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Rua Growth Fund
Venture capital · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · Middle East and Africa
Rua Growth Fund is a Saudi asset management company that invests in early and growth-stage tech and tech-enabled businesses. It aims to bridge the funding gap for promising startups in the Kingdom and provides follow-on capital, board participation and access to corporate partners.
Invests inFintechReal Estate & ConstructionAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsRua Growth Fund lists 9 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 43% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (22%), Real Estate & Construction (17%) and AI & Machine Learning (17%). 63% of its companies are based in Saudi Arabia. It invests most often alongside Impact46, 500 Global and Bunat Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Rua Growth Fund, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 43% |
| Series A | 43% |
| Series B | 14% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 19th | 9 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 67th | 43% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 25th | 22% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 22% | 12% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 17% | 3% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 17% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 11% | 8% |
| Climate & Energy | 6% | 1% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 6% | 6% |
| Space & Defense | 6% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Impact46 | 3 |
| 500 Global | 2 |
| Bunat Ventures | 2 |
| Middle East Venture Partners | 2 |
| Wamda Capital | 2 |
| Accel | 1 |
| Alpha Partners | 1 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers9100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Rua Growth Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Rua Growth Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Aug 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 9 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Feb 2026 | Series A | |
| 3 Nov 2025 | Series A | |
| 25 Aug 2025 | Series A | |
| 1 Jul 2025 | Series B |
Round details for Rua Growth Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Rua Growth Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
9 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AILA provides personalized and intelligent education solutions using artificial intelligence | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Bonat provides a data analysis system to help businesses understand customer behavior and target them accurately | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Nov 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Careem provides various services including taxi rides, food delivery, grocery delivery, and more. | Food & AgricultureMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Helix Earth develops and sells a retrofit system for commercial buildings to control humidity and improve air quality | Real Estate & ConstructionClimate & Energy | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Lucidya provides AI-native customer experience management solutions | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Jul 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Safqah Capital invests in real estate development projects through sukuk financing. | FintechReal Estate & Construction | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides financial management solutions for businesses in Saudi Arabia. | FintechEnterprise Software | Feb 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Slack provides a platform for teams to collaborate and work together using various tools and features, including chat, video meetings, and project management. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Holo provides mortgage advice and property services for home buying in the UAE | Real Estate & ConstructionFintech | Aug 2025Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- rua.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 9
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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