{"id":13517,"date":"2026-01-22T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/aramcos-waed-ventures-allocates-100-million-to-invest-in-saudi-arabias-ai-startups\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:31:18","slug":"aramcos-waed-ventures-allocates-100-million-to-invest-in-saudi-arabias-ai-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/aramcos-waed-ventures-allocates-100-million-to-invest-in-saudi-arabias-ai-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Aramco&#8217;s Wa\u2019ed Ventures allocates $100 million to invest in Saudi Arabia&#8217;s AI startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s gain from AI will likely exceed other countries in the Middle East with around $135 billion in value by 2030<\/p>\n<div id=\"brxe-e79cfa\">\n<p>Wa\u2019ed Ventures, the $500 million venture capital fund wholly owned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aramco.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Aramco<\/a>, recently announced that it is allocating\u00a0$100 million for early-stage AI investments, a move that seeks to support Saudi Arabia\u2019s position as a global AI hub.<\/p>\n<p>To support strategic deal sourcing and accelerate localization for global startups, Wa\u2019ed Ventures appointed an advisory board consisting of global leaders in AI.\u00a0The board members come from diverse backgrounds within the AI&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economysaudiarabia.com\/news\/aramcos-waed-ventures-allocates-100-million-to-invest-in-saudi-arabias-ai-startups\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s gain from AI will likely exceed other countries in the Middle East&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-1196"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}