Gulf Region Tech Startups

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Revora

Saudi Arabia

Revora (formerly MyAlice) is an AI operating platform for online merchants, having rebranded from a conversational-commerce tool into a fully AI-driven e-commerce operations platform. Its AI agents work across WhatsApp, Instagram, and brands' own websites to handle product recommendations, cart recovery, and in-conversation payment collection, and turn each merchant's catalogue into structured data discoverable by AI-powered search and shopping tools. The company is active in more than 21 countries, with its fastest growth in Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf Cooperation Council region.

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Rentify

United Arab Emirates

Rentify is a Dubai-based proptech and fintech startup that digitizes the rental ecosystem in the UAE and wider GCC. Its platform automates rent collection, tenant onboarding, payment reminders and lease renewals, and offers flexible payment options plus a tenant rewards program. In 2026 it launched Earn AI, an Arabic-native AI platform built to reduce rental income leakage for landlords and property managers.

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D360 Bank

Saudi Arabia

D360 Bank is a Saudi digital bank that launched operations in December 2024 as one of the Kingdom's first licensed, Shariah-compliant digital lenders. Backed by the Public Investment Fund and Derayah Financial, it offers app-based banking, lending, cross-border payments, and API banking services to several million retail customers. The bank is expanding into individual and SME lending as it scales toward a planned public listing.

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Multipli

United Arab Emirates

Multipli is a Dubai-based real-world asset (RWA) and tokenized credit protocol that lets users and institutions borrow against tokenized collateral such as gold, stocks, treasuries and stablecoins. Its products rwaUSD and rwaUSDi standardize tokenized assets and supply institutional-grade yield and credit infrastructure across Ethereum, Base and Arbitrum. The protocol manages roughly $300M in assets and is the leading RWA protocol on Base by assets managed.

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Terraxy

Saudi Arabia

Terraxy is a Saudi deep-tech startup spun out of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) that develops soil-regeneration and carbon-capture technology for arid environments. Its flagship product, Carbosoil, is a soil enhancer reported to improve plant growth and yield by up to 70% with the same water and nutrient inputs while enabling durable carbon storage, alongside a SandX irrigation-efficiency technology. The company targets desert greening and afforestation aligned with the Saudi Green Initiative and Vision 2030.

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Tern

United Arab Emirates

Tern is a UAE-based proptech/fintech startup operating what it bills as the country's first dedicated rental rewards platform, letting tenants pay rent by credit card or bank transfer at no added cost and earn loyalty points redeemable across travel, retail and lifestyle merchants. Founded in Dubai in 2024 and launched in May 2025, it builds a multi-stakeholder loyalty network connecting tenants, landlords, banks and merchants, and processes over AED 150 million in annualized rent-payment volume.

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Zameeli

Oman

Zameeli is an Omani digital marketplace that connects small and medium-sized enterprises with local freelancers for creative and digital services, including graphic design, marketing, videography, content creation and social media management. Founded in 2023 by Tariq Al Habsi and Mahmoud Tantora and based in Muscat, the platform gives SMEs on-demand access to specialised Omani talent so they can scale their marketing and digital presence. It has been backed by Oman's SME development company Sharakah and selected for the 500 Global Sanabil Startup Unlocked program.

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Pickappo

Saudi Arabia

Pickappo is a Saudi-based B2B technology platform that builds infrastructure for the on-demand delivery sector, connecting logistics companies, ordering platforms, online stores and restaurants through a single unified delivery network. Rather than running its own deliveries, it provides a neutral technology layer so partners can share capacity and operate more flexibly, and it has grown a network of over 100 logistics companies. Founded in 2023 and based in Al Khobar, it serves merchants and platforms across Saudi Arabia and the wider region.

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GRO

Qatar

GRO is a Ukrainian-founded fintech building a privacy-first, AI-powered personal financial assistant that helps users track spending, make financial decisions and improve financial literacy while keeping personal data private. The product serves both adults and families, with parental-control features in development, and operates on a closed, privacy-focused architecture. Following a Qatari pre-seed investment, the company relocated its headquarters to Doha to expand across the Middle East.