University of Hafr Al Batin · Entrepreneurship Center
University research that becomes real ventures.
Nineteen startups, each built on published research by our faculty, turning advances in artificial intelligence, health, clean energy, agriculture, nanotechnology and construction into products for people and industry.
Portfolio
Meet the startups
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DeepGuard
DeepGuard is an AI tool that flags deepfake face images, built on a hybrid VGG16 and CNN model that reached 94% accuracy.
Visit website →deepguard.innovateuhb.comSmartNest Secure
SmartNest Secure is a smart home kit that controls appliances, tracks the indoor climate and tells occupants from intruders by their walk, with 99.8% accuracy.
Visit website →smartnest.innovateuhb.comHydroHeal
HydroHeal is a pH-responsive wound dressing hydrogel from arabinoxylan, carrageenan and graphene oxide that released 87.9% of its antibacterial drug over 48 hours.
Visit website →hydroheal.innovateuhb.comMXenePower
MXenePower makes supercapacitor electrodes from MXene sheets with MnO2 nanowires between them, reaching 611.5 F/g and 96% retention over 1000 cycles.
Visit website →mxenepower.innovateuhb.comGreenFuel Micro
GreenFuel Micro turns high-acidity waste cooking oil into biodiesel in under three minutes in a microreactor, reaching 99.23% purity with a GO@MgO nanocatalyst.
Visit website →greenfuel.innovateuhb.comSunDry
SunDry is a new forced convection solar dryer design for dates and other farm produce, drying with fan-driven sun-heated air instead of fuel.
Visit website →sundry.innovateuhb.comCardioWatch
CardioWatch is an IoT and AI remote monitoring system that follows acute heart failure patients in real time and classifies disease with machine learning.
Visit website →cardiowatch.innovateuhb.comArgiSeed
ArgiSeed is an L-arginine seed priming treatment that helped wheat grow under drought, with 1 mM arginine raising shoot fresh weight by 110.5%.
Visit website →argiseed.innovateuhb.comPepperScan
PepperScan is an AI app that spots bell pepper leaf disease from a photo, using UNet segmentation and InceptionV3 at 99.48% accuracy.
Visit website →pepperscan.innovateuhb.comBerberiNano
BerberiNano packs berberine into chitosan-alginate nanoparticles that raised its oral bioavailability 4.1-fold in rats.
Visit website →berberinano.innovateuhb.comConcreteAI
ConcreteAI predicts the compressive strength of quaternary blend concrete from its mix, using a CatBoost model with R² of 0.9838.
Visit website →concreteai.innovateuhb.comH2Foam
H2Foam is a self-supported copper foam electrode coated with NiCo–NiCoO2 nanostructures that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen in alkaline media.
Visit website →h2foam.innovateuhb.comMetalSense
MetalSense is an electrochemical sensor using Fe3O4-loaded MXene/g-C3N4 to detect zinc, cadmium, lead, copper and mercury in water at ultra-low levels.
Visit website →metalsense.innovateuhb.comAniseLean
AniseLean is a polyphenol-rich star anise tea that cut body weight gain by 74.82% and improved blood lipids in an obesity rat model.
Visit website →aniselean.innovateuhb.comFloatSave
FloatSave uses artificial intelligence to predict how much evaporation a floating solar plant would save on a wastewater pond.
Visit website →floatsave.innovateuhb.comCopperLeaf Nano
CopperLeaf Nano makes 6.16 nm copper nanoparticles with rhatany root extract, with antimicrobial activity against drug-resistant microbes and 83.81% antioxidant capacity.
Visit website →copperleaf.innovateuhb.comAjwaSilver
AjwaSilver makes 15–80 nm silver nanoparticles from Ajwa date seeds that killed bacteria, blocked biofilms and were toxic to breast cancer cells in the lab.
Visit website →ajwasilver.innovateuhb.comTrichoZinc
TrichoZinc makes zinc oxide nanoparticles with the soil fungus Trichoderma asperellum that act against E. coli and S. aureus and block S. aureus biofilms.
Visit website →trichozinc.innovateuhb.comKaoliShield
KaoliShield is a foliar spray of kaolin and silicon dioxide nanoparticles that helped maize keep growing under deficit irrigation by boosting its antioxidant defences.
Visit website →kaolishield.innovateuhb.comAbout the hub
From the lab to the market
The Innovation Hub showcases ventures that grow out of research at the University of Hafr Al Batin.
Research-based
Every startup is grounded in a peer-reviewed paper, so each product starts from evidence, not guesswork.
Interdisciplinary
Teams span computing, engineering, science, pharmacy and applied medical sciences.
Impact-driven
Ventures target safer digital spaces, better health, clean energy, food security and cleaner water.
Colleges
Where the teams come from
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