FOR COMPANIES SEEKING CAPITAL
Raise capital around a clear AI business case. Show the customer problem, commercial evidence and economics behind your technology.
No member login required · Optional PDF pitch deck
Explain the problem you solve and how customers measure the benefit. Separate paid deployments from unpaid trials, pilots and letters of intent. Show usage, retention and conversion evidence where available, and identify how much human support the product still requires.
Include inference, training, hosting, data and support costs in your margin explanation. If the product depends on an external model provider, explain pricing exposure and how service changes could affect delivery. Present realistic unit economics at current usage as well as your forecast at scale.
Describe what you own: software, data rights, workflow integration or specialist expertise. Explain how performance is evaluated, where the system can fail and how customers remain in control. For UAE and regional expansion, describe language requirements and the practical steps needed to deploy with customers.
| Input | Illustrative value |
|---|---|
| Tasks processed | 20,000 |
| Outcomes accepted under a stated evaluation rule | 18,000 |
| Model and inference cost | USD 2,400 |
| Infrastructure and data delivery cost | USD 600 |
| Human review cost | USD 3,000 |
| Total included delivery cost | USD 6,000 |
| Cost per accepted outcome | USD 6,000 ÷ 18,000 ≈ USD 0.33 |
The denominator matters: cost per attempted task would be USD 0.30, which answers a different question. Include the cost of retries and rejected outputs in the cost pool. Training, product development, sales and other overhead are excluded here; list them separately and explain your own reporting definitions. This calculation is not total company profitability.
Record the customer task, baseline, test period, sample size, acceptance rule, failure categories and human escalation process. State whether evaluation data represents live customers, a pilot or a test set. Keep paid deployment, technical acceptance and customer retention as separate measures.
The NIST AI Risk Management Framework provides a voluntary reference for organising AI risk considerations. Citing it does not mean a product is certified or that UAE-specific requirements have been satisfied.
Next, budget the next commercial milestone.
For your company brief, document the UAE company and customer evidence.
If your AI product operates in financial services, add the fintech operating model.
Label paid and unpaid pilots separately. Show their duration, decision criteria and conversion to contracted use where available. A pilot is useful evidence, but it should not be presented as recurring revenue unless it actually generates it.
Explain the customer workflow, domain knowledge, integrations and data rights that support the product. Show measurable customer outcomes and repeat usage. Identify what the company owns and what is supplied by third parties rather than making unsupported claims about proprietary technology.
Cubin invests its own capital and works with an international network of private investors, family offices and investment firms. Our investment focus is USD 1–30 million, from angel and early-stage opportunities through growth and private equity. We assess business quality, financial performance, growth, valuation and risk. Direct investment and investor introductions are different outcomes; neither is guaranteed by submitting a pitch.
Send a short company overview, location, sector, stage, amount sought and intended use of funds. Include revenue or traction where available, ownership information and the next milestone. Attach a non-confidential PDF pitch deck, up to 3 MB. The form is in English and does not require a member account. Your submission is sent to Cubin with the guide page you came from. Do not include sensitive customer data in your initial submission.
Record the source and period of product and commercial claims with the Investor Evidence Pack. Test milestone costs and delayed cash receipts in the Milestone Funding & Runway Workbook.
If the next round funds customer validation, use Venture capital in the UAE: early-stage funding readiness.
For software retention and platform revenue definitions, see Technology investors in the GCC: software and platform metrics.
To budget repeatable expansion from a Dubai business, use Growth capital in Dubai: fund repeatable expansion.
Return to Capital Raising to introduce your company or choose another market and investor type.
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