Saudi AI startup Gaia secures $1.5 million to scale enterprise platform

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