23 hours ago
By Exec Edge Editorial Staff
Inmā Emirates Holdings, the Dubai-based holding company founded by Dubai’s Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum, announced today a new grant program to help founders of existing ventures in the climate resilience ***** e scale their businesses.
The initiative, details of which were made public today by the holding company via press release, intends to award grants to selected applicants over the span of 12 months. The open call for submissions is open to private-sector social enterprises and founder-led ventures across all global regions.
“Through this open call, we want to identify ventures that are ready to move from validation to practical implementation, especially in regions where resilience, food security, energy access, and environmental adaptation are becoming urgent priorities,” said Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook, Chairman of Inmā Emirates Holdings, in the grant program’s official announcement.
The Dubai-based holding company was established to consolidate Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook’s private impact investments. According to sources connected with Inmā, this grant program is intended to function as a precursor to a larger venture fund in the sector, designed to identify promising opportunities, validate market demand, and build an early investment pipeline.
Inmā Emirates Holdings, the Dubai-based holding company founded by Dubai’s Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum, announced today a new grant program to help founders of existing ventures in the climate resilience ***** e scale their businesses.
The initiative, details of which were made public today by the holding company via press release, intends to award grants to selected applicants over the span of 12 months. The open call for submissions is open to private-sector social enterprises and founder-led ventures across all global regions.
“Through this open call, we want to identify ventures that are ready to move from validation to practical implementation, especially in regions where resilience, food security, energy access, and environmental adaptation are becoming urgent priorities,” said Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook, Chairman of Inmā Emirates Holdings, in the grant program’s official announcement.
The Dubai-based holding company was established to consolidate Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook’s private impact investments. According to sources connected with Inmā, this grant program is intended to function as a precursor to a larger venture fund in the sector, designed to identify promising opportunities, validate market demand, and build an early investment pipeline.
1 day ago
Mastercard (NYSE: $MA) is widening its settlement window to nights, weekends and holidays, with Polygon (CRYPTO: $POL) selected as one of the networks carrying the card giant’s onchain settlement push.
The expansion gives issuers and acquirers more flexibility in how they settle card transactions across Mastercard’s global network. The new options include intraday, weekend, and holiday settlement, along with regulated stablecoin settlement that can sit alongside existing fiat processes rather than replace them outright.
Polygon said it has been selected to carry that settlement onchain for Mastercard, placing the network inside a broader group of supported blockchains that also includes Arbitrum (CRYPTO: $ARB), Base (CRYPTO: $BASE), Canton (CRYPTO: $CC), Ethereum (CRYPTO: $ETH), Solana (CRYPTO: $SOL), Tempo and XRPL. Mastercard’s supported stablecoins include Circle’s USDC (CRYPTO: $USDC), Paxos-issued PYUSD (CRYPTO: $PYUSD), USDG and USDP, Ripple’s RLUSD and SoFi’s SoFiUSD.
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The expansion gives issuers and acquirers more flexibility in how they settle card transactions across Mastercard’s global network. The new options include intraday, weekend, and holiday settlement, along with regulated stablecoin settlement that can sit alongside existing fiat processes rather than replace them outright.
Polygon said it has been selected to carry that settlement onchain for Mastercard, placing the network inside a broader group of supported blockchains that also includes Arbitrum (CRYPTO: $ARB), Base (CRYPTO: $BASE), Canton (CRYPTO: $CC), Ethereum (CRYPTO: $ETH), Solana (CRYPTO: $SOL), Tempo and XRPL. Mastercard’s supported stablecoins include Circle’s USDC (CRYPTO: $USDC), Paxos-issued PYUSD (CRYPTO: $PYUSD), USDG and USDP, Ripple’s RLUSD and SoFi’s SoFiUSD.
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