCC · Levant · Türkiye · Pakistan
The Radical Fund
Southeast Asia
Pre-Seed to Series A
Continuous capital access without the friction of rebuilding relationships at each funding stage.
Co-investors and SPVs
Structured access for co-investors and limited partners to participate alongside the platform.
Thesis-led deployment
Both funds invest around high-conviction theses shaped by POD networks and real market demand.
QIA Backed (A-Typical Ventures)
Aligned with sovereign partners and attuned to national scale opportunities.
02 / Build
The Utopia Studio. Where companies are built.
We partner with domain experts who have 15+ years inside the problem to co-build AI-native companies from the ground up. Not sourced, not advised built. From insight to spinout in months, not years.
Up to $1M
staged funding per venture
<18mo
to Series A readiness
Generate concepts
Opportunities originate from POD-led theses and validated real market demand not speculation.
Validate rapidly
Multiple concepts are tested and refined through structured validation cycles before capital is committed.
Select and spin out
The strongest opportunities become standalone companies with dedicated teams, infrastructure, and capital.
Co-founding, not advising
Our engineers, product and GTM team work beside founders from day one not from a board seat.
03 / Networks
POD networks. The connective tissue.
PODs are thesis-led focus areas that bring together corporates, investors, and domain experts around high-value problem spaces. They are where opportunity is identified, validated, and turned into companies before anyone else sees it.
Infrastructure Intelligence
Sovereign Systems
Capital Infrastructure
Industrial Decarbonisation
Shape theses
Partners contribute strategic priorities and domain expertise to define what gets built inside each POD.
Early validation
Engage at the validation stage and see opportunities before they become companies.
Co-invest alongside UTOPIA
Participate in opportunities generated through PODs and the studio at advantaged terms.
Unlock commercial partnerships
Connect with emerging companies early as customers, partners, or distribution channels.
04 / Technology
UTOPIA OS. The intelligence layer.
A proprietary, multi-layered technology platform powering every venture we build and back. The cost of intelligence sets the speed limit for innovation in the Global South. UTOPIA OS removes that limit cutting AI build costs by more than 50%.
>50%
reduction in AI build costs for platform ventures
Layer 1 Physical & digital infrastructure
Owned compute infrastructure and GPU cloud services halving the cost of building AI-native companies.
Layer 2 Aggregated data
An intelligence and data layer, enriched by insights from POD partners and portfolio companies across all markets.
Layer 3 Pre-made business components
A library of agentic AI tools and modular building blocks, automating operations, marketing, billing, and more.
Compounding advantage
Every venture built on the platform enriches the shared intelligence layer making each successive build faster and cheaper.
Give global south founders capital, and they'll build good companies.
But if you give founders the operating system to go from idea to Series A faster they'll build the next wave of unicorns.
05 Partner With Us
Different ways to engage.
01 / Corporates & Institutions
Shape what gets built
Sponsor a POD get first access to ventures for pilots, externalise R&D, and co-invest before the market moves.
A-typical Ventures is an early stage venture fund investing across the Middle East, Levant, Türkiye, and Pakistan.
With a strong base in Doha, we back infrastructure and system-level companies building the critical layers these economies depend on from energy and industrial systems to financial, digital, and sovereign infrastructure.
We work closely with sovereign and corporate partners to identify high-value opportunity spaces, and support companies from inception through scale with coordinated capital, infrastructure, and market access.
Stage
Pre-Seed → Series A
Geography
GCC · Levant · Türkiye · Pakistan
Focus
Infrastructure & Systems
Backed by
QIA
Our Vision
A new future will be built by a new type of founder.
The venture model is changing fast. The next generation of unicorns can emerge from anywhere built by domain experts VCs are not trained to recognise, where lived experience and judgment matter more than technical pedigree.
01
Domain expertise as the moat
We back founders who have spent years inside a system that does not work the way it should turning that insight into category-defining companies.
02
Regional conviction
The Middle East is undergoing one of the most ambitious economic transformations in history. We are here because we believe in the region not because it is convenient.
03
System-level thinking
We focus on infrastructure and critical systems companies that become the essential layer other businesses are built on top of.
Portfolio
Selected portfolio.
A selection of companies building the systems the region will run on.
AI-powered financial intelligence platform for SMEs. Its Chief Financial AI, Max, delivers real-time insights, forecasting, and actionable recommendations built on $4.2B in proprietary transactional data.
Saudi Arabia's first Arabic-native enterprise data governance platform. Helps public and private organisations comply with national data regulations while building AI-ready data foundations.
AI-powered B2B corporate wellbeing superapp covering all eight dimensions of employee health. Used by over 100,000 employees across 40+ companies in 17 countries.
Why A-Typical
More than capital.
Platform
Access to the UTOPIA platform
Tap into a structured system for company building, validation, and scaling built specifically for the Global South.
Infrastructure
UTOPIA OS
Shared infrastructure, data, and AI-native tooling to accelerate execution and reduce cost by more than 50%.
Support
Hands-on support
Direct involvement across product, go-to-market, partnerships, and scaling not from a board seat, but in the building.
Capital
Continuous capital
From idea to Series A through the fund and a global co-investor network, with no relationship rebuilding at each stage.
For Founders
Build with us. Submit your deck.
If you are building an infrastructure or systems company across the Middle East and Global South, we want to hear from you.
At The Radical Fund we back solutions that lower costs, make operations more efficient, and deliver resilience from supply chain shocks.
Fund Overview
The Radical Fund.
An early stage venture fund investing across Southeast Asia.
We back climate and industrial solutions that reduce dependency on volatile resources, improve efficiency, and strengthen resilience across critical systems.
With deep regional networks and a strong understanding of local market dynamics, we work closely with founders, corporates, and partners to identify high-impact opportunities and support companies from inception through scale.
Stage
Pre-Seed to Series A
Geography
Southeast Asia
Focus
Climate & Industrial
Our Vision
Climate is global. Its impact is local.
Climate change is often framed as a global challenge, but its consequences are experienced locally, and unevenly. In Southeast Asia, the challenge is not just decarbonisation. It is adapting to volatility, reducing exposure to resource constraints, and building systems that can operate reliably under pressure.
Solutions built for Western markets do not map cleanly to these realities. The region requires a broader set of products and services that reflect how industries actually operate on the ground.
The most effective climate solutions combine mitigation with adaptation, improving efficiency, lowering costs, and strengthening resilience at the same time.
Our Mission
Our vision is to help grow Southeast Asia into the world's leading climate venture economy.
01
Mitigation and adaptation
The most effective solutions do both simultaneously - lowering costs, improving efficiency, and strengthening resilience at the same time.
02
Built for this region
Western climate solutions do not map to Southeast Asian realities. We back products and services built for how industries actually operate on the ground here.
03
Reducing dependency
Backing companies that reduce exposure to volatile resources and build critical systems that can operate reliably under pressure.
Portfolio
Selected portfolio.
A selection of companies building the systems that reduce dependency and strengthen resilience.
A nature tech company that revives degraded lands through AI-enabled nature restoration, using LiDAR and remote sensing to bring transparency and traceability to nature restoration.
Enabling middle-class homeowners in Southeast Asia to participate in the energy transition with a solar infrastructure financing platform making affordable residential solar energy accessible to all.
Provides an innovative thermal energy storage solution utilizing sand battery technology tailored for agricultural applications across drying, warming, or heating needs.
A white label EV fleet management service with riders, electric vehicles, and integrated fleet management software for SMEs and enterprises to create their own in-house delivery fleets.
Pioneers a mechanical magnetic crawler that revolutionizes ship hull maintenance: expedites cleaning, automates inspections and repairs, and prevents slime buildup that increases GHG emissions.
Groundbreaking microbial technology creating sustainable alternatives to palm oil derivatives and cocoa butter, using microbial fermentation to convert agricultural waste into lipid ingredients.
A circular economy startup that buys, refurbishes, and sells second-hand smartphones and technology through an integrated online and physical retail network.
Indonesia's first quota-based water refill station, offering sustainable and safe drinking water with advanced filtration technology to reduce plastic waste and carbon emissions.
A B2B plastic packaging waste management startup providing a Packaging Recovery Program for collection, tracing, recycling, and verification of post-consumer packaging waste.
Why The Radical Fund
More than capital.
Platform
Access to the UTOPIA platform
Tap into a structured system for identifying, building, and scaling high-impact solutions across Southeast Asia.
Infrastructure
UTOPIA OS
Shared infrastructure, data, and AI-native tooling to accelerate execution and reduce cost by more than 50%.
Support
Hands-on support
Direct involvement across product, go-to-market, partnerships, and scaling - not from a board seat, but in the building.
Capital
Continuous capital
From idea to Series A through the fund and a global co-investor network, with no relationship rebuilding at each stage.
For Founders
Build with us. Submit your deck.
If you are building a climate or industrial solution across Southeast Asia, we want to hear from you.
We partner with domain experts to build companies from zero to scale, combining capital, AI infrastructure, and hands-on execution under one roof. From idea to Series A in under 24 months.
Up to $1M
Staged funding per venture, from concept to Series A readiness.
<24 months
From idea to Series A. A structured path from validation to ARR momentum.
AI-first
Not AI-added. Every venture is built on UTOPIA OS with AI embedded from day one.
GCC · Southeast Asia · Africa
What We Do
We co-build companies with the people who understand the problem best.
The UTOPIA Studio is an AI-native venture builder for the Global South. We work with domain experts to turn high-barrier problems into scalable, investable companies. We build alongside you.
→ From concept to product
→ From first users to scale
→ From early traction to capital
We build new ventures from scratch, and work with existing companies to re-engineer them for AI-native growth, all inside one integrated system.
How Our Fellowship Programme Works
From first conversation to company launch.
We work with a small number of domain experts at a time. The process is structured, but tailored to each founder.
01 / CONVERSATION
Initial Conversation
You come to us with a problem you understand deeply. We assess fit based on your experience, access, and the opportunity.
02 / JOIN
Join as a Co-build Fellow
If there is alignment, you enter the Studio as a fellow and start working directly with our team.
03 / VALIDATE
Validate the Problem
We work with you to test the problem in the real world, speaking to customers, validating demand, and refining the opportunity.
04 / BUILD
Build the First Product
Together, we develop an AI-native prototype, typically within 6 to 8 weeks, using our infrastructure and technical support.
05 / TRACTION
Prove Early Traction
We focus on getting real signals, pilots, users, or early revenue, before thinking about capital.
06 / LAUNCH
Fund and Spin Out
Once the company is working, we support fundraising and launch it as an independent venture with a team, product, and momentum.
Technology
UTOPIA OS. The infrastructure behind every company we build.
UTOPIA OS is our proprietary operating system, combining AI-native tools, shared data, and dedicated compute to help founders build, test, and scale faster.
It removes friction across the entire journey, from idea to product to growth, so companies can move with more speed and better information from day one.
Where We Focus
High-impact systems, not surface-level products.
We build in areas where infrastructure is still being defined. These are complex problems. They require domain expertise, not just code.
→ Capital and financial systems
→ Industrial and energy infrastructure
→ Logistics and supply chains
→ National resilience systems
→ Commerce and digital infrastructure
Pod 01 · Building
Infrastructure Intelligence
Energy, compute, and industrial intelligence co-built with operators who have deep domain knowledge. Targeting the data and intelligence layer for physical infrastructure.
Pod 02 · Building
Sovereign Systems
Where policy creates markets. Backing founders with the insight to turn regulatory shifts into infrastructure-scale opportunity across emerging markets.
Pod 03 · Building
Capital Infrastructure
The financial rails, not just the apps. Building the underlying infrastructure that will power the next generation of financial services across the Global South.
Pod 04 · Building
Industrial Decarbonisation
Industrial transition, not just energy transition. AI-native solutions for the hard-to-abate sectors that will define the climate economy over the next two decades.
For Fellows
Co-founding, not advising.
Why founders choose UTOPIA:
→ We act as a co-founder, not a mentor
→ We build product, GTM, and systems alongside you
→ We don't run programmes or demo days
→ We don't fund ideas without customers
Faster build cycles
AI-native infrastructure and pre-built tools compress months of work into weeks from day one.
Better decisions through shared data
UTOPIA OS shared intelligence layer gives you real signals across markets, products, and customers.
Lower cost to build and scale
Shared compute, infrastructure, and tooling reduces your build cost by more than 50% versus going it alone.
Immediate access to capital and networks
Direct line to A-Typical Ventures and The Radical Fund, plus a co-investor network built around your thesis.
Traction
If you've lived the problem, we'll help you build the solution.
We're looking for domain experts ready to build companies in systems that matter.
140
Co-builds targeted in the next 5 years.
1,000+
Skills and agents being developed.
Growing
Portfolio of companies and fellows building across focus areas.
<24 mo
Target from first conversation to Series A readiness.
UTOPIA PODs
The best opportunities come from hidden problems.
The kind only domain experts truly understand. PODs are how we find and build around those problems.
PODs turn real-world problems into investable companies, giving you a direct path to your next big opportunity whether you're shaping solutions in your industry, building a company, or investing in high-value opportunities before anyone else.
01
Network
PODs are networks of corporate and institutional partners, VCs and co-investors, expert advisors, and founders formed around high-value, cross-sector opportunities such as Infrastructure Intelligence and National Resilience.
02
Invest and Build
These networks help us identify the most high-value problems to solve, and support our funds in finding and investing in the ventures addressing them. When those ventures don't yet exist, we build them through The Utopia Studio.
03
Scale and Benefit
Throughout, our PODs guide, validate, open doors, and help scale our portfolio often becoming early customers, partners, and investors in the companies we build together.
Where You Come In
Who are PODs built for?
You've spent years inside a system that doesn't quite work the way it should.
PODs give you the chance to turn that experience into a company. We work with you to shape the opportunity, co-build the business, and provide the capital, partners, and support needed to bring it to market.
Domain expertise as the moat
15+ years inside the problem is what makes the difference. We back the insight, not just the idea.
Co-founding, not advising
Our team of engineers, product, and GTM operators work alongside you from day one — not from a board seat.
Up to $1M staged funding
Capital aligned to milestones, with a direct path to The Radical Fund and A-Typical Ventures for follow-on.
Get early access to innovation before it reaches the market.
Through our PODs, corporate and institutional partners get early access to emerging solutions, direct input into how they are shaped, and opportunities to pilot, adopt, and co-invest before anyone else.
Shape what gets built
Contribute strategic priorities to define opportunity areas within PODs aligned to your industry.
Externalise R&D
Use PODs as an extension of internal innovation efforts without the internal overhead or budget risk.
Early commercial partnerships
Connect with companies early as first customers, partners, or distribution channels before the market moves.
Shape how new companies are built from the ground up.
Join a network of experts shaping how new companies are built. We work with advisors who bring deep industry experience to define problems, guide solutions, and open the doors that matter.
Define the problems worth solving
Your industry knowledge shapes which opportunities get prioritised within each POD thesis area.
Guide ventures as they build
Work directly with founders and The Studio team providing real-world context that no amount of desk research can replace.
Access advisory and investment opportunities
Advisors get priority access to invest alongside UTOPIA in the ventures they help shape.
Co-invest alongside UTOPIA in thesis-led, validated opportunities with shared diligence, structured data rooms, and alignment from inception. Earlier entry, reduced risk, and exposure to infrastructure-led growth in the Global South.
Earlier entry, better terms
Engage at the validation stage and see opportunities before they become companies or before the round is priced.
Shared diligence and intelligence
Co-investors benefit from UTOPIA's POD-level insight, master metrics, and prepared data rooms reducing time and cost of diligence.
Back a POD or deal-by-deal
Commit to a focus area and receive first-look allocation across its spin-outs, or join individual rounds as they emerge.
Already building something? We want to hear from you.
If your company is tackling a problem within one of our PODs, submit your deck and we'll be in touch. We back pre-seed founders with capital, infrastructure, and the POD network to accelerate the path to traction.
Infrastructure out of the box
Access UTOPIA OS shared compute, data, and pre-built business components from day one.
POD network access
Immediate connection to corporate partners, domain experts, and institutional networks relevant to your problem space.
Capital from Pre-Seed to Series A
Continuous funding access through A-Typical Ventures and The Radical Fund — no relationship rebuilding at each stage.
You've spent years inside a system that doesn't quite work the way it should.
PODs give you the chance to turn that experience into a company. We work with you to shape the opportunity, co-build the business, and provide the capital, partners, and support needed to bring it to market.
15+ years inside the problem is what makes the difference. We back the insight, not just the idea.
Co-founding, not advising
Our team of engineers, product, and GTM operators work alongside you from day one not from a board seat.
Up to $1M staged funding
Capital aligned to milestones, with a direct path to The Radical Fund and A-Typical Ventures for follow-on.
Get early access to innovation before it reaches the market.
Through our PODs, corporate and institutional partners get early access to emerging solutions, direct input into how they are shaped, and opportunities to pilot, adopt, and co-invest before anyone else.
Contribute strategic priorities to define opportunity areas within PODs aligned to your industry.
Externalise R&D
Use PODs as an extension of internal innovation efforts without the internal overhead or budget risk.
Early commercial partnerships
Connect with companies early as first customers, partners, or distribution channels before the market moves.
Shape how new companies are built from the ground up.
Join a network of experts shaping how new companies are built. We work with advisors who bring deep industry experience to define problems, guide solutions, and open the doors that matter.
Your industry knowledge shapes which opportunities get prioritised within each POD thesis area.
Guide ventures as they build
Work directly with founders and The Studio team providing real-world context that no amount of desk research can replace.
Access advisory and investment opportunities
Advisors get priority access to invest alongside UTOPIA in the ventures they help shape.
Access companies before they exist in the market.
Co-invest alongside UTOPIA in thesis-led, validated opportunities with shared diligence, structured data rooms, and alignment from inception. Earlier entry, reduced risk, and exposure to infrastructure-led growth in the Global South.
Engage at the validation stage and see opportunities before they become companies or before the round is priced.
Shared diligence and intelligence
Co-investors benefit from UTOPIA's POD-level insight, master metrics, and prepared data rooms reducing time and cost of diligence.
Back a POD or deal-by-deal
Commit to a focus area and receive first-look allocation across its spin-outs, or join individual rounds as they emerge.
Already building something? We want to hear from you.
If your company is tackling a problem within one of our PODs, submit your deck and we'll be in touch. We back pre-seed founders with capital, infrastructure, and the POD network to accelerate the path to traction.
Access UTOPIA OS shared compute, data, and pre-built business components from day one.
POD network access
Immediate connection to corporate partners, domain experts, and institutional networks relevant to your problem space.
Capital from Pre-Seed to Series A
Continuous funding access through A-Typical Ventures and The Radical Fund no relationship rebuilding at each stage.
Portfolio
Our current PODs.
01
POD #1
Infrastructure Intelligence
Azraq
Barrier Intelligence
Explore →
02
POD #2
Capital Infrastructure
Metric
Explore →
03
POD #3
Decarbonising Industry
Okapi · Alterno · DashAlicia
Bots · Terra Oleo · Sirsak
Explore →
04
POD #4
National Resilience
Mentix · Waterhub
Governata
Explore →
Next Step
Engage with a POD.
Build with us
Have you spent years inside a problem that still hasn't been solved properly? We work with domain experts to turn that insight into AI-native companies.
Join a network of experts shaping how new companies are built. We work with advisors who bring deep industry experience to define problems and guide solutions.
UTOPIA OS. The infrastructure behind every company we build.
Build. Invest. Launch. In the same system. UTOPIA OS is our proprietary operating system powering both founders and investors a unified infrastructure layer that turns company building and capital allocation into a single, continuously learning machine.
10×deal flow coverage full market scanning, not sampling
1 weekdue diligence cycles with continuous portfolio monitoring
>50%lower build costs for portfolio companies through shared compute access
1,000+agents and skills shared across every founder and investor on the platform
01 One System. Two Users.
Shared intelligence across building and investing.
UTOPIA OS is used across both sides of the platform. This is what makes UTOPIA fundamentally different not separate tools, but one shared system compounding across both building and investing.
For Founders
Build, launch, and scale
A fully integrated AI-native environment for building companies from concept to ARR momentum.
For Investors
Source, diligence, and manage
Using the exact same infrastructure, data, and intelligence layer aligned from the first signal to the last follow-on.
02 Built as One System
Three layers working together.
Most companies rebuild from scratch. Most investors operate on disconnected tools. UTOPIA OS replaces both with a single system three layers, one platform, compounding intelligence at every level.
The Intelligence Layer
1,000+ Agents & Skills
A shared library of agents, workflows, and reusable skills powering every company and every investment decision. What used to take 12 months now takes weeks.
→ 1,000+ agents across product, GTM, fundraising, and operations
→ Deployable across 50+ AI tools (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, and more)
→ Reusable across every company improving with each build
→ Powers code generation, market research, and fundraising
The Infrastructure Layer
A Private AI Lab for Building Companies
A fully managed, secure environment where companies are built, tested, and deployed from day one. No fragmented tools. No rebuilding from scratch.
→ Full-stack development environment (frontend to backend)
→ Integrated analytics, payments, and infrastructure
Proprietary compute infrastructure designed for training, deploying, and scaling AI systems. Lower cost, faster iteration, guaranteed access to compute.
→ Elastic GPU access with near 100% utilisation
→ In-house GPU clusters for training and inference
→ Priority compute access for portfolio companies
→ Real-time usage tracking and cost optimisation
→ Edge runtime and advanced experimentation environments
03 The Compounding Intelligence Layer
The more we build, the better we invest.
Every action across the platform feeds into a proprietary data corpus the core intelligence layer of UTOPIA OS. The better we invest, the more we learn to build.
What it captures
→ Market signals and behavioural data
→ Product patterns and GTM playbooks
→ Decision traces from founders and investors
→ Vertical-specific insights across emerging markets
What it enables
→ Better sourcing and deal flow coverage
→ Faster, more accurate due diligence
→ Sharper investment theses
→ Continuous portfolio intelligence
04 Building for What Comes Next
Quantum AI sandbox.
UTOPIA OS includes a dedicated environment for quantum-classical development. Not because quantum is ready today. But because when it is, our companies will be.
Quantum hardware access
Access to simulators and real quantum hardware for early experimentation.
Hybrid workflows
Quantum-classical hybrid workflows built for optimisation, ML, and cryptography.
Pre-built templates
Ready-to-deploy templates for common quantum use cases, deployable via UTOPIA Cloud.
R&D collaboration
IP development opportunities with research partners embedded in the platform.
05 Why UTOPIA OS Matters
One system. Continuously improving.
Most companies are built from scratch. Most investors operate on disconnected tools. UTOPIA OS replaces both a single system that produces better companies, faster, with compounding intelligence at every stage.
Weeks
Not months
Build time reduced from months to weeks repeated technical and operational work eliminated entirely.
Lower
Cost of intelligence
Infrastructure costs slashed shared compute, shared data, and pre-built components from day one.
Higher
Hit rates
Shared intelligence layer means stronger investment decisions and faster iteration on what works.
↑ Always
Compounding advantage
Knowledge compounds across every company aligning building and investing into one continuously learning machine.
