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Welcome to KWI

Based in Dubai, KWI Commercial Holdings is a unique holding company that has launched and invested in numerous businesses within the region throughout its 25 year history. From Biotech and Aquaculture to Events and Edutainment, KWI has built a diverse portfolio of investments in a wide variety of industries. These have included founding our own businesses, angel funding a variety of start-ups, buying existing companies and investing in commercial real estate.

What We Do

First Movers

Region’s first hotel exhibition and space congress

World’s largest annual Airport Show

The UAE’s first Oyster Farm

The UAE’s first holiday camps

Dubai’s first animatronic dinosaurs

First UAE Government roadshows in Libya and the new Iraq

We like diversity and are open to working within any sector. However our past and present businesses and projects have one thing in common: they are first-moving, disruptive and truly benefit the region or industry they operate within. We understand the region, its needs and requirements intimately, and our philosophy has always been to launch, invest in and represent companies that support the region’s growth and overall development

We are always looking for new challenges and ventures and welcome enquiries for partnerships in the Gulf region

Current Holdings

Investments in Biotech, Healthcare, Edutainment, Media and Events, Acquaculture and Real Estate

Cytimmune Cancer Therapeutics

A biotech start-up developing a pipeline of systemic, tumor-targeted Immuno-Oncology (IO) and IO-enhanced therapeutics. Their platform is unique in its capability to deliver combinations of multi-functional anti-cancer therapeutics into tumors.

Indigo Entertainment

Indigo has been the leading provider of activity holiday camps for children in the UAE since 1998. Their premier brand, Dubai Holiday Camps, are run with qualified teachers, sports coaches and administrators for thousands of school- age children throughout the year.

East Coast Shellfish LLC

In 2016, East Coast Shellfish launched the Middle East’s first shellfish farm – Dibba Bay Oysters – producing gourmet oysters grown in the pristine waters of Dibba in Northern Fujairah, UAE.

Mi-VAD Inc.

Early stage medical device company developing a novel mechanical blood circulatory device, or blood pump, known as a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD). This new generation VAD will significantly reduce heart failure treatment costs while improving patient outcomes. 

Streamline Marketing Group (SMG)

SMG is an award-winning live media agency with a specific focus on creating and selling trade exhibitions and conferences. Founded in 1997, some of the region’s most prominent tradeshows and conferences were initially created by SMG and sold to international media groups such as the Daily Mail Group, Reed Elsevier and Tarsus.

Cytimmune Cancer Therapeutics

A biotech start-up developing a pipeline of systemic, tumor-targeted Immuno-Oncology (IO) and IO-enhanced therapeutics. Their platform is unique in its capability to deliver combinations of multi-functional anti-cancer therapeutics into tumors.

Indigo Entertainment

Indigo has been the leading provider of activity holiday camps for children in the UAE since 1998. Their premier brand, Dubai Holiday Camps, are run with qualified teachers, sports coaches and administrators for thousands of school- age children throughout the year.

East Coast Shellfish LLC

In 2016, East Coast Shellfish launched the Middle East’s first shellfish farm – Dibba Bay Oysters – producing gourmet oysters grown in the pristine waters of Dibba in Northern Fujairah, UAE. 

Mi-VAD Inc.

Early stage medical device company developing a novel mechanical blood circulatory device, or blood pump, known as a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD). This new generation VAD will significantly reduce heart failure treatment costs while improving patient outcomes. 

Streamline Marketing Group (SMG)

SMG is an award-winning live media agency with a specific focus on creating and selling trade exhibitions and conferences. Founded in 1997, some of the region’s most prominent tradeshows and conferences were initially created by SMG and sold to international media groups such as the Daily Mail Group, Reed Elsevier and Tarsus.

Cytimmune Cancer Therapeutics

A biotech start-up developing a pipeline of systemic, tumor-targeted Immuno-Oncology (IO) and IO-enhanced therapeutics. Their platform is unique in its capability to deliver combinations of multi-functional anti-cancer therapeutics into tumors.

Indigo Entertainment

Indigo has been the leading provider of activity holiday camps for children in the UAE since 1998. Their premier brand, Dubai Holiday Camps, are run with qualified teachers, sports coaches and administrators for thousands of school- age children throughout the year.

East Coast Shellfish LLC

In 2016, East Coast Shellfish launched the Middle East’s first shellfish farm – Dibba Bay Oysters – producing gourmet oysters grown in the pristine waters of Dibba in Northern Fujairah, UAE. 

Mi-VAD Inc.

Early stage medical device company developing a novel mechanical blood circulatory device, or blood pump, known as a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD). This new generation VAD will significantly reduce heart failure treatment costs while improving patient outcomes. 

Streamline Marketing Group (SMG)

SMG is an award-winning live media agency with a specific focus on creating and selling trade exhibitions and conferences. Founded in 1997, some of the region’s most prominent tradeshows and conferences were initially created by SMG and sold to international media groups such as the Daily Mail Group, Reed Elsevier and Tarsus.

 Who we are

Decades of experience and strong local relationships are the keys of our success

Founded and led by Nick Webb and Laith Kubba, entrepreneurs that have been based in the region all their lives, KWI is supported by a range of local investors and select Advisory Board members consisting of ex-Government officials and high-profile regional business people – all serving as catalysts to further opportunities within the region.

KWI’s first venture was launching the Streamline Marketing Group in Dubai in the 90s. Since then the KWI founders have launched several businesses themselves, invested in others and worked as JV partners on various private sector projects.

Our personal experience in launching businesses and running projects in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Libya, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait has contributed to our ability to spot viable business opportunities – and avoid costly mistakes – over the years. No entrepreneurial group would be complete without plenty of failures along the way, but in a developing region ripe with opportunity and capital, we are pleased that our successes have outweighed our failures.

As a consequence we have developed unparalleled regional contacts and knowledge built over many years. Through our companies, investments and consultancy arrangements KWI are proud to have worked with most Ministries, government organisations and departments, in addition to Embassies, international trade bodies and the United Nations. These contacts and relationships have been the cornerstone of our success, enabling us to smoothly navigate through governmental, economic and social complexities.

We know who to go to and how to get things done.

Get In Touch

Grosvenor Business Tower, Suite 1005
Barsha Heights
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
info@kwidubai.com