Venture capital firm

Upturn Ventures

Compiled from public sources

Upturn Ventures is a Riyadh-headquartered venture builder, startup studio, and early-stage investment platform founded in 2024. As a specialised venture manager and company builder, the firm’s core investment strategy focuses on co-founding, incubating, and deploying seed-stage venture capital into high-growth, technology-enabled enterprises across retail, e-commerce, digital advertising infrastructure, and supply chain management. Upturn Ventures combines strategy, ideation, and technology deployment with hands-on operational scaling support, partnering with founders to transform early concepts into scalable ventures across Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

Investment focus

Sectors
ConsumerManufacturing and industrials
Stages and strategies
Pre-seedSeed
Instruments
Equity
Regions
Northern Africa, Middle East

Sources

  1. Partner Researchers, accessed 14 November 2026