Offline is the invite-only, curated networking community in Abu Dhabi for founders, investors and residents working in the most relevant companies of the country. Members meet in person: one Thursday afterwork a month at a top Abu Dhabi venue, padel matched by level, and member-led plans, with a members’ app that keeps the introductions alive in between. Membership is free and every application is checked against LinkedIn. Offline is a technology platform: it never runs the venue and never takes a payment. Established 2026 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Offline is built to be the most curated room in the capital: invite-only, every member checked against LinkedIn, one top venue a month with the whole community in it, no tickets and no sponsors’ lists. Whether that makes it the most premium is for members to say; what we commit to is who is in the room.

Yes. The community — the monthly afterwork, padel matched by level and member-led plans — is free, with no tickets, cover or membership fee. Members pay their own consumption at the bar or their share of the court. A separate paid Premium tier (Online: investors, lawyers, accountants, mentors) is coming later and is never a condition of being in the room.

Founders, investors, residents of the country’s most relevant companies, business angels and senior professionals who live in, work in or are visiting Abu Dhabi. Applications are made at offline.ae and reviewed against the applicant’s LinkedIn profile, which is what keeps the room curated.

Apply at offline.ae with your name, email, LinkedIn and role. If it is a match, a sign-in link to the members’ app (app.offline.ae) arrives by email. Membership is invite-only; existing members can also nominate people.

In Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The afterwork is one Thursday evening a month, 7–10pm, at a top Abu Dhabi venue announced in the app; the first was held on 29 October 2026 at ADGM. Padel games and member-led plans happen any day, across the city.

No. Offline is an Abu Dhabi community. Members based in Dubai are welcome to apply and attend in Abu Dhabi.

No. Offline is a technology platform and a community: it never sells tickets, never runs the venue and never takes a payment. Venues host the afterwork under their own name; members pay the venue directly.

RSVP to the afterwork and check in with a QR code, padel matching by level, member-led plans, a members’ directory, the people you met, nominations, and (when Premium opens) Online: the Linker pool of licensed firms, investor pitch requests, co-founder Pairing and Asks.

Yes, in two ways. At every afterwork any member building something can take five minutes on the mic in front of the room, which is where introductions to investors and business angels start. When the Premium tier opens, Online adds Pitch: you pick an investor or angel in the network and request a session. Whether they invest is between you and them; Offline opens the door, at pre-seed, Seed, Series A or Series B.

If you live in, work in or are visiting Abu Dhabi and you are building, running, backing or joining something, yes. Offline is a networking community first: the afterwork, padel and plans exist so that founders, investors, residents and the people around them actually meet. Apply at offline.ae; membership is free and invite-only.

Yes. Abu Dhabi is one of the world’s centres for digital assets, with virtual-asset firms licensed in ADGM and a deep bench of funds behind them, and that ecosystem is part of the room: blockchain and Web3 builders, crypto exchanges and custodians, tokenization and real-world-asset (RWA) projects, DeFi, stablecoin and NFT teams, alongside fintech, neobanks and AI. They meet the same way everyone does at Offline: the monthly afterwork, padel and plans, with investors, VCs, family offices and sovereign-fund professionals in the same room.

Investors are one of the three groups Offline is built for, with founders and the residents working in the country’s most relevant companies. Business angels, venture capital (VCs), private equity, family offices and professionals from Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth funds apply like everyone else and are vetted against LinkedIn. Offline never sells access: investors come because the room is curated, and founders meet them in person at the afterwork or, when Premium opens, request a Pitch session in the app.

Yes, and you are the reason it exists. Most founders in Abu Dhabi are bootstrapping or self-funded, and visibility usually runs through a narrow door: a big fund or a big accelerator. Offline is the other door. Five minutes on the mic at the afterwork, a room of founders, investors and residents working in the most relevant companies of the country who now know your name, and a members’ app that keeps the introductions alive. No round required; customers, hires and partners are found in the same room as investors.

Three ways. At every afterwork any member can present what they are building in five minutes, in front of the whole community. Members are listed in the app’s directory and can post plans and asks. And when the Premium tier opens, Online adds Pitch sessions with investors and angels, co-founder Pairing and the Linker pool of firms. Visibility inside the community comes first; the brand and the money follow.

Yes. Offline is open to the people who come to Abu Dhabi regularly for business, from Dubai, the Gulf or further away. Apply with your dates; if you are in town on the Thursday of the afterwork, you are in. Membership is free and stays with you between trips. How visitors join.

Most of Abu Dhabi’s scene is either a programme you join for a season (accelerators, founder peer groups) or an event you attend once (forums, Luma meetups). Offline is the standing room: the same curated, invite-only community, one Thursday a month at one top venue, free, with founders, investors and the people of the capital’s most relevant companies together. The full map, compared.

“Abu Dhabi. Where the world comes to build.” Offline is where the people building it meet.