Lean X Consulting is a UAE-rooted, globally connected boutique consultancy with deep expertise in national innovation strategy. Our foundation is built on understanding the unique challenges facing sovereign innovation ecosystems, while leveraging global best practices and connections.
About Us
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Our Services
The services we offer cover all the dimensions of developing sovereign innovation eco-systems.
Crafting innovation frameworks that preserve national autonomy while accelerating economic diversification and technological self-reliance.
Convening and orchestrating key stakeholders from government, industry, and academia to create powerful innovation coalitions with shared national objectives.
Architecting national initiatives that address specific sovereign challenges through structured innovation methodologies and stakeholder mobilization.
We focus on rapid value creation for startups by leveraging our Industry connections and finding anchor customers that are essential to quickly generate traction around an innovation eco-system
Bringing in the right talent, the right seeds to kick-off an eco-system is often synonymous in finding the right founders and startup to generate the first success stories in your innovation eco-system
Through our sister company SLK Capital we can help startups get access to relevant capital and investors. We create supportive environments for global innovators entering the UAE market
In our most recent project we worked with the development of the UAE Cyber Security Eco-system covering capability development, startup incubation, market and funding access. The highlight of the programs delivered where showcased during GISEC 2025, the region regions largest cyber-security event.
23
Cyber-security Startups Launched
4.2 MUSD
Funds raised by these startups
250+
Citations in Magazines
50+
Expert Mentors in our Network
Our Team
Asmae is a strategic architect of sovereign-grade innovation ecosystems, trusted by national stakeholders to design and operationalize systems that deliver measurable economic, technological, and geopolitical impact. She leads complex multi-stakehokders programs and cross-functional teams through mission critical transformations across the MENA region, with a unique ability to navigate power, ambiguity, and accelerated change.
Asmae Lemniei
CEO, The Connector
FAQ
Lean X has consistently delivered impact in the UAE and toward regional Innovation Eco-systems. That is how be become a trusted advisor to most goverment and corporate organizations in the region.
Developed an open data program including frameworks, canvas and business cases that leveraged local open data ressources. In addition we setup collaborations with governmental and private players in the tourism industry to source relevant datasets. Through delivery of workshops in the presence of from Dubai Chamber, Department of Tourism and industry, and assessment of value propositons we selected startups and data ambassadors
•As part of this initiative we defined the fund’s mandate, value proposition and geographical focus. Identified high priority sectors and key innovations in need of capital injection and sourced relevant startups.
Ecosystem mapping of VCs, entrepreneurship centers, ecosystem builders, public and private players Development of the MENA scaling strategy. Developed sales pipeline, partnerships and support. Built tailored commercial and technical solutions to answer the clients needs. Sales pipeline and partnerships and Support the global team in LPs mapping
Co-designed the overall innovation roadmap and execution timelines, defined business cases for selected innovation initiatives and their related business model canvas, organized more than 15 innovation and ideation workshops across verticals and on different topics , performed market scan on the future of 5 priority verticals (transportation, healthcare, government services, aviation and facilities management)
Lean X Consulting has been appointed as a senior advisor to help the client set up its operation in the middle-east, build its team, originate business leads and co-execute selected ones. Duration: 8 months.
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