Top 20 Consumer Startup Investors in Saudi Arabia
A list of 20 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Consumer startups based in Saudi arabia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Consumer companies from Saudi arabia. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Consumer Startup Investors in Saudi Arabia
Investor | Consumer Saudi Arabia investments |
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Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Ventures | 5 |
Saudi Aramco | 3 |
Khwarizmi Ventures | 2 |
RZM Investments | 2 |
Oqal | 2 |
Abdulaziz Alyabis | 2 |
Impact46 | 2 |
EQ2 Ventures | 1 |
Abhishek Sharma | 1 |
Graphene Ventures | 1 |
Wamda Capital | 1 |
100 Ventures | 1 |
Vision Ventures | 1 |
Ithraa Capital | 1 |
Raed Ventures | 1 |
Techstars Accelerator | 1 |
Dual Gate Investment Holding | 1 |
Lucrative Ventures | 1 |
Entrepreneur Venture | 1 |
PreAngel | 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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- 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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- Energy, Oil and Gas, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Saudi Arabia, United States, China
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- 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.
Khwarizmi Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks investments in startups with a passion for algorithms. It seeks to help create their vision, as they embark on a journey together that aligns their goals to improve quality of life using technology powered by algorithms.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
- Bluworks.io — Bluworks.io is a HRTech SaaS platform offers cloud-based solutions.
- Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.
RZM Investments manages the shares of various companies that are in the field of health, education, hospitality, and tourism.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States
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- BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
- MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
- Abyan Capital — Abyan Capital is a financial service company that provides an automated solution and portfolio management for long-term investments.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- AlGooru — AlGooru is a tutoring network marketplace that connects students with qualified tutors on a mobile app. Our mobile app uberizes the tutoring market. Students can find reliable tutors, and tutors can manage their sessions/price their own rates.
- Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
- Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.
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.
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
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Predictive Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman
Portfolio highlights
- Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
- DataLexing — DataLexing is an All-in-One Data-Driven productivity platform that brings Insights, Apps, Notifications, Forms, and Sheets together in one place.
- Al Matar Group — Al Matar Group provides individuals and businesses with technical travel solutions.
EQ2 Ventures is an investment firm that invests in Seed to Series B-stage startup companies. It was incorporated as a spin-off of Equitrust, a corporate VC arm launched in 2015 by Choueiri Group to capture opportunities linked to the digital transformation of the Middle East. Relying on a strong network of strategic investors and mentors, EQ2Ventures helps talented entrepreneurs solve major consumers and business problems, build sustainable companies. and create long-term value.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan
Portfolio highlights
- Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
- AIfluence — AIfluence is an Artificial Intelligence-driven end to end influence marketing platform. AIfluence accurately match influencers with brands, monitors & manages high impact audience based campaigns in real-time, with an ability to accurately predict and deliver measurable results and ROI. The platform utilizes advanced AI technologies that deepdives into clients' key demographic evolving and adapting with the audience to deliver impactful and emotional connections in campaigns.
- Hala — I hope my experience will help you make an informed decision when choosing car insurance in the UAE. Keep an eye on my blog for more travel and car tips! Safe driving!
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 automations for e-commerce sellers
- Magma — Magma platform partners with factories and raw materials suppliers to offer supply chain services from the supplier to the customer.
Graphene - venture fund for innovative startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series F
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Datalogz — Datalogz is a BI Ops solution that enables teams to bridge the gaps in their business intelligence environment.
- Start Careers — Start Careers offers Publicize the vacancies in a practical way to the best universities in the country.
- 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.
Wamda Capital is the MENA region's leading venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs building the region's most promising high growth technology businesses. We invest both at the growth and seed stages with the aim of taking portfolio companies through successive rounds of financing through to exit.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- BitOasis — BitOasis is MENA's leading platform that allows you to securely buy, sell and trade crypto assets like Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Bitcoin Cash at the best rates. Currently available in UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
- Believe — Believe Pte Ltd. is a global, Singapore-based FMCG conglomerate that provides market-ready solutions for customers by listening to their needs and designing products that suit their culture and life choices. From breakthrough personal care essentials to beauty products surpassing global standards, our worldwide team of experts use cutting-edgetechnology, scientifically proven methodologies and ancient knowledge to gift our customers
- Wafeq وافق — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.
100 Ventures is an investment firm and its invests in pre-seed and seed startups companies.
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Investment focus
- B2C, SaaS, Beauty
- Seed
- Saudi Arabia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- AlGooru — AlGooru is a tutoring network marketplace that connects students with qualified tutors on a mobile app. Our mobile app uberizes the tutoring market. Students can find reliable tutors, and tutors can manage their sessions/price their own rates.
- Glamera — Glamera managment system | best software system to manage beauty centers, Best software to Manage SPA, Best software to Manage Gym,
- MyTM — MYTM is a fintech company and provides mass transit e-ticketing, branchless banking, microfinance services (loan lead generation through agent network), and financial services.
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
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Munjz — Munjz is a mobile app for connecting individuals & corporate sector looking for household services with pre-screened professionals.
- Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
- 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.
Ithraa Capital is a company that specializes in Investment services.
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Investment focus
- B2C, SaaS, Beauty
- Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Glamera — Glamera managment system | best software system to manage beauty centers, Best software to Manage SPA, Best software to Manage Gym,
We partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough companies and creating scalable impact in MENA region
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
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- 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.
- Wafeq وافق — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.
- Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.
Techstars Accelerator
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- B2C, SaaS, Hotel
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Canada, Israel, Australia
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- Glamera — Glamera B2B2C: SaaS platform to power beauty salons, spa, Gym and barber shops, to optimize sales, booking, marketing, inventory and HR. Glamera White Label: Every service provider can create his own website, to help his customer in pre-booking his services. Glamera B2C: Mobile application for end user to book beauty and wellness appointment.
- Outread — Outread uses AI to summarize key academic publications. (Blinkist is useful for academic study.
- Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
Dual Gate Investment Holding
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Investment focus
- B2C, SaaS, Beauty
- Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Glamera — Glamera managment system | best software system to manage beauty centers, Best software to Manage SPA, Best software to Manage Gym,
Lucrative Ventures operates as an Investment Firm.
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Investment focus
- B2C, SaaS, Beauty
- Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Glamera — Glamera managment system | best software system to manage beauty centers, Best software to Manage SPA, Best software to Manage Gym,
Entrepreneur Venture is a private equity firm based in Paris, France. The firm seeks to invest in the retail, SaaS, and e-commerce sectors. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- France, United States, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Fairmoove — Fairmoove is a digital travel agency that promotes environmentally responsible tourism. Fairmoove is to ensure that tourists and local people have a satisfying and sustainable travel experience while minimizing the negative effects of travel and tourism on the environment and society.
- Mosh — MOSH is a mission-focused, family-run company to get you thinking more about your brain health! Try our MOSH bars formulated with superfoods & vital brain nutrients.
- Neocase Software — Neocase is a provider of integrated HR and Finance service delivery solutions.We enable large and mid-size organizations to reduce costs, standardize processes and improve employee, customer and supplier relationships. This is typically achieved within shared service centers and global business services environments. Our software streamlinesservice delivery through advanced case management, powerful business process automation, a rich knowledge base, personalized self-service portals and deep analytics.Delivered in the cloud, leveraging its award-winning modern technology platform, Neocase integrates with core HR platforms like Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and other systems to leverage existing data.
PreAngel is a 30M RMB investment fund focused on early stage internet startups. Investment on each project range from 100K to 1M RMB. In addition to investment, PreAngel plays a key role as "co-founder", providing guidance in startup operation, business model refinement and industry resources.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Blockchain
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- China, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.
- X World Games — Founded in 2018, X World Games (“XWG”) aims to build the next-gen decentralized gaming metaverse.X World Games' vision is to build a diversified gaming ecosystem that connects traditional gamers with the blockchain world and invite more game developers into the crypto space by creating and providing the underlying blockchain framework.Withits gaming innovation, crypto game - Dream Card, NFT Marketplace and DeFi Pool, X World Games now serves over 2 million registered gamers, and has quickly become the fastest-growing crypto gaming platform in the ecosystem.X World Games is headquartered in Singapore with a 100+ dynamic team located worldwide.
- Feiba Business Travel — Feiba Business Travel is a business trip ticket service platform
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