Thank you for speaking to us. The corridor architecture we’ve been chronicling isn’t built by governments and central banks alone — it’s built by companies willing to answer their phones, share their strategy, and tell us where the road actually leads. Over the past year, a number of founders and executives sat down with our reporters, sometimes on the record, sometimes ahead of announcements, always with more candor than they had to offer. We’re grateful, and we want to name them.

  • Practo: Spoke to us on why the UAE is the anchor market for its global consumer health expansion — one of the sharpest reads on how Indian healthtech is treating the Gulf as a first-market entry;
  • JBM Electric Vehicles: Gave us an exclusive that showed how Indian EV makers are sequencing their Gulf entry, using the UAE as a stress-test market before scaling across the wider Gulf;
  • Juspay: Gave us an exclusive that pointed at where Indian fintech IP is going next, landing in DIFC to help Gulf banks modernize legacy payment systems;
  • Policybazaar: Helped us put together a concrete read on how Indian insurtech is entering the Gulf’s fastest-growing consumer segment;
  • iD Fresh Food: Spoke to us about how Saudi Arabia is its next Gulf frontier after the UAE, and how it’s treating the corridor as a single addressable market;
  • SatLeo Labs: Discussed its goal to become the Gulf’s thermometer in one of the more novel Indian spacetech wagers on the region;
  • OnFinance AI: Spoke to us about launching a Gulf-native compliance engine after a USD 4.2 mn raise;
  • Zoho: Discussed rolling out UAE data centers as Gulf data-sovereignty rules tighten, giving us a read on how Indian SaaS is responding to the region’s shift toward local data residency;
  • Man Industries: Unpacked its National Pipe Company acquisition and the pivot to KSA localization, anchoring our production-geography read on the corridor and how Indian manufacturing is embedding inside the Kingdom rather than exporting to it.

And to the many others we spoke with off the record, on background, and in the corridors of conferences — thank you. The reporting was better because you talked to us.

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