Raed Ventures

Early-stage fund that has been an active first cheque into Saudi fintech.

3 ACTIVITIESSCOPE

2016SINCE

INVESTMENT THESIS

Early stage across MENA — fintech, ecommerce, logistics, digital health, enterprise. Saudi, UAE, Egypt and the wider GCC with global selectivity. The form accepts pre-seed through later stages; the executional weight sits early.

FINTECH RECORD

Backed Tabby at seed in 2020, before it became the region’s unicornBacked Lean Technologies from its first USD 3.5m seed — years before General Catalyst arrivedLed the USD 35m Series A of Rize in rent-now-pay-laterLed the USD 20m Series A of SiFi in 2026, a round that gathered QED, Sanabil, Khwarizmi and Seedra togetherBacked ClearGrid in AI-driven debt collection

PORTFOLIO SAMPLE

Tabby · FINTECHLean Technologies · FINTECHSiFi · FINTECHLamaa · FINTECHClearGrid · FINTECHRize · PROPTECH

The closest thing this ecosystem has to a professional first believer — a genuinely open door, a record of following on, and an international partner network. QED and General Catalyst both entered Saudi through Raed portfolio companies.

WHAT IT DOES

ACTIVITIES CLEARED FOR

Payments & acquiringDebt crowdfundingSupply chain & invoice finance

WHY THERE IS NO ACTIVITY LIST

HOW TO ENGAGE

1 ROUTE

Warm introductions materially outperform cold outreach here. The local ecosystem is small enough that a referral is almost always available.

FUNDING

Investment conversation

Equity or growth capital. Fintech took 29% of all Saudi startup funding in 2025, so the category has attention — but regulatory readiness is diligenced hard.

WHAT YOU WILL BE ASKED FOR

Licence status stated plainly, including what you do not hold
Unit economics with the cost of compliance in them
A regulatory timeline the fund can underwrite

VIA A WARM INTRODUCTION WHERE POSSIBLE · TYPICAL TIMEFRAME 2–6 MONTHS TO CLOSE