Case studyAccelerator · 2 cohorts a year

TAQADAM moved a whole cohort onto one platform

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412
Applications in one cohort cycle
24
Startups selected and onboarded
5
Tools replaced by one platform
6 wks
From kickoff to live applications
Before
  • Applications through a form builder, triaged in a spreadsheet
  • Documents in a shared drive with inconsistent folder names
  • The quarterly report rebuilt from scratch in slides
  • Mentors emailed the applicants they were meant to review
After
  • One application link per cohort, one board the committee reads
  • A data room per startup, foldered the same way every time
  • Portfolio figures recomputed as cheques are recorded
  • Reviewer roles scoped so mentors see only their own applicants
Before

Five tools and a lot of copying

Applications arrived through a form builder and were triaged in a spreadsheet the committee copied by hand. Documents lived in a shared drive with folder names nobody agreed on, and the quarterly report was rebuilt from scratch in slides.

The rollout

Six weeks, mostly configuration

Brand settings and the first program were configured in week one. The existing pipeline came in through the CSV import wizard. Stages were renamed to the committee's own vocabulary, and reviewer roles were scoped so mentors saw only their own applicants.

After

One board, one report

One application link per cohort, one board the committee reads together, one data room per startup, and a portfolio view that recomputes itself as cheques are recorded. The report is now a screen, not an exercise.

“The committee used to argue about the spreadsheet. Now they argue about the startups.”
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TAQADAM 2026 · Cohort 8

TQDM-26-C8 · 412 applications

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Applied

148
Suhail AnalyticsNoura Al-Harbi12 Mar
Barq EnergyYousef Karim12 MarHas account
Zabeel AIDana Mansour11 Mar

Screening

86
Mizan PayLayla Al-Otaibi10 MarHas account
Wadi FarmsTurki Nasser09 Mar

Interview

42
Nawah LabsHassan Mohammed07 MarHas account
Rihla TravelSara Qasim06 Mar

Bootcamp

26
Tamr LogisticsOmar Baghdadi02 MarHas account

Selected

24
Qimam RoboticsFaisal Idris28 FebHas account
Saffar HealthMaha Zayed27 FebHas account

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