Top 25 Impact Startup Investors in Saudi Arabia (August 2026)

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• Terraxy — Terraxy is a startup company building permanent fertile soils to enable greening and agriculture in the desert.
• THINK-AI — Complete in-house freedom to innovate, develop, fine-tune and train AI models for any unique business needs. Own the AI.
• Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136

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• Eat Just — Plant protein with clean ingredients. Better for the people & the planet.
• Mustadem — Mustadem is a tech-enabled agribusiness in Saudi Arabia specializing in sustainable agricultural farming. It produces premium fruits, vegetables, and fish using hydroponics, aquaponics, and indoor aquaculture technologies. It also provides agricultural services, consultancy, and fresh food supply to restaurants and consumers. Mustadem is alsoinvolved in food value chains sustainability projects, such as insect feed and nanobubbles technologies. Insect feed produces animal feed from insects that can consume organic waste and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and land use. Nanobubbles are tiny bubbles of gas that can improve water quality and oxygen levels in aquaculture systems. These technologies can help Mustadem achieve its vision of transforming the food sector into a more sustainable and transparent industry.

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• Ghanem — Ghanem is digital real estate platform specializing in fractional ownership solutions.
• Ta3meed — Ta3meed offers PO financing solutions to small and medium resellers through a crowdfunding platform.
• Cadena — Looking to expand to the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE etc.)? Cadena has a Local Sales Team in every GCC country and proprietary technology: Discovery Portal, BuyBeacon & IntelliContact for Low-Cost growth across the region.

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• 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.
• PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
• Antimatter — Antimatter builds AI infrastructure designed for real-world limits: energy, geography, and deployment time. Faster to deploy and lower cost than hyperscale models.

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• estaie — Flexible furnished stays from weeks to a year. Stay longer and save across hotels, serviced apartments, and managed holiday homes with one simple payment and no hidden fees.
• Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
• Siin — E-commerce Marketplace

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• Ledgered — Ledgered is a financial intelligence platform that unifies fragmented financial statements into a single source of truth. We standardize data from ERPs, banks, and accounting systems, then layer analytics and AI models to surface trends, risk signals, benchmarks, and forecasts in seconds. Accountants, auditors, SMEs, and financiers all work on thesame numbers, using built-in workflows and a central data repository that kills version chaos, cuts admin, and speeds up audits and credit decisions.
• RECYCLEE — Recyclee is a smart, data-driven waste management platform that connects waste generators with reliable recycling partners. Using IoT and analytics, it streamlines waste collection, reduces disposal costs, ensures regulatory compliance, and helps organizations turn waste into measurable environmental and economic value.
• PHYLA — Phyla builds ESG-native circular bioeconomy systems that turn waste into food security, jobs, and non-oil growth.

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• Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
• Cypien AI — Cypien learns your brand and visitor behavior, then composes segment-specific content, visuals, product order, search, landing pages, and UI.
• MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.

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• Trashie — Just a 'small-town' recycling and rewards platform trying to make it in the big city.
• ZeroAvia — ZeroAvia is producing the world's first practical zero emission aviation powertrain, initially targeting 20-seat airplanes to start replacing dirty jet fuel in regional transport
• Vammo — Leoparda Electric is a company that manufactures electric motorcycles.

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• Madeed — Madeed is a privately held company that works in the facilities and health care distribution industry.
• DEEP.SA — DEEP.SA develops artificial intelligence engines and intelligent agents that support both consumer-facing and government-focused applications. It offers secure platforms for controlled access to AI models, incorporating knowledge graph-driven tools such as GraphI to convert complex data relationships into actionable insights for decision-making.The company deploys virtual assistants (for instance, KADI) and AI-powered search capabilities tailored to structured and unstructured data environments. Its offerings emphasize compliance with privacy and regulatory standards while enabling technology-driven transformation across different client domains.
• Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!

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• Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
• InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!
• Safqah Capital — Safqah Capital is an innovative fintech and proptech company headquartered in Riyadh. We specialize in structuring and distributing Sharia-compliant Sukuk for small and medium-sized real estate developers. Safqah's digital investment platform enables secure participation from both retail and institutional investors, backed by rigorous duediligence, transparency, and smart governance. Safqah operates at the intersection of technology, finance, and real estate, positioning itself as a key enabler of Vision 2030’s housing and development goals.

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• estaie — Flexible furnished stays from weeks to a year. Stay longer and save across hotels, serviced apartments, and managed holiday homes with one simple payment and no hidden fees.
• BALLURH — A SaaS platform that provides predictive analytics with smart recommendations for Retailers to enhance decision-making, increase revenue and improve customer satisfaction.
• Units — We offer multiple service offerings in storage, supply, and logistics to help business owners grow.

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• Haier — Haier India is one stop solution for buying home appliances. We help you discover a wide range of home appliances with latest technology including Refrigerators, Washing Machines, TVs, ACs and more. Explore the latest range of Appliances for exciting deals & offers.
• NuRain — NuRain offer sustainable water management, innovating AGS & GDM wastewater tech to save energy and reduce sludge.
• Xclaim — Recover what you are owed quicker with the easiest and world's largest bankruptcy claims marketplace. Discover how here.

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• Vale — Vale is a global mining company that operates with a focus on safety and sustainability. It produces iron, copper, nickel, and cobalt, which are essential for the energy transition.
• Lihytech — Professor Zhiping Lai of KAUST developed a membrane-based lithium extraction technology that Lihytech has patented. The novel technology can extract alkali metal from a variety of sources, including seawater, brine, red mud, and others. The startup was funded through the KAUST Near Term Grand Challenge, a research translation programme, based onKAUST research, and the technology is being developed on campus.
• Alcoa Saudi Arabia — Find Alcoa locations near you where we operate and invest in our communities.

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• PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
• Nodes — Talent Intelligence Layer for Regulated Industries
• 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.

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• Iyris — iyris develops advanced additives for films, coatings, and composites
• LAIIER — The best LAIIER of defense against liquid leak-driven damage in buildings and industrial equipment.
• Mad capital — Mad Capital is not your normal lender.

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• Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
• Comfi.ai — Unlock B2B Growth in MENA: Streamline Payments & Offer Credit with Comfi BNPL
• Halo AI — Halo AI provides autonomous influencer marketing solutions.

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• Athian — Funding livestock sustainability via a connected carbon marketplace.
• 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.
• Meala Foodtech — Revolutionary texturized plant proteins that replace eggs and hydrocolloids. Clean-label, allergen-free solutions for baking, savory foods, and dressings.

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• Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
• Goodvest — Goodvest is an investment app (life insurance) that builds a better world, in line with your values and promoting performance.
• BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.

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• Grove — Grove is a Riyadh-based company building technology for freshness in the fresh-produce sector. Grove connects farms, markets, and households through an integrated, demand-driven operating system that coordinates planning, quality, logistics, and service as one loop. Demand signals from multiple channels are unified to guide upstream decisions andensure every grade of produce has an optimal path to market. Quality is treated as a managed process across the chain—not a final inspection—so produce reaches consumers ripe, flavorful, and reliable.
• Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
• Global Settlement Network — Global Settlement is a blockchain platform that provides regulatory compliance, liquidity, and interoperability services.

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• GI Water as a Service — GI AQUA is a prominent provider of wastewater treatment solutions, committed to developing innovative technologies that contribute to a sustainable future for both our planet and its people.

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• 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.
• Dailymealz — DailyMealz is a healthy food subscription app, delivers fresh, healthy, and tasty meals. The company was founded in 2017 and based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
• The Luxury Closet — Buy & sell online at The Luxury Closet and get discounts of up to 90% off retail price on authentic, new & pre-loved luxury brands for watches, bags, clothes, shoes for both men and women.

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• Iyris — iyris develops advanced additives for films, coatings, and composites
• CorrosionRADAR — CorrosionRADAR is a revolutionary patented sensing technology enabling the early detection, monitoring and prediction of hidden corrosion such as Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI)

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• Praktiki — Praktiki is building the "Decision Layer" for medicine.While medical knowledge doubles every 73 days, frontline clinicians struggle to translate guidelines into practice. Current AI search tools excel at surfacing public data from clinical trials, but fail to capture "how" experts apply that evidence in real-world scenarios.Praktiki fills this gap. We utilise an AI Agentic Creator Engine to capture tacit specialist reasoning and fuse it with public evidence. This feeds a proprietary Expert Knowledge Graph that powers: 1) Microlearning: Case-based modules created 10x faster and which are 170% more effective than traditional education 2) AI Expert Guidance: Real-time decision support synthesising evidence with expert implementation strategies.2025 Traction - our MVP proved that solving the expertise gap drives high engagement: - Registered >10% of UK GPs - 60,000+ modules completed with an 85% completion rate - 51% month-over-month growth - Market-leading NPS of 83We are building a compounding data moat to expand beyond education into clinical intelligence and healthcare data solutions.
• Mast — Mast is the cloud-native, fully configurable loan origination platform empowering lenders to process applications faster and smarter. We make lending better, smoother and faster.
• Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.

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• GI Water as a Service — GI AQUA is a prominent provider of wastewater treatment solutions, committed to developing innovative technologies that contribute to a sustainable future for both our planet and its people.

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• Rain — Rain is a licensed and trusted crypto exchange in the Middle East with customers worldwide. Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies on Rain.
• Emrgo — Learn about our solutions across corporate finance, primary issuance, custody, distribution, brokerage, investment management and market infrastructure.