Top 35 Retail Startup Investors in Saudi Arabia (October 2026)

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• FMSi — FMSi is a SaaS company that helps with vehicle tracking solutions, administration and monitoring services for IVMS, and project management.
• Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
• OptimizeGEO.ai — OptimizeGEO.ai is an AI search visibility platform whose proprietary engine helps brands dominate LLM and AI search results

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• Yasmina — Yasmina offers AI-driven Home & Renters Insurance services.
• yozo.ai — Hire an all-in-one AI marketing team for a fraction of the cost. Yozo never forgets, learns from every interaction, and does better every time!
• Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

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• 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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• Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
• Complete Business Solutions — Complete Business Solutions provides affordable business solutions for accounting, payroll, human resource, and personnel needs.

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• OlsAro — OlsAro produces salt-tolerant crops.
• Resurrect Bio — Resurrect Bio is a disease resistance trait discovery company. Using AI and our high-throughput in planta screening platform we provide traits for breeders.
• IIF — A farm in your pocket.

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• AlgoTraders — Quant technology for hedge funds and family offices: trade execution, risk, reconciliation, reporting, backtesting and an AI strategy lab, run for you on your cloud or ours.
• Golden Fist — Popcorn Machines Saudi Arabia Popcorn Warmers Cinema Concessions Saudi Arabia Party Supplies Saudi Arabia Nacho Machines Saudi Arabia Fresh Corn Slush Machines Icetro Sno biz
• Central Limit Technologies — Professional investment strategies often require many years of work and significant financial investments in buying and managing financial data, maintaining old systems, and handling various technical challenges. Our technology takes care of all these aspects, allowing you to concentrate on creating robust and diversified portfolios.

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• Sirdab — Sirdab provides technology-enabled warehousing, transportation, and fulfillment services for businesses. The company connects businesses with on-demand warehouse space for dry, ambient, chilled, and frozen goods. Its transportation services support shipments between cities and include bulk transportation and last-mile delivery. Sirdab also providese-commerce fulfillment services covering order picking, packing, shipping, and delivery. Its Warehouse Management System and Order and Inventory Management System provide tools for managing inventory, warehouses, orders, shipments, and logistics operations. The platform provides real-time inventory visibility and tracks goods throughout storage and transportation activities. Sirdab serves e-commerce sellers, brands, wholesalers, distributors, and businesses managing seasonal or ongoing inventory.
• Reachware — Reachware is the top IPaaS in the Middle East, connecting systems for a unified ecosystem. Trusted by global enterprises. Learn more.
• Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.

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• CUB — CUB develops a platform that automates the management of receivables and after-sales for subdivisions. It replaces manual routines to save time, and resources, and reduce bad debt.
• Decoda Health — Decoda Health is building the most powerful AI-enabled platform for medical practices.
• Smartlens — Smartlens, Inc. is a medical technology company making non-invasive soft contact lenses as a convenient and affordable way of diurnal IOP (eye pressure) measurement. Smartlens helps with screening, diagnosis, and treatment of Glaucoma - the leading cause of irreversible blindness.

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• Waves — Waves is an apps service provide information and internet that entertainment and enjoyment.
• Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.

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• 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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• 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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• Hazen.ai — Hazen.ai is a Saudi startup focusing on artificial intelligence based traffic analytics and monitoring solutions
• TakaHouse — TakaHouse is a gaming company that combines entertainment and communication for gamers.
• Syarah — Syarah is an online cars marketplaces.

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• 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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• Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
• Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
• RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them

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• Anecdote —
• Merit Incentives — Seamless, API-driven solutions connecting you to a global network of 7,000+ brands, enabling real-time, instant gratification across 155+ countries.
• Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.

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• Lisan — Lisan AI is an AI technology company focused on enhancing enterprise productivity through intelligent automation and multilingual AI solutions. The company develops advanced tools that streamline communication, optimize workflows, and improve operational efficiency for organizations across diverse industries.Its flagship product, WriteX, is anAI-powered multilingual writing assistant that supports both Arabic and English. The platform provides grammar correction, style enhancement, intelligent autocompletion, and compliance checks, helping professionals create accurate, polished, and contextually appropriate content more efficiently.MeetriX serves as an intelligent meeting assistant designed to improve collaboration and productivity through automated note-taking, real-time meeting analytics, and actionable insights. The solution enables organizations to capture discussions effectively, streamline follow-ups, and enhance decision-making processes.In addition, NitroX offers AI-powered accelerators that automate complex document creation, chart generation, and workflow processes. By reducing manual effort and accelerating operational tasks, NitroX helps organizations improve efficiency, scalability, and overall productivity.Together, Lisan AI’s suite of AI-driven enterprise tools empowers businesses to modernize communication, automate repetitive tasks, and build more intelligent, efficient digital workplaces.
• Maalexi — Source verified agricultural commodities at fair, transparent prices benchmarked daily by TrustPrices. Maalexi is building MAATEX, the first RWA agri exchange.
• MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS

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• Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.

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• 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.
• intella — AI-powered voice agents, call center analytics, transcription, and speech-to-text for banks and telecoms across MENA. 86+ Arabic AI experts.
• Quantum Platform — Quantum | B2B platform to acquire new customers, use our marketing & consumer behavior analysis tools to reach your exact target audience right to their doorsteps!

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• Derq — Derq built an award-winning platform powered by AI and predictive analytics helping eliminate crashes, save lives, and create safer and smarter roadways. Our real-time analytics platform feeds a live dashboard available to road owners and operators and sends alerts to connected vehicles and infrast
• Bab Makkah — Bab Makkah provides services in the retail sector through its online platform.
• Pavegen — Our mission is to help move society towards a more sustainable future by generating renewable energy with footsteps to power engaging experiences that inspire people to think and act differently towards our planet.

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• Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• Tap Protocol — Tap Protocol is a protocol that focuses on the development of bitcoin capabilities through the Ordinals system.
• Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan

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• Zid — Zid is an e-commerce in a box - solution that any retailer can use to start their eRetail. Zid helps them to build their own eStores (with their own name and identity) and integrates them with the supply chain players to enable them to manage and with ease. The company aims to enable the retail sector to enter the world of electronic retail in aneasy and professional.Zid was founded in 2017 and based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.

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• Chamelio — Chamelio builds intelligent technology for in-house legal teams. We understand that every in-house legal team operates uniquely - shaped by their industry context, company culture, and strategic priorities. Our platform adapts to these distinct characteristics, delivering hyper-personalized workflows that evolve with your team's specific needs.
• Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices
• Undecimal Bio — Undecimal Bio operates as a platform biotechnology company that develops targeted delivery mechanisms for small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutics. The company utilizes a proprietary platform that combines combinatorial chemistry libraries with transformer-based artificial intelligence to discover molecular conjugates capable of guiding genetic medicines to specified cells outside of the liver. This approach aims to circumvent traditional delivery constraints to expand the reach of RNA therapeutics into a broader range of therapeutic areas and human organs.

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• Sand.ai — Sand AI is an AI company that focuses on producing videos.
• Memory tensor — Memory tensor designed with a focus on systematic innovation, grounded firmly in fundamental principles, serves as a powerful tool for scalable and adaptable intelligence. Its architecture emphasizes three core attributes: low cost, ensuring economic feasibility and accessibility; low illusion, reducing overfitting and minimizing hallucinations ormisleading outputs; and high generalization.
• Westlake Lingxi — Westlake Lingxi develops brain-computer interface technologies, including neuro-prosthetic systems and neural decoding solutions, to support rehabilitation for people with language and movement disorders.

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• Poltio — We help the world's top brands access, engage with and learn from their users with interactive content and declared data.
• Nearsite — Nearsite is an end-to-end AI-powered intelligent platform for sourcing, booking, and managing enterprise-grade temporary housing. We automate bidding across vetted global suppliers to deliver rapid placement with lower total housing spend.
• Clario — Clario identifies and eliminates redundant, obsolete, and trivial unstructured data so organizations reduce waste, lower risk, and create cleaner foundations for AI.

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• PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
• Nodes — Nodes Engine connects company knowledge, investigates problems and carries out approved work. Your context graph, decision history and outcomes stay yours.
• 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.

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• Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
• PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
• Enhance Fitness — Enhance Fitness is a fitness and wellness company that provides personal training services through a mobile and web-based platform. The company connects users with certified trainers for one-on-one fitness sessions conducted at home, gyms, outdoor locations, or partner facilities. Its platform supports booking management, trainer matching, workouttracking, nutrition guidance, and progress monitoring. Enhance Fitness operates primarily in the Gulf region, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar, and also develops software tools for fitness businesses through its Enhance Tech platform..

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• Tamara — Tamara is the leading shopping and payments platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC region, with a mission to empower people in their daily lives and revolutionize how they shop, pay and bank. The company was founded by serial entrepreneur Abdulmajeed Alsukhan along with his partners Turki Bin Zarah and Abdulmohsen Al Babtain. Tamara has over 350employees and operates out of its headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and has offices in the UAE, Egypt, Germany and Vietnam.Tamara has raised up to $366 million in equity and debt since its launch in September 2020. Investors in Tamara include Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), Checkout.com, Coatue, Shorooq Partners, Endeavor Catalyst and now Goldman Sachs.Tamara has 6 million customers and more than 15,000 partner merchants including leading global and regional brands such as SHEIN, Jarir, Noon, IKEA, H&M as well as local small and medium businesses.
• Thunes — Founded in 2016, Thunes is a global B2B payment infrastructure platform that powers payments for the world’s fastest-growing businesses – from gig economy giants such as Uber and Deliveroo and Southeast Asia’s super-app Grab to global fintech leaders such as PayPal, Remitly, Finastra and Revolut. Through a single, simple connection, consumers andbusinesses can send payments to – and get paid in – every corner of the world. Thunes currently supports 80 currencies, enables payments to 132 countries and helps to accept 300 payment methods. In April 2022, Thunes acquired a controlling stake in a leading anti-money laundering and compliance platform company Tookitaki, which now enables the company’s advanced compliance, anti-fraud and anti-money laundering capabilities, setting an international benchmark for sustainable compliance. The company is headquartered in Singapore, with regional offices in London, Paris, Shanghai, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Miami and Nairobi. Current investors include Visa, EDBI, Endeavor Catalyst, Marshall Wace, Bessemer Venture Partners, 01Fintech, Future Shape, Insight Partners, Checkout.com, Helios Investment Partners and GGV Capital. For more information, visit www.thunes.com

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• Aamar — An innovative real estate platform that simplifies and automates leasing processes.
• Munjz — Munjz is a mobile app for connecting individuals & corporate sector looking for household services with pre-screened professionals.
• Al-Menu — Al Menu is a firm that specializes in restaurant operations.

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• Thobi — Thobi describes itself as a “smart thobe tailor”, allowing its customers to order custom-made thobes online. Its propriety technology enables its customers to take accurate calculations of their body measurements remotely.

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• Qawafel — Qawafel Company for E-Marketing is an electronic platform for the exchange of perishable food products between shops and producers. It is a platform for e-commerce for food suppliers and retailers.

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• Klaim — Klaim is an InsureTech platform offering a SaaS medical claim management and financing platform all in one. They provide them with total visibility on their revenue cycle, increase their revenue through reduced claim processing time and errors, and faster payments.
• RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
• Mala'a Technologies — Make better financial decisions with Malaa. Manage your financials, track your expenses, take a loan or invest your money all from one app. Connect you bank accounts and start today

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• Qawafel — Qawafel Company for E-Marketing is an electronic platform for the exchange of perishable food products between shops and producers. It is a platform for e-commerce for food suppliers and retailers.

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• Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
• Salasa — End-to-End eCommerce Logistics to Scale Your BusinessWe store, pack, and deliver your products to happy customers anywhere on Earth.
• Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.

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• Circyls — Circlys is a fintech established and operating in Saudi Arabia since 2017 is focus currently on providing public roscas (rotating credit and saving associate) for members who needed to join a circle and does not have private circles around then and its revenue comes from subscription fees based on the slot (month and value of contribution )selected, it approved by SAMA (Saudi Arabia central bank) and has placed a strong risk-based framework to onboard customers with different risk profiles which might not profitable or targeted by traditional financial insinuations while keeping default rate within the industry average.
• KartNGo — We build and operate autonomous and self service stores in Hotels and Offices, customer can enter the store and shop in the same traditional way 24/7 !