Top 15 Angel Investors in Saudi Arabia in January 2025
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in startups based in Saudi arabia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Saudi arabia. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Angel Investors in Saudi Arabia in January 2025
Investor | Saudi Arabia investments |
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Musaab Hakami | 6 |
Mazen Al Jubeir | 3 |
Abdulla Elyas | 3 |
Yasser Al-Ghamdi | 2 |
Abdulaziz Alyabis | 2 |
Ali Aziz | 1 |
Abdulrahman ALJadhee | 1 |
Ammar AlKhudairy | 1 |
Turki AlJeaid | 1 |
Henrique Dubugras | 1 |
Khaled Al-Fanjan | 1 |
Yaser Alghamdi | 1 |
Omar Rebhan | 1 |
Michael Ovitz | 1 |
Abhishek Sharma | 1 |
Founder, Ex-GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Lisan — Lisan is an AI writing platform offering state-of-the-art proofreading and grammar checking to help individuals who write in Arabic to maximize their productivity, create exceptional content using cutting-edge generative AI models, and automate tasks with AI accelerators.
- Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs with worldwide investors for sharia-compliant investments with 15% yearly income through small business debt crowdfunding.
- Groundfloor — Building the infrastructure for IRL community
Mazen Al Jubeir - Board Member @ Careem
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Investment focus
- Apps, EdTech, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Ocurate — Predicting customer LTV at the individual level at 90%+ accuracy informs marketing investments, forecasting, and general business health.
- Soum — Soum is reimagining recommence in the MENA region and beyond by building the most convenient, trustworthy, and transparent recommence marketplace, starting with consumer electronics in Saudi Arabia.
- Noon Academy — Why Study Alone Again? Start study groups with your friends and access the best teachers on demand!
Abdulla Elyas is the Co-Founder of Careem. He previously worked at enwani (Acquired by Careem) as a Co-Founder. Abdulla Elyas attended RWTH Aachen University.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Credit, EdTech
- Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Pemo — Pemo is an all-in-one spend management solution that empowers your business by packing every company invoice, expense, approval and spending decision into one powerful platform.Our offering includes smart corporate cards, invoice payment systems and expense tracking functions. These are supported by automated approval flows, direct accountingintegration and real-time reporting - features that allow business owners to save time, save money, automate admin and every expense so you can get on with what you do best - building great businesses.
- Buildnow — BuildNow is MENAP's first "Build Now Pay Later" solution. We fund the raw materials construction & manufacturing SMEs need, while providing credit terms tailored to optimize their cash flow and supercharge their growth.
- Noon Academy — Why Study Alone Again? Start study groups with your friends and access the best teachers on demand!
Yasser Al-Ghamdi
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Automotive
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Nqoodlet — NQOODLET is an electronic platform targeting SMEs to manage their expenses, purchases through the credit cards given to the employees.
- Garage — Garage provides on-demand car maintenance services, enabling customers to book these services through its mobile app and receive them at their doorstep.
Abdulaziz Alyabis
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Electronics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Rewaa | رواء — Rewaa was founded to make penetrating through the e-commerce industry easier for retailers with minimal operational and marketing costs by solving two main aspects:Marketing aspect: Make in-store products available online. By using Rewaa Cashier System, any product in the physical store will be automatically listed in the online marketplaces andthe merchant's online store. Operational aspects: The integration between physical, online store and marketplace, eliminate the need of independent inventory for online store operations, and that will help to reduce employment cost, therefore, the physical store will be the shipping center, so whenever an order received by online store will be transferred automatically for the nearest branch from the customer. And eventually, the inventory will be automatically updated across all channels.
Ali Aziz is a Founder and CEO at XStak Inc. He attended Free University of Brussels.
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Investment focus
- B2B, EdTech, Retail
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Nearpeer.org — Nearpeer is an online solution for entry test preparation in Pakistan. Now you can prepare for all medical entry tests online without spending a lot of money.
- Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
- Grandeur — One platform to rule all of IoT. Grandeur is message broker, auth, storage and app builder in a single package.
Abdulrahman ALJadhee
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Internet, Tutoring
- Series A, Series B
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
- Noon - The Social Learning Platform — Why Study Alone Again? Start study groups with your friends and access the best teachers on demand!
Ammar AlKhudairy
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Investment focus
- Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Soum — Soum is reimagining recommence in the MENA region and beyond by building the most convenient, trustworthy, and transparent recommence marketplace, starting with consumer electronics in Saudi Arabia.
Turki AlJeaid
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Wellness
- Seed
- United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Mala Inc. — This is meta description
- MyBenefits Technolgoies — MyBenefits offers corporates a flexible and scalable solution to standardize staff discounts, flexible benefits and wellness initiatives throughout all markets. HR teams and managers are able to manage access, distribute rewards, monitor usage, and customize what content is displayed through an easy to use admin tool. With a simple requestMyBenefits can turn on hundreds of staff discounts in any market, anywhere.Employees have access to an app based on their work ID and able to use exclusive discounts, offers and access events specifically because they work for an organization.
Henrique Dubugras is Founder and Co-CEO of Brex — the first of its kind corporate card for startups. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was sixteen years old. In just three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in volume of transactions processed. In the fall of 2016, Henrique soldPagar.me and enrolled at Stanford University. After eight months, he left school and founded Brex, which raised $215M in funding across three rounds in its first 22 months and was the fastest U.S. business-to-business company to be valued at over $1bn.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
- Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.
- Portal — One integration opens the entire world of Web3 to your users. DeFi, games, NFTs, and more.
Khaled Al-Fanjan is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Rabeh — An innovative platform for Crowdfunding, Crowd-investing, and Exchange platform that utilizes advanced technologies.
Yaser Alghamdi
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, Retail
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- EdfaPay — Innovative and modern payment solutions tailored to suit the needs of businesses of all sizes and types, allowing for effortless growth management through a
- KalPay — KalPay is the largest Shariah Compliant Buy Now Pay Later in Pakistan, giving our customers easy access to credit and allowing them to purchase products in 3 monthly installments. We have a portfolio of hundreds of brands spread across multiple segments!
- ON Market — E-grocery marketplace allows customers to order from their favorite retailers while empowering retailers to build & sustain online commerce
Early Stage Angel Investor, Market Entry & Growth Strategist
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Investment focus
- Internet, Apps, Coffee
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Coffinado — Coffinado is an e-Commerce platform providing a variety of coffee beans to customers & coffee shops from self-owned roasters.
- PerchPeek — PerchPeek is the easiest way to relocate your employees to hundreds of destinations around the world. With support globally from the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, AND MORE!
- Space Nation — Space Nation Spaceport: Your gateway to immersive astronaut training and space missions. Join our Moon Pioneer Mission for hands-on experiences with former NASA astronauts, building resilience, teamwork, and a space-ready mindset. Explore space with us!
Michael Ovitz co-founded Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in 1974 and served as its Chairman until 1995. Over that 20-year period, he grew the agency from a start-up organization to the world’s leading talent agency, representing more than 1,000 of the most notable actors, directors, musicians, screenwriters and other personalities in theentertainment industry including Martin Scorsese, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Steven Spielberg, David Letterman, Meryl Streep, Barbara Streisand, Michael Crichton and Michael Jackson. In his journey from the mailroom to media mogul, Mr. Ovitz launched the most powerful agency in the world (to date), sold three major Hollywood studios, executed all marketing and advertising for The Coca-Cola Company (including creating the Polar Bear Campaign) and was at the forefront of the digital revolution, making alliances with Intel Corporation and other early Silicon Valley companies. Mr. Ovitz also served as President of the Walt Disney Company, from October 1995 to January 1997. In 2010, Mr. Ovitz founded the venture capital fund Broad Beach Ventures LLC, a portfolio of over thirty companies. He has been a senior advisor to Palantir Technologies for over 10 years and has invested in and advised companies from startups to black swans. He was instrumental in the creation of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and frequently consults for Founders Fund, 8VC and many other firms. In 2018, Mr. Ovitz wrote and published his memoir Who Is Michael Ovitz?, which was on the long list for The Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Mr. Ovitz is a graduate of University of California, Los Angeles and helped rebuild the UCLA Medical Center in 1997 while serving as its Chairman for over a decade. Mr. Ovitz is also a notable art collector and serves on The Board of Trustees at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Vapi — Voice AI for any application.
- Method Security — Method builds autonomous cyber defenses for enterprises and governments.
- Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.
Abhishek is the Co-Founder and COO of Fashinza, a global tech-enabled manufacturing company helping Fashion brands source apparel using data and cloud that is more sustainable, ethical, inclusive, fast, and efficient. Fashinza is funded by leading VCs, Accel Partners, Elevation Capital, Prosus Ventures (Naspers), Westbridge, and ADQ UAE.He hasextensive experience in product & technology, building start-ups like Flipkart (India’s leading eCommerce platform acquired by Walmart), LimeRoad, Curofy (acquired by RoundGlass USA) & BharatPe. He is also a writer and guest author for ProductSchool, Hackernoon, Prototypr, and Noteworthy
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Investment focus
- Apps, Retail, Fashion
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Kikibix — Relish what tastes like your childhood, loaded with an array of healthy ingredients for scrumptiously flavorful and healthy snacks. Born from the vision of a doctor to make a brilliant amalgamation of tasty and healthy. Made with love, baked to perfection, a home for healthy cookies that taste amazing!
- Produze — AI assistant that understands the relationships among hundreds of Amazon sub-metrics and identifies the root cause of sales fluctuations in minutes.
- Magma — Magma platform partners with factories and raw materials suppliers to offer supply chain services from the supplier to the customer.
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