Solidarity In Action: Sheraa's Abeer Al Ameeri On The UAE-Based Entity's AED5 Million Entrepreneurs Resilience Fund
Sheraa’s Entrepreneurs Resilience Fund was the focus of an online event Inc. Arabia staged on May 12, 2026, under the banner of its new webinar series, Holding The Line.
Across the UAE and the wider MENA region, founders are being forced to make decisions in an environment where certainty is increasingly hard to come by. In times like these, what matters most is not just how entrepreneurs respond, but whether the ecosystems around them can help them keep moving forward—and that’s the principle at the heart of the new Entrepreneurs Resilience Fund launched by the Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center, Sheraa.
The AED5 million (US$1.36 million) Entrepreneurs Resilience Fund was the focus of an online event Inc. Arabia staged on May 12, 2026, under the banner of Holding The Line, its new webinar series that aims to bring together stakeholders from the region’s business ecosystem for honest, experience-led conversations on navigating ambiguity and sustaining performance and perspective as the ground continues to shift. Through a conversation between Abeer Al Ameeri, Director of Ecosystem Development, Sheraa, and Aby Sam Thomas, Editor in Chief, Inc. Arabia, this webinar, titled Solidarity in Action, examined what practical, timely support for founders can look like in periods of uncertainty.
Launched as a collaboration between Sheraa and entities from both the public and private sectors, the Entrepreneurs Resilience Fund has been designed to support entrepreneurs not only through equity-free financial grants but also through operational assistance, business development support, marketing exposure, and ecosystem access. From Al Ameeri’s point of view, the Fund can be seen as yet another example of the founder-first ethos with which Sheraa operates. “Everything we do has the founder at its core and we continue to tell our founders [to] consider us as your co-founder,” Al Ameeri said. “For anything that you would go to your co-founder to, you can come to Sheraa.”
In the webinar, Al Ameeri broke down how Sheraa designed the Entrepreneurs Resilience Fund, the impact it has had so far, and why (and how) founders seeking support should engage with it—for all of her insights, check out the recording in full above.
