A studio that builds and runs its own products.
StartupX is not an agency. It builds AI learning products for the Arab world, launches them, and keeps running them. Three are live today.
We pick the gap.
We start where a student is already stuck and nobody is selling a fix. Not the biggest market. The clearest gap.
We ship small.
A first version reaches real students in weeks, priced so a parent decides in one sitting. What survives contact gets built out.
We teach in the language the student thinks in.
Arabic first, and the dialect spoken at home before the standard printed in the book. A student who translates the question twice answers it once.
Where it works
Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Products are written in Arabic first and read right-to-left by default; English is the translation, not the original.
How it is funded
Revenue from the products. No outside round to date.
Founder and CEO
Ahmed Tarek
I'm Ahmed — a product manager and entrepreneur with a software engineering background, an educator to 3,000+ students, and the builder of StartupX.
RoboCup champion at 16, in Nagoya. Three years teaching Python and AI on the Digital Egypt initiative with Udacity.
I lead StartupX's AI products from Dubai.
- 3,000+
- Students I taught
- 4
- Countries
- 10,000+
- Learners on platforms I built
- 16
- My age at RoboCup
Do you want to be the next product?
StartupX takes on one new product a year. If you have a teaching problem worth solving, and a market already paying for a worse answer, send it.
One message. No deck, no form, no meeting to book a meeting.
Talk to us.
Email or WhatsApp. No form, no newsletter.