Top 10 Climate Startup Investors in Saudi Arabia
A list of 10 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Climate startups based in Saudi arabia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Climate companies from Saudi arabia. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Climate Startup Investors in Saudi Arabia
Investor | Climate Saudi Arabia investments |
---|---|
Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Ventures | 3 |
Saudi Aramco | 1 |
Kanoo Ventures | 1 |
Global Ventures | 1 |
MLM Investment company | 1 |
Mine | 1 |
Nama Ventures | 1 |
Business Innovation Mine (BIM) | 1 |
DSM Venturing | 1 |
Globivest | 1 |
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.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Saudi Arabia, India, Luxembourg
Portfolio highlights
- ELEVATUS — Automate the entire recruitment cycle from creating job requisitions to onboarding new hires - with the #1 AI recruitment software.
- OQ TECHNOLOGY — OQ Technology's Satellite 5G IoT - The world's first global satellite 5G operator, that can collect data from more than 1000 sensors, and so providing cellular coverage for assets and machines anywherer in the world.
- 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.
At Aramco, our behavior is what defines us - as a company, as employees, as people. Everything we do is anchored by our corporate values: citizenship, safety, accountability, excellence and integrity.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Oil and Gas, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Saudi Arabia, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- TipRanks — TipRanks stock market research and analysis, lets you see the track record and measured performance of any analyst or blogger, so you know who to trust!
- Rongsheng Petrochemical — Rongsheng Petrochemical produces, markets, and sells petrochemicals, chemical fibers, and other related products in China and internationally. It offers synthetic fibers and films, including fiber and film grade polyester chips, bottle grade polyester chips, polyester pre-oriented yarns, draw textured yarns, fully drawn yarns, and PET films;synthetic raw materials, such as purified terephthalic acids, ethylene oxides, triethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, ethylene glycol, and P-xylene; and synthetic resins comprising ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers, high density polyethylene, low-density polyethylene, and polypropylene. Rongsheng Petrochemical also provides olefins consisting of butene-1, hexene-1, butadiene, propylene, and ethylene; aromatics and phenols, including cumene, acetone, phenol, styrene, ethylbenzene, xylene, mixed aromatics, methylbenzene, and purified petroleum benzine; and acrylonitrile and special chemical products, such as dimethyl carbonate, methyl methacrylate, polycarbonate, bisphenol A, acetonitrile, and acrylonitrile. Moreover, it offers intermediate and chemical raw materials comprising iso-butane, n-butane, petroleum cokes, liquid argons, liquid ammonia, methanol, liquid petroleum gas, isooctane, methyl tert-butyl ether, industrial hexane, pentane foamer, industrial aromatic hydrocarbons, high-flash aromatic naphthas, ethylene bottom oils, splitting decomposition C9 and C5, and sulphur; and oil products, such as jet fuels, diesel, and gasoline. Rongsheng Chemical Fiber Group that began operation in 1995 became Rongsheng Petrochemical in September 2007. It has its headquarters in Hangzhou in China as a subsidiary of Zhejiang Rongsheng Holding Group.
- Geely-Renault Powertrain Co. — Geely-Renault Powertrain Co. develop and supply hybrid and internal combustion engines (ICE). It's a joint venture between Geely and Renault.
Kanoo Ventures is an investment firm.
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- Renewable Energy
- Series A
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Iyris — Iyris Advanced Desert Greenhouses is the Middle East's premier agriculture glazing specialist, providing tailored solutions for increased desert crop output. iyris collaborates closely with the glass industry's greatest companies to provide ultra-clear glazing with the most advanced anti-reflective and light diffusive coatings.
We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States
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- Iyris — Iyris Advanced Desert Greenhouses is the Middle East's premier agriculture glazing specialist, providing tailored solutions for increased desert crop output. iyris collaborates closely with the glass industry's greatest companies to provide ultra-clear glazing with the most advanced anti-reflective and light diffusive coatings.
- Hakbah — Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.
- Maalexi — We are a deal-driven and buyer-focussed digital ecosystem for 'Wholesale Import and Finance of Food and Agriculture products into US, Europe, Africa, India and the UAE'. We make it faster, cheaper and safer to trade internationally, by standardizing and digitalizing trade processes, and have built key partnerships with globally renownedcompanies, that assure performance, finance, and mitigate transactional risks.We help local SME manufacturers and distributors to import and get finance for food and agricultural products directly from the source. Agricultural products can be imported by local manufacturers directly from small and medium co-operatives and processors, while food products can be imported directly by local distributors from manufacturers. We help buyers connect and transact with sellers by mitigating transactional risks in cross-border trade like : Counter-party, Price, Product Quality and Quantity, Delivery and Payment. We have partnerships that allow us to provide - digital contracting, end-to-end fulfillment, physical inspections, and secured payments. We are partnered with globally renowned - Distributed Ledger Technology platform, Logistics Service companies, Insurance providers, an Inspection Agency, and Financial Service fin-tech firms. We work 24x7, 365 days to 'simplify cross-border trade', and we invite you to join us in this endeavor.
MLM Investment company operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Water, Delivery
- Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Moya App — Moya App operates as an online water-delivery network. Moya App is both a website and a mobile app specializing in satisfying all your drinking water needs.
Mine is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Sales, Payments
- Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- CashIn — CashIn is an enablement app that supports smart devices to facilitate merchants by managing their sales, payments and other operations.
Nama Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund focused on fueling innovation in the MENA region, particularly in Saudi Arabia. ama Ventures is built upon the fundamental idea of enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. And as founders of Nama, we are thrilled to finally have the platform to implement this idea. Our hope is that entrepreneurs willingto partner with us will see and feel our value-add approach to investing.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
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- PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
- iStoria — iStoria, a specialized EdTech app that helps people improve their English language through reading interesting stories
- Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
We build successful and sustainable enterprises from the ground up by capitalizing on our expertise, resources and network.We carefully select, validate and launch bold ideas that are then turned into full-fledged spun-off businesses. While every successful venture is different, there is one thing, that connects all of them – right timing.Timeis the key and the most important resource for every enterprise. That’s why we designed our own venture building process that allows fast delivery. We use our own expertise and vast network of resources to create business plans, develop the products, launch them on the market, and grow them. - Generate our own VenturesWe build startups that solve problems through an inhouse continuous, dynamic and selective ideation process. We secure financing to make sure our ventures can grow without barriers.- Build Ventures With PartnersWith our robust ecosystem we partner up with external entrepreneurs and other companies that have amazing ideas we can help them develop into successful and sustainable businesses.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile Apps, Industrial Automation
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Tygo — Tygo is the telecommunications services and marketing platform.
- Conix.ai — CONIX.AI is an AI platform (SaaS) created to offer fully complete solutions for the architectural designing of residential and commercial properties. The cloud-based SaaS platform is accessible from anywhere worldwide and can provide detailed 2D plans, 3D plans, Facades, working drawings (electricity & water), utility data, sustainabilityadvice and more for construction planning.By accessing CONIX.AI, real estate companies will have at their fingertips in few minutes different iterations of architectural designs for their new construction projects previously impossible to attain without significant investments into architectural firms and wouldn't be delivered in less than 4-6 weeks. This level of visualisation will allow companies a time-conscious suite of tools that can allow them to build faster, build smarter, build greener!https://youtu.be/bskgguh3U-A
- AtarCloud — AtarCloud is a mobile app featuring financial management, leasing, service management, HOA and user management, and marketing. In addition to providing a multi-platform, multi-interface system, the company assists all stakeholders in an intuitive manner by providing a multi-platform, multi-interface system that caters to the needs of allstakeholders involved in the property sector.
Innovators in nutrition, health, and beauty. Together, we bring progress to life by combining the essential, the desirable, and the sustainable.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Vivici — Our mission is to meet the world's growing need for sustainable, nutritious and great tasting animal-free proteins.
- NutriLeads — NutriLeads is an innovative startup that develops nutritional ingredients with demonstrated health effects. NutriLeads aims to catalyze nutritional health innovation in the food industry by partnering with relevant companies to identify promising lead ingredients, develop sustainable and commercially viable production processes, and initiatescientific & clinical programs to substantiate the health effects of these ingredients. Together we will bring the benefits of the proprietary ingredients to patients and consumers.
- Octarine Bio — Octarine Bio is a world leading synthetic biology platform with a core mission to drive bio-based, sustainable solutions to address the most pressing planetary issues through innovation & exploration. Inspired by nature, to protect nature.
Globivest is a private investment firm with a diversified portfolio of assets. Our primary focus is on innovative and scalable early stage start-ups. We seek to establish long-term relationships with visionary entrepreneurs while adding clear value in strategy and execution.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Iyris — Iyris Advanced Desert Greenhouses is the Middle East's premier agriculture glazing specialist, providing tailored solutions for increased desert crop output. iyris collaborates closely with the glass industry's greatest companies to provide ultra-clear glazing with the most advanced anti-reflective and light diffusive coatings.
- Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
- Vibrant Planet — Data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change.
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