GCC Startup Funding Map — 280+ Funding Programmes, Accelerators and VCs across Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain

Not published

$100,000+ investment · $35,000 per-startup programme fee (phase 1, excl. travel)

Pre-seed to Series A

Pre-Seed to Series A

$35M fund

Free zone and regulator, not a funding programme · RegLab sandbox

Incentive packages — project dependent

Seed to Series B+

Early-stage to growth

Not published

$100M fund of funds

Investment amount not published — one portfolio company is cited as having raised $1M from Alchemist Doha, which is a single outcome, not a stated programme ceiling

Not published · own site states $28.5M AUM and 300+ members

From $100,000 — also leads larger syndicates

$180,000 via SAFE for 11% equity + up to $320,000 uncapped follow-on

Terms not published

$7.5B committed capital

Pre-Seed to Series B

Service-based (no equity); managed-programme funding varies

Programme support + investment pathway

$12+ billion under management · early to late stage

SME financing — SME Fund up to 5-year tenor; amounts not published

Investment incentives + regulatory support

Programme support + ecosystem access

$820M+ AUM across five funds · Pre-Seed to pre-IPO · cheque size not disclosed

National infrastructure investment

Fund and venture investments

Venture studio — fund sizes not published

Public equity raise — ECM listing

Programme support + investment

Early stage — no specific range published

Fund size not published

Pre-seed and seed — leads rounds · cheque size not published

Seed funding — SAFE notes, pre-seed and seed

Regulatory permission to test

Digital banking licence pathway

R&D programme support

Regulatory permission to test

Regulatory permission to test

Non-dilutive mentorship — investor access via the CDL network

Regulatory permission to test

Special tax treatment · expat-levy exemption · power $0.05/kWh

Regulatory permission to test

Regulatory permission to operate

7 CODE labs + 20-partner innovation network

Bootcamp tuition (scholarships available)

Internal — no external funding route

Not published

Pre-seed and seed · fund size and cheque size not published

Up to SAR 500,000 non-repayable per project · max 20 projects · one project per company

Seed stage

Venture-building support — no funding figure published

Early-stage to growth (all stages)

$27M / SAR 100M closed-ended sharia-compliant fund (2019 vintage)

Free zone and regulator, not a funding programme · 100% foreign ownership

Programme support + regulatory sandbox

Incubation and acceleration — funding figures not published

Free incubation + support

Angel rounds — seed to Series A per its own site

Growth stage

Access to Oraseya Capital · accelerator programmes

$100,000–$250,000 per company · with member co-investment $100,000–$2,000,000 per first round

Fund LP commitments + direct tickets

Programme support + co-creation

Free zone incentives + 30-year tax holiday

~$500M under management, deployed and committed · tickets USD 5–30M

Not published

Up to AED 2M per startup without assets · tenors up to 72 months

$100M fund · early to growth stage

Catalyst co-investment + global mentor network

Support programme — funding not published

Venture stage — ticket size not published

Not published

Up to SAR 375,000 direct funding - equity taken not published

Free to browse (directory, news, knowledge hub); some services (e.g. Innovation Streams day pass, QAR 40) are paid.

Not published

SAR 100,000 development funding (earmarked, not cash)

Milestone-linked co-funding — no figure published by QDB or fintech.qa

Subsidised technology services (in-kind) - subsidy value not published

Amount not published on site

Seed funding — amount per startup not published on the current page

Growth stage — scaled, venture-backed businesses (QIA); ticket size not published

Formation to Series A + reserved follow-on · fund size not published

VC: OMR 4K–40K (ideation) · OMR 20K–100K (pre-seed/seed) · SME equity OMR 250K–5M · SME debt OMR 100K–500K · Projects OMR 5–100M

Strategic — builds and holds AI companies

Terms not published

Seed to Series B · $400M AUM (site)

$250m AUM · 90+ companies funded (site)

Multi-stage — ticket size not published

SAR 360M first close · growth capital for mid-market companies

$150M fund size (own site) · rolling

Seed & early growth

IBDA: up to QAR 250,000 over two years · IIF: up to QAR 50,000 with in-kind co-funding, or up to QAR 200,000 (matched 100% by HBKU) with cash co-funding from an industry partner · SOCIF: up to QAR 50,000, or up to QAR 100,000 for two or more faculty members from different HBKU colleges · SIF: up to QAR 15,000 (single student) or up to QAR 30,000 (two or more students from different HBKU colleges), max 8 months

Co-investment + programme support

AED 250K in-kind + AED 250K cash via SAFE note · top-up up to AED 250K (Access Programme)

No published startup programme

Not published

Fund I $50M · Pre-Series A and Series A

$135M pre-IPO round — private placement AND in-kind contributions, led by Sanabil with FJ Labs

Fund III SAR 500M · gaming fund SAR 150M · SAR 2.3B+ raised across vehicles

Terms not published

Subsidized license + workspace — no equity

Project-dependent

Programme + competition prizes

Winner AED 500,000 + funded pilot · runners-up AED 250,000 and AED 100,000 (2025 edition)

Programme support + funding pathways

Terms not published · two tracks: General (3 months) and Advanced (6 months, by invitation)

AED 50K equity-free grant

FDI facilitation · Government introductions · Gateway VC module: pitch participating funds directly

Angel rounds, early stage - ticket size not published; SAR 100M+ across 25+ rounds per its own site

Assets under management not published · secondaries and special situations

Direct investment from idea stage to mature company — ticket size not published

SAR 3.5B+ commitments · SAR 1.1B deployed · 47 portfolio funds

$0.5M–$3M + follow-on reserves

Not published

VC ticket not published.

Guarantees 80% standard · 90–95% target sectors · debt guarantee, not funding

Pre-seed to early Series A - typical tickets $100K-$700K; up to $500K at seed stage and up to $2M at early stage

Lab access + R&D support

R&D grants + equity investment

Up to 100% foreign ownership · Up to 10-year tax holiday

Not published

Grant — project-dependent

Training programme — no direct funding

Grant — project-dependent

Early-stage tech

Programme-dependent; loan amounts not published

Seed to Series A · fund and cheque sizes not published

Fund size not published

Lab access + programme support

Free zone benefits + tax exemptions

Programme support + investor matchmaking · non-dilutive

Sovereign capital — billions

Seed through Series C+ per QIA

Multi-stage — pre-seed to pre-liquidity

Free zone incentives · 100% foreign ownership · package prices not published

Government-backed bank-loan guarantees — terms case-by-case

Programme envelope not published

Incentive programmes for licensed entities - rates not published on the application pages

3B+ AUM (site) · Exel: up to $150K cash + $150K in-kind

Seed to Series B — Middle East Venture Fund IV $150M

Programme support — funding amounts not published · ADF route is debt

Setup fees (waivable for SMEs)

Investor registration · RHQ programme · Startup Saudi services

Zero-equity programmes · Challenge for Change grants up to SAR 1M

Fast-track registration + regulatory support

Loan guarantees + programme support

Multi-stage · fund size and cheque not published

$755bn+ assets managed, advised and administered (as of 30 June 2026)

Incubation, training and market linkage — no funding figure published

Pre-seed to Seed

Programme support — project-dependent

Up to KD 400,000 · up to 80% of project capital (project capital max KD 500,000)

Programme support — amount not published

VC + M&A · growth-focused tickets

Funding — amount not published

Strategic cheques · undisclosed per deal

Targeted investments — terms not published

Early stage - ticket and fund size not published

Incubation + investor referral pipeline

SAR 2.5B programme budget (since 2020) · Venture Debt initiative for Series A and higher — no published size · LendTech SME lending up to SAR 8.5M (product temporarily suspended at SDB)

KWD 100M (~$350M) capital

Seed to Series B · AUM and cheque size not published

Loans — project dependent

Sovereign capital · $180M Jasoor Fund

Programme support + Microsoft credits

Programme support + potential investment

Angel tickets + SVC co-investment up to 1:1 (SAR 100K–7.5M per round)

AED 500M fund · pre-Seed to Series B

$80,000–100,000 invested in every startup · 4-month batches

US$500K–US$3M (Jasoor Ventures)

$50K pre-seed

~$100K with potential follow-on

Fund size not published

Early stage · fund size not published

Ticket size not published

$200K–$2M tickets — pre-seed to Series A

Maiden fund — PVPIF

$900bn+ AUM

Growth capital + secondaries · fund size undisclosed

Programme + VC investment

Pre-seed to Series A

Residency, not funding — requires a round of at least SAR 400,000 (1st category) or SAR 15 million (2nd category) · one-time fee SAR 4,000

$50K in-kind SAFE note — no discount, no valuation cap; conditional on at least one joint contract with Presight/G42 within twelve months

Seed and Pre-A · fund size and cheque size not published

$3B fund

More than 40 startups from 15 countries backed via Startup Qatar since 2024 · target portfolio QAR 1 billion by 2030

Licensing platform · incentives package introduced at Web Summit Qatar, February 2026: registration and annual renewal fees waived for the first three years (QFC press release)

Investment, not a grant — two figures are published on official pages: pre-seed investment of up to USD 170K plus follow-on support on fintech.qa, and QAR 730,000 (USD 200,000) per company per QDB in December 2025. The Wave 8 page on F6S publishes no funding figure

Investment incentives + free zone benefits

Not published

QAR 1.5M · 1–3 year projects · co-funding, support level per Annex 5

Accelerator: up to $100K as a post-money SAFE · Pre-Accelerator: up to $75K

Fund size QAR 365M - tickets QAR 1.5-7M for innovative small enterprises and QAR 3.5-18M for growing medium enterprises - less than 50% stake - 8-10 year horizon (5 years deployment, 3-5 years holding)

Seed equity via convertible Musharaka · minimum 10% founder contribution · ticket size not published

No capital deployed - a regulatory pathway, not funding

USD 3 billion programme (site)

USD 100–500K per ticket · 5 to 10 investments a year

QAR 365K per challenge · 1 year

QAR 3M over 3 years (Innolight) · Phase I up to QAR 800K · Phase II up to QAR 2.2M (RFA)

Up to QAR 10M per project · co-funding, the company carries a share itself

In-kind package, no cash grant: accommodation and workspace in Doha for the four-week Sprint, university talent access, investor and partner introductions, company registration support · 1.5% deferred SAFE-style equity on entering Incubation

$30M fund · Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A follow-ons · cheque size set case by case from capital needs, lead investor terms and strategic fit

Pre-seed to Series A

Pre-Series A to Series B

Up to SAR 4 million per project (Saudi Innovation Grants Program)

Fund size SAR 450MM · Seed through Series B · ticket size not published

Grants + loans — project dependent

$10K-$100K per investor - pre-seed and seed per the application form; round size not published

University-backed venture capital

Incentives not published on the awards page

Reported as $45M by Wamda/ISSF ($5M ISSF commitment); rua.vc itself states no fund-size figure.

Deal sizes on the site $15M to $25M

50+ active investments across 10+ sectors and 6 countries

Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A, with selective participation in Series B and beyond - fund size and ticket size not published

Visibility + ecosystem support

Seed / early-stage tickets

Pre-Seed to Series A · B2B focus

$50M fund · pre-seed to Series A

Regulatory permission to test

More than $3B committed per year to global private investments (site) · 200+ investments completed

Up to OMR 1M ($2.6M) per company + wage support

Non-financial — capability building and market access

Over QAR 13.5M in support provided to date across 88 startups

Stage and cheque size not published

$160M AI fund · $40K per GAIA startup

$160M vehicle announced at launch (2023) — per-startup terms not published

Pre-Seed to Series A

Seed to Series A · fund size not published

Equity OMR 100K–350K · Debt OMR 10K–350K · Ventures OMR 10K–50K · Factoring up to OMR 500K

Strategic / growth tickets

Equity-free grants + programme support

Terms not published

Stage-agnostic

Ticket and fund size not published

Workspace + programme support

Early Stage up to $50K · Growth Stage up to $100K

SAR 50,000-500,000 · repayment up to 9 years (108 months) · grace period up to 12 months

$500,000–$2,000,000 per investment · minimum $20,000 per participating investor

Pre-Seed to Growth · Inception to Seed €250K–€5M, Series B to Pre-IPO €5M–€30M

Pre-seed capital + venture-building resources

No direct investment published — startAD connects startups to funding opportunities; corporate pilot budgets via its Corporate Sprint Accelerators

Competition prizes + ecosystem access

One-stop platform — the investment itself runs through the Startup Qatar Investment Program (own card)

Capped compute credits (in-kind) · value not published

START up to $1.1M · GROW up to $5.5M — identical on qdb.qa and startupqatar.qa (re-checked September 2026). Released in tranches against mutually agreed milestones

Average ticket $4M · repayment 6 to 18 months · $1.6B+ credit enabled

AI Fund $100M · NICE non-dilutive funding

Pre-Seed to Series A · fund size not published

Pre-Seed to Series B · cheque size not published

Corporate VC of stc — fund size not published

Grants + subsidies — project dependent

$4M direct investments (programme-wide)

Later-stage growth equity — ticket size not published

Up to $140K ($40K base grant + up to $100K follow-on for top teams)

QAR 200,000 (about $55,000) cash prize each to the top startups of the cohort

Not published

Seed to Series B - committed capital SAR 1B; ticket size not published

Angel to seed — $50K–$500K

Programmes + workspace — no direct fund

Programme support, no funding figure published - workspace and facilities free of charge for programme companies

Programme + workspace + mentorship

Early-stage cheques — ticket size not published

Co-building support — product, AI-native engineering, capital alignment and go-to-market; no funding figures published

US$50,000 in equity-free cash prizes

Growth capital - USD 150M Southeast Asia fund, first close September 2025; ticket size not published

Creative Lab funding · Licence-fee waivers · Abu Dhabi Film Commission production rebate access

National AI incentive packages

5-year residency — no equity

Government-backed early-stage funding via ATRC

Stage and ticket size not published

Thematic funds — FinTech and ClimateTech active · ticket size not published

Pre-Seed to Series A

Seed funding and grants plus investor access - amounts not published

$500M fund (expanded 2022) · up to $20M per deal · $100M early-stage AI allocation (2024) · $270M deployed in 75+ startups

SAR 750M / $200M committed — growth-stage, early-stage since the ITHCA deal

Amount not published

Seed to early-stage

$1M prize pool · $100,000–125,000 conditional grant per finalist over twelve months

Not published

$26.6M Venture Studio & Accelerator Fund - early stage; cheque size, equity and programme terms not published

Programme support · Pitch access to Zain Ventures

US$1 million per organisational category winner · US$100,000 per organisational finalist