Top 10 Recruiting Startup Investors in Saudi Arabia (November 2026)

Sukna ventures is the VC arm of Sukna Capital

Investment focus

Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
Geography: United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

Total investments: 51
Round size: Seed $100k–$9M; Series A $10M–$40M
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

Flend — Egypt’s first tech enabled, data driven financing solutions platform dedicated to small businesses.
OCTA — OCTA brings you the clients and runs the work behind them, from books and reconciliations to billing and close. You grow the firm without adding headcount.
Anecdote —

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SEEDRA Ventures invests in companies from the very first stages of inception to Series-A and beyond, providing financing and hands-on development support.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Predictive Analytics, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 51
Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.5M; Series A $1.3M–$40M
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

Madeed — Madeed is a privately held company that works in the facilities and health care distribution industry.
Gaia — Gaia is a sovereign AI platform for Saudi enterprises. It connects knowledge, files, systems, emails and workflows into a single operational intelligence layer. Employees search across everything the company knows but permission-aware so no one sees what they don't already have access to, get generative AI answers grounded in their own datawith cited sources, and hand cross-system work to AI agents with important steps routed to a person for approval. Hosted on the company’s cloud or fully on-premise so data never leaves your own infrastructure.
RIME — A specialized Saudi company providing AI driven solutions, integrated with branch monitors and IoT. Utilizing AI agents

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

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 78
Round size: Seed $2.1M–$17M; Series A $6M–$30M; Series B $20M–$72M
Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $100M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

Morni — Morni is an interactive platform that provides roadside assistant services in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Countries through a smart-phone application. Morni currently provides its services to both individuals and corporations.
Signit — Transform your contract workflows with secure, legally-binding e-signatures. Trusted by 700+ Saudi organizations.
Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.

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Oqal Group was formed as an endowment group by a group of young businessmen to be a platform that brings together angel investors and emerging entrepreneurs to form partnerships of economic feasibility that raise the welfare of society and enhance the quality of life. It enables the founders of entrepreneurial startups to develop innovative and fast-growing startups in a variety of sectors by providing access to smart capital and experienced angel investors.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 151
Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $220k–$1.1M; Series A $133k–$10M
Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
Mantas — Parametric insurance for cloud outages with swift payouts triggered by real-time data

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Derayah Venture Capital is a Venture Capital Fund That Invests in High Growth Startups across the MENA region.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Marketplace
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

Total investments: 24
Round size: Seed $800k–$21M; Series A $2.3M–$33M; Series B $6M–$31M
Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

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
Moyasar — Moyasar is an online payment gateway that provides electronic payment solutions.
Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.

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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

Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

Investor stats

Total investments: 130
Round size: Seed $200k–$5M; Pre-Seed $22k–$1.7M; Series A $1.3M–$27M
Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
Madeed — Madeed is a privately held company that works in the facilities and health care distribution industry.
Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!

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We inspire to build societies where knowledge empowers every individual to realize their full potential to contribute to the greater good and to be responsible for future generations. Investment in startup business, Community Services, Shared Offices.

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Saudi Arabia, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

Total investments: 31
Round size: Seed $300k–$8M; Series A $5M–$25M
Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

Logexa — We are the first Saudi on-demand warehousing platform that provides different storage options within multiple locations. With Logexa’s services, warehouses can increase their utilization rate. On the other hand, businesses can benefit from flexible, dispersed storage and not worry about scalability issues with their inventory.
Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
Squadio — Ibtikar Technologies Co was born in Saudi Arabia in 2010 at the hands of a group of visionaries working with a simple motto; helping business to digitally transform. The few years since our birth have been a joy ride to fill the gap in the Saudi market and contribute to it with scalable and reliable solutions.Ibtikar Technologies is one of themost experienced mobile applications development providers in the region. We believe in delivering credibility, integrity, reliability and good will with the products and solutions we provide to our clients using our enhanced knowledge and amazing work environment.

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VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

Total investments: 222
Round size: Seed $225k–$9M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $300k–$50M
Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS

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Saeed Raddad Group provides investment services for energy, manufacturing, engineering, facilities management, and medical sectors.

Investment focus

Industry: Recruiting, Staffing Agency, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed
Geography: Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

ResquadAI — AI infrastructure matching verified engineers with clients instantly. Access live developer capacity with automated contracts and interviews.

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