Saudi AI startup Gaia secures $1.5 million to scale enterprise platform
Wamda
- Saudi Arabia-based enterprise AI startup Gaia has raised $1.5 million in a pre-Seed round led by Seedra Ventures.
- Founded in 2026 by Badr Al-Malluh and Mohammad Rababah, Gaia provides a sovereign AI platform that connects enterprise knowledge, files, emails, systems and workflows while keeping organisational data within the company’s environment.
- The platform combines enterprise search, a generative AI assistant and AI agents, allowing employees to retrieve permission-aware information and automate workflows across connected business systems.
- The company will use the funding to continue developing its platform and work with Saudi enterprises as they adopt AI across their operations.
Press release:
Gaia was founded by Badr Al-Malluh, Co-Founder and CEO, and Mohammad Rababah, Co-Founder and CPTO. Gaia is a Saudi sovereign AI platform for enterprises that connects knowledge, files, systems, emails and workflows into a single operational intelligence layer where data never leaves the organisation.
Employees search across everything the company knows but with permission awareness so no one sees what they don't already have access to, get generative AI answers grounded in their own data with cited sources; and hand cross-system work to AI agents with important steps routed to a person for approval.
Enterprises today operate across disconnected systems, including email, files, CRM, ERP, and other business applications. Industry research shows that 60% of employees cannot find the information they need at the company, 30% of their time is lost gathering context, and 70% of leaders of large enterprises cite data security as a barrier to AI adoption. This fragmentation leads to delayed and wrong decisions, duplicated work, repetitive manual processes, compliance risks, and the loss of institutional knowledge when employees leave.
Gaia becomes the organisation's one brain to find, understand, and act on their knowledge. Enterprise Search provides instant, cited answers across every connected system, showing exactly which file, thread, or record the information came from. The AI Assistant is generative AI that knows the business, delivering answers grounded in the organisation's knowledge base with inline links to original sources. Purpose-built AI Agents go beyond answering questions to complete tasks across applications, automate recurring work such as summaries and reports, and run full workflows. Gaia remains permission-aware, while high-risk agent actions are routed for human approval before execution.
“Enterprise knowledge is often fragmented across systems, emails, documents, and teams, limiting an organisation's ability to operate effectively. Gaia transforms that knowledge into actionable intelligence, enabling enterprises to make faster better decisions, improve productivity, and automate work securely without the fear of data ever leaving the organisation."
Badr Al-Malluh, Co-Founder and CEO of Gaia
The company continues developing its platform and working with enterprises to apply AI to real operational challenges.
As Saudi organisations accelerate their digital transformation in line with Vision 2030, Gaia aims to provide the trusted AI foundation they need to operate more efficiently, strengthen decision-making, and unlock the full value of their organisational data.
