Wa’ed Ventures
VC Fund
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Wa’ed Ventures is a $500 million venture capital fund with the aim to accelerate the development of an integrated startup ecosystem by investing in local tech-based startups and incentivizing global entrepreneurs to localize their tech innovations in the Kingdom.
- Total investments:
- 130
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 64%
Last updated:
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Industries Wa’ed Ventures invests in
Stages Wa’ed Ventures invests in
Countries Wa’ed Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $600k–$5.5M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$30M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $25k–$1.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 21 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 18 (14%)
- Information Technology 15 (12%)
- E-Commerce 11 (8%)
- Financial Services 9 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 37 (28%)
- Series A 22 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 19 (15%)
- Series B 14 (11%)
- Funding Round 4 (3%)
Country
- Saudi Arabia 53 (41%)
- United Arab Emirates 10 (8%)
- United States 7 (5%)
- France 2 (2%)
- Kuwait 2 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mazen Alasnag
Executive
|
Executive | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autobia is a B2B marketplace leveraging the data to solve the infrastructure and after-sales challenges in the automotive industry. The company bridges the gap between wholesalers and resellers by offering in-between digital, operational and logistical integrated solutions. It was founded in 2021 and is located in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. | $12M / Series A / Oct 11, 2026 | ||
| Octa is a one-click automated system for collecting invoices that ensures timely payment to business-to-business firms. | $3.5M / Seed / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| StrikeReady empowers defenders of all levels to solve the technology exhaustion, skilled-talent shortage and limited collaboration problems. The StrikeReady platform consolidates key stand alone technologies, and integrates seamlessly into the tech stack, streamlining workflows, automation and collaboration. This operationally efficient platformdelivers better ROI from your security investment, more effective and dynamic automation that works out-of-the-box, and a team that can finally lean forward into proactive security and risk management. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders. | $13M / Series B / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| COFE App gives coffee drinkers a smart way to order their daily coffee. The mobile application serves as an online coffee marketplace and aims to bring about a lifestyle change for its users by providing a smarter, more efficient way to get to their daily caffeine dose. With an intention to fulfil all the needs a coffee lover could possibly have,COFE App provides coffee beverages from both chain coffee houses as well as specialty coffee roasters. Users can also source coffee beans, coffee machines and coffee accessories through the mobile application.COFE APP is funded by a multi-national cross-sector base of entrepreneurs and venture capital (VC) funds from the Middle East and Silicon Valley. The company's Series A funding round was led by KISP ventures a fund established by KFH Capital (Kuwait). Other investors include: Cedar Mundi (Lebanon), Towell Holding International (Oman), Takamul Capital and Dividend Gate Capital (Bahrain), and Nizar AlNusif Sons Holding and Arab Investment Company (Kuwait) | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Think AI develops AI infrastructure solutions that enable organizations to deploy and operate artificial intelligence workloads locally. The company provides AI Fabric, a unified AI supercompute ecosystem built around high-density AI SuperNode hardware and office-based Constellation clusters. Its ILM system is an AI orchestration platform thatmanages model training, inference, and deployment across GPUs using live telemetry. Think AI focuses on workload orchestration, power and cooling efficiency, and AI sovereignty so customers can control data, models, and infrastructure on premises. Its products are intended for enterprises, public sector entities, and AI-focused organizations that require high-performance, secure, and energy-efficient AI compute without relying on external cloud providers. | $8M / Pre-Seed / Jul 15, 2026 | ||
| Terraxy is a startup company building permanent fertile soils to enable greening and agriculture in the desert. | $3M / Seed / Jun 18, 2026 | ||
| Stake is a digital real estate investment platform providing the easiest and most transparent way to invest in income generating properties, starting in Dubai. Our mission is to make investing in real estate accessible and profitable for all. | $31M / Series B / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| 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. | $45M / Series B / Dec 30, 2025 | ||
| Rased provides innovative AI-powered fraud detection and prevention solutions. | Pre-Seed / Nov 09, 2025 | ||
| See all 130 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Wa’ed Ventures invest in?
Wa’ed Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 130 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 Wa’ed Ventures invest in?
Wa’ed Ventures typically joins rounds of $600k–$5.5M at Seed, $2.5M–$30M at Series A and $25k–$1.5M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Wa’ed Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Wa’ed Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Wa’ed Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Wa’ed Ventures?
The team at Wa’ed Ventures includes Mazen Alasnag (Executive). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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