Welcome to Digital Bridge Labs.
A Research-to-Policy Laboratory.

Welcome to Digital Bridge Labs.
A Research-to-Policy Laboratory.

We build sovereign-grade intelligence systems for governments, regulators, and institutions.

We turn mission-scale problems into trusted platforms so countries can adopt and operate capability at national scale.

We build sovereign-grade intelligence systems for governments, regulators, and institutions.

We turn mission-scale problems into trusted platforms so countries can adopt and operate capability at national scale.

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From Moonshot to Policy

From Moonshot to Policy

We translate systems-level ideas into trusted national infrastructure through applied research, institutional pilots, and policy adoption.

We translate systems-level ideas into trusted national infrastructure through applied research, institutional pilots, and policy adoption.

Building Sovereign Intelligence Infrastructure for National Outcomes

Building Sovereign Intelligence Infrastructure for National Outcomes

Nuraan

Spatial & systems intelligence for the physical world

Nurāan is a privacy-preserving intelligence platform that models how people, infrastructure, and the physical environment interact, leveraging telco and IoT networks.

Digital Factory Passport

A sovereign-grade compliance and intelligence platform

Nurāan is a privacy-preserving intelligence platform that models how people, infrastructure, and the physical environment interact, leveraging telco and IoT networks.

Digital Trade Corridor

Trade finance & settlement infrastructure

Nurāan is a privacy-preserving intelligence platform that models how people, infrastructure, and the physical environment interact, leveraging telco and IoT networks.


Embedded with Government,
Academia & Infrastructure Partners

Embedded with Government,
Academia & Infrastructure Partners

We work within national systems alongside ministries, universities and delivery partners to move research into operational infrastructure.

We work within national systems alongside ministries, universities and delivery partners to move research into operational infrastructure.

Government & Policy Mandate

Ministry of Science and Technology

Research & Knowledge Partners

  • UCL

Infrastructure & Delivery Partners

Emerging Markets

Emerging Markets

We focus on South and Southeast Asia regions facing acute challenges in climate resilience, infrastructure development, supply chain integration, and trade finance.

We focus on South and Southeast Asia regions facing acute challenges in climate resilience, infrastructure development, supply chain integration, and trade finance.

Bangladesh

Vietnam

Cambodia

Mauritius

Built and Governed By

Built and Governed By

Accountable for strategy, systems integrity, and long-term institutional trust.

Accountable for strategy, systems integrity, and long-term institutional trust.

Haider Anwar

Founder & CEO

Sovereign Strategy
Government Relations

Institutional Partnerships

Global investment banking experience, with enterprise technology leadership at Salesforce and Persistent Systems, and a track record in public and private sector partnerships.

Now leads DBL's sovereign partnerships, fundraising, and Research-to-Policy frameworks.

Salesforce

Persistent Systems

HSBC

ABN AMRO

Nabil Chowdhury

Co-Founder & COO

Operations
Commercial Strategy
Fintech Scale-Up

Built and scaled Tabeo, a UK leading healthtech providing embedded lending infrastructure for the healthcare sector, from MVP to profitability, owning operations, commercial strategy, and acquisitions.

Now leads operational execution and partnership delivery across DBL.

Tabeo

Uniqlo

Shell

Al Arafat

CTO

Computer Vision & IoT
Deep Learning
Generative AI

Over a decade building production-grade AI systems across robotics, automotive, and media from real-time computer vision pipelines to generative AI at scale (published researcher).

Now leads all technical architecture and R&D across DBL's flagship initiatives.


Sony

Sony

MIST

BUBT

Undisclosed

Chief Science Officer

Financial Econometrics
Bayesian Modelling
Causal Inference

Senior data science leader with peer-reviewed publications across financial econometrics and dynamic causal inference, and award-winning econometric research.

Now leads AI model development and scientific methodology across DBL.


Global advertising group

Boutique econometrics consultancy

Sovereign Research & Institutions Council

Sovereign Research & Institutions Council

Institutional Validation for Sovereign-Grade Systems

Institutional Validation for Sovereign-Grade Systems

Our Advisory Council brings together senior academic, scientific, and infrastructure leaders across research, policy, knowledge transfer, and commercialisation: providing the institutional credibility and government-level trust required to build public-private ecosystems that operate AI at national infrastructure level.

Our Advisory Council brings together senior academic, scientific, and infrastructure leaders across research, policy, knowledge transfer, and commercialisation: providing the institutional credibility and government-level trust required to build public-private ecosystems that operate AI at national infrastructure level.

Academic Credibility

Public-private partnerships

Peer-reviewed AI standards

Knowledge transfer

Government trust pathways

Formal appointments (pending board ratification)

Formal appointments (pending board ratification)

Academic Institutional Lead

Professor of Computer Science, at a leading UK research university.

Directs industry exchange and Tech for Good programmes connecting academic research to government and commercial adoption.

Leads open-source R&D for national health infrastructure and global charitable projects. Advises on AI in healthcare, humanitarian systems, and education policy. CEO of a UK AI spinout.

Anchors DBL's institutional partnerships and UK government pathways.

Institutional Partnerships

UK Government Pathways

Research Talent

Knowledge Transfer

Scientific Validation &
Knowledge Transfer Lead

Honorary Professor, leading UK research university.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

International research network spanning the Chinese Academy of Sciences, UC Santa Barbara, Cambridge, and King's College London.

Deep experience designing global knowledge transfer frameworks across institutions.

Ensures scientific rigour across DBL's AI systems and opens cross-institution grant funding pathways.

Global Knowledge Transfer

Cross-Institution Research

Grant Pathways

Computational Modelling

Governance, Scale &
Deployment Lead

Founded, scaled, and listed a technology company on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Eight years as CEO of a health solutions company operating across regulated markets.

Background spanning humanitarian technology deployment and telecommunications.

Brings public-market discipline, institutional-grade governance, and the operational framework for taking deep tech from emerging-market deployment through to spin-out commercialisation.

Public-Market Governance

Company Building & Scale

Humanitarian Deployment

Telecommunications

Technology-to-Policy

Spin-Out Commercialisation

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