Reg Athwal, Founder & Chairman – RTS Global Partners
Laurie Stone
AS tech titans Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg weigh up settling their enmity with a bizarre cage fight, they should look over their shoulders at an ambitious real-world challenger.
Admittedly, Dubai-based and British-born serial entrepreneur and author Reg Athwal might look like a ‘David’ pitted against these billionaire US ‘Goliaths’ in the social media, virtual reality and AI space, but he is backed by Middle East financial muscle and a formidable India tech powerbase.
Such support has enabled Athwal to launch Verchool, the company’s name neatly punning and summarising the advanced virtual extended reality and artificial intelligence (AI) deep-tech underpinning its B2B community platform.
Dubai-based and currently well on its way to a $125 million lift-off Series A funding target, Athwal confidently predicts that Verchool will be a billion-dollar unicorn corporation within 12 months, and a serious riva...
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