Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF)
VC Fund
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) is a venture capital fund investing in early stage technology companies around the globe. The fund is interested in post-revenue Seed through Series-B opportunities. RTF was founded by Riyad Capital Co. and TAQNIA and is backed by leading Saudi institutional investors.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
Last updated:
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Industries Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) invests in
Stages Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) invests in
Countries Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$2.7M
- Series A
- $2M–$23M
- Series B
- $4M–$125M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (19%)
- Internet 3 (14%)
- Software 3 (14%)
- Information Technology 3 (14%)
- SaaS 2 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (33%)
- Series B 6 (29%)
- Seed 5 (24%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (5%)
Country
- Saudi Arabia 7 (33%)
- United Arab Emirates 4 (19%)
- Jordan 1 (5%)
- Indonesia 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Abdulaziz Al-Dayel
Investment Director
|
Investment Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Mohammed Al-Ariefi
Head of Private Equity Funds
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Head of Private Equity Funds | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Rakan Al-Junaidi
Senior Private Equity Analyst
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Senior Private Equity Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Sondus Al-Ayed
Senior Private Equity Analyst
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Senior Private Equity Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Sultan Bin-Khalid
Investment Director
|
Investment Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| The new concept to meet your needs of vegetables and fruits selects you the best crops and the best prices in a way that is consistent with your digital age. | $6.7M / Series A / Mar 25, 2022 | ||
| TruKKer is a technology-enabled truck aggregator that operates multiple truck types for multiple end markets. The company integrates demand and supply for land freight services. The network is built on real-time data analytics that creates reliability, transparency, and utilization-based savings for Shippers and thousands of transporters. Thenetwork’s rapid growth and scale are creating multiple opportunities through data monetization and consolidated procurement.Trukker's cloud-based freight solutions offer end-to-end coverage and a full-service portfolio for shippers, carriers, and businesses alike.It was founded in 2016 and is based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. | $46M / Series B / Feb 14, 2022 | ||
| Unifonic is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company. It develops a communications platform used by organizations to send and manage messages and interactions across multiple channels such as SMS, voice calls, WhatsApp, and web chat through a single system. | $125M / Series B / Sep 15, 2021 | ||
| Eureka is an information technology company that specializes in data analytics, big data, and artificial intelligence. It features an AI-based software application platform that utilizes artificial intelligence, mobile operator data, and proprietary data, which provides insights for businesses, companies, and organizations to communicate withpotential and existing customers.The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Jakarta Raya, Indonesia. | $20M / Series B / Feb 18, 2020 | ||
| 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. | $5M / Series B / Dec 10, 2019 | ||
| TruKKer is a technology-enabled truck aggregator that operates multiple truck types for multiple end markets. The company integrates demand and supply for land freight services. The network is built on real-time data analytics that creates reliability, transparency, and utilization-based savings for Shippers and thousands of transporters. Thenetwork’s rapid growth and scale are creating multiple opportunities through data monetization and consolidated procurement.Trukker's cloud-based freight solutions offer end-to-end coverage and a full-service portfolio for shippers, carriers, and businesses alike.It was founded in 2016 and is based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. | $23M / Series A / Nov 12, 2019 | ||
| Intelligent Arabic Bot arabot is the first intelligent Arabic bot to help businesses improve customer's experience and deliver an enjoyable journey using arabot conversational A.I. platform | $1M / Seed / Oct 02, 2019 | ||
| Foodics offers a cloud-based all-in-one restaurant management system on an iPad in English and Arabic. With multiple add-on iOS apps and building on more, thousands of restaurants, food trucks, cafes, and fast-food chains across the Middle East are hiking their revenues and building their relationships with diners. Offering high tech solutions andreal-time management, Foodics powers its clients and provides a unique style of dining fit for the future.Their mission is to provide a restaurant management system that is so easy to use and won’t even need their guide. They have five locations across the Middle East that serves 24/7 and over a thousand customers who have rung up over a billion orders through the Foodics system. | $4M / Series A / Jun 27, 2019 | ||
| The new concept to meet your needs of vegetables and fruits selects you the best crops and the best prices in a way that is consistent with your digital age. | $1.1M / Seed / Apr 11, 2019 | ||
| Beehive is MENA's first regulated platform for peer to peer lending. The company directly connect businesses looking for finance with investors, building mutually beneficial partnerships for growth.Beehive's platform applies the innovative technology of crowdfunding to eliminate the cost and complexity of conventional finance, meaninginvestors get better returns and businesses get faster access to lower cost finance. | $4M / Series B / Mar 04, 2019 | ||
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FAQ
What does Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) invest in?
Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Internet and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Saudi Arabia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) invest in?
Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) typically joins rounds of $1M–$2.7M at Seed, $2M–$23M at Series A and $4M–$125M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF)'s own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) took part in.
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Who are the partners at Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF)?
The team at Riyad TAQNIA Fund (RTF) includes Abdulaziz Al-Dayel (Investment Director), Mohammed Al-Ariefi (Head of Private Equity Funds) and Rakan Al-Junaidi (Senior Private Equity Analyst). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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