Funding Value and Deals by Country

Funding Value and Deals by Country

20 May 2023

Saudi Arabia may be relatively new on its entrepreneurial and digital economy journey, but the Kingdom’s laser focus on developing a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem has helped start-up activity grow, and quickly.

Historically, Saudi Arabia has always trailed the UAE and Egypt’s startup ecosystems, but this changed in 2021, when Saudi Arabia became #2 in the Arab world in venture funding raised.

Saudi strengthened its 2nd place positioning in 2022, pulling further away from Egypt and closing in on the UAE.

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