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.
Government & Policy Mandate

Ministry of Science and Technology
Research & Knowledge Partners

UCL


Infrastructure & Delivery Partners


Bangladesh

Vietnam

Cambodia

Mauritius


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
Academic Credibility
Public-private partnerships
Peer-reviewed AI standards
Knowledge transfer
Government trust pathways
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
