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Top 15 Media (entertainment) VC Funds in Saudi Arabia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 15 VC funds that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in Saudi arabia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from Saudi arabia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Media (entertainment) VC Funds in Saudi Arabia

Investor	Media (entertainment) Saudi Arabia investments
Oqal	2
Animoca Brands	1
HALA Ventures	1
Saudi Venture Capital	1
Abunayyan Holding	1
Financial Horizon Group	1
Polygon	1
Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Ventures	1
STV	1
Saudi Venture Capital Company	1
Shorooq Partners	1
Raed Ventures	1
Vision Ventures	1
VentureSouq	1
QBCo	1

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A group of young entrepreneurs to connect young people with ideas.

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.

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
0G Labs — 0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.
Burnt — Creators of XION, The Blockchain Built To Make Crypto Human.

Technology VC that empowers GCC’s startups in their early-growth stages.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
Omniful — Omniful is your partner in retail revolution. Explore our comprehensive suite of AI-Powered solutions designed to empower omnichannel retailers, D2C brands, and fulfillment providers. From scalable order management, to agile warehouse management, to data-driven business intelligence, we provide the tools you need to thrive in tomorrow's dynamic market.
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.

SVCIC is uniquely positioned to lead the development of the nascent venture capitalindustry in Saudi Arabia by providing unmatched levels of support for fundamentally strong small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) that lack the necessary resources for growth and expansion.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Predictive Analytics
Seed, Series A, Series B
Saudi Arabia, Tunisia

Portfolio highlights

Pi Flow — Pi Flow operates as an accounting services provider. Pi Flow is a dedicated Virtual accounting team that offers bookkeeping services and strives to enhance the quality of our client's books.
DokkanAfkar — DokkanAfkar.com was created by a group of passionate guys who love and appreciate creativity, design and ideas. It was created to enable customers to buy cool unique products with ideas that are fun, unusual and unique. Our products have a focus on fun, uniqueness, defiantly clever, and entertaining products.
Nana — Nana is an online grocery platform that provides doorstep deliveries of groceries and other home essentials. The company's platform offers a wide assortment of groceries, fruits, and vegetables, cosmetics, electronics, bakery items, and flowers that enables consumers to purchase products online and get them delivered to their homes.Nana wasestablished in 2016 and is headquartered in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.

Abunayyan Holding are turnkey partners who provide integrated solutions in water, power and energy applications in Saudi Arabia, the Middle East and Africa.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Food and Beverage
Series A, Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Saee — Saee Jeddah-based last-mile delivery startup.
Lucidya — Lucidya is a tool for social media analytics powered by artificial intelligence and big data solution. lucidya have many uses like market research, benchmarking, crisis management , product development ..etc
MUNCH:ON — MUNCH:ON is a food tech startup that has cracked the subscription space in the UAE & KSA, focusing on offering meals from the best restaurants at a significant discount and with free delivery. The company has invested heavily in its scheduling, bundling and order prediction software which has enabled it to achieve massive cost savings for itsrestaurant partners that they then pass on to their users, often offering up to a 55% discount vs. restaurants' regular price. Whether it's employees ordering from their company's curated menu or users ordering for their families at home, the platform takes the usual hassle and cost out of food delivery in a financially (and environmentally) sustainable manner for all stakeholders

Financial Horizon Group is a family office that was established in 2014 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Its services vary from Investment, Recruitment, and Consultancy.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Magnitt — Magnitt is a startup directory that connects investors, mentors, and emerging companies in the Middle East. The discovery platform is a database with over 5,500 MENA startups and over 200 investors.
Telfaz11 — Telfaz11 is a creative media studio from Saudi Arabia specializing in locally-relevant entertainment content
POSRocket — Traditional cash registers are a thing of the past. POSRocket modernizes this near-obsolete system by providing business owners with an intuitive, user-friendly, cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) platform.

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

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — 0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.
Metaverse HQ — Metaverse HQ is the leading NFT Alpha Community with 1,300+ active members. We are an international community that communicates via Discord through specific text channels and a 24/7 voice chat with 100s of members sharing alpha, investment strategies, market analytics, and technical analysis, at any given time.
Humanity Protocol — Humanity Protocol developing Proof of Humanity as a novel feature of Humanity Protocol to provide developers with unique-human authentication mechanisms, and users complete ownership over data and identity.

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

Information Technology, Software, Intelligent Systems
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.

STV is a $500M technology venture capital fund headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics
Series A, Series B, Seed
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Portfolio highlights

Salla — Salla a Saudi-based e-commerce platform that allows users to set up their e-commerce store in Arabic and sell their products and services to customers. In addition, users can set up their own branded store (with their own domain name) by selecting a design of their liking available on Salla. The owners of the e-commerce stores can then manage theirinventory by using Salla’s website or app. Salla provides different types of reports and tools that help store owners with automatic invoices, integration, Instagram, customer database, the ability to block customers, pin favorite products, have offers and discounts, and more.
Tabby — With Tabby, you can split your purchases into 4 interest-free payments at your favourite stores. Download the Tabby app to get started.
Noon - The Social Learning Platform — Why Study Alone Again? Start study groups with your friends and access the best teachers on demand!

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

E-Commerce, Predictive Analytics, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Saudi Arabia, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

BARQ — BARQ is the first bullet delivery PaaS in the middle east, leading the e-commerce industry to achieve a 30 min. delivery time.
BALLURH — A SaaS platform that provides predictive analytics with smart recommendations for Retailers to enhance decision-making, increase revenue and improve customer satisfaction.
Lawazem | لوازم — It is the first B2B marketplace that is especially made to solve that problem. Lawazem consolidates all your operational purchases and spending in one place, whether it is groceries, stationary, cleaning materials, office accessories, or else.We go beyond to make your work environment even better, by providing gift and flower deliveries to youremployees and clients, arrange for internal events, and prepare for your guest and internal meetings through our hospitality partners.Finally, we even help in becoming your concierge for your international purchases, online purchases that require Credit Cards, and help you improve your sourcing process.Lawazem is here to help you anytime and every time.

Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, United States, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

DXwand — DXwand Cognitive Engagement Toolkit, COGENT, is next generation chatbot that is trained to lookup your products, track orders and conducts a full sales order dialog with your customers. It supports both Arabic and English and works on Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, SMS, website, Twitter, Mobile App and over voice.
MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
MANTRA — MANTRA bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi by offering the necessary infrastructure for tokenizing Real World Assets (RWAs) while adhering to real-world regulatory requirements.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
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 — Cognna provides cybersecurity that is stress-free by providing the tools needed to detect, prevent, and resolve threats with ease.
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.

VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
Omniful — Omniful is your partner in retail revolution. Explore our comprehensive suite of AI-Powered solutions designed to empower omnichannel retailers, D2C brands, and fulfillment providers. From scalable order management, to agile warehouse management, to data-driven business intelligence, we provide the tools you need to thrive in tomorrow's dynamic market.
Orangewood Labs — Orangewood Labs is focused on automating mundane human jobs through Easy-to-use, collaborative and tele-operable robotic arms for Industries

QBCo develops, manufactures, and markets consumer products, such as edible oils, margarine, pet food, and preserved and canned goods.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Photography
Seed
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Sawerly — Sawerly is the medium between photographers and the people who require their services. We provide booking service to help customers find quality photographers for any type of photo shoot opportunity they may be having, whether it was a conference, wedding, products, landscape or even family gatherings. Sawerly translates the photography market intoservices and prices which will help customers make a rational and intelligent decision through the bidding system for photography requests. Photographers will be able to create their digital reputation through Sawerly by displaying experience, previous work, rating and testimonials from previous clients. Sawerly’s services are provided through our product website www.sawerly.com and app on iOS and Android. we are currently Saudi-focused but have plans to expand in the MENA region. Also, we plan to expand in the products and services that we supply though the website like printing, photo stock, and ecommerce for photography accessories

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