When Eithar Ahmed moved to Qatar in 2023, she was starting from scratch: a new country, a new university, and new people. Before long, she had made friends, become involved in university life, and found herself juggling an increasingly busy schedule.
Finding time to see those friends, however, was becoming surprisingly difficult.
Eithar and five friends had a WhatsApp group where they shared their schedules. During a break between commitments, she would open the chat and ask a simple question: “Is anyone free?”
Sometimes the answer would arrive 20 minutes later. By then, the opportunity to meet had already passed. Calling was not much better when a friend might still be sitting in a lecture.
By the end of January 2025, that everyday frustration had sparked an idea: what if finding time together did not require all the back-and-forth in the first place?
That question became SyncSpace. The name reflects the idea at the heart of the platform: bringing fragmented schedules into sync and making it easier for people to coordinate their time.
From one busy student to a wider problem
As Eithar spoke with other students, she realized the problem went beyond her own group of friends. University schedules might arrive as PDFs, while work, extracurricular activities, and personal commitments lived elsewhere. Coordinating a group meant piecing together availability scattered across different formats and platforms.
SyncSpace is designed to bring those schedules together. Users can upload their schedules, create groups, and receive smart suggestions for when to meet. The platform also incorporates meeting-place suggestions, helping answer not only when people can meet, but where. For Eithar, though, the technology serves a simple purpose.
Our mission is to help people spend less time coordinating and more time collaborating.
Eithar Ahmed
What began as a solution to her own frustration is now being tested with a growing user base. SyncSpace has more than 180 signed-up users, over 50 people on its waitlist, and engagement with two student associations.
Eithar remains SyncSpace’s sole founder and CEO, leading a team that includes Hajer Mohammed, COO, and Duaa Hatem, CMO.
The email she thought she dreamed
Joining the QSTP Fall 2026 Incubation Program had been an ambition for Eithar long before the acceptance email finally arrived.
At the time, she was working a summer job with 12-hour days. She remembers seeing the QSTP email at around 5 AM. Later that day, she went back to find it and it was gone.
For several hours, she wondered whether she had imagined the whole thing.
“Maybe I was dreaming,” she recalled. Eventually, she checked her spam folder. There it was.
Eithar describes being accepted into QSTP as “a dream coming true.” She had already spent time in the startup ecosystem and participated in entrepreneurship programs, including an intensive program with DMZ in Toronto. Still, she says the QSTP Sprint has challenged her thinking in new ways, particularly around customer discovery.
At QSTP, she has also been able to work through practical questions around testing, company registration, monetization, and the next stage of SyncSpace’s development. Its current business model explores partnerships, premium offerings, and university licenses.
While students remain the startup’s initial focus, Eithar sees a wider application for SyncSpace in the future, particularly within organizations where teams and departments face many of the same coordination challenges.
Building a startup while finishing university
Eithar is building SyncSpace while completing her final year at university, keeping her close to the students whose experiences first inspired the product.
She is also navigating the startup ecosystem as a young woman founder. Eithar says she has observed male founders receiving stronger responses in some investor conversations, an experience that has shaped her perspective on the challenges women can encounter while building companies. At the same time, she points to the growing community around women in technology and entrepreneurship in Doha as an encouraging source of support.
Her response has been to keep building.
Be persistent. Believe in yourself, and just do it. Have the courage to do it.
Eithar Ahmed
That persistence has taken SyncSpace from a recurring question among friends to a product being tested by real users. For Eithar, the goal now is to keep validating what works, build a sustainable business around it, and eventually take the solution beyond university campuses.
The question that started it all was simple: “Is anyone free?”
The answer became a startup.
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