1. Abdel Rahman Alzubaidi
Age: 29
Occupation: Cofounder & CEO of Ivvest
Nationality: Jordanian
Residence: Saudi Arabia
Category: Science & Technology
Alzubaidi cofounded the indoor farming solutions company “Ivvest” in 2020. Its solutions include “The Capsule,” which is a vertical farming unit that follows an Indoor Farming as a Service (IFaaS) model, generating yields of 200 plants per square meter. Ivvest installed two capsules in Saudi Arabia in 2024. It is working with two distributors in Riyadh and has R&D installations in Amman. It has 12 capsules in the pipeline with an estimated value of $600,000. Its propitiatory vertical farming system, ivvi Grow, is patent pending. Ivvest has raised a pre-seed round of $100,000 from Oasis500.