UTOPIA is a venture platform that combines capital, technology and market access to support some of the world’s best founders building AI native solutions for and across the world’s fastest growing emerging markets.
Our platform:
The Utopia Studio - Our AI native venture studio
A-typical Ventures - Our Middle East+ fund based in Doha
The Radical Fund - Our Southeast Asia-focused climate venture fund
Our technology layer:
UTOPIA OS is our shared AI operating system, tooling, and infrastructure stack enabling our founders to build better and connecting a faster path to Series A and beyond.
We are inviting experienced experts and operators to join the UTOPIA Mentor Community to support founders, fellows, and portfolio companies through:Founder mentorship and office hours
Technical and industry expertise
Strategic introductions and partnerships
Commercial and enterprise GTM support
Regulatory and sovereign engagement
Fundraising and investor readiness
Workshops, research, and ecosystem collaboration
Venture studio co-building opportunities
We especially value operators and experts with deep lived experience inside complex systems - the people closest to the hidden problems that markets often overlook.
Why join?Work Alongside High-Impact Founders
Expand Your Global Network
Access Emerging Technologies & Markets First
Contribute Beyond Traditional Mentorship
Build Relationships Across the Ecosystem
Join Ecosystem Events & Global Gatherings
This is a flexible mentor network designed around meaningful collaboration rather than fixed commitments.Mentors can contribute through founder mentorship, office hours, technical and commercial guidance, strategic introductions, fundraising support, workshops, research, and venture studio collaborations.
Engagement may range from one-off advisory sessions to longer-term support for portfolio companies, depending on your expertise, interests, and availability. There is no minimum time commitment.
We believe innovation should be inclusive and globally distributed. Our team is built on openness, curiosity, and collaboration — with people from across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia working together to build meaningful ventures.
All roles are based in Doha, Qatar, with flexible hybrid options and global travel opportunities (unless otherwise stated). We welcome talent from every background to join us in shaping the future of AI-native innovation.
Skills Required
- Proven experience as an operator or expert with deep lived experience inside complex systems
- Capacity to provide mentorship, office hours, technical and commercial guidance, and strategic introductions
- Based in Doha, Qatar or willing to work hybrid from Doha and travel globally
What We Do
The Studio is an AI-native venture builder for the Global South, purpose-built to transform high-barrier problems into scalable, investable companies. Partnering with domain experts & high-agency founders from concept to Series A, it both builds new ventures and re-engineers existing ones for AI-driven growth. Powered by UTOPIA OS — a modular, adaptive stack tailored to each venture — it compresses the path from concept to Series A to under 24 months.
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