# Derayah Financial

> Derayah Financial is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/derayah/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/derayah
- Website: https://web.derayah.com/ar/
- Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/DerayahFinancial/

Derayah Financial is a digital investment firm and brokerage that provides online access to local and global stock, ETF, bond, margin trading, and derivatives markets, as well as Shariah-compliant advisory and robo-advisory services. The firm offers mutual funds, real estate investments, discretionary portfolio management, and research tools.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $800k–$1.5M |
| Series A | $3.9M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 40% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 30% |
| Payments | 2 | 20% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 20% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 20% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 40% |
| Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Saudi Arabia | 6 | 60% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mohammed AlShammasi | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mohammed-alshammasi-e55e |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alpaca | Alpaca is a financial technology company that provides developer-first APIs and brokerage infrastructure for programmatic access to stock, options, and cryptocurrency markets, enabling businesses and individual traders to integrate trading and investing capabilities into their applications. Its platform offers REST, WebSocket, and event-driveninterfaces that support algorithmic trading, automated strategy execution, real-time market data, backtesting, and portfolio management workflows. Alpaca’s services also include brokerage account functionality, clearing and settlement services, and tools that allow firms to embed investing features into their products or to build custom trading systems on top of its API-centric architecture. The company supports global fintech partners with solutions such as tokenization, high-yield cash programs, multi-leg options trading, and advanced order types that align with diverse trading and investment use cases. Its technology is used by developers, quant traders, fintech platforms, and financial institutions seeking programmable market access and integrated financial services. | $52M | Series C | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Mala'a Technologies | Mala'a Technologies provides a way to manage all financial matters from several bank accounts in one location. It supports tracking costs, keeping an eye on credit, and investing money. Mala'a Technologies enables people to make more informed financial decisions. | $17.3M | Series A | Sep 03, 2024 |  |
| D360 bank | D360 bank is an online digital bank. The company provides financial services through it's app. | $439.7M |  | Feb 15, 2022 |  |
| Sary | Sary is a B2B marketplace that connects small businesses with suppliers seamlessly. The company's mission is to empower organizations with smarter ways to operate and grow efficiently. Sary was founded in early 2018 by Careem ex-General Manager, Mohammed Aldossary, and his partner Khaled AlSiari, to fix the broken supply chain in thewholesale industry. Today, Sary operates in 12 major cities, where customers can order wholesale items ranging from a box to a truckload in a few clicks to be delivered as fast as 24 hours. Sary served 40,000+ customers, worked with 1700+ brands and wholesalers. | $6.6M | Series A | Apr 02, 2020 |  |
| Speero | Speero is an automotive spare part market place. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2020 |  |
| Eat App | Eat App is an industry-leading restaurant reservation and table management platform. Eat App provides cloud-based applications to restaurants for increasing efficiency and revenue through real-time restaurant reservations, automation and guest data management and CRM. Eat App is known for helping restaurants save hundreds of hours every monththough host stand optimization and automation, as well as understand their customers through data allowing them to increase loyalty.Eat App counts industry leaders like The Four Season's, The Ritz-Carlton, The Maine Group, Food Fund International and Orange Hospitality as customers. Eat App has raised USD $7.2M to date, including investments from renowned Silicon Valley VC 500 Startups and MEVP, making it one of Forbes 50 Most-Funded Startups In The Middle East. | $5M | Series A | Feb 12, 2020 |  |
| Sabbar | Sabbar is an on-demand staffing platform that specializes in blue-collar jobs in the retail, hospitality, and entertainment industry in MENA. Our platform enables businesses to hire casual staff during peak hours or high seasons by connecting them to highly qualified and fully vetted professionals. Additionally, we relieve our customers fromassociated administrative costs by streamlining a lengthy process that typically includes interviews, training, placement, shift scheduling, worker payments, and everything in-between.To learn more, visit: sabbar.com | $1.5M | Seed | Nov 25, 2019 |  |
| Resal | Resal is the regional leader in digital value exchange and alternative payment solutions by creating a comprehensive ecosystem for prepaid gift cards, loyalty, rewards, and payout and spend management | $800K | Seed | May 16, 2019 |  |
| Speero | Speero is an automotive spare part market place. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 18, 2019 |  |
| 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 | $3.9M | Series A | Jan 29, 2019 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Derayah Financial](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derayah-financial) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Derayah Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derayah-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Impact46](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/impact46) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [VentureSouq](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venturesouq) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [850 Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/850-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Derayah Financial invest in?

Derayah Financial invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Saudi Arabia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Derayah Financial's check size?

Derayah Financial typically joins rounds of $800k–$1.5M at Seed and $3.9M–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Derayah Financial participates in.

### How do I contact Derayah Financial?

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### Who are the partners at Derayah Financial?

The team at Derayah Financial includes Mohammed AlShammasi (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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