All about the DIFC Venture Studio Framework

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://10leaves.ae/publications/difc/difc-venture-studio-framework Last year, the DIFC announced the launch of the first global “Venture Studio Launchpad” to assist with the growth of the UAE’s financial ecosystem, and to be a growth partner and business enabler to venture studios, allowing them to set up and scale from the DIFC. The Proposed Venture Studio Regulations provide the legal and regulatory framework under which venture studios, and similar arrangements, and any “spin-off” entities formed by venture studios, can establish and operate in the DIFC. This initiative complements the existing DIFC Venture Fund Manager Framework, and the DIFC Innovation license initiatives, which together will serve to make the DIFC the leading destination for both innovators and their funding partners. The proposed venture studio model enables venture studios to establish a company in the DIFC that acts as both a holding and operating vehicle (“Venture Studio”), licensed to incubate new business ideas (each a “Venture”) and, if they reach a minimum viable product (“MVP”) stage, to convert the Ventures to newly incorporated Venture Studio entities (each a “Venture Studio Company”).