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Hakbah, the leading Saudi-based fintech savings platform, announces its successful $5.1 million Series A fundraising. The funding round was led by VentureSouq - the MENA-based venture capital firm with a global portfolio. Also participating were new investors M-Capital and Bunat Ventures; and existing investors Global Ventures and Aditum Investment Management Ltd.
Saudi Arabia launched The Garage, the region's largest business accelerator, in an event at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in Riyadh. The Garage's new headquarters opened on an area of 28,000 square meters on the main campus of King Abdulaziz University for Sciences and Technology (KAUST) in the presence of Minister of Communications and Information Technology Abdullah al-Swaha, Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing Majed al-Hogail, and Minister of Media Salman al-Dossary.
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Generative AI accelerator said it has allocated $160 million for 120 startups in Saudi Arabia. It helps empower the environmental AI systems through programmes that target entrepreneurship and tech startups and woos Al-driven businesses into the kingdom.
Supported by Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) and the National Technology Development Program (NTDP), in cooperation with New Native Inc., GAIA, the generative artificial-intelligence (AI) accelerator, contributed to supporting and empowering start-ups specialized in generative AI with the aim of improving them and accelerating their entry to the market.