The Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ADCCI) has welcomed greater than 2,875 Emirati businesswomen into its membership through the first six months of 2025, underscoring the rising function of Emirati ladies in driving the nationwide economic system and the emirate’s dedication to feminine entrepreneurship.
In response to Chamber knowledge, Mobdea licences accounted for the most important share of recent members, with 1,352 licences issued, or 47 per cent of the overall, reflecting sturdy demand for inventive and home-based companies.
Tajer Abu Dhabi licences made up 891 memberships (30 per cent), highlighting the rise of e-commerce and particular person entrepreneurial initiatives.
Feminine entrepreneurs in Abu Dhabi
Different classes included 406 regular financial licences, 94 department licences, and 86 freelance licences, signalling that many Emirati ladies are each increasing present ventures and launching new specialised companies.
Emirati businesswomen at the moment are lively throughout numerous sectors together with commerce, providers, inventive industries, agriculture, and trade, contributing to larger financial variety and sustainability.
This development displays the sustained efforts of the Abu Dhabi Businesswomen Council, a part of ADCCI, which supplies ladies entrepreneurs with coaching, monetary and advisory assist, and platforms for networking and growth.
Asma Al Fahim, Chairperson of the Abu Dhabi Businesswomen Council, mentioned: “These outcomes replicate Abu Dhabi’s sustained efforts to reinforce its financial competitiveness by way of a transparent imaginative and prescient to empower ladies and improve their participation in important sectors.
“The optimistic indicators exhibit the essential function performed by Abu Dhabi Chamber and its affiliated our bodies, particularly the Businesswomen Council, in constructing a extra inclusive and numerous economic system by way of the empowerment of nationwide expertise, particularly Emirati ladies, and by contemplating them as important companions within the improvement course of.
“On the Abu Dhabi Chamber, we imagine it’s important to collaborate intently with the non-public sector and specialised councils to create a supportive and dynamic enterprise atmosphere for feminine entrepreneurs.
“We’re dedicated to providing applications and providers that align with their aspirations, reflecting the smart management’s imaginative and prescient of putting ladies’s financial empowerment on the coronary heart of its priorities.”
Via focused initiatives corresponding to complete coaching programmes, financing and advisory assist, and common interactive occasions, the Abu Dhabi Businesswomen Council continues to empower Emirati ladies at each stage — from startup to sustainable development and growth.
The surge in new memberships on the Chamber highlights each the power of Abu Dhabi’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and the emirate’s dedication to make Emirati ladies important companions in sustainable financial improvement.