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Step Dubai 2027 Startup Showcase

Step Conference Dubai, United Arab Emirates · open to applicants worldwide

Startup showcase at Step Dubai (February 3-4, 2027, Dubai Internet City), a MENA tech festival; shortlisted startups buy a showcase package to exhibit, meet investors and can be considered for the live pitch competition.

Free to start · no account needed

Get your company profile for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.

You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.

About

Also: Startup booth at Step Dubai; Investor and mentor meetings; Chance to join the on-stage pitch competition.

Who can apply: No published deadline; submitting does not guarantee a showcase or pitch slot.

Cost: Paid showcase package if shortlisted (price confirmed with the Step team).

Annual (February). Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal; a payment is part of applying.

What to prepare: company description, website, product description.

From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “Founders take the stage and pitch live to investors.”

Who can apply

  • Open to founders
  • No published deadline; submitting does not guarantee a showcase or pitch slot.

What you will need

  • Company profileUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
  • PortfolioUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
  • One-pagerOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.

How to apply

Applications go through the official page (own portal).

How Onward Scout helps

Once browser filling is switched on, Onward Scout fills the official form in a browser on your behalf after your tap, taking a screenshot at every step; until then every field is prepared for you to paste. CAPTCHAs, logins and payments always stay with you, as a handoff with everything ready. There is a fee to pay to the organiser; payment always stays with you.

Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.

Let Onward Scout prepare this application

Get your company profile for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to Step Conference without your tap.

Nothing is submitted without your tap. Logins, CAPTCHAs, payments and interviews stay with you.