{
  "id": 6252209,
  "title": "Saudi AI startup Gaia secures $1.5 million to scale enterprise platform",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/saudi-ai-startup-gaia-secures-1-5-million-to-scale-enterprise-platform",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-08T06:02:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Wamda",
    "slug": "wamda",
    "url": "http://wamda.com/2026/09/saudi-ai-startup-gaia-secures-1-5-million-scale-enterprise-platform"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Saudi AI startup Gaia has secured $1.5 million in pre-Seed funding from Seedra Ventures to expand its enterprise AI platform. Founded in 2026 by Badr Al-Malluh and Mohammad Rababah, Gaia offers a sovereign AI solution that integrates enterprise knowledge, files, emails, systems, and workflows within a single operational intelligence layer. The platform features enterprise search, a generative AI assistant, and AI agents capable of retrieving permission-aware information and automating workflows across connected business systems.\n\nGaia's platform addresses the challenges of fragmented enterprise knowledge, where 60% of employees struggle to find necessary information, 30% of their time is spent gathering context, and 70% of large enterprise leaders cite data security as a barrier to AI adoption. By consolidating data within the organization, Gaia minimizes delays, errors, duplicated work, compliance risks, and the loss of institutional knowledge.\n\nThe funding will be utilized to further develop the platform and collaborate with Saudi enterprises as they integrate AI into their operations. Gaia's AI platform enables employees to search across all company knowledge while maintaining permission awareness, ensuring that sensitive information remains secure. The AI Assistant provides generative AI answers grounded in the organization's data, complete with cited sources. Purpose-built AI Agents can complete tasks across applications, automate repetitive work, and run full workflows, all while operating within the organization's confines.\n\n\"As enterprise knowledge is often fragmented across systems, emails, documents, and teams, limiting an organization's ability to operate effectively,\" says Badr Al-Malluh, Co-Founder and CEO of Gaia. \"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 leaving the organization.\"\n\nAs Saudi organizations accelerate their digital transformation under Vision 2030, Gaia aims to provide the trusted AI foundation required for efficient operations, enhanced decision-making, and realizing the full potential of organizational data.",
  "summary": "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…",
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}