Every major Saudi startup funding round announced in September 2026

A reference list, not a narrative Some months call for analysis; this one also calls for a plain record. Below is every disclosed Saudi startup funding round from September 2026 that TechScoop has tracked, organized by sector, with the amount, investors where disclosed, and the stated use of funds for each. TechScoop's separate pieces on where this capital is going by sector and how it's distributed by round size provide the analysis this piece deliberately leaves out in favor of a clean, checkable record. How to use this list This piece is meant to be referenced rather than read start to finish in one sitting. A reader looking for a specific company's round, or trying to confirm which investors backed a specific deal, should be able to find the entry they need without wading through the analytical framing that TechScoop's other September pieces provide in more depth. Every entry below reflects only what the companies and their investors disclosed publicly. Where an amount was not disclosed — Pinnacle's investment in Carly, for instance — this list says so rather than estimating. Investors are named where the source material named them; where a round's backers were not disclosed, no investor is listed. Treat this as a working reference rather than an exhaustive registry: it reflects the rounds Wamda and other sources covered during September, and smaller or unannounced deals may exist outside what is captured here. How this list was compiled Every entry below is drawn from company and investor disclosures reported through Wamda during September 2026. Rounds are grouped by the sector each company itself describes as its primary business, which is why a company like Nayla — a financing platform, but one aimed specifically at micro-businesses rather than general SME lending — sits in the fintech category rather than a separate small-business category. Where a round blends categories, such as Abwab.ai's AI-for-lending model, it is grouped under the sector the underlying business serves rather than the technology it uses, on the theory that a reader looking for "every fintech round" should find every fintech-serving company here regardless of whether AI is part of its pitch. Fintech Eight companies make up this category, and together they account for the overwhelming majority of the month's disclosed total. The list below runs roughly from largest to smallest, though several of the smaller entries — Rize's facility and the Lendo-Quantic programme in particular — are structured differently enough from a conventional equity round that comparing their size directly to Tabby's or barq's is not entirely apples-to-apples. Tabby — $233 million Series F at a $6.5 billion valuation, led by Blue Pool Capital. Tabby's announcement also referenced profitability, employee liquidity and its expansion beyond BNPL, discussed further in TechScoop's coverage of the round . barq — $329.5 million Series A, one of the largest Series A rounds in Saudi fintech history. Tarabut — $50 million raise to deepen its Saudi embedded finance and open banking push. Lendo and Quantic — $200 million SME financing programme moving institutional capital into small-business credit through Lendo's platform. Rize — $50 million asset-backed Murabaha facility from Jadwa Investment supporting its rent-now-pay-later model. Abwab.ai — $4 million seed round led by Speedinvest, with MEVP participating, to build AI infrastructure for SME lending underwriting. Nayla — $18 million round combining equity and debt to expand financing for Saudi micro-businesses. Oro — $3 million raise for an AI-powered financial execution platform (a regional round tracked alongside the Saudi deals). AI and enterprise software This category spans seven separate companies, and its combined dollar total is a fraction of fintech's. The spread across enterprise decisioning, construction, sustainability and education software shows AI-adjacent investment reaching well beyond any single vertical this month. Synapse Analytics — $13 million Series A led by Partech for its AI decisioning platform (a regional round tracked alongside the Saudi deals). Gaia — $1.5 million pre-seed led by Seedra for its enterprise AI platform. RIME — seed round of more than $2 million for its AI platform. Keep Converting — $2 million raise to bring AI into e-commerce conversion. Fitting — $1.1 million seed round to automate construction procurement. Remedium — $1.5 million raise for sustainability accounting software. 3C Coding School — $3 million round to expand its coding education model in Saudi Arabia. Logistics, mobility and commerce This category covers companies moving physical goods, people or vehicles rather than money or data, and its rounds ranged from Rwaj's $1.2 million raise up to FlyAkeed's $25.15 million, without a single dominant round. Sirdab's GCC-wide expansion plans point to cross-border ambition within the category. Syarah — $12 million from Impact46 for its online vehicle marketplace. Si