Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Abu Dhabi
A five-person startup at Hub71 shares a building with sovereign-scale institutions, and it needs to keep a clean record from day one without an enterprise budget to do it.
A small company, deliberately placed among much bigger ones
Abu Dhabi's economy runs on patient, long-horizon capital, ADNOC, sovereign wealth funds managing some of the largest pools of money in the world, institutions that plan in decades. Hub71, the tech ecosystem built deliberately alongside that economy, puts early-stage startups in the same building as organisations operating at a completely different scale, on the logic that proximity speeds up collaboration between the two.
That proximity is a real advantage for a young company, but it also raises the bar: a five-person Hub71 startup dealing with a much larger institutional neighbour is expected to keep a defensible record of its own decisions, not a chat log that scrolls out of reach after a week, well before it has the headcount or budget to build that kind of process the way a bigger company would. A "free" tool that quietly starts billing after a month is one more distraction a small team pitching institutional partners can't afford.
ShipSprint's Free plan covers five users and two projects permanently, and the built-in wiki and audit trail work the same on a free workspace as on a paid one, so a small team can start building a traceable record from day one, not just once it can afford to.
Saadiyat Island's museums and the wider institutional projects being built alongside Hub71 are a physical reminder of just how long-horizon Abu Dhabi's biggest neighbours plan, decades rather than quarters. A five-person startup won't match that timeline, and doesn't need to, but showing the same discipline about what was decided and why is a genuinely fair way to be judged alongside it.
What a small Hub71 team actually needs
A startup working alongside institutional neighbours doesn't need their systems. It needs the same standard of record-keeping at a fraction of the size.
Five users and two projects, permanently, not a trial dressed up as a gift. A founding team can build its whole workflow here before deciding anything needs to be paid for.
Engineering, HR, marketing and operations each get their own templates on the same login, so a founder covering several roles isn't managing four separate tools to do it.
A sample project is preloaded, and a board can be shaped to how the team actually works within a sitting, no lengthy configuration process to get through first.
The built-in wiki keeps decisions next to the work they affect, with page history, and every administrative action is written to an audit log, on the free plan just as much as a paid one.
Everyone opens to today's items, a one-tap time log, and one tap to say "I'm blocked", which pulls in the right person with context attached, on a team small enough for that to be immediate.
Free that doesn't undercut the record a startup is building
A founder trying to look credible to an institutional partner doesn't want that credibility undermined by a "free" tool that turns out to have a hidden expiry, an inconsistency that reads badly to anyone paying close attention. ShipSprint's Free plan has no expiry: five users and two projects stay free for as long as a team needs them, exactly as stated up front.
ShipSprint is a product of Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., an India-based company that bills per seat in rupees and offers annual billing as an option. That's a plain fact about the company, not a claim of a UAE entity or government relationship, and worth knowing before a procurement conversation gets underway.
A small team pitching an institutional neighbour doesn't need to be watched to prove it's working, and the same audit trail that documents its decisions doesn't extend to monitoring its people: no screenshots, no keystroke logging, no activity tracking, only delivered work and logged hours, adjusted for leave and visible to the person the scorecard describes.
Questions from Abu Dhabi startups
Yes. Every administrative action is written to an audit log, and the built-in wiki keeps page history alongside the work it documents, so a decision trail exists without anyone maintaining it separately by hand, on any plan.
It doesn't expire. Five users and two projects are free permanently, and a team moves to a paid plan when it's genuinely outgrown the limits, not because a countdown ran out.
No. ShipSprint is built and operated by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd. out of India, billing per seat in rupees with annual billing available. It carries no government or public-sector accreditation.
Team runs ₹299 per user per month, or ₹2,899 annually, for up to 40 users. Business steps up to ₹599 per user per month, or ₹6,499 a year, bringing forecasts, scorecards, SSO and the owner command center along with it. The pricing page carries the full breakdown.
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