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Riyada Ventures is a venture
capital firm that is exclusively and passionately focused on knowledge-based
industries in the Arab world. We provide venture capital management and
advisory services in technology, media, communication, healthcare,
education, and entertainment industries in the Arab countries of the Gulf,
Levant, and North Africa regions.
We pride ourselves in our track
record of entrepreneurship and executive leadership, having founded,
created, and managed ground-breaking regional leading firms as well as
being sponsors, managers, and advisors of pioneering venture funds,
incubators, and corporate investments in the region. Our experience as well as staff and
resources span the key markets of the region, having successfully completed
landmark projects in Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait, United Arab Emirates (Abu
Dhabi and Dubai), Egypt, and Jordan.
We achieve success through our dedication
and commitment to partnering up with investors and entrepreneurs,
putting to work our extensive and proprietary regional and industry
specific knowledge, and leveraging our unmatched reach and network
of investors and industry contacts in the region and globally. For the past 12 years, the team of Riyada
Ventures has founded, developed, and managed 8 high-growth leading regional
knowledge-based companies, three institutional venture capital funds, and
four business incubators, in addition to a large number of advisory
services engagements for investors as well start-ups/high growth firms in
the region.
We believe that our dual
entrepreneurial/investment management expertise, coupled with our
regional/global reach, and our specialization in venture capital and
knowledge-based industries put us in a unique position to benefit from the
rapid growth of these industries in the Arab world, and consequently
benefit our partner entrepreneurs and investors.
The Chairman and Managing
Director of Riyada Ventures, Khaldoon Tabaza, has been selected by the World Economic Forum as a
Young Global Leader in 2006. He is also a founding board member of the
Arab Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and a board member at
Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Challenge, amongst other global and
regional industry and advisory board positions.
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