AstroLabs+Google announce plans for Dubai coworking space

At San Francisco’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference this week, the entrepreneurship platform AstroLabs announced their collaboration with Google for an addition to the Dubai’s ever growing plethora of coworking spaces.

Selected as the newest member of the tech giant’s global Tech Hub network, AstroLabs Dubai will be located in Dubai’s DMCC Free Zone, and will combine a coworking space and educational center.

Expected to open in early 2015, the tech hub will be the first in the MENA region for Google, and is intended to work as “an ideal location for startups to scale their ventures in new markets,” says Bridgette Beam, Senior Manager at Google for Entrepreneurs, in a statement. “We see enormous potential for them [AstroLabs] to help startups across the MENA take their ideas to the global stage.”

AstroLabs has already created a successful network of startups in the Middle East, having organized events in Dubai, Amman, and Riyadh. In the last year alone, the platform has helped over 100 startups across the MENA region through their Scaling Online Startups acceleration program.

Original article by Lucy Knight

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