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DLD opening up property investment market
the secret to making a million! Let’s face it. It is an unavoidable part of human nature to imagine ourselves in a million dollar apartment or managing a business that
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Smart Crowd featured on Property Finder’s latest episode with Lynnette Abad
Our CEO Siddiq Farid, sat down with Lynnette Abad, Director of Research and Data for the latest session on Property Finder talks. The discussion focused on how Smart Crowd is
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Smart Crowd closes funding for fourth transaction at Marina Diamond 1
Smart Crowd has closed funding for its fourth transaction at Marina Diamond 1 in Dubai Marina. The property was funded with 15 investors out of which 9 were repeat investors,
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Department of Urban Planning and Municipalities and Smart Crowd Holdings Limited sign MOU at Cityscape Abu Dhabi
MoU set to promote the exchange of best practices for crowd-funded real estate investment. The Department of Urban Planning and Municipalities have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with
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Real Estate Investment start-up, Smart Crowd bags Fintech of the Year Award
The digital real estate investment platform, Smart Crowd, has won “Fintech of the Year” at this year’s Arabian Business Technology Awards. The awards attract participants from throughout the region, and
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LuxHabitat Talks – Crowdfunding is the future of real estate
Smart Crowd CEO, Siddiq Farid speaks to Aneesha Rai for an edition of Luxhabitat Talks to discuss how real estate crowdfunding is changing the property landscape in the UAE. Find
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Smart Crowd completes funding for Marina Quays holiday home!
Smart Crowd is very pleased to announce we have completed funding for our third investment property at Marina Quays with 35 investors! Developed by Emaar in 2008, the property is
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Generation Start-up: Smart Crowd helps micro-investors build wealth, brick by brick
In 2017, he began hatching a business, teaming up with Musfique Ahmed, the digital and disruptive technology leader at EY, and Abdul Faizal, former chief executive of Dubai real estate
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HIGHLIGHTS
CEO Siddiq Farid’s Pitch at Websummit 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal.
“Smart Crowd, the innovative new real estate crowd funding investment platform, is celebrating the successful completion of its seed funding round – having attracted major financing from one of the region’s leading investment firms – Shorooq Investments- along with backing from cutting-edge DLT firm Abaxx Technologies; early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator, 500 Start-ups, and other high-level strategic individual investors” -Web Summit
Smart Crowd’s Pitch at Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival 2018
A year ago, Smart Crowd was just an idea. Today, this idea has transformed into reality to help you achieve your real estate investment needs. Thank you to Sheraa and the Sharjah Entrepreneurship festival for being pioneers in helping our dream become a reality!
PRESS
Shane McGinley
Editorial Director, ITP
“Smart Crowd has come on the scene at exactly the right time, bringing a new and innovative way of thinking about investments to the real estate market.”
Mahmoud Adi
Founding Partner, Shorooq
“By enabling clients to invest in a property for as low as AED5,000, Smart Crowd is fulfilling people’s dreams of investing in homes and encouraging everyone to start saving now versus waiting to get a huge amount of capital which can take decades.”
AWARDS
2019
Named Fintech Company of the Year 2019 – Arabian Business Technology Awards
2018
Selected as a break-out startup – presented at the WebSummit
2018
Selected as 1 of 4 start-ups to present at the 13th World Islamic Forum
2018
Winner (2nd place) in SmartDubai’s Global BlockChain Challenge hosted by SmartDubai
2017
Selected as 1 of 12 Fintech start-ups to be in the DIFC Fintech Hive accelerator
2017
Winner of the Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival
2017
Selected as 1 of 11 start-ups to participate in “MetLife Financial Health Forum”
2017
Part of the SHERAA community since 2017