Top 20 Automotive Startup Investors in Saudi Arabia in January 2026
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Automotive startups based in Saudi arabia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Saudi arabia. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Automotive Startup Investors in Saudi Arabia in January 2026
| Investor | Automotive Saudi Arabia investments |
|---|---|
| Impact46 | 3 |
| Elm | 3 |
| BECO Capital | 2 |
| Derayah Financial | 2 |
| Raed Ventures | 2 |
| MERCED | 1 |
| Yasser Al-Ghamdi | 1 |
| Elm | 1 |
| Vision Ventures | 1 |
| Nuwa Capital | 1 |
| Raz Group | 1 |
| 500 Falcons | 1 |
| EQ2 Ventures | 1 |
| Wa’ed Ventures | 1 |
| Sarh Fund | 1 |
| Access Bridge Ventures | 1 |
| Nama Ventures | 1 |
| Jameel Investment Management Company | 1 |
| Sadu Capital | 1 |
| Oqal | 1 |
Impact 46 is an asset manager and advisor that specializes in alternative investment opportunities. The firm provides innovative investment products and services to local & international institutions, family groups, endowments, and high net worth investors.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Spoilz — Play innovative new games with Spoilz, your one-stop destination for gaming joy. From casual to strategy, experience the best in gaming today!
- Holo — Find your dream home with Holo, the digital home-buying platform in the UAE. Get expert help, compare mortgages, and simplify your journey to ownership!
- Starvania Studio — Starvania Studio is an indie game development studio developing fantasy games inspired by Arabian Mythology.
Elm offer a wide range of ready-made and customized digital solutions in many areas. The company provides products that are seemingly tailored to customers' needs and aspirations.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Saudi Arabia, India, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Reachware — Reachware is the top IPaaS in the Middle East, connecting systems for a unified ecosystem. Trusted by global enterprises. Learn more.
- Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
- Youverify — Youverify helps businesses and individuals confirm identity and physical addresses. Using AI, Youverify confirms a user’s identity document and compares it with their facial biometrics. This information can be cross-checked against more than 300 databases locally and globally.Youverify in partnership with over 20,000 field verification officersverifies physical addresses all over Sub-Sahara Africa in less than 48 hours.Youverify fills the gap in Africa's digital industry by providing one API for identity and physical address verification.
BECO Capital is a conviction-driven VC, backing exceptional founders across the GCC and MENA region with hands-on support, partnerships and sector expertise.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, United States, Egypt
Derayah Financial is a digital investment firm and brokerage that provides online access to local and global stock, ETF, bond, margin trading, and derivatives markets, as well as Shariah-compliant advisory and robo-advisory services. The firm offers mutual funds, real estate investments, discretionary portfolio management, and research tools.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Marketplace
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
- D360 bank — D360 bank is an online digital bank. The company provides financial services through it's app.
- Mala'a Technologies — Make better financial decisions with Malaa. Manage your financials, track your expenses, take a loan or invest your money all from one app. Connect you bank accounts and start today
We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
- Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
- Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.
Grow, Build, Innovate
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Investment focus
- Software, Automotive, Fleet Management
- Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Carefer — Carefer is a cloud-based management software that provides automated operations to increase fleet maintenance efficiency.
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.
Elm
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, SMS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Zid — Zid is an e-commerce in a box - solution that any retailer can use to start their eRetail. Zid helps them to build their own eStores (with their own name and identity) and integrates them with the supply chain players to enable them to manage and with ease. The company aims to enable the retail sector to enter the world of electronic retail in aneasy and professional.Zid was founded in 2017 and based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
- Cura — Cura Healthcare is a Saudi leading telehealth provider that provides digital health and telemedicine software and services. The company has developed state-of-the-art technologies to empower health communications, changing the way patients and doctors interact, diagnose, prescribe, give second opinions, manage chronic diseases, and provide primaryhealth care and well-being therapy sessions. For more information: https://cura.healthcare/en/
- Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.
Vision Ventures (VV) is an early stage venture capital firm founded by experienced entrepreneurs. Its slogan is:"By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs". We invest in innovative startups in the Seed and Series A across a wide range of verticals. We help startups realize their dreams and make a difference in a noisy world. We are an energeticteam that has a wealth of experience in starting companies and steering them to success and hyper growth. Our combined experience spans over 90 years in multiple countries which gives us extensive experience in multi-national, multi-cultural teams. We provide startups with hands on assistance and guidance on marketing, sales, product/service development, financial planning and management, expansion & growth strategy, and more.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Ejari — Ejari is providing a Rent Now, Pay Later (RNPL) solution for residential rentals, Rent Now, Pay Later products enable tenants to better manage their budgets by converting rent from a yearly expense to a monthly expense, while landlords receive an entire year's rent in advance.
- Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
- MoneyHash — Emerging and Global markets first all-in-one flexible payment orchestration and revenue operations platform that covers all of your payment needs. We help you build, optimize, and scale your payment infrastructure at any stage of growth.
A radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Aydi — We are more than a platform. We are a global voice of modern agriculture, built with growers, powered by innovation, and driven by the responsibility to feed the future with dignity and confidence.
- Calo — Analyze your nutritional needs and subscribe to a convenient meal plan that's designed for you in under 2 minutes.
- Gathern — Gathern is a booking platform of private villas, chalets, rest houses, camps, resorts, farms and other places suitable for gatherings.
Raz Group empowers entrepreneurs and helps them transform their passions into value-adding companies.
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Investment focus
- Events, Advertising, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
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- Cargoz — Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage.
- Autobia — Autobia is a B2B marketplace leveraging the data to solve the infrastructure and after-sales challenges in the automotive industry. The company bridges the gap between wholesalers and resellers by offering in-between digital, operational and logistical integrated solutions. It was founded in 2021 and is located in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
- Dnaneer — Dnaneer is a FinTech platform that connects online businesses with investors through crowdfunding of enterprises.
500 Falcons is the MENA-focused fund that is a part of the global 500 Startups network.
500 Startups is the most active global early-stage VC fund and startup accelerator focusing on discovering and backing the most talented founders worldwide.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Saudi Arabia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AlgoPay — AlgoPay is the payment bridge between companies and their consumers in cash economies.
- Tamawal — Tamawal® is an innovative fintech platform that works as an aggregator for the financial sector to link finance requesters with banks and financial institutions as a Digital Financing Broker (DFB).
- FineDine — Finedine is a growing tech company that provides data-driven digital menus for a smarter and more profitable dining experience. Finedine Menu app tracks customer behavior and collects insights on what to keep and what to improve. The order management feature helps streamline the ordering process and improve table turnover. Restauranteurs can alsocollect instant feedback and contact information from guests to take action towards enhancing the dining experience. Finedine is used in 45 countries.
Evergreen venture capital investing in Seed to Series A startups across MENA and Africa. 27 active investments, $71.8M portfolio NAV, 17% IRR.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan
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- Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
- Uncover — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin
Wa’ed Ventures is a $500 million venture capital fund with the aim to accelerate the development of an integrated startup ecosystem by investing in local tech-based startups and incentivizing global entrepreneurs to localize their tech innovations in the Kingdom.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Hazen.ai — Enhance safety with our AI-powered camera, providing real-time monitoring and precise violation detection. This technology empowers authorities to enforce traffic laws effectively, ensuring safer roads for all.
- FalconViz — FalconViz is a Saudi registered company focused on 3D surveying and mapping by Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) with autonomous integration of planes, copters and 3D software solutions.
- UnitX — Automate inspection in-line for better yield
Sarh Fund is a venture capital investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Automotive, Fleet Management
- Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Carefer — Carefer is a cloud-based management software that provides automated operations to increase fleet maintenance efficiency.
Access Bridge Ventures (ABV) is a leading early stage venture capital fund. tha invests across the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and on a case by case basis outside these regions. We currently have investments in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan and aggressively expa
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Apps, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dawatech — Dawatech provides a cloud-based, SaaS pharmacy management ERP software that connects pharmacies, suppliers, and stakeholders through a single platform.
- Teammates.ai — Autonomous AI agents that work 24/7 in 50+ languages. Handle customer support, qualify leads, and screen candidates. No code required. 5-minute setup.
- Jiye Technologies — Jiye Technologies is revolutionizing Agri Marketplaces of Pakistan
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
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- Cargoz — Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage.
- PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
- Messenger — Messenger is a one-stop logistics platform that finances and aggregates end-to-end logistics and supply chain operations in order to assist businesses and logistics asset owners in achieving an efficient supply chain framework.
Jameel Investment Management Company is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
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- Kneu Health — Kneu Health transforms smart phones into clinical-grade monitors to keep a tab on neurological conditions like Parkinson’s and dementia.
- General Fusion — General Fusion is developing fusion energy: a clean, safe, abundant and on-demand approach to generating electricity.
- Vertical Semiconductor — Vertical Semiconductor is reinventing power conversion for the current computing infrastructure.
Sadu Capital is a global VC firm, backing bold MENA founders from seed to Series A with smart capital, global networks, and hands-on support to scale.
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Saudi Arabia
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- Octa — Reduce DSO by 30%, save 20+ hours per week, and delight customers with our all-in-one platform.
- Reachware — Reachware is the top IPaaS in the Middle East, connecting systems for a unified ecosystem. Trusted by global enterprises. Learn more.
- OTO — OTO is SaaS company that helps retailers implement their Omni-Channel strategy by enabling them to ship their online orders directly from the physical stores with the best delivery partners in just 2 hours! Also, we provide Online Retailers and E-commerce companies access to ship packages with more than 80 delivery & carrier companies shipping domestically and internationally.
Oqal Group was formed as an endowment group by a group of young businessmen to be a platform that brings together angel investors and emerging entrepreneurs to form partnerships of economic feasibility that raise the welfare of society and enhance the quality of life. It enables the founders of entrepreneurial startups to develop innovative andfast-growing startups in a variety of sectors by providing access to smart capital and experienced angel investors.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
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