With a strong background in the tech industry, he now dedicates his expertise to supporting African startups. He works with innovators who are committed to transforming the continent's tech landscape and establishing a global presence.

Zakaria Sabti (photo), a Moroccan entrepreneur and tech executive, is the founder and CEO of Volund Ventures, a Dubai-based venture builder active across North Africa and the Middle East.

Since its founding in 2022, Volund Ventures has aimed to position Africa as a key player in exporting innovative technologies. It achieves this by supporting the creation, growth, and international expansion of high-impact startups. The firm operates as both a tech accelerator and a venture builder.

Volund Ventures focuses on developing startups with the potential for global success, emphasizing innovation, technology, and social impact. As a venture builder, it identifies market opportunities, conceives startup ideas, and then assembles the teams, resources, and funding needed to transform these ideas into viable businesses.

The firm offers tailored support covering areas such as software development, notably through no-code solutions, product strategy, digital marketing, financial structuring, and access to a network of investors and international partners. Its priority areas include artificial intelligence, digital content creation, digital transformation, and the export of African innovations to global markets.

Among the startups supported by Volund Ventures is TwinLink, which is also incubated by Orange Fab. TwinLink enables businesses to create smart digital versions of themselves that can communicate, listen, and assist users. TwinLink was selected for the 2025 edition of Viva Technology, a major event in the tech innovation sector held in June. The startup joined the AI Tech Trail, which showcases the most innovative companies in artificial intelligence.

Before founding Volund Ventures, Zakaria Sabti created Water Economic Technology (WET) in 2016, a startup focused on designing and manufacturing devices to help manage water consumption. He served as CEO of WET until 2017.

Zakaria Sabti holds a master’s degree in information technology, earned in 2017 from the National School of Applied Sciences in Marrakech, Morocco. He also obtained a PhD in business intelligence and big data in 2024 from Cadi Ayyad University.

In 2017, he began working at KBM Consulting, an IT firm, where he served as a business intelligence consultant. In 2018, he joined a Dubai-based recruitment company as a data and business transformation consultant before becoming its regional director in 2019.

From 2019 to 2023, Sabti was a partner at TechnomaX Systems, a Microsoft technology services company also based in Dubai. Concurrently, he served as Chief Technology Officer at Hemicube, a company specializing in extracting actionable insights from data.

Melchior Koba