Saudi Arabia led MENA startup funding activity this week as venture capital momentum expanded across fintech, health tech, logistics, and enterprise platforms. Five Saudi-based startups announced new funding rounds, strengthening the Kingdom’s role as the regional innovation hub.
Global investors increased their exposure to the ecosystem, highlighted by Andreessen Horowitz making its first GCC investment. The funding activity reflected growing maturity and stronger cross-border confidence in Saudi Arabia’s startup market.
Stitch raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The deal marks the firm’s first GCC investment. Arbor Ventures, COTU Ventures, Raed Ventures, and SVC also participated in the round.
The fintech platform builds a cloud native operating system for financial institutions covering payments, lending, cards, and ledgers. It processed more than $5 billion in transactions over six months and expanded its customer base tenfold in 2025. The funding will support product development and regional expansion across MENA markets, along with global go-to-market growth.
TruKKer secured a trade receivables securitization facility of up to $300 million from Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank. The structure stands among the GCC’s first multi-jurisdiction asset-backed financings for a high-growth technology startup.
The AI-driven logistics network operates across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye. The non-recourse Murabaha-based structure strengthens liquidity across trade receivables portfolios. The capital injection will support digital freight expansion, carrier optimization, and wider regional logistics scale.
Aumet raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Emkan Capital. Stream secured a $5.2 million seed extension, lifting total seed funding to $9.2 million. Hakeem Health raised $1.65 million to scale bilingual clinical guidance across healthcare institutions.
Gabster secured $500,000 to enhance AI-powered business management tools. Lyrie.ai raised $2 million in preseed funding to advance AI agent security research and platform development across enterprise systems.
A regional venture report showed MENA venture capital reached $15.4 billion across 3,329 deals over five years. Corporate investors accounted for a significant share of activity. Saudi Arabia and the UAE dominated both funding value and deal volume.
The Kingdom captured the largest share of corporate capital deployment and investor participation. Analysts noted that concentrated capital flows continue to reinforce Saudi Arabia’s leadership position in the regional startup ecosystem.
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