Arabic-first AI
الذكاء الاصطناعي العربيLanguage models, speech and document intelligence built natively for Arabic, its dialects and the institutions that run on it.
Seed to Series A · Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The Gulf is shifting from importing technology to building it.
Alder Pike backs AI and software companies serving the region's economic transformation, and helps them win the public and enterprise contracts that matter.
من استيراد التقنية إلى صناعتها
Seed to A
Stages we lead
4
Focus sectors
KSA
Home market, GCC reach
2 wks
Response to every application
Where we invest
Four sectors where the region's scale becomes an advantage.
We focus where Gulf demand is deepest and global incumbents are weakest: language, heavy industry, the state and the movement of goods.
Energy & Industrial
الطاقة والصناعةSoftware that optimizes production, grids, plants and heavy industry, turning the region's operating scale into an advantage.
GovTech
التقنية الحكوميةDigital public services, compliance and citizen platforms that help ministries and agencies deliver on national transformation goals.
Logistics
الخدمات اللوجستيةInfrastructure for ports, freight, last-mile delivery and trade corridors as the Gulf becomes a hub between three continents.
Our thesis
Winners will combine global-grade technology with local distribution and trust.
Across the Gulf, national transformation programs are rewriting how energy is produced, how governments serve citizens and how goods move between continents. For decades that technology was imported. Now it is being built here.
We back founders who pair world-class engineering with a real understanding of the buyers who decide: ministries, giga-projects, national champions and fast-growing regional enterprises.
We lead seed to Series A rounds and work alongside founders to win public and enterprise contracts in the Kingdom.
Beyond the check
We help founders win in the Kingdom.
Great technology still loses deals without trust and distribution. Our work starts after the wire, focused on the commercial milestones that make a regional champion.
- Navigating government and giga-project procurement
- Introductions to enterprise and public-sector buyers
- Local entity setup, compliance and data residency
- Senior regional hiring and Arabic-first product localization
How we invest
StageSeed to Series A
RoleLead or co-lead
SectorsArabic AI, Energy, GovTech, Logistics
GeographySaudi Arabia & the GCC
Follow-onReserves for future rounds
Portfolio
Companies building the region's next layer.
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Arabic AILisan Labs
Foundation models fine-tuned for Gulf Arabic dialects, powering contact centers and enterprise search.
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Arabic AIQalam Docs
Document AI that reads, classifies and extracts from handwritten and printed Arabic records at scale.
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EnergyWattline
Predictive maintenance and yield optimization for refineries, desalination and petrochemical plants.
Building for the Kingdom?
If you combine global-grade technology with a plan to win local customers, we want to hear from you.