Top AI Startups in Saudi Arabia (KSA) – 2026 Directory

Leaders include Humain, Mozn, Lucidya, COGNNA, Intella, Intelmatix, Sawt, Wittify.ai, Elevatus and Hazen.ai, spanning infrastructure, Arabic language AI, fintech compliance, cybersecurity and computer vision.

Humain is a Riyadh-based AI company launched in May 2025 under the Public Investment Fund. It builds AI data centers and cloud services and develops ALLaM, an Arabic-first multimodal large language model, plus the Humain Chat app.

Lucidya (Arabic social listening and CX analytics), Mozn (enterprise AI with Arabic NLP), Intella (Arabic speech intelligence) and Sawt (Arabic voice agents) are leading examples.

Riyadh is the dominant hub, with smaller clusters in Jeddah and the Eastern Province (Dhahran/Dammam). Seedtable lists Riyadh as the top hub for funded Saudi AI startups.

Tracxn counted roughly 58–62 AI companies in Saudi Arabia in 2026, of which about a dozen are funded and 5 have raised Series A or later. Counts vary by database definition.

Active investors include Raed Ventures, Wa’ed Ventures (Aramco), Sanabil 500, STV, Sadu Capital, Prosus, Vision Ventures, Nama Ventures and Shorooq Partners, alongside government programs such as Monsha’at.

The National Strategy for Data & AI (NSDAI), launched in 2020 and led by SDAIA, aims to place Saudi Arabia among the top 15 AI economies by 2030, in line with Vision 2030.

COGNNA is the best-known AI cybersecurity startup, backed by a Series A reported at $9.2M in December 2025.

Mozn, founded in 2017, builds AI for financial crime prevention, fraud detection and regulatory compliance for banks and fintechs.

Yes. Sawt (founded 2024) offers Arabic-native AI voice agents for support, bookings and sales, and Intella focuses on Arabic speech analytics.

TachyHealth is a Riyadh-based health AI company. Healthtech investors such as Impact46, Vision Ventures and Nama Ventures are active in Riyadh.

Hazen.ai applies computer vision and real-time video analytics to traffic management and road safety for smart-city use cases.

Elevatus is an AI-based hiring and video-interviewing platform that raised Series A funding (about $10.5M cumulative per Tracxn).

Humain, with about $1.2B reported by Seedtable. Among venture-backed startups, Lucidya (about $37M, including a $30M Series B), Intella ($16.9M) and Intelmatix (about $20M Series A) are among the largest.

Lucidya was founded in Jeddah in 2016 and is headquartered in Riyadh. It provides an AI-powered Arabic customer-experience platform, including social listening and omnichannel analytics.

Intelmatix is a Riyadh deep-tech company delivering decision-intelligence software to large Saudi enterprises and government agencies.

Common routes are Monsha’at and Badir programs, Saudi accelerators such as Sanabil 500 and Flat6Labs, and seed funds like Raed, STV and Nama. A commercial registration (CR) and a local entity are usually required.

Yes, via MISA licensing or a local partner. Government programs also encourage regional headquarters in Riyadh. Check current MISA, SDAIA and PDPL data-protection requirements before launching.

Yes. The Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), enforced by SDAIA, governs personal data, and some sectors (banking, health) add regulator rules from SAMA or the Ministry of Health.

The order is an editorial blend of funding, traction and AI focus drawn from Seedtable, Tracxn and public press, not an official ranking. Review it periodically and confirm details with each company.