Your progress comes first.
In our education ventures, we ask a simple question: does this help you move closer to the future you want?
About & What We Do
Built around what you can become.
V-Empower Ventures builds and operates companies across education, career readiness and business growth. Based in Dubai, we connect that work through a belief in people and their potential.
Why we exist
What you learn should lead somewhere.
You can have ambition and still be unsure where to begin, and you can finish your studies and still need experience. We build companies that help you move through those moments with guidance, opportunities to practise and work you can show.
Make your next choice with more clarity.
Catalystia helps you explore your direction with guidance. It also trains educators and counsellors to support those conversations.
What guides us
Progress you can carry forward.
Experience should leave you with something to show.
A project. A venture. A skill you have put into practice. We value what you can take into your next opportunity.
Partnership means shared responsibility.
When we work with your institution, we build around your students, your priorities and the outcomes you want to achieve.
Entrepreneurship
Find out what your idea can become.
With StrideUp, you work through the steps of building a venture, from an idea to a prototype, launch and pitch.
You practise making decisions, solving problems and presenting what you have built.
- 1Idea
- 2Prototype
- 3Refine
- 4Launch
- 5Pitch
Campus venture studios
Give your students room to build.
Bring StrideUp’s venture-building journey to your school or university. A structured program takes students from an idea to Demo Day, with work they can show.
Our portfolio also includes companies focused on business growth. Pepagora connects businesses across emerging markets, extending our work into the opportunities people create through enterprise.