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title: "Saudi Arabia leads Middle East VC in 2025 with $1.72bn, per MAGNiTT"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/saudi-vc-record-2025-magnitt"
language: "en"
event_date: "2026-01"
published: "2026-10-03"
last_verified: "2026-10-03"
category: "Startups"
publisher: "Cicada (cicadaconsultancy.online)"
license: "CC BY 4.0"
---

# Saudi Arabia leads Middle East VC in 2025 with $1.72bn, per MAGNiTT

- Event date: January 2026 (2026-01)
- Topic: Startups
- In this story: MAGNiTT, Saudi Arabia
- URL: https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/saudi-vc-record-2025-magnitt

MAGNiTT's annual report, covered in January 2026, showed Saudi Arabia as the Middle East's largest venture market in 2025, with $1.72 billion raised, up 145% year on year, across 257 deals, up 45%, making it the region's most active market by both funding and deal count. Total Middle East venture funding was $3.43 billion across 581 deals, and fintech dominated regional activity with $1.04 billion across 152 deals. AI's share is smaller, with a figure based on MAGNiTT data putting Saudi AI funding at $235 million in 2025.

## Key figures

- Saudi VC funding 2025: $1,720 m
- deals: 257

## Sources

1. [Saudi Arabia tops Middle East venture capital market with $1.7bn haul and record deal flow](https://www.arabnews.com/node/2629071) — Arab News
2. [Middle East VC funding jumps by 89%, Saudi Arabia seizes largest share](https://sharikatmubasher.com/news/article/21528107/middle-east-vc-funding-jumps-by-89-saudi-arabia-seizes-largest-share?lang=en) — Sharikat Mubasher
3. [KSA Venture Capital: The H1 2026 Review](https://magnitt.com/research/KSA-Venture-Capital-The-H1-2026-Review-51048) — MAGNiTT

Archive report. Written in 2026 from contemporary sources and dated to the day the event happened.

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