You fly in for meetings on Al Maryah Island, and the evenings belong to the hotel. One Thursday a month, the people worth meeting in the capital are in one room: founders, investors and the residents working in the country’s most relevant companies. Offline is invite-only, free, and open to the people who come here regularly.
Name, email, LinkedIn, role, and when you are in town. A person reads every application and checks it against LinkedIn, usually within days.
If it is a match, a sign-in link arrives by email. RSVP to the afterwork, check in at the door with your QR, see who is coming.
Membership stays with you between trips. The dates are in the app; padel by level and member-led plans are there whenever you are in Abu Dhabi.
Based in Dubai, Riyadh, Doha or further away: same path, same room.
Founders at every stage, from an MVP to the next unicorn. Business angels, VCs, private equity, family offices and the people around the sovereign wealth funds. The teams they back in AI, fintech, neobanks, Web3 and digital assets, health tech, real estate and energy. The lawyers, advisers and the people who make the city work. No name tags, no agenda, five minutes on the mic for anyone building something.
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Yes, if your week includes the Thursday. Apply at offline.ae/apply, say you are visiting and give your dates; applications are read by a person and checked against LinkedIn, usually within a few days. Once accepted you RSVP in the members’ app and check in at the door with a QR code. There is no ticket or cover: you pay your own drinks at the bar.
That is exactly who the visitors’ path is for. Membership is free and stays with you between trips: the afterwork is one Thursday a month, the dates are in the app and at offline.ae/events, so you can plan the trip around it. In between, the app shows who you met, and padel games and member-led plans are open to you whenever you are in town.
Thursday 20 November 2026, 7–11pm, at Saikindō in the Four Seasons Hotel Abu Dhabi on Al Maryah Island, a few minutes’ walk from ADGM and the hotels around it. Each month’s venue is announced in the app.
A week before the Thursday is comfortable; a few days usually works. Every application is read by a person, so there is no instant approval, and the room is capped by the venue.
They apply too, at offline.ae/apply, and you can nominate them from the app once you are a member. Offline is invite-only, so there are no plus-ones at the door; that is what keeps the room worth flying in for.
Yes. Offline is an Abu Dhabi community and meets in Abu Dhabi; members based elsewhere in the Gulf apply the same way and attend when they are in the capital.
No. The community is free: no ticket, cover or membership fee. A paid Premium tier (Online: investors, lawyers, accountants, mentors) is coming later and is never a condition of being in the room.
Founders at every stage, investors, business angels, VCs, family offices and sovereign-fund professionals, and residents working in the most relevant companies of the country: AI, fintech and neobanks, Web3 and digital assets, health tech, real estate, energy, law and corporate services. Every member is checked against LinkedIn.
Free to join, invite-only.
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