Sanabil

Sanabil Investments is a Saudi Arabian investment firm established in 2008, focusing on both direct investments and fund of funds strategies. The firm diversifies its portfolio across various asset classes, including private equity, real assets, and venture capital. By pursuing a multi-faceted investment approach, Sanabil aims to enhance its capital base while supporting the growth of innovative companies and projects.

Ibrahim Al-Romaih

Chief Executive Officer

Ibrahim Alsuhaibani

Investment Associate, Direct Investments

John B. Breen

Global Head of Private Equity Investments

Hani Enaya

Head of Venture Capital

Hani Halawani

Chief Investment Officer

Sohaib Musalli

Investment Associate

45 past transactions

Sary

Series C in 2021
Sary owns and operates a digital business-to-business (B2B) marketplace that connects small businesses with merchant wholesalers of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG). Its mobile and web application offers FMCG, including milk, tea and coffee, water, soft drinks, juices, oil, and chocolates. The company serves small and medium-sized enterprises, mini-market chains, hotels, restaurants, and convenience shops in Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dammam. Sary was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

EFreshli

Seed Round in 2022
EFreshli is an online interior design firm.

Acceldata

Series C in 2023
Acceldata, Inc. develops an enterprise data observability platform for analytics and artificial intelligence systems. The company’s platform provides data warehousing, data security and protection, data preparation and accuracy forecasting, Internet of things (IOT) for consumer and commercial applications, and data acquisition services. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in San Jose, California; Bengaluru, India; and Berlin, Germany.

SellAnyCar.com

Private Placement in 2020
SellAnyCar.com FZE operates an online site for selling and buying new and used cars in the United Arab Emirates. It offers instant online car valuations and evaluations, car inspections, instant payments, and paperwork related services, as well as provides car deregistration, part-exchanges, and settlements of bank loans and mortgages. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates with branches in Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah, Amman, and other regional locations.

Foodics

Series C in 2022
Foodics develops a cloud-based iPad POS (point-of-sale) restaurant management system for transactions, inventory, employee scheduling, loyalty programs and e-commerce. Its solutions include management dashboard and iPad kitchen display, POS, Menu, notifier, call center, and inventory and supply chain systems. The company serves clients in the restaurant industry. Foodics was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in AlKhobar, Saudi Arabia.

Siolla.

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Siolla. develops an online platform that offers micro-investing from spare changes. It allows users to manage and budget their finances. Siolla. is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Countd

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Countd operates an online platform that creates and delivers personalized meal plans. It provides details of calorie content for every meal and allows users to choose what food best suits their diet. Countd is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Unifonic

Series B in 2021
Unifonic makes cloud communications more accessible, cost-efficient and simpler to implement with solutions that scale. The company builds powerful messaging, SMS, and voice capabilities into your systems without the need for hardware or network operators by using single APIs to connect their customers to their cloud platform. Unifonic has signed with Facebook to become of the first companies officially to support WhatsApp Business API for enterprises. Founded in 2006, Unifonic is based out of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

MemSQL

Series F in 2022
SingleStore is dedicated to helping businesses adapt more quickly, embrace diverse data and accelerate digital innovation by operationalizing all data through one platform for all of their moments that matter. These capabilities are provided as a service in AWS, Azure and GCP and through your own deployments with SingleStore Managed Service and SingleStore DB.

Alation

Series D in 2021
Alation, Inc. operates a platform for a range of data intelligence solutions. The company offers Alation, an AI-driven platform for data search and discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation, as well as privacy, risk, and compliance solutions. Its intelligent data platform supports a variety of metadata management and related applications from search and discovery to data governance to digital transformation. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Ebrahim Mohammed Al Mana & Brothers Company

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
Ebrahim Mohammed Al Mana & Brothers Company went out of business. Ebrahim Mohammed Al Mana & Brothers Company is based in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

Caffeine

Private Placement in 2020
Caffeine is a new kind of broadcast company focused on the creation and distribution of live, interactive content. Our social broadcasting platform makes it simple for people to create their own shows and watch new interactive content with friends. We feature content at the intersection of gaming, sports, and entertainment from partners like FOX Sports, ESPN, BIG EAST Digital Network, DreamHack, Riot Games, and top entertainers, athletes, and gamers. Caffeine has a zero-tolerance policy for bullying, hate speech and racism. Find Caffeine in the App Store and Google Play. Learn more at www.caffeine.tv.

Atomwise

Private Placement in 2020
Atomwise Inc. is a deep learning AI technology for structure-based small molecule drug discovery. Atomwise performs hundreds of projects per year in partnership with some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and agrochemical companies, as well as more than 200 universities and hospitals in 40 countries. Its speed and accuracy make it the most advanced technology for small molecule binding affinity prediction. AtomNet, its AI platform built for drug discovery contains more than 16 billion molecules for virtual screening.

Foodics

Series B in 2021
Foodics develops a cloud-based iPad POS (point-of-sale) restaurant management system for transactions, inventory, employee scheduling, loyalty programs and e-commerce. Its solutions include management dashboard and iPad kitchen display, POS, Menu, notifier, call center, and inventory and supply chain systems. The company serves clients in the restaurant industry. Foodics was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in AlKhobar, Saudi Arabia.

Wellx

Seed Round in 2023
Headquartered in the DIFC Innovation Hub, Dubai, UAE, Wellx is the Middle East’s first wellness-backed InsureTech. Founded by Vaibhav Kashyap and Javed Akberali, Wellx aims to disrupt the insurance landscape in the region by offering individuals, families, corporates and SMEs health insurance that incentivize engagement in various wellness activities such as gym visits, healthy eating, focusing on mental wellness, utilising wearable tech, and much more. The company also uses cutting-edge data analytics tools to hyper personalize the wellness experience. Wellx is a digital-first brand, users can complete their insurance journeys online.

Qardy

Venture Round in 2023
Qardy is the first online aggregator marketplace in Egypt.

Tamara

Series B in 2022
Tamara is a Saudi Fintech startup with a mission to empower people to buy and shop through an honest, transparent and inclusive financial solution. The company provides a Buy Now Pay Later solution for customers to pay with no fees with the ability to defer payments up to 30 days or pay in 3 installments.

Databricks

Series I in 2023
Databricks is a software platform that helps its customers unify their analytics across the business, data science, and data engineering. Databricks provides a Unified Analytics Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Impactyn

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Impactyn is a platform that has discovered an untapped channel of raw and unique crowd-marketing through its AI-powered platform. They are working with consumers and their online communities in order to reshape the strategic thinking behind brands’ marketing tactics.

Playbook

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Playbook is an edutainment platform that activates the power of storytelling and shared experiences to prepare women to tackle their pain points to growth through masterclasses broken down into lessons in English & Arabic led by inspirationally influential women who shattered the glass ceiling. The platform enables users to setup custom profiles, identify their skills & career goals, engage with 1000+ classes on diverse categories of interest (especially emerging professions), network with a community to crowdsource solutions to further address their pain points, immerse themselves in a gamified experience with learning goals & progress trackers. All of this is further enabled through engaged digital learning tools.

Remooz

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Remooz operates a marketplace for buying, selling, and creating non-fungible tokens. It uses dollars as a mode of payment, instead of cryptocurrencies. Remooz is based in Delaware, USA.

Drahim

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Drahim develops a digital platform on recommended investing plans after analyzing one's financial usage. It serves as a personal budget app that tracks financial transactions. Drahim is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Richard Attias & Associates

Private Placement in 2019
Richard Attias & Associates is a global consultancy firm serving multidisciplinary customers.

JobGet

Series B in 2022
JOBGET INC. operates a mobile hiring application and job search platform. The company’s platform creates a marketplace where employers and job seekers can message each other, schedule meetings, and conduct video interviews. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Yanzo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
With the current busy lifestyle, you end up choosing between errands, work, health and a zillion other things. Yanzo came to eliminate this painful process and make you focus on what matters, whether it's being more productive at work or having a movie night with your friends. You will be able to enjoy life again by outsourcing all the tedious tasks and errands to Yanzo. Simply by sending a WhatsApp message to +971-56-6143243. Take control of your life.

Atomwise

Series B in 2020
Atomwise Inc. is a deep learning AI technology for structure-based small molecule drug discovery. Atomwise performs hundreds of projects per year in partnership with some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and agrochemical companies, as well as more than 200 universities and hospitals in 40 countries. Its speed and accuracy make it the most advanced technology for small molecule binding affinity prediction. AtomNet, its AI platform built for drug discovery contains more than 16 billion molecules for virtual screening.

Sweater

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Sweater provides include mats covering, sweater tissue, sweater freshner, covid wash, and sweater wash plus. It is a car wash outlet company. For inquiries, their email address and contact form are available on their website.

Uniphore

Series D in 2021
Uniphore Technologies Inc. develops multilingual speech recognition software solutions for speech analytics, virtual assistance, and voice biometrics. The company offers software as a service (SaaS) based solutions, such as auMina, a conversational analytics to transform customer service; akeira, an artificial intelligence enabled conversational assistant to drive customer engagement; and amVoice, a conversational security to prevent fraud and identity theft. Uniphore Technologies Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

SellAnyCar.com

Venture Round in 2020
SellAnyCar.com FZE operates an online site for selling and buying new and used cars in the United Arab Emirates. It offers instant online car valuations and evaluations, car inspections, instant payments, and paperwork related services, as well as provides car deregistration, part-exchanges, and settlements of bank loans and mortgages. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates with branches in Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah, Amman, and other regional locations.

Caffeine

Series D in 2020
Caffeine is a new kind of broadcast company focused on the creation and distribution of live, interactive content. Our social broadcasting platform makes it simple for people to create their own shows and watch new interactive content with friends. We feature content at the intersection of gaming, sports, and entertainment from partners like FOX Sports, ESPN, BIG EAST Digital Network, DreamHack, Riot Games, and top entertainers, athletes, and gamers. Caffeine has a zero-tolerance policy for bullying, hate speech and racism. Find Caffeine in the App Store and Google Play. Learn more at www.caffeine.tv.

Tamara

Series C in 2023
Tamara is a Saudi Fintech startup with a mission to empower people to buy and shop through an honest, transparent and inclusive financial solution. The company provides a Buy Now Pay Later solution for customers to pay with no fees with the ability to defer payments up to 30 days or pay in 3 installments.

Lendo

Series B in 2023
Lendo is a fintech company that offers a peer-to-peer lending platform with core focus towards SMEs' debt finance. Its platform provides a variety of financing products for SMEs with an initial focus on pre-invoicing finance. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Saudi Arabia.

Nearpay

Series A in 2023
Nearpay is a FinTech company providing payment acceptance solutions targeting micro-merchant transactions and providing flexibility to mobile merchants.

Salla

Venture Round in 2024
Salla Holding Limited develops online stores through development tools. The company operates a digital platform on smart phones to facilitate ecommerce. It allows anyone to set up Arabic ecommerce store to sell online using it platform and tools. The company enables users to set up store by choosing one of the available designs on its own domain name. It also offers different types of reports and tools to help store owners integrate with Instagram, automatic invoices, customer database, and ability to block customers. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Nile

Series C in 2023
Nile is redefining the network experience for customers by delivering true network-as-a-service consumption, built-in hardened security, lifecycle management without management, and backed by the industry's only verified, performance-based SLAs.

Alation

Series E in 2022
Alation, Inc. operates a platform for a range of data intelligence solutions. The company offers Alation, an AI-driven platform for data search and discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation, as well as privacy, risk, and compliance solutions. Its intelligent data platform supports a variety of metadata management and related applications from search and discovery to data governance to digital transformation. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California.
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.