Top 10 Blockchain Startup Investors in Saudi Arabia (June 2026)

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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 98
Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$28M
Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

Portfolio highlights

YNMO — YNMO is the first Arabic/English digital solution that aims to improve the quality of care and educational services for individuals with special needs by allowing service providers such as schools, centers & clinics to design and monitor individualized treatment plans.
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.
UnitX — Automate inspection in-line for better yield

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We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

Total investments: 99
Round size: Seed $600k–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$33M
Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

Grinta — Grinta is a pharmaceutical supply chain that uses AI and ML to empower local pharmacies. It is a managed marketplace that is modernizing the pharmaceutical supply chain by empowering independent pharmacies across Africa through AI & ML technologies.
Zeal — Zeal transforms your current card machines, enabling them to unlock powerful insights and deliver seamless loyalty. Zeal integrates with all card machines and is trusted by industry leaders.
Zarya App — Earn without investment.

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Arbor Ventures is a visionary fintech-focused VC, partnering with innovators to shape a smarter future.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
Geography: United States, Singapore, Japan

Investor stats

Total investments: 74
Round size: Series A $6M–$175M; Series B $12M–$70M; Series C $12M–$150M
Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $226M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

Abra — Abra provides wealth and treasury management solutions to give clients an edge across trading, borrowing and investing digital assets.
Tabby — tabby provides consumers across the GCC with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases in interest-free installments. tabby helps over 2,000 leading retailers grow their sales.
Ready — Get Ready BOSS for your CSP digital transformation. Cross-sell OTT services, subscriber self-service & more. Includes flexible, modular billing & API.

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SVC has backed 31 VC and PE Funds and 5 Angel Groups that supported 525 Startups and SMEs via $1.6 Billion AUM INVESTMENTS 1.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: Saudi Arabia, Germany, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 25
Round size: Seed $427k–$10M; Series A $1.1M–$25M; Series B $5M–$124M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Salasa — End-to-End eCommerce Logistics to Scale Your BusinessWe store, pack, and deliver your products to happy customers anywhere on Earth.
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.
Intelmatix — Intelligent Informatics Technologies Intelmatix is a deep tech AI company offering Enterprise AI that is accessible providing cutting-edge Decision Intelligence software that gives organizations a competitive advantage in the new AI era. LEARN MORE Capabilities Intelmatix develops technology platforms that integrate sector knowledge with expertise in data sensing, data processing, data analysis, data visualization and interaction.

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COTU stands for Champions Of The Underdog. We are on a mission to reinvent how seed investing is done in the Middle East by backing extraordinary founders and showing them how to believe in themselves when they are at the loneliest, earliest, and most challenging parts of their journeys.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt

Investor stats

Total investments: 24
Round size: Seed $3.4M–$10M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3M; Series A $12M–$37M
Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

AdalFi — AdalFi provides digital lending infrastructure services.It identifies, qualifies, engages, activates, and delights lending prospects for our partner banks.
Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
Supy — The data-driven restaurant inventory software: get real-time insights to cut costs, reduce waste, and boost profits for multi-location operations.

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Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
Geography: United States, Singapore, India

Investor stats

Total investments: 118
Round size: Seed $1.2M–$15M; Grant $5k–$3M; Pre-Seed $600k–$3.8M
Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Optic — Optic monitors blockchains to reveal the origins of any NFT and how it’s been reimagined, remixed, or copied.
Pheasant Network — Pheasant Network uses intent-based bridging and an innovative cross-chain swap protocol to connect 30+ blockchain networks quickly and efficiently.

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Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

Total investments: 1630
Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $9M–$53M; Series B $16M–$107M
Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

Bigscreen — Founded by Darshan Shankar in 2014, Bigscreen is a venture-backed startup creating an immersive virtual reality platform that aims to revolutionize the way people work, play, hangout, and collaborate.Use cases of Bigscreen include both entertainment and productivity. Users love using Bigscreen as a "VR movie theater" to watch movies andTV shows. It's also used to play videogames, browse the web, and hangout with friends. It's can also be used for productivity as a tool for remote teams to collaborate together in virtual offices.Since the beta launch in March 2016, Bigscreen has become one of the most popular and highest rated VR apps on the Oculus Store and has an incredible 93% positive rating on Steam. Power users spend 20-30 hours per week in Bigscreen, making it one of the most widely used "killer apps" in the industry.Bigscreen is now the most popular non-gaming VR application in the world.Bigscreen is a fully distributed remote company with employees based around the world in the US & UK.
Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
The Believer Company — Join the journey We are building a world-class team to serve players for years to come. If you believe in games, we believe in you.

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Wa’ed Ventures is the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center (Wa’ed), established by Saudi Aramco with the vision of igniting the spirit of entrepreneurship in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Wa’ed has deployed a suite of programs over the years to assist entrepreneurs in establishing, enhancing, or expanding their ventures. Theseprograms comprise development and financial support including business incubation, coaching and training to guide and nurture entrepreneurs along different business stages, seed funding, non-collateral loans, venture capital (equity/debt) investment, and business development. These programs support the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) capable of localizing industries and diversifying the Kingdom’s economy. Wa’ed also collaborates and engages with key players in order to create an effective entrepreneurship ecosystem.Wa’ed aspires to provide leadership in promoting entrepreneurship to support economic growth, diversification, and social development in Saudi Arabia, in alignment with the Kingdom’s strategic thrust into moving towards a knowledge-based economy. The organization aims to turn innovative ideas into successful projects, create and support sustainable SMEs, and develop entrepreneurs into successful business owners.Wa’ed Ventures aims to fuel the growth of high potential companies, thereby promoting economic development in Saudi Arabia with job creation for Saudi nationals, technological improvement, knowledge transfer, economic diversification, and economic growth within the Kingdom. The firm focuses on seed, early, and growth-stage businesses across a diverse range of sectors including information and communication technology (ICT), energy, manufacturing, healthcare, and services – from mobile application platforms and technologies to industrial equipment manufacturing to advanced software solutions.

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, Software, Apps
Stage:Series A, Seed
Geography: Saudi Arabia, India, Luxembourg

Investor stats

Total investments: 43
Round size: Seed $506k–$3.5M; Series A $900k–$25M
Lead/follow: 84% lead, 16% follow

Portfolio highlights

ELEVATUS — Elevatus is the #1 Agentic AI Hiring Operating System built for enterprise scale. Autonomous recruiting from requisition to onboarding - zero code.
OQ TECHNOLOGY — OQ Technology is a Luxembourg-based satellite operator pioneering 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) connectivity through its direct-to-device (D2D) global satellite network.
MANAFA Capital — MANAFA is an online marketplace for investing equity into innovative, early-stage companies. It provides sophisticated investors free access to direct investment opportunities, diligence tools and industry data insights for an asset class that was previously very difficult to access. For entrepreneurs, MANAFA offers an efficient way to access anetwork of sophisticated investors as well as leading partners.

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Jason Gardner is the Founder, Executive Chairman of Marqeta. He previously worked at MoneyGram International as a Vice President of PropertyBridge. Jason Gardner attended Arizona State University.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
Geography: United States, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands

Investor stats

Total investments: 10
Round size: Seed $5.2M–$60M; Series A $3M–$17M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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.
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.
ClearGrid — Revolutionize your debt recovery with AI and advanced analytics. Our platform delivers faster, more personalized collections that benefit both your business and your customers.

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