Top 15 Health Care Startup Investors in Saudi Arabia in October 2024
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Health care startups based in Saudi arabia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Health care companies from Saudi arabia. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Health Care Startup Investors in Saudi Arabia in October 2024
Investor | Health Care Saudi Arabia investments |
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Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Ventures | 4 |
Butterfly Ventures | 2 |
ACE Investment Partners Ltd. | 1 |
Merak Capital | 1 |
Business Innovation Mine (BIM) | 1 |
Mad'a Investment Company | 1 |
Elm | 1 |
GINCO Investments | 1 |
Impact46 | 1 |
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) | 1 |
Oqal | 1 |
Adam Schneider | 1 |
Gate Capital | 1 |
Khwarizmi Ventures | 1 |
ACE & Company | 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.
Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm.
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- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- RiACT — Software for robots. Real-time development platform for creators and users of flexible robot applications.
- 10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
- Flow Computing — Flow's Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) gives 100X CPU performance for demanding applications, such as locally-hosted AI and general-purpose parallel computing.
ACE Investment Partner is a Geneva based investor with a focus on early & venture opportunities.
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- Software, Renewable Energy, Collaboration
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Switzerland, United States, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Enuu — Connected Epods and Ecargos.
- Skydweller — Skydweller is a US-Spanish aerospace company developing solar powered aircraft solutions capable of achieving perpetual flight with the highest—and most meaningful—payload capacity. Utilizing technology based upon the longest continuous solar powered flight program in history, our fast-growing startup is developing a new class of unmanned aircraft,providing the persistence of geosynchronous satellites with the powerful sensing capabilities and range of a large, airborne platform.
- Natufia — At Natufia, we believe you can transform your life by growing food in your kitchen. Health and wellness is a lifestyle and the Natufia Hydroponic Home Kitchen Garden was created to offer families a holistic, forward-visioning solution to healthy living. With a team comprised of technologists, architects, botanists and chefs, Natufia has risen tothe forefront of technological development, making it possible to grow food to scale all of your family’s produce right at home. The plants and herbs are available to harvest immediately for cooking and eating, giving life to your diet, and transforming the way you relate to your food.
Merak Capital is a licensed company by the CMA to manage private investment funds, investor portfolios, and advise on financial securities, under the license number 18194-32, with a specialized focus on technology investments. Investments are done across different asset classes, with a primary focus on equities. In the private equity class, as wellas venture capital, the main regions of operation are KSA and MENA. In public equities, investments operate on global stock exchanges.At Merak Capital we focus on technology as the main driver for growth across the globe, and specifically in Saudi Arabia and the MENA region. We build our internal teams around technological research and understanding, staying at the forefront of breakthrough software and hardware, and finding investment opportunities that are aligned with adoption cycles from different sectors. Nowadays, most businesses and sectors are becoming digitized to stay relevant and compete with new entrants. Technological integration shifted from a luxury and a competitive advantage to a must-have for businesses and governments alike. Merak Capital is positioned to lead investments in this transition as well as unlock new markets and venues for growth, enabled by technological innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit.
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Investment focus
- Software, Supply Chain Management, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Saudi Arabia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jisr HR — JisrHR is a Human resource management firm that offers HR solutions, time and attendance, reports, benefits and payroll services.
- SHIFT — Shift mission is to develop sustainable solutions and reshape the landscape in Saudi Arabia by offering a full suite of services.
- Yalla Plus — Yalla Plus offers QR-based digital menu solutions for restaurants, featuring integrated payments and easy menu management.
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.
Mad’a Investment Company is a Private Equity firm headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and a wholly owned subsidiary of Abdul Aziz Al Othaim & Sons Holding Company (ASO&SONS). We aim to assist businesses to reach their true potential by unlocking values which otherwise could not have been realized. We strive to create exceptional value tobusinesses through our team of investment and operating professionals working collaboratively with the management of our portfolio companies. We, as a Saudi Company, are committed to contributing to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and our Investment Strategy is aligned with the Vision 2030.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait
Portfolio highlights
- Teeela — Teeela is the GCC’s fastest growing and most innovative gifting platform, built to provide families with the easiest, quickest and most personalized gifting and toy buying experience
- RedBox — RedBox ships online products to the nearest smart locker for faster delivery and easy access.
- SmartCrowd — Invest in real estate and start generating a passive income with the region's first DFSA regulated real estate crowdfunding platform | Regulated by DFSA
Elm
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, SMS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Zid زد — 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.
We invest in Seed through Series B companies around the world. Our focus is to invest in companies where we can add material value through our deep relationships in UAE government as well as decades of developing successful enterprise software implementations. We invest directly and through our partners at Techstars and Human Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Big Data, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Arab Emirates, India
Portfolio highlights
- Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
- Nestrom — An all around EHS platform, Gather Observations, Inspections, Audits & Data and Action work-orders from one platform through a mobile app and web
- Three Wheels United — Three Wheels United is a tech-enhanced financier for light electric vehicles in India, starting with the auto rickshaws.
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.
MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
- Mealplanet — Mealplanet is an online marketplace for ordering and managing meal plans from various providers.
- Stake — Thousands of investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just AED 500.
A group of young entrepreneurs to connect young people with ideas.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Organic Food, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Natufia — At Natufia, we believe you can transform your life by growing food in your kitchen. Health and wellness is a lifestyle and the Natufia Hydroponic Home Kitchen Garden was created to offer families a holistic, forward-visioning solution to healthy living. With a team comprised of technologists, architects, botanists and chefs, Natufia has risen tothe forefront of technological development, making it possible to grow food to scale all of your family’s produce right at home. The plants and herbs are available to harvest immediately for cooking and eating, giving life to your diet, and transforming the way you relate to your food.
Gate Capital specializes in financial, debt restructuring, valuation, merger, acquisition, and corporate advisory services to businesses.
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Investment focus
- Farming, Consumer, Agriculture
- Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Clinicy — Clinicy provides medical institutions and patients with simple and automated solutions to manage daily operations and appointments through its cloud-based HCRM platform. They solve complex challenges for healthcare providers.
- Crysp Farms — CRYSP provides a vertical farming service delivering the freshest, tastiest and most nutritious produce to our customers, daily.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Yalla Plus — Yalla Plus offers QR-based digital menu solutions for restaurants, featuring integrated payments and easy menu management.
- 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.
ACE & Company (“ACE”), founded in 2005, is a global investment group specialized in private investments with total assets of over $1.6 bn across three investment strategies and investment solutions. With headquarters in Geneva and offices in London, New York, and Cairo, ACE’s global presence brings the company in direct contact with sourcingpartners, investment firms, as well as entrepreneurs and provides investors unparalleled access to a network of opportunities. ACE’s passion is for finding investment opportunities where we have an advantage through many years of relationship building, a carefully developed position of knowledge in the sectors which we are active, and a culture of efficiency to gain first mover’s advantage.
ACE’s purpose is to offer investors a long-term and collaborative investment approach that values honesty, transparency and rigorous execution, so that our strategies not only provide unique access to value accretive, risk-managed deals, but fosters what we consider our bedrock—trust.ACE’s progress has been marked by a globally respected track record since the Company was founded in 2005. In the last four years we have increased our total assets by fivefold and in 2017 received the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) authorization.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
- ANYbotics — ANYbotics provides autonomous legged robots for industrial applications to provide high availability and reliability in automated routine inspections.
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