One of the noticeable changes that happened in the ecosystem in the past year, that many corporations, listed companies, and governments entitles are interested in bringing innovation in their organizations and started to utilize venture builders and accelerator operators to help them do that. So I decided to update the list of Venture Builders and Venture Studios in Saudi **Newly added to the list** Rimthan , ASFA Ventures , VMS Saudi Startup Studio , Fin. Ventures , TONOMUS Venture Studio , Digital Mobility Solutions , Lun Startup Studio لون ستديو , Sahat Venture Studio , Intelligent Digitalization Ventures (IDV) , Madoum Venture Studio , ROOTS , SIGMA Innovation Engine , Creative Dock Group , Seam Labs , National Business Builder , Fountech Labs , VCentral , NHM Ventures | نهم فنتشرز , Tech Horizons Ventures , Bunat Ventures , Fvtvre , Raha Beach Ventures , DANA Venture Builder , DeepMinds™ , BLDR Ventures , Spring Studios , Chalhoub Greenhouse , StartupGateX #VentureBuilder #VentureStudio #Startups #Innovation
The pros of venture studios include stability, ease of access to resources like legal and finance, less admin focus, and immediate exit opportunities if the startup becomes successful. Venture studio contras: on average, venture studios take approximately 33% of equity, limiting the founders' ability to attract external investment and strong co-founders, reducing further motivation. They are resource and capital-intensive to operate effectively. Would you add something to the both lists?
Impressive list, Hussein A. Attar! It's great to see the growing interest in innovation and venture builders. As a visionary tech founder myself, I'm curious which of these studios have made significant strides in travel tech? 🚀
please add finbyte (http://www.finbyte.com) to the list:) we are quite active in KSA!
Hussein A. Attar where is Stryber in that list ? We are one of the largest most active in the region 😊.
What a lovely and growing ecosystem! I've been working with TONOMUS Venture Studio for a while now, and look forward to interacting with the others in town. Agri/food adjacent anyone?
It’s a buzz of word Venture studio are totally different from venture capitalists and accelerator but they put name of venture studio on top of VC firms model Everyone is just making hype in market to get fast money to rich people Very few are building startups idea with own all are just funding as vc model
Thank you for the list of VCs, we will try to get in touch. As a founder of a DeepTech hardware startup, I can confidently say that most VCs are looking for software B2B startups and are practically not interested in hardware.
Hussein A. Attar it's exciting to see the ecosystem in Saudi Arabia embracing innovation through venture builders and accelerators.
Bravo Hussein! It’s important to begin seeing more focus on B2G tech centric VCs in Saudi Arabia , I actually find it strange that this is a truly underdeveloped segment, hopefully this initiative from your side can help !
Business Incubation / Advisor @Sandooq A Watan - Startups Growth
4wThe problem with venture builders is that most of them have a very different approach from one another. Many companies ride the hype of venture builders, but it is only when you lift the hood and check how they are setup, what their methodology is, what type of funding they have access to, that you can start understanding whether they deliver real value. It would be great to start with maybe to show a market map, that provides a better segmentation of venture builders. Any thoughts from the community on this topic?