Date: October,2025
SAB Invest announced a partnership with Stride Ventures, a growth debt and private credit platform. The partnership aims to strengthen Saudi Arabia’s venture capital (VC) ecosystem by bringing international expertise and firms into the local market.
The move marks SAB Invests expansion into startup-focused investments and private credit for small and medium enterprises. It also enables Stride Ventures to collaborate with one of the Kingdom’s largest institutional investors in this sector, helping to boost capital and expertise inflows into the Saudi market.
Ali Almansour, Managing Director & CEO at SAB Invest, expressed: “This strategic partnership with Stride Ventures is a step in realizing our commitment to Saudi Vision 2030’s core pillars of economic diversification and financial sector development. In addition to deploying capital, we are actively expanding the investable universe for our clients and localizing global financial expertise. We aim to deliver diversified returns to our investors through a dynamic private credit asset class, and to strategically support the next generation of Saudi and GCC champions. This platform directly fuels startups expansion, cementing Saudi Arabia’s leadership as the region’s hub for innovative, best-in-class financial solutions.”
For his part, Ishpreet Singh Gandhi, Founder and Managing Partner of Stride Ventures, further added: "Our collaboration with SAB Invest reflects Stride’s growing commitment to the GCC - a region that’s rapidly emerging as a powerhouse for venture creation. SAB Invest brings a strong pedigree of institutional depth and local insight, making them an ideal partner to help shape a new era of entrepreneurial transformation across the region. Stride is targeting a deployment of $500 million over the next 3 to 5 years.
The announcement came after SAB Invest has launched in July SAB Invest Multi-Strategy Private Investment Fund I, a unique product designed to deliver high recurring income for investors through a diversified portfolio of private credit opportunities across Saudi Arabia, the GCC, and the MENA region.